Statistics homework help
Write your paper on one of the following topics:
1. Is the death penalty justified? Select a theory of punishment and then, on the basis of that theory of punishment, defend or opposed the death penalty. Be sure to respond to arguments against your position.
2. Consider the Oregon assisted suicide law, which permits assisted suicide. Present one reason to endorse such a law, and also present a reason for opposing it. Then, present your own position, rebutting the objection you raise to the position you adopt.
3. Ought there to be laws prohibiting abortion? Consider arguments on both sides of this issue.
4. In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a from of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for small dose of the drug.
The sick woman’s husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: “No, I discovered the drug and I’m going to make money from it”. So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man’s store to steal the drug for his wife.
Should the husband have done that?, Give a reason why, and a reason why not. Then defend your position on the issued, responding to the argument you gave against the position you adopt.
Your paper should be double-spaced, use a 12-point font, it should have at least four sources, and should use an acceptable format, such as MLA.
Save your paper as a doc or rtf with your name and the assignment name in the file, using last Name_Assignment. So, if your name were Alicia Jackson, and this is Essay 1, you would title it Jackson_Essay 1.