Children the age of 18 or who in which attend a post secondary school are considered adults and their parents are not promised to be consulted of the actions and well being of their children. Children too young to understand real life matters are given the responsibility to fend for themselves and face the fact that the university they are attending cannot contact their parents to concern them of lack of participation in their academic studies‚ nor their mental health related issues. This action
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In 1789‚ James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights included the first 10 amendments telling about all of the freedoms the government and people have. To me‚ having freedom means the right to speak‚ write‚ and practice your religion. The right to state opinions and ideas without being stopped or punished is the freedom of speech. In other countries‚ people are afraid to speak what they think. If the citizens in a country do not say their opinion‚ the government will not know what
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them. Imagine if the last time you saw your younger sibling/cousin you saw them‚ you see them getting escorted into a big metal cage and you watch as the door slams right in their little faces. It would be awful seeing that. Kids under the age of 16 should not go to jail‚ even if they do commit the heinous of crimes‚ because they are children. Adolescents are old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong‚ but they are too young to make the right choices yet. As Laurence Steinberg‚
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Police Brutality: A Rising Issue What should society do when the people that are supposed to be protecting them turn into the people that they need protecting from? Police brutality has become a major issue in today’s society and has become a major point within today’s media. As stated by Lauren Fox‚ “The deaths of black men at the hands of police have been thrust into the national spotlight” (Fox). Police brutality is classified as an officer applying excessive and/or unneeded force to the
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The majority of Title IX cases are files against K-12 schools and they are mostly involved on the athletic side.” (www.education.com/definitions/title-ix/) Basically it keeps athletic teams available equally to both men and women. Title IX has a few policies that high schools and colleges have to meet to ensure fairness for male and female athletes and this is called the HEW’s three prong test. The test is the following: • “All such assistance should be available on a substantially proportional
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In philosophical literature‚ Marquis argued that abortion was/is immoral‚ except only in rare exceptions‚ but more importantly he noted that prochoice and anti-abortion arguments cannot be symmetric thus making discussion on the topic quite a conundrum. Marquis purported the arguments of anti-abortionist‚ who asserted and believed that life is present at or from the moment of conception‚ and that fetuses look like babies‚ possess genetic code‚ and are therefore in possession of the qualities and
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The 2nd amendment is a very controversial topic‚ a lot of people support gun laws and vice versa. But why be against it if they can put strict laws against it that prohibits the guns getting in the wrong hands? One of the most controversial topics about gun laws is violence and crimes. Many people are worried that if it gets in the wrong hands of a criminal‚ they might use the gun against an innocent citizen. Which is a very true fact but there are other sides of the story. If an innocent citizen
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The first premise is certainly false. “If we (everyone) minded her own business‚ and tended to their own needs‚ then everyone would be better off.” This premise‚ as it is‚ cannot hold up the self-reliance argument let alone ethical egoism. If John‚ an elderly man‚ was walking in the park and had a fall‚ would he be better off if Jill‚ a bystander‚ just continued on her way? She was running late to work and could easily tend to her own needs leaving John on the ground moaning in pain. The second
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Deafness has consistently been perceived and represented incorrectly in American media. It is important to note that deaf individuals have created their own culture based on their set of social beliefs‚ behaviors‚ art‚ literary traditions‚ history‚ and values. Deaf Culture focuses on deaf individuals who use American Sign Language (ASL) and consider being Deaf a cultural lifestyle choice. However‚ not all individuals who have experienced hearing loss are emerged in Deaf culture and that distinction
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The war on drugs that the United States government tends to use on its own citizens has proven that war is not an applicable option anymore. In Ron Paul’s farewell speech to the congress in 2012‚ he asks‚ “Why haven’t we given up on the drug war since it’s an obvious failure and violates the people’s rights? Has nobody noticed that the authorities can’t even keep drugs out of the prisons?” The failure of the war appears in three aspects; financially‚ socially‚ and the problems
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