and schools. Teachers and students spend an inordinate amount of time preparing for these tests while they should be teaching and learning new material to better prepare the students for their upcoming college classes. While standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT are designed to best represent students to potential colleges‚ they are only indicative of a student’s memory‚ not the student’s full capabilities. Standardized testing is not the best way to measure learning; therefore‚ it should be
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Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places Have you ever been out in public‚ and you inhaled a cloud of smoke from someone smoking? Smoking in public places should be banned; it not just only harms you as the smoker but also the people around you when you light up a cigarette. It is called Second- hand smoke. Second-hand smoke comes in two ways; side stream and mainstream. Many people may say that smoking should not be banned because it is a free country and that person can walk away or move. But
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A young basketball player sees one of his star professional role models all buff and big. When asked how he got in such shape the professional athlete only had one word to say “STEROIDS”. Should steroids be banned from sports? My answer to this question without doubt is yes. Why? I have three good reasons why. 1) Athletes are encouraging teenagers to use them; 2) it is unfair to the players of the past who have records and statistics to be overshadowed by players who have cheated their way by
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tests administered within a school district‚ state‚ or country‚ should be banned in the United States. Standardized tests consist of either a single examination or multiple examinations grouped together to be taken at a single time. These tests are used to measure how well a school district or region is performing. There are two types of standardized tests: achievement and aptitude. Achievement tests help to
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It is not for the government or any third party to dictate whether or not a person should be allowed to smoke. However‚ smoking does not only affect the smoker negatively. It also affects all the people around those who smoke because when people smoke in pubic the smoke travels everywhere through the air‚ and the negative effects of this smoke affects all living‚ breathing creatures. Therefore smoking should be banned in all public places. People who smoke in public portray a bad example. Children
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his stable where he fractured his leg after kicking a fence and was put down after many attempts to save its life. The reaction to the deaths of these two horses has caused much debate on whether the sport horse racing should continue‚ however I believe that it should not be banned.
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Child beauty pageants should be banned Child beauty pageants should be banned because they cause children‚ especially little girls‚ to use artificial means to boost their self esteem. People were not born with makeup‚ spray tans‚ big hair‚ and false teeth. Beauty pageants set false rules on beauty. They make children believe they have to wear make-up‚ jewelry‚ wigs‚ fake nails‚ and other acessories to be beautiful. Every child is beautiful in their own way. Their beauty is natural and they shouldn’t
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Donald Trump has recently issued a ban on people traveling to the US from seven‚ mostly Muslim‚ countries: Iran‚ Iraq‚ Libya‚ Somalia‚ Sudan‚ Syria‚ and Yemen. This ban will last for 90 days. Refugees in general have been banned for 120 days‚ but refugees from Syria have also been banned for an indefinite amount of time‚ too. This travel ban has already been the center of worldwide controversy‚ leading to protests in the US‚ and world leaders to bash the executive order. The travel ban will be detrimental
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Should alcohol and tobacco advertisement be banned? We may see alcohol and tobacco advertisements everywhere‚ on television‚ in newspaper‚ on street ads card etc. Alcohol ads usually create several feints to tell people that alcohol is good for people and induce people to drink. On the other hand‚ the malign influence of advertisements shows smoking as something "cool". But we know the truth is not so. Alcohol is harmful for people’s health and sometimes it may bring bad effects to self-impression
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threat to their lives. Other people use guns as a toy which can result in accidental death;or time spent behind bars for using the gun to commit a heinous crime. There is currently a ton of controversy surrounding whether guns should or should not be banned. Guns should not be banned worldwide because they are used for self defense‚ part of the second amendment‚ punish honest citizens. Lastly‚ guns don’t kill people it’s the people who use them. Self defense is defined as the defense of one’s person
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