Why the Electoral College Should Be Abolished and Replaced With the Direct Election Voting System 11 – 24 – 2004 Ever since its creation at the Constitutional Convention in 1787‚ the Electoral College has been the most widely debated aspect in the Constitution. There have been over 700 proposed constitutional amendments aimed at fixing or abolishing this process. And Congress has on several occasions held highly publicized hearings on Electoral College reform but overall has remained
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Do people put too much emphasis on learning practical skills? From the day some one is born‚ they are taught new concepts everyday. Some skills may be useful later on in life and others are just plain nonsense. Although many people disregard what others have taught them‚ it is necessary to obtain such basic skills in order to live life to its full potential. Our world‚ and its people would not be where they are today without the practical skills that have been used. Franklin D. Roosevelt exemplified
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Looking out for the state of the public’s satisfaction in the scheme of capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today’s system of capital punishment is thick with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes." It was a deterrent. It removed killers. It was the ultimate punishment. It is biblical. It satisfied the public’s need for retribution. It relieved the anguish of the victim’s family." All of these reasons prove to either
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Welfare is a government program that provides money‚ medical care‚ food‚ housing‚ and other things that people need in order to survive. People who can receive help from these welfare programs are children‚ elders‚ the disabled‚ and others who cannot support their families on their current income. The welfare program has gone from a well-meaning program designed to sustain people who are unable to work and provide for their children‚ to a program that has become counterproductive to eliminating the
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should fit the crime‚ meaning that‚ if you do something extreme‚ like murder someone‚ you should not be allowed to defend yourself by reasoning of insanity. No crime‚ especially a murder should go uncharged which is why the insanity plea should be abolished. It allows for the "mentally insane" people to go virtually unpunished for their crime. For hundreds of years civilized courts have recognized that‚ when a person who is mentally unstable is accused of a crime‚ it is a special circumstance and they
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Prompt 8 “A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like‚ but he is not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning the ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.” – Georges Clemenceau Is it true that acting quickly and instinctively is the best response to a crisis? Or are there times when an urgent situation requires a more careful consideration and a slower response? Differentiating
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Eveline SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people’s children
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In a large town there was an old woman who sat in the evening alone in her room thinking how she had lost first her husband‚ then both her children‚ then one by one all her relations‚ and at length‚ that very day‚ her last friend‚ and now she was quite alone and desolate. She was very sad at heart‚ and heaviest of all her losses to her was that of her sons; and in her pain she blamed God for it. She was still sitting lost in thought‚ when all at once she heard the bells ringing for early prayer.
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University of Texas at Austin‚ the rule was unfair to many students. The top ten percent rule should be abolished or altered to be more equal among students. The top ten percent rule is unfair to very competitive schools. For example at Plano West Senior High School‚ eight students had a 4.0 grade point average but were not in the top ten percent. Students that had no extracurricular activities‚ low SAT scores‚ and a low grade point average were being accepted into a major Texas public college while
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teacher with more time to thoroughly explain the work would help the student in not struggling ahead with the class. “She cited the example of a primary school which handed children a pack of 45 worksheets as Easter holiday homework in preparation for SATs in May.”(Clark) This
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