Posted on April 1st, 2008 by marcusmj
The poem, Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickles Received from a Friend Called Felicity, reminds of old times when as a child and thought I could make up my own rules. The poem says that, during that summer, unicorns were still possible. This means that this is a time when your imagination works wonders and you can believe anything. It says that the purpose of knees was to be skinned. This means that as a kid, you are often clumsy while playing around and fall down. This poem helps me to reflect on my past and think about old times. And like the poem says, these memories may have never have been at all. They happened at such an earlier time that all you can do is recollect them and ponder them.
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Posted on February 6th, 2008 by marcusmj
Some people disapprove of adding fluoride to their drinking water because fluoride can cause poisoning to the body when taken in in high amounts. This poisoning can be fatal. An incident in Alaska occurred where fluoride machines malfunctioned and high amounts of fluoride was added to public waters. 296 peopled were poisoned and one person died. Another reason people disapprove of this is because the people wouldn’t have a choice of wanting fluoride in their water or not.
I think that fluoride should be added to drinking water in very small amounts. It would help protect teeth but not too effectively. Priority should be given to adding fluoride to toothpaste and other products since adding it to drinking water isn’t necessary but instead helpful. If added, the machines controlling the fluoride should be checked regularly. It should be as safe as possible. If adding fluoride to drinking water would raise the costs for water significantly, then I don’t think it should be added.
Before fluoride could be widely used, scientists had to discover safe and efficient fluoride compounds. They also had to make excellent and secure machines that could add the fluoride to the toothpaste. Scientists had to make sure the toothpastes were safe for wide use.
I am most concerned with the fact that adding fluoride to drinking water could possibly cause harm. If water fluoridation isn’t completely effective then why risk harming ourselves instead of helping our teeth? Studies have showed that people in water fluoridated areas still have tooth decay. Also, people living in water fluoridated areas barely have had cleaner teeth than people not living these areas. If there is a chance to be poisoned by this and if it is not completely effective then perhaps we should not continue with water fluoridation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_poisoning
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by marcusmj
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