Dear Editor‚ I agree with the article “Testing times for NAPLAN” that the NAPLAN testing in which a million students in years 3‚5‚7 and 9 undertake numeracy and literacy tests should be banned . NAPLAN constricts teaching and learning‚ stifles creativity‚ pressurises kids and schools ‚leads to comparison with other schools and does nothing to improve the students learning . NAPLAN will not improve Australia’s education system‚ indeed it is making it worse. Teachers do not get the chance to see
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Banned Book‚ Lord of the rings Main Characters-Bilbo Baggins‚ Frodo Baggins‚ Gandalf the grey‚ “ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle i go to heal my heart and drown my woe‚ rain may fall and wind may blow‚ And many miles be still to go‚ But under a tall tree i will lie‚ and let the clouds go sailing by.” - Lord of the rings All Information i have gotten about this book being banned all support the idea of this book being banned for a main character smoking and some different outlook on religion.
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Spare Us Smokers There has been much debate recently in Trinidad and Tobago on whether smoking should be banned totally. The Minister of Health and the Cancer Society have‚ on separate occasions‚ promoted this call while tobacco companies rebutted vociferously in the media as well. The focus of this article is to prove that smoking should not be banned. To begin‚ the smoking of cigarettes and tobacco has been ‘linked’ by researchers to heart disease and cancer. The word ‘link’ is important
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Fracking: Is It Worth the Damage It Causes to The Environment and Why It Should Be Banned from The United States. Imagine if Uranium‚ Lead‚ Formaldehyde‚ and Mercury contaminated your drinking water. Fracking is harmful to humans and the environment. It is important that fracking is stopped because up to 600 carcinogens are used in fracking fluid (Earth Works). What is fracking? Fracking is the process of extracting natural gas from the Earth. It starts by drilling several kilometers deep into the
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team is fully out. The definition says it all. Dodgeball should be banned because this “activity” hurts kids physically and mentally. Banning dodgeball will end a lot of bad things. Dodgeball is a game that gives kids chances to get their anger out on others. Children getting hit will never get better because they are not positive‚ and their are other activities that do a better job. There are many reasons on why dodgeball should be banned. Dodgeball is not an appropriate way to teach your children
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hunting and killing of whales to recover resources like oil‚ meat‚ and blubber. Whaling was banned in 1986‚ but a loophole in the law allows countries to continue whaling for scientific research. At the moment Japan and Iceland are the main countries continuing this act. The act of commercial whaling should be completely banned before whales before extinct. First reason why commercial whaling should be banned is because whales could become extinct due to whaling. According to Frank Zelko‚ “Most whale
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Cigarettes should be banned According to The New York Times‚ Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. ()Around 400‚000 people die each year from smoking and that does not include the 50‚000 who die from exposure to secondhand smoke or the 8.6 million whose illnesses are caused by smoking. Smoking is harmful to the environment‚ the user and everyone around them and should be banned. Do people not care about the warning labels on cigarette boxes that read; Smoking
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Should smoking be banned? Since early times‚ smoking has been part of different cultures and religions in Africa and America‚ but later it spread in Europe and the rest of the world. This is an unhealthy and dangerous habit‚ which causes many problems often related not only to health. That is why there should be some limits. On the one hand‚ if smoking is banned‚ people will be able to put aside much bigger sums of their salaries‚ because they would not spend money on cigarettes and tobacco
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TASK 1 Topic: Alcohol consumption should be banned. Argue for or against the statement. Argument For Topic sentence: Alcohol consumption should be banned Supporting ideas: 1. Effects of alcohol abuse in your body 2. How does alcohol affect family life’s 3. The effects of drinking and driving Task 2 Rough draft In my personal opinion I am in favour of alcohol being banned. I am a victim of alcoholic parents ‚ so I can relate to the difficulties that I was faced with
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Your kids are on his or her cell phone during class‚ and they start to fall behind only one thing to blame the cell phone. People should definitely ban cell phones in schools. One reason people should ban cell phones in‚ schools is that theft can occur at schools. For an example‚ in Bucks County‚ Pennsylvania four thousand dollars worth of cell phones and tablets got stolen at a school and thirteen people were arrested in that incident. Also‚ at that school police found over 24 devices got stolen
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