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ARTICLES
• The first step is to use your research skills to find an article.
• This article should fulfill or help make an argument that you want to make in
a debate round.
• Instead of just taking this article in the debate round, we “cut” this evidence
to make it more useful.
“CUTTING CARDS”
Compulsory voting means, minorities will get their voices heard
Marion Just Professor of Political Science in 2012
Marion Just is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a research associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government. OCTOBER 3, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/11/07/should-voting-in-the-us-be-mandatory-14/same-day-voter-registration-would-improve-turnoutSame-Day
Registration (date accessed: 10-12-13)
Compulsory voting works. In Australia, federal elections have a 94 percent turnout rate. But the very idea of mandatory voting makes most
Americans cringe for their liberty. Americans have little concern that only about half of the country’s eligible voters show up for presidential elections, 40 percent for Congressional elections
and a third for presidential primaries or down-ballot elections. The minority who vote in most elections are not like the whole population. Voters are better
educated, better off, and older than most adult citizens. Nonvoters are disproportionately young and members of minority groups. They
support different candidates and have different interests from voters. Recent research shows a vicious cycle in which nonvoters do not
believe government will help them and government returns the favor by making policies that favor the middle and top of the income
distribution and a negative impact on those at the bottom. Short of mandatory voting, there are policies that would produce an electorate more like the whole citizenry. Efforts to
ease registration (like Motor Voter) or voter convenience -- like absentee ballots and early voting -- increase turnout. One innovation can also make the electorate more representative -- “same-day
registration.” It works because it takes advantage of the media surge two weeks before Election Day. Voters show up at the polls and register and vote at the same time. Minnesota implemented same-day
registration, and its 2008 presidential turnout rate topped the nation at 78 percent. Unfortunately the goal of making the electorate more representative runs headlong into the prospect of partisan advantage.
Recently several Republican state legislatures passed laws to discourage voting by requiring a picture I.D., decreasing the number of polling places and shortening the voting period. Democratic legislatures
should respond by passing same-day registration. The
results will show that in some states Americans can have their liberty and majority rule too.
TAG
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• It should make the argument you are making with the card
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CITE
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• Shortened Credentials if Available
• Year (Date if within the week)
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CITATION
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• Credentials
• Article Name
• Website name or book (if book page number)
• Date published
• Date accessed
• URL
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BODY
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• Underlined
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HOW TO
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ACTIVITY 1
• You should use the complete v incomplete card out of the two shown.
• Some will be easy others will be more difficult.
CARD 1A
Global Warming Causes Volcanoes, Sunspots, and the
Ocean.
Walter Williams. (PhD. Economics UCLA). "Global Warming Heresy." Capitalism
Magazine. 27 March. 2007. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4941
Manmade carbon dioxide emissions are roughly 5
percent of the total; the rest are from natural sources such as volcanoes, dying
vegetation and animals. Annually, volcanoes alone produce more carbon dioxide than
all of mankind's activities. Oceans are responsible for most greenhouse gases. Contrary to
environmentalists' claims, the higher the Earth's temperature, the higher the carbon dioxide levels. In other words, carbon dioxide levels are a product of climate change.
Some of the documentary's scientists argue that the greatest influence on the Earth's temperature is
our sun's sunspot activity. The bottom line is, the bulk of scientific evidence shows that what we've
been told by environmentalists is pure bunk. Throughout the Earth's billions of years there
have been countless periods of global warming and cooling. In fact, in the year 1,000 A.D., a time when there
were no SUVs, the Earth's climate was much warmer than it is now. Most of this century's warming occurred before 1940.
For several decades after WWII, when there was massive worldwide industrialization,
there was cooling.
Among the many findings that dispute environmentalists' claims are:
CARD 1B
Global Warming Causes Volcanoes, Sunspots, and the Ocean.
