Many people didn’t vote this election due to various reasons. Is this ok? I believe that voting is a right and people should care about it. it is also good in many ways and I will explain why. Voting can help make minimum wages higher‚ lower income inequality‚ it can better healthcare etc. Voting also allows the voter to feel some sense of control and power over his or her future. No matter what the outcome of the election people are still able to express themselves. Voting is a form of personal
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How do we achieve consensus and cooperation? And what of changes that we seemingly have no control over? It certainly seems to me that we should be utilizing our most compelling moral philosophy‚ reason and science to influence each other and policy‚ but people are not always swayed by those sorts of things. Most people are likely moved by how they feel or are made to feel by others. I think the evidence strongly suggests that we can progress‚ and that scientific innovation and moral reasoning allow
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Food is fundamental and essential for life. Our eating habits have become an important part of our daily life. Over the years‚ customs have changed and so did the way to taste and appreciate our food. Genetically modified food is based on using biotechnology to manipulate the food’s genetic code. GMO‚ which refers to ‘Genetically Modified Organisms’‚ are considered to be an innovation since it is way much faster to produce food‚ using GMO‚ and thus it may be the big solution for World Hunger
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I was hanging out after school with a couple of my friends just listening to music like any afternoon. I was getting kind of bored so I got on my phone and went on Instagram. While scrolling down through endless amounts of pictures I stumbled on a video that was about Donald Trump. The clip that I saw included Donald Trump and a mexican news reporter. SInce it wasn’t the full clip I decided I would watch the clip when I got home. It was too of an interesting video not to watch and I bet I would be
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In one of the recent happenings‚ a judge slammed a woman for the sole reason of spending sick mother’s money on junk food items. The elderly woman has been reported to be suffering from Dementia and the amount spent by her daughter has amounted to approximately £250 a month on "unnecessary food". According to Judge Denzil Lush‚ the divorcee often used to turn up at a nursing home with different types of junk food items such as pork pies‚ biscuits and mini sausage rolls. He further stated that the
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Death is heavy and weighs on the backs of us all. It looms over the shoulders of the unhappy‚ creeps under the beds of the ill‚ and swallows the elderly in their sleep. There is yet a man‚ to claim that tomorrow‚ his eyes will open‚ or will not close for an eternity. Our lives are but a book‚ waiting to be concluded‚ or shut mid sentence. As the writers of our own book‚ we have the right to know where‚ when and how the book ends. Are the lives of the ill worth any less than the unhappy or the elderly
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Who decides who is perfect‚ normal‚ and genetically acceptable? The argument of for Eugenics is a widely debated topic that has been going on since as early as 4th Century B.C.‚ when Plato suggested a state-run program to control mating in order to strengthen what Plato considered as the Guardian Class (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‚ 2014). Historically‚ Eugenics has been at the root of several movements to ensure a better human race‚ throughout a wide variety of cultures. How Eugenics is
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Allyson Dr. Will Curl Composition II May 15‚ 2013 Zoos should be Banned. Approximately 175 million people visit a zoo each year. That’s half of America’s population. Zoos are a huge tourist attraction because they allow families to spend a day out in the sun‚ looking at animals‚ and eating overpriced junk food. But what most people don’t know is that zoos are far more sinister than selling $5.00 bottles of water. Statistics show that in all zoos fifteen percent of animals die every year in
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It is certainly tempting to unthinkingly agree that it’s best for all students to study the same curriculum prior to more career focused training in college‚ but there are many reasons to support diversity in early education. National curriculums are by necessity unchallenging‚ uncustomized and sacrifice for conformity. The first task that a national curriculum fails to address is that of differing student ability. The large variation in general learning ability means that gifted students will
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Many adolescents are sexually active today. Whether it personal decision or being forced into it‚ teenagers are still involved. According to Sue Christensen and Ann Rosen‚ of those sexually active‚ only one in five use contraception (Williams). These teenagers who do not use contraception set their selves up for hardships in life. Being sexually active and using contraception as a teenager is a choice that may determine the rest of your life. Is “it” really worth it? One major outcome of those sexually
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