www.wwf.org.uk Illegal Wildlife Trade By: Elianny Rodriguez Hypothesis ▪ The illegal wildlife trade is decreasing biodiversity in ecosystems and pushing rare species toward extinction. www.usatoday.com Wildlife trade http://worldwildlife.o rg/ A study released in 2013 found that illegal trade in wildlife is the forth largest illegal trade and was valued at over $19 billion per year. ▪ It is known that the trade is used to finance drug and arms trade as well. ▪ In 2011 23 metric tons of
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In 2016 alone there were over 15‚000 gun related deaths in the United States. Over half these deaths were violent deaths (murder‚ mass shootings‚ etc.) If this doesn’t prove that America has a gun problem‚ I don’t know what will. The debate over gun control versus gun rights has been raging for years. Gun control activists have been battling congress for years now‚ but the second amendment makes congressmen and women hesitant to pass any laws that limit gun rights. I believe that America needs to
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writing to you concerning the recent legislation regarding allowing illegal immigrants to be given amnesty and allowed to apply for work permits and‚ after two years‚ being granted citizenship. This troubles me greatly‚ especially with our unemployment rate being as high as it currently is. This would make it much more difficult for those searching for employment as there would be much more competition. Secondly‚ if an illegal immigrant is allowed to become a U.S. citizen that easily‚ this would
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Argumentative Essay against Gun Control Since 1980‚ forty-four states have passed laws allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons outside their homes for personal protection. (Five additional states had these laws before 1980. Illinois is the sole holdout.) A federal ban on the possession‚ transfer‚ or manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons‚ passed in 1994‚ was allowed to expire in 2004. In 2005‚ Florida passed the Stand Your Ground law‚ an extension of the so-called castle doctrine
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are many effects and Consequences of Gun Control. The right for of all Americans to bear arms is a right even the Founding Fathers held to equal importance as the Constitution itself. Whether or not gun control laws work‚ the fact of the matter is that these kind of laws directly violate this right and therefore should not even be under consideration. Even if that issue is overlooked‚ gun control advocates state that in order to reduce firearm related violence‚ gun control laws must be implemented to
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There are a lot of legal and illegal immigrants from all over the world in the united states of America. But the question is: should we allow illegal people to stay? First of all I’d like to discuss how people enter the USA. It’s easy to cross the USA’s border legally. Some people come to visit with tourist visas‚ student visas‚ some of them with work and study visas‚ but majority of them decide to overstay their visas and they become illegal immigrants. The drawbacks are:
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Sveda Mr. Dickey English 1551 20 February 2013 Gun Control Issues Gun Control is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. Although gun control has always been a sensitive topic‚ the recent uprisings in gun related crimes have made it a nearly impossible issue for citizens to agree on. Over the past decade‚ crimes involving the use of firearms have been very erratic. Only recently have the crimes become more severe and consistent. Guns instill fear in people everywhere because of how
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the students I asked “if you had the power to make an act that is now illegal into a legal act what would that act be?” and the versa “what legal act would you make illegal?” All their answers revolved either around drugs or subjects like the death penalty‚ abortion. In this paper I will further discuss my finding on the responses I received from both questions. When I had students first address the question of “which illegal act would they make legal?” Almost all of them wanted to legalize the
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Illegal immigration is a huge topic of contention in the United States today. Many people fearing for their lives tend to cross into our borders without legal documentation. They are willing to take their chances. Most of them come over from Mexico into Arizona‚ Texas‚ New Mexico and California. Immigrants from South and Central America use Mexico as their way into the U.S. Their biggest problem is what happens after they cross the border. The current event chosen is an article written about an
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Illegal immigrants entering the United States from other countries has played a major impact on the quality of life of our society. The majority of Americans believe there are no benefits to United States citizens by having illegal immigrants remain in this country. Much of the funding that would typically go to tax paying citizens is now being directed to programs for illegal immigrants‚ which do not make enough money to financially support themselves and their families. To date‚ the largest costs
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