RESEARCH LOG: You will catalogue and post a weekly log of your research onto our blog page (http://langartsjedi.blogspot.org). Include with each post a brief explanation of the significance of the research, what perspectiveof the issue is revealed in the research (political, economical) , and how you hope to utilize the research in your argument essay. By the end of week 1, you must develop a working thesis based on your research. At this point, you will conference with me on the plan for your paper.
STAYING IN TOUCH: After you have met with me, you must post your thesis with your pre-posted research. As you continue researching and posting, review the thesis statements and research of at least 2 classmates (No more than 2 students can comment on one person). Respond to your selected peers, evaluating and critiquing the reliability, strength, and usefulness of their research in relation to their thesis. Read the peer evaluations of your own research, making changes/modifications if necessary.
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ReplyDeleteTHis is houw you will go about posting your comments. Simply click on the heading "AP Language Argument Research Log. Next, enter your comments in the comment box. You click on each other's comments in order to respond to one another. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Psychological research shows that explaining addiction as a theoretical mental disease leads to more damage. Terming addiction as a 'disease' leads to the assumption that it is therefore treatable/curable by doctors, without effort from the addict. Without cooperation, addiction can't be treated. Therefore, addiction is a behavior, not an addiction. It is healed by correcting the behavior, not by treating the disease.
ReplyDeleteEnter SOPA, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the U.S. Senate. Both bills are aimed at foreign websites that infringe copyrighted material. The bills are commonly associated with media piracy, but may also apply to counterfeit consumer goods and medication.
DeleteOriginally, both bills provided two methods for fighting copyright infringement on foreign websites. In one method, the U.S. Department of Justice could seek court orders requiring Internet service providers to block the domain names of infringing sites. For example, Comcast could prevent its customers from accessing thepiratebay.org, although the underlying IP address would still be reachable. This ISP-blocking provision was a major concern among Internet security experts, and both SOPA and PIPA have dropped it.
-SOPA and PIPA: Just the Facts | PCWorld
Voluntary euthanasia or PAS(Physician assisted suicide) violates the Hippocratic oath that some doctors take. The Hippocratic oath states "I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan,". If a doctor were to assist a person in PAS/euthanasia, this will violate the patient doctor relationship, which is a central idea of healthcare and important for the delivery of high quality health care.
ReplyDeletehttp://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pad.html
Marijuana is less toxic and less addictive than alcohol.
ReplyDeleteLong-term marijuana use is less damaging than long-term alcohol use. Alcohol use leads to aggressive behavior and acts of violence, whereas marijuana use reduces the likelihood of violent behavior.
-This is important because these facts go in favor of my argument. This also makes me question government because it would seem as if one shall prefer to decrease bad statistics which alcohol has a lot to do with. Marijuana's effects are not as dangerous as the legal substances in the U.S.
Operation Condor was an “anti-Terrorism” alliance composed of South American Countries and the United States. Condor was an international assassination program headed by South American intelligence agencies and overseen by the CIA. Latin American dictators used this network of “condor killers” to exterminate the socialist and communist from the region. Unofficial data shows that about 60,000 people died from condor attacks. The U.S was involved in the operation in order to spread their ultraliberal economic policies in Latin America.
ReplyDelete-This shows how the U.S is sometimes two faced. When they are on the world stage they condemn terrorism but then they secretly participate in terrorist actions. They use similar tactics as ETA and othe r terrorist groups.
http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article478.html
http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/doc/condor/calloni.html
This is just to show that there has been a recent dispute over the issue regarding the use of hemp as a cash crop. The ignorance about the plant lead to the vetoing of the proposition based on misinformed claims. Had Brown known the facts, he would of acknowledged the great cash flow California could potentially get
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x443091543/Governor-vetoes-industrial-hemp-bill
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http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/egyptian-men-clearly-not-ready-for-women-s-equality
ReplyDeleteToday, as the world celebrated international women's day, a million woman march was supposed to have taken place at Cairo's Tahrir Square in an attempt to begin the process of moving toward a more equitable parity between Egyptian men and women.
The numbers were somewhat disappointing in that only about 300 people turned up for the event. It also seemed that men outnumbered women, and eventually that solidarity that we witnessed between the two genders for 18 days turned to ugly. It's important to remember that Egypt has always been a patriarchal type society, where women were also second class citizens. Add to that the constitutional provision of Shariah law, and legally, women have very little to stand on.
Threatening the spirit of a democracy in the making, men began chanting for the women to go home and cook; others were caught groping women, in a country where sexual harassment makes headlines. It was only natural for religious argument to follow, and it did; men told women it was unIslamic for a woman to have equal rights. But women fought back, quoting chapter and verse of the Quran.
this is important because this is an issue that every woman faces no matter what part of the world. In some cultures, woman are seemed as inferior and its just part of their traditions, its hard to change their views. sometimes they use religion to justify why they think the way they do.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM)is a book published by the American Psychiatric Association. This book contains a complication of different mental disorders, addiction being one of them. It has expanded the view of what compulsive behaviors are classified as addictions since the publication of DSM IV. Substance (drugs, alcohol,and blah blah blah) and Behavioral (gambling and hyper-sexual activity) have long been considered types of addictions, however other addictions including video games, interwebz, and over-shopping can be categorized into what the DSM V calls "Behavioral Addictions not otherwise specified." Addictions are indeed mental disorders and any compulsive behavior or substance that was originally intended for recreational use but has now become compulsively driven and ingrained in the person that they do it repetitively despite great and mounting consequences is an addiction, this is basically the definition for an addiction. So yeah. This is a rational argument stating, because psychologist are classifying more compulsive behaviors is addictive it is possible that compulsive behaviors we thought weren’t addictions before can now be classified as addictions. I still have to find research supporting the claim that addictions can be cured.
ReplyDeleteSources:
-http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201003/dsm5-suggests-opening-the-door-behavioral-addictions
-My Brain... which contains its own disorders hah
-“International child adoption is beneficial to many children because it’s a chance for opportunity with fortunate families.” This is the main argument my opponent will use. Juvenile crimes have increased over the years and research shows these teens have come from adopted families. Child adoption syndrome continues to be a rising issue physciatrist deals with in adopted children. The Federal government overlooks the effects of children being adopted and focus mainly on dealing with money with adopted parents. The question lies, is international child adoption beneficial to the child? Their voices are not being heard.
ReplyDelete-The perspective revealed in my research is economical, and sociological. My appeal will consists of ethos. Through statistics of the amount of children adopted, and amount of increased effects with the adopted children, I will come to my conclusion. My research will also benefit in getting background information for child adoption.
http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/adoption.cfm
http://statistics.adoption.com/information/adoption-statistics-numbers-trends.html
http://ruthsippelpace.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/adopted-child-syndrome-a-way-out-for-50-year-old-brats/
For many centuries people have experimented on animals. There are two main reasons for doing this: first, to find out more about the animals themselves, and, secondly, to test substances and procedures to see if they are harmful (with a view to deciding whether or not they can be used on human beings). In the second category fall cosmetic products as well as medicines and surgical techniques. There is a growing consensus that it is not acceptable to test cosmetic products on animals. This debate is about whether we should experiment on animals for scientific and medical purposes.
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Dogs are a favored species in toxicology studies. In these studies, large doses of a test substance (a pharmaceutical, industrial chemical, pesticide, or household product) are pumped into animals' bodies, slowly poisoning them.
Dogs are also abused in human disease studies, including studies of heart and hormonal disorders. At Ohio State University, vivisector George Billman forced surgically manipulated dogs to run on a treadmill until they collapsed from a heart attack. The dogs were killed, and the damage to their heart tissue was studied.
In a violent experiment at the University of Pennsylvania, puppies were bred to have a degenerative eye disease that culminates in blindness. During the study, 3-week-old beagles had their eyes cut out and were killed.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/dogs-in-laboratories.aspx
This is important because animals are physically and emotionally abused. Cruel and unusual punishment is the 8th amendment in the constitution and is being broken in these labs daily.I believe that animal experimentation should banned from all stats in the country. It is wrong and against the law.
(Brian Martinez)
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one wife or husband. It is a very contraversal topic today that has many different perspectives. Over 3 billion people believe in Polygamy and it is legal in 150 countries. However, it is not legal all over and over 100,000 people in monogamous relationships practice polygamy secretly and illegally. On May 16, 2005 a survey showed that 92% have a steady approval of polygamy, however 26% of people say it should be illegal. Some cons of polygamy is it requires excessive houses, cars and furniture and it can spread STD's faster.
Delete^This research is important because it shows how many people believe that polygamy should be practiced and also since its apart of some cultures, polygamy is common for some people. In addition they even have shows about Polygamy called : Sister wives which is a show about a man who had many wives and they all lived in different houses but acted as one big happy family. My position on polygamy is against.
DeleteThe new technology advances are making American obesity rates increase because people are no longer performing labor but are letting a machine do it, children are not that engage in outs activities they prefer technology games, and people are less active in their daily lifes. During the past 30 years there has been an increase of obesity doubling the percentage from 30 years ago and there has been double the technology than ever before.
ReplyDeleteI believe this research is important because Americans need to stop a rate of increasing obesity before it is too late. There are also some people that have ignorance to what obesity rates are of now and what they were before and they need to be inform. However, I want them to know that there is nothing wrong with using technology but they should also do actual activities outside not using technology to keep a healthy life style.
ReplyDeleteNow in days Spain is dealing with the controversial of banning bullfights. Some people believe that bullfights should be banned because they are cruel. They say that bullfights lost their significance over the time. Most of the people that agree in banning bullfights are the young because they don't see it as part of their culture. They argue that people in Spain don't attend to the bullfights anymore instead they prefer to go to the Real Madrid v Barcelona games. Most people that attend the bullfights are The older people but mostly tourist.
ReplyDeleteCapital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for a crime. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offenses such as murder, treason or spying. Its currently practice in only 58 nations, and 96 countries have abolished it. Over 60% of the world's population lives in countries where executions take place, such as United States, China, and Indonesia. Therefore, death penalty should be ban because inmates are getting punish in a cruel and unusual way which invades their right of the 8th amendment. The perspective revealed in my research is economical.
ReplyDeletewww.prodeathpenalty.com
ReplyDelete"Indeed, the decision that capital punishment may be the appropriate sanction in extreme cases is an expression of the community's belief that certain crimes are themselves so grievous an affront to humanity that the only adequate response may be the penalty of death."
~ Supreme Court of the United States of America
Frank Carrington (1978) states- is there any way one can tell whether the death penalty deters murders from killing? There is no way one can tell whether the death penalty deters murderers from killing. The argument goes on that proponents of capital punishments should not have to bear the burden of proving deterrence by a reasonable doubt. Nor should the abolitionist have to prove deterrence by a reasonable doubt -neither side would be able to anyway.
Common sense supports the inference that if, the threat of the death penalty decreases, the rate of murders increases than it may be true. But if the threat had increased, the homicide rate may decrease.
Giving up civil liberties in order to fight the war on terror. Those for it say that it is essential in order to prevent another terrorist attack on the country. Those against it say that it violates their constitutional rights and it can leads to racial profiling.
ReplyDeleteBullying has been a big part of a lot of schools from elementary to college. The physical and mental effects that bullies cause on their victims is cause a lot of students to not go to school or to commit suicide. Schools need to put a bigger effort to stop bullying from happening on campuses. We all need to stand up and fight bullying by getting the government to be a part of the movement to stop bullying.
ReplyDeleteWhat can be done to prevent bullying? There are many cases where some people may be bullied but they are to scared to say anything.
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ReplyDeleteMy research is based on children having to go to foster homes or not. Many people argue that foster homes are negative environments' to children who have experience child abuse. This leads up to children living in the streets. I agree that their is physical abuse involve in some situations, but as the National Department of children, they are able to call their social worker to investigate the situation and deport the abuser. Also, social workers can accessibly put them in a better home. Besides, homes do provide the basic survival skills for children. Children can experience the love and care they needed. Therefore, children are further well assisted in foster homes. In conclusion, I believe that it will help the economy but i still have to do further research for more data.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that foster homes are not good environments for children, especially for children who have had bad experiences in life. I also agree that there are physical abuse in MANY cases, particularly with adopted children. these cases are the ones that are never reported because they happen in private homes. Sometimes adoption doesnt benefit children because they can be put into worse living situations. The National Department of children are considered naiive on my behalf because they feel social workers interference in adopted families make a big difference when in actuality many things go unsaid and undiscovered.
DeletePolygamy is still illegal in certain places like the U.S. If caught practicing polygamy the penalty is 5 years. Some other perspectives on polygamy is a married man or woman has legal rights to cheat on their spouse if they don't find out. They also think men have the right to have sexual intercourse with more than one woman and not have any legal consequences. Society should let people live the way they want to with multiple partners.
ReplyDeleteThis is important because it shows multiple views on polygamy and how many people don't think its an issue to have more than one partner. This shows that this is a contraversal topic because it has two perspectives on it.
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Weir, Karen. "Why Polygamy Should Be Legal." Karen Weir on
HubPages. Web. 26 Jan. 2012. .
I agree with your point of view! Polygamy is 100% unacceptable. My argument topic is significant to this because in many ways, children are effected by polygamy. Women who have children with polygamist seem to not think about the confusion that lies in their childrens view point. Polygamy families are litterally distorted and this may lead to phsychological issues in the offspring of the mates. Careless action of polygamist may also effect children and lead to them being in foster care. In my opinion, the show "sister wives" is a good example of polygamy but does no justice of all the possible outcomes.
DeleteIf someone who practices polygamy goes to jail, why doesn't someone who cheats on his wife or husband go to jail?
DeleteIs international child adoption beneficial to children? Many people will argue that in many ways child adoption benefits children, and they make great points. There are MANY effects of child adoption on children. International child adoption helps children from all over the world. The issue is, they are no longer responsible for the child�s life after adoption and that could lead to danger. The most common crime cases in America deal with child abduction and in many situations these crimes take place in homes. How can we prevent this from happening? Social workers make weekly to monthly check ins with adopted families but they do no justice. International child adoption benefit�s the parent through simply getting monthly checks. The benefits of adoption toward birth parents can be questionable, but they are most likely given a sense of closure THINKING their child would be �well taken care of�. This is the case for parents but what about the children?
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"National Child Abuse Statistics | Childhelp." Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse | Childhelp. Ed. Serra O'Meara. Child Help. Web. 26 Jan. 2012. .
I agree that sometimes child adoption is not the best because children might not want to go to another country like in some situations if the child is old enough to know what is going on. I like thelast two sentences of what you point out of the birth parents i think thats really important.
DeleteAnother reason for prohibiting PAS and euthanasia is the option of abusing PAS if it were to become legal. Poor or uninsured patients may not have the money or no access to proper care will have limited options, and they could be pressured towards assisted death.For emotionally and physiologically disturbed patients, they could abuse the PAS option and those patients could convince their doctor to help end their life. Also those patients can often be mistaken with terminally ill diseases and often sent to go get euthanized.
ReplyDeleteThis information is significant because it acts as a rebuttal almost as if providing some plausible consequences if voluntary euthanasia were to be allowed. The perspective of this information is that if euthanasia were to be allowed it would increase more problems within the medical field. I could use this research as a way of putting down the whole efforts of legalizing euthanasia almost as a counter argument.
ETHICS IN MEDICINE.University of Washington School of Medicine,October 25, 2010,http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pad.html. 2012
I agree with you, the evidence that you researched can definitely be a good rebuttal. I also agree that voluntary euthanasia can create a lot of unnecessary controversy within the medical field, and it can also be the cause of a mistaken death.
DeleteI'm torn between yes and no with this topic. If someone is diagnosed with a terminal disease and they have no family, why can't they choose to end their life? It is their life, they should have the right to end it. When someone has to be operated and their is a possibility that they can die, is it not the same thing as ending your life? Whether or not they want to die, there is still a possibility that they can.
DeleteIt can't cause a mistaken death because there is a long process in order to be voluntarily euthanized.
I agree with what Brian said above. Ending your life, especially if you have no family, should be a decision you should have the power to make. However, i do agree that volunteer euthanasia can cause a lot of controversy, but in a state of near death, shouldn't one be able to decided their willingness to keep on living? After all, miracles only come so often.
DeleteDrug addiction is a choice, not a disease. Despite the theory that addiction is predispositional in genes, studies have shown that addiction isn't necessarily inheritable. The theory of addiction as a disease arguably sets an excuse for addicts to be held back from quitting their behavior. There are holes in the disease theory, as many people have quit their addictions without the help of doctors or counselors. When giving up addiction, people make the choice to give it up, just as they make the choice to pick up the addiction in the first place. This is a psychological analysis. Based on the human body addiction could be defined an addiction. However, the mind controls the body, and addiction begins in the mind. It is based on the will of a person to fall into it. The argument finds weaknesses in the addiction disease theory. The gaps are not explainable. The momentary line of doubt leaves open the probability that addiction is not a disease.
ReplyDeleteSOURCE: http://www.drug-addiction-support.org/Drug-addiction-Choice.html
An addiction can become as a choice when the person decides to take the drug. But it can be an addiction once it becomes an abuse of the drug. Although i necessarily agree that it is not a disease, I do feel that an addiction can affect the mind of a person's way of living that usually ends in a negative impact. It may cure one's depression but it can also affect the dose of drugs that they are taken. Perhaps the addiction is called as it is because of its usual content to give consequences of the drug abuser. Can that be count as a disease because of the consequences? Other than that it is a choice but leads to an addiction.
DeleteSex education programs are required to promote abstinence-only guidelines in order to receive federal funds. These guidelines are ineffective. Abstinence-only programs have no effect on reducing pre-marital sex, but they do cause young people to avoid contraception, including condoms. In addition, abstinence-only programs are often riddled with misinformation and falsehood. As a result of this misguided sex education curriculum, American teens have higher rates of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases than teens in other Western nations.
ReplyDeleteThe current Texas Monthly features an extensive investigation by Katy Vine into the success of the state's sex-education program. Some of its key findings include the startling revelations that:
•Texas ranks number one in teenage births, costing taxpayers there over $1 billion a year. And 24 percent of those births are not the girl's first delivery.
•Texan teenagers say they are having sex at a higher rate than the national average (52.5 percent vs. 47 percent).
“Abstinence-only programs show little evidence of long-term impact on attitudes and intentions. They show some negative impacts on youth's willingness to use contraception, including condoms, to prevent negative sexual health outcomes related to sexual intercourse. None of these programs demonstrates evidence of long-term success in delaying sexual initiation among youth exposed to the programs or any evidence of success in reducing other sexual risk-taking behaviors among participants."
In a larger study by the Centers for Disease Control, researchers found that although teenagers who take "virginity pledges" may wait longer to initiate sexual activity, they are more likely to enjoy oral and anal sex, and they are just as likely as other students to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases. Eighty-eight percent eventually have premarital intercourse. While abstinence-only programs show little evidence of sustained effect on a student's sexual activities, they do reduce the use of contraception, including condoms, when sex does take place.
These programs are purposely dishonest. Students learned such "facts" as:
•Half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus.
•Touching a person's genitals "can result in pregnancy."
•A 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person."
•HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be spread via sweat and tears.
•Women who experience abortions "are more prone to suicide," and as many as 10 percent of them become sterile.
Teenage American girls are 5 times as likely to have a baby as French girls, 7 times as likely to have an abortion, and 70 times as likely to have gonorrhea as teenage girls in the Netherlands. In addition, the incidence of HIV/AIDS among American teenagers is 5 times that of the same age group in Germany. 17 states have so far chosen to forgo federal matching funds rather than submit their children to the dishonest, propagandistic programs of conservative abstinence-only ideologues toward nearly all forms of sexual activity.
The Abstinence-Only Sex Education Curriculum Is Biased and Dangerous" by Eric Alterman and George Zornick. Are Text Books Biased? Noah Berlatsky, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2012. Eric Altermann and George Zornick, "Think Again: The Costs of Enforced Sexual Ignorance," Center for American Progress, Web. 26 Jan. 2012.
The importance of this information is to inform people that the abstinence-only curriculum is not only biased, but ineffective as well. They misinform teenagers with wrong information, who then do not use contraceptives at all. This results in a high number of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. I will use all of the statistical information as data that the sex curriculum should be taught instead of abstinence-only programs.
Research has shown that comprehensive sex education benefits young adults substantially. These programs help teenagers deal with peer pressure and they teach them the art of communication and negotiation. It assists them with imbibing assertive skills, crucial in their dealings with peers.
ReplyDeleteThe US government, since 1996, had started a series of sexual health programs that teach ‘abstinence only’. The basic principle of these programs advice individuals to maintain a single partner sexual relationship within the framework of marriage as a standard form of behavior. The counselors for these programs stress that sexual relationship with more than one partner can cause several adverse psychological and physical effects. These programs had quite a few times censored the information related to contraception to exaggerate the success/failure rates.
