its only 0.5%. Jerry DeGroot‚ History professor at the University of St. Andrews‚ said "Funding NASA siphons money from other worthwhile‚ terrestrial programs such as helping the nation’s poor." and that "The time has come to pull the plug on meaningless gestures in space.". So in this paper‚ I will see if space exploration‚ NASA in particular‚ should be publicly funded.
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dispatched to the One Stop‚ 33 N. Main St. for an assault. Schuylkill County Communications (County)advised there was an unconscious female who was struck in the head with a bottle. County advised the actors were Bryce Beaver and Leah Clark‚ who had fled the area on foot. Officers arrived on the scene‚ the victim Julie Allen was inside the One Stop. Stamets spoke with Allen while I spoke with witnesses‚ Brian O’Connell Jaleesa Ortiz. O’Connell stated Allen had walked out of the One Stop and Beaver
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Crystal Merritt English1105 Steven McGinnis 29 November 2011 Increasing Foreign Aid When the average American guesses how much our government’s total budget is spent on foreign aid the common estimate is 25%. In reality it is less than 1% (Worthington). I strongly believe our foreign aid budget should increase immensely. Their legacy of starvation‚ drought‚ deadly disease‚ underdevelopment‚ corruption‚ desperate poverty and violence continues to hinder Africa. The nearly 700 million
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Factors For and Against Marijuana should be legalized in the United States. Reasons for legalization (ranked from strongest to weakest) 1. Medical benefits for terminal illnesses such as cancer. 2. Police and court resources would be freed to pursue more serious crimes. 3. The FDA could regulate the quality and safety of the drug. 4. This drug has fewer side effects that most currently legal narcotics. 5. Legalization would lower prices‚ thereby reducing crimes such as theft. 6
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The cosmological arguments are inductive arguments based on an ‘a posteriori’ premise‚ which‚ despite having been introduced many years ago‚ continue to be prevalent today. An early example of the argument is within ‘Timaeus’‚ in which Plato proposed the idea that anything that has been created must be created by a cause. These arguments are intended to prove the existence of the God of Classical Theism by explaining that God must be the first cause of the universe; the being setting the world into
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John Curley Rutgers‚ The State University of New Jersey 39 Biel Road New Brunswick‚ NJ 08901 (908-625-5186) Jcurley819@gmail.com March 6‚ 2012 Mayor R.T. Rybak 350 South 5th St. Minneapolis‚ MN 55415 Re: Stop public funding for construction of stadiums for professional sports teams Dear Mayor Rybak: Recently it was announced that the city of Minneapolis agreed to a deal with the Minnesota Vikings‚ a franchise in the National Football League‚ to help fund the construction of a new
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Chimeric research is when scientists inject human stem cells‚ into an animal embryo. For this reason‚ people and organizations want to ban this type of research because they believe that it will humanize and torture the animals. It may be true that it’s unethical and it goes against people’s morals‚ but it is a great medical advancement that could help save many lives. Furthermore‚ people should rethink their decision on trying to ban chimeric research. Therefore‚ the audience‚ organizations such
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americanus) to resist frost during extremely cold temperatures (Science‚ 2017). GMOs are a very controversial topic as some people are against it and believe man is trying to play “God” and interfere with nature while others are for it and believe that if we’re provided with the opportunity to ‘better’ a product or circumstance we should make use of it. Both arguments are valid as GMOs present us with both advantages and disadvantages in society today. Genetically
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I do not find any of the traditional proofs for God’s existence persuasive‚ and I will go over each argument one at a time to explain why I do not find them persuasive‚ starting with Anselm’s ontological argument‚ then Aquinas’ cosmological argument‚ and finally Paley’s teleological argument. First‚ Anselm’s ontological argument is not persuasive because the argument can be used to prove things that do not exist. The faulty logic is shown in Gaunilo’s Lost Island Objection because instead of putting
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undergoing voting from the House and Senate. Under DOMA‚ marriage is defined as a “union between one man and one woman as husband and wife and spouse of the opposite sex” (Pelts‚ 2014‚ p.238). In addition to the federal definition of marriage‚ DOMA also allows individual states to invalidate same-sex marriages performed in other states (Koppelman‚ 1997). In 2011‚
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