...citizenship 'by birth' or 'at birth,' either by being born 'in' the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship 'at birth." This would classify Cruz eligible to run for president as his father was from Cuba, but earned his citizenship in the United States. His mother was born in Delaware, simplifying that side of the family. Given the chance, Trump would take extreme measures to secure his victory in the Republican race; even it means slandering the people running against him. Just like in 1844 - which included Whig Party leader, Thurlow Weed – dirty tricks are being thrown. Although it was much more drastic in 1844 (in which Thurlow Weed accused...
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...The Problem with the Safety of Roundup Ready Soybeans Aurelia Bright Abstract: Farmers have been looking for a labour and time effective solution to weeds that grow and compete with their crops since they began farming. In 1970 when Monsanto introduced Roundup, a systemic herbicide, farmers rejoiced. Because Roundup is effective against annual and perennial weeds it was time efficient as it enabled farmers to treat a field once rather than twice as was previously necessary. The next landmark innovation came in the form of herbicide resistant crops, specifically, Roundup Ready crops. These were crops that genetically engineered to be resistant to Roundup which allowed farmers to spray fields with herbicide. They no longer had to discern between what a weed was and what was a crop, they could spray everything indiscriminately. This simple weed management system went on to revolutionise the entire farming industry. Introduction: Charles Darwin first set out the theory of evolution in the 19th century. He proposed that plants and animals were in competition for the same resources and that only the fittest and strongest survive and pass on their genes to the next generation. Farmers have been giving their crops a helping hand in that fight since 10,000 B.C. by weeding, using salt to deter pests and keeping seeds from high yielding crops to sow the following year (Kingsbury, 2009). Over time, as farmers came to understand more about breeding techniques, they began to choose...
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...Carlos Johnson Jr. Speech 101 Persuasion speech Marijuana is a mixture of dried and shredded leaves, stems and seeds and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant. This drug can either be brown, gray, green or purple. It has multiple names; cannabis, grass, marijuana and weed are only a few of them. Marijuana can be used in multiple ways. It can be smoked through a water pipe, “joint”, smoking paper used to roll it into, or as a “blunt,” which is a hollowed out cigar filled with the drug. It can also be made into edible items such as brownies or cookies. It was originally brought to the “New World” in 1545, but was introduced and used as a cash crop in Jamestown in 1611. The drug never really caught on and had been used until the 1920’s. Many people believe that the prohibition was the cause of the cannabis use. It was mostly used by people in show business and was not considered a social threat, but yet a treat (Narconon). Marijuana was listed in the United States Pharmacopeia until 1942. The United States Federal Bureau of Narcotics conducted a campaign in the 1930’s to show that weed is dangerous to society and is very addictive. In 1937 the Marihuana Tax Act made Cannabis federally illegal in the United States. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 classified marijuana along with heroin and LSD as a Schedule I drug (Narconon). Should this product really be illegal? People look at it as being such a negative drug, but have they ever really looked at the positive views of...
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...Heading Heading Heading Title A lot of people in America perceive marijuana and people who use marijuana as something so horrible because of the way that the government portrays it, but most of those people who think this way fail to know the truth about marijuana. The fact of the matter is that the “dangers” of marijuana are over exaggerated and its classification is way out of proportion. Views about the use of cannabis have evolved over the decades. Cannabis has been around for centuries and legally used and distributed as a natural resource until it began to gain restrictions and regulations in the late 1800s and early 1900s soon leading to the illegalization of it in the 1930s with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 (Guither). In the eyes of many people, the reasons for the illegalization of growing and distributing the hemp plant are untrue or over exaggerated, and this paper will address why marijuana should be legalized in America. The reasons for why the government should take the action of legalizing the use of marijuana, or cannabis, are endless, but this paper focuses on the facts that cannabis has a multitude of known, positive uses, that legalizing it will take thousands and thousands of good people out of prisons, and that legalizing the use of marijuana could actually have economically positive effects on the country. Marijuana has been around long before it was known as a recreational drug in the early 1900s. The known uses of the hemp plant go back to as early...
