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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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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Paul Davis Mrs. Solis English 101 11 December 2013 Should the Death Penalty be Allowed? I am writing my research project on why the death penalty should be allowed and practiced by our government. People who are against the death penalty would say executions and court dates are too expensive and that the death penalty is harsh and immoral. People who choose to commit such horrible crimes should face the death penalty because our founding fathers supported capital punishment and did not consider
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Should IPads be allowed in Schools? Do you think high school and middle school students should be receiving iPads instead of books? Textbooks have been played an instrumental role in society’s success‚ ever since school was invented we needed ways to find information and textbooks have always been there. Now with the world moving forward in terms of technology‚ obviously there are going to be some new inventions. However‚ the question is do we really need to use the inventions? Why all of a sudden
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Should elderly drivers be allowed to drive? I have often wondered what the future holds for elderly drivers. It ’s difficult to voice my opinion(s) too strongly because it would seem as if I ’m stabbing myself in the back. If we all keep living we ’re all going to get old‚ so each and every one of us will have to face the scrutinizing pressures of society on whether or not elderly citizens should be allowed to drive. My answer would be one based purely on safety. Even though some elderly
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Should Electronics Be Allowed In School? Should devices such as phones be allowed in school? Devices will cause distraction and make students rely even more on their devices than they already do. Devices can cause many problems for teachers and schools if used more than they should be. In order to keep schools from having even more problems with students‚ schools should not allow electronics. One of the main reasons there should be no devices in school is that devices can easily be distracting
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Although may not everybody would agree I believe cellphones should not be allowed in schools. First of all‚ cellphones can be a distraction to students. Secondly‚ students can use the cellphones to cheat on a test‚ quiz‚ or classwork. Lastly‚ it can be stolen. To start off‚ cellphones should not be allowed in school because they can interrupt the class and teacher. For example‚ if a professor is teaching a class a new lesson and suddenly a cellphones starts to ring‚ the teacher will have to stop
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known for independence and courageous behaviors when it should be acknowledged as hypocritical. If the entire nation falls under this expression‚ why are there innumerable amount of regulations for a woman to obtain this freedom and bravery? As found in The Washington Times (2013)‚ "we are taught as military officers that in order to crush your enemy‚ you must take risk". If the military suggests risk taking in order to achieve the goal‚ women should be viewed as a risk. It was risky to let women into
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Should the death penalty (capital punishment) be allowed? There are many underlying issues with capital punishment and the moral backbone it clearly lacks. Capital punishment should not be legal for many reasons such as the irrelevance of retribution and irrevocable mistakes which leaves “criminals” wrongly accused. Retribution‚ in the form of capital punishment is the execution of the criminal in vengeance for the victim and their families. This ideology is flawed‚ out dated and irrelevant in
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Abdulrahman.Bahjat AUIS August 5‚ 2013 "We are at war‚ and we will do what we need to win" (joey-gruber.tripod). There is much debate over whether animal testing should be allowed or not. Some people think that it is not essential to sacrifice animals for human benefit because they are being abused and tortured severely during experiments. Those People who stand against animal testing claim that humans eliminate many lives on Earth in order to safe humans ’ lives‚ So there is no justice
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