YPI Essay The Calgary Chinese Elderly Citizen Association or CCECA deserves the five thousand dollar grant because they help something that really needs help; Chinese Elders. The CCECA was founded in 1985 as non-profitable charity with only fifty members. Providing a great variety of services and programs‚ from social activities and community support to health services. It currently has over five thousand‚ one hundred members. The CCECA’s vision is to empower and advocate Chinese seniors to lead
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In a poll taken by Americans‚ only 29% of them can “speak a language other than English well enough to hold a conversation.” If schools are requiring foreign languages classes in school then why can only 29% of the people hold a conversation? This is because of the way the language is taught and how old the students are. Children start leaning English when they are two to three years old. Most schools start teaching foreign languages when their students are seven to eight years old. That means
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morning ladies and gentlemen‚ I’m XXX from Tweleve Science 6. First of all‚ thank to God‚ because of His grace‚ I am able to deliver this speech‚ and also thank you to Mr. XXX for giving me this opportunity. Well‚ today I would like to talk about pros and cons of sex education. Why do I take this as my topic? Because all children will grow up to become adults and will require some basic knowledge of sex as well as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases at some point in time. Sex education is basically
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Should we choose homeschooling as institutional education system to educate children? Homeschooling is an education where the parents are the primary responsibility as the teacher as different as public school (Cambridge Dictionary). Nowadays‚ there are community of homeschooling that the parents who homeschooled their children can join with such as HSLDA (Homeschooling Legal Defense Agency) in United States and Homeschooling and Alternative Education Association (ASAH PENA) in Indonesia to share
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Pros and Cons of Inclusion in a general education classroom Inclusion in a general classroom is one of the largest controversies that schools face today. Most administrators‚ parents and teachers question the likely academic impacts associated with the placement of students with special needs into general educational classrooms. Inclusion is the educational approach that requires students with disabilities to learn together with non-disabled students. Rather than the segregation of students based
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level of spending has not equaled an improvement in education. We have tried to improve our schools with more money‚ better teachers‚ and legislation such as No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. What if the true problem with schooling is not the components of the system‚ but the system itself? In the article “Against School” John Taylor Gatto present several causes for the failing of the American public school system. One of the main causes he puts forth is the institution of compulsory schooling in
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Free speech‚ more than any other of America’s values‚ has been the touchstone of American democracy dating back to the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment‚ created in 1791‚ is so important because “without our basic and essential rights established by that first amendment‚ the others amendments would have little to no meaning and hardly any force.” It shows the creativity and innovativeness of American democracy. The Amendment states‚ “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
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Is Censorship ever justified? Censorship is the act of redacting information that may be deemed offensive or immoral. The First Amendment‚ passed by Congress and ratified in 1791‚ was intended to protect the personal freedoms of its citizens‚ and protect society from censorship in most instances‚ by providing that‚ “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press‚…” By using the term abridging‚ the authors of the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights let it be known
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gun laws especially with all the fatal shootings we have had lately(Ripley). Some of the pros of gun control could be‚ less shootings since most of the guns are legally purchased‚ hopefully less violence would come with less access to guns‚ less suicides could be prevented if they were stricter on gun regulations to people with mental issues. As well with pros there always comes a list of cons. Some of the cons of gun control could be selling weapons on the black market because of the high demand of
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considered planets (DeBenedicts 2015). That makes a lot of sense… “I thought it was really dumb that the IAU took as a category ‘swarf planet’ and then said: ‘But they’re not a planets‚” astronomer Owen Gingerich said. “I think this is an abuse of the language.” (Yuhas 2015).
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