Rainforest Depletion
By: M.S.
The rain forest trees are disappearing at a rate of 6000 acres every hour. When
these plants are cut down the animals that live in them have to flee quickly.
But some don’t have time to move and hundreds of animals are dying every day
because of this.
The rain forests are there to help us breath and live. It
makes almost half of the oxygen here on Earth. If the rain forest dies we die
too. The rain forest has 90% of the biodiversity in the world. The rain forest
will soon be a desert if we don’t stop cutting down the trees. Many cattle
farms bring their cattle to graze there; because there is so much grazing land
after the cutting.
The rain forests are being cut down because people are using
their bark for rubber, wood, oil, etc. The people who work for these companies
are probably just fine with what they’re doing. They don’t seem to mind that
they are killing hundreds of animals and plants. They even let people burn the
leftovers of the rain forest’s wood.
If you go to the rain forest there are lots of stumps left
from the destruction of the trees. It is sad to see the stumps just sitting
there and animals lying dead. They are very sad to see so we should stop
cutting down the trees in the rain forest. It will save species, trees, and it
will save people sorrow.
Some people say that “Trees are trees how many more do we
need to look at.” Others like me say
that “It is not right to cut them down for wood when we could get wood from
less inhabited trees.” Prince Charles even said that “I, for one, am
determined to do everything in my power to ensure that this future is not
snatched from our children and grand children.” He is nice to think that he
can help and maybe you can too. Start a donation jar of money for the rain forest plants and animals.
Dyslexia By: G.T.S.
Why can’t dyslexia be
diagnosed sooner?
It is important to test as
early as kindergarten for dyslexia because the earlier the students can get
tutoring or support the better off they’ll be. For students with dyslexia
learning is harder and more frustrating. So having support would help them be
more confident, braver, and successful. It would also be easier for the family
to understand dyslexia.
Testing should begin as
early as kindergarten. Make sure teachers and the staff understand what
dyslexia is. Some people think it means
you won’t be good at other subjects like math or social studies or science, but
it’s not true. Work on all subjects with
them.
Currently diagnosis can
occur in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade. Some ways to
test for dyslexia include naming shapes and reading some letters. Good ways to
support someone with dyslexia are to tell them about tests and what it involves.
Tell them how the tests happen. Say something like “There is not a right and
wrong way.” Have teachers learn about dyslexia and their learning styles
Some helpful tools for supporting those with
dyslexia are: Audio books with text that you can read along with. Using tutors.
Using creative writing with writing assistants.
Also, having someone write down the student’s ideas. Use specialist support. Have comic books and
graphic novels and more visual books. Find reading specialists for exams and
tests. Help by using art for subjects. Also use more visuals of the materials,
any kind of pictures help.
As a person that suffers
from dyslexia it would have helped me a lot more if I had known sooner than
later. Now that I know, I understand what I have and am a more successful
student.
Alternative Energy
By: S.B.
Alternative
energy is the energy of the future! It is found in many places, prices are
lowering for technology to obtain the energy, and it is nearly pollution free.
Oil and gas prices are going up as reserves are depleted, and they also cause
methane pollution which is a large cause of climate change. We must change our
ways before it is too late.
Today,
oil and gas make up most of the world’s fuel, especially gas for cars. Methane
keeps polluting, and only a small percent of energy comes from renewable and
clean sources. The ozone layer is melting, and because of rising temperatures,
the ice caps might melt too. If that happens, much of the current land would be
consumed by water, including much of some states, like Florida, California, and
others. Seattle would be threatened as well. Power plants cause particle
pollution, which have shown to cause death and disease from the air pollution.
However, hydroelectricity, air
power, and solar energy, when fully invested in, can change everything. If we
completely stop using oil and gas, instead using electrical cars and bicycles
in the place of gasoline cars, we might be able to save the ozone layer. We
would replace polluting power plants with solar panel centers, and solar panels
also could be put on houses. Hydroelectricity would produce a most of the
energy for large coastal cities, such as Seattle, Miami, and San Francisco, and
windmills and turbines would be mobilized everywhere.
Some people support oil and gas
drilling, especially fracking, a hydraulic inland version of drilling that
covers less land and leaves a smaller footprint. But even though this might be
better than regular drilling, many consequences still await. Pollution is
caused, as are industrial explosions. And also, people who believe in fracking
probably do not know what happens when drilling becomes a part of a community.
People’s health, way of life, and future are threatened. People have been
fighting back when this happens, a good example Dryden, where the people of the
town joined together to see what they could do about it. They eventually found
a law that the town officials could decide to prohibit the drilling to stop it,
so they made a petition and got hundreds of people to sign it. Luckily, the
fracking was stopped. This shows how strongly people who experience drilling near
them feel about fracking.
Research that happened in 2012
showed that in mid-latitudes between 4% and 6% the ozone layer has been
depleted across the globe and 10% to 12% in higher latitudes per decade. This
poses a real problem and oil and gas pollution has played a large part of it.
Right now, renewable energy accounts for 12% of energy generation. But since
the US is producing a lot of pollution from oil and gas, we could make a real
change.
In conclusion, it is important that
we switch to mostly alternative energy to stop the ozone layer from melting;
the source of global warming. This would prevent the Arctic Caps from melting,
which would make sure that waters do not rise and consume a huge amount of
land. It also helps people; industrial explosions would be prevented and towns
threatened from drilling saved. We must unite to stop oil and gas pollution
before it is too late!
Pet Abuse
By: O.M.
The U.S.A has
thousands, maybe millions of dogs who are abused and have no homes. I believe
that pet abuse should not be allowed, and should be banned from the U.S.
Puppy
mills are large-scale commercial dog breeding operations that put greater
priority on profits than the health of the puppies. When you buy a puppy or dog
on the internet you are not only helping puppy mills but you are also risking
getting scammed with your money. According to the Internet Crime Complaint
Center, (there is one) hundreds of complaints have been filed each year about
people being scammed when buying a dog or puppy online. Not only that but the
puppy that you get may not be the puppy that you agreed to buy, or not get a
puppy at all.
Some people tend to not know that they are doing pet abuse,
something as simple as tying your dog to a chain and leaving him outside could
be pet abuse. Here is a story of a dog named Oogy who was abused and
surprisingly still lived.
Lauren M. tells a story about Oogy “When our dog Oogy was
just ten weeks old and weighed 20 pounds he was tied to a stake and used as
bait for a pit bull. The left side of his face including most of his ear was
torn off. He was bitten so hard that a piece of his lower jaw was crushed.
After he was thrown into a cage to bleed to bleed to death he was found by
police when they raided they raided the facility and taken to a emergency
service operating out of Ardmore Animal Hospital, in a suburb of Philadelphia.
There, Diane Klein, the office’s director of operations, simply refused to
allow the dog to die. Dr. James Bianco, the head of the hospital operated for
hours to stop the bleeding, replace the lost blood, and suture the gaping meat
Oogy’s face had become. With the help of the whole staff Oogy survived.”
Do you think that Oogy deserved all of this? He was just a
simple dog waiting to have a life and instead he got abused by some citizen.
Think about it anyone could abuse an animal, even me, but I don’t have a cruel
mind to do something like this. Most people abuse animals because they want to
feel powerful and in control, or because they have problems at home and take it
out on the animal.
The reason why I am doing this is because I have a strong
feeling about pet abuse and think that it should go on no longer that it had
been. I say that we pull our selves together and STOP THIS. You are the helping
hand and I need your help.
“ If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act
of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
- Albert Einstein
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