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Homework is Necessary

Homework is a big issue these days. Homework may be useful to you in some ways, But did you know almost 60% of kids do homework and hate it, And nearly 40% of parents surveyed and admitted that homework was not any help to their child. My two main arguments will be: 1)Stress (more on that later) 2)Co-Curricular Activities are Very Important I request whoever agrees to participate in this debate do so until the end.
Resolved: Abortion Laws violate Human Rights Law

Resolved: Countries which have ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and currently permit abortions, have contradicted their obligation to uphold the Human Rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (link: . http://www.un.org...). First round is acceptance. Second round for presenting opening arguments. Third round for rebuttals. Fourth round for brief rebuttals and closing summation of your respective position.
If it wasn't for christianity being gay here in the U. S. A. Would fizzle like used hamburger ash

Ah yes, Why don"t we all pass laws that should deny equality to those that are religious and believe in god? After all, It is only they that hunt down the gays in numbers only with mammoth amounts of sloth"s full of $$$$$ here in this country as they so lovingly trot their steps. Without their pathetic cowardly hateful religion, As their unproven god hates even children for jeez sakes, With their thankfully failing and fading numbers and billions of le hick"s full of corrupted $$$$$, Yep, You can count on it, The issue of being gay here in this country would fizzle like a log cabin without the syrup and pretty near everybody who is gay would be accepted as being normal. Indeed it is religion/ christianity and their unproven god that is highly abnormal because of all of its needless inspired hate. You might want to read the awe inspiring bible sometime especially with its manmade updates. Let"s look at a few translations right now shall we? Leviticus 20:13 KJV "If a man also lie with mankind, As he lieth with a woman, Both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. " NLT "If a man practices homosexuality, Having sex with another man as with a woman, Both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, For they are guilty of a capital offense. " The word "homosexual" and its other verbs and nouns were not added until 1947. So sorry man does change the bible quite frequently to suit HIS wants, Needs and desires. Here"s a translation GONE from this earth. . . WYC "If a man sleepeth with a man, By lechery of a woman, Ever either hath wrought unleaveful thing, Die they by death; their blood be on them. (If a man sleepeth with a man, Like in fleshly coupling with a woman, They both have done an unlawful thing, And they both shall be put to death; their blood be on them. ) Now hate me all you want. That's exactly what your unproven god demands even though I"m not gay. So lets all band together and accept people for who---they---are and not who YOU want---them---to---be. dsjpk5 is disqualified from the voting procedures as he tries to pretend he's god and thus change the voting structure of who wins and loses here on DDO.
The Russian Bolshevik revolution was a Jewish phenomenon

So was the crucifixion of Jesus, but that is still not an excuse to hate Jews. Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi and Carpenter, and many Jewish people oppose violent revolutions. While you are entitled to your free speech, I think it is bigoted to demonize an entire ethnicity or religion. We are all one human race with a common anscester, so who cares if someone is Jewish or not?
The Russian Bolshevik revolution was a Jewish phenomenon

Its extremely disappointing that the Con side of the debate, in his opening argument, immediately makes it clear that he agrees with my initial claim. He seems to understand that Jews led communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, particularly Russia. It is good that someone agrees with me, but to deny someone else the chance to debate me shows a lack of respect towards me, towards this site which promotes real debates, and for the very concept of debate. Because of this, I will not continue my argument in this round and allow him to actually make a case for the Con side of the debate, if in fact he does disagree with the idea that the Russian revolution was a Jewish plot.
The UK Curriculum Needs an Overhaul

So, the UK school system needs an overhaul. Why? Because there is no way that school prepares you for real life situations. Think about it, in your work life, have you ever been paid to look at poetry? Have you ever drew a picture of a face and made money off it? Have you ever been paid to play the recorder? Did you get your job by "discussing your feelings" with the interviewer? No? A lot of things you do in school are meaningless. Most subjects are useful to an extent, but school goes to deep into it and ruins the whole thing. Maths is a great example of this. Maths tells you that it will teach you skills for your life, and then it goes and says something like "Hariot is on a roller coaster and wants to calculate the slope". School should teach you the skills you need for jobs. English should teach you how to write resumes and job applications, and teach you how to speak formally for an interview, not how to notice the rhyming pattern in a poem. Spanish/French/Irish/Mandarin etc. should teach you the things you would need to know if you ever go to said country, like "Where is my hotel? " "Where can I change my money into the local currency? " "How much is it for. .. " Instead of things like "What do you look like? " and "What colour are your eyes? ". Religious Education is a touchy subject as well. There should be resources required for schools to have if students do not wish to take part in it, instead of sitting there reading a book and doing nothing. Schools also need to be required to have resources for children with mental disorders. I understand that there is no way to help someone with something like Downs Syndrome, you just have to try your best with them and help out as best you can, but when it comes to something like Anxiety, OCD or Misophonia, schools need to be able to provide for the students, while making sure that they don't miss out on too much. So as you can see, our education system is flawed. It needs to be looked in to, and fast.
creation

