Professor Cooper English101FYE5 22 November 2013 Legalization Lincoln once said "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation‚ and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.” The prohibition of marijuana has proven to be a failure and a waste of resources. In addition‚ prohibition has hurt society more than it has helped. Also‚ marijuana can be used as a medicine to treat many life threatening illnesses. The legalization of
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Is Standardized Test Like Intelligence Quotient Test? Standardized tests‚ which by definition gives all test-takers the same test under the same (or reasonably equal) conditions‚ are also perceived as being more fair than assessments that use different questions or different conditions for students according to their race‚ socioeconomic status‚ or other considerations. Standardized tests are usually one of the requirements to apply to the higher level in education‚ for instance college‚ undergraduate
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Samantha Clanton Instructor Jade Bittle ENG 112-452 23 March 2013 No Child Left Behind? Or all Children Left Behind? Standardized Testing has been a part of education since the mid-1800s. In 2002 the No Child Left behind Act was put into place‚ which requires all 50 states to have mandated annual testing. The use of standardized testing in a school can have harsh effects if the scores are too low. It could lead to students being held back‚ teachers being fired‚ or if it becomes a big issue
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The following appeared in a memorandum from the president of Aurora‚ a company that sells organic milk (milk produced without the use of chemical additives): “Sales of organic food products in this country have tripled over the past five years. If Aurora is to profit from this continuing trend‚ we must diversify and start selling products such as organic orange juice and organic eggs in addition to our regular product line. With the recent increase of articles in health magazines questioning
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Dray Awaya 9/22/14 P.1 The Importance of College Going to college will help you get a better job and a better salary later on in life. This is the case because in college you learn a lot of lessons and get to experience different job careers. When you go to college you are more likely to get hired over someone with just a high school diploma. Also you can choose different jobs that you like since you have a wider variety. This gives you a chance to choose the job that you want instead of the only
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Argument Essay There are many rights I believe homosexuals should not have. Their life style is an abomination in god’s eyes! The King James Version of the bible says in Leviticus 20:13‚ "If a man also lies with mankind‚ as he lieth with a woman‚ both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." It is totally a sin to have sexual relations with the same sex. God intended sex to express love to your mate and reproduce. Because
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that argument laid the truth for the opposite matter: people with religious beliefs and values should also be tolerant and allowed to express their secular views. If Voltaire were still alive‚ he would agree with Arbuthnot’s regret that the world was becoming intolerant and have great expectations for people to have the same religious views rather than being free from one (Lecture PowerPoint‚ September 22). Additionally‚ we mentioned Frederick the Great in lecture in having similar arguments to Voltaire
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most fragile of all disagreements for believing that God does exists. Pascal thought it was the strongest and he was one of the most dubious philosophers whoever wrote. In order to understand Pascal’s Wager you have to be aware of the setting of the argument. Pascal lived in a time of great skepticism‚ medieval philosophy wasn’t alive‚ and primitive religious belief was being disregarded by the new academics of the scientific uprising from the seventeenth
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Johnel Taylor 1/24/13 Comp. II Argumentative Essay Is Bottled Water Worth It? In somewhat recent discussions‚ one of the worlds favorite grab and go drink has come into question whether it’s safe enough to drink or not and that is‚ bottled water. A well-known convenient commodity to everybody‚ but some argue it is neither healthy for our environment‚ our pockets‚ or ourselves. The people from this perspective say bottled water deserves to be banned because the negatives indeed
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When students are given a work of literature‚ their immediate reaction is to analyze it‚ and discover its “deeper meaning”. This is problematic‚ in that there is not one universal meaning. It is a debate among the critics and scholars of language and literature what‚ and who‚ gives a poem meaning. Stanley Fish claims that meaning comes from the interpretive community. A prominent literary theorist‚ he compared the act of interpretation to following a recipe. Fish claims that readers are instructed
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