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Here is a sample for the proposition that Tyler and I will be debating: The US should abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
ReplyDeleteQuestions:
-How much does the US spend every year enforcing drug laws?
-How many people are in prison because of Drug possession ?
- Have any other countries tried similar laws?
-Have states that have decriminalized marijuana possession seen a drop in crime?
-Will there be any non criminal consequences for possession
- You get the idea, right?
Emily--
ReplyDeleteThe federal government should have the power to restrict or deny internet access in cases of national emergency
What is the federal government doing now?
What are other country's doing?
What is the definition of national emergency?
Is restricting the internet aloud in the constitution?
what would the country not be able to be restricted?
How would they restrict the internet?
Would people like not having internet access?
How would people no about the situation?
Has internet access been an issue before?
Will people really vote for this?
Aaron.
ReplyDeleteFinal Debate 2011
Proposition: The Supreme Court’s decision in “Citizen’s United v. the Federal Election Commission” should be changed by Congress.
should be changed by Congress.
Questions to understand debate:
What is Citizens United?
What is the Federal Election Commission?
What was the Supreme Court's Decision in the “Citizen’s United v. the Federal Election Commission” case?
Why is the pro side arguing that the Supreme Court's Decision should be changed?
Why is the con side arguing that the Supreme court's decision should not be changed?
What is Citizens United arguing for?
What is the Federal Election Commission arguing for?
How would Congress change the Supreme Court's decision?
Jordana Rosenberg
ReplyDeleteThe US should make decreasing poverty the primary goal of domestic policy.
2/10/11
1.What other problems are there?
2. What problem is most likely to be the biggest threat to citizens in the long term?
3. How did we fix similare problems in the past? Did it work?
4. Will helping poor people has a good/large effect on the economy and the deficit?
5. What is the government trying to fix currently?
6. What is domestic policy?
7. What is considered poverty?
8. What methods could be used to "fix poverty"?
9. Are these plans practical/workable?
10. Are there any side effects to the plan?
11. What methods are there to fix other problems?
12. Are these plans practical/workable
13. Are there any side effects?
14. What makes something threatening to the government?
15. What problem will hurt the most amount of people?
16. What have been the main goals of past presidents and Obama?
17. What is a primary goal?
P.S. Have fun blogging 7th graders. AND I HAVE THE FIRST BLOG OF THE FINAL DEBATE BLOGS!!!!!!!
The recent upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt prove that the Bush administration’s policies in the Middle East were well designed.
ReplyDeleteAnd also, I’m not sure if this is important or not but my opponent is Sarah.
Well first of all one of the questions has to be
1. What are the Bush Administration's Policies?
If we have to put the answers than I am doing good and if we don't have to that's okay. I'm going to put the answers anyway.
Answer to Q1: What it is is when Bush says that if they (the U.S.) put democracy in one Middle Eastern country that other countries will soon want democracy also.
Next Question
2. From the last question I found another question. Is there actually a democracy established in the Middle East at all, was it something else that made them protest for democracy?
3. How much would it change the country, what changes would they be and what would the effect be?
4. What is the effect, if any, on the rest of the world?
5. Where is the Middle East?
6. Will this spread, if it does spread, democracy to other countries outside of the Middle East?
7. What is considered “well designed”?
I will come up with more sooner or later.
Gregory--
ReplyDeleteProposition: The Supreme Court’s decision in “Citizen’s United v. the Federal Election Commission” should be changed by Congress.
-What is the citizens united v the federal election commission decision?
-How should it be changed?
-How valid was the decision?
-How valid were the arguments?
-Why should congress change it?
-Does congress have the jurisdiction to change the supreme court decision?
-What is citizens united?
-What is the federal election commission?
-What are they arguing for?
-Korri
ReplyDelete-Should the students education be improved in other subjects besides science and math?
-Is this in all grades?
-What types of math?
-What types of science?
-Are other countries a lot better educated in science and math?
-How soon should the immediate steps be?
-Are they all students, or just students from like public schools?
-Are the students performances actually bad, or do they just need to be improved?
JAMES the Coolioist
ReplyDeleteUS EDUCATION
- Why should the US take action on education?
-What is the quality of the public education in the US?
-Why is math and science the areas of education we should be focusing on?
-How is our preformance in education compared to other countries?
-What steps should we take?
-What are other countries doing that we are not?
-What are the effects if we dont improve the education system?
-Can we take steps that will improve education over a long period of time?
these are my questions there are 8 in all the best 8 ever. some these i know the anwser to others i dont. soooooooooooooo thats about it.
Dhruv
ReplyDeleteThe US should make decreasing poverty the primary goal of domestic policy.
- What do we consider poverty
- Is it possible to set only one thing as a primary goal
- Where does the US stand in the poverty level?
- Is it possible to decrease poverty?
- Is decreasing poverty going to work in the long run?
- Why is there so much poverty right now (what's the main cause of it)?
- What's the biggest problem in the US today
- What are we doing right now, and why isn't it working?
- Can we afford trying to fix it?
- Isn't the budget a bigger problem right now?
- How is it even possible to avoid poverty?
- How are we gonna fix this?
- Wouldn't creating good paying jobs be a good fix to poverty
Neil Menghani
ReplyDeleteThe US should make decreasing poverty the primary goal of domestic policy.
