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US Society and the Death Penalty Argument

Penalty, 2002). Society has changed considerably since the 14th century BCE, and it is evident that the way in which our so...

Dreaming Argument of Rene Descartes Analyzed by Norman Malcolm

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

Cogito Argument of Rene Descartes

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

Bilingual Education Argument

is embraced by American schools to varying degrees. Still, the subject usually attracts heated debates. Bilingual education is t...

War on Drugs Argument and Rebuttal

needed for the nations poor and undereducated. Drugs should be legalized as the war against them is not winnable, and more importa...

Argument: Poor Urban Life Contains Certain Fixed Elements

the people merely accept poverty, gangs and an extensive drug subculture as part of modern urban life. Yet, does the popular media...

Animal Conservation Argument

the normal way of life. While in this schizophrenic society people eat animals, they also keep animals as pets, and so there is a ...

The Argument from Queerness by John L. Mackie

avoids trying to force the same concept of right and wrong upon all of the worlds societies, objectivism believes there is conside...

Social Change and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Arguments

the Nobel Peace prize(Adams,1963). As more successes were gained by persons of color, the more the backlash grew violent....

Analyzing an Argument

come to light in the past ten years. Those who have shopped at Hearsts Delight for years are likely to be...

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...

Rousseau, Jefferson, Paine & The Enlightenment

the idea that the aristocracy was inherently better than other socioeconomic classes and, therefore, entitled by their superiority...

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: Carrying Concealed Firearms Helps Society

violent crime. They also state plainly that carrying concealed handguns has its "greatest deterrent effect in the highest crime co...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

The Use of Rogerian Argument

reference is (Dziamka, 2007). This is the really difficult aspect of Rogerian argument, because most of us have already made up o...

Argument: The Status Quo Favoring the Death Penalty is Unjust

all those "red blooded Americans" who have the "love it or leave it" mindset, it might be useful to point out that this list conta...

Argument: Blackwater Should Not Be Above the Law

women, children, civilians and anyone who gets in their way (Scahill). In Fallujah, for instance, the American commander insisted ...

Rogerian Argument

how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about" (Dziamka, 2007). That is, we ha...

Assessment of Arguments Presented by Medea and Jason in Euripides’ Medea

Medea would also benefit: "What luckier chance could I have come across than this, An exile to marry the daughter of the king? It ...

Immigration: An Argument for Stepped Up Control Policies

million in 2006 (Pastor 12). While many immigrants, Mexican or otherwise, contribute substantially to U.S. society, they also dra...

Why a Draft Should be Implemented (Policy Argument)

there are many opposed to the concept. Yet, ironically, it is for that very reason why the proposal must be accepted. That is, the...

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...

Anti Abortion's Normative Argument

all abortions in the United States. The abortion rate of Black women is three times that of White women." Anti-abortion activist...

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

Argument: Under International Law, the Iraq War is Legal

94). The U.S. and the U.K., in making their legal case for war, "did not base the legality of their attack against Iraq on a self...

Argument: Trade Liberalization Does Not Lead to Environmental Damage

and resource-degrading activities - such as subsidies to agriculture, fishing and energy" (Trade liberalization, 1999). The WHO a...

Argument: We Should Reduce the Use of Plea Bargaining

of the process but refute others (LaFree, 1985). Specifically, defendants that were more "criminally experienced," as well as thos...