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“Surprising Test Result For Some Of The World’s Richest Students”

This article is based on “Surprising Test Results For Some Of The World’s Richest Students”, by Jan Dihem and Joy Resmovits. The WorldPost was able to get the first look of math scores from international students. The group behind PISA showed students that wealth does not make them more intelligent than children in poverty. An analyst from the Economic Co-operation and Development organization was able to provide data recorded from 65 counties that had students in the Programme for International Student Assessment. On the chart displayed, it showed that the wealthiest students out of the 65 countries were scored at the bottom decile.

“Free Heroin to Battle Addiction”

Vancouver  has tried to fix their community’s drug problem, stated in an article “Vancouver combats heroin by giving its addicts the best smack in the world”, by Bradly Campbell. The article has an argument on Vancouver’s decision to allow their city’s addicts that are on the street. Allen Schauffler from Pacific Northwest Correspondent for AL Jazeera has said Vancouver’s new idea isn’t creating any good for the addicts trying to stay clean. Vancouver has decided to set a safe zone called Insite, addicts can go and do drugs while being supervised by nurses while being protected by the police. It created a lot of differences between the community and its city. 

“Men Defining Rape: A History”

Over the course of thousands of years, “Men’s Defining Rape” article stated that men had their own point of views on rape. Obviously in this situation, espically in this day and age men dont have much say on rape unlike then. It goes back to the 13th century, where a laws created by men had say on whether or not if a rape is considered credible. Over those years things like if you were brown “it didn’t count”, making women take a virginity test, all the way to if you get pregnant if you were raped; were turned into laws aganist women. During the early century men were always in charge of women’s bodies like we do still today.  

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