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    Adrian Iwaskiw Why we can not win the War in Afghanistan The most important international challenge facing the United States over the next ten years is dealing with the war in Afghanistan. The war has been going on for ten years and we have gotten very little progress. As days go by more and more American soldiers are being killed battling the unforeseeable enemy. In Afghanistan the United States is most likely fighting a losing battle. The War in Afghanistan can almost be compared to the Vietnam

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    anything about any languages or races‚ besides the fact that the constitution was written in English. There have been several amendments that have tried to get English as the official language‚ but they all just lead to failure. An official language should not matter because it can show that language or culture diversity can exist especially in schools and education‚ most non-native speakers have a hard time speaking or writing the English language because it has been said that English is a hard language

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    had biological functions have been correlated with aggression and violent. In the early biological‚ they see some individual are "born criminals" — they are biologically different from non-criminals. The representative work of earlier biological explanations was developed by Cesare Lombroso in the mid- to late 1800s‚ he developed a theory of deviance in which a person’s bodily constitution indicates whether he is a born criminal. Lombroso proposed that criminals were biological throwbacks to an earlier

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    lipstick‚ and a pink pencil skirt. Not a man‚ but a woman. Is it wrong for this transgender woman to use the women’s restroom? Should this woman feel at risk just by going into the same gendered bathroom that they identify as? Gendered bathrooms are not only degrading for the transgender and lgbt community‚ but they are the definition of opposing equality. A person should feel safe and comfortable with themselves in a bathroom‚ no matter the gender. Did society really fight for equality for so long

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    from the quality of learning by not giving the student any reason to retain the knowledge‚ but instead to only “cram” and get that A. Therefore grades should be abolished because the grades put an obscene amount of stress on the student‚ encourage the student to take the easiest educational route and take away from the wealth of knowledge a student should be obtaining. From the first day of school a student is taught that A’s are great‚ B’s are good‚ and anything lower is simply unacceptable. This

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    Children in foster care should not be able to return to their parents who have committed a felony. It is unsafe for the child‚ the child is at risk to be singled out by other parents‚ and overall it is morally wrong. No child should every be able to return to their parent or parents if they are at risk in any shape or form. For a child to return to a parent or parents who have committed a felony is unsafe for the child. The parent may be mentally unstable‚ which may blur the way they think and

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    everyone was taught in English class can be frightening. In my opinion‚ English should be the national language because all can learn the same language if one is committed to practicing‚ one is fully educated properly‚ and one is fully discipline. What does it mean to be committed to a language? Speaking a language is a commitment when two people speak the same language with full understanding to answer back. For example; when two classmates want to start a conversation with one another‚ both need to

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    example‚ when a kid was bullied in a school‚ none of the students surrounding stepped in to lend a hand; when someone got assaulted on the streets and asked for help‚ people walked away pretending not seeing it; when there was a car accident‚ no one stopped and called the police. After the learning about the Bystander Effect‚ I realized that the examples above are the phenomenon that individuals are less likely to help a victim when some other people are present. One of the many explanations of the

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    up for college. If schools were to be longer‚ many teens that need to work to help support themselves would have difficulty finding a job that will fit to their schedule. It may also be hard for teens to hold that job. Another reason why schools should not be loner is because longer days would mean little extracurricular activities. This is very crucial‚ since it is one of the key factors that help many teens get into their choice of college. Colleges not only look at their grades in high school

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    Nihilism means that life is meaningless and that there is a rejection of all religious and moral principles. Nietzsche uses this concept when he explains his beliefs of the rejection universal standards of justice and virtue. For the explanation of this concept of nihilism uses a master and slave situation. This situation can be used to explain the nature of the master and the slave‚ the role that resentment plays‚ and the importance of strength. Nietzsche says that nihilism means that the highest

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