School Coins

In source number 1 it says, “ We often throw them away in water fountains, throw them in jars, or refuse them as change.” This quote means why make a coin if all we do is throw them in jars, or refuse them as change, and just throw them in water fountains. Also, “We have penny drives to get rid of them sense people don’t want to get rid of quarters and dimes.” This quote says why make something if all we are doing with it is using them as loose change or just giving them away.

Though some parties may claim that the penny holds value to the United States, majority of the arguments presented are invalid or out of date. Examples such as the man who has saved “90 pennies a day” (Source B) are an extreme case that cannot be used to argue for continuation of the penny. In the average lifespan of an American denizen, it is improbable that one will have the time to collect this many pennies. In addition, on order for this man to reach his grand total of $13,084.59 took about forty years, making this argument illogical as the process is time consuming and one can save even more by simply collecting larger denomination coins. In addition, arguments made those countries such as the “EU … and Canada” that have kept their “penny”

In recent times the U.S. penny has become a heated topic for debate. The issue people debate is whether the U.S. mint should discontinue the penny. Most Americans seem to have a definite opinion about this topic. Both sides of the argument have increasing support and a numerous amount of legitimate reasons to support their argument. In my opinion pennies are a nuisance and do not really offer enough value, therefore the U.S. Mint should discontinue the production of the penny.

Recently, there has been news regarding the debate of the penny. The U.S. and Canadian government believe that the penny is a nuisance and takes up space in cabinets and dressers. They believe that the penny should be taken out of the system. However the penny is a great influence on American culture, yet it causes a fortune to manufacture a single one.

As someone who grew up from another country, I personally find American coins infuriating. The fact that these silver colored coins have no numbers on them bother me, and I suppose a great number of tourists, very much. It remains a mystery to me how anyone can quickly differentiate between the dime, the nickel, and the quarter so easily. However, the copper-colored penny is special because it’s the tiniest one and also the easiest one to pick out among Uncle Sam’s coins. These days, this tiny coin has become a hot topic of debate on whether America should keep the penny or not.

1. At the beginning of Nickel and Dimed, The author sets three rules of herself; “I could not, in my search for jobs, fall back on any skills derived from my education or usual work.” , “I had to take the highest-paying job that was offered to me and do my best to hold it.”, and “I had to take the cheapest accommodations I could find, at least the cheapest that offered an acceptable level of safety and privacy.”. She sets these rules to keep herself on the right track and not make what she thinks are bad decisions. 2.

On December 28, 2015, I attended the funeral for Dean Williamson, a long-time machinist at Dell Rapids East. During the service, the minister mentioned that Dean always carried a brass coin he received from L.G. Everist, Inc. (The coin is actually a token that we all carry as our commitment to each other’s safety.)

At this point in the American economic system, there is no good use for the penny. As U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe’s press secretary, Neena Moorjani, said, “‘It’s practically useless in everyday life’” (Lewis). People can’t purchase anything with it, it creates unnecessary loose change, and it has a time consuming effect. The penny is not regarded by charge cards, it is trashed by those who find it meaningless, and is even “Hijacked by cashiers who assume you’re among the 27 percent of Americans who don’t even keep track of their loose change” (Kahn). The New York Times’s John Tierney recognized that “Two-thirds of them immediately drop out of circulation, into piggy banks or behind chair cushions or at the back of sock drawers…” (Safire). Pennies vanish because no one cares about their worth. People do not have a high regard for them or their value, so they are always misplaced. Every time a penny is lost, which happens quite frequently as Tierney points out, governmental manufacturers’ time and money is being wasted. The penny is a time-consuming coin, and without it, people involved in its use would have better places to put their time. Those government manufacturers could be tracking counterfeiters if they did not have to worry about creating the penny. Pennies cost more employee hours than the cost would be to totally eliminate them (Safire). By using pennies in stores, there is a huge amount of time wasted in both the cashier’s and the buyer’s lives. There was an estimation done by the National Association of Convenience Stores and Walgreens drug store chains that the use of pennies takes about 2 to 2.5 seconds. After multiple calculations and equations, they arrived at the conclusion “that each person is losing $60 per year, at a cost to the nation of over $15 billion per year” (Kahn). Time is a valuable thing in America, and losing $60 per year due to a loss of time is not

