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Advice Column

The Importance of keeping our environment clean.

Pt England School

130 Pt England Road

Pt England

Auckland NZ

Thursday 25th August 2016

Dear Prime Minister John Key,

Kia Ora my name is Sheales. I am a year 6 student and I am also 11 years of age. Right now I am attending Pt England School in Auckland. The teachers that are teaching me are Ms Moala , Miss West , Mr Somerville and Miss Lavakula. I am from a gorgeous island of Niue.

The purpose of this letter is to let you know about how tossing rubbish away is affecting our environment.

As I said the problem is people are tossing their rubbish away and it is ending up in our drains and waterways. It is a big problem because it’s affecting our animals and fish. For example when birds are hungry and fly over water, they see plastic thinking it is fish. But then they die because they can’t eat anything else.

What I suggest you do is gather some people to help you organize a group that can help clean the environment, so that the environment doesn’t get any dirtier. Otherwise we won’t have clean water, much food source or even a place to live, or you could gather people from communities to help clean the environment.

I have done some research and I have found that litter that is tossed into the ocean doesn’t just float around it also travels long distances with the currents and winds. Not only does the rubbish affect our marine sea life and birds. The amount of rubbish that is being tossed away into the ocean washes up on beaches, are caught on fishing lines and it can also damage motors in boats.

Your Sincerely,

Sheales

Explanation Writing - Technology as a Performance Enhancing Drug

Here I have written some ideas based on performance enhancing drugs. Technology can be considered cheating because it is unfair for other athletes. How technology is similar to performance-enhancing drug.

Technology can be considered cheating because it is unfair for other athletes. First technology can make less able and able athlete’s become faster than they actually are. So that gives an unfair advantage to other athletes that are not using technology. Technology and performance-enhancing drugs used to be in the olympics from the beginning of the olympics. For example when athletes are doing sprints they have shoes which have spikes on them to grip into the tracks which can also be called as aerodynamics. Now in our days people are thinking about banning  technology in the olympics because it is the same as performance enhancing drug.

Why is technology allowed in the olympics but performance-enhancing drugs is not. The reason why I think technology should be banned is because it is similar to performance-enhancing drugs. Technology can help athletes become faster than they actually are but technology can also help athletes beat world records. So why isn’t performance-enhancing drugs allowed in the olympics when it’s similar to technology.

Technology can be seen as cheating because it’s just like performance-enhancing drugs but it is different because performance enhancing drugs can do something to your body but technology only helps the outside of your body and how you do
movement.

Walt: write an effective explanation about why technology can be considered a performance-enhancing drug Walt: understand multiple perspectives and write with these in mind

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