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Dream Argument of Rene Descartes

entire world does not revolve around them? Descartess dreaming argument likely suggests more than ones inability to determine whet...

Argument Against Concealed Weapon Carrying

This paper opposes the right to conceal weapons in nine pages. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Presidential Campaigning, the Toulmin Argument, Jeremy Bentham, and David Hume

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the conservative Bentham with the liberal Hume and then applies their concepts to...

Arguments for and against gun control

This is based not only on sociocultural factors such as crime rates, but also on different perspectives on the 2nd Amendment. ...

Tulsa Schools/A Toulmin Argument

society. It is quite conceivable that cutting teacher salaries will discourage and frustrate teachers, encouraging many to leave ...

An Argument for Social Security Privatization

virtually done away with pension plans in lieu of other benefits. This has placed more concern about Social Security in the laps o...

AN ARGUMENT SUPPORTING A SINGLE, GLOBAL CURRENCY

euro, and now the Middle East countries are going through the same thing as they attempt to reach a consensus for a single currenc...

The Argument for Banning Generically Engineered Food

an absence of proof for specific harm. If we cannot sell drug that are not safe, with the requirement for intensive and long term ...

Arguments in Favor of Gambling

times. However, not all societies approve of it or approach it in the same way. Since there is a great deal of criticism of it as ...

Argument in Favor of Increasing Veteran's Benefits

sacrifices their lives for their country, then the country should take care of their families. Of course, efforts like Hannitys an...

Argument: It is Unfair to Cut Veterans' Benefits

crackdown on veterans is the ballooning deficit, which is growing daily as the war in Iraq continues. Ironically, it is the veter...

Same Sex Marriage Argument

individual has many different rights, and they have the right to pursue their own well being, their own dreams, their own style of...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Microsoft Trial and Arguments

monopoly" (Brinkley, 2000). (This isnt unknown business practice; Detroit routinely buys up inventions that might lead to more fu...

An Argument in Support of Abortion

then do total strangers intrude into this womans life to force their beliefs on her? I do think that anti-abortionists ferventl...

Rene Descartes' 'Dreaming Argument' in Meditations

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

Death Penalty Argument

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

Argument: Prayer Does Not Belong in Public Schools

a hole in that wall. The purpose of public schools is to "educate, not to proselytize" (Gaylor). Advocates of prayers in public s...

Logical Vietnam Argument Perspectives

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

Book IX in 'The Iliad' by Homer and Arguments of Ajax, Phoenix, and Odysseus

this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...

Marijuana Legalization Supporting Arguments

it made people violent and by the 1930s, the substance was illegal in all states (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). In 1936, Po...

An Argument Against Capitalism

However, when looking at the way that the model manifests, while having benefits many it may also be argued as causing harm and di...

Compatibilism Supporting Arguments

then free will itself is not possible (Bass, 2002). This does not relate to the argument of the implausibility of free will and d...

Team Sports Equality Argument

REQUIREMENTS The safety standards which are customary for protection of the health and safety of males in sports and competitive ...

One Classic Argument from The Crito

in a different time and place and almost seems like a fairy tale. Yet, if one were to consider that Socrates was a part of a cultu...

Argument: Taking Antidepressants Does Not Lead to Suicide

over whether or not SSRIs increase suicidality since 1990, when a paper appeared discussing "6 cases in which intense suicidal pre...

Argument: Children Without Siblings Should Serve in Combat

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...

Argument: Television Violence Does Not Harm Children

the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...

CAFTA: PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS

with this agreement, it wont have that much of an impact; rather, other sectors, such as agriculture, construction equipment and o...

AN ARGUMENT FOR REPEALING THE U.S. PATRIOT ACT

whim of the FBI or CIA. The ACLU points out, for example, that Section 215 of the Act allows the FBI to...