Against the Lottery – Should it be banned? Back in the 1930s and the 1940s when most of the population was poor‚ people had no source of income and wondered how to take care of themselves and their families‚ the lottery became a popular trend. Officially‚ the first modern government run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934 (encyclopedia). The odds of winning are 1 in 176‚000‚000 (Humphries). If you are lucky enough then you can strike big and win prizes up to $10‚000‚000. It can help
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Kidd 1 Joanne Sanchez‚ Ph.D. A-NCCT 3330.05: Summary Paper 9 February 2011 Summary on: Against the Odds‚ and Against the Common Good In her essay‚ “Against the Odds‚ and Against the Common Good‚” Gloria Jimenez evaluates the debate for state-run lotteries and surmises that state representatives‚ having citizens’ welfare in mind‚ should not pass bills urging them to gamble.
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The Plot Against People In his essay‚ Baker asserts that inanimate objects want to resist man and eventually defeat him. First‚ there are objects that breakdown. Cars are the biggest offenders‚ they only breakdown when it is the most inconvenient time for man‚ in a busy intersection during rush hour or in the middle of a family trip. The furnaces seem to only break during the worst winter storm of the season. Next the objects that can’t breakdown‚ these objects have to get lost. Lost pliers can real
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Persuasive Essay Against Lower Drinking Age Some people think that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. I personally don’t think it’s a good idea. Alcohol is a depressant meaning it slows down brain function. Most people don’t know that alcohol is a drug just like methamptamine and marijuana the only difference is that alcohol is legal in the U.S. for anyone 21 and over. Each year‚ approximately 5‚000 people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking. This includes 1‚900 car
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decided by the women that want to child. A definition of pro-choice is “advocating a woman’s right to control her own body (especially her right to an induced abortion)”. It’s not murder since the fetus is not fully human so it’s not really defiance against God. It should be the woman’s choice because it their body. Many of the women don’t want to suffer the pain and the emotional trauma of the pregnancy when they have an abortion and labor just to give it up so they should allow woman’s to choice there
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Writing Explanation: Against Uniforms Who actually likes uniforms? I’m sure some people like them and some people don’t. There are many advantages‚ but there are also many disadvantages. I‚ for one‚ do not like uniforms at all. We can all agree that having uniforms takes away a child’s individualism and creativity. Educators and sociology experts argue that forcing children to wear identical uniforms takes away their self-expression. Experts also agree that students who are forced to wear uniforms
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uncommon for teachers to ask their students to “dig deeper” into the text that they are reading. In fact‚ every high school English course that I took part in involved interpreting the texts the way that I saw it. After reading Poetics by Aristotle and Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag‚ I now realize that it is not always important to find the hidden meaning of texts. As a student‚ it is necessary to look closely at the texts‚ however it is not always necessary to find incantations while interpreting
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Against plastic surgery •It’s the fact that it promotes a continuing descent into all things vain. Rather than accepting their perceived (important keyword) flaws‚ growing‚ and developing character‚ they take a chance going under the knife. Plastic surgery rarely produces the desired results and creates more unhealthy obsession with things that would be relatively trivial in a mentally healthy person with proper priorities. Even if‚ by some miracle‚ someone is completely happy with their surgery
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“#ShoutYourAbortion” An essay against Pro-Choice As abortion continues to become a widely spread controversial issue around the world‚ people have begun to openly choose their side of the infamous debate. Abortion or the early termination of a birth has grasped the minds and hearts of many people around the world since The Supreme Court declared the act legal four decades ago. There are many various ways people have attempted to either argue
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Against School John Taylor Gatto Against School is an article that represents the writer’s view and his experience in the American schooling system .This articles were written by John Taylor Gatto. He is an American teacher who spends thirty years in good and bad schools in Manhattan. He found out that boredom was his specialty as teacher. Also he was not the only one who was bored as an instructor and if we ask the teachers about their boredom they will blame kids. Whereas kids blame
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