If I Had a Million Dollars Essay

this endeavor is taken directly from the taxes all of us have to pay. While I agree that petty crime offenders should compensate in some way for their crimes, further destroying their lives is not the answer. I would argue that mandatory sentencing should be changed because convicts who are released from prison are left worse off than before, instead of incarcerating drug addicts we should help them, and our tax dollars should be put to far greater use. A common misconception is that upon…

its component tests, the EOCs. If the state were to eliminate standardized testing altogether that is $51.5 million dollars that could be spent in the schools improving technology, arts programs, books, libraries, campuses, and teachers’ salaries. The impact on testing in financial terms is huge. Since the startup of FCAT in 1996, the State of Florida has spent well over $480 million dollars on the creation and scoring of FCAT tests. This cost is fundamentally detrimental to students, who, in…

From my understanding, the issue of water quality in Raccoon River is an integrated issue. Who is truly responsible for excess nitrate pollution? As a government the state of Iowa is responsible for enacting policy that would limit the amount of nitrate runoff from underground drainage tiles. The government of Iowa must also be responsible for enforcing policy, or delegate the authority to enforce. Whether it’s a state agency, or the drainage districts, there needs to be a policing authority…

deprecating statement. Yet, if you look at him from a business perspective he might be one of the most successful persons in American history ending this career with 105 million dollars and his son William practically doubling that wealth to end up with upwards of 200 million dollars which is the equivalent to 218 billion dollars in 2005. In the book Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Edward Renehan tells the life story of Cornelius Vanderbilt. He talks about his ancestors before…

things I had considered the foundation of family, now gone. I found myself a single father, custody of my beautiful princess bequeathed to me by the California Supreme Family Court system after numerous attempts to stand humbly in front of a judge, I just wanted to be with my child. I had barely the resources to sustain myself, let alone the needs of a small child. Hell, I was still a child myself. Rent, lights, phone, gas, food all excised every cent I had and in many cases the resources I did…

Over three billion people, about half of the world’s population, live on less than two dollars and fifty cents a day (Shah). Every year, two hundred million people become infected with malaria. Of these cases, half a million will die (“Against Malaria”). These are just a couple of issues that Peter Singer, a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, as well as many other effective altruists, are trying to solve. But are effective altruism groups truly successful and good? Yes, they are!…

each other. In the first part of the video, it demonstrated how the simple colored beaded necklace that we can easily find at a local Dollar Store, are being used as a reword after individuals physically exposed themselves to the public. When random individuals were asked, where the beads came from and who made the bead they had no idea and I also had no idea or had never really thought about it. The film then takes us to a factory in China were those same beaded necklaces that people were using…

guardian paper that there was a 44million dollar cut back on the…

Everything in this room is eatable even I am eatable. But that is called cannibalism my dear children and is in fact frowned upon in most societies (willy wonka).In the famous movie Willy Wonka kids buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in chocolate to try and find a golden ticket. A golden ticket was an invitation to come to Willy Wonka’s factory even though it had been closed for decades. In truth they spent all this money to find a golden ticket so they could visit a factory where they…

can come up with a million dollar idea, even an infant that has yet the ability to speak. The most difficult extension that comes with a brilliant idea is the executing it correctly. Without an execution plan, the idea becomes utterly useless as a tumbling weed rolling in a desert. However, if an idea goes through…