Natalee Sweet Comp. #1 Mr. Yates 7-22-2012 Argumentative Essay: Addiction is a choice Alcohol and illicit drug consumption are all too prevalent today in high schools‚ colleges‚ and all across the globe. Students seeking to fit in or forget about the repetitiveness of school and homework have a tendency to experiment. Drug addiction is known by the scientific community to be a psychological condition based on excessive‚ obsessive‚ and compulsive actions. Once that regular user crosses the
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Odyssey Argumentative Essay In the epic poem Odyssey by Homer‚ Odysseus encounters many obstacles around the Greek islands on a struggle to get back home to his country‚ Ithaca. Through many hardships and hurdles‚ Odysseus as the main “hero”‚ proves to more sturdy‚ durable‚ and enduring than the rest of his crew. Though getting back to Ithaca was the main complication‚ it is more important to recognize the experiences along the journey and how Odysseus has grown and developed through it. In order
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The Great Gatsby Argumentative Essay “The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost‚ which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.”-Azar Nafisi This quote sums up Tom buchanan perfectly. He is seen as a monster to Nick‚ and a very aggressive person to everyone else‚ including his own wife. However‚ he also has a lot of money and a very nice house. Many may say that Tom is the Representation of the American Dream. Tom’s achievements of the American Dream impacted
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Ada Vargas 9/12/12 ENGL 111-D40 Argumentative essay Sex education in high schools High schools should provide better sexual education. Prevention is better than cure. The federal government should provide more information in schools and required sex education in the first year of high school. This is important because there are a lot of sexually transmitted diseases‚ teenage pregnancy‚ and teen abortions. Boskey (2011) stated that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are “some of the most difficult
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Abortion Abortion is a huge problem throughout the United States. It needs to be stopped. Abortion can be defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Abortion is not justified for three reasons. One‚ having an abortion is taking away an innocent life. Two‚ there are not many reasons that make it okay to kill an unborn baby. Three‚ every child needs to be given a chance to live‚ because every child is wanted. To begin with‚ having an abortion is taking away an innocent life.
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“Zoos have a huge role to play in education and protection of our vulnerable wildlife” – Professor Tim Flannery‚ prominent environmentalist and Zoos SA Ambassador. In recent years the importance of zoos has been recognised. They are a valuable asset to our society because of the role they play in education and awareness for animals and the breeding programs that have been formed to fight possible extinction. Due to the high standards of animal care in well managed zoos‚ it can now be a satisfactory
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Between 1915 and 1920 a mass killing occurred in the Ottoman Empire where an estimated 500‚000 Armenians were slaughtered. Historians have argued on the causes of these massacres and whether or not the Armenian Massacres should be considered genocide. More specifically‚ historians argue if the Armenian Massacres were precipitated by Turkish nationalism‚ Armenian rebellion‚ or Western and Russian influence. There are two main opposing views in this argument of genocide‚ the Western view and the Turkish
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GMOs‚ genetically modified organisms have always been a controversial topic among environmentalists‚ food corporations‚ and government agencies. GMOs has created such an uproar because many people have linked GMOs to childhood diseases. 70 to 80 percent of the processed and manufactured foods available in a conventional grocery store‚contain one or more ingredients that contain genetically engineered organisms ("Are GMOs Contributing to the Rise in Chronic Health Conditions in Our Children
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Rough draft - tile - Rwandan Genocide (is life worth more in fictional or reality) Intro. paragraph - To start off with is Rwandan genocide is a category of the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu peoples. The killings began in early April of 1994‚ and continued for approximately one hundred days until the “Hutu Power” movement’s defeat in mid-July. This experience would end up to the imperious behavior that was shown of these people that did the righteous thing all the time
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Kelsey Bradley Kendra Gallos English III Honors 6 April 2017 Homelessness Even though most teenagers are told by their parents not to give money to homeless people they see on the street when they are alone and the parents are just stereotyping against homeless people because they are all not like that‚ there is many homeless people out struggling and other people should help them because the most attention homeless people get is around Christmas time and after that people just kick them to the
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