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- 1161: Interlingua is Doomed
- ... language we have today. But this is where the Interlingua enthusiasts pull the brake saying, no, it must be a new constructed language everyone learns from scratch, because if we use an already existing natural language, all its native speakers would form an elite. The fact that the Interlingua enthusiasts normally excel in the very constructed language they advocate does not ... words and expressions, especially in isolated and remote communities. Different people have different needs for words dictated by their surroundings and their professions. Based on the need of terminology the everyday vocabulary of a fisherman in the North Atlantic is bound to be quite different from that of a tobacco farmer in Turkey or a hot dog vendor in New York ...
- 1162: America's Zoos: Entertainment to Conservation
- ... provides no warmth and the atmosphere is sterile. The animals do not appear very happy in this closed-in environment. Just who are these anxious animals? They are the common everyday animals any child could name: the bears, the tigers, the elephants and the monkeys. What about the rest of the world's unique creatures? Hundreds of species are endanger of ... humanity with which they treat the animals. Animal welfare has become a concern within our country. This group is not to be confused with the animal rights movement. Without the use of violence, one of the animal welfare movement's goals is to improve the way these institutions, like the city zoos, provide for these animals (Burke, 1990). Honoring the conservation ...
- 1163: Capital Punishment
- ... according to an article written by Richard Warsnop, entitled "Death penalty debate centers on Retribution," 80% of the United States supports Capital Punishment. Eighty percent of the people we see everyday believes in an "eye for an eye." This eighty percent of our population would vote for a murderer to be killed even with all of the downfalls that Capital Punishment ... against his ideas or laws that he should strike down on them with vengeance, for they deserved it. Is that what we are trying to teach our society? By the use of capital punishment we find our society stuck in this whole where we believe it is wrong to kill, yet we believe that Capital Punishment is right. As a majority ...
- 1164: Legalization of Drugs
- Legalization of Drugs It is clear that most of the serious problems the public associates with illegal drug use are, in reality, caused directly or indirectly by drug prohibition. Let's assume the war on drugs is given up as the misguided enterprise it is. What will happen? The ... legal. How about those slick young drug dealers who are the new role models for the youth of the inner cities? With their designer clothes and Mercedes convertibles, being seen everyday with a smug smile that says crime pays. They snicker at the honest kids going to school or to work at the minimum wage. The day after legalization, the honest ...
- 1165: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment I strongly feel that capital punishment is essential in our legal system, as well as everyday life. Just as a toddler needs to be disciplined when he or she has a tantrum, a murderer needs to be punished for his or her actions. The death penalty ... spare money to spend on more important things. I find no logical reason why the government should spend money to feed, cloth, house, and entertain the murderers, when they could use the extra dollars to council, reprimand, and treat petty criminals to prevent more severe crimes in the future. Capital punishment brings closure to a victim's family and friends. No ...
- 1166: Law and Morality
- Law and Morality It is not an everyday occurrence that someone must decide the fate of another's life. The dilemma of making a decision that someone must die in order for the others to survive, can obviously ... are five of them in the bunker, there is only enough food for four people to survive for the remaining fifteen days. Rationing the food will not be of any use, because all will die with such a plan. The only way for most of the survivors to live for the next fifteen days is for one to die. Somehow they ...
- 1167: The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
- ... Drinking Age Bill unfairly discriminates against eighteen-year-olds who can marry, carry weapons, serve in the military, and vote. (Charles S. Clark, “Underage Drinking,” March 13, 1992, p.3) Everyday, taxpayers' money is spent controlling underage drinking and deciding the consequences that will follow. If the age of majority were to be lowered to eighteen, taxpayers' money could be saved to use on something more valuable. In addition, teenagers would not feel as though they were being controlled. In addition to saving money, studies show that alcohol is easily obtained and most ...
- 1168: Canada's Copyright Law
- ... of a copyright law is needed, the one we have has, too many holes to be effective. There are three main ways in which the copyright law is broken in everyday life. They is audio/video tape copying, plagiarism, and software piracy. The first, and most commonly violated aspect of the copyright law, is the copying of audio tapes for oneself ... the author credit, the student has claimed the work as his own. Another reason students may copy someone else's work is to sound more sophisticated hoping that if they use someone elses words it will sound better than their own. Generally, this provides an easy way for a teacher or the police to catch them. Teachers also plagiarize rather frequently ...
- 1169: Alcoholism
- Alcoholism A person does not have to drink everyday to be an alcoholic. Someone who drinks frequently or sometimes gets drunk is not necessarily an alcoholic. It is possible to abuse alcohol for a short period of time without ... contribute to the development of alcoholism. These include family conflict, divorce, and job security. Other problems reported in children of alcoholic parents include hyperactivity, school problems, antisocial behavior, and drug use. Studies indicate that children of alcoholics have an increased risk of alcoholism even when they have no exposure to drinking parents. Next, the effects of alcohol on the human body ...
- 1170: Pros And Cons Of Abortion
- ... sex. It is found that almost all of the 742 low-income women who received abortions in 1970-1971 at the State University Hospital in Syracuse, New York, intended to use contraception in the future, an attitude that was even stronger after their abortions (Smith). Perhapsthe abortion is actually a lesson in life. Another positive impact is maturity. How might a ... their abortion experience? Well the most obvious example of maturity is after an abortion the aborted person usually changes their bad habits. This could be anything from safe sex to everyday things like listening to others. This may not have been the case before the abortion. When people were asked how they felt about themselves after the abortion many of them ...
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