Should there be stricter gun bans? Handguns are the cause of so many deaths amongst the people of the world today. In the past few months there have been so many awful tragedies due to the access we all have to guns. The repercussions of gun violence make up 50 percent of today’s disasters claiming lives ranging from babies to adults and even elderly. The government needs to make guns less accessible‚ and the law along with the law enforcement need to really enforce the laws they make. This
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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A banned or challenged book tends to be disputed and unwanted in public places. When a book is banned from schools or even a whole state it means that it contains things such as sexual explicitness‚ offensive language‚ political incorrectness‚ violence‚ views contrary to the state or are seen threatening in some way (Gale 1).The book Lolita written by Vladimir Nabokov was banned in 1955 in France and Australia for its controversial content (Amy 4). Lolita should be banned or challenged because of
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to the Amnesty International (2014)‚ at least 2‚466 executions took place worldwide in 2014. That number is astounding‚ especially when considering that it represents individual human life. With the amount of executions taking place‚ the death penalty has been ever more of a pressing matter. Overall‚ the death penalty should be banned because of immorality‚ possible exoneration and inequality. The death penalty should be banned because of its immorality.
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They are a major health hazard! There is no nutritional value in soft drinks‚ only detrimental ingredients. They are full of sugar‚ most contain caffeine and they fill the stomach and take the place of good nutrients. Americans consume too many soft drinks and don’t drink enough of what our bodies need...Water! Not to mention the fact that they cause obesity. Soft drinks contain many unwanted particles and impurities. It also causes cancer. Soft drinks contain chemicals from Ajinomoto
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Should Animal Testing be Banned? Throughout history‚ animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefits. However‚ what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people are believed to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live‚ and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques. Other
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Nathan Clodfelter Mrs. Gallos English 3 Honors 29 March 2018 Should Bump Stocks be Banned? A bump stock is a device that is attached to a semi-automatic weapon and enables this weapon to mimic the fire of a machine gun. It does this by allowing the shooter to hold the butt of the gun in their shoulder and push the gun towards them‚ this makes the gun fire and the recoil “bumps” the gun back into a firing position.(New York Times) The use of bump stocks allows many school shooters and mass shooters
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is an effort to remove a book from the shelves of a public institution. The process through which books are challenged is too simple. According to Rebecca Alexander‚ an author whose book has been banned‚ someone must simply raise an objection against a text. Next‚ the committee at the school library will discuss the complaint and decide whether to keep the book. If the committee decides the argument is valid‚ they will declare the book “banned” and remove it from their institution. After that‚ none
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Sheila Sim Mrs. Virginia Link-Pease English 122 02 October 2010 Steroid Use in Sports Should Be Banned Day by day professional athletes are being praised for their ability and accomplishments in their respective sports. The professional athletes that are succeeding the most are generally using performance enhancing drugs‚ other known as anabolic steroids (Mayo Clinic). Anabolic steroids are drugs which imitate the effect of the male sex hormone‚ Testosterone. The cells producing protein increase
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siblings. There were a lot of places we went to and experienced and I learned a lot about the culture of Africa. While reading these two articles about child soldiers‚ I learned a lot more about what is going on in the world today and how it affects children. I believe that child soldier practices should be banned because the children are put into dangerous situations and they won’t get to live a happy life. Others would say that child soldier practices should not be banned because the children are needed
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