really want to be stuck riding a bus as a senior in high school? Not really especially when you may have seniors privileges, where you can drive to school late and leave early, or off campus lunch ,or maybe even don’t have to come on certain days, but you cant because you have a driving permit. All that hard work through your three years of high school and studying just to get your permit I say students should be able to drive to school with that permit you earn. Driving is a privilege but it is
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driving should be fined as harshly as one caught driving with no seatbelts in use or even Driving under the influence. People use cell phones everywhere, walking, driving, at school, at work, at home. The need for these devices has increased dramatically, but in recent years, the used of these ones while driving has created so many accidents and fatalities that are irresponsible. Cell phones use is a major distraction to the drivers, because it occupies one's eyes and attention which should be appointed
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INTRODUCTION The approach to this question does require that one should look at the meanings of some concepts or terms used in it. These may include: lawyer/legal practitioner, immunity and negligence as the case may be. In England, the legal profession has two branches outside the bench- barristers and solicitors. The barrister is mainly involved in advocacy or litigation while the solicitor is the general legal adviser to the citizens. In Nigeria, the position is different. The two are fused
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Why I Should Be Allowed to Participate in Drug Court The past month has definitely been a learning experience for me. The biggest lesson that I have learned would have to be about complacency. Since I first started attending AA & NA meetings I have heard people say that they became complacent. They felt comfortable where they were in their sobriety and decided that it was okay to slack off a little bit. It was okay to miss the occasional meeting and not call their sponsor every day
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Kc Martin Sec 29 Eng1101 November 21, 2012 Should Weapons be allowed on Campus? Unfortunately in the last two decades school killing has become much more frequent. Tragedies such as Combine and Virginia Tech still in engraved in many students’ minds raises questions on just how safe a school campus really is. Many people believe students and professors should be able to enact their 2nds Amendment right “The Right to Bear Arms” at school for mental comfort. However there are also a number
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that would allow students from failing school districts to transfer to better ones, disadvantaged students–mostly poor and black–rushed across county lines to fill seats in far flung, affluent schools. The law was supposed to give thousands of students from unaccredited school districts an opportunity to attend higher-performing schools, a golden ticket for some of the neediest students in the state. But the law has triggered consequences that few school leaders, parents or politicians were prepared
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Why kids should not bring cell phones to school Many kids bring cell phones to school. Students should not be permitted to bring cell phones to school. If you were to drop in on any school, you’ll see everyone almost identical. They all look like robots with devices in their hands, typing away. Technology makes us multitask, fall behind in class work and makes us dependant on our devices. Many teachers allow students to listen to music in class, during independent work. Listening to music is fine
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Argumentative Essay An interracial family of cats lives behind your house. The family includes a blue cat, a red cat and a purple cat. A man wearing a black suit, a blue tie, and carrying a large suit case asks to use your cats in a commercial for IAMS cat food. Would you say yes? Advertisements featuring interracial families have generated vituperative comments online. Nevertheless, interracial families should unquestionably be allowed in commercials for they have influenced alliances between
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Women Should Not Be Allowed In Combat Mario Bernal Eng 121 One debate that has been going on for the past few years is the debate about women and if they should be allowed to fight for our country in front-line combat. I believe that women should not be able to fight in combat. Before you drop this paper and beat me up, let me just say I am not against women, women’s rights or anything like that! I believe that women in combat will change our male soldier’s mindset during combat and could be
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DaviesBalogun 1 Alexis DaviesBalogun Freshman Year Seminar Dr. Sara Frear 5 November 2014 Write a 750 1000word argumentative essay answering this question: How can the experience of disability contribute to the study of the liberal arts? The meaning of the liberal arts has changed over time due to the societal and cultural contexts that evolve with the world. Because of the continuous change, the world has defined the arts in many various ways, ranging from dance and music to public speaking
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Teenagers should not date seriously while they are in high school Cila Zheng Most people have the experience of dating. The feeling of fall in love is wonderful. But teenagers should not date seriously while they are in high school due to dating will cost a lot of time so it can affect the study , it is too young for teenagers to have a relationship in high school and they cannot take the responsibility for others. First of all, dating usually cost a lot of time , so it will affect the study
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Same Sex Marriage: Should it be Allowed? Gay marriage is frowned upon by most people with traditional backgrounds and ideas. It is considered wrong and sometimes unholy. Same se marriage has always been one of the biggest social taboos. However, I have a question. Why would we forbid same sex marriage when we know that there is nothing we can do to stop same sex relationships? It is no secret that homosexual relationships are out there. What could we hope to achieve by would a couple the ability
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Students enrolled in a public high school should berequired to wear a school uniform. Many studies show that when school-uniform policies are put into place, there is animprovement in both attitude and schoolwork. Wearinguniforms would also reduce clothing costs and many problemsrelated to competition in dress.Uniforms can improve the school environment, leadingto better student behavior and better grades. Mrs. Chung, a highschool principal, conducted research on the results of wearinguniforms.
