WA#4 -- Response to a Single Source
Length: about 750 words
Due in class as a draft by Wednesday, 10/21
Due to be marked and graded, 10/23
Choose one of the essays we have discussed in class over the last few weeks and respond to it. Either confirm or refute its arguments but do so in a systematic way.
Start with an introductory paragraph, and then summarize the main arguments and the arguments that support the main argument. Then confirm or refute those arguments.
Here, blog some notes by Wednesday, 10/9/13.
For this writing assignment I plan to write about the giving students more F's. I plan to disagree with the statement that parents will help out their children with their grades.
ReplyDelete-show that the parents don't care
-they work long hours, they don't know how to do the work/problems themselves
-they don't actually care about their child's grades
-parents will beg the teachers for extra credit
-parents may say "less tv" but they don't actually enforce it
-lazy
For my WA#4 assignment, I am refuting "Don't Blame The Eater" by David Zinczenko. His fist paragraph references two girls who tried (and failed) to sue McDonald's ffor "making them fat".Zinczenko goes on to talk about how he grew up as "a typical mid-1980's latchkey kid", and how he gained excessive weight by eating the only food he could afford: fast food. However, Zinczenko could have found ways not to gain wait and stay slim by asking for the nutrition facts at each restaurant, getting on a consistent workout schedule, or going over to a friend's house whos parents serve healthy food's once in a while. Zinczenko goes on to point out some numbers and statistics about diabetes and health care, which would lower if people tried the above suggestions. Then he goes on to explain how the lack of alternatives limits consumers, and gives a specific example of one fast food restaurant's salad item. However, today we have this thing called the internet where consumers can go and look up the nutrition facts of each item and their ingredients, and the number of ways that an individual can exercise is numerous. Also, people don't have to get that 1,042 calorie salad. All they have to do is ask for, or research, the nutrition facts, and they'll probably find something healthier to eat.
ReplyDeleteFor this assignment i will write about Carl Singleton's essay, “What Our Education System Needs is More F’s.” I will refute his point of view that by giving students F's parents will take a more active role in their children's education. This are some of the ideas i plan to talk about:
ReplyDelete• Why giving more F’s won’t encourage parents to get involved?
• Some current statistics about parental involvement in their kids’ educational process.
• Reasons of why parents stay away of this process.
• Consequences caused by too much parental involvement in children’s lives.
I plan on writing about the essay, “Torture: When the Unthinkable is Morally Permissible," by Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke. I will support and explain the points that the authors are trying to make. I will support the following:
ReplyDelete• When is torture acceptable?
• Why it should be used.
• Is torture is bad.
• In 2003, 132 countries reported torture. Will anything change?
• Torture to save an innocent life is the only situation where it is clearly justifiable.
• Does torture dehumanize society?
• Is torture a humane practice?
• Is the pain that would be felt by the victims outweighing the pain that is felt by the people being tortured?
Notes For English Essay:
ReplyDelete-How to make fast food a choice, rather than a lifestyle
-Government is free to monopolize on unhealthy products, they have done it in the past, but give consumers a way out.
-Tobacco is different than fast food.
1. Smoking is choice, eating is a necessity.
2. Average fast food consumer cannot afford or does not have time to cook at home every night, so fast food is a last resort.
Dietary Health is a public matter, and has been since food became a corporate business.
-it must/will remain this way until people are given a choice as to what they eat.
-in a perfect world we would all be responsible for our own selves, but big food corporations have taken away that personal freedom, and until they give it back, the government will have to continue being socialistic in its dealings with public health.
Focus on Radley Balko's essay "What You Eat is Your Business." Argue that the government needs to take strong, solid steps to help reduce obesity and fast food in America. Overall it is the responsibility of the individual but over the year, fast food has become more ingrained into society. Obviously people wont stop eating fast food by themselves. Government needs to take few steps to relieve people of the initial backing off of fast food. After that people need to assume responsibility.
ReplyDelete-personal stories
-stats about current government involvement
-examples of what government could do and where it has worked before.
-stats about growing use of fast food/obesity (childhood diabetes)
I will be writing about Carl Singleton's view in "What Our Education System Needs is More F's" that notifying parents with their child's failure will help fix our education system. I will be both agreeing and refuting to this argument. I plan to share my belief that this will help in the discipline area of the kids learning process but truly will not encourage the kid to learn.
ReplyDelete-Statistics on parents at home with kids.
