The scene is all too recognizable. A troubled person pulls out a gun in a school‚ an office‚ or a shopping center‚ and he or she slaughters innocent men‚ women‚ and children. Recently‚ mass murders have occurred at Columbine High School‚ Virginia Tech University‚ and Omaha’s Westroads Mall (Schwartz). These tragedies are not inevitable‚ so people wonder one question. Are guns in our society getting out of control? Four out of every ten Americans own a gun; which leads to the perception that America
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Should the United States Have annexed the Philippines? The annexation on the Philippines was an arduous time . During 1898 ‚ United States had fought a short war with Spain. Several Spanish colonies fell into American hands. The Americans were successful. They had become a major world power. It was time where imperialism ‚ education ‚ and trading ran into this period of time. First of all‚ it was the right decision for U.S to annex the Philippines because it was beneficial for Filipinos through
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Ruben A. Rodriguez Paul Hansen English 1301-2005 06 April 2011 Should Public Servants have the right to strike? There has been much debate lately about public servant union group’s right to negotiate or collective bargain for pay and benefits for the employee’s. Some state that all workers have the right to negotiate their pay and benefits by what ever means. While other state that some employees’ positions‚ like teachers‚ police and fireman‚ are much too important to allow them to walk
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their advantage that to be against with the political problem. Facing with this situation‚ do you think governments should or should not censor the internet? I believe that government should censor Internet by banning some negative websites from ambiguous or bad sources. What kind of negative websites and why do they have to do that? Actually‚ in my country‚ Vietnam‚ there have some websites about critical political or religious reaction content which is prohibited by the government. Most of these
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from the quality of learning by not giving the student any reason to retain the knowledge‚ but instead to only “cram” and get that A. Therefore grades should be abolished because the grades put an obscene amount of stress on the student‚ encourage the student to take the easiest educational route and take away from the wealth of knowledge a student should be obtaining. From the first day of school a student is taught that A’s are great‚ B’s are good‚ and anything lower is simply unacceptable. This
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Kids should have less homework because they are using all of their time at home doing homework instead of doing something productive. The average student gets around 75% of homework each day. In class you do lots of non-stop work. Then you go home and do the same thing for 5 days. All that work could easily put you under pressure which makes you do your homework all wrong and you don’t notice until you get to school. All that pressure could also fail you on a test. When you’re trying to do your
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the file as AML_S1_09.04_Critical Skills Practice_FirstInitial_LastName.doc. Example: AML_S1_09.04_Critical Skills Practice_M_Smith.doc (50 points) Read the prompt below. Consider your position on the issue. Then write an essay response. You have 30 minutes to complete this assignment. Your assignment will be graded based on the Persuasive Prompt Grading Rubric. The rubric can be found in your Unit Resources. Prompt It is not uncommon for the evening news to talk about the local‚ state
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Much of the joy and happiness that people remember when they think about their high school years comes from new-found freedom in it. So‚ extending to letting students leave school campus to go to lunch would only make sense. All schools should think about and very seriously discuss letting these students that can drive go to eat at restaurants or at home for lunch. Letting sophomores‚ juniors‚ and seniors with drivers licenses go off campus to eat lunch would make sense because much of what the school
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federal elections. These violations effectively exclude legitimate voters whose votes are diluted‚ and they must be shortened. Voting is a notorious representation in American community life. Besides standing for public office‚ American citizens don’t have any more civic obligations than those that are derived from their ability and responsibility to help shape the community policy. The privilege to vote is an essential vehicle for exercising civic obligations. That is the reason the augmentation of
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Numerous parents think this way about letter grades‚ but why do they assume letters grades are good? By focusing on letter grades‚ parents overlook the deeper problem of actual learning. Over the years letter grades have been the main focus in schools‚ when in reality‚ learning should be the main focus of schools. “So whether or not a student completed a homework assignment is separated from how well he or she understands the concepts.” (Long). I disagree with Diana Chetelat‚ a concerned parent
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