ThePatrick Lombard Professor O’Brien English Composition November 30th‚ 2012 The Immigration Debate Today America is one of the most diverse countries in the world. But how did our country become this way? People who emigrated from different areas around the world immigrated to the United States and founded our nation. Even the people that would be considered "indigenous" to the U.S. had more then likely immigrated to the continent at some point in time. But today this is not the case‚ our
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favor of cloning‚ as long as it is under strict government control and ethical review. Others look forward to bringing extinct animals back into existence and helping endangered creatures from that fate. Although the ethics of cloning is still up to debate‚ the new outcoming science behind it is truly fascinating and time will only tell what will be
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Taylor Sipchen (p.3) Jackie Han (p.6) Debate Brief I. Attention getter and importance of this issue A. The first case of attempted force-feeding was of a 32-year-old former medical student from Whales‚ known as “E”. She had a BMI of 11-12‚ while the normal BMI is 18-25. She did not want to die‚ but she did not want to be fed. The second case was of an anorexic known as “L”. She too‚ did not want to die but she stated that her severe anorexia did not allow her to eat. (Cite #1) B. Force-feeding
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I – Utilitarianism/Consequentialism A – Definition: The greatest good for the greatest number of people; sacrifices are OK B – Justifications: Life is a pre-requisite to ethics Bostrom1 Continuity is as important to our commitment to the project of the future of humanity as it is to our commitment to the projects of our own personal futures. Just as the shape of my whole life‚ and its connection with my present and past‚ have an interest that goes beyond that of any isolated experience
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New foldI believe that they should be replaced. I’m in school‚ I take the exams. They are horrible‚ people will keep saying that exams are the reasons teacher know what students need to re-learn and what they still need to go over. But in reality‚ if the students fail‚ the teachers don’t really care. They don’t. It will just drop your grade and the teacher will keep teaching new things‚ while your falling behind because a major grade in the book is a 50. Exams don’t help the teachers or the students
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1 PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE RESEARCH SERIES VOL. 5 NOVEMBER 2013 NO. 2 RESOLVED: THE BENEFITS OF DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE BY THE NSA OUTWEIGH THE HARMS. The choice of this topic was undoubtedly influenced by the international controversy surrounding the disclosures by former NSA contractor‚ Edward Snowden. Snowden‚ a 29-year-old high school dropout‚ was a contract worker at Booz Allen Hamilton – a company hired to provide security for the databases used by the federal government’s National
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Debate I disagree‚ because if your friends and or other people are trying to encourage you to do something good then it really isn’t peer preasure. That is called giving good advice‚ or friendly encouragement. Peer pressure is when people try to encourage you or pressure you into doing something that is against your better judgement‚ which in most cases tends to be over something that is usually and or potencially harmful.. | | | Angria picked Disagree:It’s important to prepare a child for
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Erica Del Vigna Coms 2 Negative Outline Proposition: The state of California should legalize marijuana. I. Introduction Thesis: Though I agree that marijuana should be put into a controlled environment‚ I believe it should not be legalized due to its poor health attributes‚ and its negative influence towards the youth and drug users. Preview: I will be explaining today why the affirmatives plan does will not work as a sufficient plan in California. I will start by refuting his claims
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<b>1. Background</b> <br>The Napster software (http://www.napster.com)‚ launched early in 1999‚ allows internet users to share and download MP3 files directly from any computer connected to the Napster network. The software is used by downloading a client program from the Napster site and then connecting to the network through this software‚ which allows sharing (uploading and downloading) of MP3 files between all users connected to the network. While Napster does not condone copyright infringement
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Crop losses from insect pest result devastating financial loss for farmers and starvation in developing countries. To solve this problem farmers have to use tons of chemical pesticides every year. Consumers do not want to eat food that has pesticide on it because it can be very harmful to our body. Plus using pesticide can cause environmental pollution. So growing gmo that does not demands pesticide can eliminate the use of chemical substance Plus gmo plants genetically made to be resistant to weed-killer
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