After that, there's the fact that pennies are quite useless. Most of the time they only get their use if you buy an item that ends in .99 or .98, if you got rid of the penny most prices would be in denominations of .05, so it’s easier to add, and in turn less confusing, the downside is that it costs a cent more, but it doesn’t add up to much. Another problem is that they take up too much space, since they are

In Forbes magazine, Neena Moorjani said “It’s practically useless in everyday life” (Lewis). Most people today fling their pennies into the trash, they drop out of circulation, or in couch cushions where you won’t see them again. In the 1900’s there was a thing called penny candy. You could go to a local store and buy one piece, or a few pieces of your favorite candy with just one penny. Today, candy bars from a gas station can cost up to two dollars. Adding to this, vending machines cause problems with coins. The vending machines used to take all types of coins, nickels, dimes and even pennies. If you try to put a penny in a machine now it will just spit it back out or an alarm will sound. In stores when someone says “one second I think I have some pennies” is very annoying. It uses about “...40 wasted seconds per day per person.

Imagine being suddenly drafted to war, not prepared for the death and horror. Young, confused, scared, naïve. During the Vietnam War, many young men were forced to face a war that changed them, and not necessarily for the better. Many of the men who went to war experienced terrors that changed them in a way that affected their lives after, as shown by countless war stories and poems. Norman Bowker, from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (1990), is a perfect example of the hard-bitten war veteran archetype. Fighting in the Vietnam War and feeling as if he had a part in his friend’s death (Kiowa) caused him so much guilt and pain that he ended up hanging himself after endlessly driving around a lake when returning home. Similarly, Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem, “The Dead at Quang Tri”, emphasizes the ghosts that haunt soldiers during and after war. Overall, the haunting memories that characters deal with in war stories, like O’Brien and Komunyakaa’s, display the long lasting effects of death and war on the minds of soldiers.

Source 4: Isidore, Chris. “Should the U.S. Kill the Penny?” CNNMoney, Cable News Network, 10 May 2018,

The news reporters and the producers are the ones who make that news channel bias. The news allows bias within its channel because the news channel wants to get their views across to the viewers. On an online interview with Bernard Goldenberg, interviewed by John Stossel, talks about how he wrote an article in the The Wall Street Journal about how the media is bias and the networks need a reality check. Goldenberg also talks about how all his “friends” stopped talking to him. After this article was released Goldenberg was fired from his job because his boss was one of the bias people who didn't want to be bothered by him. This conveys that the news channels don't want to hear other people's opinions about topics that matter. This also happened

The Westing game by Ellen Raskin was full of lots of characters. A game secretly designed to pull out a sole heir for the Westing estate; it had many clues and characters. Even though a well defined mystery, there was no one single main character. Turtle Wexler, who is the daughter of grace and jack Wexler, wins the game eventually. Even though she wins the game there and the she doesn't let the others know until five years later. If turtle Wexler goes missing in the book then all the characters would be befuddled and lost about where to go. The story gets started when Sam Westing is declared dead and the game is started. Turtle's partner in the game is the dress maker Flora Baumbach who would be more worried about losing turtle. Even though turtle might appear immature with her braided hair and the bank of kicking people I the shin, she turns out to be the smartest of all. She convinced Flora that to win the game they should invest in the stock market. Description of the missing: Turtle Wexler can be described as a teenage girl with blond hair. She is quick perk and daring as was guessed from her willingness to go into the Westing house on Halloweens night. She came running out of the house when saw the dead body of Sam Westing. Her dressing sense is not very preppy as she appears to be more of a t shirt and jeans sort of person. Compared to her elder sister Angela, turtle is described as not very attractive and gorgeous. People interacted with: unlike other people of her

"What do you do as you are walking along a sidewalk or across a parking lot and detect a penny on the ground?" Will I use to ignore it! Most of us just leave the penny, we notice that penny are everywhere. If it was a dollar bill I would take it. As I was walking along the sidewalk, I saw a penny lying on the ground. I ask myself "if people saw me picking up a penny what will they imagined: she must be desperate for cash if she has to pick up pennies from the ground." And that must be the reason most of us don't stop to pick up