For many years‚ gay and lesbian couples faced hatred‚ discrimination‚ and lethal violence simply because of their sexual preference. Last year the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage‚ making it legal to marry regardless of sexual preference. For the first time in American History all citizens gay or straight‚ had a legal right to marry the person they loved most in the world. The modern day gay rights movement began in at the Stonewall Inn in New York City on June 28‚ 1969. The Stonewall
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While reading statistics on shooting and gun violence‚ I am flabbergasted. I am not ignorant to the fact that there is violence and a lot of it; however‚ I was not aware that 33‚880 people die from gun violence in one year. I was raised in a great environment growing up that was in a great part of town‚ which was safe. I did not have to worry about going outside to play and possibly getting shot wile I was outside. A lot of kids are not that luck. Every day on average‚ this is EVERY DAY‚ 48 children
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Motion: large social media companies make unfair use of users’ personal information Affirmative Team 1st SPEAKER Good morning/afternoon adjudicators‚ ladies and gentlemen. Today’s motion is large social media companies make unfair use of users’ personal information. To begin with‚ I will first define the word ‘fairness’. According to the Cambridge Dictionary‚ fairness is the quality of treating people equally or in a way that is right or reasonable. So equality is a crucial factor for fairness
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IS TIBET PART OF CHINA // for more than 700 years‚ the central government of china has continously exercised sovereignty over tibet and tibat has never been an independent state. No government of any country has ever recognized tibet as an independent state. As the government of tibet‚ china concluded several treaties with british and india touching on the status ‚ boundaries and access to tibet. Like for example the simla accord of 1914‚ in which interests of their several states on the continent
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According to The Huffington Post‚ 2 million children a year are victims of sex trafficking‚ with the age of 12 being the average age. The article explains that most of these children come from backgrounds of abuse‚ some trying to escape to a better life‚ they run away looking for safety and trying to find love. Some are kidnapped and forced into this life to survive. One problem is that sex trafficking is a very profitable industry‚ bringing in 32 billion in a single year across the world. The other
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AGAINSTTTT YOU BEGIN TO LOSE THE URGE TO STUDY AS NO BOARDS AND LESS PORTIONS. DUE TO GRADING AN AVERAGE STUDENT AS WELL AS A TOPPER WILL BE PLACED IN THE SAME RANK. It do not bring out the competitive spirit among students which help them score good marks. It does not separate students with high score from those with average skills. It may have lower down the illiteracy rate but had brought many other problems like tones of homework assignments‚projects‚etc. THE BIGGEST DISADVANTAGE OF CCE
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July 13‚ 2007 Thank you‚ ladies and gentlemen. Today our resolution is legalization of drugs does not damage society. We are on the negative group strongly against this resolution. Let’s look at the important points. The affirmative team had four points: personal behavior‚ price‚ safety and management. Their first point is personal behavior. They said that everyone has the right to choose his or her own lifestyle. It’s true. But one’s own choice should be based on social morality and within
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Pro: Child Labor The majority of people’s opinion on the idea of child labor is derived from the images in the media. They are only exposed to the horrible images of adolescents working very dangerous and degrading jobs and from this they are quick to side with the elimination of child labor. What many people are not aware of is the necessity for child labor in many developing countries. Our paper outlines the causes of child labor and the need for children to work in many countries‚ the unseen benefits
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1.This House would ban animal testing * 1.PIONTS * Animals have a right not to be harmed * ------------------------------------------------- Animal research necessitates significant harm to the animals involved * ------------------------------------------------- Research can be done effectively without experimenting on any living creature * ------------------------------------------------- Some groups of people have less capacity for suffering than most animals * -------------------------------------------------
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. They faced harassment even deadly violence for being solely themselves. This caused uproar against most LGBT’s worldwide. If we were to rewind history we would gain the knowledge of how the racial identity‚ gender‚ age‚ ethnicity or religion‚ of people back then were also underhandedly mistreated. In the nineteenth century African-Americans were not considered as people. Instead of people‚ the white men and women treated them as pieces of property. Even when slavery was abolished‚ African-American
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