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Second Hand Smoke Billion Dollars
1,298 words... makes a lot of money and jobs for our economy. But there are also bad aspects for keeping tobacco around. Tobacco is a health hazard and nicotine which is found in tobacco is an addictive drug. There are about 419, 000 tobacco-related deaths a year and out of that 9, 000 deaths are caused by second-hand smoke. Tobacco cost the society 50 billion to 88 billion dollars a year due to smoking-related healthcare. So, there are some benefits to a healthier society if tobacco was stripped from are ...
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The History Of Censorship In Literature And Music
1,950 wordsWhat is censorship? An encyclopedia defines censorship as "the control of what people may say or hear, write or read, or see or do 1. " There are many reasons why people censor entertainment such as literature and music. Many governments or groups try to preserve their standards of morality by preventing people from learning about or following other standards 2, commonly found in the two previously mentioned mediums. There are different ways to censor things. It can be on a local level, such as ...
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Book Banning Is Bad For Students
1,543 wordsShould people be able to deny a students freedom to read any book they wish to in a school? Every time adults ban a book, kids lose the chance to gain knowledge from that work of literature. The students outlook on the world becomes narrower as they lose access to an insightful point of view. Book censors can only give unreasonable and unjustifiable motives for banning books to validate their cause. In the end, the actions of the people who ban books create many negative effects on students. The...
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1,479 wordsMark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals steps to the plate as the Major League season of 1998 is winding down. McGwire, who has been chasing the single season home run record, has sixty home runs. One more will tie him with Roger Maris, the all time single season home run record holder. McGwire awaits the pitch from the opposing pitcher. Its a little outside, ball one. He steps out of the batters box to regain composure. He wipes the sweat from his brow and steps in for pitch number two. This pi...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
2,488 wordsCloning The cloning of an adult sheep and the possibility that human cloning could soon follow has raised some serious ethical questions. Some people object on a purely ethical level while others favor cloning solely for the scientific advances it will produce. In the debate over cloning, there are those who say that the scientific benefits and advances gained from cloning are beneficial to society. On the other hand there are those who feel that cloning is morally wrong and would produce both s...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
2,468 wordsCloning As humanity progresses, more and more technologies are becoming available. However, while some of the technologies are deployed without any ethical considerations, there are some technologies that involve ethical dilemmas as well as high extent of public awareness. New reproductive technologies, such as cloning, are the technologies that arise a wide array of legal and ethical controversies. As the mentioned above technology have drawn the most public attention, within the course of this...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Roger Maris
3,191 wordsStatement of the Problem In the passed few years there has been an increase in the popularity of performance-enhancing supplements that are used by athletes. Some of the most popular of these supplements are creatine and androstenedione. They are used by some very famous athletes in professional sports. There are many problems that go along with using these supplements that are not only health-wise, but also the message that is being sent to children involved in youth athletics. Athletes today a...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Part Of American
900 wordsHigh Schools in the United States should not ban The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book is one of the most important components of American literature in our libraries today, it throws the reader into a time when slavery was lawful and accepted, and gives the reader a new perspective on slavery in general. Until civil rights groups can come up with a better argument than the word nigger creating a hostile work environment (Zwick) it should not be taken off the required reading list of any...
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Marilyn Manson Wal Mart
2,023 wordsCensorship in the music industry, which has existed long before forms of media were invented to broadcast the music itself, has seemingly grown out of control in the last couple of years. The controversy comes not just from the bands creating the music but from those who hold the power to censor the music as well. While many support the choice to censor music, many more find it unconstitutional and a direct violation to our rights. It is quite unfortunate that some find it necessary to censor an...
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First Amendment Rights Freedom Of Speech
1,624 wordsFor centuries, parents have wrestled with the question of how to raise their children with the best moral and ethical standings. Along with this question come others such as, " What are the right morals? " Todays parents are no different than they were in the past and the struggle continues. Its tempting to try to protect children from the perceived evils in modern society. One such moral issue is the banning of books from high school libraries and sometimes even classrooms, which may ...
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Second Hand Smoke Billion Dollars
2,595 wordsKicking the Habit: The Economic Effect on the Nation For about 400 years tobacco companies have been at the top of the American enterprise. But lately in the last 50 years we have been learning about the health hazards linked to tobacco. In 1964, the Surgeon General announced that smoking can be a health hazard. After that discovery, nicotine (which is in tobacco) was found to be a very addictive drug. It was also found that currently there are about 9, 000 deaths annually due to second-hand smo...
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Heart Rate And Blood Pressure Lactic Acid
2,354 wordsBill Creatine And Ephedrine Introduction Bill Romanowski, Shannon Sharpe, Mark McGwire, are just a few of the professional athletes that use and endorse fitness supplements such as Androstendione, Creatine, and other products. Every on camera interview that you see Shannon Sharpe he is wearing an EAS mock turtleneck. EAS is one of the leading manufacturers of Creatine and other supplements. The hottest supplement in Hollywood is Ephedrine; an herbal based drug designed to increase fat loss. Why ...
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Marijuana Is Smoked Periods Of Time
3,893 wordsDrugs and Athletes Drugs have been a problem in our society for many years. They have been used and abused by many groups, including professional athletes. It is certainly quite common to hear about or read about athletes and drug use. Although drugs have a lengthy history of use by athletes, they have varied effects on the body and different preventions. Much of the worlds supply of cocaine is produced in South America. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Incas of Peru chewed coca leaves becaus...
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Dishonest Conniving Swindler Typical Dishonest Conniving Swindler Life
1,620 wordsThe Suicide A Critique Irony, ridicule and nonsense combined with an unimaginable plot and unthinkable characters make the farce one of the one of the more entertaining genres. Although it is not what you might call knee-slapping humor, The Suicide certainly does have its comical moments. Unfortunately it also has its slow points as well. The Suicide was apparently not so humorous to the Russian leadership during the Communist era as Lennin promptly banned the play after seeing the performance. ...
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Pre Civil War Noted How Twain
1,849 wordsAdventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Guide to Online Resources By Jim Zwick Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain's most loved, most influential, and most controversial books. It was banned from the Concord Public Library in 1885, the year of its publication, and Huckleberry Finn ranks number five in the American Library Associations list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990 s. But in 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote that all modern American literature comes from one book b...
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Huckleberry Finn Twain
2,598 words? Censorship, Censorship s Censorship s? Censorship, so far as I see it, is like a law which prohibits swimming altogether because such a law will prevent someone from swimming in a sewer? (Brower 1). Here, in the twenty-first century, the banning of thoughts and ideas in humanities and media has become one of the most widely disputed issues facing this country. Though it is highly controversial, hazardous to literature, and unconstitutional, censorship is rampant in America. Censorship is defin...
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