The Drinking Age in The U.S. Should Be Lowered When a person turns eighteen‚ he or she can get married‚ vote‚ pay taxes‚ purchase cigarettes‚ be tried as an adult for crimes‚ legally use their own credit card‚ purchase real estate‚ and even enter the military. When a United States citizen turns eighteen‚ that person is considered a legal adult. According to The United States Constitution‚ “The right of citizens of the United States‚ who are eighteen-years of age or older‚ to vote shall not be denied
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I say it’s time that all deliberate cruel killing of animals for "sport" be banned by law. There is no excuse for causing immense pain and suffering to these creatures just for the sheer heck of it...for fun and games. Okay‚ I know animals are killed for meat...but there’s a difference: the animals in that situation CAN be treated humanely right up to the moment they are killed instantly. I’m not saying that’s an ideal situation. There are other objections to killing for meat but what concerns
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smoke regardless of the harms done. In New York there 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
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Is it okay for women to breastfeed their baby in public? Should breastfeeding be banned completely? Some seem to think this issue is entirely misunderstood and disrespectful to women and is an act of indecent exposure‚ unknowingly realizing that it is the most natural thing in the world. Breastfeeding is an intimate bond between a mother and her child and it is a private issue that should be handled as such. Nonetheless‚ all women should have the right to legally breastfeed their babies in public
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SHOULD BRAIN DRAIN BE BANNED? A brain drain is a large emigration of individuals with the Knowledge or Technical skills‚ usually due to conflict‚ political instability‚ lack of opportunity‚ or health risks. A brain drain is generally regarded as an economic cost‚ because emigrants usually take with them the fraction of value of their teaching sponsored by government. Today Indian professionals are doing well abroad. This however had led to a brain drain‚ harmful to India. After completing
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The word “steroids” has more than one meaning‚ there are some steroids‚ which the body produces naturally as they are required through puberty and can help with stress management. Steroids can also refer to medicine taken for asthma‚ pain and skin problems. And then there are the steroids which are constantly being used in sport‚ they are synthetic drugs that are often used by professional athletes in order to increase the production of testosterone. They are available in pills‚ powder or injections
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Should Abortions be Banned? Abortion has been one of the most highly debated and controversial topics in American culture and politics. One of the reasons it is such a sensitive topic is because everyone can relate to it in one way or another. Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a pregnancy. The arguments for this surround the idea of whether the induced removal of the fetus is murder or rather in the best interest of the mother. I am personally in favor of abortion under
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the feelings of relaxation and reduced anxiety. Ladies and gentleman‚ today I am here to convince you to think twice before you pick up the next bottle of alcohol. First‚ I will talk about how alcohol is harmful for your health and why teenagers should not drink underage. First of all‚ young drinkers are more susceptible to brain damage and memories lose than adult drinker. Drinker who start drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than those who do
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Amnesty International reports that 141 countries have‚ as of May 2012‚ abolished capital punishment in law or practice. So‚ should be it universally banned? This will be the object of this essay. The primary reason put forward to legalise the death penalty is that it is a strong deterrent. A person who has committed a crime like killing or raping another person should be given death penalty‚ which is as severe punishment as the act. It is said that when a criminal is given a death penalty‚
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Often times‚ books become banned in the classroom because of the controversial content that it contains. Once a book is banned‚ it becomes removed from the shelves of libraries‚ book stores‚ and classrooms. In some cases‚ banned books have been burned or refused publication. There are several reasons why books are banned‚ but books are most frequently banned because of the prejudiced opinions about religion‚ sexual orientation‚ and race. In school‚ children are taught to be mature and
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