It seems you do not yet know how to do a debate; you must construct several vivid arguments with sources a few paragraphs long. You only posted 2 lines and either misunderstood or ignored what I said before. As you are new and this is your first debate on this site then I guess it doesn't really matter.I would now ask you to develop your argument and present this so called evidence, otheriwise we can not have a propper discussion and I doubt this would become very interesting.
Drones

Now drones are not perfect but they are the closest it comes when thinking about pinpointing and taking out a specific target. Dropping bombs from a plane would have a much greater chance of missing and sending in a sniper or special forces squad puts lives of soldiers at risk. Drones are not used to attack civilians so even if there was a chance of a civilian casualty it would not be done on purpose. Anybody that is close to a very dangerous individual is either dangerous themselves or is being used by the person in a negative way. There would be an effort to save them but if the target priority was that great then they may be sacrificing themselves for the greater good of humanity. For example if I was captured by the leader of a terrorist organization I would rather they take me out with the evil man then lose the opportunity to keep the world safer all because of me. Drones do not always need to be used for violence they can be used in very practical ways as scouts to give us the upper hand when dealing with a bad situation.
Drones

I agree that drones help soldiers to work in dangerous places like Iraq or war with some groups which we don't know much information about them...but I will give you a specific example: women in Palestine and other countries around Africa, they were told to cover up their face whenever they went outside. How a drones can recognize which woman is the one they are finding ? Even when the drones can detect people through their eyes (just like in action movie), the terrorists aren't dump to be recognized so easy like that. And one more thing, can drones aim and shoot 100% accuracy ? There might have the rate of failure, and all those failures have led to the destructions of houses or building of civilians.
Drones

Drones have a substantial effect in specific situations. For example if there are 6 soldiers moving around a mountain in Iraq and they need some way to tell if there are enemies on the other side of a mountain. A drone can be sent in for reconnaissance. It would be able to safely scout out enemies or civilians allowing the soldiers to safely avoid altercation that isn't necessary. Are you saying that you would want those soldiers to walk aimlessly into enemy hands because they couldn't get information about what was in front of them? Personally I believe that the soldiers should be saved not left clueless if the truth that is very easily accessible through the use of drones.
Drones

In my opinion drones are used more for preventing violence from occurring in wars. They help spot enemies to avoid a conflict between the opposing soldiers. I do however play call of duty but I am not basing any of my argumentative facts on facts acquired from a video game. Drones are a tricky topic because of the ways they can be used both negatively and positively but personally I believe that the pros outweigh the cons and drones are better to be used then not to be used. Many drones are not equipped with weaponry and the ones that are are only sent out when they need to be used for a mission so there is an even lesser chance of the United States loosing them to the enemy.
Drones

I'm wondering are you playing too much Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ? Because I search for "does the drones have C4 in it?" it has nothing but COD =]]. But if yes, how do you know they have c4 or explosion in there ? Information about drones are totally secret tho. And about my previous argument I think I have watched so much movies...but no one know it would happened or not. And about the terrorist, did the drones eliminated the terrorists and keep peace or just created more terrorists who want to against the U.S ? Agree that drones have system to aim and launch the missiles from a long distance. But there are many news and information about drones kill innocent people in Pakistan. People in there were having fun and enjoying their life and...abracadabra...a missile came from the sky, land on their house's roof top lead to the death of all members in that house, families. After that people got scare and they all suicide because their dead coming is now just a matter of time. Little kids or people in there saw things like that and they turned back, hate the drones and hate the U.S is normal. Drones might be an excellence idea to saving the US soldiers life from coming to the warfare, but it harm for people of other countries. We want to have peace, not create more wars. This is the URL lead to the news I read: http://rt.com... If you want more then just search for "what have the drones done for world"
Drones