The program was endorsed by agencies like the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, and National Institutes of Health. They have published research reports that support the effectiveness of sex education programs conducted in the US and other parts of the world. However, there is no definite proof available on the effectiveness of programs that support the ‘abstinence-only-till-marriage’ principle.
One of the fears that some of the parents and teachers express about sex-education is that this kind of information to a young mind may liberate them and allow them to indulge in sexual intercourse more frequently. This fear has been dispelled by undertaking a meta-analysis of 25 different research publication that show that sex education to the teenagers do not make them more promiscuous and it does not encourage them to indulge in sexual intercourse more frequently. On the contrary, these programs had delayed the initiation of the participants to sexual intercourse, and in at least three of the programs related to HIV and sex education, demonstrated a decrease in the frequency of sexual intercourse.
The research also showed that in 12 of the comprehensive sex education programs under review, sexually active participants had demonstrated increase in the use of condoms.
“Is Sex Education Effective?” http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/sexeducation_effective.htm Web. 26 Jan. 2012.
This information is important because it shows that teaching about sex does not encourage teenagers to have sex. It has actually gone down after learning about it. They have also been using condoms more often if they do engage in sexual intercourse, which is good. It means the curriculum is working! I’ll use these facts in my essay to dispel any myths.
i agree with your research that most of the parents are scared that if their children are taught about sex they are going to want to do it and influence them. However, that just showes their ignorance towards a teenagers actual reaction. If teenagers are taught about it and how to prevent teenage pregnancy i feel like they would not do it and if they are told the consequences not just your "life is over" then it would decrease teenage pregnancy.
DeleteDo you think that teaching abstinence is pointless if more than 80% of those being taught have pre-marital sex anyway?
DeleteYupp. That's what I'm arguing.
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DeleteGiving up civil liberties in order to fight the war on terror: In a poll conducted in 2010, 51% of Americans are willing to give up some civil liberties in order to prevent another terrorist attack. However, 36% said that some of the current govt. security go too far and 14% said that they are undecided or it would depend on the situation.
ReplyDeleteBenjamin Franklin once said, “When you give up your liberty for security; you deserve neither liberty nor security.”
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/285715#ixzz1kcxaIZEj
Another study claimed that the people's greater sense of a potential threat, the lower support civil liberties. A prime example of this is 9/11 and airport security. However, the lower people's trust in government, the less willing they are to trade off civil liberties for security, regardless of their level of threat.
American Journal of Political Science. 2004.
You should take a survey about this at school! It may be beneficial. A suggestion would be to discuss whether or not if You would give up your civil liberties and why.
DeleteIts interesting to read what people would do to prevent another terrorist attack. I think this is going to be inteseting, to see the different views people have about giving up some of their liberties to prevent another terrorist attack.
DeleteThere is more than 64% of Americans obese according to the National Center for Health Statistics. That is more than half of the population and instead of this perecentage decresing it is increase rapidly. There has been a reaserch done that proves that 60% of the cause for obesity in America is cause by the increase of technology usage. People are deacresing their physical activities now most of the things could be done just by being in bed such as work.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1987300/technology-blamed-us-obesity
This website also shows some of the pros and cons people think about obesity is being cause by the increas of technology http://debates.juggle.com/is-technology-responsible-for-the-increasing-obesity-rates
I agree with your research evidence. Technology has progressed tremendously to the fact that most of the things that you had to leave the house for can be handled at home, in the bed. Progression of technology is the main cause for America's obesity aside from fast-food. I fee like the evidence you found can take you very far in your paper. For the simple fact that you can elaborate on the idea of technology and it's effect on America's obesity rate.
DeleteThe point you are making, saying that people are now turning to using technology instead of exercising is a good one, especially since it is believable. Everyone is already aware of the obesity problem we have in America and also about the technology usage increase, so putting these two together will end you up with a great paper!
DeleteThis research is important because it is helping me prove my point that obesity is being increase because people are using for technology and lacking their physical activities.
ReplyDeleteYou should bring up how people eat while they watch tv, use the internet, or play video games. However, there are some technological devices that can increase ones health. Using the wii can help someone lose weight by playing a fitness game, dancing, or sports.
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ReplyDeleteMy argument research topic is ''Should creationism be taught in public schools? I'm arguing that it shouldn't be taught. For my evidence, I researched society's perspectives of the topic. Society tends to agree with me. There were a lot of reasons why creationism should be taught in public and schools and even more reasons why it shouldn't be. I pulled out the main points that I saw repeated on the different websites. The cons of it being taught in school results in controversy between the students and educational staff. This can lead to fights, bullying, etc. It also prevents students from finding themselves. They feel like they have to believe in creationism just because it's being taught in school. Considering religion is a thoughtful process. No one should feel pressured to believe in a religion. Moreover, the con of this is that both evolution and creationism should be taught in schools so that the students can make their own judgement. These perspectives are of course social. The research that I have made helped me figure out what I will be arguing. It would also help me further my research now that I am aware of the different perspectives on my topic.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011
ReplyDeleteWomen don't want equality
They never did. The female attitude towards the mythical beast of sexual equality is no different than the Arab Muslim attitude towards democracy. It's just a train with various stops that one exits whenever it appears most advantageous:
Higgins, a senior, and Rodriguez, a sophomore, are among roughly two dozen boys competing on girls teams in Massachusetts because their schools do not have boys swimming programs. They are able to do so because of the open access amendment to the state constitution, which was voted into law in the 1970s and mandates that boys and girls must be afforded equal access to athletics.
Boys have been members of girls swim teams since the 1980s, but until recently they were mostly a sideshow. It has only been in the last year or two that boys have swum well enough to draw attention — and people’s ire. The epicenter of the debate is the 50-yard freestyle, an event in which strength can trump talent or technique.
At the Division I state championships on Saturday at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there are eight boys in the 28-swimmer field in the 50 freestyle. Although Norwood’s Higgins was ruled academically ineligible Friday and will not compete at the state meet, two of the top four seeds in the 50 freestyle are boys, giving rise to the possibility that a boy could be the girls state champion.
Sarah Hooper, a senior at Needham High who is the fourth-fastest female entrant, finds the situation difficult to swallow....
“Absolutely, it has changed the atmosphere on the pool deck,” said Marilyn Fitzgerald, the longtime swim coach at Andover High, a perennial powerhouse. At her sectional meet last week, she added, “Coaches on the pool deck last weekend were going bloody out of their minds.”
Cooler heads are not found in the bleachers. At the Bay State conference meet earlier this month, Hooper’s father, Eric, lost his composure after watching her get beaten by boys. While waiting for her after the race, he said to her male competitors, “Good job for beating the girls.”
This should come as no surprise. Notice that the only reason the boys are swimming against the girls is because there are no boys teams. Whereas women once complained that boys teams got all the resources, now they're not happy even though the girls teams get literally all the resources devoted to a sport.
There is no such thing as sexual equality. And keep this in mind the next time you here a woman - or a man - attempt to justify anything in its nonexistent name.
But the faux equalitarians will no doubt be breathing easier this year, since Sarah Broderick, Sarah managed to hold off Scott DelRossi, beating him in the 50 meter freestyle with a time of 24:11 to DelRossi's 24.35. Her "championship" time was more than a second slower than the slowest of all the boys competing in the 2010 state championships.
http://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2011/11/women-dont-want-equality.html
"Men and women are created equal" states in the Bill of Rights. But that is not always the case. From the thousands of years women have always been treated inferior to men. Many women fought for natural rights. Many of our rights have been consider but as you question says if women are ready. I typically agree that men are physically stronger than women. But the thing is, society has change the worldwide nations view of how women should be treated. Many say that women should be treated gently, caring and more sensitive. That is how society has portrayed us and occasionally a strong women. But if society were to turn that around in the beginning of creation, maybe men and women were to be equal. Maybe women were to be strong as men. Who knows? Women could have been ready for a change. But then again I am talking from probably a crazy perspective.
Deletethis is important because it says how " there is no such things as sexual equality" this is an example of it because the boys had to compete against the girls and people would tell them "Good job for beating the girls.” in a way saying that women are inferior and easier to beat, but at the same time it says that in a competition like this, people see the boys as having an advantage over the girls because they are "males". this is proven to be wrong because towards the end they mention how Sarah B. beat Scott D. ultimately showing that being a male or a female doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteI agree that women are equal to men, but in most cases men are stronger than women and could over power them. However, there are women that can over power a man.
DeleteThey start cursing what they call "uppity Catalans," accusing Barcelona — the capital of Catalonia — of turning the world against bullfighting.
ReplyDelete"Bullfighting is the history of Spain. It's the tradition in Spain. Barcelona is anti-bullfight, because it's anti-Spain," Gutierrez explains.
In other words, he thinks Catalonia's ban on bullfighting is mostly about politics and nationalism. The Catalan language and culture were repressed during the nearly 40-year military dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
It's true that attendance at bullfights is down nationwide — from 2,622 in 2007 to 1,724 in 2010, a drop of about one-third. Alexander Fiske-Harrison is a British aficionado who writes about bullfighting. Speaking from his home in London, he blames Spain's economic crisis for bullfighting's decline.
For us, [bullfighting is] an art. It's combination of an artistic part and a technical part. And it's very important, this tradition.
- Ionela Olteanu, tour guide at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid
"Bullfighting has fallen off as the economy has collapsed, because it's an expensive hobby. People can't afford the tickets, and people can't afford the bulls," he says.
The bad economy even affects the quality of bulls that breeders bring to the ring.
Paco Mateo is a black-clad, chain-smoking writer. With his dark beard, he seems to be channeling another famous bullfighting writer, Ernest Hemingway, as he sits brooding at a cafe near the Plaza de Toros.
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140889324/bullfighting-in-spain-stays-alive-despite-regional-ban
this argument is important because some Spaniards blame the capital of Barcelona for wanting to banned bullfights. This statistics shows how the attendance of the bullfights have decreased due to economic problems.This shows how people in Spain don't attend bullfights but the ones that attend are the tourist- people that dont have anything to do with the tradition.
Religious education in public schools works against justice
ReplyDeleteand causes nothing but problems. According to www.religioutollerance.org, there are 19 major world religions that can be sub-divided into 270 large religious groups and many smaller groups. There is also a large Atheist and Agnostic population in the world that does not follow any organized religions. With all of the vast possible religions in the world for people to choose from, there is no way any school could honor every single one of them. To teach only a few or just one religion violates the right to religious freedom guaranteed to us by the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and discriminates against students of opposing faiths.In addition to discrimination, another way religious education in public schools works against justice is by teaching information that contradicts the field of science. Teaching religion in public schools misinforms students of scientific facts, giving them a contorted view of reality. Religion is based off of ideology, mythology, and opinions not supported by verifiable empirical data. Teaching a religious theory such as Creation in public schools misinforms students of what empirical evidence shows us actually happened. This works against justice because if students are taught that a God created the world, they are not getting a fair chance to learn the way science explains the origins of life.
http://www.teenink.com/opinion/spirituality_religion/article/420912/Get-The-Religion-Out-Of-Schools/
This evidence is important because it shoes how religion being taught in public schools works against justice. Religion has nothing to do with science. It forces and confuses students about a subject that the might not want to learn about. This evidence is important for my research paper because it could possibly be one of my main points.
Another point you can make is that if parents want their children to learn about religion, they can send them to a religious school. Also, certain classes such as "AP World History" teaches students the basis of religions such as Hinduism, Christianity, etc.
DeleteMarijuana is safer, more effective, and has less side effects than many prescription antidepressants. Legalizing marijuana will put lots of drug dealers out of business. Sadly, a lot of people make a living off of this money. I think one side effect of legalizing marijuana would be a major reduction in the abuse of alcohol and that the number of traffic deaths would drop dramatically. Legalizing marijuana will create huge cost in tax dollars wasted in prohibiting marijuana and enforcing drug laws that have no benefit to society. If marijuana were legal, crimes associated with it will be eliminated meaning more space in prisons will be created.
ReplyDeleteCitation: Author Unknown. Marijuana Telling Teenagers the Truth
about Smoking Pot. Perkel.com. http://www.perkel.com/politics/issues/pot.htm
- This research is taking pro side on legalizing marijuana. I can use this research to explain how legalizing it can lead to better effects in society like decreasing the amount of people in jails, adding tax on marijuana, etc. Half on this research is arguing the con side of using marijuana. This is also important because it gives me the opportunity to understand the opposing side while also being able to attack the opposing side which will reqquire me to did up more research.
There are movies on netflix about marijuana and their benefits. You should use it as another source! :)
DeleteI agree with Brian. There are a lot of documentaries on television as well about their beneficial qualities. Your research is good. All I would have to say is how would legalizing marijuana reduce the number of people who abuse alcohol or how would traffic deaths drop?
DeleteAre there free speech implications to SOPA?
ReplyDeleteSOPA's opponents say so--a New York Times op-ed called it the "Great Firewall of America--and the language of the bill itself is quite broad. Section 103 says that, to be blacklisted, a Web site must be "directed" at the U.S. and also that the owner "has promoted" acts that can infringe copyright.
Here's how Section 101 of the original version of SOPA defines what a U.S.-directed Web site is:
(A) the Internet site is used to provide goods or services to users located in the United States;
(B) there is evidence that the Internet site or portion thereof is intended to offer or provide such goods and services (or) access to such goods and services (or) delivery of such goods and services to users located in the United States;
(C) the Internet site or portion thereof does not contain reasonable measures to prevent such goods and services from being obtained in or delivered to the United States; and
(D) any prices for goods and services are indicated or billed in the currency of the United States.
Some critics have charged that such language could blacklist the next YouTube, Wikipedia, or WikiLeaks. Especially in the case of WikiLeaks, which has posted internal documents not only from governments but also copyrighted documents from U.S. companies and has threatened to post more, it's hard to see how it would not qualify for blacklisting.
Laurence Tribe, a high-profile Harvard law professor and author of a treatise titled American Constitutional Law, has argued that SOPA is unconstitutional because, if enacted, "an entire Web site containing tens of thousands of pages could be targeted if only a single page were accused of infringement."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/
This information is important because it provides issues that would affect ones free speech while using the internet. This would include companies and individuals at home,work, on using moblie devices. If a website was to be suspected of copyright infringement , they could be blacklisted and the website could possible be taken down.
About 20 million animals are experimented on and killed annually, three-fourths for medical purposes and the rest to test various products. An estimated eight million are used in painful experiments. Reports show that at least 10 percent of these animals do not receive painkillers. Animal rights advocates are pressing government agencies to impose heavy restrictions on animal research. But this growing criticism of painful experimentation on animals is matched by a growing concern over the threat restrictions on the use of animals would pose to scientific progress.
ReplyDeleteThe researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way. Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
Much animal experimentation, they say, is performed out of mere curiosity and has little or no scientific merit. Animals are starved, shocked, burned, and poisoned as scientists look for something that just might yield some human benefit. In one case, baby mice had their legs chopped off so that experimenters could observe whether they'd learn to groom themselves with their stumps. In another, polar bears were submerged in a tank of crude oil and salt water to see if they'd live. And, for those experiments which do have merit, there exist many non-animal alternatives. It is only out of sheer habit or ease that scientists continue to inflict pain on animals when, in fact, alternatives exist. And, where alternatives don't exist, the moral task of science is to discover them.
http://ww.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v1n3/cures.html
"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us.' Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction."
-- Professor Charles R. Magel
There are sophisticated non-animal research methods which are more accurate, less expensive and less time-consuming than certain animal-based research methods. Alternatives include computer simulators and imaging techniques, epidemiological studies (studies of human populations), clinical research, in vitro research (in a test tube) and replacing animals with human cells in safety tests.
http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_cruelty/animal_testing.htm
This is important because most scientists choose to use animals to make "medical advances" that are crucial to human life. However there are other alternatives to animal testing, such as using human cells in safety tubes. Animals are seen as expendables. What I loved the most out of all my evidence was the quote. Scientists say that they use animals because their bodies such as their nervous system works the same as ours. Their excuse of using animals for testing is that they are not like us. This my fellow peers is a contradiction made by leaders of our nation. It is our duty to change this!
I really like the first quote, by Professor Magel, because it is true! When I first started reading your post, I was going to ask you what scientists should use instead of animals, but once I got to the bottom, it was like you read my mind! :) Excellent research & it's a good thing you provided alternatives, but don't you think if there's a way to do it more accurate, less expensive, and less time-consuming, they would have done it by now? I mean, do you really think humans are cruel enough to continue testing on animals simply because they feel like it? I'm sure they've already looked into alternatives, so there must be a reason as to why they haven't done those other options. Just saying.
DeleteThanks :)
DeleteWell to answer your question, humans like to use animals because they say it's a much "easier" and "effective" because animals body systems are similar to humans. The use hair products on their fur, cosmetics on pigs skin, and inject mice with diabetes to see how they would react to powdered drinks such as nestea. It's not that I think humans are cruel, just money hungry and lazy, well some of us. :)
All through history, when United States presidents have sought to explain or defend US military interventions in foreign lands, no goal, with the exception of the national security of the United States, has been advanced with such regularity and frequency as the promotion of democracy. Interestingly, however, this readiness to use force in the name of democracy does not appear to square with some of the emerging findings on the pacific relations among democratic nations.Most nations retain their current level of democracy. However, when a comparison is made between nations which have experienced intervention, with those that have not, it is shown that the former group is more likely to experience democratic growth. Probit analyses of the effects of military intervention on democratization generally support the notion that the use of US ground forces does lead to increased democratization. A probit model is also developed to predict which military interventions are most likely to promote democracy. The predictive success of the models is quite high. The author finds that when the president declares democracy is a goal of the intervention, and if the US government is opposed to the targeted regime, democracy is more likely to be promoted.
ReplyDeleteMeernik,James. "United States Military Intervention and the Promotion of Democracy"Sage Journal.November 1996.http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/33/4/391.abstract
This is important because it show that the United States has a double standard when it comes to freedom. The United States promotes freedom, which includes the person ability to follow any political ideology they want from fascism to socialism but they do not apply those same standards when it come to foreign countries. If you are not democratic then the U.S has a problem with your country, well the truth is that the U.S. would not have a problem with your country even if you’re a dictator. You can be anything except a Marxist.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to an article in Time Magazine, in 2006 although roughly 5.3 million Americans were fully capable of voting, they weren't be allowed to simply because they were felons. At this time 12 states bar felons from voting because they have "displayed bad judgment" Reynolds Holding, author of the Time Magazine article, "Why Can't Felons Vote?" writes that felons have proven themselves unfit to make the decision of choosing the nation's leaders by committing "serious crimes". Holding writes that, "Today, the impact of these laws still falls disproportionately on poor, minority males, a fact that seems to have skewed more than a few elections." Meaning that mainly minorities are effected by laws against felons being able to vote.
ReplyDeleteCitation- Author-Reynolds Holding "Why Can't Felons Vote?" time.com Nov. 01, 2006 http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1553510,00.html
Seeing that this has been an issue for years now shows that there is still some debate on whether it is right to penalize a citizen from voting even after they have served there given time in prison. The object of prison is to punish law offenders but this idea of still punishing felons by not allowing them to vote, even after their sentence is complete, poses a question of whether their punishment should end when their sentence ends or whether they should be punished for life. It also questions the type of democracy being run if it is a right of all citizens to be able to vote. The fact that this law targets a specific group of Americans also poses the question of whether it is an issue of racism or discrimination as well.
On Monday, January 16, 2012, at the South Carolina Republican debate, the candidates discussed whether felons should be allowed to vote. Former Senator Rick Santorum expressed that felons should be allowed to voted after their incarceration in complete and that this affects black voters. Alyse Shorland writes that "with 2.3 million people currently incarcerated", states are debating whether felons should continue paying for their crimes through disenfranchisement or if their original punishment from the court is enough for the crime they committed. "These voting laws vary from state to state. In specific states such as Iowa, Kentucky, Virginia and Florida, people with a felony convictions can have their voting rights restored through pardons or a rights restoration process. Shorland writes, "in a nation where every vote counts, disenfranchisement disproportionately affects black voters." Because of this fact, "Mauer said judging who is fit to vote is a slippery slope, and restricting voting based on felony convictions is the equivalent to a character test"
ReplyDeleteCitation- Author- Alyse Shorland, CNN "Poll: Should felons be allowed to vote after serving their sentences?" January 18th, 2012 CNN.com http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/18/poll-should-felons-be-allowed-to-vote-after-serving-their-sentences/
The fact that the Republicans see this issue as one important enough to be discussed in a debate shows that it is still a current issue that may increasingly gain attention, especially throughout the communities of minorities. With laws varying form state to state, those in power have the eligibility to mildly discriminate against minorities, particularly African Americans.
Based on the High Risk Project Society, The definition of gender is obscured because of the factors. These factors are based on sex, sexual orientation and their pre-determined sex role. So in american society, switching genders is taboo. American society main accepts the pre-determined sex roles that men and women are born into. According to the article, gender and sex are two different categories. In today's American society, the idea of transgender is not yet accepted and is discriminated against.
