nothing short of essential. Their main function is conservation. Without captive breeding‚ many endangered species would now be extinct - for example‚ the golden lion tamarin‚ red wolf and Przewalski’s horse. I am not for a moment suggesting that we should stop trying to protect animals’ natural habitats‚ but if endangered species were to become extinct in the wild (which sadly seems quite likely in the near future)‚ zoos will have preserved them for future generations‚ with enough genetic diversity
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Should there be stricter gun bans? Handguns are the cause of so many deaths amongst the people of the world today. In the past few months there have been so many awful tragedies due to the access we all have to guns. The repercussions of gun violence make up 50 percent of today’s disasters claiming lives ranging from babies to adults and even elderly. The government needs to make guns less accessible‚ and the law along with the law enforcement need to really enforce the laws they make. This
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Self Assessment and unit evaluation – Y7 ICT Term 1 Habit of Mind Focus: Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision How does your terms work on producing a newspaper article demonstrate your use of the habit of mind above? I have communicated with my team mates by e-mailing and we talked about what topic we are doing and whose going to do what. I have thought deeply what topic I’m going to do about and I choused “Volcanic eruption in Iceland”. I described words nicely and neatly
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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Smoking brings with it much harm‚ regardless whether it is with respect to health‚ finance‚ environmental or social issues. The World Health Organization (“WHO”) estimates that tobacco kills one person every 10 seconds (WHO‚ 2005). Smoking causes cancer‚ and is a major risk for illnesses such as coronary heart disease‚ stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. These account for close to two-thirds of all deaths in Singapore in the year 2000 (Health Promotion Board (“HPB”)‚ n.d.). Tobacco is the
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“More than half of adult New Yorkers are obese or overweight‚ according to the city’s health department‚ which said it believed 5‚000 New Yorkers died every year as a result of health problems related to obesity” (Grynbaum). This mind-boggling statistic is what lead the mayor propose a soda ban that would limit the size of soda that could be sold. This ban‚ in an effort to fight obesity‚ would discourage people from buying larger sodas by banning the sale of sodas of more than 16 oz. Although this
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Abstract This investigation was outlined and evaluated the research question of should animal experimentation be banned in varies sites. For the past five decades‚ there has been a widespread argument for the use of animals in medical science and product testing which is controversial. By looked through medical perception‚ it undeniable sometimes animals testing have made a valuable contribution to human health. However‚ looked at another site‚ animal tests in turn creates serious damage which
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Amy Smith Professor Erickson WR 122 10/31/2012 Animal Testing Should Not Be Banned From when you are a baby to when you are an adult animal testing is used in your everyday products. From the Pampers you put on as a baby and the Johnson and Johnson you are washed with. To when you are older‚ the Febreeze‚ Sunsilk‚ and Gillette you use (Companies That do Test on Animals). Animal testing surrounds you in every act of life. “The guess is around 100 million animals are used worldwide in animal
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majority of the points come from the beauty and grace of the contestants as well as their outfits. Contestants try to sway the judges by having the brightest smile‚ cutest clothes‚ and prettiest hair. I. INTRODUCTION A. Child beauty pageants should be banned. It causes children‚ especially little girls‚ to use artificial means to boost their self-esteem. People were born as-is‚ not with makeup‚ spray tans‚ big hair‚ and false teeth. Not only does it cause low self-esteem in young girls‚ but it also
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you hear of plastic surgery‚ what do you think of? A movie star trying to delay the effects of aging? Somebody ’s cute "new" nose that cost quite a few allowances? Those are common images of plastic surgery‚ but what about the 4-year-old boy who has his chin rebuilt after a dog bit him? There are‚ but various reasons why people choose to have plastic surgery and having undergone this complex procedures they also have to undergo the risk involved. Perilous but alluring‚ plastic surgery is the craze
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