Should the burqa be banned? Founding father‚ Patrick Henry exclaimed‚ “…give me liberty or give me death” in a speech to fellow Virginia colonials in 1775. His words are just as pertinent now as they ever were. Countless news stories over the past year about France and other European countries outlawing burqas in public have left me conflicted. The burqa is a long‚ head to toe garment worn by many Muslim women in public. These bans also include the niqab‚ which covers the face‚ and is part
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Cigarettes should be banned According to The New York Times‚ Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. ()Around 400‚000 people die each year from smoking and that does not include the 50‚000 who die from exposure to secondhand smoke or the 8.6 million whose illnesses are caused by smoking. Smoking is harmful to the environment‚ the user and everyone around them and should be banned. Do people not care about the warning labels on cigarette boxes that read; Smoking
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Should Singlish be banned? Singlish has become the word of the tongue in Singapore. Walk along any street in Singapore‚ it is inevitable that you will hear someone speaking Singlish. Singlish‚ being one local feature of Singapore‚ is a language compromising of English-based language mixed with Chinese dialects as well was a few Malay. It has unmistakably brought some negative impacts on the process of speaking Standard English in Singapore‚ however‚ I do not think banning it is necessary now.
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Since the first civil school was created‚ there was always been a sense of dress code imprinted in the school rules. “The first recorded use of standardized dress in education may have been in England in 1222‚ when the Archbishop of Canterbury mandated that students wear a robe-like outfit called the ‘cappa clausa.’” (Scott) Even in today’s world there is a dress code fit towards the modern day standard. However‚ with the new fashion trends‚ school dress codes seem to be ruling on the unfair side
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About twelve years ago‚ my aunt and uncle owned two dogs of the pit bull breed. These dogs might as well have been their kids; they even signed our Christmas cards every year. In one day‚ everything they knew had disappeared. A team of police officers were supposed to raid the house next door for possession of drugs‚ but instead‚ raided my aunt and uncle’s house. Their two dogs were lying on the couch when the cops broke in the door. Because of the dog’s breed‚ the cops automatically opened fire
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PROS & CONS OF SINGLE-SEX SCHOOL ON STUDENTS Pros & Cons of Single-Sex School on Students INTRODUCTION Single-sex school has not been a stranger to us even from back in those old days. It practically shows how gender differences and effects caused by it had largely impacted on the society. People learnt how the attraction between Adam and Eve kind brings a lot of many things‚ including the separation of these two kinds through - one of the most important thing to the society‚ the education
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More than 90% of high school teens are sleep deprived due to the start time of school (Gregoire‚ 2015). School start times need to change to at least one hour later. Later start times would result in a dramatically better student health‚ performance‚ and attendance. First and foremost‚ the health of students would increase if schools started later. Students will have more time to eat a healthy breakfast‚ which is the most important meal of the day (“5 Pros and Cons of Later School Start Times‚” 2017)
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catches far exceeded the sustainable limit for whale stocks. In the late 1930s more than 50‚000 whales were killed annually[2] and by the middle of the century whale stocks were not being replenished. In 1986 the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling so that stocks might recover. Some people may say that Japan is only killing whales because of so called scientific research or their culture. However‚ one does not need to kill over 900 whales for scientific research. As for
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Do you think pit bulls should be banned as a pet. No‚ they should not because they are a good pet‚ were a popular dog‚ and it is a very good guard dog. So those are some of the reasons they should not be banned. They are a good pet because they listen‚ they won’t chew you stuff up. Also if you train them very good then they might be the best dog in the world. On the other hand if you don’t train it‚ it might chew all of your things up and you won’t have nice things‚ and everybody wants nice things
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version. In the book ‘Huckleberry Finn’ the publishing company decided that the racial slurs and terms that are now seen as racist and un-politically correct‚ should be removed so that the school boards could permit students to read them. In these books they removed racial slurs such as ‘negro’ and changed them into ‘slave’. This should not be done to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’‚ because the term ‘Slave’ used in addressing an African American‚ would be just as if you were to call someone who is Caucasian
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