ReplyDeleteCitations:Laframboise S. Gender Transgender and transphobia, High Risk Project Society 27 Jan 2012 http://mypage.direct.ca/h/hrp/gendertr.html
After reading the article, i still wonder about religous issues. Since some religions look down on homosexuality and transgender. There was an article that I had come across about the fanatic religous group (Talibans) held the law to thier own hands. During the past ten years when the group held territorries in the middle east, the leaders had executed men who were homosexual or transgender. So far i can not comfirm this evidence.
Sexism in Commercials
ReplyDeleteRecently, many commercials have been approaching their advertisements with the phase "Sex Sells" in mind. During my research, I found that sexism is found in almost every commercial. On a commercial aired during the Superbowl in 2010, a worldwide watched event, Dodge aired a commercial of men thinking about all the things they have to do to satisfy their women. For example, shave, clean, etc. In the end it shows a fast car and says "Mans last stand". This commercial shows the sexism that still exist even in this time and age. It portrays women as nagging, bossy human beings. This affects society socially, causing them to believe and take away from the commercial that women mistreat and boss the men in their lives.
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/10-sexist-ads-made-total-pigs-133401
Sexism in Commercials
ReplyDeleteAlthough many may believe that sexism in commercials only objectifies women, they are wrong. Many commercials, though we many not see it that way, objectify men. For example, advertisements by brands like Abercrombie and Hollister regularly objectify men's body by showing their beautiful clothes off, along with their their chiseled bodies. In society, we have adapted to their form of sexism because we do not believe a man's body is offensive, unlike a woman's. This also influence audiences, like teenagers, that the "perfect body" is one like the model's.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/are-tv-ads-getting-more-sexist/247545/
Karen Correa
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My argument essay is about undocumented immigrants having the opportunity to work in the United States of America. In my research I have found that over the past years there has been a thirty-five percent increase in anti-Latino hate crime. In March of 2006, New Jersey-based neo-Nazi radio host Hal Turner called for the mass murder of Hispanics and the assassination of U.S. senators who support guest worker programs. “I advocate using extreme violence against illegal aliens. Clean your guns. Have plenty of ammunition. Find out where the largest gathering of illegal aliens will be near you. Go to the area well in advance, scope out several places to position yourself and then do what has to be done.” Turner directed his listeners to a website that provides detailed instructions on constructing pipe bombs, ammonium nitrate “fertilizer bombs,” car bombs, chlorine gas bombs, and other homemade explosive devices. This research is important for my research because I will have an opinion on immigrants.
Karen Correa
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online Databases
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Previously the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, built cases against immigrants under this statute simply by proving that the social security numbers they were using were fake, not whether there was any intent to defraud another individual. But as Justice Samuel Alito noted in a concurring opinion yesterday:
"Indeed, the government's interpretation leads to exceedingly odd results. Under that interpretation, if a defendant uses a made-up social security number without having any reason to know whether it belongs to a real person, the defendant's liability under §1028A (a)(1) depends on chance: If it turns out that the number belongs to a real person, two years will be added to the defendant's sentence, but if the defendant is lucky and the number does not belong to another person, the statute is not violated."
This information is relevant to my project because it deals with the issue on immigration. On the data base I was able to find numerous amount of information. This article caught my attention because it mentions how immigration laws can be abused and violated.
Karen Correa
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Attrition!
But you don't need to read between the lines to see what's happening on the immigration front. Proof that our belated efforts against illegal immigration are bearing fruit is piling up by the day. Combined federal, state, and local initiatives are demonstrating that the strategy of attrition through enforcement—reducing the illegal population over time, largely through self-deportation rather than mass roundups—actually works.
The headlines tell the story, even if they reliably omit the word "illegal": "Arizona Seeing Signs of Flight by Immigrants," "More Mexicans Leaving U.S. Under Duress," "Hispanics Moving Out of Oklahoma Before New Law Takes Effect," and so on. While the attrition strategy isn't as coordinated as it could be, all levels of government are generally rowing in the same direction. At the federal level, the most notable efforts are directed at denying illegal aliens access to employment, both through stepped-up work site enforcement and through expansion of the voluntary E-Verify system, which enables an employer to check online whether a new hire is eligible to work in the United States. More than 10 percent of all new hires in the nation are already being verified in this way, a percentage that is sure to rise once new rules go into effect requiring that all federal contractors use E-Verify.
Combined federal, state, and local initiatives are demonstrating that the strategy of attrition through enforcement ... actually works.
They're getting the message in the boardrooms, too. Andersen Windows, for instance, recently performed a personnel audit of employees of a newly acquired firm, resulting in the dismissal of more than 200 illegal aliens. As the Newark Star-Ledger put it, such firings "are part of a growing trend in which employers are purging unauthorized workers to avoid a fledgling immigration crackdown by the U.S. government."
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010499250&mode=view
Daniel Lee Bedford was executed in Ohio on May 17, 2011.
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court refused to block Bedford's execution, despite his lawyers' claims that he suffered from dementia and wasn't competent enough to understand why he was being executed. (AP, 5/17/11)
Frank Spisak was executed in Ohio on February 17, 2011.
Spisak was executed for the murders of three men and was characterized as a Nazi sympathizer. After his execution, his lawyers said "The media will focus on the 'nazi' propaganda of the prosecution...the truth is [Spisak] was seriously mentally ill and committed the crimes because of this mental illness, not because of hate." (Cleveland Plain-Dealer, 2/17/11)
Cal Coburn Brown was executed in Washington on September 10, 2010.
Mr. Brown had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He asked for a stay of execution on the grounds that, without his medication, he would be incompetent to be executed.
Information on his case from the Washington Attorney General
Jack Trawick was executed in Alabama on June 11, 2009.
Mr. Trawick had been treated for schizophrenia and psychotic disorders since the age of 11. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, "the isolation and lack of stimulation of incarceration proved helpful in permitting him to function with less paranoia and fewer psychotic episodes."
Statement on the case from the Equal Justice Initiative
Mark Bailey was executed in Virginia on July 22, 2004.
A clinical psychologist testified that Bailey suffered from bipolar disorder, which is characterized by impulsive acts. During his trial, he was given large doses of lithium, which had a sedative effect on him. Jury members stated that his lack of emotion at trial, likely caused by his medication, contributed to their decision to sentence him to death.
More information from the Clark County, IN prosecutor
James Willie Brown was executed in Georgia on November 4, 2003.
Mr. Brown's schizophrenia cause him to experience hallucinations and believe that voices of God and demons directed his actions. He was admitted to Central State Hospital several times, beginning in 1968. After being arrested in 1975 for the murder of Brenda Watson, Brown was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and was treated for 5 years before being ruled competent to stand trial.
Report on the case from the International Justice Project
James Colburn was executed on March 26, 2003 in Texas.
Colburn had a long history of mental illness. He said that, at the time of the murder, "I was just in a bad state of mind. I was undergoing bad influences -- voices, illusions -- that were fueling my paranoia."
Amnesty International Report
Monty Delk was executed in Texas on February 28, 2002.
Delk's lawyer claimed that Delk had become insane while on death row, describing Delk's behavior as "long periods of psychotic thought punctuated by grandiose delusions, incoherent ramblings, and smearing himself with his own feces, interspersed with brief moments of lucidity and compliance."
More information from the Texas Execution Information Center
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/mental-illness-and-death-penalty
This is critical to my research because there is plenty of evidence that there has been unjust executions of people with mental illnesses.
Foster homes have shown better improvement throughout the years to accept foster children in better care. Foster parents have been more aware of a child's struggles and are willing to open up their homes to these children. Foster homes would not be provided, it is a rigorous jobs that can deal with a lot of emotional stress in trying to know the child. Also in letting them go. This foster care system does not higher any type of parents that may look threatening or harmful to children. they go to various tasks and meeting to see if they are able to handle this type of guardianship. It is important for these kids to have a place to stay and feel the care they need. Foster parents have to be aware of the emotional attachment, understanding a child's feelings and difficulties,and dealing with the child's behavior. Foster care do provide professional health and psychiatrist. In fact they also provide financial aid to support the children's needs. The federal program is aware of the situation they most likely to encounter. As a benefit, it is also less stress for the economy to not spent any further advance to make new programs for children when there is volunteers willing to help these children. Therefore, children in foster homes are better off than any other place that can provide as much as this type of program provides. For example, most children end up in the streets where there are less survival skills to live through. If children do not have the experience to live around a better surroundings. they might be influence negatively outside the streets than influence by a family or parents that are willing to provide a home and understanding. It is important and significant because in our generation it has become more exposed and violent where children many of them go to traumatization. Society as a whole has view foster homes as a second abusive families but it has not always been the case. It is a better place to stay then being left alone. It changes society's views and children's views about the
ReplyDeletenegative things that supposedly was said about foster homes.
http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/foster_care
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/MagazinesDetailsPage
I agree with you that foster children can be influenced negatively outside on the streets rather than being influenced by their surroundings at a home were theres a family and parents willing to understand and be patient with the children. I also agree with you that it can be a lot of emotional stress, while they are both are trying to get to know one another in finding comfort with one another. I think this is going to be a very interesting paper and how foster homes are catergorized as a second abusive family.
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ReplyDeleteAmerica has the highest incarceration rate by population, but is only 6th in the world when it comes to college degrees. Our government's spending reflects that fact accordingly. Universities have means to fund themselves; prisons rely on the government. It cost the state of New Jersey more money to hold a prisoner for one year than to fund one Princeton students tuition. 1 prisoner for one year= $44,000. 1 student for 1 year= $37,000. Out of all states, California has the highest population, the most students in college, and the most people in prison. Per inmate incarceration costs most expensive of 50 states= $48,214. Per college student=$7,463. If california emptied its prisons today and sent every inmate to a University of California, it would save almost 7 billion a year. Higher education is an investment for students future. Prison is an investment that ensure ex-convicts have no future.
The new study by the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York City-based research organization that tracks criminal justice trends, calculates New York State s total costs for its adult corrections and prison programs at $3.3 billion.
ReplyDeleteThe report, entitled, The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers, found that among the 40 states that responded to a survey, the cost of prisons was $38.8 billion in fiscal year 2010, $5.4 billion more than what their corrections budgets reflected. States costs outside their corrections departments ranged from less than 1 percent of total prison costs in Arizona to as much as 34 percent in Connecticut.
Corrections spending is normally tracked by comparing the budgets for prison and parole agencies. The Vera Institute study includes additional costs such as contributions to pension and benefit programs and capital costs.
Nationally, corrections spending is the second fastest-growing budget item for states, behind Medicaid. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in 2011 that he ordered seven New York state prisons closed, fulfilling his pledge to consolidate the state's correctional facilities based on a declining inmate population and providing significant savings to New York state taxpayers.
The decline in prison population is also attributed to New York's investment in Alternatives to Incarceration or ATI s- which began back in the 1980s.
Staff from the Vera Institute of Justice's Center on Sentencing and Corrections and Cost-Benefit Analysis Unit developed a methodology to calculate the taxpayer cost of prisons, including costs outside states corrections budgets. 40 states participated in the survey, including New York, Connecticut and Vermont.
The New York State Department of Corrections did not return calls for comment in time for broadcast.
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1898209/WAMC.New.York.News/Prison.Costs.Higher.Than.State.Corrections.Budgets.Reflect
Los Angeles. California has the largest prison population in the country, with more than 170,000 individuals behind bars. In Los Angeles, more than half of current parolees live in neighborhoods that are home to less than 20 percent of the city's adult residents. More than a billion dollars are spent every year to incarcerate people from these communities. At the same time, as of spring 2010, the Los Angeles Unified School District was projecting a deficit of $640 million in the 2010-11 academic year. As a result, district officials were planning to raise class sizes and lay off thousands of teachers and other school-based staff.
How is school success affected by these policy choices and spending patterns? There is no definitive way to know what the previous spending cuts have meant for Los Angeles schools, but we do know that in Los Angeles, 67 percent of low-performing schools are in neighborhoods with the highest incarceration rates. By contrast, 68 percent of the city's high-performing schools are in neighborhoods with the lowest incarceration rates.
http://prospect.org/article/education-vs-incarceration
Bears, elephants, tigers and many other animals are brutally beaten and hit to perform tricks, which people are sometimes mis informed or think that all circuses treat animals with care. These creaters do not voluntarily perform the tricks their forced to, forced to balance on balls, jump through rings of fire or stand on there head. Acording to PETA ( People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals) there is no such thing as "positive reinforcement" only different degrees of punishments. The trainers use whips, tight collars, electric prods and other painful tools.
ReplyDeletePETA also states "Ringling Bros. circus trainers cruellyforce baby elephants to learn tricks, and is not through a reward system, as they claim" In the Ringling Bros. circus elephants are beaten, hit, poked, and jabbed with sharp hooks. they are mainly hit in the ear, their sensitive and weak spoke out of their whole body.
Some people, including many Christians, consider euthanasia of some or all types to be morally unacceptable.This view usually treats euthanasia to be a type of murder and voluntary euthanasia as a type of suicide, the morality of which is the subject of active debate.If there is some reason to believe the cause of a patient's illness or suffering is or will soon be curable, the correct action is sometimes considered to attempt to bring about a cure or engage in palliative care. Euthanasia can only be considered "voluntary" if a patient is mentally competent to make the decision, i.e., has a rational understanding of options and consequences. Competence can be difficult to determine or even define.
ReplyDeletehttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary/
This information is important because it justifies why euthanasia should not be allowed because in the end there are going to be alternatives. What I mean by alternatives is that if there is a disease that is truly severe, though it might be painful, is it not the job of the doctor to find some cure for the illness. Furthermore, during a situation where a patient is sick and in pain, is the patient really in a stable mindset where he/she can ultimately decide the fate of his/her life. Most likely the patient will rush into decisions without thinking them through.
5 Shocking facts that not many people know about animal testing.
ReplyDelete1)More than 100 million animals are poisoned, burned, crippled, and abused in other ways in U.S. labs each year.
2)No experiment is illegal, no matter how cruel, irrelevant to human health, redundant, or painful.
3)Ninety five percent of animals used for experiments are excluded from the only federal law offering any sort of protection.
4)Even when valid alternatives to animals are available, the law doesn't require that they be used.
5)Ninety two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they don't work or are dangerous.
I also found a video on the same page I found these facts about animals testing. It's part of my evidence, but I warn you that it isn't for the faint heart. Viewer Discretion is Advised.
http://www.peta.org/features/top-five-shocking-animal-experimentation-facts.aspx
What I think is important about this is that not many people know enough to care about the cruelty that is going on in these medical labs. Animals are being belittled. They are treated horribly by technicians that don't preform the experimentation's. Employees that beat the animals should be fired, at least that.
Based on comparison, addiction gets singled out as being falsely coined a 'disease.' Cancer, for example, is a disease. Why? Because it poses symptoms, for one. Addiction also poses symptoms; HOWEVER, the symptoms of cancer cannot be directly chosen to be stopped, while the symptoms of addiction can. The key difference there is the choice* to make a change. Cancer patients do not have the choice to stop their symptoms of mutated cells even if they put all their willpower into it. Addicts can. This research supports my argument because it points out the choice involved with addiction. The dictionary defines a disease as: a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment. Nowhere in the deifinition does it involve choice as a given factor. Addiction stands outside of the terminology for being a disease.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thecleanslate.org/myths/addiction-is-not-a-brain-disease-it-is-a-choice/
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disease
Spain's northeast region of Catalonia held its final bullfight last weekend, after voting last year to ban the practice.
ReplyDeleteBut it's a different story elsewhere in Spain. While relatively few Spaniards are real aficionados of bullfighting, many more see it as a national tradition and don't want it banned.
On a recent day, Antonio Gutierrez and his friends puff on cigars and shuffle dominoes on a folding table near Madrid's famed Las Ventas bullring. They're a bit suspicious of a foreigner asking about bullfights.They start cursing what they call "uppity Catalans," accusing Barcelona — the capital of Catalonia — of turning the world against bullfighting.
"Bullfighting is the history of Spain. It's the tradition in Spain. Barcelona is anti-bullfight, because it's anti-Spain," Gutierrez explains.
In other words, he thinks Catalonia's ban on bullfighting is mostly about politics and nationalism. The Catalan language and culture were repressed during the nearly 40-year military dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Since democracy, Catalan nationalists have sought to cast off all things Castilian — referring to Spain's central, and more conservative, heartland.
But bullfighting is alive and well in Madrid. Ionela Olteanu gives tours at the Las Ventas ring.
"For us, it's an art. It's combination of an artistic part and a technical part. And it's very important, this tradition," Olteanu says.
Bullfighting on foot began as a peasant game and morphed into something regal — a source of national pride, says Ricardo Perez, cuddling with his girlfriend on a bench near the bullring. It's what he was raised with — even if it is a bit bloody, he says. He respects it and thinks it should not be banned.
"I don't like that people kill bulls, but I respect it. I think it should be legal," Perez says.
Economic Challenges
It's true that attendance at bullfights is down nationwide — from 2,622 in 2007 to 1,724 in 2010, a drop of about one-third. Alexander Fiske-Harrison is a British aficionado who writes about bullfighting. Speaking from his home in London, he blames Spain's economic crisis for bullfighting's decline.Bullfighting ban legislation was signed in Catalonia on Wednesday marking Spain's first major region to adopt a bullfighting ban. Activists are targeting Madrid next.
This is significant because it shows how people are working rad to banned bullfights. people feel that bullfights have lost their significance and believe that it is cruel to kill the bulls just for pleasure.
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/28/140889324/bullfighting-in-spain-stays-alive-despite-regional-ban
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from endorsing any particular religious belief. This prohibition ensures that our public schools remain places in which students of all faiths – or those who do not ascribe to religious beliefs – may learn in an atmosphere free from divisive theological debates and sectarianism.
ReplyDeleteIn disapproving organized prayer in the public schools in 1962, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court said that "[w]hen the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain."
Our public schools must be true to the First Amendment's mandate against religious divisiveness and remain free from the influence of religious dogma in order for students of all faiths to attend school without fear of coercion.
But proponents of teaching religious explanations for creation in public schools share a distinctly religious view of the world's origin and believe that the public schools should present that view even to the exclusion of science. However, this approach would plainly violate the First Amendment's prohibition against state action designed to advance a religious belief.
This evidence is important because it shows how teaching creationism or evolution in public schools goes against the Free Exercise and Establishment clause stated in the Constitution. This can be used in my arguement.
United States Citizens tend to forget that INTERNATIONAL child adoption really means INTERNATIONAL. Children from all over the world are being affected in negative ways by international child adoption. This adoption type is also putting countries into struggles due to lack of regulation between countries. The main issue countries are facing due to international child adoption is human trafficking. Currently, Romania and Guatemala are facing rising corruption issues and threatening to ban International child adoption.
ReplyDeleteThis research gives a broader view on the negative affects of international child adoption. Not only are children suffering, but countries are facing issues that they shouldn’t have to worry about. Around the world, people come up with different solutions to release the burden of these countries dealing with international child adoption (one in particular is mentioned in the citation below).
http://debatewise.org/debates/1005
Capella, Leo A. "International Adoption Should Be Banned." Debatewise. Idea, 22 Feb. 2011. Web. 30 Jan. 2012.
Teen pregnancy prevention initiatives seem to be a favorite of the Obama administration, which is currently funding them to the tune of about $150 million. Much of this funding was diverted from former President Bush’s own favorite sex-ed program: abstinence-only until marriage. This shift may be in response to 2006 data, which showed a 3 percent increase in teen pregnancy rates, the first rise after decades of decline.
ReplyDelete“[The Obama administration] is acknowledging the reality and the failed policies of the previous administration with abstinence-only until marriage programs, which have proven to be ineffective,” says Monica Rodriguez, CEO of the Sexuality and Education Information Council of the United States. “These [new] programs have sound scientific evidence of their effectiveness in reducing the risk behaviors that result in unintended pregnancy.”
"Teen Moms Look for Support, But Find Only Shame" Pérez, Miriam Z. Web. 28, Jan. 2012.
This just further proves that abstinence-only programs do not work. Obama is going to try a different approach than Bush did because apparently pushing the whole "no sex before marriage" thing isn't working out. I will use this as something that is recently happening in my paper.
Leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared Friday that God created America to lead the world, and accused President Barack Obama of deliberately weakening his nation.“God did not create this country to be a nation of followers. America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers,” Romney said, in the most important foreign policy speech of the Republican campaign so far.
ReplyDelete“America must lead the world, or someone else will,” he said, arguing that the globe would be more dangerous absent a prime role for Washington, Romney said in the speech, delivered on the 10th anniversary of the Afghan war.
Romney promised immediate actions within the first 100 days of taking office, including:
The former Massachusetts governor also pledged to advance economic opportunity and democracy in Latin America and to leverage soft power to ensure the “Arab Spring does not fade into a long winter.”
