Ethanol: Good or Bad? In the pursuit of a cleaner renewable resource to fossil fuels‚ many scientist have found alternatives. Examples include solar‚ wind‚ biogas‚ geothermal‚ biomass energy and cellulosic ethanol. In the last twenty years‚ efforts have been made to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and ethanol has been an option. Ethanol is nothing new; in fact‚ it was first used in a motor built by Samuel Morey in 1826 (Ethanol History). Since the 1980s‚ the government started having oil companies
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1. Morality PRO: "The crimes of rape‚ torture‚ treason‚ kidnapping‚ murder‚ larceny‚ and perjury pivot on a moral code that escapes apodictic [indisputably true] proof by expert testimony or otherwise. But communities would plunge into anarchy if they could not act on moral assumptions less certain than that the sun will rise in the east and set in the west. Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life‚ no matter what the
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What happens when a child tells their mother that they are not comfortable being the gender they were born as? In this day and age‚ people are becoming more comfortable with coming out as being the opposite gender. This raises many issues‚ such as what bathrooms this subgroup of people should be allowed to use. There are quite a few Americans who oppose Transgenders using bathrooms of the gender they identify with‚ and it is becoming a bigger issue with every new day. Should they be allowed to use
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directly vote for their president. For my paper I want to present both arguments‚ each side’s pros and cons‚ and ultimately whether or not I think we should or should not change the use of an electoral college. My final paper would focus on the use of an electoral college and whether or not we should change the way we elect the President. I intend on organizing my paper by presenting the pros and cons of having an electoral
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Against Resolution B Because NAFTA is a detriment to the U.S. economy and the North American environment‚ the U.S. should withdraw from the NAFTA. This argument is false because NAFTA has not been a detriment to the US economy and it has not hurt the North American environment. Abandoning NAFTA now would be much‚ much worse for the US economy and the environment. Even though NAFTA may not be perfect‚ the US has already agreed and committed to it; it would be irresponsible‚ brash‚ and unfair
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I think it’s unbelievable how someone can be sent to jail because they have cannabis. It makes no sense to me how one state will give you nothing but a slap on the wrist if you have cannabis. And another state won’t hesitate to throw you in the slammer for a couple years. I do not think it’s right for people who were caught with cannabis to be labeled the same as people who were caught robbing a bank‚ or worse. Cannabis has been proven for centuries to be natural healing and help with almost all
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In most cases‚ when Refugees arrive into a new country‚ they often find themselves in a quandary‚ since it is hard for them to assimilate into their new home. Scholars such as Sarah Feldman claim that for refugees to feel part of the society‚ it is crucial for them to become integrated into host communities‚ since they have been warehoused in refugee camps for long periods of time and may feel estranged. Feldman mentions that one of the biggest issues is the misconception that refugee camps are temporary
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DDT between beneficial and destructive Throughout the history‚ humans have faced a lot of problems‚ but the worst of all of these are the problems made by humans themselves. Every day we try to discover something new to help our society and to help us survive in the environment that we are living in. We use technology and chemicals as an example to come up with anything that can benefit us and realize its purpose. We started to have problems with mosquitoes‚ so scientists from all over the world
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The Ups and Downs Due to the Creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement The North American Free Trade Agreement was put into effect in 1994‚ although the thought of a free trade in North America was first pushed by President Ronald Regan‚ who based a campaign on a common North American market. President Ronald Regan and Canadian Prime Minister Brain Mulroney agreed to begin negotiation to establish a free trade between the United States and Canada. These negotiations would eventually
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between Republican William McKinley‚ an advocate of the gold standard‚ and populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan‚ who opposed it. Bryan‚ an advocate for free silver made a speech at the Democratic National Convention which became known as the “Cross of Gold” in his speech he spoke against the gold standard and for silver to be back as a monetary standard. During the movement farmers attempted to flood the market with paper money‚ which caused inflating the prices because there was more available
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