4th ESO  "B"

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN USA

Capital punishment does not work. There is a wealth of mounting evidence that proves this fact.

The death penalty, both in the U.S. and around the world, is discriminatory and is used disproportionately against the poor, minorities and members of racial, ethnic and religious communities. Since humans are fallible, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated.

Furthermore, the astronomical costs associated with putting a person on death row - including criminal investigations, lengthy trials are leading many states to re-evaluate and re-consider having this flawed and unjust system on the books.

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Suggested project: You can comment on the "12 Pictures Of Death Row Prisoners’ Last Meals"

WELCOME TO THE EIGHTIES...!!!

Take a rollercoaster ride through the decade that made us! 

The ‘80s is not about nostalgia; it is about a decade of people, decisions and inventions that changed our future, told from the perspective of unknowing history makers who lived these iconic moments. It was 10 years of nonstop glamour, unchecked excess, ruthless ambition and explosive technological innovation that combined to produce the historic changes and global events that made us who and what we are today.

The fingerprints of the decade best known for Pac-Man and the personal computer are everywhere in our daily lives: The first launch of NASA’s Space Shuttle triggered a technological explosion in global communications that now makes our world-wide love affair with smartphones and the Internet possible; when Madonna rolled around on stage in a wedding dress at a music awards show, it sent shock waves through a celebrity-hungry world that can’t get enough of “Gangnam Style” and Lady Gaga today

   

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Suggested project: You can comment on the following videos.

• The Cabbage Patch Riots were a series of violent customer outbursts at several retail stores in the United States, 30 years ago, in the winter of 1983. That year Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were released for sale in the United States, and every child wanted one for Christmas, causing a tremendously violent demand for the cute dimpled dolls 

• We've come a long way as a society from believing that AIDS is a homosexual disease.We're still a long way from a cure. Here is (what is said to be) the first news broadcast on AIDS. This was before they even knew what they were looking at. 

• Ronald Reagan's Address on the Space Shuttle "Challenger" Disaster - January 28, 1986

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THANKSGIVING DAY IS COMING IN THE USA...

Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1914,
 Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts

 It precedes Black Friday,  a busy shopping day and a holiday in some states.

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