Essays Tagged: "controversial issue"

Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

em, a public debate is going on to find some solutions to this drug dilemma. It has become a highly controversial issue whether drugs such as marijuana should be legalized or not. Some people advocate ...

(6 pages) 372 1 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Should Scholarship Athletes Work?

es were forbidden to hold jobs during the school year. For the last five years this has been a very controversial issue in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, known as the NCAA. Imagine bein ...

(2 pages) 60 0 3.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Child Abuse in Canada and the United States

has been around for decades and is only getting worse. Enclosed are some views and opinions on this controversial issue from "An Introduction to Child Abuse," by Duncan Lindsey focusing on The United ...

(4 pages) 226 3 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Legalizing Marijuana

the main question -- should marijuana be legalized?A wide range of viewpoints exist on this single controversial issue. Some believe this supposedly potent substance should remain illegal and associa ...

(11 pages) 1047 8 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Legalization

LegalizationLegalization of marijuana has been a controversial issue in the U.S. forthe past several years. The people vs. the federal government is ...

(3 pages) 77 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Need for Weed

or before you light up. Perhaps it's only a crack in the ice, but it is a start to a long-awaited, controversial issue that needs to be touched upon again.        In the fall of 1996 ...

(4 pages) 132 1 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Dress code in public schooling in America

The dress code in public schooling has been a controversial issue lately, both inMassachusetts and nation-wide. I feel some type of dress code wou ...

(3 pages) 177 2 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Gun control

Gun ControlGun control has been a controversial issue for years. A vast majority of people believe that if gun control is strictly enf ...

(2 pages) 141 0 4.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Morality and Gatsby in "The great Gatsby" by Fitzgeerald

Morality is a very controversial issue. That is one of the reasons what people areinterested in reading about it. Moral ...

(1 pages) 138 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Euthanasia and the Law

be a right allocated for bodied individuals of sound mind but for all human beings. Euthanasia is a controversial issue which encompasses the morals, values and beliefs of our society.Euthanasia, lite ...

(7 pages) 134 0 3.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The use of School uniforms in America. A continuing debate

continues regarding a uniform policy suggested to public and private schools. This develops into a controversial issue because valid argument exist on both sides. Giving this issue much thought has l ...

(2 pages) 156 1 4.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

on animal rights

Sarah BachmanProf. ClaneyComp 1Essay 3The use of animals to further medical research is a very controversial issue in the United States. Animal rights activist believe that confining animals and ...

(2 pages) 123 1 3.0 Sep/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Whose life is it? Reasons for legalizing euthanasia

is complicated but allowing people to die by assistance is far more complex. Euthanasia is still a controversial issue in North American society, in particular Canada. Euthanasia comes from the Greek ... o improve and advance, we should not justify euthanasia as a plausible murder. Euthanasia is a very controversial topic and both sides have fair arguments. Nevertheless, no one has the right to take a ...

(8 pages) 349 0 4.5 Oct/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

"Drugs" and Australian laws

ark. its based on australian laws by the way.[1.] IntroductionDrugs have been, and always will be a controversial issue in today's culture. They are the cause of a lot of debate and disagreement among ...

(6 pages) 75 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

"Cloning - A Gift From God ... Or an Injustice Towards Humanity?" A moral and religious debate between the pro's and con's of cloning.

arly lessons about morality and religion out the window, and created a whole religion in itself.The controversial issue of cloning has been, up until recently, a high tech fantasy of the far off futur ...

(7 pages) 446 5 4.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Turn of the Century Sports. Discusses the media's involvement with athletes and the influence of money.

he public steer it down the right path again.Recently athlete's salaries have developed into a very controversial issue. While players are making hundreds of millions of dollars their complaining seem ... seems asinine. Salary caps are rules that were developed to keep players and teams restricted from controversial money issues. These rules seem to be disputed every couple of years either by athletes ...

(3 pages) 81 0 4.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Both sides of the gun control issue -Which Side of the Barrel? The right to bear arms.

about their point of view. Both sides argue about what they feel are legitimate concerns about this controversial issue. A person who is still undecided on which side he should be on, will have his he ...

(4 pages) 210 2 2.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

The benifits of cloning.

A controversial issue of the twenty-first century is the possible application of new techniques in gen ...

(13 pages) 241 0 4.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

This is a persuasive paper i had to turn in last semester on Capital Punishment. All authors used are at the bottom of the last page.

ve committed extremely terrible crimes is a practice of ancient condition, but it has become a very controversial issue in todays society. Capital punishment has been used for centuries, even the Bibl ...

(10 pages) 783 1 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Essay on Opposing the Death Penalty with Bibliograpgy

Opposing the Death PenaltyThe death penalty has been a controversial issue in American society for the last twenty years. It started back in 1976 during th ...

(3 pages) 186 2 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty