controversial topics in the world. Some specific drugs are more frowned upon such as Marijuana. Marijuana is a plant in which its official name is “Cannabis”. Over the years this plant has become increasingly popular to people who don’t usually convert to traditional methods to relieve the stress of a hard day. “The National Drug Threat Assessment states that over 25.8 million individuals 12 years of age and older have smoked marijuana at least once in their life.” The rate has remained the same since 2008
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Kimberly Rejouis Ms Heine IB Theory of Knowledge (2) 30 November 2011 Gay Marriage… Legalize It? Breaking news in New York… Another riot has broken out today at Central Park when a groups or Christians protested the passing of gay marriage laws. All was peaceful‚ until an opposing group of homosexuals and homosexual/bisexual supporters noticed the protest and began to preach to the same crowd of the beauty of homosexuality and its ability of marriage. Then the chaos began. Situations like this
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Persuasive Essay Many movies‚ television shows‚ music songs‚ and video games are filled with violence: murder scenes‚ nonstop profanity‚ rape and torture scenarios. By placing scenes like these in the movies for the children and teenagers to see‚ the media is causing them to become more violent than it already is. What has our society come to these days? Everywhere we look‚ violence is present; in the streets‚ back alleys‚ schools‚ and even at home. Even if one might be a pacifist‚ violence will
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Paige McFarland Professor Rock Neelly ENG 102 10 April 2013 Marijuana What is Marijuana? Marijuana is often called pot‚ grass‚ reefer‚ weed‚ herb‚ Mary Jane‚ or MJ. Marijuana is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried‚ shredded leaves‚ stems‚ seeds‚ and flowers of Cannabis sativa. What is Cannabis? Cannabis comes from the cannabis plant (cannabis sativa). It grows wild in many of the tropical and temperate areas of the world. It can be grown in almost any climate. The main ingredient in cannabis
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Cons on marijuana use In this essay I will be talking about the cons of marijuana use I will give examples and reasons why it shouldn’t be used or legalized in the country. Some examples of why it shouldn’t be legalized is because some specialist say that its gateway to use of other drugs another thing is that children or little kids can get their hands on marijuana and the last thing I’m going to explain why marijuana is bad is the type of stuff that marijuana has in it all of this will be explained
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Persuasive Essay “Shame” by Dick Gregory is a story about a young boy (Richard) who got humiliated as a kid trying to impress a girl at his school. He wanted to be like other kids at his school‚ but he couldn’t because he was poor. “Thank You‚ Ma’am” by Langston Hughes is a story about a little boy (Roger) who thought he had to steal his way through life until he met a large lady (Luella Bates) he tried to steal from changed his life. While the two characters are different in that they have
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Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. This year‚ over 1.2 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer and about 560‚000 will die from it. The rates have doubled in less than forty years. In my opinion‚ cancer is totally preventable. This may be a drastic statement but I believe the facts will prove it is true. In 1952‚ Dr. Ernest Krebs proposed a theory that cancer was a deficiency disease‚ similar to scurvy. His theory was that the cause of the disease was the lack
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Why is marijuana so taboo in our society? They’re numerous slang terms for marijuana that vary from town to town and from community to community. Some often used names are: “cannabis‚” “pot‚” “grass‚” “herb‚” “weed‚” “Mary Jane‚” “reefer‚” “green‚” “chronic‚” ”ganga‚” and all these would be adverse to use in a regular daily conversation‚ but why? Why is marijuana still a huge taboo in our society? After all many famous intellectuals are in favor of the legalization of marijuana. For instance
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Persuasive essay How did Porfirio Diaz help the economy grow and modernized the country? Porfirio Diaz was known as a dictator for many years‚ but what most people don’t know is that he made great progress in the economy‚ politics‚ and modernized the country. He lasted more or less 30 years in power. He brought a lot of technology and industry development to Mexico. This helped Mexico’s economy. This was important because Mexico faced many problems in that time. Some problems were that there was
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‘‘ I will make America great again!’’‚ replies from Donald Trump. He often says this meme everywhere he can find Americans. Trying to get American civilians to vote for him. Many people favouring Donald Trump don’t really know how bad his campaigns are. A lot of people think he will be the next Adolf Hitler. So my writing is to prove if Donald Trump resembles to Adolf Hitler. These are some of Donald Trump’s campaigns. His campaigns are very similar to Adolf Hitler’s. He was the leader of his party
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