34. How much influence should the school have on our personal lives?

I feel that the school shouldn't try to control on our personal lives as long as we do things that do not infringe on others or the school. However, the school should take into concern things that might effect us as people, so i would say the school may give suggestions or help, but cannot force people to do things in terms of personal matters. That is why personal lives are called personal; they should be kept to ourselves. Parents are the ones that have the rights to have a say in our personal lives because they are the people that raise you up are part of your family (isn't that part of personal lives already?) Schools should not be able to decide whether or not we date people, because that is our personal choice. However, the school should be allowed to make sure that children under 18 are not drinking or smoking. Even though some may say that is part of personal life, it is going against the law. If that is involved, then the school should be allowed to prohibit students from doing so. I think the best way the school should or try to influence us is by educating and influencing our values. Sex education in health class would be a very good example of how the school can provide teenagers with the correct information about sexual intercourse so that students can make the right decisions.

33. The Earth is Full Speech Analysis

Paul Gilding's speech, "The Earth is Full", is effective because he had good contents and he uses rhetorical devices that further encourages the reader to take in his information. He starts off the speech by painting a negative picture of what the world would be like if we continued to use resource the way we do now. He uses repetitions and parallel structure like "full of... full of... full of..." to emphasize his points. He also makes his audience feel engaged because he uses words like "we" and "us" (for example, "we have to end our denial".) He acknowledges questions or doubts the audience might have by saying "you think..." and then provides a comprehensive counter attack. He continuously asks the audience to "imagine" what things would be like in the future. He repeats and rephrases his points to make things clear for the audience. He provides some statistics (we are using about 1.5 Earths), but does not overload them and overwhelm the audience. He tries to raise awareness, especially on the fact that if the Earth is to be sustainable, we will not experience the economic growth we are so used to. Finally, he ends his speech with a very positive scenario of the future, but we will have to take actions now.

32. Super Tuesday!

March 6, 2012. It was a big day for US republican candidates because it was the day when 10 states cast their votes. Currently, the four republican candidates left are Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul, with Mitt Romney in the lead followed by Rick Santorum. According to "ABC New's COmprehensive Guide to Super Tuesday", Ohio is considered the "real gem in the Super Tuesday crown" as no previous Republicans have ever won the presidential election without winning the state. Mitt Romney had spent huge sums in the state, hoping to win the election (which he did with 38% and Santorum with 37%, a very close call). Mitt Romney used many super pacs against Santorum in the state. According to Santorum, the fact that he is still standing in the state means a lot because he spent in Ohio was 1 to 12 compared to Romney. Santorum works to get to blue belts and the pious Christians in America. By definition, his background is much closer to a typical Rapublican candidate than Romney, who is a Mormon.

31. Chinks?

In the article, "ABC's Politically Incorrect Tackles Comedian's 'Chink' Joke", comedian Sarah Silverman and Guy Aoki, President of MANAA, disagrees on wether it is appropriate to make chink jokes as a comedian. When though the article seems to be talking about racist comments, the larger issue centers around freedom of speech, more specifically, freedom of speech for comedians. In Aoki's point of view, comedians should not make racist comments because it would be heard by the popular crowd, which would make them think making racist comments is alright. He thinks that in order to stop racism, people have to step up against racist comments. He believes that racism comments in some way permits racism and that is not right. He also emphasize on the responsibility that come with freedom of speech. According to him, even though people have the freedom of speech, they cannot exercise "ignorant speech". Silverman and Maher (who supports her) believes that making jokes (including racist ones) is a part of a comedian's job. Attacking her on making the comment would mean "attacking her livelihood". They say that people do not get offended because it is only a joke.

30. Real Man/ Real Woman?

I really do not believe there can be a definition of qualities of what a real man or woman is. There are so many types of male/females that you can't classify them. The only legitimate classification would be biological. However, there are some people that are emotionally and mentally like the opposite sex. When this is the case, it comes down to self-idenetity. If the person truly identifies themselves with the opposite sex, then they could be the opposite sex. There are, however, certain qualities that men or women tend to have. These can only be called general qualities because it doesn't have to apply to everyone. Most of these are caused by biology too. For example, men tend to be stronger and have a deeper voice than women. Women tend to express their emotions more than men do. However, we have to use these generalizations very carefully because this is not the case for all men or all women. There are certain qualities that people consider more feminine or masculine, but we should not use these qualities to classify the people. A feminine man is still a man and a masculine woman is still a woman.