By: todd cotterman
parents put their children in serious danger by not immunizing. the diseases we immunize against are not gone and they are still deadly. even chicken pox, a seemingly innocent disease, can kill. choosing not to immunize endangers sick children and infants who cannot receive shots. it also undermines the community immunity. unvaccinated individuals make it easier for diseases to spread
vaccines: a parent’s right to choose
by: janice rowker
physicians and government officials argue that parents who don’t vaccinate are putting their communities at risk. they attempt to scare us into conforming by reminding us of the polio outbreaks of the 1900s. the chances of a child contracting polio are slim, but the centers for disease control reported that doctors diagnose 1 in 150 children with autism each year. this is a gamble many parents aren’t willing to take. although the two passages express opposing views, they both talk about how vaccinations affect community health. which choice is a logical conclusion drawn from both articles?

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Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.