Contributing Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

A question facing the justice system today is whether or not prisoners should be allowed the opportunity of an education. Both sides of this debate present a strong argument. But a stronger case can be made for educating prisoners. Giving prisoners an education would provide them with the chance to improve themselves. Upon their release they would have a better chance at contributing to society with the marketable skill they had learned and the knowledge they had acquired. Criminals do not normally get hired easily but perhaps a criminal who tried to better themselves while in prison would have an easier time finding a job. ...

Global climate change is one of the biggest problems facing the world today. Between the excessive consumption of non-renewable resources that many industrialized nations are guilty of and the growing environmental problems of waste management, the environment of the planet has been changed completely. Whether or not this change is reversible is still debated by scientists; one thing that is for certain, however, is that if care is not taken by everyone on the planet, the changes that have occurred in the past few hundred years will become permanent. Reducing the carbon footprint of every individual and company on ...

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In most of the third world countries throughout the world, many children do not have access to basic medical care and even essential vaccinations that can prevent the various childhood diseases that pose a deadly risk to mortality rate of children. This is because of the extreme levels of poverty in those countries. A lot of these children pass away everyday due to nutrition related illnesses and also form water supplies that are contaminated. The efforts of global institutions like the WHO and UNICEF has helped to alleviate the intensity of this menace but it is quite clear that there ...

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Through their activities, commercial organizations generate waste that contributes to climate change. Although effort is being made to limit human impact on the environment, the commercial waste is still one of the major problems for the environment that results into climate change. Electric energy is an important resource that is wasted across most commercial organizations. Further on, the wasted resources facilitate climate change. This paper argues that commercial organizations’ wasted electric energy contributes to the climate change.

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Commercial organizations are the institutions that carry out activities that imply selling products or services. Their activities developed for satisfying market’s ...

Fast food consumption has increased manifold amongst children in the past few decades and so has the resultant obesity. Trends show that 17.6% of adolescents between the ages of 12 years to 19 years are overweight. Studies show that because of the decreasing prices of foods and easier availability of fast foods, which are energy density foods, there is a strong likelihood of consumption of fast foods leading to weight gain. However, there are limited number of studies done in this field and there are arguments which support the fact that because of the higher prices of fast foods, there have ...

Executive Action Plan for Immigration Reform

The immigration laws in the United States are in need of an update. This country is originally made up of immigrants, and immigrants today contribute to our economy. Citizens of the United States have varying views on immigration and the laws that should or should not be upheld. Being an immigrant myself, I feel that immigration is of a large to concern to myself and my family. I would not have been able to come here, receive an education and start a family if the immigration laws were stricter. The Republican Party is upset at President Barack Obama for pushing for a ...

Drugs in Latin America

Introduction
Latin America is regarded as a central geographical zone for the production, trading, and trafficking of the drugs. However, the Andean countries of Peru, Columbia, and Bolivia are the major producers of cocaine in the world, while Mexico, Caribbean, and Central America are the major corridors for the transport of drugs into Europe and the United States. More and more people are participating in the drug trade. Cocaine is one of the major drugs that have done great damage in the United States, and it has exerted bad impacts on the society. People are involving in crimes and ...

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Senegal is a western African country located 14 degree north of the equator and 17 degree west of the meridian. Senegal owes its name to the Senegal River flowing across the east and north borders of the country. The capital of the country is Dakar. As it was a French colony for a long time the official language of the country is French. Apart from that Wolof, Fula and Serer are the most spoken languages in the country. Senegal has a population of around 12 million. The GDP of the country is $26 billion with a per capita income of $2026 (CIA, 2013). The ...

Women have been portrayed to be weaker than men by the media and society, in general. They have been shown to be less valuable in the workplace, with most media showing them as deserving the smaller roles in the workplace. These aspects, coupled with other factors have led to the characteristic wage gap between men and women in the work place. All over the world, women receive less compensation for their work than men do. For instance in the US, women at the same level as men make on average 22% less or 77 cents on the dollar (Cames, ...

Since ancient times, human sexuality has been a debate that has influenced culture, societal norms, and gender responsibilities. Naturally, there are two distinct sexes—male and female—and anything in between makes an individual ostracized in the society. Furthermore, because of many societies having a propensity for patriarchy, practices have resulted in making one gender inferior to the other or superior to the other. For instance, circumcision in males is seen as a sign of manhood and strength, while circumcision in females—termed as female genital mutilation (FGM) – is a way of suppressing women sexually (Ehrenreich and Barr 17). Internationally, FGM has been ...

Primates constitute over two hundred species of all living things. These are considered to be the closest relatives to human beings, in the evolution hierarchy. They vary in size, their habitats and their geographical location, whereby they are distributed throughout different geographical locations and habitats like forests, woodlands, savannahs, and high-altitude grasslands. Primates have some distinct characteristics, which include short snout, nails instead of claws, hands and feet with five digits, a relatively large brain as well as an increased reliance on vision rather than scent (Onishi and Namakichi 9).
Because of their widespread distribution in places of habitat, ...