Romney: God wants America to lead,By Agence France-Presse
Friday, October 7, 2011 14:38 EST
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/07/romney-god-wants-america-to-lead/
This is important because it show us how our leaders honestly believe that we are meant to rule over the world. It shows that we do not care about other countries. It is either the American way or the American way, no option. Well there is an option, the option is if you want to receive the American way with open arms or do you want it to be shoved down your throats. The U.S. does not take other countries in consideration. The united states never stop and think about if what they are doing will actually benefit the other country. It is time for the states to come down from their power trip and realize that they are not the chosen ones.
There are many other types of animal cruelty in the emtertainment field, like dog fighting. People that have missind dogs are affraid that they might be captured just to make them fight. The General cruelty law, according to Dixion only involves "tourting, mistreating, neglecting any type of animals.to kill or injury of another person's animal without cause" They can serve up to six monthes in prision or get a fine.
ReplyDelete"..I would like to see us have some additional options when it comes charging a higher level offense for general animal cruelty"-Dixion
http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/local_news/baldwin_county/animal-abuse-only-a-misdemeanor
These dogs are put to fight for the amusement, until death, the survivor is then chained up again. American bulldogs and American pitbulls are the ones put to fight. Starting at just 15 months these pups are put on a "test" to measure there aggression. The first round lasts about 10 minutes, while the second round up to an hour.A couple of months later until the dog is ready for their first "show" breeders "train" the dogs by putting a cat or another terrified animal, which can sometimes be someones pet, in front of the treadmill, while the pitbull or bulldog run on the treadmill until they catch the animal that was standing right in front of them. Once the terrified animal is caught and killed its some sort of reward for the dog.
These dogs are injected with steriods, some breeders even sharpen the dogs teeth, cut the dogs ears off to help prvent another dog attaching on to them, add roach poison on their food so that their fur might taste bad to other dogs.
Dogs are ranked on their ability to keep fighting even pain and lots of blood have been lost. Dogs that win are forced to keep fighting other dogs are bred to produce profit making puppies. A successful fighting dog earned up to $100,000 in a single year.
http://www.peta.org/issues/Animals-Used-for-Clothing/dogfighting-dogs-tortured-in-illegal-blood-sport.aspx
Because of vague definitions for “foreign sites,” critics fear that SOPA/PIPA will allow larger companies to sue smaller startups over copyright violations. Even if smaller startups end up winning legal battles over whether or not they violated SOPA/PIPA, the mere threat of a battle has the potential to ruin a company.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro recently explained how his former company was “litigated to death” after Universal Music Group filed multiple lawsuits claiming that Veoh had violated the DMCA. These lawsuits eliminated Veoh’s ability to attract new investors and spend lots of time and money fighting in the courtroom. Eventually, Shapiro said Veoh was forced to lay off the majority of its employees and sell itself at a low “fire sale” price. While the courts eventually ruled that Veoh hadn’t violated DMCA, the company was essentially ruined. If SOPA/PIPA is permitted to repeat history like DMCA lawsuits did with Veoh, future innovative startups may have a harder time achieving success.
As for Google, it doesn’t like SOPA/PIPA because it essentially allows the government to influence its search results. This is a dangerous precedent, even though the proposed legislation is only trying to de-index sites that commit acts of piracy. Google has already faced legal opposition overseas — for instance, China places restrictions on what content Google can present in search results — and a U.S. challenge would only lend credence to other nations’ attempts to limit what a search engine can do.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/sopa-pipa-facts/
This information is important because it shows how smaller companies could be shut down for having any trace of copyright infringement. By doing this, larger companies can sue smaller companies they could shut down these companies before they ever have a chance to start. This means that the market for new companies is then limited to large companies to make more money.
The opposing side say that marijuana smokers are taking a high risk when inhaling deeply causing damage to the lungs. They feel as if marijuana contains too many unknown chemicals unlike alcohol. These chemicals are said to be the same cancer cause chemicals in tobacco. Long time smokers suffer from bronchitis and an inflamed respiratory tract. it can also cause sperm cells to deform leading to temporary sterility in men. for women, it can upset the menstrual cycle.
ReplyDeleteFoundation for a Drug-Free World, http://www.drugfreeworld.org/about-us/about-the-foundation.html
-These are some of the opposing viewpoints. These statements are just based on the aftermath on the body. This is overlooking the viewpoint that the individual has a choice to make and should be aware of the effects. however, alcohol's effects are far worse that the effects of marijuana. Just because alcohol contain one known chemical "ethanol", does not mean that it is a safe chemical. It is harsh on the bodies organs far worse the what marijuana can be.
Advocates for keeping the law as is, where felons don't have the right to vote after completing their jail sentence, say that "If you aren’t willing to follow the law, you can’t claim the right to make the law for everyone else." The author of the article brings up points that not all citizens are able to vote such as minors, mentally ill, etc. due to the fact that voting requires responsibility, trustworthiness, and loyalty. Criminals break the social contract once they commit a crime and therefore should have their rights taken away.
ReplyDeleteCitation- Author- Briana B. "Should Felons be Allowed to Vote?" teenink.com
http://www.teenink.com/opinion/current_events_politics/article/174188/Should-Felons-be-Allowed-to-Vote/
The arguments made in the article are very strong and valid points. They matter because this it shows a opposite side to the points i will try to make. This information shows actual reasons why felons should not be able to vote instead of only the typical statements that they have shown bad judgment by committing serious crimes. However, if felons could have a voice to change laws they disagree with, they possibly may not break them. This brings back the point that if jail is to protect citizens from crime committees and to punish them, then why should they even be let out if they still have to be punished by not being able to vote and are not considered trustworthy. Also, the author cannot make the faulty assumption that citizens who are not felons, minors, mentally incapable, etc. are trustworthy, loyal and responsible in the first place.
Foster homes are often view negatively. They are view abusing homes. putrifying days and noncaring foster parents.But foster homes are an open hearts that are willing to take care of these kids.It can make a difference in a child's life.According to the researches from Harvard Medical School, "they showed that the extremely high rates of mental and physical disorders typically found among adult alumni of public foster care programs were significantly reduced among alumni of a private foster care program staffed by highly trained social workers with low caseloads and good access to quality services". This shows that foster in not just about anything. There is actually training for this foster homes. Also there has been more stable homes and improvements. This is significant to the whole society that has view foster homes negatively. It is not just about the putrid things but about the love and relationship that can be done to foster children.
ReplyDeleteHarvard Medical Schoolhttp://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/02/improved.foster.care
Karen Correa
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Immigration
I find it interesting that this country has found it difficult to find a solution to immigration. This country is made of of immigrants and would have been nothing if undocumented immigrants were not willing to work for low wages.In my research I have found that the bill signed in 1965 marked a dramatic break with past immigration policy, and would have an immediate and lasting impact. In place of the national-origins quota system, the act provided for preferences to be made according to categories, such as relatives of U.S. citizens or permanent residents, those with skills deemed useful to the United States or refugees of violence or unrest. Though it abolished quotas per se, the system did place caps on per-country and total immigration, as well as caps on each category. As in the past, family reunification was a major goal, and the new immigration policy would increasingly allow entire families to uproot themselves from other countries and reestablish their lives in the U.S.
http://www.history.com/topics/us-immigration-since-1965
Bullying has been a part of schools since the beginning. Although the typical idea of bullying has evolved into physical and cyber bullying. Kids are no longer just getting bullied on school campuses but also through the internet on websites like Facebook and Twitter. Physical and cyber bullying has lead many students to committ suicide because they can't take the pressure of being harrassed on a daily bases. I believe that there should be more laws to prevent school bullying and cyber bullying. State legislaters need to propose laws that can protect victims giving anyone caught bullying someone whether it be cyber or physical a punishment that will decrease the level of bullying accuring in schools all around the country. Punishment needs to become harsher so that potential bullies will think twice about bullying and therefore protecting the safety of students who are victims of bullying. Studies have shown that in recent years there has been an increased of girls involved in bullying. Girls are now bullying other girls and causing a lot of them to committ suicide.
ReplyDelete"Bullying." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 30 Jan. 2012.
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There seem to be several issues forcing their way to the surface: one
ReplyDeleteis the concept of the balance of male and female energy in both men
and women. Secondly there is the emerging role of the woman in society
and, third the nature of the changing energy nature of the energy
fields we are all living in.
Some could make the argument that we have been living in a world
dominated by the masculine energy of competition, left brain logic,
and “might makes right.” However, other forces are now moving to the
forefront that will require the development of our feminine intuitive
cooperative side. Since men and women both have to balance these
masculine and feminine sides of themselves, will women have an
advantage?
While women naturally may be more at home with the feminine energies,
will they take the leadership risks, a traditionally masculine
characteristic
this is important because it talks about the advantages that woman
have over men, this shows that woman might be ready to find equality
however I the things they are better than men are not like really
big things, this might mean that to an extend they are ready.
since this talks about how the brain has something to do with
this, its scientific so it might be fact
http://www.asuccessfulwoman.com/aswblog/do-women-have-advantage-over-men-intuitive-era-approaching-us
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/003/2006
ReplyDeleteThis website had personal accounts of family member who were executed despite having mental retardation. It does not answer the question which people should be exempt from the punishment, but it is useful to my argument because it offers abundant evidence to support either side of the argument
Given the economic grounds for voluntary euthanasia, critics of voluntary euthanasia are concerned that patients may experience psychological pressure to consent to voluntary euthanasia rather than be a financial burden on their families. Even where health costs are mostly covered by public money, as in various European countries, voluntary euthanasia critics are concerned that hospital personnel would have an economic incentive to advise or pressure people toward euthanasia consent.If euthanasia became socially acceptable, the sick would no longer be able to trust either doctors or their relatives: many of those earnestly counselling a painless, "dignified" death would be doing so mainly on financial grounds. Euthanasia would become a euphemism for assisted murder.Terminally ill patients often fear being a burden to others and may feel they ought to request euthanasia to relieve their relatives from distress.
ReplyDeleteletter to the editor of the Financial Times by Dr David Jeffrey, published 11 January 2003.Don't take liberties with the right to die by Michael Prowse, Financial Times, 4th January 2003
This information is important because it explains one of the main reasons why euthanasia can be abused. Doctors can abuse euthanasia, and treat as a way of solving problems for example when space is necessary in clinics and as a way for families to save money. This can then be used also as a rebuttal.
Here in this argument it mainly about the appeal to reasoning from consequences. The consequence is the pressuring of the doctors encouraging the patients to euthanasia therefore the reason is not to have euthanasia.
DeleteBrain-scan research further shows that addiction revolves around choice. Scientists have done brain scans in order to determine whether the brain's chemistry changes once
ReplyDeletean addict makes the conscious decision to turn their lives around. Research shows that the brain's chemistry does change after addicts begin to make effective choices against their prior addiction. The keyword in the research is the CHOICE. If addiction were a disease, the brain's chemistry wouldn't change simply because of a conscious choice. This information supports my argument with concrete evidence. The brain itself shows impact based on decision, which is what I'm arguing for. The choice theory.
"The New Reality Theory". Glasser, William. 2001 Quill Edition
Many say that they believe that obesity increase or as experts call it ""rising epidemic of obesity" stated,Darius Lakdawalla of Rand Corp and Tomas Philipson of the University of Chicagon that technology has taken off physical activities away from people causin less calories to burn meaning more people become overweigth faster. According to Lance Muranaga(25 years old, said "that he was once overweight as well but it was not due to technology but to the kind of lifestyle he had" eating fast food all the time not excersing much. However, in this generation he said he sees a big difference kids rely on technology for everything mainly the video games. He know helps overweigth kids have a better lifestyle and have physical activities in their lifes but he saids he looks at them and sees their struggle. Technology has become like a drug addiction to many they think that without it everything in their day will go wrong.
ReplyDelete-Citation: Lance Muranaga25 years old. Graduated from Sand Diego State with a BS in International Buisness and minor in religous. studies
One of the main con's of giving civil liberties in the pursuit of security is that it has a high chance to lead to racial profiling and discrimination. The article "Giving up liberty in the pursuit of security", shows a prime example of this. New York city Muslims have claimed that the CIA has been spying and targeting them ever since the terrorist attacks on 9/11. New York city police have also targeted Muslims and pressured them in becoming spies and turning their own back to the Muslim community.
ReplyDeleteSource: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201182583321994579.html
"More than 3,200 inmates in 36 states are awaiting execution. The U.S. government and U.S. military also have approximately 67 people awaiting execution.As of September 18, 2011: 1,267 people have been executed in the U.S. since 1976. Capital punishment is legal in 34 states.The legal methods of capital punishment are lethal injection and the electric chair". This states that people(inmates) are dying everyday under the government, meaning the government is sentencing harsh. The Bill of Rights supports my argument which states in the 8th Amendment "no cruel or unusual punishment" so the govt can not take away people lifebecause they're violating inmates rights.
ReplyDelete"Death penalty statistics: More than 3,200 inmates await execution"
September 22, 2011|By the CNN Wire Staff
Sources: CNN, U.S. State Department, Death Penalty Information Center
Animal cruelty goes on in the entertaiment department with horse racing, in horse racing since very little are trained to start racing and some until death.
ReplyDeleteAccording to PETA "Behind the romanticized façade of thoroughbred horse racing is a world of injuries, drug abuse, gruesome breakdowns, and slaughter".
These horses are killed after suffering severe inguries during races. The horses also die due to illness, or overworked during warm-ups, travel, and stress.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/horse-racing-.aspx
Animals in the circus!
DeleteA man by the name of Thomas Jackson was convcted of a felony due to carrying a firarm without a liscense and selling cocaine. Year safter he was released from his conviction, rebuilding a new life for himself, he learned that he was not able to vote due to his felony. He stated "'ve been in this community for five years... I'm a taxpayer. I help mold this community through my work. The sheriff is a friend of mine. But voting is the power by which you truly shape and mold, and I'm being denied that." not only Johnson but "500,000 of Florida residents--4.6 percent of the state's voting-age population--have served time behind bars for various crimes" and are banned from voting by a law that has been established since 1868.
ReplyDeleteTWOHEY, MEGAN. "ONCE A FELON, NEVER A VOTER?" National Journal 33.1 (2001): 46. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 1 Feb. 2012.
Johnson is only one of the many felons who no longer have the right to vote. Even after being punished, turning their lives around, and possibly making major contributions to a community they learned to appreciate, these fully capable citizens are denied the very freedom of expression, the freedom of speech to have their voices heard in the ballots. It is a discourages these felons from having pride in a their country and could possibly lead to more rebellious activity that would land them in prison again for other convictions. Thus, creating a never ending cycle.
Karen Correa
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AP English
Immigration
During my research I have found interesting social opinions on immigrants.
In the latest, grossest example of (lacking human dignity and) not anticipating social media backlash after releasing a long-winded, hateful tirade to millions of viewers on the internet, comes a group of Arizona girls who decided to get together to talk about "Mexican immigration" and the "new Arizona law that just passed the legislator (sic).
The video -- almost six minutes long -- was pulled from YouTube and the creators deleted their YouTube account shortly after their inboxes and social media accounts were flooded with video responses and hate mail. "
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2012/01/arizona_girls_record_racist_yo.php
I found this interesting because the comments are very stereotypical. It makes me wonder how many other people believe this about immigrants.
DeleteEqual Pay in the Millennium?
ReplyDeleteDoes this imply that once the oldest generation of women has retired the wage gap will shrink considerably? Perhaps. But even the narrow wage gap of 92.1% that applies to women under 25 looks less rosy when you consider commentator Katha Pollitt's take on it:
Young men and women have always had earnings more compatible than those of their elders: starting salaries are generally low, and do not accurately reflect the advantages that accrue, or fail to accrue, over time as men advance and women stay in place, or as women in mostly female kinds of jobs reach the end of characteristically short career paths.
(The Nation, April 14, 1997)
In 2009, President Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which allows victims of pay discrimination to file a complaint with the government against their employer within 180 days of their last paycheck. Previously, victims were only allowed 180 days from the date of the first unfair paycheck. This Act is named after a former employee of Goodyear who alleged that she was paid 15-40 percent less than her male counterparts, which was later found to be accurate. President Obama has vowed to reduce the wage gap between the genders: women currently make approximately 80 cents for every dollar that men earn.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html#ixzz1l956m8RZ
this information is important because it talks about the wage gap that has been for many years and its probably going to exist for a long time, woman have make progress on the work place since the Equal Pay Act but after four decades since it was created it has not been fully realized.
83% of substances are metabolized differently by animals and humans.40% human patients display side effects as a result of prescriptions and most of the medicines released post-animal testing. An animal is used for the conduction of not more than one experiment, however there are several instances when a number of tests are conducted on the same animal without any anesthetic aid. The world of science has on record more than 400 methods that can effectively replace animal experiments. It is important to consider the options since at least thirty-three animals die in laboratories each second worldwide.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.buzzle.com/articles/animal-testing-facts.html
This is important information because it shows that animals and humans body compatibility is at 83%. These aren't solid numbers because there have been many cases where the product has given people side affects. On top of that some animals aren't given anesthetics when a procedure is performed on them. There are 400 different methods that can be used besides animals. All of which can be used right now.
http://www.womentowomen.com/sexualityandfertility/healthbenefitsofmasturbation.aspx
ReplyDeleteThis website uses scientific evidence to back the argument that masturbation is a healthy activity, and should not only be accepted, but encouraged. It also lists and gives details as to how we can benefit from the activity. This includes benefits such as: relieving urinary tract infections, fighting against cervical infections, increasing pelvic floor strength through orgasm, etc. Masturbation can also help work against insomnia naturally, through hormonal and tension release. Dopamine, or the “feel-good” hormone, increases during the anticipation of a sexual climax. After the climax, the calming hormones known as Oxycontin and endorphins are released. These hormones sooth the body into a warm, sleepy mood. One quote that stood out to me was, "The important thing is to know as much as you can about the many health benefits of masturbation, and understand that despite prevailing myths and taboos, for many women masturbation is a positive and healthy experience." I believe this quote really hits the point I'm trying to make, which is that no one should live in shame or embarrassment about masturbating and more people should embrace and take charge of their sexuality without moral dilemma.
The administration’s line of reasoning apparently emanates from David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, who has alluded to the link between lack of resolution of the Palestine issue and the ardor of anti-U.S. militant Islamists. The aggressive Israeli lobby has pounced on even Petraeus’ subtle conclusion and criticized him as saying that U.S. support for Israel fuels militant Islamism. Of course, Petraeus dared not go that far to such a politically incorrect conclusion, but everyone, including the lobby, knew what he was thinking.
ReplyDeleteShould US Be More Involved in Israeli-Palestinian ‘Peace Process’?
by Ivan Eland, April 21, 2010
http://original.antiwar.com/eland/2010/04/20/more-involved-in-peace-process/
This is important because it shows how the US involvment in other countries conflicts is creating problems for us. Israel is a develop country and it could handle its problems by itself. The US has no business going and telling palestine that they have to go through them before they reach Israel. The US involvment lead to more violence in the Middle east.
http://articles.exchristian.net/2002/08/is-masturbation-wrong.php (CAUTION: GRAPHIC CONTENT)
ReplyDeleteThis website is a blog for ex-Christians to support each other. This specific post uses passages from the bible to explain how G-d interprets sexual acts, while saying that nowhere in the bible is it blatantly stated that masturbation is immoral, disgusting, or an abomination. It gives the bible passages so that the reader may interpret the passages themselves and decide as to whether or not the act is sinful. Many argue that it is sinful because it follows through with one of the 7 deadly sins which is Lust. In addition, masturbation has been linked with myths such as blindness and hairy palms. Some have even argued that masturbation, itself, isn't a sin, but rather the acts surrounding it such as the viewing of pornography and succumbing to the body's desire without restraint.
I understand that children need homes to be cared for. I also understand the fact that these young children can not be living on the streets by them self. It it dangerous and there is no way of surviving. But I disagree the fact that these children should not have a nugatory home where their foster parents are abusive and careless. It all started back in the Old testament where children where consider "caring for dependent children as a duty under law". the Early Christian church records stated that the "orphaned children lived with widows who were paid by the church". Son older women took care of these poor children because the church did not want these children to suffer in poor conditions. "The English Poor Laws in the 1500s allowed the placement of poor children into indentured service until they became adults." After this, it was spread throughout the US and they also began deporting children into foster care. But it have come to negative situations where the services permitted exploitation, where the children did not learn and were exposed to unsanitary conditions and abusive caretakers. Could this be a huge mistake for developing foster care?. In my opinion it has because till today there has been numerous cases where children have been through child abuse, rape, hungered and after all there is no love.
ReplyDelete"Foster Care." Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law. Ed. Jeffrey Wilson. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 787-790. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 1 Feb. 2012.
http://ic.galegroup.com:80/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage
As I focus on the flaws of international child adoption, it is important I recognize why it was created in the first place. The three main countries associated with this adoption agency are China Russia and Guatemala. Nothing is free which is where the government and welfare comes in. There are adoption laws including the Family and medical leave act, the child citizens act, including many others.
