**answer this discussion for 2 students

Minority Report

After watching the movie, if a system like Pre-Crime could ever be perfected, would it be something you think society should have? Moreover, if it could be perfected, what would that mean for free will?

Example 1

A flawlessly accurate pre-crime system, akin to the one depicted in Minority Report, would remain highly contentious as it penalizes individuals for actions they have not yet committed. This challenges the principle that justice should be founded on actual behavior rather than anticipated actions. Even in the absence of errors, it raises significant issues regarding personal liberty, potential misuse of authority, and whether the prevention of harm justifies the infringement of autonomy. Furthermore, it presents a philosophical quandary concerning free will. If the system is indeed infallible, it suggests that our decisions are predetermined, rendering free will a mere illusion. Conversely, if individuals possess the ability to alter their predicted futures, then the system cannot be deemed truly perfect. This indicates that one cannot simultaneously achieve both absolute prediction and authentic human freedom.

example 2

In the movie the precrime system would challenge the idea that actions are what crimes are but if those actions have not yet happened then there would be no action to judge. This system could be taken advantage of if someone were able to intercept the card before anyone else they would be able to change the future in many ways. But if it were to be perfected then I think that it would be a good system, but there would need to be a system to catch the person as the crime is happening or slightly before because if people just get pulled of the street for things that did not happen yet then it might look as if the system is punishing people for just thinking. I think that if it were to be perfected there would be no downsides to it and thus it would always work as intended and be a net good for society at large while at the same time protecting as much freedom as it could.

example 3

Honestly, even if a system like Pre-Crime could be made perfect, I still dont think its something society should have. It sounds good in theory, stopping crimes before they happenbut it just doesnt feel right to punish someone for something they havent actually done yet. People can change their minds at any second, and taking that chance away feels unfair.

It also makes me think a lot about free will. If Pre-Crime were truly perfect, that would mean our actions are already decided before we even make them. Thats kind of scary, because it takes away the idea that we control our own choices. A big part of being human is having the ability to choose between right and wrong, and to learn from our mistakes.

So even though it might make the world safer, I feel like it would take away too much freedom. And without that freedom, it doesnt really feel like were living our own lives anymore.

W8 Written Discussion Truth or Lie?

During the play years, children grow steadily taller and proportionately thinner, with variations depending on genes, gender, nutrition, income, and other factors. Their brain development continues, the 2 year-olds brain weighs 75 percent of what it will weigh in adulthood. By age 5 it will weigh 90 percent and by age 7 it will weigh almost 100 percent. The functions of the brain that make us most human are the ones that develop after infancy, enabling quicker, more coordinated, and more reflective thought.

Preschool children practice all their motor skills with diligence and enthusiasm, not only gross motor skill such as running and climbing but also the fine motor skills needed for eating, getting dressed, and drawing. As they move with more speed and agility, they encounter new dangers, becoming seriously injured more often than older children. Creating a safe environment for them to explore and experience is crucial for their development as well as their safety.

It is hard to believe that after completing this response you will only have 8 more to go! Keep up the good work and keep asking those good questions!

Let’s take break this week and spend the time studying for midterms! Just for fun I want you to post 2 written truths and 1 written lie about yourself by Friday. I will try to guess your lie and on Saturday night you can reveal the lie in your discussion by replying to yourself. That way we will all know if we were right in our guesses or not. Have fun this week! Remember don’t reveal your lie until sometime on Saturday. Your discussion post will be graded once you reveal your lie at the end of the week. I’m really bad at guessing so don’t rely on my guesses to help you determine the lies! I am usually wrong.

Activity 8

For activity 8, please comment on two peers presentations. When commenting on peers presentations, please address the following:

• What did they do well during their presentation?
• What is one question you have for them based off of their presentation?

Student1 nowfel

Student 2 abeer

So I have this editorial Most of us students want to ask questions in class but are too shy because many students are in the room with us. During my first semester as a freshmen, I noticed that the more students there are the less confident I feel asking questions. For example, in my microeconomics class, I observed that only less than 5 students out of 30 or more were asking and answering questions from the teacher during the lecture which resulted in maybe half of the class failing and some dropping out of that class. I feel like most of us students avoid asking questions on a confusing concept because of thinking too much for a possibility of embarrassing ourselves in front of many students. When we avoid asking questions this affects our mental health due to confusion and it could lead to bad grades. If a class has too many students, professors cant give attention to a student which makes the student feel that they are going to get ignored, so they just stay quiet and not ask questions. Large class sizes make it hard for students to learn. I think back to one of my classes where I noticed one of the students sitting beside me looking confused, and I could tell that he wanted to ask something, but then stopped and just sighed. I am guessing that he is worried about looking foolish in front of everyone.

This problem affects a lot of students in different ways. It could be mental health, bad grades, participation, and confidence. If we dont understand the lesson we fall behind and could fail homeworks, quizzes, and exams which could end up not passing the class resulting in paying more money because of retaking a class. Many of us students feel stressed and lose motivation on participating in class. Some would even drop out because they cant keep up. This shows that big classes could ruin one student’s success.

We students could address this problem by taking action and speaking up. One solution we could make is do some course evaluations and include some feedback about large classes. Another solution I could think of would be talking to a professor directly which gives a higher chance when a student explains their own experience which could lead up to the administrators notice this issue and make fast changes. If we dont speak up, class sizes will keep continuing to rise up and more students will struggle the same way of what we experience to pass a class.

In conclusion, large class sizes make students have a hard time to ask a question and get the help they need. Which leads to confusion, stress, and lower grades, where it can affect our success in school. If we want this issue to be improved we must speak up by using our voices through evaluations, talking to professors, or student officials. Malala Yousafzai once said When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. This shows if students speak up our voices can create change. I need this to revise and expand this with switching my audience to my university administrator and make it more persuasive. you can add another in real life experience where in my bio class. i can provide a picture of the test stats. For my counterargument paragraph it could be this after couple paragraphs ima do like starting my counterargument it will be counterargument consesion some like that then main pount my counterargument could probably the university worry of money spending of hiring more teachers and all thatlastly Imlooking to 1600 to 1700 words no less no more. I need 5sources with it as well.

Write about 1 beach you have visited and include what the directions say. Write about the beach Anna Maria Island.

After having learned about logical fallacies, how to integrate research in arguments and identify the trustfulness of the source, it is now time for you to apply the knowledge. In this assignment, you will write a five-paragraphargumentative essay based on one of the three topics provided below.

Please pay close attention when developing your counterarguments. When presenting the counterarguments, you must provide examples of logical fallacies commonly used, explain the type of logical fallacy, and refute it in the rebuttal. Use only the fallacies studied in this course.

Pay attention when developing your arguments and counterarguments; each body paragraph must be well-developed and be 12-16 lines long. Click to read a sample argumentative essay that applies the logical fallacies.

Please note that each topic comes with an article that you need to read beforehand. Somewhere in your essay, you need to cite the accompanying article at least once; if you wish, you can cite also other articles, but this one is a must. The article assigned to the topic should not be analyzed as a primary source but should only serve as supporting evidence either for one of your arguments or counterarguments. The accompanying articles are attached to this assignment, and they also provide a direct link for the article itself. Please do not quote; instead, you should paraphrase.

Please note that you must submit this essay as a Word document, and it has to follow proper APA format and structure. Click to see a sample.

In addition, before writing your essay, please go over the argumentative essay template attached .

Note: Plagiarism is not tolerated; TurnItIn will be activated to avoid plagiarism.

Essay Topics:

Topic 1.

The 2020 presidential election created a flurry of disagreements and accusations around the possibility of probable fraud. During this time, a large Facebook group called Stop the Steal was eventually deleted for misinformation and violent rhetoric. As a result, many Trump voters, angered at this censorship on Facebook or Twitter, migrated to Parler, a social media app that functions similar to Twitter, Wimkin, or MeWe apps that function more like Facebook. What do you think is the ultimate result of this migration? Has this group of voters achieved the free speech they sought? What might be the long-term results of this partisan divide in communication? Write an essay exploring the ultimate effects of this free speech migration on social media. Apply a logical fallacy when presenting the counterargument.

