Plastic Prohibition - Is It Practical?
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- Written by Aliya Shetty Oza
- Category: Мир людей
It was only recently that the government of Maharashtra put a ban on the usage, sale, storage and manufacturing of plastic. This action was definitely necessary since plastic is non- biodegradable and causes major hazards in many biomes, natural habitats and ecosystems. I've counted down the pros and cons of this ban.
The pros of this ban are innumerable. Plastic is non- biodegradable and takes nearly 10-1000 years to decompose. So there's no point in using it in landfills as it's of no help to the soil. If plastic is banned, then its waste won't be generated. Also there will be much less damage to nature after this ban. There won't be any plastic garbage on the roads, clogging drains, and hence, no floods and less litter. Animals, birds and marine life won't be affected because they won’t be digesting or getting trapped in plastic products polluting in their habitats. The chemicals of the plastic products getting transferred into our food and water via bottles, packets & bags will cease. Burning plastic products causes the worst type of pollution and makes the air carcinogenic. The fine is between 5-25k and there is also a jail term threat to people violating the ban.
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Итоги третьего конкурса юных журналистов "Добро пожаловать"
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- Written by Юрий Никитин
- Category: Конкурсы
Очередной конкурс юных журналистов "Добро пожаловать" завершён, пора подвести итоги и поздравить победителей.
Всего на конкурс поступило около 200 работ из 7 стран. Огромное спасибо всем авторам и их наставникам!
К сожалению, не все работы соответствовали условиям конкурса, поэтому после предварительного отбора допущено к участию около 140 работ. Да, правила отбора в этом году были ещё более строгие: не принимались работы уже опубликованные в СМИ или просто старые, а также работы недостаточного объёма или с признаками плагиата. В номинации "Фото" самая частая ошибка - отсутствие оригиналов. То есть, вместо исходных файлов с камеры, присылают фотографии, скаченные из "Вконтакте" (да, да, мы вполне верим, что они ваши, но...) или просто уменьшенные. Уважаемые фотографы, будьте внимательны к правилам!
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The best education for me
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- Written by Илья Выговский
- Category: Образование и воспитание
When I asked my parents about such kind of education which would do our future better, my father, who is a plumber, wondered: «Can it exist?» And my mother, who is a policeman, added: «I doubt». But I have my own opinion on it. It is surely possible to create such form of education which would build a better future for all. First of all, such perfect form of education should combine several conditions. My main principle of creating it is to use the best educational experience of the past and to develop some modern forms of it. This new kind of education must provide free school education, involve healthy children and disabled, train mental, physical and spiritual abilities, promote life skills, develop personal talents. It must be universal education for children of all nationalities and religion. Such education should solve a lot of problems which take place in our modern world: ethnic conflicts, problem of poverty and violence, conflicts on religious grounds and others.
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When Decisions Breed Existentialism
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- Written by Dhrithi Arun
- Category: Наша жизнь
When confronted with pivotal life choices, I often find the simplest solution to rid myself of uncertainty is to resort to the principles of existentialism… that I am but an insignificant blot in the scroll of time, a miniscule object in a grander cosmos. This usually comes accompanied with several days of citing pretentious philosophy on the meaninglessness of life, much to the annoyance of anyone in my near vicinity. In ways my preoccupation with the gaping paradox that is life somehow serves as a distraction from the fact that I am required to make a choice, a decision, that may very well change the course of my future. I suppose in ways, contemplating the insignificance of my existence, is a slightly more morbid way of procrastination. For me, enveloping myself in grander problems somehow reduces the salience of making a decision.
Which is why I believe I’m fully qualified to offer advice to other teenagers on how they can handle the stress of making a potentially life altering decision. All humour aside, these just so happen to be the years when you’re asked to make a host of choices with massive implications. “What do you want to study?”, “Where do you want to study?”, “Are you taking a gap year?”, “Are you thinking of studying abroad?”, the list seems endless. You’ve just begun to discover yourself, and suddenly you’re expected to be able to picture your entire future to the minutest of details. For those lucky few who’ve discovered their passions, (I consider myself honoured to have fallen in love with writing and journalism), these decisions seem effortless. But, what happens to the majority of the teenage population, the ones who are still finding themselves?
Cue the sudden onset of an existential crisis, the debilitating fear of the unknown, and the sudden hyper-awareness of your own possibilities. It happens to the best of us. For some, it’s a coping mechanism, for others an uncontrollable burden. To you I say, there is a certain beauty to uncertainty…an allure to oblivion. It means you’re still filled with passion… passion that’s teeming and bubbling and searching for a medium of expression. It’s searching for something to dive into, be that astrophysics or martial arts. All you have to do is find that medium. So, revel in the uncertainty, relish the sweet taste of not knowing, because that truly is the essence of being young.
Author: Dhrithi Arun from India.
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