ReplyDeleteNow the question lies in are all the government actions, country involvement, and adoption laws worth the while? Are they effective? International child adoption is a great program. In my eyes it is just inconsistent.
http://www.internationaladoptionhelp.com/
"International Child Adoption." International Child Adoption. Adoption Services. Web. 01 Feb. 2012. .
This is a show, basically a dance with death - one wrong move and the Matador could become impaled on the horns of the bull. It is the Matador's job to make this dance dramatic and enjoyable for the audience.
ReplyDeleteThe faena continues until the Matador has demonstrated his superiority over the bull. Once this is achieved the bull is ready to be killed.The matador may be awarded trophies by the president, according to his skill in working with the bull, which can be one or two ears from the bull, the tail and the hoof. The crowd will often encourage the president to award the trophies by waving white hankerchiefs, and this waving continues after the trophies have been awarded in an attempt to get the matador to throw his trophies into the crowd. The crowd in return hurls flowers which are collected by the matador's assistants. Bullfighting in Spain, southern France, Portugal and several Latin American countries is an ancient custom and a traditional spectacle; some people consider it as a sport of skill and bravery and others as a barbarian, inhumane and brutal ritual of animal abuse. Bullfighting is known as the "Fiesta Nacional" (national festival); it's celebrated more in some parts of Spain than others.The most enthusiastic fans are in the central and south parts of Spain. San Fermin festival is the most famous single bullfighting throughout Spain, bulls run free around the streets of San Fermin while Spaniards try to avoid them to not be injured.
The origins of Bullfighting can be traced back to ancient Rome, but it was the Moors who introduced it to Spain, these fights may have derived from the Roman Circus through the Visigoths who conquered Roman Spain before the coming of the Mohammedans. The Moors held bullfights in the half-ruined Roman amphitheaters in Toledo, Merida, Tarragona, Cordova and other places. There were regular bullfights after the Christian conquerors of Spain made Moors come back to Africa. Nowadays, Spanish cities have adopted bullfighting as a traditional festival. The significance of bullfighting in Spain The Bull, the Matador and the Public
http://www.justspain.org/spain/spain-bullfights.asp
This article is important because it shows how spanish people see bullfighting as part of their culture. Alot of spanish people dont agree in banning bullfights because they feel like they are taking part of their culture away. However in my opinion I feel it should be banned because it is cruel to kill bulls just for pleasure.
Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet, cell phones, or other electronic communication devices to spread harmful or embarrassing information about another person. This information can be in the form of text, photos, or videos. Internet safety organizations make a distinction between cyberbullying and cyberharrassment. The latter terms refers to harassing behaviors targeted at adults. The term cyberbullying refers to the behavior when it is targeted at minors.
ReplyDeleteCyberbullying can take many forms. It may include repeatedly sending emails to people who have said they do not want contact with the sender. It can also include sending threats, making sexual remarks, using offensive language or labels, or posting humiliating photos or videos, as well as spreading rumors or lies about the victim. Cyberbullies sometimes set up a Web site to make fun of a victim or forward private emails from the victim without permission. Cyberbullies can also get others to join in the behavior. For example, they can urge chatroom members to gang up on someone else by making fun of them or refusing to let them participate in discussions.
"Cyberbullying." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 1 Feb. 2012.
Leading advocate for supporting Addiction as a disease is Dr.Leshner. Leshner says,that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a non-addict. Initially, when a person uses hard drugs like heroin or cocaine the chemistry of the brain is not much affected and the decision to take the drugs remains voluntary. But at a certain point a sort of "metaphorical switch in the brain" gets thrown, and the individual moves into a state of addiction characterized by compulsive drug use. These brain changes, Dr. Leshner says, persist long after addicts stop using drugs, which is why, he continues, relapse is so common.Addiction, Dr. Leshner declares, should be approached more like other chronic illnesses, like diabetes and hypertension. Going further, he says that
ReplyDeletedrugs so alter the brain that addiction can be compared to mental disorders like Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. It is, he says, a "brain disease."
This evidence helps support my position because it explains some of the possible effects that the chemicals found withing drugs can have on a neurological and physiological level. Those effects can affect a person persons behavior and also their ability to effectively choose. The human brain runs on a network of neurological passageways, taking drugs can affect these passage ways and initially a person chooses to perhaps alter,abuse, or misuse but as a result the brain changes fundamentally, it deviates from its normal state and becomes abnormal, ok basically where I am trying to go here is that the abnormal change is the result of the addiction, the addiction changes the brain so and I guess that would be the effect any diseases, it changes the body from its normal state to abnormal even harmful one.
source: http://www.beachpsych.com/pages/cc93.html
In this piece of research I appeal to Logos by reasoning form authority by using data obtained by Dr. Lasher who is an expert in his field so it does add some ethos. The argument is kind of a counter though. Opponents say that there is not much evidence supporting addiction as a disease but this evidence provides experimental evidence. I also dig into reasoning form consequence (I think) by saying If addiction is a choice then why would it have such a physiologically negative effect on the brain. (If.. then.. model) but I will still post another reasoning from consequence one.
DeleteI have certain articles in which the proponents of "Addiction is a choice" mention that there is no empirical evidence supporting addiction being a disease. However, I find it a bit unfair how they fail to mention the experimental evidence that has been collected that supports addiction as a disease argument here are two of said evidence:
ReplyDeleteWhen researcher Tristan Darland put cocaine on a pad and stuck it on one side of a fish tank, fish liked the feeling they got so much that they hung around the area, even after the cocaine was removed.
Then Darland bred a family of fish that had one gene altered. These fish resisted the lure of the cocaine.
Darland says this shows that addiction is largely genetic. "These fish don't know anything about peer pressure. They either respond or they don't respond to the drug," he says.
At the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Robert Risinger scans the brains of human addicts while they watch a video of people getting high on crack. It's what they call a "craving" video. He then shows them a hard-core sex film.
The brain scans show the addicts get more excited by the craving videos. The drugs become more powerful than sex — because addiction's a disease that changes your brain, says Dewey.
This piece of evidence helps serve as a sort of counter argument to a possible claim against "Addiction as a disease" lacking scientific evidence. Also, it is introductory to the claim that genetics does have a role in the susceptibility to the disease.
source:http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90688&page=2#.TyoniMVSRNs
ReplyDeleteThere are certain structures to viewing addiction whether it be through an disease or as a choice. Here are the basic outlines for such viewing structures, although I feel this source is a little.. well not biased but perhaps some cherry picked information... nevermind I decided just to present the choice model.
ReplyDeleteTHE CHOICE MODEL
Proponents of the choice model of addiction argue that the consumption of drugs or alcohol is a choice, and that just as people can choose to take drugs or alcohol, they can choose not to. Under the choice model of addiction, people addicted to drugs or alcohol are considered weak, with poor willpower or other moral failing
I focused on the The choice model in this piece of research, because if what the choice model states is true then I feel (and I would most likely argue) that the model does not take into account the change within the brain or the erratic behavior a person who is addicted experience. It does not make sense to me personally that people would voluntarily choose to bring such a negative impact to their lives (but this is a personal opinion). This brings me to ask however, what makes one person stronger than another to resist an addiction or not chose to be an addiction? I would guess a proponent of the choice model would say free will but this would bring in philosophical arguments about what "free will" actually but this not that argument. It can also be true that people susceptible to addiction can be predisposed to heredity or behavioral observation (as suggested by the behavioral model) not just choice alone, thus not making addiction only a matter of choice.
"With such variables in play, it would be impossible to develop a diagnosis or treatment protocol that’s anything other than hit and miss – not unlike some of the other ‘diseases’ that have no or weak science behind them. Depression is a good example – two out of three people who take antidepressants still feel depressed – as are ADD and ADHD, and many others.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the medications create the desired effects – which at best suppress symptoms – sometimes they don’t. Whatever the result, the medications are always dangerous, many have side effects that require additional drugs to control, and many are addictive.
The ‘incurable’ label is obviously false. Millions of people have successfully overcome addiction – a good addiction treatment center, many of which have been in operation for decades, can get up to 70% of their clients off drugs, and some see hundreds every year.
Despite the holes, the disease theory will continue to be researched, as will medications to treat this disease. Calling it incurable will also be popular: something that can’t be cured will probably have to be treated with medications or other therapies for the rest of the person’s life. It offers a rare opportunity for a continuous source of revenue – something big pharma goes to great lengths to develop."
-http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/is-drug-addiction-a-brain-disease/
This information shows evidence against the disease theory. The disease theory could potentially be an attempt to earn money by marketing to addicts who have no place else to turn. In convincing addicts that they are diseased, addicts will feel that they have no alternative besides geting doctors to remove the "disease." As the disease theory has many unfilled gaps, it makes it difficult to qualify addiction as a disease, and therefore to make treatments for it. While with the choice theory, counseling is available as a treatment; in the disease theory, medication would be perceived as the only treatment. Medicating drug addiction, for example, with more drugs, seems illogical.
There is no comparison between the right to life and other rights. When you choose to remain silent, you may change your mind at a later date; when you choose to die, you have no such second chance. Participating in someone’s death is also to participate in depriving them of all choices they might make in the future, and is therefore immoral.
ReplyDeleteModern palliative care is immensely flexible and effective, and helps to preserve quality of life as far as is possible. There is no need for terminally ill patients ever to be in pain, even at the very end of the course of their illness. It is always wrong to give up on life. The future which lies ahead for the terminally ill is of course terrifying, but society’s role is to help them live their lives as well as they can. This can take place through counselling, helping patients to come to terms with their condition.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary/
These arguments are important because they provide negatives for euthanasia. Though people might consider that they have the right to make a decision, a decision like this has no second chances. To add on to this argument, people usually in this situation are in the right state of mind so they should be given the opportunity to make a decision. Furthermore today, medicine has evolved to such an extent that people are able to feel free from pain for almost anything. Having this, also provides no reason for why people would want to kill themselves.
The argument about the constant availability to medical care and having that as an option can serve as an appeal to logos, since it is a logical idea that if there is a way of living why not take advantage of it?
DeleteAdoption in many ways is a good thing. Many parents to be want to know exactly HOW to adopt. International adoption is different because it requires a lot more thinking. With international adoption, a parent has the option of choosing children from countries such as China, Korea, Guatemala, The U.S, and Russia. After this process, and finding an actual agency, the agency will match you with a social worker. This step is called home study which is where the questioning of the government actions come in. The next steps are filling out forms and going through different classes.
ReplyDeleteThe negative thing about this is the children’s area of comfort ability. Being taken away from home is one thing, but being taken away from your culture/ country is another. Children are required to learn another language outside of their own, which may be a struggle if the child is a young adult.
Furthermore, in the second step of international adoption, I question the government. Home study is when social workers look over your home to make sure it is suitable for adopted children. Many things in homes go overlooked causing, children to suffer in the future. Social workers are children’s security besides what is supposed to be their parents. In many cases, adopted children are abused in their homes and the government should be to blame because they are not doing their job correctly.
"International Homestudy - Agency, Certificates, Child, Children." International Adoption - Adopting a Child Internationally. Foreign. Web. 02 Feb. 2012. .
3. Euthanasia will only be voluntary, they say Emotional and psychological pressures could become overpowering for depressed or dependent people. If the choice of euthanasia is considered as good as a decision to receive care, many people will feel guilty for not choosing death. Financial considerations, added to the concern about "being a burden," could serve as powerful forces that would lead a person to "choose" euthanasia or assisted suicide.
ReplyDeletePeople for euthanasia say that voluntary euthanasia will not lead to involuntary euthanasia. They look at things as simply black and white. In real life there would be millions of situations each year where cases would not fall clearly into either category. Here are two:
Example 1: an elderly person in a nursing home, who can barely understand a breakfast menu, is asked to sign a form consenting to be killed. Is this voluntary or involuntary? Will they be protected by the law? How? Right now the overall prohibition on killing stands in the way. Once one signature can sign away a person's life, what can be as strong a protection as the current absolute prohibition on direct killing? Answer: nothing.
Example 2: a woman is suffering from depresssion and asks to be helped to commit suicide. One doctor sets up a practice to "help" such people. She and anyone who wants to die knows he will approve any such request. He does thousands a year for $200 each. How does the law protect people from him? Does it specify that a doctor can only approve 50 requests a year? 100? 150? If you don't think there are such doctors, just look at recent stories of doctors and nurses who are charged with murder for killing dozens or hundreds of patients.
This information was extremely useful to get a feel for the more common arguments against mines. This helps me direct my focus on a lot of possible arguments I can make and the ways to go about them. They also include scenario-ish testimonials that I can be prepared to approach appropriately in my paper.
Arguments based on rights
ReplyDelete• People have an explicit right to die
• A separate right to die is not necessary, because our other human rights imply the right to die
• Death is a private matter and if there is no harm to others, the state and other people have no right to interfere (a libertarian argument)
Practical arguments
• It is possible to regulate euthanasia
• Death is a private matter and if there is no harm to others, the state and other people have no right to interfere (a libertarian argument)
• Allowing people to die may free up scarce health resources (this is a possible argument, but no authority has seriously proposed it)
• Euthanasia happens anyway (a utilitarian or consequentialist argument)
Philosophical arguments
• Euthanasia satisfies the criterion that moral rules must be universalisable
• Euthanasia happens anyway (a utilitarian or consequentialist argument)
• Is death a bad thing?
Arguments about death itself
• Is death a bad thing?
"BBC - Ethics - Euthanasia: Pro-euthanasia Arguments." BBC - Homepage. Web. 25 Jan. 2012. .
http://www.euthanasia.com/page5.html personal anecdotes
I will strike my audience with more of an emotional standpoint – pathos. I will refute why the reasons against it should not be valid though I will discuss their arguments. I will include anecdotes of people suffering and pin point on every argument against it to come as credible as possible. I want to show that I am very familiar with both sides but argue my standpoint strongly. The Pro evidence was also very useful as I read because it pin points and refutes most arguments for me. It begs the question and uses much of the devices we discuss in class during lecture.
Bullfighting is the most indefensible type of animal abuse. Our footage shows in horrifying detail what happens at these events. Dare yourself to look at the following videos and slide shows. You will not be able to deny the cruelty and pointlessness of what you see here.
ReplyDeletePope Benedict XVI: How Can You Tolerate this Abomination to God's Magnificent Creatures?
Bullfighting is not a fight at all. It's a systematic torture killing that pits a gang of armed thugs against a lone, frightened, and wounded animal.
In 1567 Pope Pius V issued a papal bull condemning bullfighting and other forms of animal fighting for entertainment as "cruel and base spectacles of the devil" whose promoters are subject to excommunication. Pope Pius IX reiterated the 1567 bull in 1846, and Pope Pius XII cited it in 1940 in refusing to meet with a delegation of bullfighters. The 1567 papal bull eventually brought prohibitions against bullfighting throughout Italy, plus a 1928 ban on bullfighting to the death in Portugal, amended in 2000.
Bulls are not the only creatures to suffer in bullrings. The tormented bull does not understand that it is the man on the horse's back that is causing his pain, only that he is in agony. He therefore sees the horse as his enemy as much as the man.
http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000423
this article is important because it talks about how not only people in Spain think bullfights should be banned but people from all around the world. This shows how people dont appreciate seeing bullfights because they see it as a cruel thing.
Challenges for women begin in childhood. Young girls may be brought up to believe that they are only suited for certain professions or, in some cases, only to serve as wives and mothers.
ReplyDeleteGender lines are drawn early, and exclusions for women continue throughout adulthood. These constant messages may lead to a false belief that women do not belong in the high-powered corporate world.
http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/challengeswomenface/a/genderdiscrim.htm
Elementary School
Studies show that teachers still give more time and attention in math and science to boys, while giving more to girls in language arts. Since math and science are vital skills for many male-dominated professions, like medicine, engineering, and architecture, does this encourage little girls to focus on other areas of learning? The divergence in academic path girls and boys choose after elementary would seem to indicate, yes.
Middle and High School Years
In middle and high school, girls are more likely than boys to be discouraged from participating in sports, and clubs like debate, math, and science. But girls are more likely to be encouraged to participate in after school volunteer work, social programs, and more passive activities.
College Years
After childhood, young women are often encouraged, or even pressured, into pursuing education in more stereotypical female-oriented professions, like teaching, nursing, care giving, retail, and office administration.
Women are now earning more degrees than men at every level, and with higher grades and honors. But women starting their own businesses are less likely to have a college degree in their specific industry, or first-profession degree, than are male entrepreneurs. They are also less likely to get a job in a Ph.D.-related field.
Statistics Show Trends Haven’t Changed Much, Yet
More women are starting businesses than men, more women are in the workforce than men, and the majority of degree-holders are now women. Yet, according to the Department of Labor 2007 statistics,women are still only dominating fields and industries that are often seen as “female.”
According to CNN Money, in 2006, there were only 10 women running Fortune 500 companies, and only 20 in the top 1,000. But it’s a start.
http://womeninbusiness.about.com/od/challengeswomenface/a/genderdiscrim.htm
this articles is important for my argument essay because it talks about how discrimination between woman and men started since we were little, this might mean that it is a culture thing, or a "traditional belief" it talks about how woman are expected to take certain jobs and maybe that can be the reason why they dont go past those expectations due to having that mindset from a young age.
DeleteAfter the terrorist attacks on 9/11, 8 out of 10 Americans in a national poll agreed that they are willing to give up some personal freedoms to make the country safe from terrorist attacks. More than half favored the idea of national electronic ID cards. These numbers have steadily declined over the years. Within months of the attacks, Congress passed the controversial Patriot Act, expanding the government’s surveillance powers, and established the Transportation Security Administration, setting the stage for airport screenings that some say is a violation to one's privacy.
ReplyDeletehttp://bangordailynews.com/2011/09/18/opinion/other-voices/giving-up-liberty-for-security/
An embryonic stem cell test, using mouse-derived cells to assess potential toxicity to developing embryos, has been validated as a partial replacement for birth-defect testing in rats and rabbits.
ReplyDeleteThe 3T3 Neutral Red Uptake Phototoxicity Test uses cells grown in culture to assess the potential for sunlight-induced (“photo”) irritation to the skin.
Human skin model tests are now in use, including the validated EpiDerm™ test, which has been accepted almost universally as a total replacement for skin corrosion studies in rabbits.(10)
The use of human skin leftover from surgical procedures or donated cadavers can be used to measure the rate at which a chemical is able to penetrate the skin.
Microdosing can provide information on the safety of an experimental drug and how it is metabolized in the body by administering an extremely small one-time dose that is well below the threshold necessary for any potential pharmacologic effect to take place.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/alternatives-testing-without-torture.aspx
I think that this information is important because these are actual types of alternatives that can be used. They are also alternatives that are being used in other countries. The United States should follow this example so that the torture of innocent animals can end.
As per media reports, in animal cruelty cases, dogs are the most regular victims of animal brutality. Pit bulls, in particular, comprise a rising percentage of persecuted animals
ReplyDelete64.5percent(1,212) involved dogs
• 18 percent(337) involved cats
• 25 percent(470) involved other animals
• Pit bulls represent an increasing percentage of total canine animal cruelty cases.
• In 2000 and 2001, pit bulls were the victims in 13 percent of reported dog abuse cases.
• In 2007, pit bulls were the victims in 25 percent of reported
dog abuse cases.
The massive increase in animal cruetly in the entertainment field has grown over the years and every animal is being affected by it.
Tuberculosis is seen as a main disease for the elephants in circuses. Some case reveal that the elephants were not treated medically for injuries inflicted during thrashing and other natural grounds.In circuses we think that, that would be at least one place where animals are "safe" and taken care of, but their not taken well care of.
http://www.articleswave.com/articles/animal-cruelty-cases-laws-and-statistics.html
I understand that pitbulls are the biggest victims but did you look if many of the pitbulls that were involved in animal cruelty were part of illegal dog fights. Also have you researched any anti-animal cruelty groups like the ASPCA.
DeleteFoster homes today have not change in any way. It is most common that child abuse has become an increasing rate."Our results found that kids (mostly adolescents) who enter group home placements are about two-and-a-half times more likely to enter the juvenile-justice system relative to similar kid" according to the Joseph Ryan a professor in Children and Family Research Center.The cause that there has been so many cases that small children go through rough situations, that they grow up to rebel and disbelief every word that is given to them. Children, among small girls and boys have been sexually harassed and in some cases rape. The foster care system should do its job by looking into this cases closely. They say children can report their abusers, but most can not because they are threaten to bill kill or sent to worse foster homes. How can a child be possibly safe in a foster home like that? It is important that the system of foster care notice these situations and realize why so many children end in streets or suicides. It is not a way to live because they are mentally traumatized.
