...Instructions: Write an expository essay (that is, one that develops some central claim, idea, or opinion) on ONE of the topics suggested below. 1. Should be between 300 and 400 words in length; 2. Should contain several well-developed paragraphs that support and illustrate your central idea; 3. Must be written in ink, not pencil. Make an outline and a draft of your essay on the pages entitled “Rough Work.” Be sure to allow yourself to revise your initial draft. Only what you write on the “Finished Work” pages will be evaluated. Topics Note: If your essay is not directly about one of the following topics, it will receive no mark. What are the major factors in deciding how many children to have? Having children to create thefor next generation is necessary for our society. Every family might have a different number of children. In my opinion, deciding how many children to have depends on athe country’s policiesy, financial status, and responsibilities. First, people usually consider athe country’s policiesy. For example, China has the One Child Policy. If a family has more than one child, it is against the law. On the contrary, most western countriesy such as Canada always encourage familiesy to have more children. Also families get more money from government if they have more children. We can obliviously see that many countries have different policiesy to control the population;, therefore, people should know about their country’s policiesy before making the...
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...With our school district being mostly populated my underprivileged families, it is important to provide nutritious, healthy food twice a day. Our current food industry provider gets paid for every student they service for breakfast and lunch, so it is vital to the company to feed as many of the students as possible. School lunches should be nutritious, and healthier for students. With obesity and diabetes plaguing the community, school lunches need to focus on providing the student with a balance of healthy foods that the student may not normally get at home. According to a website healthyeating.SFGate.com, 23.5 % of high school-ers eat meals from fast food restaurants. And according to the same website, high school aged girls should only consume 1800 calories per day. The administration feels “healthy lunches set children up for success,” and that is what needs to be focused on. By providing a better healthy, nutritious lunch our high school will help students be successful. The school in itself is not to blame for unhealthy eating habits....
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...Joshua 11/18/13 After school essay There are many things that different people like to do when they get home from school so today I will be telling you guys about the many different things I do after school and all of them will fall under three categories: Outdoors, School and last but not least, Friends. So let’s get started with Outdoors. Outdoors is one of three categories of things I do after school there are many different things I do that are outdoors but for you the readers sake I will name a couple, Scouts is the first one now I have been a scout for 4 years now and I always enjoy it we do a lot of cool trips and campouts, Now scouts has been something that I find interesting it’s a combination of sports and physical labor and learning half of scouts is about learning like you learn a lot about different things for example I have learned a ton of different things in scouts that I would have never learned in school like in scouts I learned CPR which is part of the first aid merit badge and also its required in a couple other merit badges, I have also learned many different poisons plants and trees and berries and also a couple of edible ones, mainly we learned how to survive in a lot of scenarios like storms and animal attacks, also in outdoors I love to go on hikes if I have the time because I love to be able to see all the nature in its purest form I have seen a lot of different ecosystems and different big landmarks. School the one topic that is going to be...
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...would be writing this essay and planning for yet another ten years into the future, part of me would have been surprised. I am a planner and a maker of to-do lists, and it has always been my plan to follow in the steps of my father and become a physician. This plan was derailed when I was called to active duty to serve in Iraq as part of the War on Terror. I joined the National Guard before graduating high school and continued my service when I began college. My goal was to receive training that would be valuable for my future medical career, as I was working in the field of emergency health care. It was also a way to help me pay for college. When I was called to active duty in Iraq for my first deployment, I was forced to withdraw from school, and my deployment was subsequently extended. I spent a total of 24 months deployed overseas, where I provided in-the-field medical support to our combat troops. While the experience was invaluable not only in terms of my future medical career but also in terms of developing leadership and creative thinking skills, it put my undergraduate studies on hold for over two years. Consequently, my carefully-planned journey towards medical school and a medical career was thrown off course. Thus, while ten-year plans are valuable, I have learned from experience how easily such plans can dissolve in situations that are beyond one’s control, as well as the value of perseverance and flexibility. Eventually, I returned to school. Despite my best efforts...
