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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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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have so it`s your only option. You only push the mushy noodles around the tray then throw it away once your lunch period is over. The next period you hear your stomach growl and wish you could have had another option at lunch. If schools provided more lunch options this problem would happen less or even disappear completely. According to Teresa Chin with Youth Radio‚ many schools have decided to try and start forcing children and teens across the country to eat healthier lunches. These lunches
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Should gay marriages be allowed? Today‚ Almost the man in the world are gay. They love each other. They don’t care the speech of the others people around them. Three reason of the gay marriages are Society should accept sexual ‚ Marriages is not always wrong‚ no matter what the gender and Everyone has the right to love‚ no matter what the gender. 1.Society should accept sexual Gay marriage should be legalized because it is uncivilized and unmerited. Our civil rights and the Constitution give us
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high schools will lower the rate of pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease among teenagers. The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies would be reduced if Australian schools were to introduce condom vending machines. Then we would not have a large proportion of teenage girls becoming pregnant each year. In countries of similar socioeconomic status‚ such as the United States‚ there are more than 16‚000 pregnancies in the suburbs of New York alone. These teen mothers would find
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Teenagers should not be treated as adults when they are mentally undeveloped and are not capable of thinking twice about the consequences to their actions. Teenagers are at a sensitive stage in their life where thinking twice about a decision is not taken seriously‚ they become numb to what people advice and act solely on natural impulses. In “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” by Paul Thomson‚ a research group at the University of California has noticed a “pattern of brain growth in individual children and teenagers
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Should Coding Be Taught In Schools? Should coding be allowed in schools? I think it should because coding produces creative activity and it could help with whatever career the kids want to go in. There is one downside though; the children will not understand it all so teachers should limit the amount of coding that is taught. The only downside to coding in school is the kids wouldn’t understand all of it. The information would be rushed to the children to fast. The material is too hard and too
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Students should be held out of sports longer after they receive a concussion. A concussion can lead to severe brain damage‚ however‚ an athlete can recover completely if they do not return to play the sport immediately. Allowing a student athlete to return to sports promptly could cause them perpetual brain damage and puts them at risk for further concussions while they are still recovering. Concussions are "invisible" injuries and high school athletes should be closely monitored until they recover
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Should designer babies be allowed? Introduction In my case study I will be discussing should designer babies be allowed? I will be looking at what designer babies are‚ how would they be achieved? as well as the pros and cons of designer babies. I will also review the possible effects that having designer babies has. Explanation of designer babies A designer baby is the word used to describe the act of genetically modifying the genes of babies. They can also screen embryos for any disorders and
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Should Tourism be allowed in Antarctica? There is no doubt Antarctica is an incredible tourist destination. Visitor numbers have increased rapidly over the last few decades. During 1998-99‚ in the summer season‚ over 10‚000 tourists visited Antarctica‚ compared with less than 2000‚ 19 years ago. This is not necessarily a good thing; what about all of the pollution people cause whilst travelling to Antarctica? This brings us to the question: Should Tourism be allowed in Antarctica? Some people think
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