October 31st Questions

Monday: Let's review everything we have learned from LD debate: Take the following: Resolved: States ought not possess nuclear weapons.

1. Break it down
   This means that the United States should not let other countries including the U.S. posses nuclear wepons.
2. Make your own claims, warrants, and impacts.
   I believe our country should posses but not use nuclear wepons exept in the case of a dire emergency, but we should not tolerate other countrys who could be potentialy dangerous to the U.S. and its safty to inhabit these wepons. The safty of our country always come first and if other hostile or anit-american countrys seek to make or obtain these wepons they should be concidered a enemy of our country and the wepons should be taken and destroyed.
3. Find somebody who can attack your argument.
   If any country hold nuclear power, with how violent our world is today we are just asking for a nuclear war. No country should be able to have these wepons of mass destruction it will only be means for a third world war.
4. Respond to the attack and further extend your argument.
   Not all countrys would agree to simply get rid of there nuclear power, and with most countrys not being stable it would be a even bigger risk to throw away our own and leave our country deffense less.
5. Go to debate.org and paste the resolution into the search box - choose the very first debate that pops up and review the affirmative and negative claims (contentions), warrants, and impacts.

  Contentions- It is really necessary to spend that much on such a rare use of national security.
                     
In just the two occurrences stated above, unthinkable damage has been done.
                  
There is no proof that this method of war is effective in attaining world power or achieve 
a warfare goal.
Warrants-  There wa $5,821.0 billion used towards the weapons since 1940.
                
 In the Hiroshima alone, 150,000 people died instantly in the bombing. In Nagasaki, 75,000 people were instantly killed by the nuclear power of the bomb dropped.

I keep stressing the point that only two nuclear bombs have ever been used.

Impacts- This might end up causing our country debt.

We would be risking our country.

We would be charged with something greater than what we have and it could be used against us.

6. What do you think of the debate and who do you think had a better argument?  Welll i think that they had a great argument because they did accurate research!

CNN NEWS- 10/31

     Netherworld is a huge halloween haunted house that almost every teenager goes to each year. I went this year and last year and it was a blast! It kept you tense the entire time. I was scared out of my mind! I really think that every teenager should celebrate Halloween by going hear. The government has nothing to do with this, but I definitely loved Netherworld and it helped wish me a Happy Halloween!

Debate.org

  What are the Claims, warrants, and impacts of the affirmative (remember they have the burden of proof)?
claim- Standardized exit exams do not demonstrate a student's intellectual capacity.
warrants-
 Many students are auditory and/or physical learners, ones that are able to do better when the tests include listening and/or physical work. Standardized tests include neither one of those, which is unfair for those students.

Also needed are attributes such as good study skills, time management, awareness of one's performance and persistence.Many of these skills and abilities are not measured in the exit exams.

Impacts- If we have standerdized test, it effects the minority of students, such as African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians, scored lower than white students that were on the same academic levels.Since students have different talents and abilities, then they would be at a disadvantage if the test was implemented upon them.

Students would work harder all year long to be able to graduate rather than waiting around bored for a test they might be challenged by. This will help them take in ore knowledge throughout the year and not be bummed by the standerdized test.

Does the affirmative attack during the 1^st round?  Why not?
There isn't anything that the affirmative can attack yet because the negate hasn't gone.
What are the claims, warrants, and impacts of the negative?

 What does the negative do to the affirmative (in addition to the claim, warrant, and impact) during the negative speech?
The negative attacks the affirmative and then provide their own information.

What does the affirmative do to the negative during 1^st rebuttal?
 The affirmative attacks the negative against their information provided and goes the oppostie direction explaining how it is in their eyes.

 What does the negative do to the affirmative during 1^st rebuttal?
 The negative attacks the affirmative going against what they have to say explaining why.

What does the affirmative do to the negative during 2^nd rebuttal?
The affirmative relays more facts on their own and debates against the negate.

Resolution

KIRA BROCK

September/October 2009 - Resolved: Public high school students in the United States ought not be required to pass standardized exit exams to graduate.

