Our technology is far more advanced than ever before. Apple’s iPhone, Google Maps, Cloud computing systems and so on, have been widely successful. These technological innovations are utterly beyond our understanding. The world never remains unchanged, and also our styles of education are changing rapidly. In Japan, there are some elementary school students who learn to write Kanji with their own iPad. In the past few years, using digital tablets on elementary education was almost unimaginable but
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" Throughout the United States, the conflict between freedom of speech and internet safety is rapidly becoming more prevalent. As tragic cases of cyberbullying, like that of Amanda Todd, rise to the headlines of American newspapers, and centers of crime like the infamous drug website, the Silk Road, cause mayhem, governing bodies across every level of government seek a solution. The government is rapidly being forced to decide whether it must increase control, or let things continue as they will
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Although many people strongly disagree that NASCAR is not a true sport, they need to check out some of the real facts. NASCAR is a hardcore sport watched because of the metal strength and physical strength it takes to be in a hot car going up to 200 mph for three plus hours with no breaks or time outs. Although it may seem like the drivers get a break when the yellow flag drops for a cation or the red flag drops and they stop the race, but they do not. These drivers still must sit in the hot cars
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Vaccinations are used across the world to keep us protected from threatening diseases. These vaccinations should be used by everyone because it will not only protect the person being vaccinated, but also the people around them. If one were not to get a vaccination and get a disease because of it, they put the people they come in contact with at a greater level of risk because there would be a chance that they could spread the sickness on to them. If this were to happen, the virus would only spread
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When most people hear the word “cheerleading,” they think of teenage girls walking around school in their uniforms, and doing cheers while walking down the halls, right? Well, normally, that’s only in movies. Thankfully, the group I myself take part in is a competitive, extreme, sport. Don’t think of it as just a ‘hobby’ truly, people dedicate their time and lives to this sport. Honestly, it all matters on which group of cheer you join. Cheerleading originally started in 1898 when a student decided
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English Persuasive “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it,” (Aung Sun Suu Kyi, 1990). Within in a governmental system that denies fundamental human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of incarceration, fear of suffering, fear of execution and fear of social isolation. However, the most underhanded form of fear can eliminate common sense or even wisdom, condemning
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Chris McCandless died trying to prove something to himself, walking into the Alaskan wilderness knowing that he was ill equipped and unlikely to be able to walk out, relying solely on himself. How is that not brave? In the novel, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the readers get to travel with Chris, starting at the point when he leaves college and disappears for the first time, all the way up until when his body is found in a bus in the middle of an Alaskan forest. Jon Krakauer believes that Chris
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Animal rights is an emotive issue to argue with. People have different views about keeping the animals in zoos. I believe that zoos are one of the ways to safe the instict of animals who are in danger. Opponents of constraint animals in zoos argue that it is against the nature to prison animals in small cages, which deters their natural capabilities, as a result they are emotionally weak as compared to the wild animals in jungles. It is also believed, that caged animals are presented as an entertainment
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Technology has come a long way. It has brought the world to a new era, an era trusting electricity to power the nations that stretch across the globe. However, this hunger for energy has brought on problems as well. Our reliance on fossil fuels has led us to the issue of air pollution, which harms both the environment and our own personal health. Digging for these limited resources has become dangerous, to the point where accidents such as cave-ins drop down upon those mining for fuel. Lung disease
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The scientists who have previously cloned animals have received low success rates, therefore why should we try cloning humans? Is human cloning really even worth it? Scientists aren't even sure what precisely will happen if they do clone humans. If scientists would clone a human, the clone’s life will be unfair, influenced, and tampered with. He/ she would not have an option to live his/ her life their own way. Cloning humans is wrong and unnecessary, and should be banned and made illegal. Identity
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