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I need Help, I need a research paper with a controversial topic
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UA_Iron
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teri schiavo - there is a whole thread dedicated to her.
Kinda shows a conservative vs. a liberal standpoint on the issue.
You'll need some cold hard facts instead of emotion to back up your claims though.
Kinda shows a conservative vs. a liberal standpoint on the issue.
You'll need some cold hard facts instead of emotion to back up your claims though.
Growth&Courage
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r.gotti said:
Politics, history, philosophy and psychology are all embedded in the works of Michel Foucault. Gay marriage and capital punishment is covered analytically.
CrazyRussian
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If you really want to blow the shit off the watering hole, you could do the War in Iraq....
KillahBee
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CrazyRussian said:
I don't know, don't you guys think most of that class is going think about the war, Schiavi case, and steroids as topics? I think there are a list of like 10 popular topics that always come up with these papers (religion, abortion, etc.). In college I did my best to come up with some wacked out paper topics. It kept things interesting and usually impressed the teacher. At least it showed you think differently than others. Then again, I guess if you had a really unique approach to any of those topics it would serve the same purpose.
chewyxrage
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Racial Profiling or Euthanasia
Or something about the Seperation of church and state
Or something about the Seperation of church and state
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UA_Iron
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Do steroids in sports and use these arguments:
http://whyfiles.org/213steroid/index.php?p=4.txt
He contends that the concern about steroid use -- by adults -- is rank hypocrisy. These are some of his arguments:
1: Do steroids promote aggression? The question is apt after the recent suspension of the fighting four Detroit Pistons and the furious five Indiana Pacers. But even if steroids do increase physical assaults, Fost asks whether we should focus on the drug -- or on the behavior. "Physical assault, sexual assault, and criminal acts are all very common among athletes," he says. "But if people are worried about physical or sexual assault by athletes on steroids, they should be equally worried about them by athletes who are not on steroids. ...If the NFL and the NBA are saying they are concerned about the image of sport, or the misfortune of people who get attacked, there should be a lifetime ban on someone who attacks."
2: Do steroids confer an "unfair advantage"? To Fost, this question represents "stunning hypocrisy.... In baseball, Bud Selig tells us he is concerned about unfair competition, but he presides over a league where the Yankees pay $180-million a year, in salary, and rising, and the Brewers pay $30-million, there is not a chance in hell they will succeed in a league where the average salary is three, four or five times as much. So when he tells me he is concerned about unfair competition, I am not convinced."
3: Do steroids harm the athlete? This claim Fost, says, is, "just wildly exaggerated." The real damage from steroids, he says, "is mostly cosmetic, and reversible, acne and hair loss, voice and hair changes in women. Infertility in men and women is most of the time reversible." Other problems, including cancer, heart disease and stroke, have never been conclusively linked to steroids, he asserts. Even the poster boy of steroid abuse, pro football player Lyle Alzedo, who died of brain cancer in 1991, proves nothing about heavy steroid use. "There is not a single shred of evidence, by anybody, that there is any connection between brain cancer and steroids," Fost asserts, "and yet 10 years later, he's cited as example of what can happen." While many pro athletes, including football players, suffer disability from their jobs, steroids don't necessarily add to the problem.
4: Do steroid-addled athletes make poor role models? Perhaps, but Fost wonders if the sports business is so worried about kids emulating athletes, why it promotes chewing tobacco and alcohol. Alcohol, he says, is "a drug that kills tens of thousands of people, users and innocent victims in drunk driving, but it's sold and advertised at the ballpark, people are getting drunk at ballparks. Why aren't professional sports worried about that? A professional athlete is a thousand times more likely to die of alcohol poisoning than steroid poisoning."
All in all, Fost says the wave of hysteria about sports doping recalls the attitude of classic anti-marijuana film, "Reefer Madness."
However, none of these arguments is meant to justify doping among adolescent athletes. As Fost acknowledges, and as rodent research indicates, developing minds and bodies may be particularly prone to problems from steroids.
http://whyfiles.org/213steroid/index.php?p=4.txt
He contends that the concern about steroid use -- by adults -- is rank hypocrisy. These are some of his arguments:
1: Do steroids promote aggression? The question is apt after the recent suspension of the fighting four Detroit Pistons and the furious five Indiana Pacers. But even if steroids do increase physical assaults, Fost asks whether we should focus on the drug -- or on the behavior. "Physical assault, sexual assault, and criminal acts are all very common among athletes," he says. "But if people are worried about physical or sexual assault by athletes on steroids, they should be equally worried about them by athletes who are not on steroids. ...If the NFL and the NBA are saying they are concerned about the image of sport, or the misfortune of people who get attacked, there should be a lifetime ban on someone who attacks."
2: Do steroids confer an "unfair advantage"? To Fost, this question represents "stunning hypocrisy.... In baseball, Bud Selig tells us he is concerned about unfair competition, but he presides over a league where the Yankees pay $180-million a year, in salary, and rising, and the Brewers pay $30-million, there is not a chance in hell they will succeed in a league where the average salary is three, four or five times as much. So when he tells me he is concerned about unfair competition, I am not convinced."
3: Do steroids harm the athlete? This claim Fost, says, is, "just wildly exaggerated." The real damage from steroids, he says, "is mostly cosmetic, and reversible, acne and hair loss, voice and hair changes in women. Infertility in men and women is most of the time reversible." Other problems, including cancer, heart disease and stroke, have never been conclusively linked to steroids, he asserts. Even the poster boy of steroid abuse, pro football player Lyle Alzedo, who died of brain cancer in 1991, proves nothing about heavy steroid use. "There is not a single shred of evidence, by anybody, that there is any connection between brain cancer and steroids," Fost asserts, "and yet 10 years later, he's cited as example of what can happen." While many pro athletes, including football players, suffer disability from their jobs, steroids don't necessarily add to the problem.
4: Do steroid-addled athletes make poor role models? Perhaps, but Fost wonders if the sports business is so worried about kids emulating athletes, why it promotes chewing tobacco and alcohol. Alcohol, he says, is "a drug that kills tens of thousands of people, users and innocent victims in drunk driving, but it's sold and advertised at the ballpark, people are getting drunk at ballparks. Why aren't professional sports worried about that? A professional athlete is a thousand times more likely to die of alcohol poisoning than steroid poisoning."
All in all, Fost says the wave of hysteria about sports doping recalls the attitude of classic anti-marijuana film, "Reefer Madness."
However, none of these arguments is meant to justify doping among adolescent athletes. As Fost acknowledges, and as rodent research indicates, developing minds and bodies may be particularly prone to problems from steroids.
