Vaccinations are essential to the health of a community. As David Keller (a physician and former Chief of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program with the New Mexico Department of Health‚ and parent‚ puts it)‚ “In reality‚ nature places foreign substances….in his body all the time. Some of those are harmless‚ but others can be deadly. By using vaccines‚ I can carefully introduce into his body substances that mimic harmful foreign substances and‚ in so doing‚ teach his immune system to protect
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The US Enact Mandatory Voting? Many countries around the world have compulsory voting laws including Argentina‚ Australia‚ and Belgium‚ but will this work for the United States? Estimates have shown that in the 2016 election only 58% of eligible citizens voted. Various arguments exist debating the necessity of mandatory voting. Arguments opposing mandatory voting insist that the process would lead to empty votes from both uneducated and disinterested citizens. Furthermore mandatory voting is contrary
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Mandatory Vaccinations: An Ongoing Debate The potential side effects of vaccinations are considerably low compared to the potential risk of outbreak among the population if not vaccinated. Therefore‚ for the safety of the population immunizations should be mandatory for all children and adults. It has been proven that the safety and effectiveness of immunization and vaccines protect children and adults from infectious diseases. Ever since vaccines for diseases like diphtheria and measles were introduced
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everyone would agree that children are the core of our future. Therefore‚ it is imperative that we have laws/policies in place that will protect them from cruel and unusual punishment in any capacity. However‚ much debate continues to arise concerning mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole for juvenile offenders. In attempting to change a social policy concerning the juvenile justice system it is important to address the concern in its context. Therefore‚ reviewing the history of the
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Chairman‚ Ladies and Gentlemen Today’s motion is school students should face a mandatory drug testing session. That is‚ students have to be drug tested. I support the motion because such scheme protects both students and the whole society. I will put forward 2 strong reasons today about the advantages of this mandatory scheme. Firstly‚ it serves as a strong deterrent. Drug abuse remains a serious problem in schools. Many anti-drugs campaigns implemented by the government were ineffective
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Mandatory Sex Education in Schools What is the right age to begin teaching sex education to kids? About 820‚000 young women are pregnant before the age of twenty. There is no denying that teen pregnancy has risen tremendously in the past few years. Girls younger and younger are becoming pregnant. Babies essentially are having babies. These young girls do not personally have the ability to raise a child when they are only a child themselves. Financially they are unable to care for the baby and that
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sides to the argument. One group thinks voting should be a mandatory law to the American citizens and the other group think going out to vote is a personal freedom. All American citizens should be required to vote in any elections‚ so the citizens can be satisfied with their choice. “Democracy is about freedom” (Text 4‚ line 11). Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. All citizens should be required
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Five goals in sentencing; Punishment is one of the goals to sentencing. It is the infliction of pain upon someone and is considered retribution for criminals who commit crimes. Society uses punishment to keep criminals from being repeat offenders and therefore I believe it is a favorable from of sentencing. However‚ with the new three strikes law‚ I do not agree with some of the statutes that are being set forth. Deterrence is the hoping that others while seeing someone being prosecuted of a crime
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makes 4.69 billion dollars per year! Although mandatory military service may be required in some countries‚ that does not mean we have to. Requiring national service could cause more casualties. Having this mandatory military service will take away money: from keeping our parks clean‚ having our trash picked up every Monday‚having monuments in Washington D.C.‚ having the importance of remembering what our history is. Military service should not be mandatory for everyone because National service does
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question that emerges in every student mind at some point in his or her college career‚ that question is ‘go to class‚ or lose points?’” There are college and university professors that are either starting to or have been making the class attendance mandatory for the benefit of the students and himself or herself. This decision has materialized because of the increasing number of drop-outs and failing students‚ just because they rarely attend classes. Even most faculty members‚ who do not require attendance
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