human rights and therefore cannot be justified for any reason. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ every human has the inalienable right to life and the right not to be tortured or subjected to any cruel‚ inhuman or degrading punishment. The death penalty is not always smooth and painless‚ and therefore it is torture. Every legal system is fallible‚ and it would therefore be very possible for innocent lives to be extinguished. The death penalty can be unfairly administered to the poor
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Can men and women ever be “just friends”? After reading an article with scientific research about this topic I have come to a conclusion. Daily experience suggests that non-romantic friendships between males and females are not only possible‚ but common. Men and women live‚ work‚ and play side-by-side‚ and generally seem to be able to avoid spontaneously sleeping together. However‚ the possibility remains that deep inside‚ countless temptations simmer beneath the surface. The article suggests
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Is there such a thing as justified killing? Many would argue that the killing of another individual is by far one of the worse crimes that can be committed. Though under certain circumstances such as capital punishment‚ or to kill in self-defense‚ justified killing is okay. These options are only acceptable if there is no viable alternative to doing so. Everyone has the right to live‚ and once someone decides to kill another individual then they should lose that right. They don’t deserve to have
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In 1966‚ Raymond Vernon published a model that described internationalisation patterns of organisations. He looked at how U.S. companies developed into multinational corporations (MNCs) at a time when these firms dominated global trade‚ and per capita income in the U.S. was‚ by far‚ the highest of all the developed countries. Raymond Vernon was part of the team that overlooked the Marshall plan‚ the US investment plan to rejuvenate Western European economies after the Second World War. He played
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SPEECH: ABORTIONS Some people say that abortion is killing a weak‚ defenceless baby and that is should never be legal in any society. But what those people might not realise‚ is that when abortion was illegal in Spain a few years ago‚ between 1972 to 1982‚ 8‚500 number of women died because they did not want an infant and they had to carry out the medical process of abortion by themselves. Fortunately in 1982‚ abortion was made legal and in this way thousands of women could prevent a horrible
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Can Capital Punishment be justified in today’s world? Capital punishment‚ which refers to the act of sentencing a convict to death‚ has been in existence as long as there has been crime and laws. The death penalty serves as the ultimate punishment a state can impose on an individual‚ and is traditionally reserved for crimes that are particularly serious and heinous‚ such as murder‚ rape or treason. However‚ in today’s world where there is increased emphasis on justice‚ liberty and individual rights
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Is Terrorism Justified ? Is terrorism ever justifiable ? The answer is no‚ terrorism is never justifiable. I will argue that terrorism is not justifiable because it does not contribute to a goal of a more peaceful society. Terrorism contributes to conflict‚ no matter what reason is used to legitimize it. But in order to argue that terrorism is unjustifiable I must first decide on a definition of terrorism. This definition encompasses all the acts that we would determine as terrorism. This
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ABORTION Introduction • There are three basic positions on abortion and they all center on the question of the human status of the unborn. • There are three ways of looking at the status of the unborn; fully human‚ potentially human and subhuman. • Those who believe the unborn are subhuman favor abortion on demand. • Those who believe the unborn are fully human are against abortion. • Those who argue the unborn are potentially human favor abortion in specified
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Nowadays abortion is a topic that causes a lot of polemic‚ according to Deanne Durrett‚ “abortion consists on the interruption of the pregnancy through the expulsion of the embryo or fetus”. There are two kinds of abortion‚ the first one is the natural caused by the death of the embryo inside the belly‚ and the other is the expulsion which is induced by some methods that end with the life of the baby. The problem of abortion is a reality that happens not only in Mexico but all around the world
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Should abortion be legal? Abortion‚ the early termination of a pregnancy‚ is a very controversial topic in today’s society. Abortion is the extraction of the human fetus from the mother ’s womb with an intention to end the life of that fetus prior to its natural birth. The most popular abortion procedure is called vacuum aspiration‚ which is completed during the first trimester of the pregnancy. A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The controversy
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