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This is a time where pages have the chance to debate and vote on bills. Each page was had the opportunity to present a bill before fellow pages. I co-sponsored a bill with another page. The bill we presented was HB . This bill was about banning the use of handheld communication devices while operating a motorized vehicle. While our bill didn’t pass, it was great opportunity to debate the bill we presented. Fellow pages questioned our bill. Questions such as “Would AppleWatches be considered as a part of this?” or “How would the officer have the authority to pull you over for it, as it can be hard to know for certain an individual is using their device?”. These were all questions we had prepared for and expected questioning from fellow peers. Moreover, other page bills were also presented bills during this session. Having the opportunity to prepare and question their bills led to questioning on the floor and occasionally surprising votes. Often times if questioning had been high on a particular bill, it would raise more debate when closing debate was presented. Along with going through the process of passing a bill it was sobering to be a part of an experience that is every day of for those we elect into office. Our elected officials sit at those same desks and debate over hard topics, topics that will affect those all around

Houston, Texas is the hometown of an artist who pioneered an innovative genre of rap. Robert Earl Davis Jr., better known as DJ Screw, birthed this genre by experimenting with turntables at a young age. To Davis, there was precision in making his beat stand out from the others. His experimentation led to the creation of what he called Chopped and Screwed. DJ Screw’s interpretation of ideal rap music governed not only the genre, but artist throughout Houston. During the 90’s, Chopped and Screwed had a notable effect on musical, social, pharmaceutical, and cultural aspects in Houston which are still being expressed today.

Have we become a world that has forgotten how to listen and debate? Why are people so quick to argue? Everyone wants to prove their point these days. In “The Argument Culture,” Deborah Tannen discusses how today’s society no longer honors the noble American tradition of debate. She explains how we no longer want to take the time to listen to both sides and definitely not all sides of an issue. We have become a society that would rather fight and argue, often to the point of violence.

While many writers claim that participation trophies are beneficial, writer Ashley Merryman agrees with the idea that participation trophies are more destructive than beneficial regarding the learning process of a child. The general argument made by Merryman in her work, “Forget Trophies, Let Kids Know It’s O.K. to Lose,” is that providing

Throughout high school, I harbored a deep admiration for debate and dreamed of joining the team. Its quintessence of ideals in rational argument, tolerance for conflicting points of view, and rigorous self-examination appealed strongly to me. Yet simple things, like pronouncing a word wrong or having an accent, were enough to hold me back. Thus, I passed through my high school years unnoticed.

Global debates are dominated by controversial political figures that use charged arguments to debate the most controversial issues on the political agenda. The authors argue that success in politics is not about being right or well-reasoned. Instead, it is asserted that success in politics is the ability to imprint positive associations in the long-term memories of voters. More so, success in politics is may be the ability to craft regular, credible, and persuasive arguments that resonate with those of one’s

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” this phrase is a great representation of the problem that children of the world face due to participation trophies. Participation trophies kill the drive of young kids unless they are taught to accept them correctly. Children need to know that these awards should not be a goal.

A constructive national debate is something that is quite important to the functioning of the American system of democracy. A simple definition of democracy offered by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is that democracy is “a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting” (Merriam-Webster). Now, at a time of heightened awareness from many American people, the political debates in this country don’t seem to be providing them with good cogent arguments. Instead they are filled with fallacies and many falsehoods. In this essay I argue that the presidential debate system is currently not living up to its potential, and I will focus specifically on Republican primary debate that took place at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. In doing so, I will argue that the main flaws in this cycle’s presidential primary debates were the amount of fallacies used, as structure used as well as provide some counter-arguments to my claims.

Without that, I never would have learned about this remarkable passion of mine and my life would have been completely different and most likely would have been much worse without the things I learned from debating. In the end, whether I end up being right and getting that little bit of extra meaningless pride by defeating someone who I’ll never encounter again in an online battle of wits behind a mask of anonymity or being disgracefully wrong and learning as much as I can from my mistakes, debating is one of my favorite activities to partake in and I wouldn’t give it up for the world, although I’d welcome you to try and convince me

Hatchet shows that brian had made a raft to haul the tail of the plane. He made a raft out of a log and name and had name his raft Brushpile One for it’s looks hung together even as he pulled it into the water to the beach. It floated well, if low in the water and in the excitement he started for the plane. He could not stand on it, but would have to swim along shore.

rhetoric in high school can help students make and understand arguments, and help them learn

In the essay “Arguing on the Internet” the author tells of his inexperience in political debate, and how it shaped his future. (Poza, 2005) His story starts out by telling the readers, about the first time he posted a comment on the internet about gun control. Poza, was simply sharing his personal thoughts on the subject and what he got in return was profanity, disgust and the desire to persuade others by debating effectively. Poza shares some of his thoughts on learning to debate with others.

On Friday, February 26th and Saturday the 27th, South East High School held a debate event for high school students to discuss a topic. 450 students from schools across L.A. county attended this debate tournament. This was the second debate event I have attended and I really enjoyed it, and have never experienced anything like that before. More excited than nervous I came into it ready for the challenge, especially after hearing i was going to judge a debate alone, I took it as a way to learn more. I judged two rounds on the first day of Friday the 26th, arriving at 4:00pm, attended the judge training, which was helpful in explaining the debate format, topic, and scoring. Soon after, we all set off to find our rooms and begin round one!

Every day usually at school or at a friend’s home, I would debate on some sort of recent political, pop culture, or scientific events that can be stretched into an hour discussion of how the implications of such an event can reflect on the changing values of modern society. One time, I got into an hour long discussion on what North Koreans really towards their Supreme Leader’s passing and how controlling the government is. Another time was the ALS ice bucket challenge where we got into a rather serious argument at how the challenge is a sign of the growing shallowness and attention grubbing of the American people after laughing for ten minutes of the ridiculous nature of such a

This year I took debate and throughout this whole year I learned in many ways how taking debate is beneficial to me, and how it helped me throughout my school year and my later life in general. Such as how to speak clearly, extend my voice and how to pronounce and enunciate clearly so that my voice is vocalized clearly and in a way that is in a way that is very understandable to everyone. Which can be seen on numerous occasions from ballots at the beginning of the year such as “ AST # 1 ” which I learned a lot from as it was my first debate and at this tournament I took congressional debate and what I learned from this is that I have to use my voice because if I didn’t I wouldn’t be able to speak which is what happened to me and at my