Michelle Chester Professor Spanner LTCA December 26‚ 2012 Argumentative Essay Singled Out Your image or the color of your skin can put you at a disadvantage in some urban communities in New York City. It’s called profiling or the alternative name “stop and frisk”. Many minority youths in urban communities at times cannot walked the street freely without being singled out by a police officer‚ on what they call probable cause which initially is them just using their own judgment. Young people
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Disgusting Lunches Everyday thirty-one million kids eat lunch provided by the national school lunch program. Those lunches often consist of canned vegetables‚ processed meats and sugary drinks. It’s not just in the school cafeteria but in their homes as well. Parents are tired and will feed their children processed food from the freezer or freeze dried out of a box because it is convenient and cheaper than cooking fresh healthy foods. School lunches might not be a serious issue if kids were eating
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With the pressure of looking the best you can in today’s society‚ people are striving to have that perfect picture face and eye-catching body that would make anybody jealous. Plastic surgery has always been seen as the "quick fix" for someone trying to look a certain way and in the past years‚ the amount of people who have gotten plastic surgery procedures has increased significantly. Individuals may say that plastic surgery is not an issue‚ but it is. These procedures cannot only harm the
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Throughout the world‚ 96 countries support the Transgender people who live around us. In the US alone‚ there are 24 insurance companies that offer benefits for Transgender people‚ along with sex reassignment surgery (SRS)‚ including Amerigroup‚ several states with Blue Cross Blue Shield‚ and even Obamacare. Surgery costs quite a bit of money‚ and extra things like hormone therapy and original therapy make it even more money. Most everyday people wouldn’t be able to cover these costs on their own
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Jeff Stewart Argumentative Research 11/29/2011 Global Warming: Is It Our Fault? Global warming has been a topic of world-wide discussion and argument for many decades. People take the stance of either: yes‚ it is real‚ or no‚ it is not happening. The group that argues that it is happening states their main argument as being human contribution. But this argument can be rebutted by looking at the research that shows just how much of an impact humans really have on the warming issue and CO2
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Cecilia Covarrubias Professor Rios English 100 3rd October 2011 Evolution’s False Claims One of the biggest and most controversial question of the world is where and/or how did everything (animals‚ plants‚ and humans) come to existence. All regions around the world have their own theory as to where and how everything did come from. But which is correct? Some argue that the theory of evolution has all the answers we need to know about the world we live in. Yet others strongly oppose the theory
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The Legalization of drugs is not something I would agree with in my lifetime‚ nor do I believe it would cut down on crime. Drugs are illegal for good reason‚ they are hazardous to the health of the user‚ but abnormal behavior and financial need to support their drug habit are both major contributors of crime by drug users. For example‚ large amounts of cocaine can lead to erratic and possibly violent behavior which can lead to criminal behavior. Stealing either money or items to sell for financial
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Final word count: 1597 A. THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE For this case‚ I will be using Kantian ethics to pinpoint the rationally correct action to take. Before discussing Kantian ethics in relation to the case‚ we must first explore what Kantian ethics is. Kantian ethics comes from the deontological school of thought‚ which focuses on the moral correctness of the act in itself (Johnson‚ 2013). This means that the judgment on the act is done a priori. This is contrasted to the consequentialist school
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Horse Slaughter The topic of horse slaughter doesn’t usually come up very often in everyday conversation. Horse slaughter is more of an implicit subject‚ which your everyday person doesn’t know much about. Because it is highly controversial‚ it has gone through the cycle of being banded and then reinstated twice in the last 5 years. With being involved in the horse industry my entire life‚ I have witnessed the effects first hand. Some people see it as killing pets‚ animal cruelty‚ and morally
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Jessica Black-212160 Philosophy 8-17-2012 McCloskey There are many different types of arguments for the existence of God. With each argument there is a conception presented of God. For each argument there are different approaches. I will be focusing on the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments. Teleological Arguments are known to be arguments from divine‚ arguing from order in the universe to the existence of God (1).With the ordering of
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