Advocates of prohibiting marijuana may argue that the law has been around for too long to be changed. They believe that it would be unfair to legalize marijuana‚ since numerous citizens have already been arrested and prosecuted for possession. This argument is an example of the logical fallacy‚ "argumentum ad antiquitatem"‚ or "appeal to tradition" (Walker)‚ because you cannot keep a law for the sake of it being kept without acknowledging the facts. For example‚ slavery was legal for thousands of years
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ones that make use of it suggest that it should be legalized. The idea of legalizing marijuana is a big deal‚ as it affects society and the economy. As a result‚ there has been an ongoing debate whether or not to legalized the use of marijuana. This essay will consider the benefits marijuana and will state some of the outcomes. The legalization of marijuana should be passed because it has medical benefits‚ less harmful than tobacco‚ and eco-friendly. There has been a great debate between marijuana
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Jeffrey Gallegos Andrea Graham WRT 101 10 December 2014 Count Your Blessings Not Your Calories Have you ever walked through parts of life then suddenly one day you realize what you were doing could have been detrimental to yourself all along? Most of the time you won’t even realize what you had been doing was wrong until somebody points it out to you‚ or you look in the mirror one day‚ and it hits you. This is my story about the realization of what could have been the stereotypical American health
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Final Sports Essay Many schools throughout the Nation have discussed whether they should abolish sports as an after-school activity. Studies show that the withdraw of sports would provide more recognition to the other clubs and groups of schools that are more academically focused. Therefore‚ schools in the United States should cancel sports because it would place the focus specifically
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Golf is not a Sport "I am a golfer‚ not an athlete." These are the words from Lee Westwood‚ a current golf pro‚ who at one point in his life was ranked as high as the 5th best golfer in the world. Despite what most people think‚ golf is a game‚ not a sport. A sport can be a game‚ but a game doesn ’t have to be a sport (Johnson 2). Recently‚ CNNSI did a poll on whether or not golf is a sport‚ and the answer was a definitive "No." Golf is a game that can be played by people of all age and sizes‚ and
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Working Mothers All mothers are working mothers‚ but those who have a career away from home have an extra challenge in their life. In many families today‚ mothers continue to work because they have careers that they have spent years developing. Some mothers need to work to support their family. I’m against working mothers because she will be bad mood most of the time‚ she will not have time for her home and children‚ and can’t have fun time because she is busy every weekend. The first
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Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s‚ southerners struggled with the inevitable confrontation of segregation. Living in the Jim Crow era‚ blacks grappled to gain the rights denied to them through Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)‚ “which gave legal sanction to “separate but equal”.” On the other hand‚ white southerners wrestled to maintain the white supremacy that the Plessy case allowed them to exercise. One of the largest areas of tension for the maintenance of segregation existed in education.
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perspective this essay posits that a type of masculinity predominates team sports‚ most importantly the AFL. This masculinity is inconsistent with the idea of openly homosexual men. Given the complete absence of any openly homosexual men in the AFL it’s reasonable to assume that this identity does not conform to conventional ideals of masculinity in modern society. This ideal‚ what is known as hegemonic masculinity outlines what may or may not be viewed as a ‘manly’. Team sports create or at least
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part in sports and physical recreation. These included 29% of the population (or 4.7 million) who regularly participated more than twice a week and 36% (or 5.8 million) who participated up to twice a week. The remainder‚ approximately 5.5 million people (34%)‚ reported that they did not participate in any such activity in the 12 months before interview. REGULARITY OF PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS AND PHYSICAL RECREATION — 2005–06 Participation Rates While there are a great variety of sports and physical
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November 29th 2010 Should Cheerleading be Considered a Sport? A sport is defined as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature” (Dictionary.com). Someone can’t roll out of bed and be an amazing cheerleader. Cheerleading is an activity that takes massive amounts of skill and physical prowess‚ but on July 22nd of 2010 Connecticut Judge Stefan R. Underhill ruled competitive cheerleading as not being a sport. Considering the physical demand of the activity
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