So again, we had a less than normal class period. This time it was a press conference. With the coming of Easter and the fifth year anniversary of the war in Iraq, it was interesting to see the connections between the two and our country's values. Unfortunately, I wasn't really all "there" this morning. I wasn't up to my full debating potential. With that said, the topic on which we were debating was one that wasn't really easy. It was really hard to debate AGAINST the war when pretty much everyone is against the war.
I think this exercise taught us a few things about the writing process of our papers. Since these papers are about factual topics, it is important to know the facts. With the debates today, we could sort of bullshit it to a point, but we had to know the basis of what we were arguing and the facts about the topic unless we wanted to sound like an idiot babbling things out of the bible that aren't really true. I think writing our papers are the same way. We can try to bullshit them to a certain point, but when it comes down to it, we have to know the general facts about our subject or else the paper won't make sense.
It is good to see both sides of the story. I think that's another thing we saw in the debates today. Since these papers are supposed to be about a problem with our city, there are going to be different opinions about it. I think it's important to show both sides of an issue so that you can fully support your own opinion. If you only know one side, you can't accurately agree or disagree.
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Hey Emily. We did this in our class too. I think some people in my class took it a little too far. I felt like my group was being attacked for something we did not agree with but had to argue for. I thought it was pretty funny though on how serious people were getting. I think some guy from your class came to ours today.
yeah i was the guy from emily's class. and it was an interesting excercise i agree. i tried to keep it real and go with what was happening but it was hard like you said to argue against the war when most everyone is against the war. but yeah it was fun and i see what your saying about how it will help our papers and i completely agree. and i probably will be joining the 940 class from no on. lol.
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