Why wasn’t the Philippines better prepared for the typhoon? Corruption‚ shoddy buildings to blame Dan Kitwood / Getty Images An aerial view of a demolished coastal town on Eastern Samar Island on Nov. 14 in Leyte‚ Philippines. By Jim Maceda‚ Correspondent‚ NBC News As the Philippines grapples with the devastating aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan‚ Filipinos are asking why the country wasn’t better prepared to deal with the super storm. Government officials claim they were ready‚ broadcasting warnings of a potential 20foot
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Criminals Should Be Allowed to Vote The United States has had a history of disenfranchising criminals. (Nunn‚ 2005) This disenfranchisement can be seen in state laws that prohibit criminals from exercising their right to vote. However‚ this is not a new concept because denying criminals to vote can be traced to as early as ancient Rome. In Renaissance Europe‚ the justice system there has even a term they used as “civil death”. This means putting an end to a criminal’s capacity to exercise his right
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Seventy percent of schools ban cell phones from school‚ i disapprove. Phones should be allowed in school. Students should be able to use phones in class for projects‚ or class work. Also in case of a fire‚ lock down or we get kidnapped or lost. Phones are especially good for emergency. If anything happens and we can’t get in contact with our parents from the school we would have to use our personal cell phone. But with the “rule” of not being able to use them we wouldn’t have contact at all
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AT&T‚ T-Mobile Merger On March 20‚ 2011‚ AT&T announced that it would purchase T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for a staggering $39 billion dollars. The now second largest wireless distributor AT&T would become the largest over its competitor Verizon wireless by acquiring the 30.8 million subscribers that T-Mobile currently holds. This would not be the first time a merger took place between Wireless providers‚ in 2004 Sprint and Nextel merged and in 2009 Alltel merged with Verizon. So it came as
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Guns on a school campus is an issue with two clear sides‚ those who support allowing concealed weapons and those who rally for gun free zones. David Burnett supports the idea of allowing students to carry concealed weapons. Burnett’s central argument is that gun free zones leave students defenseless. Darby Dickerson disagrees‚ saying students do not understand the responsibilities of owning a weapon and should therefore‚ not be allowed to carry them on campus. Both Burnett and Dickerson have valid
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The real question is should schools have uniforms? Many people would argue both sides. There are many reasons why there should be school uniforms. There are also many reasons why there should not be school uniforms. This paper will cover why there should not be school uniforms. Schools should not have uniforms because it does not allow for students to express individuality. Students should be able to be themselves. They need to be able to stand out and be unique. No one wants to live in a world
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phones: sense of security‚ sense of self-character extension‚ and sense of dependence. Sense of security is the ability of mobile phones to reduce uncertainty and provide feelings of safety for its users. Studies have shown that one of the major reasons why people acquire cell phones is due to their personal security concerns (Totten‚ Lipscomb‚ & Cook‚ 2005). Sense of self-character is the idea that mobile phones are not just devices for communication but they also extend our sense of self (Ling & Yttri
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Another reason the U.S allowed the CIA to support the Contras was because they were fighting a regime that was influenced by Communism. The Sandinistas were also supported by the USSR‚ and keep in mind that this Nicaraguan Revolution was going on during the same time as the Cold War‚ meaning that the U.S already feared the spread of Communism from Russia and from Vietnam. As the Domino Theory states‚ America was afraid that if one country fell into communism‚ the neighboring countries would eventually
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teenagers and even kids now days‚ usually woke up late at around noon. To train kids to wake up early can only be done by making school starts as early as 7.30 am. In my opinion‚ I agree that school should start early. Allowing students to start school later would mean that students do not get proper life skills and preparation for the world outside of school. If students are allowed more time to sleep in the morning when thrust into the world of work they will not be prepared to get up. Getting a routine
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Do you think that all schools in the U.S should have school uniforms? Some people think that all schools should have schools uniforms‚ but most kids would not want that‚ it will make kids unhappy‚ there could just be a dress code‚ and it is expensive. In my opinion I think schools should not have school uniforms. In the first place‚ it could make the kids unhappy. Most kids would not like to wear the same exact thing every single day. They would want to express themselves by wearing what they want
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