affirmative action‚ and you’re looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana‚ no need for quotas‚ because really‚ who’s gonna wanna work?” Although Stewart’s intent is to shed some laughter on this controversial subject‚ he brings up a valid point; if marijuana is legalized‚ how will the behavior of the population be altered? The mental health and social risks we take in regards to legalizing marijuana are much too large for our country to take at the point in time. Marijuana usage is known to impair the brain
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The conversation of immigration has been controversial in America for many‚ many years. Discussions regarding immigrants generally begin with an un-educated listener and perhaps even a speaker who is un-aware of the facts surrounding immigration. Basic topics of immigration are often misleading with the assumption of the term immigrant referring to an “illegal alien‚” however that is not as certain as many may believe. Immigration is legal and illegal‚ as well as beneficial and detrimental to Americans
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Jane Eyre By: Charlotte Brontë Every topic in life can be portrayed as a controversial issue. There always have been two sides to every discussion and there always will be two sides. In the novel Jane Eyre‚ feminism is portrayed as the main controversial issue. In the early 19th century‚ women lived in a world that measures the likelihood of their success by the degree of their “marriageability”‚ which would have included their family connections‚ economic status and beauty. Women were also subject
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With today’s society being much more open and accepting about many different topics‚ the material content used as entertainment in many comedies is becoming more and more controversial. Popular television shows such as Absolutely Fabulous‚ Family Guy and American Dad! are consistently proving that jokes focusing on risqué topics such as abortion‚ religion‚ alcohol and drug abuse‚ sexism‚ racism and even the subject of disabilities are more entertaining and therefore‚ despite some audiences watching
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For the past decade‚ the regulation and legalization of recreational marijuana has been a controversial topic in the United States‚ provoking numerous debates among politicians and policy makers. Marijuana‚ according to “Marijuana Legalization and Regulation”‚ has been legalized in five states that have changed their laws to allow small amounts of marijuana: Colorado‚ Washington‚ Oregon‚ Alaska‚ and Washington D.C. The legalization of the drug across all 50 states is becoming more popular than ever
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Jacob Cecil’s paper‚ who is a BYU-Idaho student majoring in social work talks about controversial topic on the legalization of marijuana. He focuses in on few core topics that heavily impact individual’s views on this topic. The one fiery debate that he goes into how it’s surfaced again is the prohibition of marijuana‚ then he fires into the effects on the body mentally and physically. Then dives into the medical marijuana benefits‚ the effects on our society‚ and goes right into the impact on our economy
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Abortion has been one the most controversial issues in the United States and has produced a public‚ political‚ and moral divide amongst citizens. There are three conflicting views concerning abortion where some citizens feel that abortion should be illegal‚ some feel as if it should be regulated‚ and others feel as though it should be legal and freely accessible. When discussing abortion‚ society tends to correlate the issue with the concept of deciding when life actually begins. This aspect is a
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The issue on legalizing marijuana is a very controversial topic in the U.S. and all around the world. This is an issue for the fact that some people are being denied medical treatments just because marijuana has been illegal and misunderstood for so long. For as long as anyone can remember medical and legal marijuana has been seen in the negative side of the news and bad opinions by the general population. In recent years people‚ local governments‚ and state governments in the United States have
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Why are LGBT rights controversial? LGBT rights are the rights for lesbian‚ gay‚ bi-sexual and transgender people to have and enjoy the constitutional rights of equality‚ privacy and personal autonomy‚ and freedom of expression and association (aclu.org). Some rights fought to be considered are the rights for men who have sex with men to be able to donate‚ LGBT adoption‚ government recognition or same sex marriages in order for spouses to receive the shared benefits and many other rights. The rights
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prevent further suffering from their own physical pain or suffering of loved ones that see the patient decaying everyday. Euthanasia is the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or an irreversible coma. The controversial topic of euthanasia is highly debated throughout the globe on a variety of different levels. The best
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