We Should Ban Home-Schooling Good evening adjudicator‚ audience and fellow debaters. I am the first speaker for the affirmative team and tonight we are here to debate on whether home-schooling should be banned or not. In Australia‚ home-schooling is defined as learning outside of the public or private school environment. As the affirmative team‚ we strongly believe we should ban‚ meaning not allow‚ home-schooling in Australia. I‚ as the first speaker‚ will present my arguments on how home-schooling
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ authored by Mark Twain is a story of a young runaway boy who develops a close bond with an escaping slave as they travel down the Mississippi River together. However this exciting‚ adventurous story of two boys caused a huge controversy: as it pushed the idea of authority‚ made a joke of religion‚ condemns racial slurs‚ and presents insulting language. This has sparked attention from the media more than a century after being published and is causing an outrage
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Should smoking be banned in public areas? In recent decades‚ if smoking should be banned in public occasion has sparked a great deal of controversies. The term ‘public areas’ refers to the facilities or occasions which involving people in general and normally are provided by government. This essay will argue that smoking should be banned in public for the following reasons: the smoke produced by the combustions of tobacco will lead to the passive smoking‚ the bad impression and effects to adolescents
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The issue of whether people‚ sport organisations such as the IOC (International Olympic Committee)‚ should ban drug cheats for life has been extensively discussed and debated. This argument is important because of the fundamental and social issues that come with banning athletes affect their lives. Several different arguments have been put forward to support and disapprove this topic. This essay will look at arguments that support the banning of drug cheats for life from many different types of sports
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their way into our kitchens. GM foods are designed for greater resistance to viruses and pests‚ higher nutritional value and longer shelf life. However‚ their safety‚ potential risks and ethical concerns are still being debated. So‚ should genetically modified crops be banned or not? Proponents of GM foods ensure that these foods are safe for human consumption‚ but critics argue that their effects have not been studied long enough. First argument for banning GM foods is that it badly affects our health
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where no one but him may be affected. Like my great uncle in the past‚ many smokers think they could do whatever they want because it is their body‚ but to me‚ their right ends where my health begins. I believe that smoking in public places should be banned at a federal level because even the smallest wisp of smoke can do a lot of damage to the people around them and the environment. Smoking has been proven to have many deadly effects on humans and the environment that it would make sense to ban
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Omar shaker Laura Wilkinson 07/08/2013 Saudi Arabia And America When you talk or hear about Saudi Arabia and America‚ you know they are talking about the most important two countries in the world. When I graduated from high school in my country Saudi Arabia I was not thinking about to study out of the country. I applied for King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah I have been there for just one month until my brother asked me to go to United State of America. I had no idea what are
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Why whale hunting should be banned. Whale hunting or whaling is hunting whales for commercial use‚ to get oil‚ food‚ or be used for scientific studies. Whaling has been going on for thousands of years‚ originally whales where killed for food but more recently they have been hunted for more industrial purposes like the liver for oil or using whale teeth for buttons and jewellery. Whale oil is even can even be used for alcohol‚ soap and even lipstick. After World War 2‚ Japan had a shortage of food
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When we think of beauty pageants we tend to think of the society’s idea of perfect little girls competing to see who the judges think is the most beautiful. Also‚ we think of crazy moms who push their children too hard and will do anything so that their child will win. All of this is true but there are more issues with beauty pageants‚ some that are more concerning. Beauty pageants are judged based on physical appearance‚ yet haven’t we always been told not to judge based on looks? They aren’t healthy
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To Kill a Mockingbird has widely been criticized for the themes and language used in the book‚ but many believe it should still be read. Some want to ban To Kill a Mockingbird because of the racism‚ but the book actually denounces racism and prejudice. An example of this is when Atticus tells Scout that he hopes he can get his kids through the case without them "catching Maycomb’s usual disease"‚ implying that Maycomb’s people are overcome with racism. Also‚ the book shows us both sides of racism
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