Second‚ and closely related‚ was the issue of whether the roughly four million freedmen should be allowed to vote. The issue was how to receive the four million former slaves as citizens. If they were to be fully counted as citizens‚ some sort of representation for apportionment of seats in Congress had to be determined. Before the war‚ the population of slaves had been counted as three-fifths of a corresponding number of free whites. By having four million freedmen counted as full citizens‚ the
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center stage in the media‚ polarizing the American people. Should the second amendment be repealed eliminating citizen use of guns‚ or should they just regulate and add tougher restrictions to be able to obtain a gun permit? Thomas Jefferson said "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms" (Gun Quotations). I have the same belief system toward guns as the
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to see every one of her children only live a few hours and for those few hours to be filled with severe pain. After
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myself . . . alone. Come‚ that’s enough. Leave me alone." - Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov After burying the goods he stole from the pawn broker‚ Raskolnikov is walking around and decides to visit his friend Razumihin. At first it is almost as if Raskolnikov planned on asking his friend for advice about what he should do about the murders he committed. However‚ he becomes very nervous and leaves his friend’s home as quickly as possible. 4. "Life is real! haven’t I lived just now? My life has not
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prohibit all use of cell phones during the school day. Should teachers allow cell phone usage in the classroom? I say yes‚ yes‚ yes. For the past three years at my high school‚ cell phone usage was not only prohibited‚ but if a cell phone was out‚ any teacher or administrator could take your phone. Students would then get a written detention and if they had it taken away more than once‚ the student would get an in school suspension. For each of those three years‚ more and more students were getting suspended
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Should gay marriages be allowed? Today‚ Almost the man in the world are gay. They love each other. They don’t care the speech of the others people around them. Three reason of the gay marriages are Society should accept sexual ‚ Marriages is not always wrong‚ no matter what the gender and Everyone has the right to love‚ no matter what the gender. 1.Society should accept sexual Gay marriage should be legalized because it is uncivilized and unmerited. Our civil rights and the Constitution give us
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Enhancement: Should cognitive enhancement be allowed? Cognitive enhancement is the improvement of one’s mental capacity and or mental attributes such as personality‚ where it is considered optional and not medically necessary (Schmidt-Felzmann‚ 2012). Enhancement is different to treatment as treatment is linked to the curing of an illness‚ whereas enhancement is merely improving an already medically healthy body or mind‚ however‚ at times it is quite difficult to draw a line between the two (Schmidt-Felzmann
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Sometimes‚ people that are younger than the age of 18 have good political opinions as well. Those teenagers are left unheard‚ because they are not of legal age for political voting when it comes to electing a president. Denying them the right to vote denies them a voice in our democracy. Most people around me believe that the voting age should also be lowered‚ and each of them care more about politics than most of the adults we know. If teenagers were able to vote‚ then there wouldn’t be a controversial
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Public schools across the United States have been dealing with the issue of dress codes. As of 2008‚ twenty-two U.S. states specifically authorized schools to institute dress codes or uniform policies (8). School boards may generally create and enforce dress code‚ but they must do so without violating students’ constitutional law (9). Schools are finding difficulty in enforcing their dress code among students. Parents feel as if the schools dress codes are condoning their students for expressing
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Should Mobile Phones Be Allowed on in School Hello ladies and gentlemen‚ boys and girls (Pause) and 10C I’m here to talk about Reduce Reuse and Recycle…only joking I don’t plan on putting anyone to sleep‚ I am here to talk about whether or not Mobile Phones should be allowed in school. Now I know where Mr Brannigan is coming from by not allowing phones on in class‚ because yes‚ they are a distraction‚ but what is wrong with having them on outside of class? I mean we are not being distracted
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