April 2013 Public Forum “CON” Analysis Recently‚ we gave our comprehensive analysis of the Pro side of the April Public Forum resolution‚ Resolved: The continuation of current U.S. anti-drug policies in Latin America will do more harm than good. Today‚ we’re discussing the Con side‚ which‚ while slightly trickier‚ if done properly can be argued very persuasively. To recap‚ the pro’s argument is‚ essentially‚ that drugs are such an intractable and complex issue
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Spanking is the act of smacking the buttocks of a child with an opened hand. Some parents adopt this form of corporal punishment as a back up to non-physical discipline. The law should not ban the act of spanking a child in parenting because it is not a form of abuse. Parents should be free to spank their children appropriately‚ at the right time and for the right reasons‚ to create an understanding for what is acceptable and what is not. Definitely‚ spanking is an effective parenting tool. On the
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A stereotype is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing‚” (en.oxforddictionaries.com) meaning how you perceive a person/group‚ mostly negative. Stereotypes have advantages and disadvantages‚ but for the most part they are disadvantages to the society and cause people to judge a person to quickly before they know them. An advantage of a stereotype is “it enables us to respond rapidly to situations because we may have had a similar experience
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Peaceland outlines the conventional structural flaws in the present blueprint of international peacebuilding. The community populated by expatriates is one with its own “time‚ space and economics.” The occupants are inducted from organizations across the globe with distinctive philosophies and ideologies. Accordingly‚ they are not homogeneous. They form transnational affiliations who have more in common with each other than with host nations. Very seldom are the expatriates’ habits questioned or
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migrations can easily trigger crime especially in the urban which seems natural‚ even inevitable. An outraging number of individuals uprooted from their homes and moving into crowded city slum which may give rise to to violence and lawlessness. The demography-based suspicion is amongst the key social facts that define American life in this century. The suspicion‚ however‚ may be more rational than racist. But to those on whom suspicion falls‚ it certainly looks racist. Migration’s propensity to trigger
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does the American government control its population? The way it still is – divide and conquer. It pits one group against the other and lets them fight. Native-Americans against whites. Blacks against whites. Red states against blue states. Pro-choice against pro-life. Women against men. Liberals against conservatives. Straight against gay. The fighting is endorsed and encouraged by the power elite because it distracts their unjust or illegal methods of control‚ that if carefully examined and brought
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that are made on whether a child should be spanked or not‚ many people tend to believe it’s fair while other believe it’s simply wrong. Those who do not believe in spanking say spanking is a form of child abuse. That it shows children the idea of violence at a young age. So the question is whether spanking will cause the child to be a violent individual‚ if spanking will harm children mentally and physically‚ and if it’s a harm to their health and development later on in life. Children who are spanked
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The Necessity of ObamaCare in the United States The United States is heavily watched around the world in terms of politics or any other action as it is one of the leading countries of the world. Recently‚ the United States caught the eye of the world in its recent debate of the health care reform. Most commonly referred to as “ObamaCare” the official name is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or for short‚ the Affordable Care Act (ACA). President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010
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The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is an organization that advocate and research children. Its purpose is ensuring all the children can have healthy lives and have successful passage to adulthood with external and internal help. CDF tries to provide support to the children who are disqualified and children who are disabled or poor. Despite the living standards of the poor children improved a lot for these years‚ there is a conflict opinion in America. Some people think CDF still cannot radically
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specific mechanism that initiates Hobbes’s assertion of the state of nature is actually not egoism‚ but rather‚ the idea of “uncertainty”. The second objection would be that the state of nature does not necessarily mean lack of government. Conflict‚ violence‚ and war are still very prevalent in today’s society although we have authority such as the government. The idea of uncertainty means that not everyone is motivated to kill for personal gain however; it may be the uncertainty of someone else’s
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