Create a:

§  Claim (student 1)-  That students grades and GPA are better and wouldn’t be reflected off of taking the standardized test.

§  Warrant (student 1)- A student that has a 4.0 can be book smart, but not necessarily good at executing tests.

§  Impact (student 1)- This will allow students that are ready for secondary school, go, without taking standardized tests.

§  Create attacks on the above (student 2) Some teachers don’t grade as hard as others, so students NOT ready for college could just be passed along.

Students need to be prepared for tests that they will be issued in college.

§  Response to the attacks (student 1) Students work harder when doing regular school work than they do when given a 1-3 hour test of bubbling in answers.

These test just help you get into college, not when you get to college do you take these standardized test. College is harder in the books, which create harder test and the standard (being the main word) ized test are just for the average not for those necessarily working hard for college.

§  Briefly extend the claim, warrant, and impact of the original argument (student 1)

Students that have an above average GPA should not be forced to take tests to pass high school. Standardized tests are standard test not for the GPA that is above average, we need a challenge because high school should be a challenge to pass and working all year long in regular work is that challenge because keeping your grade up is what is important. People will stop caring about their school work year-round and just wait for the standardized graduation test.

A 4.0 student is more likely to be smart and care more about the school work in general not the graduation test and that’s good. People need to care about everyday work and by taking the graduation test it limits the people’s ability to pass and that is good because it will force them to work during the school year.

The people that deserve and have worked hard at their school work go to school not the people that are just trying to “get by.”

CNN news October 27th

Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some of your bones, such as your hip and thigh bones. It is important that we continue to learn about and keep a close eye on this because bone marrow diseases are common and very harmful to the body in itself.If you have a bone marrow disease, there are problems with the stem cells or how they develop. Leukemia is a cancer in which the bone marrow produces abnormal white blood cells. With aplastic anemia, the bone marrow doesn't make red blood cells. Other diseases, such as lymphoma, can spread into the bone marrow and affect the production of blood cells. Other causes of bone marrow disorders include your genetic makeup and environmental factors. I think that this is a disease that weakens your body and we need to be aware of this horrible disease so that we are able to help in such ways as fundraising and volunteering to raise money for research and prevention. One of my friends created a bone marrow foundation back in 2001 and every year she raises 25,000+ for these people struggling with the bone marrow disease. We as Americans along with the government need to stay involved in foundations and organizations in the world not only the bone marrow foundation but others as well. Giving back to help others is something that can help create a stronger more reliant government as well as help you alone.

CNN NEWS OCTOBER 26

The 1,000,000 mile Honda car is what I found interesting in this particular CNN News! That is a lot of miles to drive! He said that he drove at least 14,000 miles a month, some people don't even drive that in a year so I find it completely crazy that a car can even hold that many miles and keep on driving, much less drive that many miles. The celebration parade that was held in honor of this 1 million miles helped to get him a brand new Honda car. Although, his goal is really to finish the 1 million miles himself in the wheel he was crawling in. The government really has nothing to do with this much besides the fact that the economy is a factor itself in that it is so bad that this guy couldnt afford a new car even after a million miles. We need to make our government not only more unified but stronger in itself.

Homework- October 25,2011

Write an "argument package" where you prepare 2 defensive arguments and 2 offensive arguments for the following resolutions. Make sure to label the type of refutation you are using.

1. Gay marriage supports equal rights

Defensive arguments-
 1. Gays should have the same rights as straights do to be married in the United States.
2. Gay's should have the right to be openly married in the US.

Offensive Arguments-
1. Gays shouldn't be allowed to be married in the US like the Bible states marriage is between a man and a woman, not two of the same sex.
2. America is founded under God and we shouldn't go against the way our nation was created by allowing gay marriage.

Lincoln Douglas Debate Definitions

Countering the truth: deciding what information is the truth (facts, statistics, information, etc.)

Pointing out the missing steps in their logic: Deciding which steps the opposite side missed out on in their debate.

Explaining why the argument is "non-unique": The debate given by the opposite side is the same, generic spiel and doesn’t have any new facts to back it up.

The argument is not comparative: The topic being debated is not comparative and cannot be compared to anything else.

