Marijuana and the Great Debate Cannabis or Marijuana‚ is the most popular illegal drug used recreationally today. It is derived from the flowering plant called cannabis and is also known by many other names such as pot‚ weed‚ hemp‚ and grass. Botanically‚ there are well over three hundred chemicals that derive from the cannabis plant. The main active ingredients of the drug are THC (tetrahydrocannabinol or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol)‚ and CBD (Cannabidiol). Of the cannabinoids‚ THC is the main
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Staff writer Daniel Wood argues in his article‚ “LAPD shooting reignites debate: Are police cameras effective?” that body cameras are not a reliable source for justifying crimes. Wood claims that there is much more factors considered in justifying events such as police brutality‚ and video footage is only one of the many. In other words‚ Woods addresses today’s controversies of police brutality on African Americans and criticizes body cameras as an imprudent way to justify police brutality. In
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Antonio Smith Jr Gun Control Debate Gun control is a hot button issue that boils over whenever acts of gun violence occur. Citizens‚ lawmakers and gun lobbyists have been debating the issue of gun control for more than a century‚ and there has yet to be a definitive answer. Proponents of gun control don’t believe that state and federal gun control acts do enough‚ and gun rights advocates believe that the laws go too far. Opponents of gun control laws argue that Americans have the right to bear
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Nature and nurture debate Nature is how you are naturally‚ it’s your genetic inheritance and biology and nurture is your environmental and socioeconomic issues. Based on the David reamer story‚ he was born a boy but brought up to be a girl; however this failed due to nature taking over. Although David was dressed as a girl and brought up as a girl he still wanted to play with boys toys. This shows that nature played a big role in his life. From the beginning when David was born he obviously didn’t
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THE HART-FULLER DEBATE It is important to consider‚ howbeit briefly‚ the academic exchanges between the proponents of legal positivism as represented by H.L.A. Hart and those of the natural law school represented by Lon Fuller. The gravamen of such academic discourse‚ usually tagged Hart-Fuller debate is to be found in the Harvard Law Review 1958. Curzon identifies the background of the debate as the atrocities committed by Germany during the 2nd World War. Under the National-Socialist regime
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The Structure-Agency Debate provides an understanding to the attitudes towards police work shown by Captain Louis de Koster as well as his actions in the extract from Altbeker’s (2005) The Dirty Work of Democracy. This short essay will depict how I understood structure and agency to be taking place in de Koster’s context. Structure is the one extreme position in the Structure-Agency Debate whereby it is believed that a person is shaped by different elements of society such as social institutions
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A presidential debate is an honest and collaborative effort to explore issues however‚ it is a competition. Although each candidate is working towards the main goal‚ a better nation‚ they are not working together to achieve it. Furthermore‚ each candidate is seeking the truth‚ yet is trying to win the election. There are a handful of occurrences in the 2008 McCain and Obama debate where each candidate points out the past mistakes of the opposing man‚ instead of focusing on how to repair the fault
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and Douglas Debates The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln‚ the republican candidate‚ and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas‚ a Democratic Party candidate‚ for a seat in the United States Senate. During the time period of the debates‚ Senators were elected by state legislators; therefore Lincoln and Douglas were competing for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois Legislature. The main issue for the debates was overwhelmingly
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After watching tonight’s GOP debate‚ I am slightly shocked that the topic that consumed the majority of the debate was foreign terrorism. Although this is obviously a serious issue‚ so is domestic terrorism‚ such as the planned parenthood shootings‚ school shootings‚ church shootings‚ and movie theater shootings. The main focus of the debate was keeping "bad guys" out of the United States‚ but what I think the candidates failed to acknowledge and realize is that some white‚ male‚ anglo-saxon United
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Taking a Stand Taking a Stand Nursing profession is constantly changing with the development of new technologies that lead to a new level of responsibility. The new level of responsibility challenges nurses torespond to different and difficultsituations in the health care industry‚ especially in protecting the human right‚ dignity of patients and their safety. Nurses hold adistinctive position as patient advocates‚ regardless of their respective areas of practice; either in a home health‚ clinic
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