Francis Jason Camu Social Network PROS & CONS Social Networking sites allow us to communicate with others and express ourselves easier. These sites help you find people you have not seen in a while‚ chat without actually going places and learn things that are happening today. But what are the PROS & CONS of using it? Did you know the average person spends 4 years of his life looking down at his cell phone? It’s kind of ironic‚ ain’t it? How these touch-screens can make us lose touch? But
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29th‚ 2015 titled “Consumer Alert: Pros & Cons of Buying a Hover-board” in this article‚ Perry talks about pros and cons that he has discovered about the item that raged through the United States. Some of these pros consisted of “Convenience: If you’re within a short distance between destinations and don’t feel the need to walk or drive no problem. Your hover-board can go up to 10 mph and travel between 10-15 miles per charge.” (Perry) However‚ every pro has a con‚ which‚ even Perry had listed “Exploding
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Essay on lobbying campaign Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates‚ often lawyers‚ to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress. It is a highly controversial phenomenon‚ often seen in a negative light by journalists and the American public‚ and is frequently misunderstood. While lobbying is subject to extensive and often complex rules which‚ if not
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autonomous driving. The time has come for this evolution and even major power houses in the automotive industry are developing self-driving technology. In the following years‚ we will need to have a conversation as a society about the benefits and negatives of self-driving‚ electrical vehicles and once we do‚ it will become glaringly obvious that the pros outweigh the cons. The following benefits such as autonomous cars decreasing automotive fatalities from issues such as human error‚ intoxicated driving
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implementing CRISPR and eliminating genes that we found unfavorable‚ we are essentially eliminating the diversity of the human gene pools and human rights. Modifying genes can have many negative impact on the human species. With the CRISPR’s technology of snipping out pieces of DNA‚ human’s gene diversity will disease inevitably. Since everyone will favor specific desirable traits and snip out all the undesirable genetic DNA‚ the human gene diversity dwindles till only the DNA that represent the
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require kids to complete standardized tests. The first reason schools shouldn’t have standardized tests is that the tests only track a student’s performance on one day of the year‚ regardless of external factors. The Columbia University article “Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing” explains how external factors can affect a student’s test results. A student could have extreme test anxiety‚ and thus do badly on the test‚ but the standardized test doesn’t take that into account. If a student is dealing
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Many well educated students dread one test in their life. The SAT’s and ACT’s are tests that are taken to show colleges where a person is academically. SAT’s were derived from Army IQ test. In 1923‚ Carl C. Brigham published a book on the results of the tests called A Study of American Intelligence. The first SAT was administered to high school students in 1926. In 1934‚ Harvard started using SAT scores for selecting people for scholarships. Then other Ivy League started using the SAT for scholarship
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Brandi Miller Ashton University INF: 103 Mark Revels November 8‚ 2010 The Pros and Cons of the Social Web 2.0 1. What is Web 2.0? a) Where did it start from? b) Sharing information? c) Who can share this info? 2. What are the good things about social-web? a) Easier communication Advertising b) Great way to learn c) People connected together by common interests 3. What are the cons of using the social-web? a) No Privacy b) Cyber bulling c) Identity theft
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Cyberbullying is defined as the use of electronic communication to bully a person‚ typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature (“Cyberbullying”). As stated by an anonymous girl from Illinois‚ "It affected me for 3-4 years...would come home and just cry. It really hurt (Hinduja‚ Sameer and Justin Patchin).” That type of an effect on a person shouldn’t be ignored. One of the main reasons cyberbullying should be stopped is the fact that it’s real. Secondly‚ the effect it has
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before‚ there are dangerous aspects of GMOs. The National Library of Medicine states that the modified organisms can be inbred with the non modified organisms leading to the overall extinction of the original species. The Institute for Responsible Technology believes that GMOs have been linked to toxic and allergic reactions‚ sick‚ sterile and dead livestock‚ and that the eating of GMOs can lead to damaged organs. Some researchers say that when you are mixing the genes of completely different animals
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