Link for the article:

Topic 2.

Tannens (2004) article references key events of that time (the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Iraq War, President George W. Bushs address to the United Nations, and so on). However, much of what Tannen has to say about agonism and opposition could also be applied to todays current political discussions and reporting of current events. Select a specific current political event and do research to see how it is reported in a few different sources (such as newspapers published in the United States or overseas). Take a position about the selected event(s) and explain your claims. Apply a logical fallacy when presenting the counterargument.

Link for the article:

Topic 3.

Find an example, in your own life or in the current political news, of one of the biases described in Kolberts (2019) article. Describe the selected example, including the people involved, the events surrounding it, and if possible, the language being used. Explain what kind of bias you perceive (for example, confirmation bias, myside bias, the illusion of explanatory depth, or false scientific belief) and why it applies to the example, event, or story that youve selected. Take a position about the selected matter and explain your claims. Apply a logical fallacy when presenting the counterargument.

History Response Paper 2

Response Papers
You will write a response paper of 2-3 pages in length. The topics can be any topic you found
and read in the primary course text, powerpoints, videos or class discussion and lecture up to this point. You will write a 2-3 page response that is double spaced,
Times New Roman with 12 Font, and have a proper introduction and conclusion. The response
must explain the topic, why it is important to History (the significance), why you are interested
in the topic, and your thoughts on the topic. The response papers will each count for 15% of the
grade for a total of 30%.
The headings should follow the example below regarding Name, Course Number and Title etc.
Depending on the trajectory of the course and work presented by the students, I may elect to
select future topics at the instructors discretion.

Header example:
Name
Course Number, Title, and Section Number
Professors Name
Date
Title Centered

Reading

11.6 Primary Documents – Slave Letters (Read)

Humanity and Slave Letters

Here is a link to several short narratives, primary sources of Slaves in their own words. When you open the web page you will see on the bottom right a list of Narratives and Memoirs. In this list of documents on the website you are encouraged to read all. As you read these, keep in mind the framework to analyze primary sources provided in 11.5. You are required to read the following:

• All 4 letters under correspondence.
• All 4 excerpts under narratives and memoirs.

Link to HTML website:

Here is the link also just in case:

History Response Paper 2

Response Papers
You will write a response paper of 2-3 pages in length. The topics can be any topic you found
and read in the primary course text, powerpoints, videos or class discussion and lecture up to this point. You will write a 2-3 page response that is double spaced,
Times New Roman with 12 Font, and have a proper introduction and conclusion. The response
must explain the topic, why it is important to History (the significance), why you are interested
in the topic, and your thoughts on the topic. The response papers will each count for 15% of the
grade for a total of 30%.
The headings should follow the example below regarding Name, Course Number and Title etc.
Depending on the trajectory of the course and work presented by the students, I may elect to
select future topics at the instructors discretion.

Header example:
Name
Course Number, Title, and Section Number
Professors Name
Date
Title Centered

Include Constraints: If there’s a word count, a specific format (like APA or MLA), or a deadline, make sure to list those clearly.

*** answer this discussion for two students.

13.7 Discussion Board Causes of Civil War

Cause of the Civil War

For this discussion board I want you to review the readings, powerpoints and lecture notes, videos and primary sources for Module 13 on the causes of the Civil War.

Remember your initial response is due by Thursday at 11:59 PM. You also need to respond to at least two other students. The two student responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 PM. Your initial response must be a minimum of 250 words. Responses to fellow students must be a minimum of 100 words.

For this discussion board you are to write a response on the causes of the Civil War. We all know the primary cause and all other causes go back directly to the institution of slavery. That said, there are many caveats to the issue of slavery, be it economic, political, social etc. For this discussion board you are to submit ONE (1) of the following questions with an answer:

1. Do you agree or disagree with any of the state declarations, ie, keep in mind our current issues with states rights and fundamental arguments on states rights and federalism. Do you think the arguments presented by the states in the 3 readings presented make any sense or do you find yourself agreeing with any? (Again, I know this is controversial because of the issue of slavery but rather look at the base argument the declarations are presenting.
2. After reading the primary sources, Harriet Beecher Stowe; Charlotte Forten; and Margaret Mason and Lydia Maria Child; how do you feel tensions were building in the United States, not only from the large political issues but from the average person. What sense do you feel the various people have in their perspectives? Does it sound like the current political environment in the US and the political divisions?

