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A Failing Argument

fourth premise is that a world in which people are free to try and harm others if they choose, but do not succeed in doing so is b...

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...

Human Rights and the Asian Values Argument

not be seen as universal needs to be considered, it may be argued that even in the west the concept of universal human rights is r...

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....

A Failed Argument: There Is No God That Is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Perfectly Good

Native Americans. Lets consider the Greeks briefly because their gods are familiar. We are dealing here with Zeus, the King of t...

Mark Edmundson's "On The Uses Of A Liberal Education" - Argument Against His Point Of View

virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without the benefit of decision-making or to experience the decision-making...

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...

An Argument for the Death Penalty

another. That, however, is precisely the point that a strict adherence to the death penalty would bring home to potential crimina...

PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS, THE TARGETING OF MINORITIES AND THE VALIDITY OF THE PRO-LIFE ARGUMENT

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Arguments: Businesses Must be Socially Responsible

define the purpose of the business in terms of its own needs and desires, and each perspective is valid and legitimate" (Rethinkin...

Argument: Illegal Immigration Has a Negative Effect on the U.S. Economy

and its easy to blame immigrants for lack of work-though they take the jobs most Americans dont want. Still, there is a profound s...

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

An Argument Against Euthanasia

only as an abomination in the eyes of God but also as a practice replete with possibilities of adverse incentives for the medical ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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...