Hunger In America

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Here, today, in the 21st Century, we live in a world with nothing but problems. In the Middle East, uncontaminated water is almost impossible to come by, civil wars, acts of terrorism, and everyday starvation are all normal parts of life. Even here in America, issues with both obesity and child hunger are present, both occurring in the same country. I say that some major changes must be made in this problem ridden world. Three major changes that should be made to the world today are: no homework should be given to students of any age, terrorism should be halted indefinitely, and starvation and obesity should cease.
First of all, homework causes stress on students. We may as well just spend all day at school if we are having school at home anyways. Students should go to school, work on “school” work, then come home and not do “school” work at home. This would increase the productivity and attitudes of students. I, for one, would be in a much better mood concerning school if I knew that I didn’t have to look forward to coming home to more school work. Coming home to school work is a great way to ruin someone's week. Every day, knowing that you will be working on boring math, or writing a wonderful paragraph.
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Innocent lives are taken every day by acts of terrorism in other countries and tragedies such as 9/11 and Pearl Harbor have occurred here at home. If terrorist were wiped from the face of the earth, be it with bullets or bombs, life would be better for hundreds of thousands of people. The people of every country currently infected with terrorism need stable governments that know what its people want rather than terrorists who take everything they have. Countries need to fight against the terrorists that infest their lands and kill them off before they do the same to the country's’

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