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    How Rap Affects Society

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    A song on the radio starts off with a pleasant melody. Suddenly, another form of heavy-beat music enters. Numerous icons of guns, skulls, hoods, lighters, darkness, and graffiti art were demonstrated by typing in three simple letters into the Oxford English Dictionary word search bar: R-a-p. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of rap is accompanied with the synonyms “whack, strike, bash, bang, pound…” (Simpson). All with negative connotations, this reflects how rap affects

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    People say that humans should be free from slavery, violence, fear and abuses. What comes to mind when one says Slavery? Most people generally think about the past when african americans were forced into slavery, to this day slavery does is exist but in a form of sexual trafficking. In this persuasive speech I will be arguing to go against sexual trafficking, hoping to expose the ugly truth about the dark industry. Even though sexual trafficking is not exactly slavery victims of sexual trafficking

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    Background Psychoactive drugs can be defined as any chemical substance, whether it be of a synthetic or of an organic nature, used with the purpose of altering an individual’s psychological state of mind, mood or perception (Gossop, 1993, cited in Saggers & Gray, 1998). According to Fleckenstein, Hanson & Venturelli (2014), drugs are allocated into two categories consisting of illegal and legal. Illegal drugs usually consist of hallucinogenic substances such as marijuana (however, can be used for

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    In summary, research supports the argument that the drinking age should consider the overall perception of how successful undeveloped teens could handle alcohol. Those who want to see the legal drinking age was reduced from twenty-one to eighteen often argue that the legal drinking age in Canada and many European countries are in the middle of adolescence, and argue further that this

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    Listening to the song, she realizes how it relates to her life, finding comfort in the lyrics and the music itself. The girl’s parents might not approve of Melanie Martinez and the message her songs send out, wanting to sensor topics such as infidelity, drugs, and beauty standards. However, it is not the girl’s fault for listening to songs titled with misleading names, but it makes Melanie Martinez different from the rest. The songs helped the girl when her parents could not, doing the

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    Adult Child Behavior

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    Child Behavioral Guidance in an Adult Figure Some children seem to be in the behavior system for many schools all over the country. The child may not have an adult figure in his or her life,developing bad and dangerous traits from bad influences at a young age and never learning the importance of respect and control. These traits decreases the chance of earning a job and also increases the incarceration rate and the chance of being on the street after or even before high school.When children are

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    “We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug free.” – John Walters Would you like to live in a safer, drug-free community? I do and here is how to start: by decriminalizing all drugs! Since Richard Nixon coined the phrase “War on Drugs” in 1971, America has failed miserably to reduce the consumption and traffic of illicit drugs from outside our borders. Although a heavy portion are against decriminalizing drugs because of short-term consequences and health concerns

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    Keeping Marijuana Illegal

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    in the 1930s when it became known as an intoxicant drug and a dangerous narcotic. Along with becoming illegal came the restrictions of growth, sales, and consumption. Marijuana has many negative side effects mental and physical. Marijuana has been used by millions of people who continually use it on a regular basis even though it is illegal. This essay will describe and analyze what marijuana is, how it affects the

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    daily activates and others need extensive treatments and yet will never be “cured”. Borderline personality disorder is one that affects a person so radically that the person may consider suicide or even commit it. Extensive therapy and even sometimes drugs are needed to lead a healthy life. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (BPD) is a mental health disorder that affects how a person processes information and his or her ability to understand and cope with different social situations. (Dolecki, 2012)

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    very persuasive and it can persuade an individual to do things that may have a positive effect or that may have a negative effect. A spokesperson for music censorship has noticed that it is helpful to prohibit songs that talk about indecent content or even swear words because of what type of things this type of music may suggest. For instance a few words in a few songs that causes racism or violence seem appealing. But by adjusting this lyrics in these song’s, a few individuals, mainly teens, will

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