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On my way to Costa Rica

I was super nervous

I was also excited to meet my group members

With who I would spend 2 whole weeks

  In the Panama airport

I was looking around for my group members

I was looking for a blue shirt which said GLA

  It took about 1 hour to get to Costa Rica

I was asked a lot of questions before allowed to leave the airport

The first thing that I noticed what how hot and…

Reflecting on the Significance of My Name in 2018

  3 words of memories

  My name is Luis Alexander Acetun Toc. But on paper it is Luis A. This is because there always seems to be another Luis in the classroom. My name is divided into 3 parts. Luis is what everyone calls me. Acetun is the last name that I got from my dad. Toc is the last name that I got from my mom. Both my last names are pretty unique and hard for people to say when they try…

For the past two decades, the New York City Writing Project has organized teams of teachers to design, manage, protect, spread, scale, and tinker with online spaces where youth can connect their academic learning with their personal passions and wider concerns. The hub of this learning community is Youth Voices, an openly networked forum that invites youth to interact and collaborate beyond the…

A Question of Choice

I’m sure you’ve heard someone say, “You decide!” But are you actually making a choice? A choice is something that is decided upon after deliberation between alternatives. In that sense, even computers make choices, but the question is whether or not the choice was free; whether or not people have free will. A computer may choose to display one result over another after a google search, but that…

Nearly 9 in 10 abortions take place early in pregnancy (Abort73, 2017). Women around the world use abortion to control reproduction. Abortion is the action of ending a human’s pregnancy, most often done during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. Abortion is a procedure that people have used for thousands of years but it started getting more attention in the US when Roe v. Wade promoted a national…

Argument Comments on Genetic Engineering

Answering to:

“Why I say yes to Genetics in Agriculture?”

Dear William,

I do really agree with you that genetics in our foods is good thing, one reason I say that is because it made food more easier for people to get there hands on food. It’s true, that our population is growing so much and so fast and it made food less scarce for us. Another reason why I agree with you is because like you said…