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Shirley Chisholm

    Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 30, 1924, and died on January 1, 2005. Chisholm was the first woman and first person of color to bid for a major party. Chisholm was outspoken and had strong opinions, and had a determination that made people stop and listen. Chisholm volunteered at different community helping organizations and worked with local political organizations, and became more involved with politics in college.  Shirley Chisholm spent seven years of her childhood in Barbados, an island in the Caribbean. She came to the US and lived in Brooklyn, New York. Chisholm worked as a teacher in Brooklyn, and made herself a leader and advocate in her neighborhood. She worked at local political organizations and volunteered at local community-helping organizations.  Chisholm believed in and stood up for equal rights for everyone. In 1964, she got a place in the New York State Assembly, and later, in 1968, Chisholm bec...
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My Third Blog Post

  The Pros and Cons of Single-Use Plastic Bags   There are definitely benefits of using the single use plastic bags we see everywhere. But there are also things that are not good about using them.  One pro of single use plastic bags is that they are easy to use. They are light-weight, so if you have something heavy the bag won’t make it heavier. They are also flexible, so if you have a small place to store them they will actually get very small. They also come in many sizes, colors, and sometimes with messages.  One con is that they are plastic, so they don’t break down: they break up. Even then, they take about 1,000 years to break up into those tiny microscopic pieces. They can easily get caught on trees like you see a lot on the highways, and they choke the sea turtles who think they are their food, jellyfish.  Another pro is that they are easy to make. There are only four steps. This is the order, according to Google: “ Step 1 – Extraction of crude oil and n...
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My Second Blog Post

Recycling Plastic Someone goes to the grocery store, and they buy a single-use plastic water bottle. When they get home, they are finished, so they toss it into the recycling bin. Is this a good idea? What happens to the plastic bottle once it gets put outside to be picked up by the recycling companies? Plastic is actually not always recycled, even if it is put into the recycling bins and taken to the recycling companies. For example, in 2020, only 8 percent of the plastic the US generated was recycled. Even if it is recycled, it will be turned into another thing made of plastic. Take that single-use plastic water bottle. When it is recycled, maybe it was turned into a plastic Tupperware container. After the container has done its job, the person who owned it put it in the trash, and it got sent to a landfill. Plastic bags take 20 years to break down, and even then, it isn’t actually gone. Different plastic items take different amounts of time to break down. But is that plastic really ...
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My First Blog Post

  Ocean Conservation As of 2020, there are 5.25 trillion macro and micro pieces of plastic in the ocean. That makes 46,000 pieces of plastic every square mile. 8 million pieces of plastic make their way into the ocean every day, and all of the plastic weighs up to 269,000 tonnes. There are many groups working to conserve the ocean and the life in them.  One group is Oceana. Oceana is the largest ocean conservation group in the world. They focus solely on marine conservation. They are an international group, and they have already saved nearly 4 million square million square miles of ocean. Oceana’s goal is to restore the ocean. Their slogan is ‘Save the ocean, feed the world.’ They want to save marine life so that people can have healthy meals. According to Oceana, “Restoring the ocean could feed 1 billion people a healthy seafood meal every day.” A different group is called the Project AWARE Foundation. Project AWARE is spread across 182 countries. They have made 217,552 conse...
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