ReplyDelete"Group Homes Increase the Risk of Delinquency for Foster Children" by Craig Chamberlain. Foster Care Debra Bloom, Ed. At Issue Series.
http://ic.galegroup.com:80/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting
Bullying generally involves an imbalance of power in which the bully uses power to control or harm and the victim is unable defend himself or herself. It involves intentional harm, and it is often repeated, with the same aggressor committing multiple offenses against a particular victim. In fact, it is the relentless nature of bullying that is most difficult for the victim to deal with. Most people can move on from a single episode of name-calling or physical abuse, but in a bullying situation these things happen continually, often for a long time, putting the target into a state of constant fear and anxiety. The victim's schoolwork, health, and other relationships may suffer accordingly. The situation may become especially bad if the victim feels there is no help available. In some cases, young people have committed suicide in reaction to relentless bullying.
ReplyDeleteBullies may be male or female. Some bullies are obvious: they are physically strong and known for beating up their victims. Others are less visible, preferring to do their bullying quietly, for example by starting damaging rumors about the victim, or creating a web page devoted to picking on the victim. What all bullies have in common is a desire for power over others. They like to think highly of themselves and they often lack empathy for the suffering of other people. Some bullies are insecure, and hurting other people makes them feel better about themselves. A few actually have true mental illnesses, such as personality disorders, that do not allow them to understand or care how other people feel.
"Bullying." Gale Student Resources in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 3 Feb. 2012.
The Arizona Law States that police officers have the right to racial profile. During My research I have found that this is very unconstitutional.
ReplyDeleteThe move unleashed immediate protests and reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally.
Even before she signed the bill at an afternoon news conference here, President Obama strongly criticized it.
Speaking at a naturalization ceremony for 24 active-duty service members in the Rose Garden, he called for a federal overhaul of immigration laws, which Congressional leaders signaled they were preparing to take up soon, to avoid “irresponsibility by others.”
The Arizona law, he added, threatened “to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.”
The law, which proponents and critics alike said was the broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. Opponents have called it an open invitation for harassment and discrimination against Hispanics regardless of their citizenship status.
The political debate leading up to Ms. Brewer’s decision, and Mr. Obama’s criticism of the law — presidents very rarely weigh in on state legislation — underscored the power of the immigration debate in states along the Mexican border. It presaged the polarizing arguments that await the president and Congress as they take up the issue nationally.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was worried about the rights of its citizens and relations with Arizona. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles said the authorities’ ability to demand documents was like “Nazism.”
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
More than 20% of black defendants who have been executed were convicted by all-white juries. Almost 80% of death row defendants have been executed for killing white victims, even though in society as a whole African-Americans account for about half of murder victims. There have been many careful statistical studies indicating that race plays a significant role in determining who lives and who dies. For example, a study released in 2003 by the University of Maryland concluded that race, along with geography, is an important factor in death penalty decisions in that state. Prosecutors are more likely to seek the death penalty when the race of the victim is white and less likely when the race of the victim is African-American. This shows that the white people have control over the system and they do anything to convict their opposing treat, which are usually African Americans. This verified that the government is corrupt taking away peoples innocence away!
ReplyDeleteAmnesty Report Finds Racial Injustice in Death Penalty
Death Penalty Information Center
http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/race-and-death-penalty
appeal to logos:
DeleteReasoning from authority, testimony, and statistics
In U.S. military trauma training courses, these sensitive, intelligent beings are shot, stabbed, dismembered, and burned. An observer at a trauma training session described what happened to one pig: "They shot him twice in the face with a 9-millimeter pistol, and then six times with an AK-47 and then twice with a 12-gauge shotgun. And then he was set on fire. I kept him alive for 15 hours."
ReplyDeletePigs are mutilated and killed in invasive and deadly surgical training exercises at universities and hospitals. In the exercises, holes are cut into the animals' throats, needles are stabbed into their bones, and the tissue surrounding their hearts and organs is removed. These deadly and archaic laboratories continue even though modern and superior non-animal simulation methods that better prepare trainees to treat human patients exist.
Pigs have their skin scorched off in burn experiments and are also frequently tormented in xenotransplantation exercises (procedures in which organs are transferred from one species to another).
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/pigs-in-laboratories.aspx
This is important because this is an example of a pig being experimented on. The story is graphic just like the action. Pigs are shot to see how long they will survive and to determine the severity of the wound. Their organs are being replaced as other ones among species.
Appeal to Pathos.
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If we teach sex education, the youth's willingness to use contraception, including condoms, to prevent negative sexual health outcomes related to sexual intercourse will increase since they’ll learn correctly about it.
These sex education programs help teenagers deal with peer pressure and they teach them the art of communication and negotiation. It assists them with imbibing assertive skills, crucial in their dealings with peers.
Reasoning from comparisons:
By way of comparison, Canadian and European young people are about as active sexually as Americans, but teenage American girls are five times as likely to have a baby as French girls, seven times as likely to have an abortion, and 70 times as likely to have gonorrhea as teenage girls in the Netherlands. In addition, the incidence of HIV/AIDS among American teenagers is five times that of the same age group in Germany. Is it any wonder, therefore, that 17 states have so far chosen to forgo federal matching funds rather than submit their children to the dishonest, propagandistic programs of conservative abstinence-only ideologues toward nearly all forms of sexual activity.
Reasoning from example:
When I was in middle school, I learned about sex and sexually transmitted diseases. I was ignorant to these things before and was uncertain of the truth to what I did know, since I would just get the information from my friends who were my age and didn’t know anything either, but when we actually learned about HIV and condoms in school, it was helpful. Later in high school, this program taught us how to correctly use condoms and taught us about different STDs and STIs and how to prevent from getting them.
Reasoning from authority, testimony, and statistics:
“[The Obama administration] is acknowledging the reality and the failed policies of the previous administration with abstinence-only until marriage programs, which have proven to be ineffective,” says Monica Rodriguez, CEO of the Sexuality and Education Information Council of the United States. “These [new] programs have sound scientific evidence of their effectiveness in reducing the risk behaviors that result in unintended pregnancy.”
Appeal to Pathos
The large-scale failure of these programs is at least partially attributable to the fact that they are purposely, indeed transparently, dishonest. Of the 13 federally funded programs studied in a minority staff report by the Committee on Government Reform, just two provided students with accurate medical and scientific information, a finding that was consistent with a U.S. Government Accountability Office study released two years later. In the rest, students learned such "facts" as:
• Half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus.
• Touching a person's genitals "can result in pregnancy."
• A 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person."
• HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be spread via sweat and tears.
• Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as often as 31 percent of the time in heterosexual intercourse. (The actual rate is less than 3 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control.)
• Women who experience abortions "are more prone to suicide," and as many as 10 percent of them become sterile.
Appeal to Ethos
In a larger study by the Centers for Disease Control, researchers found that although teenagers who take "virginity pledges" may wait longer to initiate sexual activity, they are more likely to enjoy oral and anal sex, and they are just as likely as other students to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases. Eighty-eight percent eventually have premarital intercourse. While abstinence-only programs show little evidence of sustained effect on a student's sexual activities, they do reduce the use of contraception, including condoms, when sex does take place.
The Abstinence-Only Sex Education Curriculum Is Biased and Dangerous" by Eric Alterman and George Zornick. Are Text Books Biased? Noah Berlatsky, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2012. Eric Altermann and George Zornick, "Think Again: The Costs of Enforced Sexual Ignorance," Center for American Progress, Web. 26 Jan. 2012.
ReplyDelete“Is Sex Education Effective?” http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/sexeducation_effective.htm Web. 26 Jan. 2012.
"Teen Moms Look for Support, But Find Only Shame" Pérez, Miriam Z. Web. 28, Jan. 2012.
The importance of this information is to inform people that the abstinence-only curriculum is biased as well as ineffective. They misinform teenagers with wrong information, who then do not use contraceptives at all. This results in a high number of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. This is my appeal to pathos, striking maybe anger in my audience. I will use all of the statistical information as data that the sex curriculum should be taught instead of abstinence-only programs. My information is cited, so this increases my credibility because the audience will see that my sources are reliable and therefore, I can be trusted.
Cockfighting is also part of animal cruelty in the entertainment department. They are placed in very small, enclosed places so they won't escape. Steel blades called "gaffs" are especially made to fit in their legs, the fight conyinues going and doesn't stop until eigther both one if not both animals die. The winning bird has a lot of injuries which include broken bones. Large cockfighting pits pick up to a 1,000 birds a week.
ReplyDeleteIn order for these birds to last a long time fighting drugs are given to them. For instance steriods, caffine to increase their aggression and make it more difficult to kill.
These roosters are bred and drugged just like dog fights. No matter how injured or exhausted they are. they are forced to fight until a winner is declared. These fights usually involve gangs and a large amount of money is betted. Cockfighting is illegal in all 50 states.
Appeal to Ethos
ReplyDeleteThere are no regulations that govern the conduct of an experiment, limits what animals are forced to endure, or prevents the duplication of painful experiments. Animals are routinely infected with diseases they would never normally contract, cut open, burned, starved, driven insane, poisoned, and killed—and it's all legal. The March of Dimes, a charity that funds animal studies, has paid experimenters to sew cats’ eyes shut for a year and then kill them; keep monkeys in restraints for days at a time; give ferrets and other animals severe brain damage; and addict rats and newborn opossums to alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine. The only federal law that offers any sort of protection for animals in laboratories, the Animal Welfare Act, deals primarily with housekeeping issues, such as cage size.
Even when cages are clean, animals in laboratories are still deprived of everything that makes life worthwhile—the companionship of others of their own kind, fresh air, freedom to run or climb, and the ability to make even the simplest choices about their lives. After months, years, and sometimes decades of being poked and prodded, they die or are killed—hardly an ethical way of treating another sentient being.
http://www.peta.org/about/faq/Dont-existing-laws-ensure-that-animals-in-labs-are-treated-humanely.aspx
Appeal to Logos.
Reasoning from statistics
More than 2.5 million live animal experiments were authorised in Great Britain in 2000. This number has halved since the 1970s
Around the world, animals are used to test products ranging from shampoo to new cancer drugs
British law requires that any new drug must be tested on at least two different species of live mammal. One must be a large non-rodent
UK regulations are considered some of the most rigorous in the world - the Animals Act of 1986 insists that no animal experiments be conducted if there is a realistic alternative
Almost every medical treatment you use has been tested on animals. Animals were also used to develop anesthetics to prevent human pain and suffering during surgery.
http://www.animalport.com/animal-testing/animal-testing-facts-figures.html
Reasoning from example
At Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc., a product testing laboratory in North Carolina, workers attached thousands of ticks onto rabbits' shaved bodies to allow the ticks to gorge for five days. Rabbits were subjected to this painful procedure twice and were then killed, even though non-animal methods for raising ticks have been available since the mid-'90s.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/rabbits-in-laboratories.aspx
Reasoning from Comparisons
Pros: Finding drugs and treatments to improve health and medicine. There are already some lifesaving medical breakthroughs that are the result of animal testing, like open heart surgery, organ transplants, effective insulin, vaccines for deadly diseases.
Cons:Animals kept in unnatural conditions ( a lab and not their natural habitat), or animals in pain or distress, are not giving rise to accurate or consistent results. The reaction of the drug in the animal’s body versus the human body is different. Humans are quite different from other animals, so the consequences of animal testing may not be applicable to humans.
Reasoning from Consequences
Lethal Dosage (LD) tests are used to determine the amount of a substance that will kill a predetermined ratio of animals. For example, in the LD50 test, subjects are forced to ingest poisonous substances (through stomach tubes, vapor spray inhalers or injection) until half of them die. Common reactions to LD tests include convulsions, vomiting, paralysis and bleeding from the eyes, nose, mouth or rectum.
http://www.idausa.org/facts/costesting.html
Obesity epidemic is not only in the U.S. but it could be worst in parts of Hawaii. There is a 37% of the population in Hawaii that are obese. An according to the University of Hawaii Kinesiology and leisure Science Department and the Brigham Young University conduct a study and found that more than 20% of kids in Hawaii were obesed. This proves that obesity is spreading out throughtout the countries.
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ReplyDeleteOne symptom of this indifference is the absence of an adequate accounting of the wars’ destruction, particularly of war mortality. The governments don’t discuss it, and the news media reliably report the lowest conceivable numbers—“tens of thousands” is the usual formulation for Iraq – or the partial numbers collated by the U.N. office in Kabul for Afghanistan. In fact, the numbers of fatalities are significantly higher and need to be studied for their implications.
Percentage of Iraqis who lived in slum conditions in 2000: 17
Percentage of Iraqis who live in slum conditions in 2011: 50
From the Canadian International Council website, the editor of this page, John Tirman, wrote (Dec. 16):http://mit.edu/humancostiraq/
Reasoning from comparisons:
ReplyDeleteAnother diplomatic source said: "This is an issue that has been building steam for some weeks." All foreign powers with an interest in Libya, among which are the US, Britain and France, have had their own agendas. However, the source said: "There is a feeling that Qatar has been providing money and support to certain individuals."
At the centre of concerns are allegations that, rather than supporting the NTC, Qatar has chosen to back favoured key figures with financial and other resources. Most prominent among these woulld be the Islamist head of Tripoli's military council, Abdul-Aziz Belhaj.
Qatar earned substantial gratitude from many in Libya for its early support of the revolution against Muammar Gaddafi's rule. Its air force joined a UN no-fly zone while it also helped rebels sell oil.
Qatar is also widely credited with having helped supply revolutionaries with much-needed weapons during the uprising, including modern Belgian-made FN assault rifles and Milan anti-tank rockets.
The claims come amid growing concern among Libyans in the National Transitional Council (NTC) and western officials that Qatar, which supplied arms to Libyan revolutionaries, is pursuing its own postwar agenda at the cost of wider efforts to bring political stability to the country.
• Qatar accused of interfering in Libyan affairs, Peter Beaumont in Tripoli
• guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 October 2011 18.59 ED http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/04/qatar-interfering-libya
Reasoning From consequence
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has warned that any attempt to attack his country's nuclear programme will meet a forceful response.
His comments come a day after Israel's defence minister told a security meeting that time was running out to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions.
American officials, including the defence secretary, Leon Panetta, have expressed concern that Israel may be positioning itself for an early attack on the Islamic Republic.
James Reynolds reports.
Reasoning from Example
More than 3 million people (including 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War; more than half were Vietnamese civilians. By 1969, at the peak of U.S. involvement in the war, more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were involved in the Vietnam conflict. Growing opposition to the war in the United States led to bitter divisions among Americans, both before and after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. In 1975, communist forces seized control of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
1982 Gallup poll reveals the extent to which Americans share these general orientations. At remarkable levels of between 85 to 94 percent, the public agreed that the following were "important" goals of U.S. foreign policy:
ReplyDeleteprotecting jobs of American workers (94%);
keeping up the value of the dollar (93%);
securing adequate supplies of energy (93%);
worldwide arms control (89%);
containing communism (86% );
combating world hunger (91%);
defending our allies' security (89%);
matching Soviet military power (83%);
protecting interests of American business abroad (87%);
promoting and defending human rights in other countries (85%);
helping to improve the standard of living in less developed countries (85%);
protecting weaker nations against foreign aggression (84% );
strengthening the United Nations (80%).
http://www.gwu.edu/~pad/202/readings/foreign.html
Logos: Not surprisingly, marijuana intoxication can cause distorted perceptions, impaired coordination, difficulty with thinking and problem solving, and problems with learning and memory. Research has shown that, in chronic users, marijuana's adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off.
ReplyDeleteThis argument simply states the effects of marijuana. It is logic because of how the smoke affects the brain. This allows the audience to follow you (whether they are pro or con) on a logical level.
Ethos: marijuana was classified as a Schedule 1 substance, which put marijuana into a class with cocaine and other such drugs.
If it is morally wrong to abuse cocaine and "other drugs", it is going against your morals to use marijuana. The audience will then be affected by thinking back on their backgrounds.
Pathos:marijuana was a commonly used painkiller for all types of aches and pains; recently, it has been found to be effective as a pain killer and nausea-reducer for chemotherapy patients
The audience';s emotions are affected because they feel as if those who suffer should be relieved and if this is the answer, let it be done. A normal person would not deny one of their painkiller if they were suffering from such diseases.
Stephen Ross,The controversy,http://www.duke.edu/~sgr5/p1.htm
Those who commit suicide are not evil, and those who attempt to take their own lives are not prosecuted. However, if someone is threatening to kill themselves it is your moral duty to try to stop them. You would not, for example, simply ignore a man standing on a ledge and threatening to jump simply because it is his choice; and you would definitely not assist in his suicide by pushing him. In the same way, you should try to help a person with a terminal illness, not help them to die.
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This is a good argument to use in order to counter act and go against a pro argument of voluntary euthanasia. This is a good rewording of the argument almost converting this into a form of a technicality of making this voluntary euthanasia as murder/suicide. Then this can be used as a ethos argument of questioning the audience's morality and ethics by asking them if they will allow someone to kill themselves.
Karen Correa
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Logos
Reasoning from Consequences
An example where I could use reasoning from consequences for my argument essay would be the following. I could use reasoning from consequences by stating, "If we let undocumented workers work in the United States business would make more money thus United States will have a better economy.If we do not let them stay and work, our economy will come crashing down."
Reasoning from Comparisons
An example where I could use reasoning from comparisons for my argument essay would be the following. I could use reasoning from comparisons by stating things like, "Undocumented workers bring greater income to the United Sates, if offered working permits they will have to pay taxes and also have working rights." Here my argument will be arguing against and opinion by comparing it to another.
Reasoning from Example
When using reasoning from example i can draw upon specific events such as the Arizona Law and the Arizona Racist video on the internet. I could use specific quotes or I could also use some of my previous research where laws are stated. Reasoning from example can be backed up by most of the research I have done because its more factual making it more credible.
Reasoning from Authority
Using reasoning from authority I can use the data based I got from the Inglewood Library website. There are laws there and cases that had to deal with immigration. This is where statistics will come in place for example 100% of Los Angeles is Latino or Hispanic.
These articles are important because it shows that U.S. is putting its citizens in danger in order to gain political influence in other countries. Iran is considering attacking the U.S. if Israel attacks them. They claim that any attacks by Israel are ordered by the us. If Israel goes on with their warning then Iran may Target Major Cities in the States. The article also reveal that in some cases the U.S. cause more damage to a country. The us tends to go in and destroy cities and then leave after they finish their goals providing little to no aid in helping the country rebuild. The US also seems to look down on countries that interfere in foreign conflicts to gain political or economical advantages.
ReplyDeleteReasoning from consequences: If an addict makes the choice to give up his/her addiction, then the brain will show chemical changes as addiction symptoms disappear.If the addict made the conscious choice, then addiction does revolve around choice. It is not a disease.
ReplyDeleteReasoning from example: An anonymous addict hit rock-bottom with his addiction, his health affected because of his habits. He made the conscious decision to quit his addiction, and he turned his life around. He made the choice to attend rehab. He made the choice to change his way of living. (http://addiction.narcononrehab.com/drug-addiction-stories/choice-change-life/)
Reasoning from comparisons: Drug addiction is a choice. Opponents of the choice theory use the evidence of brain activity. The brain scan of an addict shows differently than the brain scan of a sober volunteer. The brain differences, however, don't prove anything. A taxi driver's brain, for example, differs from the scan of a scuba diver. The driver's brain has developed to understand roads and maps, just like an addict's brain changes according to their decision-making. Brain chemistry differences between addicts and non-addicts prove nothing. (http://www.thecleanslate.org/myths/addiction-is-not-a-brain-disease-it-is-a-choice/)
Reasoning from statistics: About 50% of adolescents who start smoking before age 18 will get addicted. The other 50%, however, didn't continue smoking for the next 15-20 years. All the adolescents made the choice to smoke a cigarette. They didn't all, however, make the same choice to smoke another one. (http://www.myaddiction.com/education/articles/tobacco_statistics.html)
Ethos- William Glasser, a psychologist, writes in his book, "Counseling with Choice Theory..." that brain scans show the change in brain chemistry after a conscious decision. When addicts make the decision to quit their habits, the brain shows evidence in a change in chemistry.
(http://books.google.com/books?id=8pgapP2X9_AC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)
Pathos- Addicts have made the decision to begin their compulsive behavior. After making the decision, they may lose control. Addicts will lose their home, health, friends, and sometimes even their sanity to the behavior they become a prisoner to. Once addicts reach the rock-bottom of their habits, they can make the choice to turn their lives back around. They can go from being on the streets, to managing their lives again. It's justice for addicts to know that to get out of the hole addiction creates, they simply need to make the choice and folow through it. It's injustice to tell them they have a disease that can be treated, but not cured.
Appeal to logos
ReplyDelete- Reasoning from consequence: If we prefer liberty over security, then the government would stop taking drastic measures that infringes on our personal liberty and privacy. If we prefer security over liberty, then there would be a higher rate of racial profiling and discrimination.
