Debate Essay

The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics by Shane Hamilton and Sarah Phillips highlights the debates of Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev and USSR are the clear victors of the kitchen debate. Khrushchev’s concern about the Soviet population as a whole is a key reason as to why he is the winner of the debate. Instead of being concerned about individualism, his focus was on the people and how he could better the country. To begin, unlike Nixon, Khrushchev sought out…

The gun control debate has started to raise a lot of attention in the past couple of months among American citizens. The debate is over whether or not there should be stricter laws preventing people to own guns. There should be tougher laws because there is not any structure with gun control. There have been multiple shootings in the news involving guns, and people want answers. The laws that have been created in the past and present, people being injured or even killed, and the president not…

thoughts on Anthony Bruton’s critique of the correction debate (Truscott, 2010)” I found that, there are two main perspective in this matter. Anthony Bruton- one of the researchers who encouraged correction. For him, correction is a good thing to do. Therefore, he dismissed the case against correction. This position based on arguments that uncorrected students do not improve. He called the debate “ is a rather tedious sterile academic debate” and “has had harmful effects on other aspects of…

Nature versus Nurture There has been a debate that has long been discussed between social theorist and criminologist. That discussion focuses on whether a person is born with traits that make them commit criminal acts or has nature, the environment, caused the person to become a criminal. This debate is about nature (genetic factors) versus nurture (social learning) and its focus on an individual’s choices they make in their life, either good or bad. This debate focuses on whether or not a human…

Architectural Beauty The architectural debate about symmetry and proportion As Vitruvius said, there are three principles of assessing an architecture, which are “durability, convenience, and beauty ”. Another renowned architect Albertii also defined three main factors: firmitas, utilitas and venustas (robustness, utility and beauty). So we could confirm that the beauty is a widely accepted requisite element of architecture. In terms of the beauty, most of the time it is related to visual…

The Mytilenian Debate was a key part of Thucydides’ On Justice, Power and Human Nature. The Mytilenian debate focuses on a conflict about the rebellion of Mytilene. The Rebellion that began in the summer of 428 was between the Athens and a town on the island of Lesbos; Mytilene, that was located off the coast of Asia minor. The rebellion also grew to include most of the islands of Lesbos. The rebellion was caused by the Mytilenians believing that the Athens would eventually take over their…

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the nature nurture debate, to define both gender and sex and to successfully apply those concepts to the nature nurture debate. Furthermore, there will be a discussion and evaluation of the psychodynamic theory and the social learning theory. The nature nurture debate expresses viewpoints on human development. It centres around the relative contributions that genetic information or environmental influence have upon the human development. Naturists hold…

a violent weapon. This led to a proposition to enforce gun laws, and even boycott the sale of guns in America. There is no doubt that the issue of firearm control is one that is prevalent across the entire globe. However, within America, the main debates toward gun control are: The rising and lowering…

Abortion: The Nationwide Debate Cardboard signs with the phrases “Abortion is homicide”, “Stop the baby slashers”, and “Love thy unborn neighbor”, can be seen all over the nation, on every street corner. Followed with graphic images of aborted babies and unborn fetuses, these signs are shocking many people in America. Abortion, and where America stands on the issue, has become a major topic of conversation in the United States and its government. The idea of abortion, previously a religious…

In The Real Immigration Debate, it also seems like a familiar feeling. I am currently a first generation American experiencing some of the things mentioned in this article. Krikorian mentions that his primary concerns are “stagnating forces of our workforce, the dysfunction of our public finances and the fragility of our civic culture.” The current enforcements are not even being taken seriously. With immigrants, there has always been controversy over them taking away jobs from Americans. In…