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[Ecrofirt]

I've got a 1 page assignment due tomorrow that's a proposal for the final paper I have due for my effective writing class.

What I've got to do tonight is pick a contemporary subject that's in the news, and write a page with a thesis about whether I'm for or against this, and give three reasons as to why.

What my professor is looknig for are things like: The Death Penalty, Gay Marriage, Universal Healthcare, Abortion Laws, Old people and their drivers licenses, teaching evolution in schools, etc.

It's got to be something sepcific enough that I can give it adequate discussion in 5 pages for the final paper.

Here's where I'm calling on you guys. I hate shit like this. I can never pick a topic to use, and I've been trying to come up with something for two days.

The only thing that remotely interests me are topics relating to how video games are being billed as the reasons kids commit violent crimes. If you can come up with something for this, I'd be greatly appreciative. My concern with topics like this, however, is that I won't find much legit information on my side of the argument (which is of course, that the whole idea is crazy.)

So, GAF, your task is this:
Give me suggestions for what to write about, and reasons why.

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And you've got about a half hour or so, and then I'm doing some generic topic that I'll hate.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Assault weapons ban, Israel, the use of american military in the middle east, so called "activist" judges, religion and politics, the extension of the patriot act

They are all usually good topics with a lot of information on both sides.

 

[android]

- Medical testing on animals. It hurts the animals but it could help humans. Do you feel it is justifiable?

-The Ethics of the possiblity of designer babies as our knowledge of genetics grows. Is it okay to remove a condition like blindness, before birth. Some blind people feel it is not a handicap but a difference and to remove it invalidates everyone who has had it before.

- Is democracy the right way? Here we are told "one person, one vote" but is that truly the best method for everyone, in every situation?

-The ethics of cloning. Are we one soul, one body? Does it matter if we make copies of our selfs. Should those copies be treated the same as the original?

 

[Ecrofirt]

i fucking hate papers like this

I can't get further than halfway into my thesis sentence on ANYTHING. UGHGHG

I jsut want to sleep

 

[Nightbreeze]

write about sony's new patent on the 'real life matrix'. I think I could come up with 5 pages of bullshit on that topic.

 

[Ecrofirt]

I can't come up with anything, even with the stuff you guys gave me.

This is, was, and always will be, the hardest thing I ever do in school.

I SUCK AT PAPERS LIKE THIS.

I just want to go to bed, and I can't think of reasons for anything I want to write about.

 

[Nightbreeze]

I wrote something a couple years ago about how I was against what the RIAA stood for and my teacher loved it.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Talk about the hazards of forming relationships online, relate it to cubsfan and mock him openly as an example subject.

 

[Ecrofirt]

I'm thinking about doing:
Although there are many people who believe violence in video games is directly related to violent children, I intend to show that this is not necessarily the case.

I don't even think that's a good thesis.

Can you guys help me come up with reasons? I'm totally fucked for them. I have no idea what the fuck to use.


While I think it's bullshit, I don't know *why*

 

[MrAngryFace]

been done to death and not interesting, I refuse to assist you.

 

[Ecrofirt]

Fuck you, MAF.

Lock this topic down. I don't even feel like getting help on this shit anymore.

 

[MrAngryFace]

hahaha write a paper on how people take the internet too seriously.

 

[Rorschach]

:lol

 

[Alcibiades]

good topic, bad premise:

"Although there are many people who believe violence in video games is directly related to violent children"

there are so many ways to interpret that, I don't think if you sit down with anyone they truly believe that literally, but they perceive the overall culture on TV, music, videogames to have a degrading culture that don't help parents. Violence in videogames is just a tiny part of complaints from parents and critics...

 

[demi]

I will be your topic, I will be your canvas.