On 5/6/02 11:52:00 AM, Eric Falk wrote:
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>Exercise 2.1: Finding the
>Questions
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> 1. The War on Drugs
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>In the space below, write the
>title of your tentative topic
>(e.g. Internet addiction)
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>2. I chose this topic
>because it interests me and i
>don't like the governments
>attempt to sway people from
>using them. The government is
>unethical and greedy and
>really don't have a clue of
>what to do. There manners
>need to be changed because
>they are making life harder on
>all Americans not just the
>people who Choose to use
>drugs. I also would like the
>opertunity to defend a couple
>classified drugs because i
>feel that they have been
>misrepresented by our
>government.
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>Briefly state why you chose
>this topic.
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>3. The war on drugs is not
>working. People are not using
>less drugs, they are using
>more. Finally the federal
>government allows from medical
>research for marijuana.
>Medical marijuana is passed in
>8 states in the U.S..
>President threatens doctors
>with there licences if they
>issue prescriptions of
>marijuana to people like
>cancer, aids, glocoma, back
>surgeries, and others types of
>patients they get helped by
>the herb. Estacy use is at an
>all time high.
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>Spend about five minutes
>listing what you already know
>(if anything) about your
>topic. For example, are you
>aware of any
>interesting facts, common
>misconceptions, your own
>assumptions, important people
>or institutions involved, key
>schools of
>thought, the extent of the
>problem, current trends, etc.?
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>4. How many drug related
>arrests are there every year?
>What drugs are used the most?
>What percentage of high school
>students have tried any drugs?
>What is the percentage of drug
>abusers in the prison system?
>How many people would be in
>jail is drugs were legal?
>What types of drug preventions
>are the government trying to
>use, instead of jail time?
>How much research has really
>been done on all the so called
>"drugs" ? Are people doing
>drugs for a reason? why does
>the government feel the need
>to throw you in jail if you
>have drugs? Does jail time
>prevent drug use? If the
>government taxed drugs would
>they make them legal like
>caffeine, alcohol, and
>cigarettes? If drugs were
>legal would as many people use
>them? And if Drug use were
>treated like a desise instead
>of a crime would that help
>society? Would proper
>education of all drugs help
>society and help curb usage?
>Hoe much taxpayer money is
>used towards curbing drug use
>and stopping drug trafficking?
>how much money is spent
>trafficking drugs into and
>around the united states? Are
>all drugs bad for you? how do
>drug users affect their
>family? is Timothy leary god?
>Did people in the seventies
>have the right idea?
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>Now spend at least fifteen
>minutes brainstorming a list
>of questions about your topic
>you’d love to learn the
>answers to.
>Make this list as long as you
>can, and don’t worry whether
>every question is a good one.
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> 5.
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>If you’re working in a
>computer lab (or generating
>hard copies of the exercise),
>your instructor may ask you to
>comment on
>other students’ responses to
>Steps 1-4. Focus particularly
>on what your classmates did in
>the fourth step. For each you
>view, do two things: add a
>question you would like
>answered about the student’s
>topic, and mark the question
>you find most
> intriguing.
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>A Pearson Company
>Legal Statement
This topic will certainly lead you to lots of
information, I am sure that you won't have
a problem finding sources. I like all of the
statistical questions that you have. I also
like the question how drug users affect
their families. You could also look into
how certain drugs affect people, how bad
are they?