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    their argument. The argument is severe and debatable because if they let the school stay up and running‚ it will provide a place for people who take religion seriously and people who feel uncountable around LGBTQ people to learn without having LGBTQ kids and or staff around. On the other hand‚ if the government lets it keep running it can fail to teach nonLGBTQ children that LGBTQ children are weird and inferior while making LGBTQ kids‚ and adults believe they are being discriminated against by the

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    Luis Puga Trig. Ms.Candidato 2/20/12 The Pascal’s Triangle The Pascal’s Triangle is a triangular array of the binomial coefficients. The system after French mathematician Blaise Pascal. The set of numbers that form Pascal’s triangle were known before Pascal. However‚ Pascal developed many uses of it and was the first one to organize all the information together in his treatise‚ Traité du triangle arithmétique (1653). The numbers originally arose from Hindu studies of combinatorics and binomial

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    Pascal’s Wager is his attempt to justify the belief in God purely on appeal to possible personal gains. His argument is that it makes sense to believe in the God that is believed in by Christianity‚ therefore it makes sense for us to do so. Pascal believes that belief in God is the rational action to take‚ even if there is no evidence of God existing. In his work he finds various reasons to believe in God that are beneficial even if he/she does not exist. He also believes it is irrational to not

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    Debate against Hitchens’s Concepts of Religion and Politics One of the most controversial man‚ Christopher Hitchens‚ in his letters‚ “Letters to a Young Contrarian” (2001)‚ implies that people of the contemporary society should avoid thinking other than for themselves by taking on the pathway of being a contrarian. His purpose is to help “individuals on how they think‚ and not what they think by making them a more independent and questioning person” (63). The letters take us through a pathway

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    Arguments against Corporate Social Responsibility While there may be people who are for the idea of corporate social responsibility‚ there are also others who oppose to it. One of whom‚ as we all know‚ is Milton Friedman. He believes that only individuals can have social responsibilities and that the purpose of a corporation is to provide the highest possible returns to shareholders while obeying all the laws and regulations. There are 5 main arguments against CSR. First of all‚ it lowers economic

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    Argumentative Essay Against Kaplan’s Statement that Global Environmental and Social Factors are the Top National Security Concern of the 21st Century CYBERATTACKS – THE TOP SECURITY THREAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY Robert Kaplan makes a compelling argument in his book‚ “The Coming Anarchy‚” that global environmental and social factors such as resource depletion‚ overpopulation‚ crime‚ and tribalism are the most pressing national security issues in the 21st century. He cites numerous examples of crime

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    that they are very uncomfortable with the Peter Singers ideas on donating all money beyond what they need to charity. Although they did think that it was a good idea‚ they didn’t necessarily believe that it was a moral decision. Of the arguments that I heard against Singer‚ and I did hear many‚ I don’t think that they are created equal. I’ll mention three in detail and some justifications that I heard that aren’t as relevant. First‚ Zach takes a view of freedom‚ that’s to say that he believes that

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    The determinists and fatalists also have plausible arguments against free will. One argument against free will‚ although not deterministic or fatalistic‚ states that God contradicts free will of all living beings including itself. If God is omniscient‚ meaning it knows all‚ it should already know all of its future actions along

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    counterparts. This also suggests that caucus goers are a large part of the voice and activists who are willing to go above and beyond within a political party. There are many criticisms against caucuses and some would go as far to say that caucuses should be gotten rid of all together. One of the biggest arguments against caucuses is that in the general presidential election‚ these methods are not used. Why be inconsistent with our methodology (Hersh‚ 2011‚ p. 690)?

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    An Argument Against Monarchy Monarchy as a governmental system clearly has numerous downfalls for the majority of people. The working class (bourgeoisie) rarely wins. It puts people into a hierarchical system based not on the merit of their character and work ethic but instead from the family they were born into. Those born into the few available positions of power in a monarchy benefit the most. This system can function and create civilizations that exude power and wealth but at a price

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