BURSALI Article Critique of “Arguments for a Harmfullness Tax” In the article‚ “Arguments for a Harmfulness Tax” Lester Grinspoon and James B.Bakalar argue that using drugs is similar like tobacco and alcohol. Using drugs would be taxed with respect to communal cost. Varieties of causing addiction drugs are detrimental and have bad effects. They portray the act that using drugs should be allowed and insurance service is necessary for drug users. Grinspoon and Bakalar claim three arguments offered
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Project Requirement Document Students’ Attendance Counter Supervised by‚ Dr. Yassine Salih ALJ Engineering Instrumentation I EGR 3306 SPRING 2011 I. Introduction As a student of Al Akhawayn University and where attendance is mandatory‚ we encounter every beginning of class a ten minutes loss due to attendance. As a matter of fact‚ it is the teacher’s duty to be aware of how many students is missing or if there is any absence. The purpose of our project is to
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Explain the argument for legalising euthanasia. (30 marks) The term ‘euthanasia’ derives from the Greek language meaning ‘a good death’. Euthanasia is the process in which a person who is suffering from a painful or crippling ailment or disability decides to end their own life‚ or a persons life being legally ended by another person. Currently‚ the laws in the UK make it illegal for a person to assist in allowing a person to commit suicide under the murder Act of 1965 and the Suicide Act 1971
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Explain Anselm’s ontological argument. The ontological argument was put forth at first as a prayer by the eleventh century monk and philosopher Anselm of Canterbury. In his Proslogion‚ which means discourse‚ he presented this argument as a prayer for believers to substantiate their belief in god. Anselm uses ‘a priori’ (which means before experience) reasoning‚ which conveys that it does not rely or depend on experience and so an argument of this sort is more plausible and likely to intrigue and
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Module 03: Group Position Paper: Affirmative Action Affirmative Action: Negative Team 1 Diversity in the Workplace Professor Linda Noeth Center for Distance Learning SUNY Empire State College Slavery in America can be traced all the way back to colonial times‚ or as historians have dated; 1619. Although slavery had technically been abolished by the late 1800’s‚ issues over race still remained prominent. Regulations such as “Jim Crow Laws”‚ that claimed
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a) Explain Aquinas Cosmological Argument The Cosmological Argument is a posteriori argument (knowledge gained after experience) which attempts to prove that there is a rational basis for the belief in God. This argument is synthetic as it uses senses and is distinctive as it uses evidence of the universe to prove that God exists. The argument attempts to prove that God exists by evaluating the scale and nature of the cosmos. In order for this argument to succeed it has to be inductive and produce
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Counter Radiation and the Greenhouse Effect As well as being warmed by shortwave radiation from the Sun‚ the Earth’s surface is significantly heated by the long wave radiation emitted by the atmosphere and absorbed by the ground. Let’s look at this in more detail. The energy flows between the surface‚ atmosphere‚ and space. Some of this radiation is reflected back to space‚ but much is absorbed‚ warming the surface. Meanwhile‚ the Earth’s surface emits long-wave radiation upwards. Some of
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8051 Project: Automatic Lighting and Visitor Counter Andrew Herzog Richard Baker December 13‚ 2007 CMPET 211 Executive Summary The objective of the project was to create a circuit with an 8051 microcontroller that sensed when an object passed through an infrared receiver’s receive path to automatically turn on lights and count how many times the receive path was blocked. Discussion To complete the project several smaller circuits were needed to be designed and constructed. The project
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day of the week for each pill. This label informs women of where they are in their menstruation cycle and can also show whether they have missed a day. Additionally‚ birth control is safer than other prescription drugs and should be sold over the counter because for one‚ it is not addictive. Buyers can not get hooked on taking oral contraceptives and the misuse of oral contraceptives will not result in overdose. Birth control does more than prevent
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Student industrial working experience scheme (SIWES) Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) is one of the industrial training fund(ITF) programmes. It was designed to give Nigerian students studying occupationally-related courses in higher institutions the experience that would supplement their theoretical learning. This paper attempts to examine the role of the university in the implementation of SIWES programme in Nigerian Universities. The
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