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Is This Test Fair?

In my Humanities course called "A Nation's Argument", we have been learning about immigration and what immigrants have to go through just to become a US citizen. We visited the city hall and we listened to the city council committee and what they think about public charge. Something that we learned about immigrants wanting citizenship is that they have to take a test about the history of America and important days or facts about America. In class, we had our own citizenship test and no one passed the test with a 100%. When I was reading the questions off for another classmate to answer, I didn't know some of the answers to the questions myself and I am a US citizen. So I can understand how hard it is for other people to study these questions because if it doesn't connect to you or your family or something that you care for, then why should you have to know some of the questions that have to deal geography or in the 1800's? For this AP, we have to think of ways...

Ewwww Eczema!

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In my STEAM class, Cure, we have been working on our second AP for this class. For this project, we had to think of a bacteria/disease that we wanted to know more about and we had to find different ways of curing the bacteria's that we chose. We had to find different names for the medicaments and drugs that we chose for this bacteria. I learned that there are three different kinds of ways to treat yourself:  Over-The-Counter (OTC) Drugs. OTC's are drugs that have less restriction but they are regulated.  Prescription Drugs. These are drugs that need a recommendation from a professional, like a doctor or surgeon. Treatments. These are drugs that are everything else but they are unregulated. We learned the difference between drugs and medicines, and we also learned the difference between treating and curing and intended effects and side effects. We got to look at box's of medicine and we were looking at the drug facts that are on the back of the medicine. ...