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...Everywhere people look, listen, and interact, there is an attempt to market them for one purpose or another; some are obvious, while others are harder to detect. In the rhetorical environment of politics exists exaggerated ethical, logical, and emotional appeals whose purpose is to entice, deter, or change a person’s views on a subject. Americans are forced to weed through messages to mine the truth out of them. The most effective way to ensure you have an unbiased grasp is to research how the individual parts of an advertisement break down and how they all relate back to each other to create an effective lure. In demonstrating an appeal to ethos, the political advertisement “Judgement” highlights the extremist behavior of Barak Obama’s pastor...
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...of it is just malicious gossip and sometimes even oral defamation. A lot of times it is just a reporter or a writer just trying to make an extra buck in my opinion and I don’t feed in to much of the Celebrity gossip. As far as politics go, I don’t believe anything until I have done a full thorough investigation for myself to see if anything is true or just gossip.2. “How do you approach research?”First you need to know exactly what you are researching and where you would like to find the information such as the library, the courthouse, the internet. It all really depends on what you’re researching. You then need to identify what would you like your end result to be, what you would like to find and how you would deem your research successful. You then need to compare what information you already have and what else you need. You will then need to contrast and analyze your researching and what exactly you have researched.3. “What are your biggest challenges in doing research?”My biggest challenges when doing research is having like a road block, not knowing where to go next or where to possibly turn to. While some websites like wikis may be great for some purposes, they are just not all that well adapted to research. Sometimes it is also difficult to weed out what is true and false in some case.4. “What are some tips that you think will help you and others in conducting research?”· I think having a variety of options available to conduct research is a big help. Such as the internet...
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...even reached out to 30 different scientists asking them if cannabis is dangerous and should be banned , 29 of whom told him that marijuana does not need to be banned in the U.S. yet Anslinger picked out the one scientist who said yes, and presented him to the world. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-influence/real-reasons-marijuana-is-banned_b_9210248.html) At the time the U.S. was gripped with fear over one particular case where a boy cut up his family with an axe supposedly because he was under the influence of cannabis. (http://www.thursdayreview.com/VictorLicataPot.html) as a ramification of years of”Reefer madness” propaganda suggesting that marijuana use can destroy the human spirit,And make fools and whores of young women And that weed was Evil altogether (http://flashbak.com/reefer-madness-mid-century-anti-marijuana-propaganda-in-movies-and-books-35558/) In 1937 the Marijuana tax act was passed, the first legislation that effectively criminalized marijuana, restricting possession of the drug to individuals who paid an excise tax for certain authorized medical and industrial uses. This and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 which raised federal penalties for marijuana possession and dealing, basing the penalties on the amount of the drug involved. Possession of 100 marijuana plants received the same penalty as possession of 100 grams of heroin. Both of these laws greatly contribute to the mass incarceration of minorities. Cannabis is not more dangerous than alcohol and...
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...drugs because of their curiosity, individual freedom and choice, cultural characteristics, or relaxation activities and the substitute for modern medicine. Modern hemp and cannabis are distinctive assortments of the same species, Cannabis sativa. Weed generally contains 3 to 15 percent of the psychoactive fixing delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on a dry-weight premise, while mechanical hemp contains 1 percent. Be that as it may, the two mixtures are unclear by appearance. In the United States, Cannabis sativa is delegated a Timetable I controlled substance, paying little respect to its opiate content, under the Controlled Substances Go about as changed. Since 1990, mixtures containing under 0.3 percent THC have been sanctioned in Incredible Austria, England, Switzerland, and Germany. Canada and Australia authorized hemp generation in 1998. In different nations, for example, Hungary, China, and Russia, hemp production was never prohibited (Clark, 2011) Curiosity In my experience, for some people who try marijuana, it is out of curiosity. They may have seen their friends, family members, or even just some random people on the street smoking and wanted to know what it felt like to smoke marijuana. Most try and stay far away from weed because they hear of all...
