amounts of marijuana are now grown on U.S. soil because of the risks involved in transporting it across borders. If prohibition were effective‚ it would not force marijuana to be the nation’s leading cash crop (Nadelmann “Drug Prohibition in the United States”). When marijuana is made legal‚ tax money generated from its growth and sale will dwarf the amount of money currently spent fighting it. The government itself even spends billions of dollars every year on anti-marijuana ads that claim to help
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Terrifyingly Compelling In his article “Why We Crave Horror Movies‚” published in the December 1981 issue of Playboy Magazine‚ thriller author Stephen King uses a sarcastic but menacing tone to explain why people watch horror films. In the very first sentence of the article‚ King shows that we are all insane to some degree; we are all mentally ill‚ but some can hide it better than others (King 222). Why do you spend so much time and money going to the cinemas to see horror movies? We go simply
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To think that a vaccine can save a community is to believe that a single grain of rice can end world hunger. Sure‚ if everyone was to be vaccinated‚ perhaps there would be a difference. However‚ the reality is this is not the case. Several people believe that kids who are not vaccinated impose health threats on kids who have been vaccinated. This belief is flawed because the kids with the vaccines are the ones who are bringing the viruses into our schools. The vaccines carry the very virus that they
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about friends and colleagues”. For the unknowing‚ “Guantanamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (also known as GTMO) and has occupied a portion of the United States Navy’s base at Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba since 2002. The prison holds people suspected by the executive branch of the U.S. government of being al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives‚ as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending
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Zoos are a popular house for animals. People can see many kinds of animals at zoos. However zoos are more harmful than good for animals. There are some causes to this such as bad environment for animals and small enclosures. One of the reasons for the bad effects of zoos is a loss of real conservation. Today animals are endangering since their habitats are shrinking because of pollution‚ less food‚ and destruction of the ecosystem. Many kinds of animals were sent to zoos because of people who argued
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people who are struggling to get by and need help. In today’s society there are more people who use their welfare money to buy drugs instead of diapers and food for their children. When considering effective ways to cut the governments spending‚ each state should start requiring mandatory drug testing among all of the welfare recipients. Cutting welfare benefits to known drug abusers will allow the benefits to go to the people truly in need of help‚ lower the drug use in the poverty stricken communities
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Title Examining Different Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career Assessment Part A: Critically Evaluating an Argument Build your mindmap. Arts and Sciences (Advantage): Lots of flexibility in career choices: Logically Sound Arts and Sciences (Disadvantage): Leads to a career in food service - ’Do you want fries with that?’: Irrational Appeal Education (Advantage): The best way to make a difference in the world: Logically Sound Education (Disadvantage): Guaranteed low paying
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21st Century CYBERATTACKS – THE TOP SECURITY THREAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY Robert Kaplan makes a compelling argument in his book‚ “The Coming Anarchy‚” that global environmental and social factors such as resource depletion‚ overpopulation‚ crime‚ and tribalism are the most pressing national security issues in the 21st century. He cites numerous examples of crime‚ war‚ and destitution in failing states of West Africa as well as protracted conflicts in the Balkans‚ and Central Asia. However‚ the environmental
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innocent but are they truly as innocent as we see them? Is it truly okay to tell these lies? As much as the lies can seem to be having no value in telling they can be of help. They help people play by the rules of society such as politeness. Jennifer states‚ “ When a guest tells his hostess that an obviously lame party was ‘Terrific!’ he‚ as well as everyone within hearing range knows that he is lying”(207). This proves the point behind the lie is to be polite and not showing a true rudeness so‚ there
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our capacity to reason well and to recognize valid arguments? Can they affect a person ’s capacity to distinguish between fallacy‚ good argument and rationalization? What is the difference between a rational argument and a rationalization? Reasoning is known as the process of forming conclusions‚ judgments‚ and inferences from facts or premises ("_reasoning_"). Being able to reason is a trait any developed adult with a small background of education can possess therefore should be able to recognize
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