Constructing the Con Speech I. Introduction • In 2011‚ the Supreme Court rightfully ruled against a law that wanted to make it illegal for minors to purchase violent video games on the claims that these types of game cause violent behavior. • The court over ruled it stating that it was unconstitutional violating both the 1st and the 14th amendments. My opponent wants to take this law even further by banning the use of these games to any minor under the age of 18‚ however I believe
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acknowledged in the copy and the copy is used for educational‚ not-for-profit purposes. PREDICTING VIOLENT CRIME USING URBAN AND SUBURBAN DENSITIES Brian Christens1 & Paul W. Speer Vanderbilt University ABSTRACT: Violent crime is often studied with individual level variables‚ using population characteristics as predictors. This study attempts to predict an additional amount of the variability in violent crime using an environmental variable—population density—in a single U.S. city. Data aggregated
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I have grown as a student this year by going to G3 to volunteer to help students with their homework and reading to them. Some of the goals that I have for my freshmen year is to pass 9th grade with a high G.P.A‚ not fail any of my classes‚ try to stay on track with my reading points and turn in all my homework and classwork on time. I will keep up with my reading points by reading 1-2 hours at home and reading at school when I can..Some other goals that i have to complete outside of school
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average school or do you think of the tragic‚ mass murders that took place by gunmen? School shootings have started to increase more and more over the last decade‚ this also rising in colleges across the country. The question has been posed “Should students be allowed to carry a gun on campus?”. As the Constitution states in the Second Amendment‚ we as Americans‚ should have the God given right to have a gun to protect themselves from danger. Today’s society is willing to put people’s rights aside to
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I have always felt strongly about animal rights‚ and cruelty to animals‚ so I decided to do my paper on something less talked about and often avoided‚ which is animal vivisection in other words animal testing. Animal testing‚ also known as animal experiments is the act of using non-human animals in research‚ development projects or scientific experiments. Statistics reveal that‚ each year millions of animals such as dogs‚ cats‚ rats‚ mice‚ ferrets‚ hamsters and monkeys experience physical and mental
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Violent Video Games Might Be to Blame for Violent Behavior Is Media Violence a Problem?‚ 2010 ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Mark and Keisha Hoerrner‚ "Video Game Violence‚" Children’s Voice‚ vol. 15‚ January/February 2006. Copyright © 2006 Child Welfare League of America. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced by permission. Mark Hoerrner is a writer and the author of several articles on the media’s effect on children. Keisha Hoerrner is department
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Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is about a 15 year old girl named Connie. Connie is the dark blond haired girl who catches all the attention and knows she looks good. The story is somewhat journalistic in the sense that there are few extreme stylistic flourishes or complicated sentence structures. Oates’s spare style allows the images in the story to stand out in realistic coherence‚ in a way that makes one feel they have some unexplainable importance. “There’s your sister
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Some of the greatest revolutions of change have been the product of peaceful protest. Peaceful resistance impacts society in a positive manner by showing participation by the people and not indifference or apathy. It encourages the changing of ideas and not the destruction of them. Violence is an easier manner in which to get your point across but it does not last and endangers everyone. It creates a strong resistance against that idea‚ and only encourages more bloodshed as the victim becomes the
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Should a student have a girlfriend or a boyfriend at university? It is quite common seen that nowadays there are many more couples walking shoulder by shoulder on campus. Some people hold firm to their belief that the girlfriend – boyfriend relationship at university should not be acceptable because of its bad effect on students’ studies. Nonetheless‚ I take a different view that the effect may be positive or negative depending on your way to balance the relationship and the school work
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Eng 095 1 08-24-10 Reading And Writing Autobiography Going Back To School After Fifty It has been so long since I have been in a classroom environment that it is a bit intimidating and
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