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...Guillermo C. Reboca Case Study 3 “Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Wheat” BMGT 496 – 4021 Dr. Alan Goodman University of Maryland University College April 11, 2011 I. Thesis Statement Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) are the result of splicing foreign genetic material, like a transgene, into a target organism’s DNA to create an organism showing at least one new genetic characteristic. With the world’s population continuing to increase, farmers and their crops will be heavily relied on to produce the worlds agricultural needs. As one of the leading agricultural company in the world, Monsanto is focused on sustainable agriculture and has been one of many company that has assisted farmers in developing seeds that can lead produce the necessary result the world needs. One of the ways they do this is by creating genetically modified seeds such as the Roundup Ready Wheat seeds that can yield increase crops and be safe for consumption. However, because of opposition to GMO from other countries and organizations, Monsanto has the answer the moral question of whether or not to introduce the wheat or delay it or drop it entirely. I think Monsanto should introduce the wheat but only on a trial and timed basis. II. Significant Facts – Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Wheat Monsanto is one the of the world’s largest agricultural companies that specializes in both conventional and genetically modified organism (GMO) seeds and other products. They pride themselves in respecting...
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...The History of the War on Drugs in America The War on Drugs here in America has been a stable talking point in politics for at least the last 30 years. And our view on how the war is being handled has been changing every year also. To understand why the current view of the War on Drugs is as it is today, one must look at the history of this war and its effects on the citizens. At the start of the twentieth century, there weren’t any nationwide laws stating that drugs were illegal. There were some state laws that made certain drugs illegal, but those laws were mainly targeting a certain group of individuals like the anti-opium laws that were directed at Chinese immigrants. The first big nationwide law on drug use was passed in 1937 called the Marijuana Tax act, which was developed to tax it to stop the use and distribution of it. The next big law to be passed would be in 1951. The Boggs Act established mandatory minimum federal sentences for possession of certain drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, and other opiates. Which in 1956 they would increase the sentences with the Narcotic Control Act. While these bills were being enacted into law, the president at the time, Eisenhower established the U.S. Interdepartmental Committee on Narcotics, where in by being the first president to call to arms a war on drugs. The War on Drugs wasn’t officially declared until President Nixon declared drugs as public “enemy number one” in a speech in 1971, which a year earlier the government...
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...Steps towards Mobocracy Everybody knows that Politics and Religion form the bedrock of a civilised human society. Both are supplementary to each other and fill the void present in the societal framework. While the latter is almost a stagnant concept, the former i.e. politics is very dynamic in nature and compensates for the stagnancy in religion and its branches. Politics is omnipresent. It exists in various forms all around the world and has shaped the current face of the world. The geographical divide between nations is bridged or further widened by political forces and its ever changing paradigm. The Indian political scenario is witnessing a watershed since last two years. The rampant corruption in the government agencies, its ministers and bureaucrats has shaken the people of the country from slumber and has infused a deep sense of anger, revolt and a slight hue of responsibility and belongingness towards the State. The involvement of people in the fight against corruption and other vices is really worth appreciating. It shows the real face of Democracy, which is also a government ‘By the People’. But it is pertinent to ask that even in a democratic setup, up to what extent is the involvement of public feasible and productive for the State? It is true that all the policies of the government are meant for public welfare and the laws serve the people, but when this ‘involvement’ does become an ‘intrusion’ and turns disruptive in nature? Revolutions by the people of a country...