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...Female Genital mutilation is one of the greatest violation of human rights in a girl child and women.It involves procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to female genital organs for non medical reasons. This practice is most common in the western, eastern, and north-eastern regions of Africa, in some countries in Asia and the Middle East, and among migrants from these areas still perform this awful act. Its widely done to young girls of age 14 and above and sometime even younger if they think the girl is mature enough. According to World Health Organization , FGM involves partial or total removal of female genitilia. It is classified into four kinds. Firstly, Clitoridectomy:ial or total removal of the clitoris or clitoral hood by slicing it off mercilessly with a sharp unsterile objects. Secondly, Infibulation which is the narrowing of the vagina with creation of a coverin g seal .The seal is formed by cutting and repositioning he inner and outer labia without removing clitoris. Thirdly , we have Excision; which is the removal of clitoris and vaginal lips.This method involves deep cutting and may lead to death. Lastly , there is pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauterization which is very painful and traumatic .(UNICEF ,2013) There are different reasons why FGM is practiced but mostly many people do it for cultural reasons. Some communities do them for religious and social factors like rite of passage for marriage purposes...
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...Of all the characters that I’ve “met” through books and movies, two stand out as people that I most want to emulate. They are Attacus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird and Dr. Archibald “Moonlight” Graham from Field of Dreams. They appeal to me because they embody what I strive to be. They are influential people in small towns who have a direct positive effect on those around them. I, too, plan to live in a small town after graduating from college, and that positive effect is something I must give in order to be satisfied with my life. Both Mr. Finch and Dr. Graham are strong supporting characters in wonderful stories. They symbolize good, honesty, and wisdom. When the story of my town is written I want to symbolize those things. The base has been formed for me to live a productive, helpful life. As an Eagle Scout I represent those things that Mr. Finch and Dr. Graham represent. In the child/adolescent world I am Mr. Finch and Dr. Graham, but soon I’ll be entering the adult world, a world in which I’m not yet prepared to lead. I’m quite sure that as teenagers Attacus Finch and Moonlight Graham often wondered what they could do to help others. They probably emulated someone who they had seen live a successful life. They saw someone like my grandfather, 40-year president of our hometown bank, enjoy a lifetime of leading, sharing, and giving. I have seen him spend his Christmas Eves taking gifts of food and joy to indigent families. Often when his bank could not justify a...
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...In Malaysia, it is common thing to see children carrying a backpack especially during school day. We can tell that their backpacks are heavy because they will bend forward while carrying backpack. Unfortunately, carrying a heavy backpack among schoolchildren has not yet become an issue or concern or threat in Malaysia. In United States, approximately 40 million students carry backpack to school (Pascoe et al., 1999). According to Iyer, it is reported that 6 out of 10 students who participated in ergonomic study conducted, having chronic back pain due to carrying heavy backpacks (Iyer, 2001). In the last few many years, lots of risk factors have been determined as the cause of back pain in children however, school backpack was not included until...
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...The origins of the Universe The Universe originated from a violent explosion of extremely high density and temperature approximately twenty billion years ago. That is the common understanding of the beginning of time, and it is called the Big Bang Theory. Students are taught this from Elementary to College as if it were a fact. There are many problems with this theory that the Plasma Theory can scientifically explain. The law of conservation of energy states that energy may neither be created nor destroyed. Therefore the sum of all the energies in the system is a constant. The Big Bang Theory violates this law by stating that all matter and energy was created in an explosion. From Elementary to College students are taught that laws of physics cannot be violated, but are taught a theory that clearly violates one of them. The Plasma Theory on the other hand does not have a explanation as to how the Universe started leaving room for future discoveries to fill in the blank. The law of conservation of linear momentum states that the total momentum of a closed system of objects is constant. One of the consequences of this is that the center of mass of any system of objects will always continue with the same velocity unless acted on by a force from Cannon 2 outside the system. Galaxies are found at varying distances, moving in different directions at different velocities and almost always in clusters containing millions of Galaxies. This is not possible...
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...different types of censorship. There is Media Censorship, and there is censorship in books. There is also censorship in school, with filters and limits of what websites you are allowed to be on. In The United States the first amendment states that every American has a right to the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. In elementary school, censorship is only really common in the school library. Many books can...
