Is violence ever justified? The debate about the use of violence has been on going for the last decade. Violence‚ the act of causing physical harm to another person willingly‚ has often been categorized as being an uncivilized‚ unjustified act. It is mostly known‚ and commonsensical knowledge that attacking or inflicting harm upon another person is “wrong”. Most of us frown upon people who resort to such violent acts‚ and they are punishable by law. However‚ as we progress into the 21st century
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Is Terrorism Ever Justified? “Terrorism has no justification‚ no matter what pretext terrorist use for their deeds.” Says Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour‚ a Tunisian Culture and Preservation of Heritage Minister. (UN News Centre.) Many people view terrorism the same way as Ben Achour‚ especially in America. But there are also many of those‚ such as Alan Dershowitz‚ who counter with questions like‚ “Is ‘terrorist’ just a negative version of ‘freedom righter’?” and “How are civilian deaths in terrorism
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Briana Laszlo Professor Tayyar English 114 23 April 2015 Is It Really Happily Ever After? Fairytales are one of the common understandings throughout the childhood of children in the United States. The Grimm’s Fairytales serve as a foundation to many of the stories that we grew up with. In the fairytales written by The Brothers Grimm‚ the role of women play the biggest part in each story; thus may be because that German women were the ones that were telling the stories or because the depiction of
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One day I was playing basketball with my brother and my back began to hurt. Little did I know this would affect me the most out of any injury I have ever had. I started having a little bit off pain but did not think much about it‚ thinking it would go away or I was just sore. I was wrong‚ after about a week of my back continually getting worse and worse by jumping on tramps playing basketball and locrosse I finally decided to go to the doctor because at this point It hurt so much every time stood
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Tierra Mason Professor Colin Anderson 15 November 2011 Is Torture Ever Justifiable? Torture‚ according to the United Nations Convention against Torture‚ is: “any act by which severe pain or suffering‚ whether physical or mental‚ is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him‚ or a third person‚ information or a confession‚ punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed‚ or intimidating or coercing him
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Alternative Breaks Essay 1. 2. I have always wanted to be able to give back to my community and my country. Getting an opportunity to be a part of Alternative Breaks will hopefully help me be a more active citizen. In addition‚ I want to be able to see another part of the world and broaden my experience by giving a helping hand. Staying in a different place and helping others will help me see the world from a whole different angle and will broaden my perspective about our world today and
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Substance abuse The 5th edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) combines substance abuse and substance dependence to mean the same thing (American Psychiatric association‚ 2013). Substance abuse refers to the habitual non-medical substance seeking‚ and the substance taking behavior which is suppression or resistance through its pharmacological consequences. Substance abuse may therefore include the use of alcohol‚ abuse of cigarettes‚ food‚ sniffing of solvents or
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Is Protectionism ever justified? Explain with examples. Ria Rajendra C11IB (International business management) Dr. UmmeSalma Mujtaba October 29‚ 2013 Contents a. Introduction b. Arguments for protectionism i. Infant industries ii. Free Trade iii. Anti- dumping iv. Environmental factors v. Employment opportunities and the concept of balance of payments disequilibrium vi. Cultural influences c. Protectionism vs. Free Trade d. An analysis based on % news articles from‚ The Economist i. Appendix
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Parents Should be Punished When Their Child Breaks the Law Nowadays‚ committing crimes has become a more and more frequent action. Children let themselves comit a crime for many reasons. In my opinion‚ some of them are social communication‚ television‚ computers and family. If a child commits a crime‚ parents should take some responsibility‚ but it depends on a crime. Social communication has a strong influence on children. When they start going to school they encounter society‚
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happy the family was when we heard that because we never knew that our dad would do anything this spectacular in our wildness dreams‚ because ever since he had been laid off from his job things had been though lately‚ but we never knew he found another job at the hospital working as an Registered Nurse‚ but it didn’t matter because for the first time ever we’ll be spending
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