The Future of Foods Projects Presented at LA City Hall on Food Day 2017 Promote a Good Food Economy for All Smart Stop: Plant-Based Convenience Store Could not find info online Hank’s Mini-Market: Convenience Store Transforming into a Community Arts Hub and Healthy Food Store in Partnership with Sweetgreen The healthy neighborhood market network has been working with corner stores in south LA and Boyle Heights to offer more fresh produce and healthy food options. Hanks's Mini Market located on 3301 W Florence Ave, LA CA and has been transforming the community by providing its food resources to Sweetgreen restaurants. http://goodfoodla.org/policymaking/healthy-neighborhood-market-network/ Create a Culture Shift
In “Inherit the Wind”, there is a school teacher, named Bert Cates, waiting to go to trial for a crime he committed. Cates decided to teach about evolution, a topic that was banned in school. Everyone but Cates thought it was wrong, so the question is, should he have taught evolution? I believe he made a bad choice to teach it. The most important reason is that it is illegal to teach it and he should have known that.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. - John Charles Polanyi Fear is a strong motivator in life and was a reoccurring thought while reading the Alabama Board of Education’s disclaimer on evolution. Let us break down this label by taking a look at its errors and misconceptions, explore the author’s understanding of the scientific method, and muse a little about why there is no warning label for gravity. For starters, it is safe to say the author of this disclaimer is on the side of creationism, so we will take a crash course on religion.
Many American schools have transitioned their curriculum from a combination of ELA (English, Language Arts) and STEM to primarily STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Many have taken different stances on this educational transition, including groups that believe only ELA, only STEM, or a combination of both STEM and ELA should be the curriculum in all American schools. There is a plethora of pros and cons for each style of education, and differences are immense. Many believe that kids should primarily learn STEM in high school because many jobs are centered around STEM topics. Students also struggle most with science, technology, engineering, and math more often than they struggle with english and language arts.
The theory of evolution was formulated by Charles Darwin who first formulated his theory in 1859, defined it as the “process by which organisms change over time because of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits. Changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring.” (Than, 2018) It is natural selection that decides what changes the organism needs so that those changes allow the organism to better adapt to its new environment, it is the biggest evolutionary mechanism. Its purpose is for evolutionary success to promote growing populations of the next generations to come.
Evolution should be taught in school because it shows that all creatures have anatomical and functional characteristics, shows the evolution of disease and agricultural process, and teaches kids a moral value that not just human lives matter, animals as well. By teaching evolution, you can see the similarities between creatures, “Similarities between even widely disparate types of the organism exist at every level, from externally visible resemblances to profound resemblances in life-cycles and the structure of the genetic material. Biological classification, embryonic development, vestigial organs, sexual reproduction, inheritance, genes, mutations, and DNA sequencing are all discussed. Similarities between species have a natural and straightforward explanation in the idea that organisms are related through an
The question of whether evolution should or should not be taught in schools is one that has been pondered over for quite some time now, as seen in this week's additional reading "Re-reading Root-Bernstein and McEachron in Cobb County, Georgia. " While the article did allow me to see a scientist's view on the question, it did not change my thoughts on the subject. I believe that evolution should indeed be taught in schools. My reasoning behind this is because I think children and teenagers should be given all of the facts and taught about all of the possible theories, so that they are then able to make their own educated decision as to what they want to believe. It is for this reason that I also support religion being taught in schools, which has also caused quite the controversy.
I believe historical documents should be taught in school, but only for middle school and high schoolers. Kids who are in lower grades do not comprehend or understand all of America's historical documents, or tragedies that happened afterwards. Not until about middle school do kids start to really get a sense of what things happened that caused us to get to where we are today. In higher grade levels they are able to form their own opinions and feelings on the matter, as well as be able to pay more attention to the information being given to them. In my opinion, learning about these things since about fourth grade, honestly get a little boring after a while.
The students should actually know the right kind of information of how the world has become to be today and how did they become the person they are now; they should be taught by the information that has valid reasoning and evidence not by make up information that is based on belief. By learning the concept of evolution I have a strong feeling that the students will use the concepts to help them solve biological problems that they might have to face in the future. For example, students who would want to protect themselves from any sort of diseases, like the hereditary diseases, the students should first have full knowledge on the evolutionary histories of the disease-causing gene. It assures me that if evolution were taken away from learning, students would not get the knowledge that they need to know on how the world were created and that it will be difficult for them to handle issues that they might face in the future, relating to life, humans, or animals. My opinion of supporting evolution will not change, and that I believe that evolution should be taught in school so that our future will be
Talabi Toluwalase Professor David Nelson ENG 101 [insert date of completion here] Should Religion Be Taught In Public Schools? With more than 15 court cases - including the famous Scopes Trial in Tennessee (Murray 135) - associated with the very topic over the course of U.S. history, the degree to which religion can be allowed in many institutions of society has ignited numerous debates; so much so that it has been excluded completely in the US public school education. While the fear of potentially discriminating students of minor religions is understandable, I believe that religion should be taught in public schools for the following reasons: educating students to be religion literates, providing students with the tools to fight religiously-motivated hate crimes, and promoting positive morals in the institutions of society. Religion literacy
Imagine you are at your desk at school doing your schoolwork. While you’re sitting there your furry little pet is sitting in your lap. Even if you don’t have a pet you could be petting your friends pet. Wouldn’t this be great if it were true? Pets should be allowed in school and as classroom pets because, they can show affection towards students to help student’s education, it could make students feel more at home, and students wouldn't be so stressed all the time.
Clash between science and religion started way before Charles Darwin published his piece of scientific literature titled On the Origin of the Species. The most famous debate about science and religion was the Galileo Affair in the early 17th century that was due to the publishing of a book, Dialogue, which supported the Copernican theory that the earth revolved around the sun rather than what the Bible suggested---the absolute opposite. Although this debate sparked controversy, schools continued to teach the Book of Genesis as the origin of life until Darwin introduced his scientific theories that became widely accepted in the late 1800s. Over time, the Supreme Court challenged cases such as the Scopes Trial and Epperson v. Arkansas that
A theory is defined as an explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a compilation of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Theory is not scientific law, which is a natural phenomenon that has been proven as absolute truth. However, in the public-school setting, evolution, a theory concerning the Earth’s origins, is established as an indisputable fact allowing no room for other theories, specifically creationism, to be taught. These two battling theories uphold two opposing perspectives that attempt to explain the creation and development of life.
BIOLOGY RESEARCH ESSAY There is great speculation around evolution. As we are continually in the process of discovering the history of human beings, there are many questions surrounding this topic. One very interesting question is why ancient ancestors of homo-sapiens evolved to walk upright like we do today. An apes’ DNA is astonishingly similar to that of a humans, (97% the same) and yet, our bones’ shapes and structure are very different.
Declared in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN, 1948), education is recognized as a fundamental human right and a key component contributing to the development of societies. Yet there are many people on earth have not been able to get educated. In order to solve the problem, it is proposed that all education (including primary, secondary and higher education) should be free all over world and governments should be those funding the tuition fees. This paper critically hightlights the significances and also rebut the objection of free education. Before further analysis, the writer is going to point out some definitions and add facts and figures.
