Every 4 years‚ our country makes an incredibly important decision. We vote for the person who will represent the US in all domestic and international affairs; The President. Currently‚ we have many troops in Iraq fighting to help them establish a democracy. We are giving the citizens a right to vote‚ a privilege that many people claim we are lucky to have. In actuality‚ how democratic is our system overall? What many people don’t realize or care to face‚ is we don’t directly vote for our president
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the United States cast their vote to decide the next president‚ but most do not realize just how little their vote means. In fact‚ the president is not elected by the people‚ but instead by 538 members of the electoral college. The electoral college should be replaced by a popular vote system because it will allow all votes to be equal‚ cause candidates to focus on more than just swing states‚ and result in a rightful winner that creates a more united country. The electoral college is a complicated
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Abolish the Death Penalty The death penalty should be abolished in all fifty states. There are a growing number of concerns around capital punishment: if it violates the Eight Amendment‚ if race plays a factor in who gets the death penalty‚ and if the cost of capital punishment is really giving society a deterrent. “I would have more confidence in the fair-mindedness of this jury and the jury’s pronouncement of the death sentence‚ had the state not used its peremptory challenges to exclude
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Capital Punishment For a long time now‚ society has been trying to figure out whether a crime so heinous exists for which a death penalty is needed to avenge the victim. Many argue that capital punishment is an abomination as the people who carry out the act are playing God and it is not a humane form of punishment. However‚ I disagree with that notion‚ since some crimes are so heinous‚ capital punishment seems like the only way the perpetrator can be punished and the victim avenged. Capital punishment
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more reasons‚ capital punishment should be outlawed and not be a legal system that deals with the criminals in society. Capital punishment is costly‚ unjust for minorities and is not the moral right thing to do. Over the years capital punishment has been banishing from countries‚ innocence people have been convicted and executed too many times for the system to uphold any longer. Nearly 40 years of evidence proves the death penalty does not work. The system should not be an option any longer. There
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deducts from an employee should be based on the amount of wages contributed by the employer‚ as well as the sum the employer has already contributed to the fund and the amount of compensation the discharged employees have received from the fund. The proceeds collected from employers should be deposited in the Mandated Benefits Fund‚ which is controlled by each state. The Federal government should allow states to extend the time during which citizens can receive benefits. States should consider providing
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Should compulsory military service be abolished ? (ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY) The problem of compulsory military service has always been a controversial issue. Some people strongly support this idea while others are definitely against it. Although it has been claimed that the military service should be compulsory because of its benefits to governments‚ compulsory military service shouldn’t be abolished because of its limitations to citizens. It is commonly maintained that compulsory military service
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Exams. The word that most student fear off. Exam is a part of school life that all students have to go through. There are advantages in exams that are held in school. But there are people who think that exams give more disadvantages to the students. Even though some people say that exams should be abolished because they encourages cramming‚ I believe that they should not be abolished because exams are the only way for teachers to get feedback from their students build high moral standards and discipline
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Many teachers are also paid more‚ examination results are often better‚ with pupils having a much higher chance of getting to university. Many defend private education on the grounds that the parents should have a choice as to where to send their child to shool.It is also often argued that they should retain the right to spend their money as they see fit‚ and improve their children’s life chances is a sensible way of doing this‚ if not a fair way. Moreover‚resources and facilities are better than
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Partner with us [pic] | |The idiom dictionary is compiled from the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. The Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms explains over 7‚000 idioms current in British‚ American and Australian English‚ helping learners to understand them and use them with confidence. The Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms‚ based on the 200 million words of American English text in the Cambridge International Corpus‚
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