survey taken in 2009. While seemingly a worthwhile service‚ payday loans provide emergency cash to an age group that is generally described as under 45‚ with children under the age of 18‚ and a household income under $50‚000. The primary complaint against these loans is regarding the exorbitant interest rates associated with them. Also of interest is that most loans obtained are usually for the payment of regular bills and not for emergency purposes. Salleh et al. (2014) espouse the reasons according
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It is proven that human error is one of the main causes of car crashes (Keating). Although this is‚ true ethical problems could arise against which a car might struggle to deal with. If the car needed to make a choice between plowing into a group of children in the road or swerving off a bridge and killing all its passengers‚ what should it do? There are people who would purposely get behind
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Are you against child abuse or not? According to authorities on child abuse‚ it’s very rare for people to report about child abuse when they see it like they use to in 1970-1990. Now a day’s people just leave it how it is as long as it’s not there child they really don’t worry about it. Abusing kids for unnecessary reasons and hitting them with objects that may bruise them badly isn’t the way of a parent teaching their kids manners at all. Especially taking your anger out on the child isn’t the way
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beyond the classroom walls. Another reason why standardized tests pressures mentor‚ is because the test results are used to evaluate their effectiveness as an educator‚ which should not be the case. This is because standardized testing may be biased against certain groups or individuals. According to the studies of Harvard University graduate and independent researcher‚ Harold Berlak‚ standardized testing bring up racism‚ which contributes to the achievement gap between the minorities and the whites
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Criticism and speculation concerning police brutality are popular topics that can inevitably be seen in news articles‚ social media‚ or news broadcast throughout the nation. Being one of America’s most current controversial and important issues‚ the negative perception of police brutality in the 21st century needs to be resolved. Localized policing is commonly used to put emphasis on the prevention of crime rather than enforcing the zero tolerance policy and following the traditional policing
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human beings. King supports Pollan when he argues that speciesism will one day be viewed as harsh as racism because animals are treated differently and don’t get to live a normal life like they deserve. Animals have the urge to live a normal life just like us humans‚ so why should humans take away that right. Pollan discusses how everyone has equal rights when he writes‚ "’Equality is a moral idea‚’ Singer points out‚ ‘not an assertion of fact.’ The moral idea is that everyone’s interests ought
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The exclusionary rule is a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial. Now imagine how our system would function without the exclusionary rule. A police officer could detain‚ arrest or search an individual and his property based on bias‚ a hunch or because they just felt like it‚ without reasonable cause. If the officer discovered in criminating evidence‚ it could be freely admitted at the individual’s criminal trial. And that evidence that is found without the
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Animal Testing‚ BAD IDEA Animal testing is the running of tests and the research done in a laboratory on animals. Some of the tests are done to benefit human lives and other tests are done to determine side effects of a certain household or cosmetic products. It is a topic that has been up for debate for many years. Not only in the United States but all around the world as well. While some support the advances that come from the research others oppose the cruelty that the media projects to society
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the existence of climate change‚ to corporate handouts and under the table deals. One such scientist is Wei-Hock Soon. Justin Gillis and John Schwartz of the New York Times report that Soon‚ who has been called by Republican politicians to testify against the harm of global warming and climate change in front of Congress‚ has received upwards of 1.2 million dollars from the fossil-fuel industry in the last decade. The release of information like this only adds fuel to the fire surrounding climate change
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Consider the Kids The current debate over adoption is a struggle between forces claiming to support what is truly best for children and society as a whole. Advocates claim that homosexual adoption is a wonderful remedy‚ which will elevate the number of foster children in America while creating diversity and combatting homophobia. However‚ I propose that gay adoption is far from a healthy remedy for combatting homophobia or a medicine for the current welfare of the state. Children of homosexual
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