The counter argument that you have just presented is in all honesty very difficult to follow and lacks data to support what you are saying. If you are going to consider that there are rich terrorists that have money to spend and nothing to spend it on then there needs to be data to back that up. If there is no data presented then how do we know that the facts are in fact true. You say that there are countless enemies to the United States army but then there is no explanation of who those people may be. To keep the topic about the drones, you also state that there could be some possible way to hack into the drones and take them over in the future. Well in the future the security of the drones will also be improved to avoid things such as a remote take over of the drones being used. One simple fix to this that I could come up with having almost no knowledge of the construction of a recon drone is to equip each drone with a small amount of C4 explosive or a power cutting device and whenever something seems the slightest bit off the drone can be terminated right there on the spot with no worries about it falling into enemy hands.
Drones

Like you said that there is no device that can hack into the system of drones; I think it's may be right, for this age. No one can be sure in the future the drones's system can be protected from bad guys or not. Terrorist budget might not unlimited but you should know that the U.S's enemies are countless include some rich guys have nothing to do and try to find things that interested them to spend money on. Drones were controlled by human and so them will do exactly as the controller ordered, not except the case that terrorists could spy in- get the informations in the system and control the drones. Nobody knows what is gonna happened. If yes then who could see the end of this world (if there is person like that and you saw him/her, ask them who is my wife :)) lol )
Drones

There are many arguments in your response that can be countered by your own argument. One is that there is no proof presented that the drones can be hacked by anybody. If there is even a way to hack these drones from a distance with some device then this would be a threat but that device does not exist. If they got their hands on a fully in tact and functional drone then they COULD reverse engineer one but still would have no way of controlling it. Even if they got a fresh drone then as you said it would be very expensive to make them so how would they be able to afford to build them; they don't have an unlimited budget. Finally you said that drones don't have brains which is true but it doesn't matter because they are controlled by humans with brains they will put them where they need to go and keep them out of enemy hands and control.
Drones

I see you have a strong point in protect the soldiers from dangerous places. It's good but what if the terrorists could hacked in the system of drones ? We might have disaster or I mean war with our own drones. Human have brain so we can understand what is right and what is wrong to do something. About drones, they are machines; if they belong to bad people's hands, what do you think they can bring to this world ? If the U.S army have drones, then terrorists may have too. Lead to war of drones with terrorists and especially: drones are super expensive. My point is if drones were created by bad people so they could have important information and may bring danger to people live in this world. BAD DRONES !!! xD
Single Sex schools are better than Co-Ed

Single Sex schools are indeed no better than Co-Ed, for several reasons. First off, in our modernized world, competition for success will always be between males and females, and single sex schools are not going to halt that competition. Single Sex schools only prevent the two genders from mixing and socializing with each other, and when the two genders do meet in the "real world", things will be much tougher for each, because they have no idea how to interact with each other. Boys going to a co-ed school will learn how to behave properly around girls and to treat and respect them like they should, and likewise for girls as well. Humans depend on sociality and the nature of society, where both genders can mix, in order for each and every student to function properly. And honestly, it really does depend on the student and their personality and way that they "work". Single-sex schools may work better for them, and co-ed schools may work better for others. However, research and analysis have proved that most students do actually prefer co-ed schools over single-sex schools, therefore the majority of them enjoy attending co-ed schools. At co-ed schools, teachers will also give each student more attention than they would at a single-sex school, because they will realize that each student, girl or boy, will learn differently. Therefore, teachers will have more one-on-one time with each student, helping them learn the right way and therefore helping them excel academically. In addition to that, what about transgender children? Transgender children will feel uncomfortable fitting into a single-sex school, and they would be taunted and teased at those schools. The other students at single-sex schools wouldn't accept them for who they were, so at co-ed schools, transgender would be able to fit in better and be accepted for who they are- opening the minds of other students to what the world is like now. And lastly, single-sex schools offer less extra-curricular activities than co-ed schools, and extra-curricular activities where boys and girls can cooperate and learn teamwork is a really valuable time and spot. To develop our next generation and prepare them for a successful future, co-ed schools are the way to go- giving each individual and taste of the real world and society, teachers each student to respect and work with the other gender, and students will also get more attention to their academic needs at co-ed schools- therefore, co-ed schools will boost any student on the way to success.
Single Sex schools are better than Co-Ed