-Parental involvement
-Personal story of parental involvement being affective and example of being non beneficial
Carl Singleton's "What Our Education System Needs is More F's"
ReplyDeleteRefutation: the education system needs more allocated funding to provide a welcoming environment to its students
- number of students living in single parent house holds -> parents can not be involved
- traveling to school effects grades
-f's being the last resort
-offer other resources like tutors before failing a student
I will confirm the point in the essay “What Our Education Needs is More F’s” that says, “Sending students home with final grades of F would force most parents to deal with the realities of their children's failure while it is happening and when it is yet possible to do something about it.” I will use:
ReplyDeletePersonal experience of how this has worked with myself
Showing parents actually do care about their children’s grades
Strategies parents and schools have to work together to help children
How parental involvement affects educational achievement
"When Torture is Morally Permissible"
ReplyDelete- allowed/ socially permitted when saving at least one life,
- i.e. surgeons, police/hostage scenarios, information to save a country,
-Agree that torture should exist as a last resort option
- one example of how torture saved a life
-Zero Dark Thrity
-extremes: torture to benefit a country (terrorism)
- 132 countries reported torture
-Dont Blame the Eater by David Zinczzenko
ReplyDelete-personal responsibility
-two girls sued Mcdonalds for making them fat
- labeling on food
-comparing to tabacco
-accessibility and affordability
What You Eat Is Your Business:
ReplyDelete-Schools banning foods/drinks
-Personal Responsibility/lack of
-Socialized Medicine
-We'll make healthier choices when our own money is paying for our health care
I will be arguing against, "What Our Education System Needs is More F's." What I will focus on, is the idea that, he may be correct in the long term, however, in the process of changing our entire education system there will be an entire generation of kids that suffer in the process. I will mainly address how it would affect the kids, give stats about the percentage of kids that drop out after failing a grade. I will discuss the tole it has on families as well, ect.
ReplyDeleteFor this essay I will be refuting the essay," When Torture is morally permissible". I will be focusing on the effects of torture on the torturer. I will be using facts from different sources and describe how torturer hurts torturer.
ReplyDelete-first the emotion battle he goes through to torture.
-the physical damage the torturer will get during torturing.
-No matter how important it may seem, it's still violating that persons religious beliefs.
I refute the essay “What Our Education Needs is More F’s”
ReplyDeleteChildren will not gain more skills by repeating a grade, is the idea I would be refuting There are many different factors, that are dependent on the F given to the student. The student could have had trouble in working on tests, so the student got the F, in the end. This idea is mistaken with the idealism that everychild will succced with the F, but in fact some may not.
- Some children will get discouraged on going to school because of the F
- It will motivate them to stop trying in the classes
- By having F's students might not care of doing homework.
- Proper ways of helping students.
For this assignment I will be refuting the essay by Bagaric and Clark,
ReplyDelete"Torture: when the unthinkable is morally permissible" and will be focusing on the basic premise of the article, what the base reasoning for torture is - i.e. just another tool of the trade.
-begun by engaging the police officer analogy-hostage situation, explaining how the situation is not analogous to the torture situation
-do the same for the doctor analogy
-then I plan to write a paragraph in detail about the base reasoning for the torture is flawed
For the assignment, I confirm Carl Singletons argument on giving students more F's and I will be focusing on why giving students F's is a fair.
ReplyDelete- Carl Singleton's focuses on why giving more F’s to students across America is the right thing to do
-depriving children of their right for a good education is unfair.
-what is a proper education
-should students be more responsible for creating quality work
-the result of giving student F's
-Is this the right thing to do?
-The basic skill requirements are not even present in the next generation who go on to pursue a Ph.D. By giving more F’s students are receiving a wake up call to give more effort.
I plan to disagree with Carl Singleton’s point on sending students home with F’s so that their parents can deal with their children’s failure:
ReplyDelete• The parents are lazy
• They don’t know the material the students are learning.
• They will be too busy with other things
• The students will not want help, and it will cause family issues
When torture is Morally Permissible
ReplyDelete+surgeon analogies
-moral brusing
-necessities
-consenting
-intentions
The points given in Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clark's article, "Torture: when the unthinkable is morally permissible" is what i will be confirming in this essay.
ReplyDelete- "Slippery Slope" Once it's found acceptable it'll be used more
- "Dehumanization" Both the tortured and torturer come out harmed in one way or another and look upon no longer as humans ((Dirt and Beast)
- "Never Sure If It Will Save An Innocent Person's Life" Even through our best sources information can be misconstrued and we may torture someone with no knowledge of the situation or torture someone who will never let the information we want leak and would die first, having the innocent person not being saved.
-"Examples" Surgeon/Patient scenario or Police/Hostage negotiation
- "Conclusion" Torture is immoral and wrong no matter what the positive outcomes are because there are more negative outcomes than positive ones
What this educational system needs is more f’s
ReplyDelete- Lower self-esteem
- Maybe the kids can’t learn it, what if they are just having so much trouble that they can’t grasp it
o “Only to students who haven’t learned the required material.”
o Sophomore year couldn’t grasp geometry, what if they are just having issues.
Issues at home
At school
With one’s self
For this Essay I confirm Carl Singleton’s argument on giving students more F’s across America.
ReplyDelete• Depriving learners a proper education is the very prejudice that drives our countries morale on jobs straight to the ground.
• Many of us who graduate college or high school are not equipped for the expectations of the current job market.
• In fact, the basic skill requirements are not present in the next generation who go on to pursue a Ph.D.
• Continuing to let students get by with mediocre work will not only result in unemployment, but can also hurt those walking in the same footsteps.
• Something has to be done not just for the present, but the future as well.
• Our upcoming generation is absolutely oblivious to what’s coming and the time to act has never been so urgent.
• Bringing change to our nation first starts with teachers and pupils because a good education is this nation’s back bone.