Installing solar collectors on rooftops and insulating homes in America will not provide citizens and businesses with the energy needed to keep American strong. It is paramount that the U.S. continues to use fossil fuels. It's a no-brainer, friends: if we shut down fossil fuel electrical generating plants, we shut down American industry; we also shut down computers, schools, hospitals, factories. And, according to the World Energy Council (http://www.worldenergy.org), "cleaner fossil fuel systems mitigate and even neutralize the adverse consequences of the use of fossil fuels ... [and] the technology for these systems is advancing rapidly."
Nuclear Power, wind power and hydro power are not the ultimate answer
Nuclear power is extremely dangerous and nuclear plants can get out of control: The Chernobyl nuclear accident in ussia in 1986 caused an estimated 4,229 deaths in the Ukraine, and unknown number of…...
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References
Bray, Tom. (2005). Fossil Fuel Tempest. The Washington Times, Retrieved April 17,
Cold War
A Critical Debate of Cold War in 'Origins of Modern World'
y definition, the term Cold War implies a state of no war and no peace between two opponents. It is the kind of international rivalry in which states use all types of measures (including political, economic, social, diplomatic, technical, military and paramilitary) to achieve national objectives, however, it avoids overt armed conflict. It is a jargon, which is generally used to denote tense relations between former USSR and U.S. during the period 1947-1991. President Roosevelt conceived it during 1939-1941 when Second World War was still in progress, which reflects deep rooted animosity between U.S. And USSR. The two countries fought war together as allies against a common enemy, Nazi Germany, but the hostility against each other never died down. It re emerged as soon as the end of War was in sight.
Propositions
Any reasonable topic for debate involves controversy; otherwise the issue would fail to be debatable. The phrase "Inadequate parking facilities on campus" is not even a full sentence. If the statement read, "There are inadequate parking facilities on campus,' some clarification would still be helpful in order for it to be an effective statement of debate. For example, the statement could read, "There are inadequate parking facilities on campus and therefore we should build a new parking lot in the park." In this case, the statement would be highly controversial but would imply what the author intended: that new parking facilities needed to be constructed to correct the lack of proper facilities. Statement "b," "the AIDS crisis," means literally nothing; there is nothing debatable about that statement. If someone had mentioned, "the AIDS crisis is a problem shared equally by governments as by citizens," or if someone said "the…...
Fire: A Debate Over its Origins
The ability to control fire was clearly a turning point in human history, although the conditions which enabled humans to master the ability to control fire remains controversial amongst anthropologists. The fact that it was understood that fire was a significant milestone is evident even in myth, as the god Prometheus is depicted as offering fire to the first humans, and thus giving humans godlike power. Fire is a source of warmth, enabling human beings to better survive harsh conditions in the cold, and also a source of light, extending the productive day of humans. The beginnings of the human use of fire are often called so-called cooking hypothesis. As anyone who has ever cooked is aware, it is considerably easier to digest food which has been broken down through the process of fire. When humans were able to regularly cook their food, they were…...
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Reference
Berna, F. (2013). The taming of fire was a turning point in prehistory: When and where did it begin? Retrieved from: Dialogue webcast. (2013). Boston University. Retrieved from: http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/dialogues/prometheus/Shea, J. (2013). Oh, for a muse of fire: An archaeological perspective on anthropogenic fire. Retrieved from: http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/files/2013/04/Shea-BU-dialogues-statemt- revd.pdfhttp://www.bu.edu/anthrop/files/2013/04/Berna-Statement.pdf
Contraceptives and the Health Covers Debate
The debate over who should cover the cost of contraception is alive in our society today and equally contradictory among different groups, depending on the religious persuasion, philosophical inclination or social upbringing of the people involved. There are, however, factors that remain true and alive with us that need to be well understood first before delving further into the ideological inclinations, the teen pregnancy in the U.S. stands at 273,105 as of 2013 with these babies being born of teenagers between 15 to 19 years of age. This accounts for 26.5 per 1,000 live births. In as much as this is a low record as compared to the 2012 statistics which was 10% higher, the numbers are still high and the effects of these teen pregnancies are palpable within our daily livelihoods in the local community (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015).…...
Capital Punishment Debate
The United States is one of the few industrialized nations in the world that still practices capital punishment. Most European nations and our northern neighbor Canada do not have the death penalty and in fact will not send wanted criminals to the United States because of their opposition to capital punishment. Proponents of the death penalty say that it can be a deterrent to crime, that it can be cheaper than life without parole sentences, that it is a viable and just response to murder, that the death penalty is a moral imperative or even a display of divine justice. However, statistics and facts prove otherwise, which is why I am firmly opposed to capital punishment. I base my argument on four major points. First, studies show that the death penalty is costly, more costly than incarceration. Second, the death penalty is irreversible. Many people are wrongfully convicted,…...
