Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in jail‚ 1000 lashes and a 10 year ban on appearing in media outlets. What for you ask? Simply for criticising Islam. Raif started up a website promoting women’s rights and critiqueuing the state religion. As he is a vocal atheist‚ Raif is now threatened with a beheading for apostasy. (Write.amnestyusa.org) Mussie Eyob‚ was arrested whilst sharing his religion on the streets of Saudi Arabia at a local mosque. The death penalty now awaits him. (Christian Freedom
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It is said‚ “Psychiatric medications kill more Americans than street drugs.” The highly alarming fact is: While the United States only contains about 5 percent of the world’s population‚ it is said that we consume 75 percent of the world’s prescription drugs. Patients all over the United States are taking medications on the wide growing list of the DEA scheduled medications. Among that list are benzodiazepines and a long list of other antidepressants and minor tranquilizers. Any psychiatrist will
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It has been used for thousands of years‚ dating back to medieval times 530 AD. Even though numerous laws have been made to stop torture‚ it is without thought of the consequences that occur. Torture has been proven as an ineffective tool for gathering concealed information and running the reputations of the country that use it. Nobody deserves to be tortured‚ as it is known to have enduring negative effects on both survivors and perpetrators. Torture is worse than death and often it could be the innocent
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virus can spread at school. With school open during the pandemic‚ viruses will easily spread from child to child. The infected children will then go home and infect their other family members. “In conclusion‚ the protracted spread of pandemic influenza in fall 2009 in the US was dominated by short-distance spatial spread partially catalyzed by the school openings rather than long-distance transmission events.”
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Part Two: Analytical Essay The appeal to tradition‚ also called argumentum ad antiquitatem‚ is a commonplace fallacy that posits that an idea is correct simply on the basis that it is similar to a past or present tradition. We see it everywhere: in government‚ in schools‚ in music‚ in the workplace‚ and even in sports. The book Moneyball by Michael Lewis is largely about this idea‚ where Lewis argues that even if something has been done traditionally for many years and worked‚ the traditional way
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is best known as the strongest of all mortals‚ and even stronger than many of the gods. Hercules was a demi-god which was a half god half mortal. His father was the god Zeus and his mother was a mortal woman named Alcmene. When Hera found out that her husband’s mistress was having a baby‚ she became very jealous and mad. She was so mad that when Hercules was born‚ Hera sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. However‚ Hercules was too strong for the snakes and strangled them before they could do
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Over the course of Harry Potter’s six years attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry‚ six different people filled the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching position. Hogwarts finds this position very hard to fill. Some people believe someone cursed the Defense position and this fact leadest them to stay away from teaching. The supposed curse that hangs over the position causes major problems for the school. The lack of applicants results from the rumor of a jinx. If no one applies for
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that of British culture. While America could not completely remove its ties from Europe‚ it was important for the nation to see if what it did borrow was compatible with the nation. And the sentiment of being opposed to the encroachment of other cultures is not something that was alone to Sedgwick’s writing. This is something that only sixteen years later‚ Susan Warner similarly warns about in her own essay on what women can best do to serve their country. “[These] mad copyers of European ways can
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Wakefield‚ Father of the Anti-Vaccine Movement‚ Responds..) So yes‚ there is a vaccine that can cause autism. Also citied “The now-retracted paper that set the MMR-autism dominoes tumbling was published by Wakefield and a dozen co-authors in The Lancet in February 1998. It provided case histories for 12 children‚ exploring incidences of chronic enterocolitis‚ inflammatory bowel disease and regressive developmental disorder—as well as immunization with the MMR vaccine.” (Andrew Wakefield‚ Father of
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short story. However the motif of tradition revolves around the course of the lottery triggering debates on whether some controversial traditions should be changed or even abolished. Our forefathers created many traditions around the world centuries ago‚ which leaves less debate on whether these traditions are ethical. The effects of these traditions leave sometimes damaging legacies on our behaviour as humans. In “The Lottery”‚ the effects of their tradition had deadly and disastrous results for the
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