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Tompkins's conclusion
From:
Eric Falk thompsone@lanecc.edu
Date:
Monday, May 06, 2002 11:52 AM





Exercise 2.1: Finding the Questions


1. The War on Drugs


In the space below, write the title of your tentative topic (e.g.
Internet addiction)



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.


Briefly state why you chose this topic.



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.


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.?



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?


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.



5.


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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