Week 2 Vocabulary Defintions & Critical Reading Passage

 Interpret: To give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate.

 Involve: To include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail.

Percent: Also called per centum. one one-hundreth part.

1)Do kids who are involved with playing violent video games tend to be more aggressive?

A: No this is just a stupid myth that people make to make kids not play violent games.

 

2)If and when you have children, will you let them play violent video games?

A: Yes because i see no point in not letting them it's just a game and it's not reality.

 

3)Are there benefits to playing violent video games?

A: No there is not kids just love playing it for the entertainment

Cloze Reading Passage Quarter 2 Week 1

Health care is an 1) Issue that continues to be debated. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, millions of people in the U.S. do not have health insurance. In 2007, Americans spent more than two trillion dollars on health care. Health care is the largest industry in the U.S., employing more than 14 million people.

Supporters of the right to health care, believe that health care reform would stop medical bankruptcies (when people go broke because someone in the family gets sick), improve public health, and reduce overall health care spending.
2) Evidence suggests that 2.1% of all U.S. bankruptcies in 2007 were related to medical expenses. They say that no one in the richest nation on earth should go without health care. A June 2009 report 3) summarizes the results of a poll that showed 64% of Americans believe health care is an important
4) issue and should be a right.

People who are against using taxes to provide health care for all Americans argue that it is socialism (a government run society). They also feel that there is
5) evidence to suggest that it would decrease the quality and availability of health care for those who already  coverage. In 6) evidence, opponents say it is not the government's responsibility to guarantee health coverage.

Week 10 Vocab Cloze Reading & Paragraph Practice

The word euthanasia was coined in the 17th century by Francis Bacon who defined it as “an easy, painless, and happy death.” Today, it refers to when a doctor 1)Criteria to help a critically ill patient commit suicide by injecting him or her with a drug that causes death; critically ill means that they have a disease or illness which will result in death.

Supporters of doctors who assist critically ill patients to die say that people have the right to end their lives in a painless and dignified way. One could say that a person’s right “to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” includes the right to decide to free oneself from a painful disease or illness. Doctors who support euthanasia 2) Consent that the 3) Criteria for 4) Consent to help a patient die is that the patient is suffering from a terminal illness, has a poor quality of e, and has made a conscious decision to end his/her life.

Critics of euthanasia say that doctors take an oath to protect patients. Assisting them to end their lives goes against that promise. Opponents also 5) emphasis
the possibility of doctors taking this too far by helping the poor and disabled end their lives. Religious critics say that doctor-assisted suicide goes against God’s will. Others fear that a patient's age and inability to pay medical bills may be used as 6) Criteria to determine who lives and who dies.
I think that docters should not assist patients into ending their own lives. Its shows great emphasis  to the patients being asked if they want to end their own life. The patients themsleves should have the consent to not end their own lives. The criteria to this is so that it should be illegal to use euthanasia because this does not seem normal to the society to actually pass this.

Week 10 Definitions and Critical Reading Passage

consent- To permit, approve or agree; comply or yield. 
criteria- A standard of judgment or criticism.

emphasis- special stress laid upon, or importance attached to anything.

A) Do you think that euthanasia should be an individual right or should it be determined by the courts
B)Is there a chance that physician-assisted suicide could go too far?
Answer: I think that euthanasia should be an individual right to every citizen. I think this because every human being has a right to end their own life if they have a very bad illness. The reason is because they might mot want to go through the pain. Yes it actually could because the ill person might end up getting better out of no where with the right medication. Physicians should not assist the ill to end their own life it should be the ill persons choice to do what they want to do.

T-Chart and Practice Paragraph Quarter 1 Week 9

Should junk food be banned from school vending machines?
I think that junk food should not be banned from vending machines. One reason is because the parents should be teaching their kids how to eat healthy. Second reason is that the people who own the vending machines pull a lot of strategies to sell their product. Third reason is don't eat a lot of junk food from the vending machines then, at least once in a while. There have been previous statements that say it is the vending machines that cause unhealthiness. Either you have the alternative to eat unhealthy or eat healthy.

Week 9 Vocab Defintions and Close Reading Passage

Alternative: A choice limited to one of two or more possibilites, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility.
Synonym: Option

Previous: Coming or occuring before something else.
Synonym: Before

Strategy: The use or an instance of using this science or art.
Synonym: Tactics

1)Is it the schools' job to decide what students should or should not eat?
Yes it is because they are in charge of the healthiness of the food that they serve to the kids.

2)Are school vending machines really full of junk food?
Yes, because they have all these sweets and chocolates in them.

3)Does keeping junk food out of vending machines really teach kids to eat better?
Not really because it also depends on how the family teaches their kids how to eat healthy.