Raising empirical objections: That which follows from a situation or fact, not due to the logic of language, but from experience or scientific law. The redness of the coil on the stove empirically implies dangerous heat.

Weighing arguments: Deciding which arguments are more important to speak about or which ones should be left out

Logical fallacies: A logical fallacy is, roughly speaking, an error of reasoning. When someone adopts a position, or tries to persuade someone else to adopt a position, based on a bad piece of reasoning, they commit a fallacy.

Causation/Correlation fallacy: Intuitively, causation seems to require not just a correlation, but a counterfactual dependence. Suppose that a student performed poorly on a test and guesses that the cause was his not studying. To prove this, one thinks of the counterfactual – the same student writing the same test under the same circumstances but having studied the night before. If one could rewind history, and change only one small thing (making the student study for the exam), then causation could be observed (by comparing version 1 to version 2). Because one cannot rewind history and replay events after making small controlled changes, causation can only be inferred, never exactly known. This is referred to as the Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference – it is impossible to directly observe causal effects.

Naturalistic fallacy (is/ought fallacy): The naturalistic fallacy is often claimed to be a formal fallacy. It was described and named by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica. Moore stated that a naturalistic fallacy is committed whenever a philosopher attempts to prove a claim about ethics by appealing to a definition of the term "good" in terms of one or more natural properties (such as "pleasant", "more evolved", "desired", etc.)

Begging the question: where the conclusion of an argument is implicitly or explicitly assumed in one of the premises

The false dilemma: two alternative statements are held to be the only possible options, when in reality there are more.

Offensive responses - TURNS - concede the premise or warrant of the argument being made but explain why this premise or warrant is a reason to vote for the refuter's side.
Link Turn: A link turn requires that the affirmative control the uniqueness, that is whether the disadvantage will occur in the status quo. In the above example, in order to link turn effectively, the affirmative would need to win a non-unique argument

Impact Turn: An impact turn requires impact calculus, that is: the reasons economic decline would make war less likely must outweigh the reasons it would spur war. For this reason, Impact Turns are usually run with No Impact arguments.

Refutation: Arguing against constructive arguments made by the other debater.

CNN NEWS-OCTOBER 24th, 2011

     They talked about the ban of tobacco use during baseball games. In the minor leagues, tobacco is already ban and they are talking with the teams themselves and the government debating whether they should or should not get rid of the nasty spitting and brown stuff you see when you go to a baseball game coming out of the players mouths. I think this is a little over the top in my opinion because it's going to create unnecessary rules in the game making it not as fun for the players and the crowd itself. I know the issue was the eyes of the kids coming to watch these player, but honestly I don't believe these kids look into like they said that they do because if a kid loves baseball, they love baseball they don't even think nor know about the tobacoo in the players mouths'. The government should back off and allow the fun of baseball continue instead of trying to find the wrong in everything especially something that has been going on for years.

Resolutions Homework

1.     "States" is defined as a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially one that is sovereign. "Ought not" means a moral obligation to not do something, saying "ought not" implies a specific reason not to do something. Weapons of mass destruction that are powered by nuclear reaction. 2.  Because nuclear bombs are immoral, unethical, and illogical, and because they do not uphold peace or the common good, I affirm the resolution Resolved: States ought not possess nuclear weapons.

3. The acceptance of compulsory jurisdiction serve to limit the scope of the resolution.

4. States are the actors and the actions include not allowing the US to have any nuclear weapons.

5. To affirm the resolution means that you don't think the US states should have nuclear weapons. To negate the resolution means that you think it is okay that the US states have nuclear weapons avaliable to use.

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1. Democracy- Government by the governed. Within this I must state that felons are part of "the governed".
 Felon- Someone who commits a felony; A Felony is a level of crime that is higher in comparison than a forfeiture or a misdemeanor. Repeated crimes can rise to the level of felony offenses, such as repeated DUI's
 Ought- Used to indicate advisability or prudence.
 Retain- To keep or hold in a particular place, condition, or position.
 The right to vote- a formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a proposed resolution of an issue.

