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  Never give up Dominique   Strong, talented, hard working, skilled Wife of Jeff Thompson, and mother of 4 kids  She loved being active and being competitive She feared of getting injured, and under rotating on floor   Who went to the Olympics and won a gold medal Who wanted to be well known, and loves being a mother   She was born in Maryland, and has always lived in Maryland Dawes

Dominique Dawes flips and turns on the balance beam as she tries not to fall. She made her roundoff layout of the floor and her giant off of the bars. Dominique won an Olympic gold medal with the U.S women gymnastics team as well as an individual bronze medal, becoming the first African American to win an individual medal in women’s gymnastics. One quote that she would always say was “don’t set your goals to be a star, set your goals to be the best you can and go from there.”  Dominique Dawes is a retired gymnastic athlete and she did gymnastics for 10 years of her life. Dominique is known for being a three-time olympian and the first African American to be able to compete in women's gymnastics. She is considered a hero because she has many different traits that define her as a hero. She is many people’s hero because she was the first black female to win the olympic gold medal in gymnastics history, she had also stuck up for who she was and had helped the United States win a gold m...

       Do you think students should have homework or should not? Homework has some pros and some cons. Some students love doing homework and some students hate doing homework. Some students like to get homework because they have nothing to do after school and some students don’t have time to do homework because they have stuff to do after school. Some students like to have homework so they can get better at that skill.  There are many pros of homework. Homework helps students improve with their grades, their work and more. Some students want to improve on their work so they can get better grades. Homework helps you learn, and it helps you with life skills. Some homework is useful and some homework isn’t very useful for life skills. It opens a bridge of communication. It opens a bridge of communication because if you need help you talk to other people and figure it out together. Homework also allows parents to be involved with their students learning. Some parent...

         Did you know that many people are getting sick and dying because they don't have enough food? A lot of people in the world have no food, and if they don’t have food they become hungry. But they don’t have enough money to afford any food, so they starve. We are trying to fix that, we want everyone in the world to have enough food.  Millions of people suffer without food. Everyday many men and women struggle to feed their kids a meal. Hunger is the leading cause of death and sickness in the world. Today, there are nearly 2.5 billion people without food, almost one- third of the world’s population.   There are many ways we can stop hunger. We can stop hunger by stopping the waste of food, stop the meat feast, because the meat we eat is from animals and if we keep eating more and more meat, they're gonna have to keep raising more and more animals.   There are at least 800,000 people that are food insecure. In a world, where we produ...

      Rainforests get destroyed all the time. A lot different species from the rainforest become extinct because the trees get cut down and people hunt for animals. As the natural habitat decreases, more and more animal lives are at risk. All lifeforms in the rainforest are in danger most of the time.    Trees get cut down in the rainforest and the trees shouldn’t get cut down because the trees in the rainforest help us breathe. We also need the rainforests to produce oxygen and to be able to clean the atmosphere so we can breathe in clean air.  3.5 to 7 billion trees get cut down a year. A lot of trees are getting cut down, the trees in the rainforest should not get cut down because then they can't clean the air, animals lose their homes, and animals might lose some of their food. The world’s rainforests are disappearing at a rate of 6000 acres per hour.  At least 140 species of lifeforms get extinct everyday throughout all of the rainforests in the w...