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Topic- Legalizing Euthanasia

Questions-

1) What is Euthanasia?

2) Should it be legalized?

3) What is the different viewpoints on Euthanasia and what do doctors think of this topic?

Carl Rogers and the Rogerian Model:

The five steps in the chapter, is this the way were suppose to be setting up our papers? Is it some kind of outline? Or is the constructing an argument the outline?

Carl Rogers is a psychologist who showed a great approach to therapy; client-centered. Its just amazing how he brought that into an argumentive model. With this paper you have to be focused on the subject, but still having your opinions. Your trying to acheive a solution, but not to change the world. The essay about sexual harrassment seemed very informing. It showed a great way to overall display an aggreement without picking sides. It seems so easy, but I know its going to be quite hard to acheive. This chapter on Rogerian model has helped me to understand how to come about this paper. I still am confused though. This reading on rhetoric is very easy to interpret, but its hard to make an argument thats going to be as little opinionated as possible.

Is it okay if I talk to you (kelli) after class tomorrow so that I can come up with an appropriate subject to talk about?

I was thinking about doing my paper on abortion. I believe it is one of the top 12 subjects were NOT suppose to disscus. I just think that picking a subject that your neutral on would be a better idea for this paper. I want to start on this as early as possible.

So I totally forgot about posting this until today, so hopefully this still will work.

If I were to interview a person who is no longer living, I would interview Marilyn Monroe. She seems like she would be one of the most interesting people that could ever be interviewed. We only know so much about her and it would be nice  to get answers from her perspective. I would really want to know how she died and why she committed suicide. If she did? Other than that it would be pretty cool to find out what it was like to be famous back then.

3 Questions:

1. What kind of drugs were you taking towards the end of your life?

2. Who was your role model when you were a little girl?

3. What happened in your life that led you to suicide?

Obviously these would be the type of questions that would be asked if she came back to life at this moment in time and not if I were to go back.

Two of the main hot topics that I have encountered is:

-Mayor Bergson says he has a plan to help out with the 309 million retiree health-care liability.

This has been a huge disagreement for months. Finally Bergson came up with the idea of presenting the Minnesota State Senate with a Duluth-only bill that will help cut the liability in half. But even though Bergson came up with this good plan, not all the council members agree with it.

-Council passes Iraq measure

There has been a real debate that has surfaced about American troops in Iraq. Russ Stewart led the resolution in this discussion. They stated that they want Minnesota troops to be taken out of Iraq and brought back to their home. They are trying to clearly state that they are of full support of the troops, but they want Bush to end the occupation in Iraq.

When choosing news stories to write about you want to look at different concepts like what is an interests you. What I have found to be more important is the newsworthiness. Yes you want to find an event that is of interest, but to make it a good well thought through story you need these five steps. I thought these were some fascinating steps; considering I have never written an article along these guidelines. -timely story, how people are affected, local, famous somebody, and novelty. I also have not used the idea of objectivity. Since you see so many articles out there that promote their own opinions, it’s kind of hard to picture a real news article without some kind of an opinion. I didn’t know anything about the inverted pyramid even though I have used it many times even in regular papers. I believe that the example of Mascot Halted at San Diego State U was a very good example of how to use the inverted pyramid in your use of a news article or any other form of writing.

Overall the many different ways to write a news article with help me to a more well thought out and researched paper. This chapter gives a good idea of what we should use and include in our papers to make it more successful.