Education
Creativity has developed to become an important part of education as evident in the increased inclusion of creativity into education policy. In light of these recent trends, creativity has become one of the most important core values and skills in the modern education curriculum. This has contributed to the emergence of the concept of creative thinking as an important component in today's education systems and policies. The significance of creativity in today's education policies and systems is evident in the increase in discussions about the concept and its consideration as a key driver of education curriculum. The inclusion of creativity in education is fueled by the fact education is focused on being a process that encourages exploration and opening up rather than simply relying on limitations and restricted choices (Ofield-Kerr par, 3). Therefore, education provides an opportunity for students to experiment in order to identify their actual interests and…...
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Works Cited
Ofield-Kerr, Simon. "Creative Education: Is Now the Time for Realism or Optimism?" The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited, 17 June 2013. Web. 19 Oct. 2015. .
PETERS, DIANE. "Can Creativity Be Taught? B-schools Join the Debate." The Globe and Mail.
The Globe and Mail Inc., 13 Mar. 2013. Web. 19 Oct. 2015.
Legalizing Marijuana
The war on drugs is quite an expensive battle since a great deal of the resources are normally spent on catching those that buy and sell the illegal drugs in the black market prosecuting them and putting them in jail. The legalization of Marijuana in the U.S. has been an object of continued debate. Some states have already enacted laws that have legalized the therapeutic use of marijuana whereas there are others that still have pending legalization laws. There are confusing messages that re being sent by popular culture, media proponents of medical marijuana as well as political campaigns to make marijuana legal are used to perpetrate a false notion that marijuana causes no harm. This paper will look at the negative and positive aspects of legalization of marijuana in a community and in American society as a whole.
Positive aspects
The prohibition of marijuana has to be weighed against the…...
NPDA Debate Between Mercer University and Morehouse College
Critical to the success of any formalized debate is the direct feedback debaters receive from the attending judges, because debaters anticipate and value the appraisal of their contributions provided by a completed debate ballot. The process of improving one's ability to persuasively present ideas is significantly enhanced when an objective opinion is provided, and by flowing a debate before submitting a decision via ballot, judges provide the impetus for aspiring debaters to hone their craft. Another crucial aspect of the balloting process is to assist the debaters -- whether they have been declared the victors or the vanquished -- to better understand the reasoning process used to inform each judge's decision. To that end, anybody attempting to accurately judge a debate must be prepared to provide insightful commentary, a rigorous analysis of each completed round, and the ultimate basis for their ballot…...
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References
Freeley, A.J., & Steinberg, D. (2012). Argumentation and debate: Critical thinking for reasoned decision making. (13th ed.). New York, NY: Cengage Learning.
Challenges Faced in Preparing for the Debate
Four challenges I faced in preparing for the debate were: 1) understanding the logic of my own argument—i.e., identifying the premise, assuring myself of its validity, and constructing my argument so that it logically followed from the premise to the conclusion; 2) identifying the counter-argument; 3) understanding the counter-argument’s logical fallacies and/or invalid premise; and 4) rebutting the counter-argument.
The first challenge for me—understanding my own argument, its premise and its logic—was difficult because it required a deep understanding of the subject and all the various sides and aspects of it. A superficial grasp of the subject would not do. I had to understand it fully in order to argue it, and I had to ensure that my argument was based on a valid premise. This was the first challenge, and I knew that my argument depended on doing the research, so I had to…...
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Works Cited
Chaffee, John. Thinking Critically. Boston: Wadsworth, 2012.Goldhill, D. “How American health care killed my father.” The Atlantic, 2009. Katz, J. “Drug deaths in America are rising faster than ever.” The New YorkTimes, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html?_r=0 Mariani, M. “How the American opiate epidemic was started by onepharmaceutical company.” The Week, 2015. http://theweek.com/articles/541564/how-american-opiate-epidemic-started-by-pharmaceutical-company https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-american-health-care-killed-my-father/307617/
Debating Structured vs. Unstructured Methods
This week, you have learned about the characteristics of structured and unstructured approaches in qualitative research. For this assignment, you will compare the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and discuss the merits of each.
To prepare for this assignment:
Consider what you have learned in your research courses about planning out the methodology for a research design. As you may recall, a structured or predetermined approach has been advocated in most, if not all, of your research textbooks up to this point.
eview Chapter 5 in Qualitative esearch Design: An Interactive Approach. In this chapter, Maxwell mentions the differences between a structured and an unstructured approach to qualitative methods. To what extent do you agree with the point-of-view that an unstructured approach to qualitative methods can be desirable? Under what circumstances might this be true?
With these thoughts in mind:
Write a response of 2 -- 3 paragraphs comprising your…...
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References
Maxwell, J.A. (2005). Qualitative research design: An interactive approach (2nd Ed.).
