“Listen
to me, Jonas. They can’t help it. They know nothing.”
“You
said that to me once before.”
“I
said it because it’s true. It’s the way
they live. It’s the life that was
created for them.”
What public issue from our society do you wish people would
wake up and understand the way that you do?
In one paragraph:
● describe the issue as you see it,
● provide specific details from at
least one online source where you found evidence to prove the existence of the
issue and
● copy and paste the url of your
source(s) at the end of your paragraph.
Does four hours a day on a cell phone sound like a lot to you? Social media companies attempt to keep us online and exposed to the real customers of “free” social media: advertisers. “I feel tremendous guilt,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive, “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” Because we seek rewards, the platforms we engage in offer what is called intermittent reinforcements, the constant chance to be rewarded with something regardless of whether it actually happens; this is the goal of the ‘pull-to-refresh’ feature on social media. Modeled right from the same technique Youtube and Netflix use to keep viewers watching after a selection has ended, bottomless feeds eliminate stopping cues, keeping us on for longer. Social media companies even buy information about us based on anything we do online from companies like Experian, data collectors looking to profit despite any harm that could be caused.
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Is homework making you stressed? Have you noticed your lack of sleep and gained hours on homework? Most kids,of all ages, find homework stressful. This stress can cause health problems, like lack of sleep, hunger, dehydration and isolation from families. Kids should spend as much time on homework that corresponds with their grade, like for first graders, they should only spend ten minutes on homework, second graders should spend twenty, and third graders should spend thirty. This time increases with your grade, so up to sixth grade your spending up to an hour each night on homework, hopefully. The time spent isnt too healthy though, now that theres more technology most kids are doing homework on a computer or a laptop. So, the more time you spend on homework digitally the more time you spend staring at a screen. Which could affect your vision in the future, causing you to have eye problems like a lazy eye or the need for glasses. Though there are some bad things corresponding to homework, there are good things. Homework prepares kids for the lessons they'll encounter the next day and gives them a sense of acheivement. For the summary of this paragraph, the more extra time kids spend on homework, the more mental and physical pain they feel, but the a gained feeling of achievement comes with it. If something on your homework is too hard, skip it and ask for an adult, take breaks from your homework to go get snacks and drink water.
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Ah, does your head hurt after hours of homework? This affect is common, yet so many people still sit there for days on days answering a series of questions. Don't wait cause the time bomb is ticking. Students have complete your assignment is due tommorow, so no time for football. Kids get taken away from afterschool activites all because of homework. These activites includes sports which are a big thing in students way that includes large practice times, but you have no time to. After evaluated officals looked at the topic of homework they stumbled across stress, so they made a fourm for people to share their individual feelings. 70 percent of kids answered "often or always stressed at homework" which is a big margin of kids thinking that this can hurt your mental health. The time went by as the officals were starting to realize how much of a problem homework is. Healthline News states"experimented by dramatically cutting down homework assignments. First the teacher cut homework by a third, and then cut the assignments in half." showing that they have to think about cuting homework which is disgusting. The sleeping schedules will be messed up by homework because if you have to do homework for 1 hour your free time will be short and you will have to go to bed. But if you have sports or any other afterschool activity it will be cut more than ever, and will mess with your time completely.
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Conversion therapy (an attempt to change someone's sexuality or gender identity) is huge problem for members of the LGBTQ+ community, with over 700,000 people having gone through it. It has been proven to cause severe mental health issues such as anxiety, PTSD, and depression. Suicide attempt rates of people who were put through conversion therapy are 48%, more than double the rate of LGBTQ+ people who weren't (22%). Survivors of conversion therapy often have lower economic status, and worse education-related experiences. Another common problem related to conversion therapy is a dysfunctional or abusive relationship with family or caregivers. Many prominent medical associations are heavily opposed to conversion therapy, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. But despite their efforts, conversion therapy is still completely legal in 30 states, even with all of the studies conducted proving that conversion therapy is outdated and destructive.
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Global Warming has been increasing in a very fast rate, and it's been happening for the past 50 years. So fast, NASA says that "all but one of the 16th hottest years in it's 134 case of records since 2000." Global Warming forms in the atmosphere when greenhouse gases get up to the atmosphere. They can stay there for years and centuries until they go away. They trap heat with these gases, and they make the earth more hot, and that's called the Greenhouse effect. Each year, scientists learn more about the effects of Global Warming, like melting glaciers, rising sea levels, bigger heat waves, and much more. In recent years, the China takes 28% of all CO2 emissions, and the US in second. We make 16% of all the Greenhouse gases, as much as Europe and India. The United States has started to fix the problem of global warming, by in 2015, making Power Plants reduce carbon pollution. Electric cars are increasing in sales. Clean energy jobs are growing too, wind energy jobs are improving by 32 percent and solar by 25 percent. And much more is happening by the results of these. And you can stop this too and you can make moves to help. You can make conserving carbon energy a daily routine, and when you shop for new appliances look for the "Energy Star" label. When you buy a car, look for one with high gas mileage and low emissions. And much, much more. So what do you say? Do you want to help us breathe and make our planet cooler again? It might be only just the start, but in can help for all of us.
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How long does three months sound to you? Probably not too long. Well thats how long cows are left alive before they are slaughtered for veal. Veal is the meat of baby cows, and they only live from eight to sixteen weeks. The conditions they are kept in are terrible. They are always in metal or wooden crates called veal crates. They are barely larger then the calfs body and are meant to make their meat more tender, a common commodity of veal. they are also fed a formula that is purposefully low in iron to make the meat pale. bob veal is evan worse. This kind of veal is from cows only a few days or a week old. They will barely be able to learn to walk. source: https://www.treehugger.com/whats-wrong-with-veal-127519#:~:text=Veal%20is%20the%20meat%20from,are%20raised%20on%20factory%20farms.
ReplyDeleteEverybody has heard about rising oceans. But oceans haven't just been rising they have also been acidifying hurting shell creatures like clams. Some other weird things have been happening to earth. We also have more powerful storms happening doing more damage than ever even though there are less storms. Over the next few years you can expect to have 50% more lightning! So you should go put up those lightning rods. The world is also getting cold shocks doing massive damage to everything under the snow storms. But overall things are getting warmer the world has gone up in average temperature by 1.4 degrees celsius in the past hundred years which doesn't sound like much but is insane. And not just the weather is affected by this animals are also affected. Cold weather animals are finding that they have to go farther north or higher up in the mountains to keep cold and stay alive. While migratory animals are coming north earlier in the spring and leaving later in the fall. But we are also affected diseases trapped in glaciers are escaping and hurting humans who haven't seen them in a long time. And disease from the equator are finding it easier to make it to farther north and farther south. Then on top of that the hotter climates will hurt overall food production causing food instability on the scale of entire countries which leads to resource wars.
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Whenever the topic of women's rights come up people usually talk about getting paid less. Well it is true that women get payed 82 cents for every dollar a man makes, there are more things that makes women's lives significantly harder than men. For example there is something called the Violence Against Women Act. The VAWA was first passed in 1994 and has been renewed three times, Once in 2000, once in 2005 and once in 2013.
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Do you think the homework is killing you , do you thing that there is no time with you family and the only thing you can do is homework, well many children in many other ages are having trouble just like you including me! This issue of to much homework is causing a lot of issues to others such as : it is making people so stressed-out that they even might suicide , this stress is causing students mild head ache , migrain and other issues experts say that there should be a minimum of 70 minutes for us 7 th grader of homework this amount of home work is making a big space between our family relationship it is also not allowing us to do our hobby and we can do any extra activity. experts say that when the teachers give more homework than they tell the students have issue .
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The death penalty is a very controversial topic concerning the counter-productivity of the act. One "good" thing about the death penalty anyone who is under 16 can not be killed by one of the "executions" methods. The article states "that no state without a minimum age in its death penalty statute can execute someone who was under sixteen at the time of the crime." Mental illness has a big way of changing the penalty because it states that "In 1986, the Supreme Court banned the execution of insane people and required an adversarial process for determining mental competency," so depending on your mental status you could be exempt out of the death penalty. 49% of people agree that the penalty is fair. and the other 41% feel it is not fair to kill using the penalty.
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Do you know what the most powerful man-made object ever? That's right, the nuclear bomb. It is commonly made from a atomic substance called plutonium, which is extremely dangerous and highly toxic to humans. If any form of plutonium comes in contact of a human, it can cause severe diseases such as leukemia, and severe radioactive burns called Beta Burns, which are fatal in most cases. The only time Nuclear weaponry was used in warfare was in World War 2 on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 266,000 people. People were reported to have 500, to a thousand millisieverts, which is just how much toxic radioactivity is in ones body. Scientists estimate that if a Nuclear War were to occur, there would be tens of millions of climatic effects to the Earth, not to mention the significant amount of deaths of humans, and other living species. Nuclear testing has also been relatively common because the US alone has done over 1,030 nuclear tests according to the Arms Control Association in the past 75 years. Nuclear testing can also cause MAJOR effects on the environment. Radiation can stay in the atmosphere for up to five years until it falls back down to the earth in a Nuclear Fall Out. In the past couple of decades, countries have been attempting to reduce the amount of Nuclear Weapons, and try to eliminate the concepts of Nuclear Warfare overall.