Hello my name is Layla, today I will be on the pro side of this debate of single sex schools are better than co-ed schools. So I for what the moot point states. To clarify what this means: A single sex school is a school with only boys or only girls. A co-ed school is a school with boys and girls. Today I will talk about 5 points. My first point is that having a single sex school will create equality in P.E as there will only be one gender competing against each other. This could mean that girls and boys will be happier to participate in physical activities as they will not be afraid of what the other gender thinks of them. My second point is that having single sex schools will create less distractions from the opposite gender. As we know how teenagers are at their age. The result of having genders schooled separately means more concentration which leads on to better achievement in work. My third point is about the fact that uniform costs will be smaller for the school. This is because there is only one uniform to manufacture as there is only one gender. This cuts manufacturing costs quite a bit. This result is the school has more money to spend on the students instead of uniform. My 4th point is that the curriculum of a single sex school will be specifically for that gender. Also teaching methods will also be for that gender specifically. The curriculum will also have good extra curricular activities, suited to that gender. And a study in 2012 showed that more students from single sex schools graduated to university than co-ed students. My fifth point is many teenagers suffer from rejection. They are not beautiful enough, or strong enough and those differences, in a co-ed school, are more liable to cause bullying. Example : A girl has a crush on a boy. The boy finds out and says something like "ew you"re ugly". The girl will therefore suffer from laughs from classmates. She will also feel embarrassed and will not be able to focus. The same may also happen in a single sex school but it is much less likely. Thank you for listening.
Animals need to be abolished.

there are foods that you can eat to HELP you GAIN weight. there are other things you can eat other than meat to help gain. I personaly know a few people that are vegetarians that are healthy and at a good weight with out eating meat. It is not all that easy to get rid of all bad meat. You have to sort through all the meat to figure out what kinds are bad and what are good. But by getting rid of all meat period would be better. Most accidents were ACCIDENTS. many cases they were minding their own business and then attacked. What about bird flu caused by birds. kill them all and make it better
Animals need to be abolished.

Ok so if we all go vegetarian then how are people like Justin Rivera sitting right next to you supposed to gain weight with out using the pills and shakes. huh? Also why don't we just get rid of all the unhealthy meats. All of them are not harmful to us so why go vegetarian because some meats are harmful to us? Then about people dieing from animals, if people weren't stupid and didn't swim with the sharks or try to pet bears then less people would die from animal attacks so therefore unlike what you think there are more benefits and animals then there are disadvantages.
Animals need to be abolished.

Animals are nothing but a nuisance. they poop every where and eat all our crops. We can actually live with out animals. insects we might need bugs but we do not need animals. we should all go vegetarian. surtain meats can actually harm us and taking them away we would be safer. Also we wouldn't have to worry about being attacked by animals or animal cruelty. Animals can be good in some ways but they are bad in more ways. Lot of people die from being attacked by all sorts of animals.
Home Work Should NOT Be Banned

Thanks, Pro. I will now outline my case in favor of banning homework.= Case =C1) Increased StressHomework is detrimental to a student's learning because of added stress, which will hurt their academic growth. Under stress, students may encounter physical problems, more tension, and less relaxation[1]. This is a problem because students need to be well and alert and in their best shape to concentrate on school. Some students have sports or other extracurricular activities after school, so they may already be stressed. Piling on more homework will be harmful to each pupil. A recent study found that "the average scores of relating to students’ academic performances against the amount of homework dished out at the end of the school day, showed clearly that when more time was spent on homework students were getting lower scores."[2]C2) Less TimeSince homework takes up time, it makes it harder for students to manage their day and do things that they want to do. After school work may cause people to cut out more on sports/clubs in order to finish up a needed assignment or project. Less time will also cause students to lose sleep since someone homework project require long hours of work that may seep into the night. This is also a problem because students need sleep to be mentally alert, to have the best attendance, and to focus in school so they can do well on their next assignment. If the point of homework is to help students learn things, then this just defeats the purpose as it cuts out on one's own learning.= Rebuttals ="Home Work should not be banned because of the amount of knowledge you earn from it"Pro's assertion is entirely subjective. While it is true that some people may gain knowledge from homework, this doesn't necessarily mean it is true with everyone. For some, homework may be a waste of time since material is already being taught in-class. When we consider the harms homework brings, we realize that there are other alternatives that can satisfy both knowledge and unnecessary problems. An alternative to homework is that in a fifty-five minute class period, a teacher can spend thirty minutes teaching the class material while the students use the rest of the twenty-five minutes to study what was taught. If the student needs more time, he or she can plan out the amount of time they need to study and the amount of material to review, since students, not the teachers, are best at determining how much studying they need to fully understand the concepts. That way, a student can best balance their time without having the grades suffer as a result of not enough time, too much stress, or not energetic enough (by lack of sleep) to do homework.[1] http://www.m.webmd.com...[2] http://factualfacts.com...