Debating

on the Second World War. I have a great interest in the nature of evaluation and debate, furthering this by joining the Liberal Democrat Party. Regardless of the political party, it is essential to branch into different organizations to better my debating skills and to have an insight into the ways a history degree would help me in these scenarios. I was able to further showcase my skills in my week of work experience in the office of Conservative MP Mark Harper. During this week I had the…

what was right and wrong. Friendship was a big factor. The best example in where Huck had debated on what he knew was the right thing to do but decided friendship and loyalty was the main one was when Jim was sold away by the dauphin and Huck was debating if he should write a letter to Miss Watson and tell her where Jim was. He knew that was a right thing to do but he decided Jim’s friendship to him was way more important and would even “go to hell” for saving Jim. From that point her knew Jim…

analyze and discuss the early eighteenth century satire on women in Debating Women: Arguments in Verse and the arguments from two different perspectives—specifically the work of Jonathan Swift in The Lady’s Dressing Room and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s response in The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room—and how this lead to Lady Montagu’s need to publicize her opinion to Swift. Debating Women: Arguments in Verse, simply stated the fact that men will…

Several years ago, an atheist named, H.J. McCloskey, published an article in the journal Question One, and the article was called “On Being an Atheist”. In this article, McCloskey explains why the argument of God fails. I thought the paper was very well written; however, some of his assumptions about all theists were wrong and he spoke very poorly of anyone with a theistic opinion. During this paper I will argue why some of McCloskey’s arguments were invalid, and I am going to try and explain…

decades. From our readings, slum tourism is described as the type of “tourist experience that involves visiting urban area characterized by poverty, squalor and violence” (Dürr 113). This form tourism is a recent phenomenon and scholars have been debating on whether it helps or hinder the slums as a whole. The definition of slum varies from city to city, and country to country. Also, the quality of life, the safety, vibrancy of the local economy and legitimacy of it actually existing all differ…

The future success of the United States depends on a promoting whatever leads to the greatest benefits and least harm even if it treads on individual rights or goes against the common good. For the past week my classmates and I have been debating topics that are very controversial. I was assigned the topic vaccines, and I was assigned to be against vaccines. Sure there may be some side affects but vaccines are better for the biggest majority of people. Another hot topic we discussed was…

schools, such as Meadowbrook, one of the districts elementary schools. The transition classes are for students that are in-between grades at an academic point of view. For example, if a student is academically behind in kindergarten, and the school is debating to move the student forward, he or she may be placed in this classroom. For instance, This class will teach content from the end of kindergarten for the first part of the school year, and then in the second half the student will be taught…

Born Frederick Augustus Bailey in Baltimore, Maryland 1818. Frederick struggled through childhood due to the slavery conditions at the time. In 1824, six year old Frederick Bailey moved from his home in Baltimore, Maryland to a plantation in the country called the Wye House. Just two years later, Frederick was sold off to another slave owner back in Baltimore where he was taught to read by his owner’s wife, Lucretia Auld. The learning process was a struggle do to Mr. Auld's harsh slave rules. 5…

camp called Gurs and Oma survived the long train ride. Anna is roomed with a professional violinist, Sonia Morenthal, and coincidently one of her best friends from her home town, Kara. Oma passed away a couple of months after arriving and Anna is debating the existence of goodness in the world. This where my drawing starts to come into play. Anna remembers…

There’s many different ways people die. Someone might drown, others can suffer from a heart attack or even get hit by a car. We could get even more serious and say cancer, organ failure or a brain tumor. As of recently though, countries have started debating on a new way people can die. Euthanasia or physician assisted suicide has become a very talked about topic all around the world. As of now, only people over the age of 18, in their right state of mind and with a terminal illness that only…