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    same with bloodshed. Guns are a “God-given natural right” in the United States‚ we have the right to bear arms‚ despite it not being 1791 anymore. Guns and their supporters have given rise to controversies that dispute the worthiness of the firearm in recent years. The truth is that guns are not what they were in the eighteenth century. Guns have evolved into powerful weapons that seem to only cause pain and confusion‚ guns should be left in the past. People have not stopped using guns from being linked

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    Ashley Upchurch Professor Garner ENG1101 23 November 2012 Smoking Ban World Wide In the early years smoking in the United States was a very common occurrence. Adults were smoking anywhere they pleased. It was normal to see a couple puffing on a cigarette in the local grocery store‚ on the bus to work‚ or even in their office cubical. Back then there were no studies shown that smoking cased health problems or death. The people did not see cigarettes as a harmful thing. It was not until the

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    finding recipes to managing bank accounts and businesses. Since the internet has become so important in today’s society‚ people have been debating whether or not it should be monitored. No one likes being watched‚ but what if that monitoring prevented a murder or a terrorist attack? I believe that the state and federal government should be able to monitor the internet because it is a public place where people should have nothing to hide‚ the constitution has no provisions protecting internet privacy

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    Pro: To start out I am not a good debater but I just had this idea and want to see both sides of the argument. Euthanasia should be legalized in the United States. Euthanasia would help the US and its citizens in many ways. As defined by Merriam-Webster Euthanasia- the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy: 1. People who live in great pain and suffering would have a way to get out of

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    The United States has been a gun culture country since the day the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4‚ 1776. After many decades‚ gun ownership had rapidly increased‚ and many lives have been saved with a gun. An American citizen can legally purchase a handgun at age twenty-one and a rifle at the age of eighteen with a cleared background check by a licensed dealer. In recent months’ guns has become a very conversional topic because of all the incident happening around. For example‚ Orlando

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    forty-one million adults‚ aged eighteen and older‚ in the United States smoke cigarettes‚ and on top of that number there are over eight million Americans that use smokeless tobacco. That means there are over forty-nine million American citizens putting themselves and the people around them in danger of disease and permanent damage to their body. Tobacco in any form is very harmful. The use of tobacco should be illegal in all fifty states because it harms people in so many different ways and no matter

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    gang formation‚ and gang related violence is a product of the circumstances faced by many in contemporary societies. For example‚ in Puerto Rico‚ “Puerto Rican drug gangs emerged as epiphenomena of systematic exclusion tied to the political economy of a city that blocked access to the opportunities that defined dignified pathways to manhood” (Baird 2005: 113). Puerto Rican youths among others‚ were faced with oppression especially when it came to the workforce. The

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    have been bans for smoking in public places. This could be a start of a new trend to ban smoking everywhere in the US. However tobacco should not be banned because of individual rights‚ it’s effect on the economy‚ and the increased crime it could cause. The first point against ban on tobacco would be the individual right to smoke. The individual right to privacy should allow people to harm their own bodies with dangerous drugs. The government can pass laws

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    goes another spanking. Maybe you think that spanking helps prevent bad and misbehavior from children‚ but did you think about how it doesn’t help them? Spanking should be illegal in the united states. There are people/guardians that abuse the children everyday because they take it too far. Spanking should not be provided in the united states because of the incidences that are provided here. In my view people can get to aggressive while spanking the children‚ and could harm them with bruises

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    For the war itself‚ the Civil War was considered to be the bloodiest war fought on american ground. It was an internal war within the United States‚ between the Northern States and the Southern States. Mostly about slavery‚ but other things led to this. The Missouri Compromise‚ the Compromise of 1850 and the Battle of Fort Sumter. Over a million Soldiers died and the northern Ideals flourished while the Southern fell. Through the 1700’s to 1860’s slaves were widely used throughout the south for

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