Many people didn’t vote this election due to various reasons. Is this ok? I believe that voting is a right and people should care about it. it is also good in many ways and I will explain why. Voting can help make minimum wages higher‚ lower income inequality‚ it can better healthcare etc. Voting also allows the voter to feel some sense of control and power over his or her future. No matter what the outcome of the election people are still able to express themselves. Voting is a form of personal
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How do we achieve consensus and cooperation? And what of changes that we seemingly have no control over? It certainly seems to me that we should be utilizing our most compelling moral philosophy‚ reason and science to influence each other and policy‚ but people are not always swayed by those sorts of things. Most people are likely moved by how they feel or are made to feel by others. I think the evidence strongly suggests that we can progress‚ and that scientific innovation and moral reasoning allow
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Food is fundamental and essential for life. Our eating habits have become an important part of our daily life. Over the years‚ customs have changed and so did the way to taste and appreciate our food. Genetically modified food is based on using biotechnology to manipulate the food’s genetic code. GMO‚ which refers to ‘Genetically Modified Organisms’‚ are considered to be an innovation since it is way much faster to produce food‚ using GMO‚ and thus it may be the big solution for World Hunger
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In one of the recent happenings‚ a judge slammed a woman for the sole reason of spending sick mother’s money on junk food items. The elderly woman has been reported to be suffering from Dementia and the amount spent by her daughter has amounted to approximately £250 a month on "unnecessary food". According to Judge Denzil Lush‚ the divorcee often used to turn up at a nursing home with different types of junk food items such as pork pies‚ biscuits and mini sausage rolls. He further stated that the
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Death is heavy and weighs on the backs of us all. It looms over the shoulders of the unhappy‚ creeps under the beds of the ill‚ and swallows the elderly in their sleep. There is yet a man‚ to claim that tomorrow‚ his eyes will open‚ or will not close for an eternity. Our lives are but a book‚ waiting to be concluded‚ or shut mid sentence. As the writers of our own book‚ we have the right to know where‚ when and how the book ends. Are the lives of the ill worth any less than the unhappy or the elderly
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view‚ I disagree when it said that possession of a fire arm for the safety of your life and the life of your family at your own home is necessary. We should be able to protect ourselves in case of an intrusion or a robbery or some kind of assault against a person who is putting our lives in danger. Of course that I agree that in order of having a firearm a person should have special training before getting one not only for their own safety but for the safety of others. What I think is that if it is
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our fourth amendment rights were violated. Because U.S. citizens’ information was unlawfully stolen‚ the NSA disregarded our fourth Amendment rights‚ which states‚ “The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ shall not be violated‚ and no warrants shall issue‚ but upon probable cause‚ supported by oath or affirmation‚ and particularly describing the place to be searched‚ and the persons or things to be seized”(AMENDMENT
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Graffiti is a long living “symbol of youth and music culture‚ graffiti is one of the four elements of hip hop” (Wexler 6). Suzanne Wexler states that graffiti “first appeared on the New York subways in the 1970s‚ representing a form of public art” (6). For the most part‚ graffiti is tolerated‚ as long as it is aesthetically appealing and not defacing someone’s property. Problems arise when people go and deface a public place‚ such as an occupied business‚ building‚ house‚ car‚ etc. Then‚ the city
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Title Deportation should not exist because they are many reasons why it shouldn’t. First reason is that some people in the world are going through struggles. Second reason is that it cost too much‚ every state in the united states could lose its GDP. So mass deportation isn’t really a good idea we could lose a whole bunch of money. The united states should stop the deportation of immigrants‚ especially those without criminal records‚ because it is dangerous‚ because it is inhumane‚ and because
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Prohibitionists were so convinced that banning alcohol would automatically change the behavior of Americans and little thought actually was put in the enforcement of the newly endorsed Eighteenth Amendment. The Volstead Act was formed to back up the newly established Eighteenth Amendment when the Prohibition Bureau was founded. Congress only set aside two million dollars for the new Prohibition Bureau. The Prohibition Bureau was the federal law enforcement agency that enforced the new Prohibition
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