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Illegal Abortions Pro Choice
1,044 words
Abortion in America is a controversial issue in
which both sides have valid arguments at face
value. The pro-choice side has many arguments to
support it belief in keeping abortion legal. Many
of these are faulty, and argue point's irrelevant
to the issue, as I will attempt to illustrate,
thereby eliminating the main pro-choice arguments.
The pro-life position has somewhat different
ideas. The most popular of these is: The unborn
entity is fully human from the moment of
conception. Abortion resu...
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Cruel And Unusual Punishment Capital Punishment
642 words
In the eighteenth century, England would punish by
death for pick pocketing and petty theft. Ever
since the 1650 's colonist could be put to death
for denying the true god or cursing their parents
advocates. Capital Punishment have clashed almost
continuously in the forum of public opinion in
state legislatures and most recently in courts. In
1972, the case of furman vs. Georgia reached the
supreme court. The court decided that punishment
by death did indeed violate the eighth amendment
to conta...
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Smoking One Drug Marijuana
708 words
As I take back a step and look at all the wrong
that encompasses our world, the one thing that
sticks out to me the most is the problems that we
have with drugs. Drugs flow through our country
like water does in a river and they don't seem to
cease. One of the most highly abused drugs,
marijuana, has become the foremost stimulant
leading to harder and deadlier drugs. What makes
this case even worse is the fact that people have
formed groups with the sole purpose of legalizing
this drug. With all...
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Health And Safety Social Control
1,763 words
Prostitution: Prostitution might appear to be an
odd topic for historical inquiry. As "the world's
oldest profession, " concerned with buying and
selling something as "natural" and "unchanging" as
sex, it might seem to have no history. However,
prostitution is subject to historical change and
is shaped by the society in which it exists. In
the United States, over the last couple hundred
years, the nature of prostitution and the
experiences of people working as prostitutes have
varied a great dea...
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Legalized Gambling Excise Taxes
1,168 words
The squeeze is on. Demand for government to
decrease it's reliance on sales, property, and
income taxes as sources of revenue is continuing
to rise, leaving policy makers scrambling for new,
less painful sources of revenue. Also going up are
the costs of providing public services,
entitlement programs, and conducting the other
various functions of government. This upward
spiral requires that they simultaneously look for
better, cheaper, and more effective spending
strategies. It is no wonder tha...
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Brain Damage Marijuana Users
906 words
I believe that marijuana should be legalized. I
believe that if the goverment did so the National
debt would be greatly decreased by the money it
would make from the taxation of marijuana and also
from the decrease in law enforcement and jail cost
that is caused by the "criminal" aspects of
marijuana. I believe that the use of marijuana
would be more likely to go down than up with the
legalization of it. I believe this because half
the reason some people use it is the appeal of
doing something i...
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Euthanasia Should Be Legalized Voluntary Euthanasia
1,556 words
Argumentative Essay for Euthanasia The term
Euthanasia derives from two Greek words, which
mean good death when combined. There are certain
ethical aspects of this issue that now account for
public controversy, surrounding problem.
Apparently, society is divided on those whore
strongly opposed to terminally sick peoples right
to end their life with dignity and those who think
that democratic society should provide such right
to its members. The core of this issue is ethical,
but it also has a so...
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Short Term Memory Long Term Effects
940 words
The Question we must ask ourselves is Why is a
drug that has so many beneficial uses illegal? Is
it because it leads to Harder drugs, the health
problems, the addictive ness, the short-term
memory impairment, the auto accents or is it
simply because politicians. We have grown up
learning that marijuana is a terrible drug, and
that using it gives us brain damage, kill all of
our brain cells, and makes us lose our memory. The
fact is though, that marijuana does not effect us
in any of the ways lis...
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Amount Of Time Assisted Suicide
703 words
Euthenasia In Australia Euthanasia Sometimes, life
can deteriorate to the point where a person loses
their dignity and self-respect, and are unable to
communicate; life like this is longer worth
living, as the most enjoyable of things are
no-longer enjoyable. Euthanasia could, in my
opinion, be practiced when a person reaches this
point, and then only passively. If the person in
question is able to communicate rationally, then
their opinion must be asked first. Assisted death,
other than passive...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patients
3,004 words
Physician-Assisted Suicide is defined as suicide
in which a physician supplies information and / or
the means of committing suicide (e. g. a lethal
dose of sleeping pills, or carbon monoxide gas) to
a person, so that individual can easily terminate
their own life (? Passive Euthanasia? ). Some
terminally ill patients are in unbearable pain and
/ or experiencing an unbearably poor quality of
life (? Passive Euthanasia? ). They would rather
end their lives than continue until their body
finally gi...
