While a few states are turning out to be more liberal‚ different countries stay close minded and stay strict in its stand against gay adoption‚ so in those states‚ it’s still illicit for gay couples to adopt children. Some would say that it could bring about mental problems‚ that it isn’t common‚ or that the couples wouldn’t be great guardians. Others would be against it for religious reasons. A few people like Bill Maier‚ a tyke therapist‚ working with the conservative Focus on the Family‚ would
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Police Brutality is a tragedy upon us in America. In society we face this tragedy‚ each and every day of our lives. Police officers are the ones who are supposed to prevent crime and stop abuse‚ instead we are being challenged by police officers. They continue to use firearms or weapons when their lives are in danger. If there isn’t a response towards the situation‚ a police officer should not fire or use any weapon of any kind. In my perspective‚ Police Brutality is a serious issue‚ police officers
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drug in the‚ United Sates behind alcohol and tobacco use. More than 14 million Americans use marijuana regularly regardless of the laws against its use or possession. The problems with legalization and criminalization of marijuana use have been an extremely controversial matter and have been a debatable subject over many years. Currently it is a crime and is against the law to posse and use the drug regularly known as pot‚ weed and mary-jane. However‚ the United States government has spent billions
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Biracial Racism and Discrimination Around the 1960s‚ biracial children were looked down upon and discriminated against. Now in the 2000s‚ about seven million people in the U.S. identify themselves as multiracial which is 2.5 percent of the U.S. population. Growing up biracial can be very frustrating to fit in with other people. When others look at a biracial person the first thing they wonder about is what race they are. With that mindset from others‚ it makes them question who they are
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Anti-federalists believed in the new constitution obtaining such power can lead to infringement of civil rights by wealthy Americans. For instance‚ wealthy Americans lobbying the government for certain laws to pass against the middle and lower class. Even though Henry failed to convince the government to reject the new constitution‚ Henry opened the eyes of Federalists. According to Patrick Henry‚ “They not foresee latent consequences: I dread the operation of it on
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the existence of climate change‚ to corporate handouts and under the table deals. One such scientist is Wei-Hock Soon. Justin Gillis and John Schwartz of the New York Times report that Soon‚ who has been called by Republican politicians to testify against the harm of global warming and climate change in front of Congress‚ has received upwards of 1.2 million dollars from the fossil-fuel industry in the last decade. The release of information like this only adds fuel to the fire surrounding climate change
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be famous or just be the average teenager? Although many people say they do not want to be famous‚ I would love to. I would like to be famous for many different reasons. The main reasons I would want to be famous is all of the following: you would have lots of friends‚ get to travel around the world‚ be a role model‚ and also be a millionaire. AH‚ the glamorous life. Celebrities have it made. First‚ I think being famous would be awesome because of the money. In the business of being famous the
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Would-be rapists and armed burglars will think twice before attempting to break into any house where the owners may keep firearms for self-defence. Gun ownership increases national security within democratic states POINT “A well-regulated Militia‚ being necessary top the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed.” Any country is much more able to defend itself from aggression if many of its citizens are able to use guns‚ keeping them for leisure
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and many different avenues must be explored in order to better understand this current threat. There have been cases in the past of highly enriched uranium (HEU)‚ a critical component of a nuclear bomb‚ being in the wrong hands. Sokova (2007) wrote about a hundred grams of weapons grade HEU being seized from a Russian national in 2007 as a result of a sting
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Have you heard any of the debates about racism going on right now? Things like racism don’t show the equality that most Americans are looking for in their country. The main person that I think made everyone realize that everyone is the same no matter what your skin color might be is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I think once he was murdered everyone including the people he couldn’t convince realized that this was just a ridiculous thing going on. The America I believe in has very hard working people
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