On January 20th‚ 2017 President Donald Trump took office‚ he quickly made an executive order that banned foreigners from seven different countries from entering the United States for 120 days‚ these seven countries are identified as Muslim majority countries. Legal and illegal immigrants in the United states began to panic as they fear that their families will be deported immediately. Children of color are now living in fear because their future is unknown‚ they are also scared that their families
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The debate over whether or not the risks and rewards of Medical Marijuana are worth it all comes down to a science. Research has shown that some strains of Medical Marijuana help cancer patients reduce the pain they receive from the tumorous cells‚ others help PTSD‚ Arthritis‚ Glaucoma‚ Alzheimer’s and many other diseases. Medical Marijuana should also be studied and treated like every other type of medicine. Therefore‚ I believe Medical Marijuana should be legal nationwide. Cancer is a prime example
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Unfortunately for the customers at illegal bars‚ the quality of alcohol at these joints plummeted. The highest estimate put the average number of deaths a year to twelve thousand people (alcoholsolutionsandproblems.org). The lowest put the death toll at nearly one thousand (pbs.org). Many other consumers became afflicted with blindness (a reason speakeasies were called blind pigs and blind tigers)‚ sickness‚ and paralysis (alcoholsolutionsandproblems.org). Some people who followed to Prohibition
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INTRODUCTION: Government intervention takes many forms in numerous different situations. They range from taxation‚ regulation and legislation to providing child welfare‚ housing and other financial assistance programs to the people that it governs. Reasons for government intervention may include citizen protection‚ promoting social responsibility or paternalism‚ which happens when government attempts to manage the needs or control the conduct of individuals. Government intervention
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1.7 million students sit down to take a test that will be essential when determining their acceptance into college annually. In 1926‚ the Scholastic Aptitude Test was introduced with the purpose of measuring aptitude or innate mental ability rather than the mastery of subjects learned. The test was developed from from an army IQ test‚ invented by a man who’s purpose of this test was to exclude minorities and immigrants. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is neither fair nor does it actually measure
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Animal Rights Animal rights protect species from mistreatment by humans. The advocates of this regulation demand that the government establish more laws governing the rights for animals because of their empathy toward animals‚ similarities to human behavior‚ moral status‚ and biomedical research. They mandate equal rights to all species; however‚ I believe the existing laws are adequate and should not be expanded‚ but enforced and have minor changes. Victoria Braithwaite‚ author of the article
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Opposing Immigration The United States government should not permit people from other countries to immigrate to the United States because it conducts to the expansion of jobless Americans. This issue brings upon animosity towards immigrants from U.S. citizens. Immigration causes pain‚ and pain conduct to the struggles of American lives. Immigration into another country contributes to unemployment for Americans‚ it reduces job opportunities for U.S. teenagers and the less-educated‚ and it affects
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Gun control: now or never In 1924‚ Presidential Candidate‚ Robert La Follete said‚ “Our choice is not merely to support or oppose gun control but to decide who can own which guns under what conditions.” After many years later‚ the debate over gun control has always been a hot issue not only for the U.S but also for the whole world. However‚ this problem has truly become more significant since the outrageous Sandy Hook shooting was happened in Connecticut last year. There have been many debates over
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Gun Control Imagine the world without guns‚ less crime‚ less murder and the children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting would still be here today. Guns pose serious threats to ordinary New Zealanders. It’s quite simple no guns‚ no gun violence. Banning guns would reduce the number of gun related deaths‚ a lot of the people would not listen but it would defiantly lower the number
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Fiscal cliff‚ a seemingly disturbing new term for American’s to digest about our growing deficit problems is stirring up panic and stress for our country’s economy. A lot of American’s are worried about the future of our country and how we can deal with our increasingly scary issue of debt. Even before the United States was founded in 1776‚ we have had a debt to be paid. It has grown in towering amounts since then and now is an issue we may never get out of. The debt crisis is a result of the
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