Assignment for 4/15/15

Social media has a negative affect on the general public because it takes away from face to face interactions in everyday encounters.

-Bullying
-Business Communication
-Ability to hold conversation face-to-face with people
-Decreased productivity
-Privacy
-Isolation
-Self esteem
-Addictive

Social media is a young but rapid growing way of communication. Users of social media already know of the many benefits it has to offer but need to be aware of the negative impacts it can have on an individual such as my supporting points.

Toward a policy on Drugs

-Narrow topic
The relationship between crime and illegal drugs



-Person's primary claim (Thesis)
Drug users should not be punished within the justice system because of the illegal drugs they use. Instead in order to save money and space we should deal with the users by putting them in treatment centers.



-Subtopics & sub-points
Intro-
Brought up the concept of what foreign countries are doing about their drug problems. What different approaches can be made for regulation/ solutions.

Body paragraph 1-
Talked about how much it costs to keep people imprisoned. defines punishments, what defines hard vs. "soft" drugs, how it is supposed to work vs. why it doesn't work.

Body paragraph 2-
Talks about legalization as a solution by not regulating the drug trade, the decriminalization of small amounts of drugs and making some drugs available for medical use.

Body paragraph 3-
-Violence and crime within drug users
-Correlation is not causation




-Conclusion
-Talks about all the solutions and how they can potentially reduce the drug epidemic.

Interpreting Thesis

This episode of Bullshit has many claims about college including the social norm that you have to attend college to be successful, colleges advertise diversity, cost of school, and diversity has to do with being brainwashed. The primary claim is that college students are brainwashed by society because all they hear about is job markets, diversity, and what good college will do for them. This episode was focused on the idea of college kids going to school because it was the norm. They used examples like diversity, drinking, and the reasons actual students attended college to back up this claim. The use of interviewing actual college kids was okay because supported their claim that they are brainwashed. Although they used a small sample size not giving it the support they needed to gain enough credibility. Good examples included St.Cloud State University and what they have done to try and create more diversity.