and in that election‚ he won both the popular vote and the electoral vote. In that election he was running against three other people‚ Henry Clay‚ William Crawford and John Quincy Adams. In the constitution it says that the president must win the majority of electoral votes and even though Jackson won the most electoral votes he did not get the majority and in that case the election went to the house of representatives and they chose the president by vote. Henry clay happened to be the speaker of the
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Should School Start Later? Have you ever woken up feeling groggy and not wanting to go to school or do anything at all? As a result‚ many students go to school late or do not academically progress and participate in class. According to the Scholastic Scope article “Should School Start Later?” by Justin O’Neil and the article “Sleepy Teens: High School Should Start Later in the Morning” by Mark Fischetti‚ many schools are considering starting school later to help students succeed academically. Students
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learn? Well it should be gender-separation in classes can improve multiple different subjects. Schools should be gender-separated because of brain development‚ learning techniques and social reasons. Schools should be gender-separated because of how the brain develops . Boys and girls brains develop differently. Boys are better at math than girls because girls don’t receive daily surges of testosterone but surges of estrogen a couple days a month which means girls should get extra help in
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Should Scientists Reverse Aging The ultimate goal of biology is to survive. Unfortunately everything dies from the smallest bacteria to the largest whale. Some scientists have recently begun to research if there is any way humanity can slow down or stop aging by testing animals and maybe even ourselves. Even if humans can stop aging there are many social‚ ethical‚ and economical issues that must be overcome before humanity can take the risk of stopping aging. Scientists should continue to break
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Guns have affected millions of people in the United States ever since the second amendment was put in place. With just a pull of a trigger you can affect someone’s life exponentially. There is a need for stronger gun control regulations and laws to ensure that these guns aren’t ending up in the wrong hands and costing peoples lives. I believe that regulating guns and closely monitoring who is obtaining these guns would benefit the problem of gun violence. Throughout time the United States has had
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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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involves guns every year. People are using them for hunting‚ target shooting‚ self-defense‚ and they use it for murder. The number of times a murder happens each year by somebody using a gun is pretty big. Many people are wanting to have guns banned or have them only for self-defense. It is a big problem for people‚ because they are just out on the street or in a store and the next thing they would get shot and killed. I think that if guns were to be banned‚ they should just ban pistol and semi-automatic
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and unusual punishment‚ and others that are not listed in the constitution. While all of these help define our nation‚ the biggest freedom that U.S. citizens have is the right to vote because of what it symbolizes and the power it holds in the government.. Voting is most celebrated because the process of getting all to vote shows our growth as a country to view all
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debate I am debating why school time should stay the same. J.C.M.S middle school in Sierra Vista has a delayed start time of 9:00 a.m.‚ and finish school at 4:00 p.m. This affects the children who are involved if afternoon sports‚ most time not getting out until 6:00 p.m sometimes later. If you have homework that same night after spending two hours doing a sport you might procrastinate and not do your homework at all or you will be tired and end up making mistakes that should not have been made. An
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Final Persuasive Paper Imagine a country where a woman is depicted as only being used for sex and a as slave for their husband. Imagine a country in which women are denied an education. Imagine a country where women are sent to jail‚ beaten‚ and left to die a long painful death for disobeying an order. There happens to be a country in which all this is true. Women are being persecuted physically‚ psychologically‚ and sexually on a routine and daily basis. The government in Afghanistan is likely
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