Debate Essay

The question about nature versus nurture or hereditary versus environment has been asked in one form or another for donkey’s years. The whole debate began with a man named Richard Mulcaster, Mulcaster began this war with the writing of his book. “Nature makes the boy toward and nurture sees him forward (1612)’. This simply means that nature versus nurture debate plumbs the contributions of our genetic inheritance and environmental influences that shapes our thoughts and behaviour. Frans (1997)…

The Sharia Debate in Ontario: Gender, Islam, and Representations of Muslim Women’s Agency Summary: In this article, Anna Korteweg, was taking a look at the controversial Sharia Law debate that was happening in Ontario. Korteweg begins her article by discussing what had happened during the debate. In 2004, a notion to bring “Sharia Law” as part of the Arbitration act for Muslim families to settle disputes without the court was brought up. This sparked a widespread debate on how Sharia law can…

After reading The Sprawl Debate and the Principles of New Urbanism the topic that really stood out to me was mixed land uses and its increase in density. In the Sprawl Debate Article it explains how new urbanist communities are meant to be more than subdivisions. Its plans are to have an open organized row of services and workplace locations by only developing a broad mix of land. Now this idea can be viewed as either a Pro or Con. Sprawl Debate: Viewing the article the overall statement was…

others believed that only the prophet’s relatives should have ruled and they eventually broke off creating the Sunni-Shia split that we see today. These two different ideas over how the faith should be lead, by consensus or blood, is the most basic debate between Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims. A key difference between the Sunnis and the Shiites is that the Sunni Muslims believe that being the caliph (religious…

Modern World History The Kitchen Debate: Take Home Assignment (50 points) Document Analysis: Read the excerpt from The Kitchen Debate: An Exploration into Cold War Ideologies and Propaganda and answer the following questions. Your answers should be fully developed paragraphs with specific illustrations or references to the text. How does the verbal exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev reflect the dynamic and ideological differences of the Cold War? Give specific examples. There were many…

In February 13, 2009 they have such a long debate which President Barack Obama “referred to the need to reduce the force structure of our strategic military systems by cutting the number of deployed nuclear weapons”. In this debate he spoke about why we should reduce our nuclear weapon and what it will be cause of reducing it. He also mentions that military civilian leaders have make plan to reduce nuclear weapons, the main question is what if United State reduce nuclear weapon and what will be…

There has been a debate on what to do about the problem of gun violence here in the U.S. The second amendment of the Bill of Rights states that “ a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” This statement is interpreted many different ways depending on the person. I think the second amendment states that you have rights to own a firearm, but to protect yourself and your property. It is…

There are a lot of debates on spanking children. Spanking can either be considered good or bad. When a child is not listening or acting out, spanking would be a good thing. A couple swats on the bottom will not hurt them. Swatting the child on the bottom will get their attention. The parent then should explain to the child why they were the spanking. When spanking becomes abuse is when a parent is spanking a child out of anger. It will also be considered abuse when you use an object to spank a…

political community. He began with his announcement to run for president, from there he overtook and swept the rest of the Republican candidates away—becoming the Republican nominee. Many people credit his success to his means of communication. In the debates and events leading up the Republican Convention, Trump seemed to exhibit the communication competence that all sixteen other candidates lacked. He used the same channels and methods of getting his message out and yet his message did not…

stating, this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs. The commercial used an egg frying in a pan as the metaphor of drugs frying our brains. Does that hold true with marijuana? A great debate today is whether or not medical marijuana should be legalized. The controversy surrounding the legalization of marijuana debates the drug effectiveness vs. safety and regulation. My belief is that marijuana can have many positive effects on a disease process where other therapeutic measures have failed.…