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    Legalization of Prostitution Logan McGregor Advanced Public Speaking Introduction: Prostitution‚ one of the most highly controversial and contentious jobs in the history of mankind‚ is also revered as one of the lowest jobs of the career totem pole. Sex workers are often counted out‚ and their voices are rarely‚ if ever‚ listened to‚ but no longer should sex workers be ignored. They are human beings too and certainly have a lot to offer this great nation of America. Over 100 countries worldwide

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    Decriminalization of the sex industry does not control prostitution‚ they claim. It encourages it. In fact‚ it benefits it by funding pimps‚ madams‚ traffickers‚ and other sex workers. It also increases the statistics of child prostitution‚ and of immigrants being shipped to the Americas for use in brothels and sex clubs. Legalization of the sex industry does not assure protection from abuse for the women involved. "The legalization or decriminalization of the sex industry can

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    Are American prostitution laws helping to solve the problem‚ or hurting the people that need the most help? Prostitution has been a point of contention since the dawn of mankind; and the endless demand‚ brought on by man-kinds’ most primal desires‚ guarantees the supply of sex workers for generations to come. Sex workers often suffer heinous acts of abuse including: assault‚ rape‚ sexually transmitted diseases‚ human trafficking‚ and murder. Many of the laws in modern society are not stopping the

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    the University of Valladolid in Spain an anthropologist compiled evidence of psychoactive drug use in ancient cultures around the world (Gray). Decriminalization or decriminalisation is the lessening of criminal penalties in relation to certain acts‚ perhaps retroactively‚ though perhaps regulated permits or fines might still apply. Drug decriminalization‚ would not be an appropriate option for the United States because if decriminalizing would go into effect it would allow for injustices like the

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    CJ 301 Law & Society Spring Semester 2013‚ 3 credits Mondays‚ 4 – 6:40 pm Instructor/Course Information: Instructor: Alan Mobley‚ Ph.D. Office Location: 160A Professional Studies and Fine Arts Building (PSFA) Office Hours: Wed‚ 3 – 4pm‚ or by appointment E-mail Address: amobley@mail.sdsu.edu Course Description: The course will familiarize you with tools and concepts related to a course of study that often goes by different names‚ including socio-legal studies‚ sociology

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    Since before the 1900’s‚ the United States has been battling with a seemingly unending debate. Should marijuana‚ otherwise known as ‘weed’‚ be legalized in the states? While most politicians say that legalizing marijuana would only be used as a ‘stepping-stone’ to more dangerous drugs like heroin or cocaine‚ it is my opinion to strongly disagree with this statement. Marijuana use can have medical pluses‚ yielding California’s decision to legalize marijuana for healing purposes. With the right regulations

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    A Look at Lars Ericsson: Charges Against Prostitution Lars Ericsson proves his conclusion that prostitution is morally unobjectionable through three separate premises. The first is "It is morally unobjectionable for a consumer to purchase nonsexual services from a supplier in a free exchange on an open marker". Ericsson intends morally unobjectionable to mean that there is no moral reason to object to a certain service. A free exchange is one in which both parties agree upon a certain service

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    Society’s Problems and My Role In Helping It Is helping solve the problems of society everyone’s job‚ or no one’s job. What role would you hope to play‚ based on your interests and developing skills‚ in the solution of one or more specific problems? As the problems in society arise‚ it is the duty of every individual to ease the burden by helping to solve these problems. Too often‚ individuals pass off that responsibility with the hope that others will pick up the slack. The problem is that too

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    Why should marijuana be legalized? Marijuana can be argued for different reasons. In my case I will be arguing the medical purposes for legalizing marijuana. Marijuana has positive features‚ and how people prefer using marijuana. Marijuana helps individuals get through a variety of things that they suffer. Marijuana provides relief from pain‚ rather than other medications out there. Many individuals prefer marijuana over anything else to relax. An argument on why people using marijuana spend more

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    Introduction Anyone who is paying even the slightest bit of attention to the controversy which rages around the legalization of marijuana has certainly heard of the many benefits of legalization. We hear argument that claim prohibition did not work for alcohol and it is certainly not working for marijuana. We have heard that there are many positive health benefits to smoking marijuana for people with particular illnesses. And‚ we have certainly heard the cry that argues the economy would be far

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