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...Legalizing Marijuana Legalizing Marijuana If Green is Life Why isn't it Legal? Humanity throughout history has fought against diseases using drugs, with good results. Several medicinal drugs have been discovered since remote times, and have saved many lives or helped complement human nutrition. Not all drugs are medicinal, some are used however for recreational purposes. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (House of Representatives Conference Report, 1998) consider these kinds of drugs as Schedule I drugs (high potential for abuse, unsafe and with no medicinal properties). Heroin, cocaine, amphetamines and many other drugs appear in this classification. There are some kinds of drugs that are considered dangerous and have a high potential for being abused of, but have medicinal properties: marijuana is one of them. Lila Gutterman states that cannabis was used in ancient Greece and China 5000 years ago to soothe pain, and still today may be used illegally by 50,000 Americans suffering from multiple sclerosis in order to alleviate their symptoms (2000). There has been enough research done by experts on marijuana's practical application as a medicine. Marijuana has several medicinal properties that can help treat many diseases and helps soothe a big number of symptoms, so it should not remain as a totally illegal drug. A focus has to be given to it so to make possible for ill patients to acquire it without legal restraints. Marijuana has been known for centuries...
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...1. Positive- The first thing you see when you venture down to Wilson Cove is the electric green vegetation contrasting the vast blue ocean. The sky is so crystal clear you can see the neighboring island as if it’s only a few feet away. You can feel the breeze on your skin but the sun heats you up like a cozy fireplace in the middle of winter. Soft howls from the wind trace the top of the water much like a soft blanket at bedtime. The air smells like saltwater fish and your next big catch. It tastes as salty as your favorite French fries. Barks break through the quiet as the seals splash and play in the water. A place like this reminds you of the beauty the world has to offer. 2. Negative- Wilson Cove is now just an overgrown weed. Aggressive cacti have taken over leaving the land similar to a giant field of thumbtacks. Walking to the water you are sure to feel the sharp stings and scratches an any exposed skin. The breeze feels like an ice bath. The wind slaps you in the face. The air tastes too salty. You smell the dead fish that have washed up on the rocky beach. The ominous dark blue water surrounds you...
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...Young, Wild and Free “So what we get drunk. So what we smoke weed. We're just having fun. We don't care who sees. So what we go out. That's how its supposed to be. Living young and wild and free.” This is a portion of the song Young, Wild and Free by Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa. This song truly defines who are the youth today. We cannot deny the fact that the youth is different and living life without thinking the consequences of their actions. This is the best time of our lives while we are young, curious and free so we must value and be grateful because it will only come once in our life. We can enjoy and have fun once in a while but we must bear in mind that we also have responsibilities to fulfill, not only for ourselves but also for our country. Have we forgotten what Dr. Jose Rizal said? According to our national hero, “The youth is the hope of our nation.” He believes in us and has a strong faith that we could do something for our country. It is not a burden on our shoulders but this is a duty we must do. We should give back, not only for heroes who fought and died for our independence but also for our motherland where we were born, grew and lived. The term – nation building or national development, is usually used to refer to a constructive process of engaging all citizens in building social cohesion, economic prosperity and political stability in a nation in an inclusive and democratic way. Going by the definition, it is seen that all citizens are to be involved...
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...Pot, Weed and Mary Jane: Whichever Name, Keep it Illegal November 6th 2012, a date that will live in infamy for more reasons than one. While one may associate this day with the election of Barack Obama into his second term as President of the United States, weed smokers across the nation rejoiced for another reason. That very same day, a groundbreaking law was passed legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington. In the eyes of many avid smokers, this law was just as monumental as landing on the moon was for Neil Armstrong: one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. Despite the fact that marijuana is legalized for recreational use in these two states and legalized for medicinal purposes in 16 others, the drug is still forbidden under federal law, meaning marijuana is still an illegal drug. For decades, the subject of legalization has been a recurring theme in Washington and state governments. Should marijuana join the ranks of alcohol and cigarettes and be made legal? No, we must realize the damaging health effects and the detrimental societal/cultural effects that legalizing marijuana could have on Americans in the future. Although there are some advantages to legalizing marijuana in the United States, the disadvantages tremendously outweigh any advantages when considering this touchy topic in politics. Of course, there has been research conducted that states that marijuana could be positive for the nation. Advocates to legalization suggest...
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