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Opinion: Hate Speech and Why It Should Be Criminalized
Observing the media nowadays, there hasn’t been quite a lack of cases regarding hate speech. Although the occurrence of hate speech in real life is considered rare, either because there haven’t been that many authentic shreds of evidence or it simply just didn’t happen, none of it changes the fact that the amount of hate…
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6 Cases that Say “Yes, the government will listen”
In panic, I spent three entire minutes elaborating an argument of how the government would create reforms in education if the adjudicator supported my side. The opposing speaker struck my case down by simply saying, “No, the government will not do that. The government is only interested in getting re-elected. There are millions of externalities…
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The Case Building Trick That Got Me From Scoring 73s to 75s
It’s frustrating when you keep seeing that 73, 74 number beside your name in competitions. When your debating results are stagnant, especially if you’re already months and months into debating, it’s hard to stay motivated. You hear your coaches and adjudicators tell you that you need to give more context. That you’re too simplistic or…
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The Nth Room: The Rise of Digital Sexual Exploitation on Internet
The sexual exploitation of women and children is a global human right crisis that is being escalated by the usage of new technologies. Using new technologies, sexual predators stalk on women and children. New technical innovation facilitates the sexual exploitation of women and children because they enable people to easily buy, sell, and exchange millions…
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Points about Media in A Debate
POSITIVE POINTS We support the existence of media as the critical element of democracy. Media as a part of journalistic product brings significant contribution on ‘check and balance’ actualization. It nurtures governance process, potraying transparency and also determining accountability of each public decision which relates with social welfare. There are several characterizations of media which…