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Pursuit Of Happiness Declaration Of Independence
1,575 words
For Better or Worse? America has been plagued with
drug problems for years, and in recent years it
isn t proving to get much better. Society has been
left to deal with the pain, fear, terror, and
crime that the drug world has brought upon us.
Many believe that America s problems with drugs,
crime, and the drug trade economy could be easily
decreased if America turned to the legalization of
illicit drugs. If someone chooses to kill
themselves with drugs let them. In the 1920 s,
alcohol was made i...
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Amount Of Money Legalized Gambling
784 words
Gambling With the Future In the last year
Americans have wagered $ 482 billion dollars in
the United States. Over eighty-five percent of
this wagering took place in casinos that are now
legal in twenty-seven states. In the past decade
there has been incredible growth in the gambling
industry. Twenty years ago if a person wanted to
gamble they had to travel to Nevada. Nowadays,
there are only six states in which no form of
legalized gambling exists. Proponents of the
gambling industry feel that t...
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Millions Of People Defective Genes
847 words
In the past couple years, the topic of genetic
cloning has been under heated debate by people all
over the world. This debate began when Scottish
scientists cloned a sheep named Dolly. The event
made headlines around the world and was seen as
the beginning of the end for the human race, as we
were dawning on a new era in science, one that was
to be filled with immoral acts that were seen as
scientifically impossible a few years ago. Some
believe that cloning is unethical and unnatural,
and shoul...
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Ladies And Gentlemen Cloning Research
550 words
Alvin A. Soriano February 14, 2000 A pleasant
morning Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to
share my views on why cloning should be legalized
in the Philippines. We, the experts in the
Institute of Technological Technologies feel that
with the careful continuation of research, the
technological benefits of cloning clearly outweigh
the possible social consequences. We think that
final products of cloning, like farm animals, and
laboratory mice will not be the most important
achievement. The appli...
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Age Of 18 Ease The Pain
815 words
These are some of the reasons that prohibition is
a failure. When we realize that prohibition is a
failure we can move on to more and better uses of
cannabis. Abraham Lincoln once said this famous
quote? Prohibition will work great injury to the
cause o temperance. for it goes beyond the bounds
of reasons In that it attempts to control a mans
appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of
things that are not crimes. A prohibition law
strikes a blow at the very principles that our
government wa...
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Billion Dollar Industry Legalized Gambling
2,131 words
Legalization of Gambling in Ohio The words Casinos
and Gambling are often associated with gangsters,
prostitution, murderers, and all the illegal
operations one could think of. Those kinds of
stereotypes are picked up in movies like Casino
and the countless other gangster and casino
related movies that are based in the 50 s, 60 s,
and 70 s, but that was then and this is now. While
there may be some vestigial ties between organized
crime and casinos, gambling is now big business
(Weissman 1). The...
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Effects Of Marijuana Legalizing Marijuana
593 words
Legalization of Marijuana in the United States
Legalizing Marijuana has become a popular issue
with many doctors and their patients in the United
States. Doctors and many patients have been
petitioning to the United States Government to
allow the medical use of marijuana, but the
outcome has been unsuccessful. Even though
Marijuana has possible side effects, it has been
very helpful in the medical field with treating
ill and sickly patients. Many new and better drugs
are needed in todays society...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Increase The Amount
1,287 words
Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana is the cause
of much commotion and debating, as the question of
legalization becomes more of an issue. Drugs are a
major influential force in countries all over the
world today. Legalization is an option that has
not had a chance, but really should be given one.
Although many people feel that legalizing
marijuana would increase the amount of drug use,
marijuana should be legalized because it will
reduce the great amount of money spent on
enforcement, and will ...
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Making Drugs Legal Drug Addicts
956 words
The legalizing of drugs have been an issue in the
forefront since the 20 s and the 30 with the
probation of alcohol. Many have argued weather
narcotics should be legalized or not. There are
arguments supporting each side. People who are in
favor of the legalization of drugs claim that
drugs would increase our economy, making drugs
legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent
on law enforcement, and legalization of drugs
would benefit the federal budget. Those who don
not favor the legaliza...
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Terminally Ill Patient Pain And Suffering
1,280 words
Euthanasia: Right or Wrong Euthanasia comes from a
Greek term good death. However, the word has
gained a much more complicated meaning in the
recent times. Euthanasia is a rationally
considered plan to end a life because of pain and
suffering due to a terminal illness. The
controversy surrounding euthanasia and the
arguments supporting or protesting the practice
have raised serious concern and problems in the
medical field for years, as well as society, and
the world as a whole. Those in favor o...
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