- Reasoning from comparisons: Compared to the United States, other countries around the world would prefer their personal liberty and privacy over national security. In a poll, less than 50% of people of other countries would prefer liberty while in the U.S the number is higher than 50%.
- Reasoning from example: In recent events, there has been controversy over the TSA and its operational tactics. There has been people recording TSA employees body searching children and elderly women.
- Reasoning from authority, testimony, and statistics: In a poll conducted in 2010, 51% would give up liberty for security but 14% said that it would depend on the situation.
Appeal to Pathos: What kind of a world do we live in where our children are being stopped and searched. Children suspected of carrying deadly weapons, being patted down in front of their parents. Many of them even start to cry because they feel like they are being touched in a wrong way. Elderly women are being told to remove their underwear just to make sure they aren't hiding any weapons.
Appeal to Ethos: According to Ramzi Kassem in his article "Giving up liberty in the pursuit of security" the CIA and NYPD have been spying on the Muslim community ever since the attacks on 9/11. This is a prime example of how giving up liberty can lead to racial discrimination.
Appeal To Logos
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This idea was well expressed by Jerry Bergman in the February, 1980 Acts & Facts, published by the Institute for Creation Research. He wrote, "The very fact that we usually do not mention religion or religious issues means that we are teaching very definite ideas about religion, especially that religion is not important.... To say that the schools can teach the entire world of knowledge but must exclude religion is censorship of the worst sort.... There is no academic freedom where every area of knowledge can be taught except one ..."
Dr. Bergman then went on to add, "If schools are to be a place where students can debate important questions, it would seem that eliminating religious questions would shelter students from an important area of debate which is crucial for living a well-rounded life."
http://ncse.com/cej/2/1/why-creationism-should-not-be-taught-as-science
This evidence is important because it can introduce my opponent's view. This is one of the main viewpoints on the topic of Creationism being taught in public schools. Introducing this in my essay, would make me seem less bias and narrow-minded. Furthermore, this appeals to authority because it includes an cited piece from an expert, Dr. Bergman.
Reasoning from consequences:
Creationists, however, have two ready answers to this point. They either claim creationism is being discriminated against in the scientific community and so is not given a fighting chance to get its voice heard (evolutionists are narrow-minded bigots), or they charge that evolution is actually not accepted as much as people think (it is a "club secret" among scientists that evolution is bankrupt).
http://ncse.com/cej/2/1/why-creationism-should-not-be-taught-as-science
This evidence concludes the main point of my
argument by describing the actions and opinions of the Creationists.
Reasoning from comparisons:
ReplyDeleteBut it doesn't stop there. Other religions have theories of origins which also make scientifically testable predictions. Let's look at a few of these:
The Hare Krishnas are creationists of a sort. They have their own creation research group, called the Bhaktivedanta Institute, which sends out periodic blasts at evolution and gives arguments in support of their theory of "production." As Jnana Dasa (1979) in Back to Godhead magazine explains it, "This theory proposes that biological forms do not arise from the spontaneous self-organization of matter, but rather under the direction of a superior intelligence. Furthermore, it suggests that life and consciousness are not material phenomena, the results of physiochemical reactions. Instead, they result from a distinct, irreducible, nonphysical principle or entity, which is present within the material body during an individual's lifetime, and whose departure from the body leads to the change called death." This nonphysical entity, the "Supersoul," is indestructible and eternal, a "particle of spiritual energy" that has neither birth nor death, but simply passes from physical body to physical body in a process of reincarnation.
http://ncse.com/cej/2/1/why-creationism-should-not-be-taught-as-science
This evidence compares different religions that have the same beliefs of Creationist. This information can be useful in my essay because I can elaborate on how the teaching of Creationism can become very broad. Many students might get confused with the religions listed above.
Ethos:
Richard M. Lemmon, when reviewing this series for the California State Department of Education (1975) noted that, "The discussions of protein accumulation on the prebiotic Earth (pages 63 to 66 of the `Handbook for Teachers') is a bad and, I fear, deliberate, distortion of the scientific research of the past two decades." He also noted: "The `Handbook for Teachers,' page 27, says that `genuine science gives no firm evidence that the earth is more than several thousand years old.' One hundred years ago that statement may have had some credence among educated mankind. Today it is only laughable. The world's libraries are full of books that give overwhelming evidence to the contrary." His overall conclusion was: "These books are totally unfit for adoption in our schools. Any use of these books in any school will cripple the students' understanding of science."
http://ncse.com/cej/2/1/why-creationism-should-not-be-taught-as-science
This evidence is important for my essay because it helps me further my argument.
Karen Correa
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Pathos
My audience will be people who do not believe undocumented immigrants have the right to work here. I will use language quotations and examples from video documentaries. These quotes will come from immigrant workers. A great video would be the one that talks about the corn in the United States.
Ethos
Ethos is simply just making sure I site everything.
Pathos:
ReplyDeleteEvolution is important for students to understand. Evolution is essential to understand if our country is expected to advance in the fields of biology and in medicine. It is the key to the future and our youth deserve the chance to learn about evolution and the scientific process instead of having creationism crammed down their throats by the older generations. I went through all of this while I was in school, and now I believe I was cheated by not receiving the proper education to succeed in the world today. Don’t let the same happen to your children.
http://agent3155.com/2011/06/07/keep-creationism-in-sunday-school-not-public-school/
This evidence is important for my essay because it's also another one of my opponent's viewpoints. It appeals to pathos because it's using emotion to get the audience to agree with them. The audience would have sympathy for their children after reading that passage, because the author brought in his personal experiences.
Appeal to Logos
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"The U.S. is the only democratic nation that broadly disenfranchises ex-felons for life."
Compared to other countries, the US which is supposed to be a true democracy, equal, and the land of opportunity, is the ONLY country that takes away felon voting rights.
-Reasoning from Example
"ROSETTA MEEKS LIVES IN FLORIDA'S Miami-Dade County, but she didn't get to vote in the presidential election. Nobody scrutinized her ballot for chads or screamed himself hoarse trying to prevent officials from counting it. An African-American woman who has devoted her last six years to teaching computer skills to low-income people, Meeks wanted to vote and knew whom she wanted to vote for."
This woman was convicted of a felony due to being in debt. Much later she ended up paying off her debt and appealing to the supreme court to restore her voting rights, which she was successful. However, she was required t give up irrelevant information such as how her parents died and list every person whom she had a child out of wedlock with. She not only had to list all of that information in her appeal, but her vote could never be counted in that election due to the long process it took to restore her right.
cont.
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"In an extensive study of two poor and mostly black communities in Tallahassee, Florida, criminal justice professor Todd Clear was unable to find a single family without at least one disenfranchised man--making it unlikely that the community will be able to band together when, for example, a state senator proposes locating a toxic waste dump nearby."
This reveals why the law is unjust and should be investigated to see if its racist or not considering the fact hat it only the law affects only a certain group of citizens. The audience also is introduced to a logical argument due to the fact that this evidence was taken from "an extensive study." readers are able to relate to the argument because they all live in communities, and may have issues they want to fix and seeing that these people cant even fix their issues with emotionally capture their attention.
-Reasoning from Testimony
"Along with at least 200,000 other Floridians, Johnson was--and remains--a citizen without a voice."
By using Johnson's situation as an example the audience can relate to the situation. Also by giving a number for the amount of citizens in the same position as Johnson, this makes the argument stronger.
-Reasoning from Statistics/Appeal to Ethos
"Mirroring racial disparities in justice-system involvement, African American men are disenfranchised at a rate seven times greater than the national average; in states with more restrictive laws, up to 25 percent will never vote again (The Sentencing Project, 2007)."
By using statics the writes gains credibility. With the specific statistics here, the argument is strengthened because it shows a possible argument for racial inequality that be can further explained now that the writer is considered credible.
-Appeal to Ethos
Advocates that voting is a privilege, "that people who have broken the laws shouldn't be involved in making them, and that ex-felons will vote in ways that harm society and influence criminal justice policy for the worse. But only the most rehabilitated felons are likely to choose to exercise their right and there is no evidence that they choose harmful policies, even in states that allow convicts to vote while in prison."
This makes the writers very credible because they are addressing the opposing side's argument with facts.
Citation-
1. Clegg, Roger, and Marc Mauer. "Once a criminal, never a voter? In eight states, those convicted of a felony lose the right to vote--forever. Should ex-felons be able to cast ballots after they're freed? (opinion)." New York Times Upfront 6 Sept. 2002: 29. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.
2. Siegel, Jonah A. "Felon disenfranchisement and the fight for universal suffrage." Social Work 56.1 (2011): 89+. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.
3. THOMPSON, NICHOLAS. "Locking Up The Vote." Washington Monthly Jan. 2001: 17. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 6 Feb. 2012
Appeal to logos
ReplyDelete-Reasoning from Consequences: If the United States Government continues to inject billions of dollars into the prison system, are students will get discourage students from attending school because of the cost. Future college students from the lower and middle class may not attend school, leading to the pathway of prison. Instead of using almost 10 billion on prison systems, structuring the pathway to prison, the united states should be using that more for education, providing our future leaders with funds for school.
-Reasoning from Comparisons: Over the past 30 years, California has spent an increasing portion of its budget on prisons — and a shrinking share on the University of California and California State University systems.
Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/139kh)
In raw numbers, spending on both corrections and higher education has increased since the 1980s. In fiscal year 1979, the state spent about $1.9 billion on higher education, while the corrections budget totaled $625.4 million. This year, the UC and CSU systems are receiving $5.7 billion, while prisons account for $9.6 billion in state spending.
However, the state has imposed deep cuts to higher education in recent years. Spending on higher education peaked in fiscal year 2007 at $7.4 billion and has decreased nearly every year since then.
Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/139kh)
-Reason From example: It may seem odd that state funding for college kids often competes with money for prisoners, but if you track spending in California over the past 30 years, you’ll see evidence of a long-standing tug of war between these two very different constituencies. Over much of the past decade, funding for corrections has gone steadily up, while spending on state colleges has tumbled. “The state seems to be saying we have more of a future in prisons than in universities,” University of California president Mark Yudof said in a recent speech.
-Reason from Statistics: According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, their current budget is a almost $11 billion to oversee and supervise 316,229 offenders at an average cost of $49,00 per inmate. There are 33 state prisons, 40 camps, and 12 community correctional facilities. Males comprise 93% of the inmate population and females are 7%. 39% are Hispanic, 29% are black, and 26% are white. We have nearly 24,000 people serving life sentences while 680 are on death row. The average age is 37. Three are approximately 124,000 people on parole. The return rate as a parole violator is 51.
http://www.california-criminal-law.com/prisons/index.html
Appeal to Pathos
ReplyDeleteOur future students and leaders of the world are not going to be able to afford college because tuition is increasing every year. The rich will be able to send their young adults to college, while the middle and lower class will receive little federal aid because of the spending of education. The future of our next generation is in the governments hands; they are encouraging young adults to prison instead of high learning
Appeal to Logos
ReplyDelete-Reasoning from consequences: If the government has the power to place anyone to death penalty for a murder case, this will influence people to act upon rage and by making the law stricter, it will be easier to break them.
-Reasoning from comparisons: Compare to non-death penalty states, its proven they has lower murder rates. "A new survey by the New York Times found that states without the death penalty have lower homicide rates than states with the death penalty. The Times reports that ten of the twelve states without the death penalty have homicide rates below the national average, whereas half of the states with the death penalty have homicide rates above. During the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48% - 101% higher than in states without the death penalty."
-Reasoning from examples: Many people are being wrongly accuse for murders they didn't commit. This shows that no person or group has the right answer to a murder case. Like, Dennis Williams lived on death row 25 feet away from the electric chair. If not for DNA testing he would be dead.
Also like Kirk Bloodsworth was released from death row after being wrongfully accused, convicted and sentenced to death and without any physical evidence, Gary Gauger, was sentenced to death. This proves that the government is not always right.
http://karisable.com/crpundeath.htm
Appeals to Pathos: What kind of world do we live under? The government has all the power and the wrong reason for being corrupt to their only citizens. The government is actually making the world more unsafe, bring injustice into peoples life and leading them to a wrong route.
Logos: Bullying may include any or all of these situations: verbal bullying, or name-calling; social bullying, such as spreading rumors about a person, leaving someone out of a group, or breaking up friendships in order to victimize someone; physical bullying such as punching, kicking, or hitting a person; or cyberbullying, using the Internet, cell phones, or other technology to harass a victim.
ReplyDeletePathos: People who are bullied are often different in some way from the majority of people around them. They may be different in appearance, behavior, or social status. People who are shy, withdrawn, or otherwise socially isolated are particular targets. Often, the victims do not receive the help they need because adults either do not see the bullying or choose to ignore it. Some adults look the other way, claiming that bullying is just a normal aspect of childhood that everyone needs to learn to deal with. This makes the victim feel even more isolated and helpless, creating a downward spiral of escalating bullying and worsening the consequences for the victim.
"Bullying." Gale Student Resources in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 6 Feb. 2012.
Ethos: "We are programmed, as best we know, to need orgasms," says Gloria Brame, Ph.D., a clinical sexologist in Athens, Ga. "It's a fundamental aspect of men's health, right up there with brushing your teeth." And the more you know about what satisfies you solo, the more pleasure you get from sex.
ReplyDeletePathos: Only people who cannot find sexual partners or who are socially inadequate masturbate. Masturbation leads to physical problems such as mental illness. Masturbation “ruins” a person for partner sex. Others, including medical doctors and sexual partners, will be able to tell if you masturbate.(Myths like these make people resent and even fear masturbation.)
Logos (Consequence): Masturbation won't ruin your life, the positive effects (physically and mentally) outweigh the negative myths.
Logos (Example): Masturbation is a common treatment for sexual dysfunction. For example, women who don’t orgasm can learn by masturbating and men who experience premature ejaculation can use masturbation to learn control.
Logos (Reasoning): In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s Alfred Kinsey first published results of over 15 years of research in human sexual behavior. His studies revealed that approximately 95% of males and 60% of females had masturbated.
Citations:
http://www.menshealth.com/health/health-and-sexual-benefits-masturbation#ixzz1laVmcN3i
http://www.mckinley.illinois.edu/handouts/masturbation.html
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ReplyDeleteConsequences- Most people have a natural fear of death- its a trait man have to think about what will happen before we act. If we don’t think about it consciously, we will think about it unconsciously. Think- if every murderer who killed someone died instantly, the homicide rate would be very low because no one likes to die. We cannot do this, but if the Justice system can make it more swift and severe, we could change the laws to make capital punishment faster and make appeals a shorter process. The death penalty is important because it could save the lives of thousands of potential victims who are at stake (Bedau, H., 1982).
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ornellaspaper.htm
Comparisons- Opponents claim lots of innocent man are wrongly executed. There has never been any proof of an innocent man being executed!! A study by Bedau-Radlet claimed there were 22 cases where the defendant have been wrongly executed. However, this study is very controversial. Studies like Markman and Cassell find that the methodology was flawed in l2 cases. There was no substantial evidence of guilt, and no evidence of innocence. Moreover, our judicial system takes extra precautions to be sure the innocent and their rights are protected. Most likely an innocent person would not be executed (Internet).
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ornellaspaper.htm
Example- When there was a moratorium on Capital Punishment in the United States, the study showed murder rates increased by 100%. The study also reviewed 14 nations who abolished the death penalty. It (the study) claimed murder increased by 7% from five years before the abolition period to the five years after the abolition (Internet). The number of years on the average spent in death row is 10 years. It is known, with all the appeals, the death penalty is not swift! In fact, most murderers feel they most likely will never be put to death. If the death penalty was swift and inevitable, there certainly would be a decrease in homicide rates. (Internet).
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ornellaspaper.htm
Authority- Huggo A. Bedau (1982) states one popular objection to Capital punishment is that it gratifies the desire for revenge regarding as unworthy. The bible quotes the Lord declaring “Vengeance is mine” (Romans 12:19). He thus legitimized vengeance and reserved it to Himself. However, the Bible also enjoins, “The murderer shall surely be put to death” (Numbers 35:16-18), recognizing that the death penalty can be warranted whatever the motive. Religious tradition certainly suggest no less (p. 330). All religions believe having life is sacred. If we deprive someone else life, he only suffers minor inconvenience; hence, we cheapen human life—this is where we are at today.
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ornellaspaper.htm
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The death penalty gives closure to the victim's families who have suffered so much.
Ethos
DNA testing and other methods of modern crime scene science can now effectively eliminate almost all uncertainty as to a person's guilt or innocence.
Appeal to pathos: Children are taken in for the wrong reasons; MONEY. The parents greed causes them to mistreat the child 92% of the time (the other 7% is time with the social worker). Most child abuse cases are from children who are in foster homes or adopted. Many cases go untold which leaves the government to be questioned.
ReplyDeleteInternational child adoption influences children from four different countries. Although putting these children in better living situations is a good thing, people overlook where and how comfortable the child is. They may not be used to change which will cause them to feel lonely in a completely different country. These feelings may lead to violent crimes in the future.
Appeal to logos/ethos: There is an increase in child abuse cases across the nation and even worse than this, there is a greater increase in cases that go untold. Many of these cases are the parents fault besides child abandonment through kidnappings. What people over look is the severity of bringing a child into a strange home. The parent knows a lot about the child, but what about the childs awareness? A great percentage of the amount of children being abused lies within foster homes. Many stories have been told through the media for the voice of children to reach the nation but society has viewed it as entertainment and looked pass the meaning (annie- the movie).
"Adopting - Emotional Issues." Adopting Families. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. .
"America's Secret Crime Against the Family - Jess DelBalzo - Eclectica Magazine V6n3." ECLECTICA Magazine Homepage. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. .
Appeal to Pathos: People with mental retardation should not be given the death penalty because many times they are unaware of what they're doing. Doing this would not make sense because it is like executing small children. They can't be held responsible for their actions.
ReplyDeleteAppeal to Logos/ Ethos: Cases that involve people with a mental illness should be extensively investigated because it is unjust to execute these individuals for committing a crime they can't be blamed for.
Pathos: Demanding that family take part in such a decision can be an unbearable burden: many may resent a loved one’s decision to die, and would be either emotionally scared or estranged by the prospect of being in any way involved with their death. Assisted suicide also introduces a new danger, that the terminally ill may be pressured into ending their lives by others who are not prepared to support them through their illness. Even the most well regulated system would have no real way to ensure that this did not happen.
ReplyDeletelogos:It is vital that a doctor’s role not be confused. The guiding principle of medical ethics is to do no harm: a physician must not be involved in deliberately harming their patient. Without this principle, the medical profession would lose a great deal of trust; and admitting that killing is an acceptable part of a doctor’s role would likely increase the danger of involuntary euthanasia, not reduce it. Legalising assisted suicide also places an unreasonable burden on doctors. The daily decisions made in order to preserve life can be difficult enough; to require them to also carry the immense moral responsibility of deciding who can and cannot die, and the further responsibility of actually killing patients, is unacceptable. This is why the vast majority of medical professionals oppose the legalisation of assisted suicide: ending the life of a patient goes against all they stand for.
these arguments are great examples of pathos and logos thyat can be used in the argument essay.
The tradition, as it is practised today, involves professional toreros (also called toreadors) who execute various formal moves which can be interpreted and innovated according to the bullfighter's style or school. Toreros seek to elicit inspiration and art from their work and an emotional connection with the crowd transmitted through the bull. Such maneuvers are performed at close range, which places the bullfighter at risk of being gored or trampled. After the bull has been hooked multiple times behind the shoulder by other matadors in the arena the bullfight usually concludes with the killing of the bull by a single sword thrust which is called estocada. In Portugal, the finale consists of a tradition called the pega, where men (forcados) try to grab and hold the bull by its horns when it runs at them.
DeleteSupporters of bullfighting argue that it is a culturally important tradition and a fully developed art form on par with painting, dancing and music, while animal rights advocates hold that it is a blood sport resulting in the suffering of bulls and horses.A sold-out crowd of nearly 20,000 gathered Sunday to see the last bullfight in Barcelona.
Though a bullfighting ban doesn't take effect until Jan. 1, 2012, three of Spain's top matadors executed their final show for a Catalan audience on Sunday evening.
The Catalan government instituted the ban after a petition was circulated calling the sport barbaric.
The ban divided opinion in Catalan and the rest of Spain, as supporters of bullfighting likened it to the loss of a storied tradition.
"For a city like Barcelona to close this arena is like throwing a Picasso painting into the garbage," a fan at the final show told the AFP news agency.
Animal rights advocates would like to see the ban extend into the rest of mainland Spain, though they anticipate a tougher battle in areas like Madrid and Andalucia where a history of bullfighting permeates large parts of the culture.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/09/should-all-bullfighting-be-banned.html
Addiction revolves around choice. It is not a disease. The compulsive behavior begins with the choice to start it. Although the loss of control to the behavior is not necessarily a choice, the conscious decision to change it, is.
