No Homework?

What if homework had never been invented? What if tests were the only thing that tested a students intelligence? Life would be phenomenal. The average student would have a lot more time to do better, more exciting things. Tests would be the only way to test intelligence and the student's grade would be up to him or her rather than up to nit picky homework assignments that can hurt a student drastically if they don't do them, but don't help much if they are completed. Getting a zero on homework a few homeworks can drop a student a few letter grades, but getting one hundreds on every homework may only raise a grade ten points maximum. In all reality homework is a nag. It is there to keep students social lives less interesting than they should be and I don't think anyone really appreciates homework. Examinations make sense because they test a student's knowledge of the material, but homework just tries to help the student learn the material, and each student should make that their own responsibility without the fear of punishment. Basically, homework should not exist and tests should be the ultimate way to tests a student's knowledge of material, without having to worry about dumb nuissances along the way.

Cancer?

What if cancer never hit humanity? The world would be crazy! First of all, the population would probably be around 8 billion versus 6.5 billion. The available space on our planet would most likely be slim to none. We would practically take up every inch of the surface space. I am not going to call this a negative because I don't think having 1.5 billion more people alive, and a similar number of families happier would be a negative at all. We would obviously need to find many more resources and houses, but other than that it would be great. With more people, more inventions could be found, and the world could be a much more advanced place. Out of the approximate 1.5 billion that died, there had to be several geniuses that could possibly have contributed to the science of the world. A possible Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison could be around. I suppose that a Sadam Houssein or an Osama Bin Laden could have died also, so the people probably even out. The effects of a cancer free species would be tremendously impactful. With no cancer the world would be a much happier, more populated place. A lot of money would be saved in research also. Families would be overjoyed at having lost loved ones back and life would be much less worrisome. No cancer would be great!

No TV?

What if the television had never been invented? The world as we know it would be entirely different! First off, acting would be a much less popular profession due to the inability to be on screen in front of millions, so much less people would do that, and many other professions would be unavailable. Daily news and weather would be alittle harder to come by, or atleast without a newspaper. Sports would not be televised either so all related professions would be a lot less accessible. The Super Bowl's funny commercials would be things of legend.
On a different note, if TV was not yet available technology would probably be much less adavnced in general. The internet would most likely not exist along with the satellites in outerspace so communication in general would be much more primative. Life as we know it would not exist. Lines like "the British are coming," would be much less famous or historical because that is how all communication would be. One very beneficial thing about no TV would be the mass reduction of obesity in the world. Without TV it would be a lot harder for people to simply sit on their ass all day and do nothing. They would not be able to because there would just be nothing for them to do! All in all, it is definitely a positive that TV came about.

Black Plague and N1H1

What if the recent outbreak of the N1H1 virus had been as serious as the Black Plague that tore apart Europe in the 15th century? The Black Plague wiped out two-thirds of Europe's population at that time. If that happened today in the areas affected by N1H1, that would cover half of the world! Half of the world's population is around three billion people. Two-thirds of three billion people is two billions people. With two billion less people gone in the world, entire countries would be seemingly empty, with a few stragglers here and there.
This would obviously be a terrible catastrophe, but it would also open up a world of possibilities when the disease got cured. First, people could move to the empty countries and start life anew. A lot of workplace positions would open up, due to all of the people that died. A lot of resources would become more readily available also because a lot less gas would be consumed daily along with much less water and natural gas. However there is also a very negative side to all of the deaths. For example families would be devastated, lives would be ruined, and many businesses and shops woul have to be reestablished. All in all I would say this would be a very devastating catastrophe.

Bye Bye Himalayas

What if the Himalayan ice glaciers melted? Currently the glaciers form rivers that run through all of Europe and Asia. These rivers are responsible for roughly half of the humanity's water supply. They also house several villages and many people. If they melted, the world as we know it would come to an end. Millions if not billions would permanantly lose water. Obviously a complete loss of water would cause dehydration and death. It would not wipe out half the world, but it would cause overpopulation to the extreme. China would lose a sever portion of its water supply and the already vastly overpopulated county would have to relocate many of its citizens. The one billion there may dwindle to as little as five hundred million or less. Where would the rest go?
If the glaciers melted and got rid of half of humanity's water supply, wouldn't a vast abundance of food disappear too? It's almost safe to say the half of the food supply could disappear. Farmers in areas by the Himalayas or even those that use the rivers the Himalayas create would be completely ruined. The farms would dry up and the crops would die, and they would have no way of feeding farm animals anymore either. (213) There would be no way to feed these starving individuals. They would have to move or die. If all of them moved, then other countries would begin to overpopulate, and possibly close their borders to immigrants. The United States is already struggling to raise corn and other farm grown products, imagine if three hundred million more people moved here? It is very possible that if the glaciers melted, the Earth's population could decrease by about two billion people. That would be very tragic. A solution would be to go green. This can be done several ways. People could use less gas, litter less, and prevent polution. If people can be a little more conscious about little things like litter and gas, things like melting glaciers wouldn't even be a topic of discussion.