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    Case Against Tipping

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    Composition 2 Major Writing Assignment 2: Pro/Con Lists The Case Against Tipping Pros • It would neatly alleviate any question of how much to tip on alcohol tax‚ and desserts and free meals. • it would relieve waiters and the IRS of the nightmare of accounting for unrecorded cash transactions and ensure taxes were paid appropriately. • Universal included gratuity could potentially reduce the cost of service overall. For every big tipper there’s another table who stiffs their

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    Argument Against College

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    “In the real word‚ you’ll need a college degree.” I’ve taken that strongly to heart and plan on attending college after high school. I believe that for all high school graduates‚ college is a must to achieve a comfortable life. Most people do not want to be “just another statistic” but in this case‚ I would not mind at all. In “The Case Against College‚”an article written by Linda Lee‚ she discusses the expense and inconvenience of sending a child to college. I do agree with Lee that college is

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    natural selection. Natural selection in evolution eliminates the weak from the animals most fit for their environment. If evolution is true why do animals do things that would be against the rules of natural selection? We can find the answer to this question by searching nature itself. Certainly all living things must seek out food and safety‚ and every animal must hunt for nourishment and become aggressive in its own defense. However‚ this is not the only thing at work. The great

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    Argument Against Vaccines

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    this stating‚ “In a recent survey where parents were asked to indicate the sources from which they obtain their information‚ 82% off all respondents noted the media as one of their sources.” Parents have based the safety of their child’s life off controversial or persuasive information resulting in the decrease of immunizations leaving children unprotected against contagions. If a child was locked out of the house in a rainstorm‚ we would consider that neglect‚ but why are vaccines any different

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    Blue Against White

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    “Blue Against White” Jeannette C. Armstrong This intense‚ short story contains flashbacks of a woman named Lena’s childhood. She was constantly embarrassed of her culture and family. She yearned for assimilation and could not handle the pressure of being different all her life. Lena finally decides to leave the reserve and pursue her life journey in the city‚ where she would also be schooled. Not only does Lena find out that the city is not the greatest destination‚ she realizes that again‚ she

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    In “Against the Legalization of Drugs‚” by Peter de Marneffe‚ the argument that the use and possession of drugs needs to be decriminalized is made‚ because of the belief that the criminalization of drug use and possession violates the rights of citizens. In this paper‚ I will defend de Marneffe’s position by refuting a possible objection. Contrarians may claim that decriminalizing drugs will inevitably lead individuals to try harder and more dangerous drugs. Beginning his argument by differentiating

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    Argument Against Cannabis

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    We’ve all heard about the drug cannabis‚ the drug is a part of twenty-two point five million lives every day. It’s illegal mostly everywhere except 8 countries. Five countries in America‚ one Europe and two in Asia but some people disagree that it shouldn’t be illegal. This has been widely discussed in like America mostly‚ but there are protesters everywhere in the world‚ the drug is‚ after all‚ the most used drug in the world after alcohol. Most people are against it without really knowing much

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    violence against women

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    The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law (Title IV‚ sec. 40001-40703 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994‚ H.R. 3355) signed as Pub.L. 103–322 by President Bill Clinton on September 13‚ 1994 (codified in part at 42 U.S.C. sections 13701 through 14040). The Act provides $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women‚ imposes automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted‚ and allows civil redress

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    War Against Boys

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    Ariel Ashcraft Alice Eagly Psychology of Gender October 17‚ 2003 War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction One of the oldest debates in psychology is the nature versus nurture debate. Its roots extend far beyond the nineteenth century psychologists such as Freud and Skinner into the beginnings of scientific thought. Even Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato addressed the issue of how personality is formed. Today‚ a relative consensus has been reached that nature and nurture work in tangent

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    Against Meat Analysis

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    family. Jonathan Safran Foer quotes this perfectly in his article Against Meat‚ “ the story of her relationship to food holds all of the other stories that could be told about her. Food‚ for her‚ is not food. It is terror‚ dignity‚ gratitude‚ vengeance‚ joy‚ humiliation‚ religion‚ history and‚ of course‚ love. It was as if the fruits she always offered us were picked from the destroyed branches of our family tree.”(Safran Foer‚ Against Meat). Jonathan Safran Foer describes the purpose of food for his

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