Walter Williams, PhD in Economics in 2007
Walter Williams. (PhD. Economics UCLA). "Global Warming Heresy." Capitalism Magazine. 27 March. 2007. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4941 (da: March 6,2007)
Manmade carbon dioxide emissions are roughly 5 percent of the total; the rest
are from natural sources such as volcanoes, dying vegetation and animals. Annually, volcanoes alone produce more carbon
dioxide than all of mankind's activities. Oceans are responsible for most greenhouse gases. Contrary to environmentalists' claims, the higher the Earth's
Among the many findings that dispute environmentalists' claims are:
.
Some of the documentary's scientists argue that the
greatest influence on the Earth's temperature is our sun's sunspot activity. The bottom line is, the bulk of scientific evidence shows that what
we've been told by environmentalists is pure bunk. Throughout the Earth's billions of years there have been countless periods of global warming
and cooling. In fact, in the year 1,000 A.D., a time when there were no SUVs, the Earth's climate was much warmer than it is now. Most of this century's warming occurred before 1940.
For several decades after WWII, when there was massive worldwide industrialization, there was cooling.
temperature, the higher the carbon dioxide levels. In other words, carbon dioxide levels are a product of climate change
CARD 2A
Climate change perpetuates food crisis.
Arthur Max in 2008
Arthur Max. "UN Chief to G8: Climate Change, Food Crisis linked." Yahoo News. 4 July 2008.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_sc/g8_climate_change (da: 9-5-08)
The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N.
climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set
goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years. Food security and soaring oil prices are likely to
overtake climate change in the priorities of the G-8 meeting starting Monday, though global warming was the theme set by the host, Japanese
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda .
Food and global warming are interconnected, said Yvo de Boer,
executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change .
other on the international agenda."
"They are not competing with each
CARD 2B
Climate change perpetuates food crisis.
Arthur Max. "UN Chief to G8: Climate Change, Food Crisis linked." Yahoo News. 4 July
2008. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_sc/g8_climate_change
The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N.
climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set
goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years. Food security and soaring oil prices are likely to
overtake climate change in the priorities of the G-8 meeting starting Monday, though global warming was the theme set by the host, Japanese
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda .
Food and global warming are interconnected, said Yvo de Boer,
executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change .
other on the international agenda."
"They are not competing with each
CARD 3A
Poverty does not cause war.
The Forum 2005
The Forum. "Reading the Bible with a Pair of Scissors." 5 June 2005.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=3417&page=6
The niave assumption that war is caused by poverty cannot explain the Third
Reich, or Japanese Imperialism. It is blatently obvious other attitudes motivated
their agenda. The fact is the anxiety and displacement of persons by war is one reason
for poverty, another is lack of education or resources to deal with the environment. You can
give charity to some people all their life and they will never attempt to build a sustainable food
source. This also happens here in Australia. Change their minds and give hope of building their
own world will take them off Charity. These major problems will only be overcome with a
spiritual awakening and the sweat of the brow. Poverty does not cause war, greed
causes war, as does unjust oppression of the weak. The real answer is one of the
mind and spirit, and not one of enforced law and the allocation of funds. There is a real need of
personal enlightenment and politicians are rarely in the forefront of spiritual change.
CARD 3B
Poverty does not cause war.
The Forum 2005
The Forum. "Reading the Bible with a Pair of Scissors." 5 June 2005.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=3417&page=6 (da: 9-6-06)
The niave assumption that war is caused by poverty cannot explain the Third
Reich, or Japanese Imperialism. It is blatently obvious other attitudes motivated
their agenda. The fact is the anxiety and displacement of persons by war is one reason for poverty, another
is lack of education or resources to deal with the environment. You can give charity to some people all their life and they will never attempt to
build a sustainable food source. This also happens here in Australia. Change their minds and give hope of building their own world will take
Poverty does
not cause war, greed causes war, as does unjust oppression of the weak. The real
them off Charity. These major problems will only be overcome with a spiritual awakening and the sweat of the brow.
answer is one of the mind and spirit, and not one of enforced law and the allocation of funds. There is a real need of personal enlighten ment
and politicians are rarely in the forefront of spiritual change.
ACTIVITY 2
• Card cutting races
• We will have teams of 4
• Each person will have a job
Find an article- About the US economy from the last 2 days
Tag the card
Cite and Citation
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