2/14/11
1. Is it really possible to decrease poverty?
2. What do you mean by a primary goal?
3. Does a primary goal mean that something will happen?
4. Why is this an important issue?
5. Aren't there other more important issues in American policy right now such as the budget?
6. Have there been any other countries which have tried this?
7. How many people are in poverty?
8. What is your definition of poverty?
9. What do you mean decrease poverty (how much)?
10. How can you decrease poverty?
P.S. Jordana, I don't mean to burst your bubble, but you have the fourth not first post. Just saying.
John Rotelle
ReplyDeleteShould the US legalize prostitution?
What is prostitution?
What are the current laws on prostitution now?
Is prostitution reducing raping?
How common is prostitution?
Why is prostitution illegal?
Lauren
ReplyDeleteThe federal government should have the power to restrict or deny internet access in cases of natural emergency?
1. Why should the government have to power to restrict the internet?
2. What kind of national emergencies?
3. Would you restrict all internet access?
4. Would people actually vote for this?
5. What types of power does the federal government have now?
6. Where had internet access been denied in the past or right now?
7. Could you actually just deny all internet access?
8. What types of power does the federal government have right now?
9. Do they have to power to do that?
10. Had this ever happened before?
11. Is this an actual issue now?
12. What are other countries doing now?
13. How would people know about the restriction of internet access?
14. Is this safe?
15. How would they restrict the internet access?
16. Is this legal?
17. How would they restrict internet access?
Queena Wang
ReplyDeleteFinancial speculators who caused the economic collapse of 2008 should face criminal prosecution for their conduct.
1. What are the most important economic collapse in 2008?
2. Who caused the economic collapse in 2008?
3. How many people caused muiltple econimic collapse?
4. Have the people debate about this topic?
5. What would most people say about this topic?
US EDUCATION
ReplyDelete1) What test have been taken?
2) How far are we behind?
3) Witch country are ahead of the US?
4) What method are being used?
5) What is the sample size?
6) How will this affect the US?
7) Are we only behind in math/science?
8) What age group does this affect?
9) Who i making this statement?
Alex Durham
ReplyDeleteThe US should make decreasing poverty the primary goal of domestic policy
1. What is considered poverty?
2. What is a primary goal?
3. What is domestic policy?
4. Have there been plans to fix poverty in the past?
5. Have they worked?
6. What plans are there now to fix poverty?
7. Are they practical/workable?
8. Are there any side effects?
9. How great an impact has poverty made?
10. What other problems are there in America?
11. How great an impact have they made?
12. Are there plans to fix them?
13. Are they practical/workable?
14. Are there any side effects?
15. Which problem will have the greatest impact on America?
Alec Arena -TIGER MOMS
ReplyDelete1.what is a tiger mom?
2.what are other parenting forms?
3.define terms like superior?
4.outcome of the child?
5.suicide rate due to tiger moms?
Subject Delta has returned friends.
ReplyDeleteI got tiger moms...
What makes tiger moms special?
What are tiger moms?
What are the short/long term effects on the kids?
Will the kids raise their kids that way?
What are the grades of tiger kids like?
What is the athlectic ability of tiger kids like?
What is the social life of tiger kids like?
Rita
ReplyDelete1.Why is the current performance of the math and science bad?
2.Why does the US need to take these steps?
3.What do they mean by immediate? (how soon)
4.What is the definition of performance and how do you determine the difference between a good performance and a bad one?
5.What would these steps be?
6.How much would the steps cost?
7.How long would the steps take?
8.Why just math and science? (and not the other subjects?)
9.Couldnt it be the students are lazy, not the education system?
10.Why are the students doing poorly?
11.Why are the students doing better at the other subjects but not math and science?
12.Why does the US have to get involved?(why cant the students just study more?)
13.Who decided the performance was bad?
Tyler Rainear-
ReplyDeleteThe US should continue to enforce all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs including marijuana,cocaine,heroin,and methamphetamine.
-How does the US define the word "drugs?"
-How are the drugs: marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine different and what harmful effects do they each have?
-What are the criminal penalties imposed for possession of drugs?
-How many deaths are caused per year due to drug addiction?
-How much money does the US Government spend per year on agencies such as the "DEA" (Drug enforcement agency), etc?
-What's the average age a person tries drugs for the first time?
-How much is spent educating youth about the program:"say No to drugs?"
-How much money is spent per year on overcoming illegal drug addictions through rehab?
-In states that have made possession of marijuana legal, has there been a significant decline in crime rate?
-How much money is made per year on illegal drug sales?
-What does the US Government agencies do with drugs that are seized?
-Are drugs legalized in other countries around the world, and if so does this have a positive or negative effect on the society?
Jaxx Ottinger
ReplyDelete"Tiger moms" practice a superior form of parenting
1. What are tiger moms.
2. How many ways can you be a tiger mom.
3. Are there differnt techniques of being a tiger mom.
4. Are there a lot of tiger moms in the United States.
5. What is the superior form of parenting that tiger moms use.
6. What makes tiger moms special.
7. Are there tiger dads.
8. What are the short/long term effects on the kids.
9. What are the grades of tiger kids like.
10. Are there reasons for the kids behavor.
11. Do the parents over react to minor problems.
12. What country has the most tiger moms.
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