Technology, a very familiar phenomenon of modern world, is continuously enhancing its ways towards comforts and luxuries. New thoughts and ideas are coming with every passing second, and what started as only a blurred vision, now became a necessity for all mankind. These have become a need of today's society making the society very much involved in these technological reforms. Several debates have been made on the topic that although the level of our technology keeps on improving day by day, but do all of these hi-tech gadgets give us the proper advantages? Are we really aware of the two different sides of the same mirror, or are we just so much accustomed to all such things around us that we don't bother to look upon the other side? Amongst these debates, two of the very famous are classical McDermott vs. Mesthene debate of 1960s and contemporary debate of…...
Brown, John S. And Duguid, Paul. Chapter 4. A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and- Gloom Technofuturists. Retrieved on 15/6/2012 from: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/ch4.pdf
Emannuel G. Mesthene vs. John McDermott. Retrieved on 15/6/2012 from: www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/320/mgabier/Mestene%?20vs%?20McDermott.ppt
Providence Debate
According to J.P. De Caussade, God speaks "today as he spoke in former times to our fathers when there were no directors as at present, nor any regular method of direction."
In other words, Fr. De Caussade asserts that God maintains and has always maintained a personal relationship, or a providential relationship, with mankind. However, the exact way in which God exercises control over the world and the lives of humans in the world has been debated for many centuries. Indeed, in the realm of God's providence, there are numerous variables and nuanced positions, which have been argued by Christians since the time of the Apostles through to the Protestant Reformation right up to today. This paper will consider the two broader views of recent centuries -- the Arminian and the Calvinist -- and evaluate whether there might be alternative views that incorporate both perspectives of how Providence affects us…...
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Bibliography
Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologiae, Benziger Bros, ed. [trans. Fathers of the English
Dominican Province]. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. 1947.
Chang, Andrew D. "Second Peter 2:1 and the Extent of the Atonement," Bibliotheca
health care debate that has been going in the United States. It discusses the Obama Care Act and how it impacts the society. Functionalist perspectives and theories are utilized in analyzing the situation and what outcomes are expected. The major themes and concepts of the functionalist theory are discussed in detail.
The Health Care reform proposed by the Obama Administration has long been the area of debate in America and in countries all over the world. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go on to cut down the number of people who are not insured. It requires small businesses to provide medical insurance to all the people working in the business. The employers are obliged to provide a good quality medical insurance. Failure of the small business to provide a good health care system will result in a penalty for any employee that goes uninsured. This act applies to…...
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References
Berkman, L. et al. (2000) from social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium. Social Science & Medicine 51 (2000), 51 p.843-857.
Gerhardt, U. (1979) The Parsonian paradigm and the identity of medical sociology. The Sociological Review, 27 (2), p.229-251.
Napsha, J. (2011) Small Business Owners Fret over Health Care Law's Fallout . Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 24th March.
Unknown. (2012) Supreme Court Ruling Dooms Small Business; Obamacare Increases Taxes and Red Tape Burden . The Washington Times, 29th June.
In my work "Conduit" I presented a basic fantasy of everyone's, to pee off a skyscraper. While this is a crazy and often considered offensive idea, sometimes it is those notions that free the mind in a new way.
Stelarc: I hope that people are offended by my art. I hope that in a way people are offended at the way that science has made the human body obsolete. I want viewers to feel and think when they see me hanging from flesh hooks or be enraged when they see my "Third Ear" for perhapes it will reawaken and reanimate what seems to be a dead society.
Question 3: Where do you see art and society moving in the future?
Stelarc: While I can't really speak for art in general, I fear that society is moving further and further away from the miraculous and inspired. It seems to me that more and…...
If you want to find out arguments about infectious diseases, we are tempted to tell you to visit almost any social media site, where you are almost sure to find people debating the efficacy of face masks to slow the spread of COVID-19. However, the reality is that you actually want to avoid looking at sites like that if you are trying to develop a good essay about infectious diseases because internet arguments notoriously fail to follow the steps to developing a good argument. You want to make a claim, provide support for that claim, and address....
There are many different subtopics that could be addressed in an essay about genetics and heredity, from evolution to the nature versus nurture debate. Here are some catchy titles we thought of for some of those essays:
Unlocking Your Genetic Code
Genes to Genomes
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heredity and Evolution
Genetic Expression: How Heredity Means It Can Be Nature and Nurture
The Role of RNA in Genetic Expression
Recessive Traits: Beyond Mendel’s Pea Experiments
Kissing Cousins: Exploring the Genetic Reasons for Cultural Taboos Against Incest
Humans as Mutants: The Creation of the Homo Sapien
Selective Breeding in Humans: Science Fiction or....
Bullying is a serious issue that impacts approximately 20% of middle and high-school aged children each year. The extent of bullying can vary, but severe bullying can lead victims to commit suicide and leave lifelong scars on its survivors. This has led people to debate the most effective form of intervention for bullies.
Bullying used to be considered an individual problem, with schools taking few steps to intervene unless the bullying was physical and was egregious. In fact, many middle-aged adults seem to think of school bullying as something that is within the normal range of....
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