2. I must negate the following resolution resolved: In a democratic society felons ought to retain the right to vote for a few reasons. First off, when you kill a man, you steal a life. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to yours and their fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing. Where when dealing with a democratic society which strives for justice by means of considering its consequences that you do negate the resolution resolved.

3. What limits the scope of the resolution is the Constitution and other rights that they are given.

4. The democratic society and the felons are the actors and the action of the resolution is to not let the felons vote.

5.To affirm the resolution means that you agree that the felons in a democratic society should have the right to vote. To negate the resolution says that you don't think the felons should have the right to vote.

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1.Military Conscription: A general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority. It is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require citizens (often just males) to serve in the armed forces. It is known by various names — for example, the most recent conscription program in the United States was known colloquially as 'the draft'.

2. I believe that military conscription is unjust in many ways, but mostly because it contradicts the beliefs and principles set down by our founding fathers.

3. The government limits on the individual's right and the resolution itself.

4. The actor is the military itself and the actions say that the military won't be demanded by the established authority.

5. To affirm this means that you believe it isright for them to be demanded by the established authority. To negate it means that you don't believe it is right for them to be demanded by the established authority.

CNN NEWS-Friday, October 21st

      Former Lybian Leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried according to Muslim rites within 24 hours, a Libyan transitional government force commander said on Friday, and witnesses said the body bore a visible bullet hole in the head. I personally think that to create a sense of freedom within their country and our country he needed to be gone. The governement a long time ago should have done something and forced something greater upon to military itself. Although, I do know that our military works so hard to keep us safe and it took a lot of thought and plotting to get rid of him! The mission is now accomplished and hopefully it'll not only make it easier for the government, but for us as well.

CNN News 10/19/2011

      The GOP Debate set up was taking place and the election that is just around the corner is said to have twice as many people watching this debate than it had four years ago. I think that each year it is not only important to watch these debates, but I think it's very interesting to watch from my point of view as a citizen of the US. The government needs to push to make this next 4 years to be the best to help our economy grow not stunt it's growth  because right now that is the main concern with the governments help it could make a difference in the world. So, the government itself needs to spread the word about voting and making sure each candidate is going to please our country positively.

CNN NEWS - 10/10

         Unemployment rate is up higher than ever. It is very important that we keep a close eye on this in our country because we want the world to become a better place each and every day. People without jobs are without money and that is definitely not making the world a better place. 13.1% of Americans are out of work today. I think this is awful, but I think that these people also need to work hard to get a job because just "quitting" isn't going to get them anywhere in life, especially not a job! The government like i said needs to stay on top of the crisis and do anything they can in their power to encourage people to not only get a job, but to keep it up and work hard at it!

Drew Carey Project- Vol.1./Vol.2

Volume 1

Traffic Gridlock
1. The advantage of using toll roads is that they are more direct routes--almost always four lane highways with few, if any curves--so it is easier to travel on them at higher speeds with less probability of an accident. If you're in a hurry to get someplace, any kind of interstate or toll road is quicker and more time efficient. The disadvantages are that you have to pay to travel on the road and that it stops you and holds up travel time.

Living Large
1. Yes, it does define middle class. We didn't discuss a definition for middle class. I think it would be similar to the one in the movie though.

Dance Ban
1. The reason these were passed were for the sake of the town itself and keeping a quaint quiet town keeping from loud bars, restaurants, and out of control misconduct.

National City
1. Condominiums are different from schools and roads because condominiums are useless in the sense of helping anything. Roads help navigate people to their destination and schools teach people new things.

Volume 2

Food Fight: Battle over Bacon Dogs:
1. We should care about this because I want to know the different types of (different) foods available where I live and that would be important to me to know about the phenomenon of bacon dogs.

Kidneys For Sale:
1.People don't want to donate there organs as much anymore because of the problems they might cause and that there's no benefit really besides the trouble they would have to go through they said.

Throw Pillow Fight:1.No, not at all just because you have a license to do something doesn't mean you are necessarily good!

Agricultural Subsidies:
1.Protectionism:  The theory or practice of shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports.