Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that texting and driving shouldn’t be allowed. Central Idea: Simple fact on how it puts everyone on danger that’s on the road and how many accidents it creates. Attention Getter: Imagine your leaving your house on your way to work and you need to drop off your daughter but you receive a text message‚ so as you are driving you look down and take a look at it but soon you realize it’s far too late and you have already hit the side of
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over whether we as a society should continue testing on animals. It seems for many this topic has quite a moral grey area. Some see it as something that is necessary in order for scientific research. Many of our scientific achievements of the last century have involved animal testing in some way. Others however see it as something that is wrong and unethical and feel like it should be abolished. Organizations such as PETA have developed‚ arguing that animals should have the same rights as humans
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James Morton Why Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized Marijuana has been used recreationally as well as medicinally for thousands of years. The earliest evidence of inhalation of marijuana‚ a small pile of charred cannabis/seeds‚ was found in Romania and believed to be dated prior to the 3rd millennia BCE. Marijuana use is considered to be beneficial to some‚ however has been controversially classified as a schedule 1 controlled substance‚ making it as illegal as heroin‚ politicians claim it to
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things are not censored some people may not want their children seeing it. I believe that it should be the individual who decides what is crossing the line. I say this because what some people may think is crossing the line to an extreme‚ others may say it just has a powerful meaning or just enjoy it. It is each individual’s decision to decide their preference. It becomes more difficult to decide if and what should be censored when it comes to children. Children are trying to grow up too fast anymore
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Comparing driving in the winter and driving in the summer is a little bit complicated because no matter what the weather‚ you still have to pay attention to the road and everyone else driving. Secondly‚ you must wear your seat belts at all times. Driving involves basic decision-making year round. Always stay alert and concentrate on getting from point A. to point B. In the winter rain and snow make the roads slick and hard to avoid dangerous situations. In the winter‚ a special tire is required
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textbook Assignment 1 (75 points) • Read chapters 1-‐3 • Take notes full-‐ sentence outline or full-‐sentence bulleted notes for each chapter o Notes should be approximately 3 pages per chapter § Scroll to the bottom for an example of notes format o Highlight important dates‚ persons‚ cultures‚ terms‚ ideas
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Why marijuana should be legalized in the United States I believe that marijuana should be legalized in the United States. Below here I will explain exactly why I feel so strongly about legalizing marijuana and the positive attributes that it possess. Once you finished reading you might have a different take on the matter at hand. First‚ even though marijuana is currently illegal it is less damaging to the body than other things that are legal such as tobacco and alcohol. People say you can get
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drug busts‚ criminal charges‚ DEA investigations‚ and jail time all come to my mind. All of these things that help keep marijuana illegal cost the country‚ the government‚ and the taxpayers massive amounts of money every year. The real question is why? Why do we try so hard and spend so much money suppressing a substance that is shown to benefit people for both recreational and medical uses. The negative side effects of marijuana and proven almost insignificant‚ especially when compared next to alcohol
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Why alcohol should not be legal 1 Why alcohol should not be legal Delono Walker Devry University April 10‚ 2011 Why alcohol should not be 2 In the 1920’s during world war one‚ the churches mostly Protestants began to lobby against the sales of alcohol: in order to slow crime and domestic abuse. Furthermore many saloons or bars were selling German
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Should Marijuana Be Legalized? Marijuana is a very prominent and controversial subject in our society today. There have been many slanderous claims about how cannabis is horrendous‚ however the truths are starting to surface. I strongly believe that marijuana should be legalized for all purposes. If the government cannot stop us from harming our bodies by overeating or skydiving‚ why should they be able to stop us from using drugs? The use of marijuana for medical purposes dates back thousands
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