Kimberly Barros 4/13/15 English 101 Prof. Antine Topic Sentence: Like alcohol in the 1920s‚ marijuana should be legalized because doing so would not only reduce crime‚ but make the substance more reliable and safer and would generate tax dollars. Background/History: Why is marijuana illegal? Why is it legal in some states and not in others? Marijuana became widely criminalized in 1937 when congress passed the “Marijuana Tax Act” 1 as a result of a national propaganda campaign against the substance
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counterargument for opposing views 20 x emotionally triggering words (at least) 1 x statement to challenge the audience Method: 1) Have a clear idea in your head of your opinion on the subject before you proceed in writing the speech. 2) Research to find examples to justify your opinion. An easy way to do this to use the internet‚ media‚ books (such as an encyclopaedia)‚ magazines‚ newspapers or any other source. 3) Begin to plan your speech. Think of some emotive and descriptive words
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Joseph Stalin’s Genocide: 50 Million Deaths From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps (“Gulag”). Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators because of his secret police and the Gulags. During a series of interviews in 1996‚ a Soviet veteran who lived in Minsk claimed to have seen a U.S. POW in May or June 1953. The POW was a Korean War F-86D pilot whose plane had been
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all crises were blamed on the Tutsi. In April‚ 1994‚ Juvenal Habyarimana died when his plane was shot down by a rocket. Many people believed it to be the doing Paul Kagame‚ the previous president and Tutsi rebel group leader. Just hours later‚ the genocide broke out. Hutu were calling out to each other and encouraging other Hutu to kill their Tutsi neighbors. Some Hutu extremists bribed others by telling them they could claim the land and possessions of the Tutsi they
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village during the famine‚ in the war years – 135 souls” (Kuryliw‚ p. 2). This is how Antonina Meleshchenko remembers the Holodomor‚ or the Ukrainian genocide famine. This famine took place between 1932 and 1933 in a country in Europe called Ukraine. Although many survivors wish not to remember‚ this event needs to be recognized. The Ukrainian genocide famine killed hundreds of thousands of people; this tragic incident occurred because Stalin wanted to convert the world to communism. After 250
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The perpetrators of the genocide were the Young Turks. They were progressives that motivated by Turkish nationalism. Military officers established the Young Turk Movement was against Sultan Abdul-Hamid II’s absolutist rule. The Young Turks were seeking change to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Thus‚ they overthrew the sultan’s rule when the Ottoman armies in European Turkey began to espouse them. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP)‚ formed in 1895‚ aligned itself with the Young Turks in
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The words Genocide and the Holocaust both describe a grand massacre done with the intention of exterminating an entire race or people. Genocide is more specifically the “systematic destruction of a certain people based on their race‚ religion‚ or citizenship.” (Kumar‚ 2018) This destruction can take place by isolating people‚ enforcing birth control on women‚ or trying to ‘tame a bunch of savages’. Holocaust is originally a Greek word‚ meaning‚ ‘whole burnt.’ Holocaust was first used to describe
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“Research proposal on Factors Influencing Bangladeshi Undergraduate University Student’s Attitude toward Facebook” “Research proposal on Factors Influencing Bangladeshi Undergraduate University Student’s Attitude toward Facebook” Submitted to:- G. M. Shafayet Ullah Lecturer of Southeast University School of Business Studies Submitted by:- Southeast University
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During the Armenian genocide there was a loss of 1‚500‚000 lives. By 1923‚ the entire landmass of Asia minor and historic Armenia had been erased or removed completely of its population of Armenians. The amount of lives loss left a devastating mark on the Armenian culture‚ and almost completely demolished the Armenian culture‚ forever. Although the Turkish government kept the genocide of the Armenians secret from the rest of the world‚ the genocide was still a result of an unethical society because
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Stenden University of Applied Sciences Tourism Research Project Report Local products as part of the tourism product of a region Table of contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Background The research that is conducted within this module‚ namely Tourism Research Project‚ is about local products as part of the tourism product of the region Veenland/Emsland. Veenland/Emsland is a region that is located in the west of Lower Saxony as well as in the southeast
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