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    Katie Muterspaw Mrs. Ascoli AP English 9 October 12‚ 2014 Argumentative Essay: Eugenics Eugenics has been defined as “The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.” In other words‚ eugenics is a process used to rid certain societies of individuals that could potentially be considered weak‚ or undesirable. Eugenics is an unpopular yet extremely important‚ and very serious subject. The idea of

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    "Flowers for Algernon" Argumentative Essay By: Declan Franey Charlie Gordon’s doctors did not act ethically when they performed the surgery to make him smarter. The definition of ethics are the standards of right and wrong that tell what humans should do (Dobrin). The doctors did not meet these standards. The doctors tested on Charlie too early‚ and were trying to help themselves more than they were trying to help their patient. Charlie also ended up dying because of the testing. While some people

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    Lazarus Thompson Cheri Carr PHIL 1102-010 9 February 2012 Argumentative essay: Total Recall “All things are not as they seem but a few things we actually “know” -Plato. As we see‚ appearance vs. reality can be interpreted many ways. One might believe things that are dreamed about is real‚ or maybe are thoughts of the mind of things that has never occurred. In saying that‚ “It’s just a dream” is what is said when he or she wakes up. For others‚ especially Secret Agents‚ more than half of

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    In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee focuses more on the aspect of racial discrimination rather than “poor white trash” discrimination (Hovet 187). It is so conspicuous that a man loses his life because of it. While the discrimination is more prominent regarding race‚ the Finch family is also greatly discriminated against throughout the novel. Racism is very prominent in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ as evidenced when Tom Robinson‚ a black man‚ is accused of raping a white woman in

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    Argumentative Essay 11/1/12 “PARENTAL RIGHTS” Is the judicial system too lenient on parental rights even when those parents do not really deserve to have those rights to begin with? Some parents take those rights that are handed to them for granted. Children are here for us to love and cherish. The right to do that should be taken away from some parents that are not really “parents.” Parents that abuse their children (physically‚ mentally‚ or sexually) should have those rights stripped away

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    Argumentative Essay People in Chicago are just like everybody else but they are getting judged on their skin tone. How would you feel if people would think you are a robber or a criminal just because your a colored person in a nice car. People are getting thrown into jail for some crime they didn’t commit and be in jail for years knowing they are innocent. These people could be just as smart as Albert Einstein but because they are colored they would never be able to show the world. People are getting

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    Argumentative essay: Is the drinking age appropriate? I think that the drinking age is too high. Most other countries drinking age is anywhere from 16 to 18‚ and they do not really seem to have a problem with it. My thing is how whenever you turn 18 everybody considers you an adult‚ but you cannot even go to a bar and buy a beer for yourself. With our drinking age being 21‚ it is basically saying that they still consider a person from the age of 18 to 20 still a kid. Sure they are able to buy lottery

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    Autumn Schultz 11-7-12 Period 7 Media Violence Argumentative Essay Media is all around us‚ including the thousands of books‚ magazines‚ television shows‚ and newspapers that are sold or viewed every day. Now imagine people around the world turning on the television set to see guns‚ blood‚ and more. It is not even only adults seeing this. Children of all ages are picking up books and magazines and seeing violence. Death and gore is everywhere‚ and because of imitation and priming people are reacting

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    Argumentative Essay “Americans with a four-year degree made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 than people without a degree.” (Leonhardt). A college education is and continues to increase in value. With a rising unemployment rate‚ receiving a college education can greatly reduce the chance of one being unemployed. Also‚ the wage for a college graduate continues to rise while the high school graduates pay has stayed relatively the same for the past five years. A college education will provide

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    Timed Argumentative Essay: Racism Today Is there still racism today? Yes‚ in the article I read Americans say that racism is a bigger problem today than it was in the past 20 years. There’s hate and anger toward people‚ purely based on a color difference‚ white people don’t get asked for I.D. when using credit‚ but African Americans do‚ white people don’t let their kids date African American’s‚ people are rude and make fun of people. Racism today still exists because stores clerks don’t ask white

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