i'm gathering information for my upcoming class debate and would like to ask for your opinion. if possible, pls try to be as detailed as possible. thanks guys!!! :)
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Pros:\nSafer America\nEconomy recovering well from 9/11 \nWar without draft\nNo large scale terrorist attacks on American Soil\nFree Afghanistan\nFree-er Pakistan\nIraq no longer a threat to neighbors or world's oil supply\nFollows through with his word\n\nCons:\nImmigration, bad plan and nothing changed that really matters\nDeficit spending, hard to fight a war without it, but still stinks\nThe amount of hate generated toward him, kind of WAY overboard\nPerception that he is dumb, how dumb must we be for electing him twice??? (I think he is smart, but not a good speaker)\n\nStill in Iraq 3 years later ( We are stil in Bosnia 11 years later so don't forget Clinton's "War")
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You know your campus better than any of us.  What is an issue on your campus? Are people polarized about the war in Iraq? Legalizing marijuana? Selling beer at football games?  Can men be the victims of domestic violence? Was Carlsbad really a government conspiracy to hide the truth about aliens? Anything that you can get people to argue about could be a good topic for a persuasive speech.  Then you take a side, any side, and argue persuasively for that side.   I have my students do their next persuasive paper arguing the reverse side of the issue.   The following websites has dozens of ideas for persuasive topics.  Good luck.
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That's an awfully general question.  The topic is interesting, however.  I think you're best off reading some books or Web sites, rather than getting the information from us folks. I mean, how much do WE know?    :)
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Whoa! Thanks so much for the LOGICAL information against evolution, especially the lie about us being 99 percent identical to chimps. I knew about some of the other forgeries, but thanks. What's disturbing, though, is that some of these things are still promoted by biology teachers in school as fact. For example, the industrial melanism and peppered moth example has still been used in high school biology courses, even AP Biology. Thanks for all the information; it definitely strengthens the idea of a God who wouldn't let this all happen by chance. \nThe only question that remains for the evolutionists, though, is why. Why would they want to support an idea that says we are related to monkeys? Why would they want to downgrade the status of man like this? I simply don't understand it. Though, according to classification, we are primates, we are much greater than that. We are humans. It mystifies me as to why evolutionists can't accept this idea.
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Differences in people brings ideas to each individuals, bringing enlightenment to our ignorant minds. You can say that it's like a enlightenment to our modern dark age. I assume that most people will agree that the differences in people brought many new amusing ideas, developments, and knowledge to each individuals who had the chance to see or hear about it. As a result, we as people drastically improved what we call life.\n\nBut...\n\nI believe also this can be beginning of end of our civilization. There are people out there that hates differences. They hate the fact or facts that you are either from/consists/influenced/of from different race, mentality, religion, goals,  values, ideas, cutlure, etc. If you look back at the history, we discover the ways like/love the differences as learn more of it. On the other hand, we also discover the ways to dislike/hate the others more as we learn more differences.(Ex. US civil war, World I/World II) I also think that differences brought us ways to destroy the others more efficiently and better than ever.(Ex. Cold War, thus nuke race).\n\nI think good and bad are balanced out. If I were to chose, I guess I would say good since just because our destructive hatred nature does not being we should be afraid of being different. One thing we are all same about is death, I don't think anyone can really avoid death as far as I know(I maybe wrong... who knows.).
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I am a teacher (actually a university professor). My *job* is to teach people and I enjoy it. I want to promote a world where people think for themselves rather than take whatever those in power tell them. I believe this will make the world a better place not only for me, but for my daughter and others that I love. When I find someone that has misunderstandings about basic things like atheism, or mathematics, or evolution, or history I try to teach them if I can. Seek the truth and it shall set you free.
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Ok, I've had to write a similar paper about a zillion times in college, so here's some advice: Write on the positive and negative outcomes it could have such as organ transplant and the possiblity of people trying to sell their own organs for $$$, and how there could be a large black market of organs for sale. This will make a rise in the homocide rate (people killing other people to steal their organs) and because there has not been a lot done w/ stem cell organs, they do not know the longivity of them. Most religious people are aganist it because they think that it will increase abortion. I don't know....Good luck!
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i agree on your general view of merchant. but a commentator's job, ever since cosell, sometimes means playing devils advocate. frank's answer is right on, imho. ty for another thoughtful question...  :{}. been reading your answers & you know your stuff. im pretty new here too. look forward to hearing more from you
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The only opinion I have of this question is this-- This is a controversial question that begs for a subjective answer. You obviously are a deep thinker about perplexing arguments.
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I think it's a good idea to educate yourself on differing beliefs.  It makes you take a closer look at your own, and it should also help you to defend those beliefs (or possibly change them- you never know, you could be wrong now).  College is a place where lots of people question their faith, and I think it's extremely important to know what you believe and why before you go.  As for whether reading other things has strenghtened or hurt- definitely the former.  I didn't form my beliefs until I was a young adult, so I had lots of time before then to figure out what exactly those beliefs were.
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I am a HS English teacher. This year my students had to do debateable topics on their research papers. Here are some of the topics my students did that I enjoyed most:\n1. Is surrogate parenting a good idea?\n2. Is there a truly such a thing as Christian "Rock"\n3.  Illegal immigration, do we send them back?\n4. Why are we in Iraq?\n5.  Child abuse or Biblical "Spare the Rod"\n6.  Is Cosmetic Surgery a Sin?\n7. Overseas Adoptions, should we stay in America for our  Babies?\n8.  Interracial Dating, who does it benefit?\n9. Cloning, How many more of YOU can we stand?\nJust ideas. Hope they help!
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That is an awesome point and I never really thought about it like that till you said this.  Thank you for sharing your point of view.  It was scintillating.  I'm not trying to be smart, I'm very serious.  Thank you!
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Hey which debate are you with? I'm with ccofpa. I love debate I just started so I dont know the benefits probably better speach skills.
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Check with college students (put this question in the "Educational" heading)\n\nI work for a major University and we have a professor that teaches a Critical Thinking course. They harrass and fail Christians with the statement "You need to drop this class now.  There is no way you can pass a class in Critical Thinking if you are a closed minded Religious Zealot!"
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I dont know. I really dont know. How would you find out? Government statistics? Not a good vote-getter! Even if you go back to previous governments , its still pretty hard to judge how scrupulous they were.They , of course , 'justify' the expense - 'defending freedom' , a 'cost-effective' health service,an aging population affecting pensions ( gosh , an aging population , that must have come as a surprise!). Bit of a rant here , but I feel that you understand!
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Interesting.  The Lord has put many in my life. Right now, I have a group of late teens, early twenties... I am preparing them for college,  by training them in Christian apologetics. This will help them defend their faith against the worldliness of college. My ex-wife... without her I may not have gotten to know the Lord and not be doing what I am doing now.  I had a wonderful class a few years ago and was able to teach science from a Christian perspective. One of the students, Sarah died last week. I believe she is in Heaven. This is rough when you see this happen to a 16 year old. But I hope I was able to make some difference in her and her families life.
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Doug North's "Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance" will be essential to understanding where the field has gone recently.  It's much more concrete than Stiglitz' "Globalization", which, while interesting, carries a lot of opinionizing among the little bit of theory.  North is considered the premier authority on institutions in the academic world today.  I've also attached a reading list from one of the recent events in the field, and it's pretty comprehensive.\n\nThose should keep you busy for a while.  :)