ReplyDeleteSources - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosions_on_human_health
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nucleartesttally
When you become an adult, do you think that you'll be prepared for the path ahead? In the present day some 20 to 34-year-olds are still living in there parents house. You used to be extremely privilaged if you got your parents oldest car to use when you turn sixteen. This isn't how it is today teens are driving new expensive cars. which may be do to the small amount of educators think that teaching real-world topics and subjects would take away the time to teach traditional topics such as calculus and Shakespeare, I don't think that traditional topics are all that important now. Do you? Think about what may happen if your classmates were put into the real world. What may have happened to them may happen to you.
ReplyDeleteDo you ever wonder how many trees are cut down each year? Well we cut down about 15 billion. If you think about it trees do a lot of good things for us. They clean the air that we breathe everyday. They help clean the soil for plants so that they can grow healthier. They also do things like keep noise levels down and wind levels. As a result to help trees naturalist John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt established a National Park System and a National Park Service. To help this situation people could cut down on there use of paper and do more stuff online.https://www.treehugger.com/reasons-living-trees-are-valuable-1343514
ReplyDeleteWhat's your insight in mental disorders? Depression has many different symptoms as insomnia, severe mood swings, irritability, suicidal thoughts, either being way to high in energy or way to low without an inbetween, as well as the abuse of drugs. The problem is, is that many people don't realize how bad it really is. Depression can come with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), anxiety, stress, bipolar, manic, dysmorfia, and ect. Suicide rates are still high and that's a problem because we aren't making those people feel comfortable to live because no one checks up on them. Almost a million people died every year because of depression, and depression and suicide is causing other people around them to hurt for them and also fall into depression as well. Women are most likely to have depression than men because of the expectations society has of them. If you think you have a mental disorder my suggestion is go to a therapist or a doctor and talk to them and they'll be able to help you out.
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https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db379.htm
https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Suicide/state/ALL
How much plastic do you think is a the bottom of the ocean? You may have guessed about a hundred pounds or maybe a little more, but in fact, there can be up to 1.9 million pieces of plastic per square meter under the ocean! This is the highest amount of plastic ever recorded; and it's just getting bigger. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of more than 87 thousand tons of trash, and goes from the West Coast of North America to Japan. Plastic in the ocean has a big affect to marine life, namely blocking of the airways and the digestive system. “Almost everybody has heard of the infamous ocean ‘garbage patches’ of floating plastic, but we were shocked at the high concentrations of microplastics we found in the deep-seafloor,” said Ian Kane, a researcher at the University of Manchester. When you see the word plastic, I bet you are thinking of toys and non-reusable water bottles, but microplastics are even worse. They are little pieces of plastic that are less than 5 millimeters long and they are called invisible water pollutants. Plastic waste doesn't just affect mammals, it can affect the plant life too. Scientist conducted an experiment and found microplastics in 114 freshwater and marine species.
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Does 10 million tons sound like a lot? That's how much plastic goes into the ocean every year. 80% of the plastic that goes into the ocean comes from land. What is ocean pollution? In the article about ocean pollution it stated that “Ocean pollution is a complex mixture of toxic metals, plastics, manufactured chemicals, petroleum, urban and industrial wastes" and many other things. Ocean pollution is very dangerous to humans. The stuff that enters the ocean is eaten by animals in the ocean, which is transferred into humans when they are eating the animal. For example fish. Many humans consume fish but they are also eating the mercury that is in the fish. In the ocean there is a lot of mercury, adult mercury increases chances of heart disease, and Dementia. If mercury is exposed to unborn babies it may damage their brains, reduce their IQ, increase risk of autism, ADHD, and other learning disorders. One way to reduce ocean pollution is to use less plastic.
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¨One nuclear bomb not only jeopardizes millions of lives but also for generations to come¨ According to the United Nations. A nuclear weapon is the most deadly weapon in the world and can be as hot as the sun and even if you survive the blast you still have to survive radiation poisoning,other effects to your health,what it does to nature and the environment, and a nuclear winter. We also have to worry about nuclear weapons getting in the wrong hands like terrorist organizations or countries that will use them for power or war or getting there hands on nuclear materials. There is also the chance of technical error like a nuclear weapon accidentally being targeted at a country for example in 2018 in Hawaii there was a notification on phones,radios, and television it said there was a ballistic missle landing in Hawaii it was false but still shows that there could be the possibility of technical error. And there is conflict with countries that own nuclear weapons like India and Pakistan which could kill millions of innocent people.
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DeleteThe American education system is putting too much pressure on students. According to The New York Times article, "What Students are Saying About The American Education System," there are 10 things that can be done to improve our system. Less pressure, fewer tests, fewer grades, less technology, more prep for life, more pay for teachers, more family support, more praise for teachers, more interesting lessons and better environment. Almost 300 students responded to the prompt for suggestions that the article was based on. One student said that technolgy causes less opportunity for deeper thought. Another comment said, “One of the biggest flaws in the American education system is the amount of pressure that students have on them to do well in school, so they can get into a good college.” Many students said the same thing and my classmates might agree.
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