ReplyDeleteWhen asked if they agreed that animal experimentation can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans, 88% of doctors agreed. Over 200,000 medicines have been released most of which are now withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, 240 medicines are essential.Thousands of drugs passed safe in animals have been withdrawn or banned due to their effect on human health. Morphine puts humans asleep but excites cats.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.animalrightscommunity.com/blogs/blog/animal-rights-bulletins/myspace-bulletins/2007/11/29/24-facts-animal-testing
This information is important because it shows that animal and human body systems are incompatible. Certain chemicals make our body systems react differently. Animal testing is not an accurate way of testing something.
APPEAL TO PATHOS: Heroin addicts aren’t high school students, they’re people who live on the streets and beg for change. Heroin addicts don’t have a 3.75 grade point average and apply for acceptance into the top colleges. Well adjusted teenage girls don’t attack their father with a golf club and curse him. How did it get so messed up?
ReplyDeleteDarcy had been using for nearly 18 months, not always regularly, but in recent weeks her appetite for heroin increased and dad discovered that his coin collection and jewelry were gone. Her allowance was generous, even by upper middle class standards, but once the addiction took over, it was insufficient to buy her the desired amount of the drug. She stole from her father, from her mother whom she lived with on alternative weekends, and from her older brothers and sisters.
Her body no longer produced its own natural chemicals to manage pain, so not having the heroin caused her to become “dope sick.” When the drug was not replenished, she went into withdrawal. She never experienced this before, because the withdrawal didn’t occur with occasional use, but after time, as she used more and more drug, and needed more and more drug, the abrupt removal of heroin was devastating.
-Darcy's story is not uncommon among Heroin addicts, her story is an example of how addiction can change a person's behavior. I will start to explain the effect of her addiction on a voluntary level. Yes, Darcy made the choice to rob from her father and grandmother but this is an example of how an addiction can clench a persons life, had Darcy been healthy right state of I doubt she would choose to rob from her family to get heroin. Furthermore, on physiological level I doubt Darcy made the conscious choice to stop producing her own natural chemicals, this is a result of addiction to a substance. Addiction in a way is similar to OCD yes, people voluntary preform their obsessive rituals but it's is the psychological disorder that is the root of the problem.
whoops I also meant to write in there, "I also don't think someone would make conscious to destroy their body and partly their lives over a drug." mmmm can't you just smell the pathos.
DeleteREASONING FROM COMPARISONS: Heroin addiction has its price, and that price if pretty steep. There are so many long term physical effects of heroin use. For one, Constant heroin use causes the brain to reduce or even stop producing its own endorphins. When this is the case, the addict’s body becomes barely capable of managing small amounts of pain or discomfort. This inability is especially magnified in the early stages of heroin withdrawal, making early recovery or heroin detox a particularly difficult exercise. Once heroin detoxification is done, the brain usually starts producing endorphins again. However, the damaging effects of heroin on the brain could take years to recover from.
ReplyDeleteThe long term psychological effects of heroin use are also great. It is very common for heroin addicts to find it hard to concentrate, learn anything new, or even organize a clear thought. Personal relationships also take a beating due to heroin, as heroin addicts tend to become apathetic and unmindful of the consequences of their addiction to heroin. Worst of all, heroin triggers highly irresponsible and self-destructive behavior in constant users, especially when they resort to criminal acts to get their next heroin fix.
- Diabetes which is considered a disease involves the body ceasing to produce insulin much like the way heroin addicts cease to produce endorphins for their body. Granted, that this effect can be life long but some diabetics who are borderline have been able to reverse their conditions. Addiction to certain subtance can throw off the body's physiological process but can be reversed but the fact that it does so cannot be explained by choice.
http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/similarities-between-diabetes-and-addiction/
APPEAL TO STATISTICS: Adults who abuse drugs often have problems thinking clearly, remembering, and paying attention. They often develop poor social behaviors as a result of their drug abuse, and their work performance and personal relationships suffer.
ReplyDelete- Another effect that results from addictive disorder resulting from significant brain change. I would also like to mention that psychological changes from being a taxi driver or scuba diver does not create negative psychological effects like memory loss and stuff.
http://www.interceptinterventions.com/resources/facts-and-statistics-about-addiction/
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ReplyDeleteCreationism is the religious belief that humanity, the Earth, and everything that exists in it has been created by God. Many public schools include creationism into their curriculum, but some schools tend to find creationism too controversial to talk about. This belief has no scientific reasoning behind it, therefore it should not be taught in public schools.
REASONING FROM EXAMPLE: My problem was binge eating and a growing dependence on wine, further complicated by the variety of pain pills I was prescribed for the aches and pains caused, ultimately, by my bad habits. I was a less-than-ideal husband and dad. You just couldn’t rely on me. I’d sneak around feeding my addiction and then cover my tracks. Sometimes I would blatantly lie about it. [See "The Liar's Disease"] I didn’t lie to be evil. I did it because the shame was too much for me to handle.
ReplyDeleteYou might also say I didn’t know any better.
One thing’s for certain: I didn’t wake up one morning and decide it would be a laugh riot to slowly destroy myself and hurt everyone around me in the process.
-Bill Brenner who is an addict tells his story about his addiction on his blog and explains how he was overtaken by his addiction but he does not claim to be a helpless victim but knows that he is a type of victim of his addictive behavior and how he changed it.
source: http://billbrenner1970.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/its-a-disease-not-a-choice-part-2/
DeleteAccording to an article from 2010, 78% or 4 out 5 Americans approved of the govt. proposals of full body scanners in airports. A lot of people claim the America is slowly turning into a police state where your privacy and most important freedoms don't. They also claim that free speech and alternative view points are quickly being turned down and those who are against these measures are quickly considered "Un-American."
ReplyDeletehttp://thetruthwins.com/archives/its-official-a-majority-of-americans-would-give-up-liberty-in-order-to-be-safe-from-terrorism
LOGOS-consequences: Although foster care is a place to provide needs and services that a child needs, it has not been very successful in providing the mental care for them.If the foster care system put children in more foster cares, then more children go through a dishearten stages with abusive families. If the foster care system would not put children into foster care, then children would most likely experience less detrimental situations.Common sense is that children are better off in a different type of system like adoption or Children's Home Program where they can interact with other children and got o school and have the love for one another.
ReplyDeleteexamples- The small amount of monetary compensation for doing foster care is not nearly what it should be and at times may not even cover the costs of having the child/children in your home. Families struggle to accommodate financial need in order for the child to have their basic necessities.
authority- According to Live strong.com, the emotional pain of separation in statistics show that just about 50% of children in the foster care program end up being united with their families. This means that you may have to give up your foster children, even after a strong emotional bond has been developed. It can be painful and difficult to let those children go, and before you become a foster parent you need to be sure that you can deal with this.
Pathos- In my personal experience, I struggle to live with my foster parents because they were abusive. Every breakfast,lunch and dinner she gave us burger king, mac and cheese or hotdogs to eat. It sounds delicious but the food was never well cook and imagine eating that for about 2 to 3 months. My sister and I were mistreated and I was a target to my foster parents to be screamed at. I was only in third grade, and every night i could not sleep in that house thinking of that woman hitting me. There was the social worker that came once a week, and she told us for anything or any problem we call her. After she left, my foster mom rip the card and threat us to not say a single word or there will be consequences. My point is that I myself experience this situation so I know how it is like to live in an abusive home. It is not loving parents, they are volunteer people who just want to earn the money for themselves.
Ethos-This goes against my beliefs that children go to foster care where they can find uncomfortable environments. It contradicts the US policy of keeping children "safe and sound at home" where it has not been like that at all. If they care they should of put down the foster care program system and put children into a better phase.
counterarguments- Although,Foster families have many resources available that provide respite, education, support and overall care for those involved. Foster families can also affect a child's mind by having impetuous dispositions.
It is important to know this because right now there are millions of children experiencing an abuse home and yet many foster care systems are putting more children into these foster care homes.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fostercareadoption.us/custom2.php
"Older Teens Cycle Out of Foster Care and Return to the Streets" by Carol Smith. Street Teens. Dedria Bryfonski, Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2012. Carol Smith, "Generation Homeless: Older Teens Cycle Out of Foster Care ... and onto the Streets," InvestigateWest, October 17, 2010. www.invw.org. Copyright © 2010 by InvestigateWest. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission
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ReplyDeleteThe foster care system acknowledges that children are prominent in foster homes.I think the foster care system is mistaken because it mainly overlooks at the economic situation instead of the emotional phase that a young adolescent,perhaps contends to endeavor in a foster home.
"Children Are in Foster Care Because They Are Poor" by Gaylynn Burroughs. Foster Care Debra Bloom, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2010. Gaylynn Burroughs, "Too Poor to Parent," Ms. Magazine, vol. 18, Spring 2008, pp. 43-45. Copyright © 2008 Ms. Magazine.
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ReplyDeleteInternational child adoption is a worldwide agency, including a total of four different countries. This agency, ran by the federal government, allows children to be adopted into what is to be a "better" family. AFter a child is adopted, they are taken out of their comfort zone, which results in a lack of communication. Social workers follow families after adoption but so much can be hidden. Over the past few decades, there has been an increase in ongoing child abuse cases, many of which have taken place in adopted family homes. Social workers have been tricked into believing foster parents offer nothing but the best for adopted children because horrible crimes have been covered up.
international child adoption can in many ways be beneficial to birth parents. foster parents, and children, but for things that go untold within foster homes, the government is to be blamed.
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ReplyDeleteBullying has been a part of schools everywhere, but in recent years bullying has become something worse. Bullying affects a lot of students in a lot of schools. All because certain students look a little different or act a little different, they are singled out and my fun of in front of a huge crowd. Bulling includes verbal and physical asults aswell as cyber bulling. Cyber bulling threats have been one of the main weapon for bullies trying to attack victims through the internet. More security measures have to be taken at schools to prevent buying from become something even worse.
"Bullying." Gale Student Resources in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 8 Feb. 2012.
Thesis-U.S involvement in other countries has brought more damage than good in those countries. The U.S has helped implement fascist regimes in certain countries they went into. In order to solve the problems they caused they go into those countries and leave them in ruins.
ReplyDeleteKaren Correa
ReplyDeleteMs. Hampton
Immigration thesis:
Immigration has been one of Americas greatest issues. It has raised a lot of nationalism. Despite the fact immigration is what defines America, they still fail to give undocumented workers the right to live in American soil. People may argue that the money being made by them is being sent back home but have we forgotten that one still need food to survive clothes and rent.
The way that many large companies and associations are trying to help to fight obesity is by creating programs afterschool. An example of a program would be by the Livestrong foundation was by creating the programs and keeping the community informed of how to keep a healthy lifestyle, how to exercise and what to eat. This proves that everyone in the U.S. is trying to help fight what is becoming to be known "epidemic of obesity". People do not what to stop from using technology and that is just fine but they hould but asdie their physical work they they should still have throught the day mostly the kids.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.livestrong.com/article/342134-solutions-for-obesity-in-america/
In May 2008, 64-year-old retired school bus driver Barbara Wagner received bad news from her doctor. She found out that her cancer, which had been in remission for two years, had returned. Then, she got some good news. Her doctor gave her a prescription that would likely slow the cancer's growth and extend her life. She was relieved by the news and also by the fact that she had health care coverage through the Oregon Health Plan.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't take long for her hopes to be dashed.
Barbara Wagner was notified by letter that the Oregon Health Plan wouldn't cover her prescription. But the letter didn't leave it at that. It also notified her that, although it wouldn't cover her prescription, it would cover assisted suicide.
After Wagner's story appeared in the Eugene Register-Guard, the Oregon Health Plan acknowledged that it routinely sends similar letters to patients who have little chance of surviving more than five years, informing them that the health plan will pay for assisted suicide (euphemistically categorized as "comfort care"), but not for treatment that could help them live for months or years.
Certainly, spending $100 for deadly drugs is cost effective. And, ever since the Oregon Death with Dignity Act transformed the crime of assisted suicide into a "medical treatment" more than ten years ago, it has been perfectly legal. Oregon doctors prescribe lethal overdoses of drugs. Pharmacists dispense them, sometimes with instructions to "take all of this with a light snack and alcohol to cause death." Patients die after taking them.
This is important because it explains the corruption that occurs as attempting to achieve assisted suicide.
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=true&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010375221&mode=view
"Children who come from abusive homes, children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with access to guns and other weapons are more likely to commit a violent crime. It is important to point out, however, that not all children who fall into one or more of these categories will become violent offenders, and that sometimes the children of affluent, involved and attentive parents commit violent crimes. Other risk factors to consider are the presence of mental illnesses, such as manic-depressive disorder, schizophrenia and sociopathic tendencies."
ReplyDeleteThese are risk factors of children who commit violent crimes. Many of the factors mentioned originate in the home; foster homes. Not all children have the proper training in adopted families and go on to commit crimes. The mental issues mentioned are factors that lead to these violent crimes. We can't always blame the children because they are looking for stability, but we could blame the parents(adopters). The mistreatment and neglect results in negative actions from children. International child adoption needs to become more strict on the way they check families. This improvement will benefit our children's future actions.
Information About Children Who Commit Violent Crimes | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6472590_information-children-commit-violent-crimes.html#ixzz1lqwRSGew
Bullfighting is normally fatal for the bull, and it is dangerous for the matador. Picadors and banderilleros are sometimes gored, but this is not common. They are paid less because their job takes less skill and less courage. The suertes with the capote are risky, but it is the faena, in particular the estocada, that is the most dangerous. A matador of classical the Manolete style is trained to divert the bull with the muleta but to come close to the right horn as he makes the fatal sword-thrust between the scapulae and through the aorta. At this moment, the danger to the matador is the greatest.
DeleteSome matadors have been gored many times. A special type of surgeon has developed, in Spain and elsewhere, to treat cornadas, or horn-wounds. The bullring normally has an infirmary with an operating room, reserved for the immediate treatment of matadors with cornadas.
The bullring has a chapel where a matador can pray before the corrida and where a priest can be found in case an emergency sacrament of extreme unction (also known as Anointing of the Sick or Last Rites) is needed.Spain has always been famous for its bull-fights as have other countries all over the world.. In Spain the bullfight is called the Fiesta Nacional (The national Sport). There are few places in Spain where a bull-ring can't be found within a short drive. It is the most common thing associated with Spain, and rightly so for its origins date back to 711AD when the first bullfight (corrida) took place in honour of the crowning of King Alfons VIII. Every week, all over Spain, many thousands of Spaniards flock to the nearest bullring, but not all Spaniards agree with the sport, or like it. Bullfighting has now been banned in Catalunya and it is likely that other regions will follow suit. It has been reported that this ban will result in thousands of jobs being lost and large sums of compensation being paid to bull breeders.
It is reported that each year[2009], within Spain, 24,000 bulls are killed in front of an audience of 30 million people. The bullfighting season runs from March to October. Bullfighting was originally done on horseback and was a sport reserved for the aristocracy.
http://www.idealspain.com/Pages/Information/Bullfighting.htm
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One international study examined the results of rat and mouse “lethal dose” tests for 50 chemicals and found that these tests were able to predict toxicity in humans with, at best, only 65 percent accuracy.(7)
ReplyDeleteDuring the Draize eye- and skin-irritation test, rabbits are immobilized in full-body restraints while a substance is dripped or smeared into their eyes or onto their shaved skin. One study found that the Draize test “grossly over predicted the effects that could be seen in the human eye,” and another concluded that the test “does not reflect the eye irritation hazard for man.”(8) The human four-hour patch skin test has proved to provide chemical skin-irritation data that are “inherently superior to that given by a surrogate model, such as the rabbit.”(9)
With respect to the standard rat test for toxicity to the developing nervous system, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Scientific Advisory Panel concluded that the tests “must be further refined to develop more sensitive endpoints which are relevant to significant outcomes in humans.”(10)
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/government-required-animal-testing-overview.aspx
This information is important because this is an example of an experiment on mice It illustrates the affect that it had on the animal and on humans. It didn't have an affect on the human because they both have different body systems that react to things differntly.
Dual diagnosis is common yet difficult to treat. Addiction of all types -- to nicotine, alcohol and drugs -- is often found in people with a wide variety of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders, unipolar and bipolar depression, schizophrenia, and borderline and other personality disorders. Lead author Andrew Chambers, MD, cites clinical reports that at least half the people who seek help with addiction or mental-health treatment have co-occurring disorders. Epidemiological data says that from two to five of every 10 anxious or depressed people, and from four to eight of every 10 people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or antisocial personality, also have some type of addiction.
ReplyDelete-This piece of evidence show's how addiction is linked to other mental disorders and they can co-occur within an addict. and perhaps being prone to different mental disorder, as the evidence states, can stem from the changes that occur within in the brain while some one is addicted to a substance.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203090143.htm
Today's diesel engines require a clean-burning, stable fuel that performs well under a variety of operating conditions. Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel that can be used directly in any existing, unmodified diesel engine. Because it has similar properties to petroleum diesel fuel, biodiesel can be blended in any ratio with petroleum diesel fuel. Many federal and state fleet vehicles are already using biodiesel blends in their existing diesel engines.
ReplyDeleteThe low emissions of biodiesel make it an ideal fuel for use in marine areas, national parks and forests, and heavily polluted cities. Biodiesel has many advantages as a transport fuel. For example, biodiesel can be produced from domestically grown oilseed plants such as hemp. Producing biodiesel from hemp and other domestic crops reduces the United States' dependence on foreign petroleum, increases agricultural revenue, and creates jobs.
http://www.hempcar.org/biofacts.shtml
The link discusses how hemp could be used in conjunction with other natural sources to aid in decreasing our dependency on foreign sources of fuel. Also the use of biofuels are less harmful to the environment. The idea is simple and has been used before in the early 1900s but due to obliviousness to what is good for the environment, we still prefer to have used the dangerous, pollution causing fuels we use today. Jobs could be created and more revenue would be possible, thus stimulating the economy.
In the months following the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., the State Department had seven countries on its list of governments that engage in state-sponsored terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Sudan.
ReplyDeleteIn 1973 the popularly elected Allende was over-thrown by a military coup d'etat (pronounced coo day-TAH) supported by the U.S. government. The United States opposed Allende because he was a socialist. (Socialism is a system similar to communism, in which there is no private property, and all businesses and industry are owned by the workers.) Letelier had escaped imprisonment by the military government that replaced Allende, and he was in the United States conducting a political campaign against the Chilean government when he was murdered. Several men, including General Contreras, were eventually convicted of the killings.
"State-Sponsored Terrorism." Terrorism Reference Library. Ed. Matthew May, James L. Outman, and Elisabeth M. Outman. Vol. 1: Almanac. Detroit: UXL, 2003. 131-146. Gale World History In Context. Web. 10 Feb. 2012.http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=WHIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3426400014&mode=view&userGroupName=inglewood&jsid=f4bfb4d7fa595b7c75174918237ce21d
Appeal to Logos
ReplyDelete-Prisons are a major part of the economy, and the prison system competes for government funds with other important social programs, such as education, health care, and housing. The prison system has several goals. One is to punish people for criminal activity. Another is to prevent future crimes by keeping criminals locked up. A third is that prison serves as a deterrent to other would-be criminals. Finally, the prison system aims to rehabilitate, or reform, criminals. Prisons are big business in the United States. The nation spends over $20 billion a year to build and maintain its prisons. That money pays not only for materials and the salaries of prison staff, but also for the services of private companies that build, repair, and provide supplies for the facilities. Telephone companies, food service providers, and dozens of other companies win contracts for millions of dollars a year from prisons.
"Prisons." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 10 Feb. 2012
Reasoning from example:
ReplyDeleteIt provides a deterrent for prisoners already serving a life sentence. What about people already sentenced to life in prison. A lot of prisoners will never get out of jail and what will stop them from constantly killing while in jail? What are they going to do, extend their sentences? Sure, they can take away some prison privileges, but is that is not enough to stop them from killing.
-my own example
In zoos, elephants are usually kept in pairs or even isolated. Elephants swaying their trunk is a sign of stress, many people might think there movement might be something positive,The sad truth though is that repetitive movements like trunk swaying are clear signs of stress.Zoo keepers either aren't aware of these signs themselves, or they aren't eager to explain them to us.Other signs of stress or boredom that you can see in zoo animals are pacing backwards and forwards, head bobbing, rocking, repeatedly retracing their steps, sitting motionless or biting themselves. Also known as "Abnormal Repetitive Behavior" These behaviors are caused by conditions like depression, and boredom. Some zoos give anti-depressants or tranquilizers to control their behavior.
ReplyDeleteAnimals will never get use to the life of being in a zoo, these animals were born to be free. For instance polar bear they are used to hunting and searching for their food while the zoo replaces that habitat by giving them their meal. Zoo animals also lack mental stimulation and physical exercise. They do not have much interaction while other animals of their own specie.
http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_cruelty/zoos.htm