Example 1

When reading the declarations given by the states I have to say that they do, in the end, make sense. The states are mainly succeeding on the basis that its their right to as well as their own power. The pro slave states wanted to leave for various reasons on top of their constitutional right. One of those reason was obviously to keep slavery legal, but the point that surprised me is that they believe it would only be in favor of following the founding fathers and their ideology. Following the founding fathers to them meant leaving or succeeding from the countries they disagree with, and even that their original succession from the British crown initially gave each state their own control and power and that having to follow the federal government regardless is unconstitutional. Georgia was the only anti slavery state that declared succession in our readings and their declaration was more that they wanted to be able to dictate their new beginning themselves and to fully govern themselves. After looking at these readings I sadly have to say I agree with their notions somewhat. The main thing I agree with is that they did in fact have the legal right to succeed and shouldve. All three states were purely looking out for their own interests. They all had their own interest from the beginning, such as : Georgia worried over how it was going to continue in defiance of pro slave states, Mississippi was worried about how the emancipation would crush the agricultural economy leaving them economically vulnerable, and finally South Carolina wanted to leave because they also sided that agriculture would tank due to anti slavery and that it didnt make the situation any better. Therefore, in my opinion they shouldve been able to succeed regardless of the backwards ideas that they are faulted with.

Example 2

After reading the primary sources I realized that media played an active role in taking issue of slavery from politicians to average people. Various authors and activists mentioned here used their work to take issue of slavery and expansion to common people and ignited a debate among common people related to slavery. One consequence of generalization of slavery issues is that politicians felt pressure to act, and they could no longer afford to ignore the issue. These authors ensured that issue of slavery became a topic of political debate at large platforms. This way all these authors contributed to bringing political issues to public. The same thing can be evident at present when media is bringing current issues to public. Many current issues like immigration, discrimination, and Affirmative actions are no longer a matter limited to politicians only, and general public is also very much aware about them and participate in debates related to that issues. In creating this awareness among people, media played a vital role by focusing on these issues. But one negative impact of this is now public is deeply divided over certain sensitive issues like immigration. Different opinions are welcomes in democracy, but sometimes deep division among public may lead to adverse consequences like violence towards minorities and uncontrolled protests. So, media has responsibility to create awareness about these issues, but in a sensitive and responsible way by ensuring that there is no false narrative which may mislead public and encourage them to do something wrong.

Example 3

2. After reading the primary sources, Harriet Beecher Stowe; Charlotte Forten; and Margaret Mason and Lydia Maria Child; how do you feel tensions were building in the United States, not only from the large political issues but from the average person. What sense do you feel the various people have in their perspectives? Does it sound like the current political environment in the US and the political divisions?

During the civil war tensions in the United States were obviously building. They were building not only through politics, but also within the people through their thoughts and emotions. The primary sources show how divided country had become within its very own people. Harriet Beecher Stowes writing highlights the cruelty of slavery and appeals to the readers sense of morality. This source shows how many people in the North began to see slavery as a serious injustice rather than just a political issue. This emotional appeal helped strengthen abolitionist beliefs and increased the tension between regions. But on the other hand, Margaret Masons letter shows how many people in the South defended slavery. She argues that enslaved people were better off than some workers in the North. This reveals how deeply rooted and normalized slavery had become in Southern society. This perspective shows that many Southerners did not view slavery as wrong, but instead as necessary to their way of life and economy. Lydia Maria Childs response pushes back strongly against this idea, showing how moral arguments were directly clashing between individuals, not just governments. Charlotte Fortens writing adds more to this argument by focusing on the experiences of formerly enslaved people and the ongoing struggles they faced. These sources show that the country was divided in beliefs, values, and emotions, not just laws. They dive deeper into how many people’s beliefs were deeper rooted than we could ever have imagined. What was right and wrong was not simply determined by laws, but by what the people believed to be true.