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“Death Penalty: Inhumane or Necessary Deterrent?” written by Euan McKirdy, several concepts surrounding the death penalty are discussed. McKirdy is a Digital News Producer who joined CNN in early 2014 and covers everything from politics, tech and the environment to sport and the arts. Before McKirdy started writing for CNN he wrote for a different publications and websites including Time, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal and Monocle. Throughout the article, McKirdy displays information for both…

Plastic bags, worth the risk? A lot of states have passed laws that require stores to charge at least 5 cents per plastic bag which has some people fuming. Less 0.2 percent of plastic bags make up world pollution. Do we really need to debate a fee? There is other trash that is being dumped into the ocean, which is bad for the environment. Plastic bags also create jobs for people in factories and if we charge a fee on bags some people would not buy bags. So there should not be a fee on…

Powerball jackpot, I find this point hard to argue. For my essay, I decided to track the odds of winning the most recent Powerball jackpot to determine if winning is actually luck. To follow the story, I kept up with five different sources-EBSCOhost, CNN, New York Times, Dayton Daily News, and Fox News. After tracking the story, I discovered New York Times was the best source. Therefore, anyone interested in the news should read a national newspaper, like the New York Times. For four days, I…

1. What news story did you read about? Give a summary. Answer: Shots rang out in downtown Dallas on the night of July 7th. Twelve officers and one civilian were shot when shots were fired from an elevated structure. Five those officers died from their injuries. The police cornered an individual named Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25 year old army veteran. After attempting to negotiate with him, police were forced to use a bomb robot to terminate him. After reports of the possibility of there being…

Gun control laws are needed because guns are often used for violence rather a form of protection. Although, the Second Amendment states that you have the right to bear arms guns should be used as self-defense and not to kill intentionally. Gun control law can limit the people who can have them and use them for the correct reason. The Second Amendment has become a critical battleground since the U.S Supreme Court held, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that the Amendment guarantees an…

“Jus ad bellum” is Latin for the “right to war.” There were many significant and varied perspectives about the United States’ “right to war” in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Several groups of people agreed with the pending start of the Iraq war, while many others opposed the imminent invasion. These groups of people strongly demonstrated their standings on the issue. France and Germany, known allies of the United States, were outwardly opposed to the invasion. Other countries, such as England…

constant fear, especially children in schools. A film was shown to all students demonstrating survival techniques on a nuclear attack, and the image of little johnny showed how a nuclear attack can occur at any moment, thus giving them nightmares.(Cnn Duck and Cover).Living daily life with the fear of nuclear attacks isn’t a “happy” life since fear is a negative connotation. Happy days falls on the other side of the spectrum when talking about post ww2 America. Prior to World War 2, America’s…

paying for all of it. (“The Washington Post” n.p.).Peter Bergen, CNN’s national security analyst, stated “I think it’s unusual for the charity that he has created to be spending $1.7 million promoting his book. That’s usually the job of the publisher”(“CNN: 'Three Cups of Tea" author accused of lying”). That large amount of money the charity was spending on him promoting his book could have been used to build more schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan but instead was used for Mortenson's own…

In a new nationwide poll conducted by CNN “roughly half of Americans 49% considers racism a “big problem” in our society today” (CNN/ Kaiser Family Foundation 2015). In America the month of February celebrates Black History. We use the month to remember the important contributions and achievements of African Americans throughout American history. “Hughes, who ‘disapproved of Black Nationalism and was dismayed by infighting among civil rights groups’ (144), preferred in his later years to take…

are a lot. According to CNN “Since the 1990s, the powerful pro-gun NRA has targeted the heart of what most legislation is based on: studies about the effects of gun violence.” This shows that the NRA has targeted the evidence of gun violence and the proof of there ever being gun violence. As stated in CNN ”If a bunch of people do research and generate solid evidence that suggests firearms policy should be reformed…