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Argumentative Essay Cigarettes Should Not Be Banned Word Count: 1057 Tobacco products, cannabis and alcohol are amongst one of the most used recreational drugs in Australia. Australian’s smoke approximately 21 billion cigarettes a year. Advocates against the production, sale and use of cigarettes suggest so on the basis of the associated health risks and smoking as an environmental hazard. However, to consider the banishment of cigarettes does not consider basic human rights to its most
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education programs increase young people’s level of knowledge about sex and sexuality, push back the average age at which they first have sexual intercourse and decrease risk when they do have sex. The question many people ask is “Should sex education be taught in school?”, I believe the answer is yes. Sex education is the process of learning about and forming attitudes and beliefs about sex and sexual identity, relationships, and intimacy. Sex education is also about developing young people’s skills
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will be put into a database, where it will “help” match offenders to an unsolved crime. It’s said to be that taking a swab of DNA from someone is “violating” the 4th amendment but some don’t believe that is true. I do not agree to Officers being allowed to take a swab of my DNA, because they can accuse me of something I may have not done just because some sort of my DNA was found at crime scene. A few reasons to why this may be bad are because if they found some sort of DNA at a crime scene and it
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PEOPLE SERVING TIME IN PRISON SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO STUDY TOWARDS A COLLEGE DIPLOMA OR UNIVERSITY DEGREE Though prisoners are criminals and may deserve punishment, they should be treated as human beings and educate them, in order to give them a chance to change and be useful for society in the future. Education is a human right, though it could be pricey. Many prisoners are very eager to learn and were just never given the opportunity. According to Hughes (2012), “Education
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Should schools be concerned with parental/home involvement? Introduction This assignment will look at the importance of parental involvement in schools and their child’s education and two of the main areas concerning communication between parents and schools. Firstly, this report asks the question is parental involvement important? Secondly, school reports are considered with an analysis of their effectiveness as a means of communication and thirdly parents’ evenings as a forum for discussion
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English Composition II (ENC-102) Argumentative Essay Public workers go beyond the call of duty more than any other profession, but in many ways are treated worse than workers in the private sector. In the private sector most workers get perks that public workers will never get, such as bonuses and, holidays off. Unionized private sector workers have the legal right to
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standard way of thinking about cellphones has it that they are a distraction to our society. On the contrary, I had the experience of using a mobile device in a classroom; I found it quite beneficial in the school’s environment. I looked around the classroom to see all the students interacting with the teacher’s lesson. This was a unique encounter with technology and education which can put these ideas into a new, valuable perspective. If students were allowed to use cellphones, it would heighten their
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individual needs. It sometimes takes months up to years for certain children to be placed into a foster care family and away from foster care. The limited amount of resources that the children need are not enough to fulfill their needs that the children should have. The system also doesn’t give enough to each individual what it really takes to care for that child. Another interference with the foster care is keeping the siblings separate. It becomes more difficult to place siblings in the same home due
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Cellphones in the Classroom George Newman ENG 215 April 27, 2015 Lanny A. Kope, EdD Cellphones in the Classroom Introduction Although students have been using cell phones consistently in their daily lives for almost a decade, many schools continue to resist allowing the devices into the classroom. Schools generally come to grips with new technologies, but the reputation of the cellphone as a nuisance and a distraction in the classroom has been hard to dislodge. Many teachers, administrators
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Student Name Instructor Course Date of Submission On Preventing the Use of Drugs in School Between one in five and one in three high school students in America have used drugs or alcohol.1 Many of these children see drugs for the first time while they are at school. The ever-increasing problem of teenage drug use can hardly be understated. That is why teachers should have the right to search students for drugs on school grounds. The Fourth Amendment states that “The right of the people to be secure
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Your school is considering making Spanish language a mandatory class for students each year because of the demographic changes in the United States. Students already fluent in Spanish may enroll in Spanish literature courses. Write a letter to your school board that takes a position and either supports the mandatory Spanish language classes or not. Do you want to waste your time for a language you do not want to learn? Anyone would love to learn the language of his or her choice. If Spanish is
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Cellphone Usage in the Air Picture this, you are sitting. Everyone around you is moving around getting situated for the three hour flight that lies ahead. You’re comfortably packed in your heat and just waiting for the plane to take off running. “HELLO! Wait what? Speak up, I can’t hear you!” a loud booming voice is speaking to, what sounds to be like someone on the other end of the plane. But to your surprise it is young women on the phone trying to call her boyfriend. What if you had to hear her
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Jacob Stafford Mrs. Smith ENGL 0892 March 2, 2015 Argumentative Essay Throughout all my years of schooling, I have always attended public school that did not require a dress code. At the time, I didn’t see any problem with it because it was how I was raised. When I met my fiancé, I learned that she went to a private Catholic school growing up where she had to wear a uniform for their dress code every day. My first reaction was to think that must have been horrible. Didn’t they get tired of wearing
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Grade 8 Mount Vernon School Room 218 Persuasive Essay / Cellular Telephone Cell Phones: Many American youth now have cell phones that they carry with them everywhere .Should cell phones be allowed at school ?Many teachers and students claim that phones are distracting while many parents and students insist that phones are necessary
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Why Sex Education Should Be Taught In Schools Most America teenagers are sexually active and think nothing could ever happen to them. But, many of them are misinformed about the risks that are involved in sex. Teens also don't always know the best ways to protect themselves and their partners from becoming pregnant or getting STD's. Alan Harris said, the more educated someone is the more likely they are to make responsible and informed choice for their behaviors. Sex education given by
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Should Teenagers Be Allowed to Get Birth Control without the Permission of Parents? KaTrina Bacon English 215 February 2, 2012 Dr.Sharonda Johnson Should Teenagers Be Allowed to Get Birth Control without the Permission of Parents? Of all the many controversies that have affected the United States in the past decades, birth control has been one of the more important topics. Some popular birth control methods are the female and male condoms, and the birth control pill. Even though both of
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believe the gay couples should not be allowed to adopt children since it brings to many effects such as emotion, sex education, and the nature. First of all, the negative effects of children have raised under homosexual are exits. The supporting same-sex groups claim that children will grow up normally under raising of gay couples; however, there are many influences that cannot be denied. The strongest influence is children behavior, for it brings bad emotions in school time. For example, children
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