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  You may or may not know about Alice Ball. If you don't, let me tell you about her. Alice was a chemist who made a treatment for leprosy, a very bad sickness. She was also doubted because she was an African American girl but that didn't discourage her. Mrs. Ball, the hero who worked day and night not getting much sleep working on the antidote that would save thousands of lives. Now, let me tell you more about the unsung hero Alice Ball. The amazing Alice Ball was an African American chemist who developed an injectable oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s. Alice Ball's family was James Presley and Laura Louise (Howard) Ball (her parents), and two older brothers, William and Robert, along with a younger sister named Addie. Alice Ball was born in 1892 in Seattle, Washington, she died only 24 years later in 1916 again in Seattle, Washington. How Ball died was she had become ill during her research and returned to Seattle for treatment...

  Homework Good or Bad Is homework good or bad? A question that has been asked many times throughout school history. I am here to tell you the pros and cons about homework. But, you can decide if it is not worth the stress and money loss, or possibly it could pay off with good test scores and a better chance to get into college. You can decide. These are the pros about homework, why we should keep it like it is. I read that some studies show that homework can help students get improved grades, test results, and are more likely to attend college. Studies from the High School Journal show that students that had between 31 and 90 minutes each day on homework got better grades, and research shows that students take in 50% of the information they are told in school. So homework reinforces the things they were told in class, and more. Finally thanks to homework parents can track what their children are learning in school and know what they are good at and what they are bad at so they...