Dear SeaWorld,
I am writing you in concern of the orcas that you have. I'm curious as to why you would be willing and able to spend 400 millon dollars on expanding 4 orca enclosure, but can't put that money to good use and build a beautiful sanctuary for the orcas?
This may not agree with some activists but I'm not one of them.
Think about the money you could bring in to let your guests visit this sanctuary and see these highly entellgent beings where they belong. Just think about it and what you could do!! You can have a info center and a place where people can learn about these beings!! You could also attach GoPros to them and do real study on how orcas behave in their real environment. You can also give live feeds for other to view from home.
I don't think Keiko was a failure at...
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As a young woman who is trying to decide where to spend the next four years of my life, I've been traveling around the country and participating in the information days. I am a prospective engineering student and recently attended a college of engineering informational tour. One thing has stuck out to me among these engineering specific days or even the letters I receive. All these universities want me, according to their form letters, but do they actually want me, or do they want the statistical advantage I bring to them. "We pride ourselves in being one of leading engineering programs for women. Our numbers recently increased to 26%!"
Now, as a future female engineer, 26% seems low to me, but I get it. Engineering is typically a man's major. Guess what? I don't want to be a...
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You don’t understand what it feels like to have your hopes come crashing down in a matter of seconds. You can’t possibly understand the precious seconds filled with wild hope and racing heartbeats before your brain process the “sorry but we cannot accept you” message on your computer screen. Who are you, but strangers, being handed our lives, our tears, our hardships, all the mountains we’ve braved, and being told to judge us for all the times we’ve stumbled in the process of reaching the summit? You don’t understand how much power you have. You have more than just someone’s story; you hold a person’s future.
No stranger should have that much power. No stranger should be allowed to shape the course of a person’s life. You don’t know anything about us. You don’t know anything, except...
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As an eighth grader about to decide where I wanted my high school years to occur I found myself surrounded with numerous opinions about GNBVT, most of which were negative. Flashback to my parents’ generation; about the 80’s, VOCS reputation was far from creditable. Voc was the place you went if you didn’t want to go to college, an easy way out or a direct path to a working class life. A reputation to which has now been proven wrong. Voc is so much more than that. I get it, and to this day that old reputation still holds some truth. Yes, Voc is a great school, better yet the best choice if you have no intention of furthering your education past the 12th grade. But just because they prepare you in a trade doesn’t mean your education has to stop there. Voc can also serve as your foundation...
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Hello, I am currently a senior as well as a student employee here at Youngstown State University. I am writing this letter to you over my concern about your decisions to restructure the already limited area of Meshel Hall that is used for CSIS students in the S.T.E.M. college.
I have been attending Y.S.U. since 2009 in attempts to receive my bachelors’ degree, and for the last three to four years, I have been majoring in Information Technology B., which is a CSIS based major. I must assure you that our department is severely lacking in structure and space, as nothing has been done in order to give it structure. Every “attempt” that was supposedly made was consistently pushed to the back burner, as other department’s orders of business were apparently more important than our own....
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We’re a year apart but that was never an issue because we were in high school together. But everything changed as soon as my countdown to graduation came to end and I was in my oversized white gown and finally turned the tassel and threw my cap up in the air. When my high school career came to a close, that was when the countdown to college began.
Most people get excited about starting college, but not me. Not only was I nervous about being in a new place and meeting new people and have everything just be completely different, but I felt like I was leaving you. We met my senior year and your junior year, but it felt like I knew you all my life. You kept reassuring me that when I got to college I wouldn’t be leaving you but it sure felt like it. I was going to a new place and starting...
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This letter was first published in the online edition of Frontier(A Kolkata based weekly having international circulation and founded in 1968 by Samar Sen) Registration No.ISSN 0016-2094.
My dear students of Jawaharlal Nehru University,
The current protest organised by you has reached national heights, although you are now being dubbed as “anti-nationals”. One of your 5-Star supporters, Mr. Rahul Gandhi has also been declared as “anti-national” by the ruling NDA. I was a student of Calcutta University during the Emergency period in the 70s and could remember well how the RSS and the ultra-left political organisations were being declared as “anti-nationals” by the then Congress Government of Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Police crackdowns in the University campuses were banal affairs at that...
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To School Boards Everywhere:
My name is David James. I am a teacher and coach at College Park High School in The Woodlands, Texas, part of the Conroe Independent School District. I was hoping that I might have a few minutes of your time. I would like to talk to all of you about suicide. I know it is not a popular topic, and honestly, it is not an easy to talk about, and in some areas, it may even be taboo, but it is one that must be addressed, and you, as school boards have an obligation to the students of your districts. The majority of their parents voted for you, so you have an obligation.
I realize this may not be the best time for many of you. It is January, and for all the districts in Texas, that means that STAAR testing is just two and a half months away, in...
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Dear Nicky Morgan,
Let me start by saying that when you became Education Minister I had high hopes for you. You said you would reduce the work load and let teachers do what they do best, grow the minds of the future generations! In the last year my work load has tripled, at least! I work from 7:30 in the morning until at least 9:00 at night. Don't get me wrong I will always do it, because I truly care about the children in my class but I am exhausted. I don't just mean a little bit tired, need a week off, I mean I am so exhausted I am on the verge of leaving the profession I love.
I have just attended a year 2 grammar course, all about the new assessment you have put in place. I can only think of one word to describe this new test: evil. I sat in a room full of teachers, a room full...
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If I was asked my favorite class in college so far, it would hands-down be a course called Ecology of Human Parasites. The material was fascinating and because of the course I am definitely considering continuing studying parasites after I finish my undergraduate degree. But beyond the material of the course, the other factor that made the class memorable was it was taught by an awesome professor. She was always friendly, impressively smart, and enthusiastic about the material. She was also the first person outside of my family and friends or strangers who I told I have OCD, which is not an easy boundary to cross. Luckily the conversation went well, and the class never really ended because I asked to be a research student in her lab. I wanted to find a way to thank my professor for all...
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