So I have to pick some kind of topic that's going to spark debate in class on Friday, and head the discussion. Anything from the beginning of the school year till now. People have done stuff about Terri Schiavo, Casinos, baseball steroids, violence, drug use, etc, etc. Anyway, I'd love to find something entertaining that'll make people argue. Possible options, of course there's the student/teacher sex running rampant across the nation, Bulls making the playoffs, and the next gen console war.... *shakes head* Any real suggestions for this thing? Open to the bizarre, the heated, or whichever. Just need a good one.
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Illegal immigration and the fiscal impact it is having on this nation and our agricultural capital (California)? I see more people in support of illegals than against them, surprisingly enough.
Bush's plans for social security and his blatant disregard for what we really have to be worrying about: Medicare and Medicaid?
How about Affirmative Action? I need a 4.0 to get into an ABA approved program but Hispanics only need a 2.5; reverse racism much?
Bush's plans for social security and his blatant disregard for what we really have to be worrying about: Medicare and Medicaid?
How about Affirmative Action? I need a 4.0 to get into an ABA approved program but Hispanics only need a 2.5; reverse racism much?
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AstroLad said:Religion: Which is the One True Faith?
You didn't hear? It's the Mormons.
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Are present day lives better than the past (say, 19th century or whatever)?
Benefits of the internet?
Benefits of the internet?
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"Does anyone here actually pay for porn?"
Media conglomeration is always interesting, but gets brought up a lot in these situations. Still, there's nothing like a good old conspiracy theory.
If you want to be quirky and original, you could try "Should I break up with my girlfriend?"
That could actually be a lot of fun, especially if you include some stereotypical reasoning like "she doesn't put out." Be careful though, success would be highly dependent on a) your abilities and b) the participation of the class.
If you want to be quirky and original, you could try "Should I break up with my girlfriend?"
That could actually be a lot of fun, especially if you include some stereotypical reasoning like "she doesn't put out." Be careful though, success would be highly dependent on a) your abilities and b) the participation of the class.
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Either pro choice/life or Terry Schiavo. Guarantee you'll have some girls hating you by the time the bell rings.
Mike, both them have been covered. And yeah, they had some girls in serious rage :lol On participation, the class gets into it from time to time. Like, today I had to do some breakdown of rebellion in a creative way. Song, article, skit. So I storyboarded the rebellious coming of age story, of a hooker named Nancy and a supehero with a split personality disorder. That went off well, as I got a seat to sit in front with, and took them through the story. We did have one of those teachers who sits in the back and takes notes though. I was like "shiiiit, how am I supposed to do this now". I made sure to get the requirements afterward though, by breaking down the hooker's thought process, as well as traits the characters developed by the end.
For this, I need to do the same, get the requirements. Which basically states that it has to be some current issue, accompanied by an article. And we have to have questions ready for the class. About 15 minutes of discussion is good, more depending on how into it they get. But yeah, I'm just looking for something that'll not bore the hell out of me and the class.
For this, I need to do the same, get the requirements. Which basically states that it has to be some current issue, accompanied by an article. And we have to have questions ready for the class. About 15 minutes of discussion is good, more depending on how into it they get. But yeah, I'm just looking for something that'll not bore the hell out of me and the class.
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Bring up pro-life / pro-choice again and emphasize how wrong one side is. Like, really drive it home. It'll be fun!
Hmm, do the Brad and Jennifer thing, but use the perspective of Angelina Jolie approaching their broken marriage.
Introduce it by saying that you recently met a girl but she's taken. Then list all of the problems/reasons Brad and Angelina got together. Let them debate it for a bit, what you should do, see if someone mentions that it sounds like an inversion of the Brad/Jennifer/Jolie thing. If they don't, reveal this towards the end.
If you need to stretch, bring up that celebrities are larger than life, marketed so that people want to be them, and the affect their actions (the split) will have on their views on the culture. Are people more likely to be accepting of divorce/breaking up a marriage now?
Introduce it by saying that you recently met a girl but she's taken. Then list all of the problems/reasons Brad and Angelina got together. Let them debate it for a bit, what you should do, see if someone mentions that it sounds like an inversion of the Brad/Jennifer/Jolie thing. If they don't, reveal this towards the end.
If you need to stretch, bring up that celebrities are larger than life, marketed so that people want to be them, and the affect their actions (the split) will have on their views on the culture. Are people more likely to be accepting of divorce/breaking up a marriage now?
Addictions, why isn't weed legal. Then bring up the studies of it being way less harmful and addicting then alcohol, coffee and tobacco etc. (which you can consider hard-drugs) About weed never killed anyone and DIU every hour of the day.
The pharmacutical purposes of weed etc.
When they come with the addict/druggies argument, tell about Netherlands (Amsterdam, if they can't connect the dots) and how the situation is here.
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The pharmacutical purposes of weed etc.
When they come with the addict/druggies argument, tell about Netherlands (Amsterdam, if they can't connect the dots) and how the situation is here.
You can do it
This one always gets me going. "But it wasn't the alcohol that caused the DUI, it was the effects of the alcohol on the body that led to the accident! Can you prove that no individual has ever killed somone due to the effects of marijuana? A kid has never been driving and slammed on his brakes a bit too late because he was stoned?"Hooker said:
Short anwser: "no - next question"
I like to over emphasize, you can naunce it with "not as many". Or let the one asking the question bring up some sort of article where it says someone got killed because s/he was stoned.
You're right about the effects of alcohol instead of the alcohol itself. Poor wording on my part. (Still early, just woke up)
I like to over emphasize, you can naunce it with "not as many". Or let the one asking the question bring up some sort of article where it says someone got killed because s/he was stoned.
You're right about the effects of alcohol instead of the alcohol itself. Poor wording on my part. (Still early, just woke up
)There is a big difference between "there is no established and proven example of a causal relationship between X and Y" and "X has never caused Y." Has anyone ever been in an accident while stoned? Can you prove that the incidence of accidents-causing-death in people who are stoned is the same as that for the general, non-high, population?
If not, then it's really not possible to say that it has never caused an accident in an air-tight way. And in an essay, the goal is to PROVE your statements, not to let them flail out there like they mean something when they don't.
The fact is, the logic behind the ban on drinking and driving is based on a statistical link between accidents in people who drink and drive as compared to people who don't. Until a study shows up demonstrating something different for pot, that is a very difficult position to take. And the fact is, until pot is legal, doing research on people who drive stoned will be very very difficult to do in a way that is actually useful. So using it as a supporting argument for legalization of pot is circular.
If not, then it's really not possible to say that it has never caused an accident in an air-tight way. And in an essay, the goal is to PROVE your statements, not to let them flail out there like they mean something when they don't.
The fact is, the logic behind the ban on drinking and driving is based on a statistical link between accidents in people who drink and drive as compared to people who don't. Until a study shows up demonstrating something different for pot, that is a very difficult position to take. And the fact is, until pot is legal, doing research on people who drive stoned will be very very difficult to do in a way that is actually useful. So using it as a supporting argument for legalization of pot is circular.
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