Debate Paper Melissa McCarthy BCOM 275 October 20‚ 2013 Kimberly Boyd Debate Paper Whether or not armed security guards should be in schools has been a debate for years but has really been brought into the limelight since the most recent tragedies of Columbine‚ Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook. The supporters of having armed security in our school districts believe that it is a needed layer of security and helps to diminish response time if necessary while keeping children‚ parents
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The Great Stem Cell Debate What’s All the Fuss? Laura Alfonso University of Phoenix/Axia College Insert a page break to start a new‚ separate page from your entire text. Don’t just use the return button to get you to a new page. If you make corrections‚ it changes the formatting of the pages. The Great Stem Cell Debate What’s all the Fuss? TAB “Every twelve minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list” (Donate life America‚ 2009) (para. 1&2). The National
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principles of government executions remained allowable under each separate state and federal governments. Thomas Jefferson attempted to change Virginia’s death penalty laws so that murder and treason were the only punishable offenses‚ but after a stormy debate‚ legislature defeated the bill by only one vote. Each state could choose to use the death penalty as a punishment if they wished. In 1790‚ the first person to be executed under US federal law was Thomas Bird (Procon.org 2nd para). Since then‚
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Gay Marriage: a Moral Debate The trivial debate on gay rights is long from being resolved because of the large difference in opinion on whether gays should be considered equal. The legalization of gay marriage has been a constant struggle for the last decade and the population still cant seem to reach a logical conclusion. Many are for equal rights for all‚ while some are still stuck on the definition of marriage or religion. DOMA‚ the Defense of Marriage Act‚ was enacted in 1996 as a federal
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Joseph Smith‚ the founder of the Mormon Church‚ approved the practice of polygamy. In 1896‚ Utah’s leaders were forced to abandon polygamy in order to achieve statehood. Polygamy is a felony in the state – albeit not often prosecuted. In 1953‚ the American public reacted adversely to a ‘polygamy raid’ in Utah‚ causing a reduction in the enforcement of polygamy laws in Utah and elsewhere in the United States in subsequent decades. For more than a century‚ the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day
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I think the gun control debate can be summed up in three strong questions. Is gun violence truly an epidemic in the US‚ or is it exaggerated by sensationalist media? I don’t think there is an epidemic of gun violence in the US. Is it an issue? Yes‚ I think so. I also believe the problem is way overblown. Gun crime has been on the decline for the past decade considering stricter laws and technological advances. And violent crime in general. What has gone up is spectacular newsworthy events. When you
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there are frequent shootings in the United States‚ from civilians to the president‚ from children to the elderly‚ they are likely to become victims of gun violence. Whenever there is such a massacre occurred in the United States‚ there is a heated debate about gun control in the United States‚ but it is not so easy to make progress on legislation. Some people believe that justice is maintained by the people who have the weapon with a kind heart‚ so government should not ban the gun‚ it can help the
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Should Abortion Be Legal Cheryl Tatem PHI 103: Informal Logic Professor Brian Onishi January 17‚ 2014 Should Abortion Be Legal Should abortion be legal? This is such a contraversial subject and everyone is debating this subject from scholars to preachers. The issue of morality and murder seem to be the most debated subject. I personally say no to legalizing abortion to a certain extent. I feel that in the event that a woman is raped‚ or it
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Debate Paper The Benefits of Medicinal Marijuana While some people choose to think marijuana is a recreational drug‚ medicinal marijuana helps a vast amount of individuals around the universe that deals with their everyday life crisis from high risk diseases to emotional stability. Through years of studying patients along with the evolution of scientific research; marijuana has been proven to have an enormous positive influence on the patients that have chosen to indulge in the drug. The most
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The Christology Debate (Chapter 6) The debate starts with an argument among two people‚ DeSean and Sole. Sole was trying to help DeSean through a spiritual crisis and trying to answer the question in such a way that it would have been treated if it were posed before Jesus‚ hence focusing on what Jesus might have done when found in the same situation. The theological debate for this argument is: “How do we reconcile the fact that Jesus Christ was fully God with the fact that Jesus was fully human
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