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    Posted: 15 April 2008 at 7:55pm

In english, its essay time.  Im really stuck on this.  Ive thought of some ideas already(we've been working on it for about 1 1/2 weeks).  I cant really get any hard, good information about my topic. 

My topic is/was- Human Dependence on Technology

My arguments were like- loss of skills, take away jobs, and ethics(military use)

The one i originally wanted was legalized gambling, but it was already taken.  I cant find anything that can be proven on the technology idea.  Everything is really open opinion, and most of the information I have to get has to be from databases/published works.

Any ideas?  And yes, ive searched google/yahoo/ask/everything about Persuasive/Argumentive essays, and not many good ideas come up.  Ive figured, if I restart right now, I can make up the almost 2 weeks of work up in 1 night.

Thanks for any anwsers.

**edit** I know a big controversy is about the war in Iraq, but I just dont really know what to focus on.  I would LOVE to do something about it since I have numerous military members(retired and active) in the family and I could get their points of view.



Edited by MeanMan - 15 April 2008 at 7:56pm

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Really? That is one of the easiest topics that I could write about.

Think about where things such as the internet and modern communications have brought us. Especially in the ways of global business and commerce. Nothing we do today could be accomplished without modern technology.

Or the general laziness of society through it's reliance on technology?

There are about a billion things that you could talk about.
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I did one in college on why clubbing baby seals was a good thing.

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Clubbing seals? Interesting....

The technology idea is hard to find things for, actual facts that can be
supported. Most is opinion. Like, it causes illiteracy. That is what most
people think, but there aren't really any studies on it.

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Then you could talk about how all the fools have opinions about technology based on opinion and not fact.  And that's a fact.
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Originally posted by MeanMan MeanMan wrote:

Clubbing seals? Interesting....

The technology idea is hard to find things for, actual facts that can be
supported. Most is opinion. Like, it causes illiteracy. That is what most
people think, but there aren't really any studies on it.
Why would it?

Do you need studies or are indisputable facts good enough?
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He wants to see statistics for our main points in the essay.

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Whenever I can't think of a topic I usually write about how the world needs more dictators.

Gotta spice things up a bit.

How many pages is this essay?

If it's under ten you're lame.

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I recently did mine on sex offenders and how it's wrong ot dedicate websites to tracking them.

May not have been as persuasive as this forum would like, but there are plenty of facts/statistics for it and whatnot. I had an easy as hell time arguing it against the class' opinion that all sex offenders are the devil.
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mbro- Theres no real limit to it page wise, I think it was over 8 he said. 

gatyr- Im not really well informed about that, so itll be harder to talk about during speeches.  But, there would be so much information about that.



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I don't really see what the problem is then? Just pick a topic, write your thesis, outline your arguments, refute the contrary, throw two scoops of statistics at it and write a conclusion. What's so hard about that?

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Originally posted by MeanMan MeanMan wrote:

gatyr- Im not really well informed about that, so itll be harder to talk about during speeches.  But, there would be so much information about that.


It's really not hard to argue to a generally uneducated audience. Recidivism rates for sex offenders are around 5-6%, for rapists is 3%; compare that to people arrested because of drug charges (~60%), say that the term sex offender unfairly encompasses certain people which gives way to an unfair association of certain people (a cripple who was caught changing his catheter in his car, a 19 year old who has sex with his 16 year old girlfriend and gets charged with statutory rape, a guy who was lied to by a 16 year old that said she was legal, etc.) to rapists; how it can be construed as cruel and unusual to have these websites, etc.

There are plenty of things to talk about. I wrote 7 pages of concise arguments that I had to condense to 5. It's not a hard topic to BS your way through while still looking like you actually know something.
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Originally posted by Gatyr Gatyr wrote:


It's really not hard to argue to a generally uneducated audience.

... It's not a hard topic to BS your way through while still looking like you actually know something.

Dingdingding.  The trick to persuasive speaking is to know more about your subject matter than your audience - or at least APPEAR to know more than your audience.

So you pick a subject that nobody in your audience will know anything about, state your claims with confidence, and you are home free.

I wonder if that would work on the internet.
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Originally posted by Gatyr Gatyr wrote:

Originally posted by MeanMan MeanMan wrote:

gatyr- Im not really well informed about that, so itll be harder to talk about during speeches.  But, there would be so much information about that.


It's really not hard to argue to a generally uneducated audience. Recidivism rates for sex offenders are around 5-6%, for rapists is 3%; compare that to people arrested because of drug charges (~60%), say that the term sex offender unfairly encompasses certain people which gives way to an unfair association of certain people (a cripple who was caught changing his catheter in his car, a 19 year old who has sex with his 16 year old girlfriend and gets charged with statutory rape, a guy who was lied to by a 16 year old that said she was legal, etc.) to rapists; how it can be construed as cruel and unusual to have these websites, etc.

There are plenty of things to talk about. I wrote 7 pages of concise arguments that I had to condense to 5. It's not a hard topic to BS your way through while still looking like you actually know something.

Yeah, you are right.

I just found out, that one of my friends in my class was recommended, by the teacher to make his persuasive essay on....Why an Eclipse is better than a Mustang.

Forget all this.  If hes doing his on almost pure opinion(different pros and cons to each), im set with the dependence thing.

**edit** I should just think of something about paintball.  I mean, im on paintball forums all the time, and know quite a few things.  Im sure I could convince people of something.  "Paintball is a safe and character building sport".  I could make a thesis about how it is given a bad rap because of events in the news.

Hmm, that could work.  I have magazines with articles about how paintball injuries are less than cheerleading.



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I gave a persuasive speech in college once about how firearms were only as dangerous as the people holding them.

I thought it went pretty well, hitting some high points.

One of the comments I got back from one of the hippie snots was:
"Good speech, but you failed to convince me....guns kill people, whether it it is a machine gun or a cap gun"
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Originally posted by Reb Cpl Reb Cpl wrote:

I gave a persuasive speech in college once about how firearms were only as dangerous as the people holding them.

I thought it went pretty well, hitting some high points.

One of the comments I got back from one of the hippie snots was:
"Good speech, but you failed to convince me....guns kill people, whether it it is a machine gun or a cap gun"

I completely agree with you.

I just talked to my friend.  I guess he did a similar thing about paintball, and he got an A on the speech, B on the paper.  I think ill just re-do what I have tomorrow and convince my teacher to let me change.

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Originally posted by MeanMan MeanMan wrote:

I completely agree with you.

I just talked to my friend.  I guess he did a similar thing about paintball, and he got an A on the speech, B on the paper.  I think ill just re-do what I have tomorrow and convince my teacher to let me change.



My experience with using paintball for school presentations has been hit or miss. It's one of those things that teachers are either really supportive of or extremely against.

I'd just take the safe route if I were you. Argue something that people can approve of be against but wont be zealous about in most cases. (read: don't talk about violence, religion, politics, war, unless you absolutely know the teacher's stance on the subject).
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Originally posted by Rambino Rambino wrote:

I did one in college on why clubbing baby seals was a good thing.

I was so indie.
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