My intelligence was indirectly insulted the other day while sitting thorough my Public Speaking class. If you're asking what is a Public Speaking class, well it's very simply, learning to speak publicly, including debates. So what better way to pick a topic than voting for it? Each person was to put their wanted topic on a piece of paper. Well being a junior, and having good interests in government and politics, I put one where I would want to really debate.
Results were in:
Guess the surprising part, most of the voters picked typical topics.
Abortion was the most picked, I'm very sure I've debated this in school about 50 tomes over, it's redundant to have to do it again.
Death Penalty came in second it's the topic everyone has debated about 20 times, I was very annoyed!
Finally, the third was a compilation of different government related topics, that is where one of my votes came in. My Public Speaking/Debate teacher read through them and was dissapointed, she expected a "good" topic. The last one she read was mine saying, "Should government begin to regulate the Free Market?" and you know what she did? She said, "tsk, tsk, tsk" I was furious, did she even know what the free market was!?
I am stuck in the class with a bunch of classmates that don't care for topics that may need adavanced research to do. My teacher is giving the class rudimentary topics that have been discussed countless of times. Do you want to know what my friend in Texas had to do for a debate? She had to argue about the economic situation in AFRICA! That's right It just feels like this is dumbing my brain down, it's awfully sad aswell.
But alas, I had to pick at topic in order to recieve a grade, I had to choose between abortion, death penalty, of the FCAT (state rquired test). I picked death penalty.
"An eye for an eye"
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
Which side do you pick?
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Aww. I'm so sorry! Government regulation of the free market is a GREAT topic to debate. I know you and I have differing viewpoints on the subject, but we had a very a constructive debate back in the forums. Your teacher sounds like a total snob. I don't get why she doesn't think your topic was worthy of debating.
ReplyDeleteThe death penalty, I'm sorry to say, is a boring topic to debate. Even though I disagree with it, I'm not passionate enough about the topic to have a whole debate it. I doubt I'll ever post a blog entry on the death penalty.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." That's the side I pick.
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You proposed a great topic, and I'm sorry that your teacher was a total jerk about it.