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...low - paying jobs: clerk, receptionist, and hou secleaner. There is nothing like scrubbing someone else's toilet to inspire one with determination toward obtaining an education. Because of my absolute commitment toward earning my degree, I got a flexible shift at a retail warehouse which enabled me to a cquire my degree while supporting myself financially. Enrolled at the local community college, I experienced a different world opening up to me; excited by a new encouraging environment, I excelled academically. I learned that if I tried hard, I could suc ceed; if I wanted something badly enough, I possessed the ability to take advantage of these opportunities. I worked a minimum 35 - hour workweek for five years to put myself through school without succumbing to the temptation of a student loan. I paid tuiti on up front with the money I earned. It was the example of my mother, a Puerto Rican immigrant working diligently to provide for her family, who instilled a work ethic into me that has stood me in good stead. With a lifelong passion for history, I have de veloped an interest in the cultural history of early modern and modern Europeans, especially women's history. The experiences of ordinary women fascinate me: how they constitute their world through popular folk tales and literature; how the seemingly irrat ional paradoxes of the past to modern eyes are completely rational when taken within the historical context; and finally, how these historical changes and...
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...great increase in the amount of threats and school shootings in the United States. Many people think to themselves, “This would never happen to me or in my area.” I used to think this way until the day my school received a threat that a teenager was planning to shoot up the school. The entire school was in a frenzy. Students leaving school, an increase in the number of police officers at the school, and having that thought that whispers in your ear, “Will this be my last day on Earth? Will I ever get to see my family and friends again?” These were some of the thoughts that ran through my mind when I heard about the threat. People never truly realize how scary and real something is until it happens to them. In the first article, “No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in...
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...How is school suspensions actually benefiting the school system? Do they even make students reflect on what they did wrong? How does it resolve issues within the student body? School suspensions have been around for a long time. In the 1960’s and 70’s school suspension numbers spiked by what possibly is a result of desegregation. This spiked made people question the efficiency of school suspensions. Although school suspension does reduce the number of problem students, schools should use restorative justice instead of suspension because students understand what they did wrong, it reduces the pressure of a student wanting to drop out, and it solves issues within the students’ relationships. Students have a greater chance of knowing what they...
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...The ability to improve academic performance by simply changing the nutritional value of school lunches has sparked an increased interest in providing free meals for all students as New York City has motioned to do. In the city, approximately 75% of students had already qualified for free or reduced meals leaving the majority of food expenses to fall on struggling communities (Piccoli, Sean). Other major cities such as Boston, Chicago, and Detroit have begun subsidizing more of the school lunch programs and entertaining the idea of providing it entirely free of cost (Piccoli, Sean). By utilizing a federal program that enables school districts whose students reach a certain economic threshold the ability to subsidize the entire district as New York City elected to do. The long term stigmas associated with receiving government assistance prompted many students and families...
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...Jane Doee ENG 106 May 26, 2009 Charter Schools Why charter schools? Public, Private, Magnet, and Charter schools all have one thing in common, that is a place where students can learn, jobs for educators, and a location with a purpose where parents feel safe to let their children go to learn and interact with others in the community. Charter schools have a unique way of teaching students. Charter schools are not only created to teach the basic reading, writing, and math, but, to bring originality and flexibility to advance student’s achievements. Charter schools are not nation wide as of yet because the population in the community does not know how beneficial they can be towards the community. Charter schools are privately run and publicly financed departments run by parents, educators, and companies. The state and federal tax dollars are based on enrollment, just like public schools are. There is no tuition to attend a charter school, and it is freely available to any student who wishes to enroll. Charter schools are legally obligated to state and federal academic standards. Charter schools can make a difference in the community by having an arranged schedule for students, parents, and educators to follow. Parents, who work during school hours and have no one to pick up their children from school, can have their children attend evening, or weekend classes to make up for lost time in school. Students who are struggling with their academics...
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...Back to School A country thrives when its citizens contribute and make an effort to make the most of what they are offered in life. President Barack Obama is very aware of this and has made it an important subject and goal in his presidential career to inspire youngsters in the right direction, both for their own sake and their country’s. Barack Obamas’ speech “Back to School” at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia was held in September 8, 2009. The age of the present audience varied to children from kindergarten and all the way up to twelfth grade. In addition to that, the speech was also broadcasted to students all over the country. The audience is obviously extremely great, and the speech will therefore have a tremendous impact on several individuals. The first thing Obama seems to focus on in his speech on the first day of the children’s school day are in fact the children themselves. He speaks directly to them, and initiates the whole thing by telling everyone that being nervous is perfectly normal. He has obviously tried it himself when he was their age. Very easily he finds a way to make everyone relate to him by telling stories from his own life. Barack Obama did not grow up under the best circumstances. He was raised by a single mother whom was very passionate about doing what was best for her son. She even sought to homeschool Obama, when he wasn’t at school. She wanted to make sure he would have the best possible future. This particular section of the speech...
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