The Great Debaters Analysis

In the debate between sitting president Jimmy Carter and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, Reagan's arguments and explanations best match the available evidence. Carter claims his policies had reduced the inflation rate by 10 percent in less than a year, and points to the 9 million jobs he had provided to reduce unemployment rates. Reagan refutes this by mentioning that while Carter may have decreased the inflation rate from the beginning of the year, the inflation rate increased from 4.4 percent at the start of his presidency to almost 12 percent now. A graph provided by Edgenuity proves this to be true, therefore current evidence supports Reagan's claim. Reagan also mentions the 8 million people unemployed at the time of the debate, and

This is a piece of history with the Harvard and Wiley college debate from the movie “The Great Debaters” with James Farmer Jr and Samantha Booke. This document takes place during the time period where discrimination had a huge effect on the lives of blacks. The purpose of this debate is to convince the audience whether or not civil disobedience is a moral weapon. Ms. Booke and Mr. Farmer believe that justice isn’t divided equally, and that civil disobedience is a moral weapon in the fight of justice. The three modes of persuasion used are ethos, pathos and logos.

James grew up in a racist and segregated part of history. Often times racial slurs were used to describe people of African descent during the time James was growing up. Even during school James would be called these horrendous names: “...someone in the back of the class whispered, “James is ni**er!” followed by a ripple of tittering and giggling across the room” (McBride 89). The fact that small school children call blacks these names shows how racist the many people are and the hatred and discrimination that blacks face. These experience taught James how people treat those that appear to be different. Another experience that taught James this was when he and his family went to the Jewish store and were discriminated against. McBride had many experiences in which he and his family were discriminated against whether it was by the police or store owners: “Some of these Jews can’t stand you” (86). All in all, incidents with people who have a particular dislike for blacks shaped James into the way

The rhetorical situation refers to “a situation in which people’s understanding can be changed through messages.” (Zarefsky, 12). The rhetorical situation analysis consists of four elements: audience, occasion, speaker and speech, each assessing the quality of speech. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical situation of the historical speech “The Challenger Address” delivered by the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

The Great Debaters is a fantastic true story with insight into the world of segregation during 1935. The movie takes place in Marshall, Texas during 1935. We can see during the beginning of the movie that there are obvious racial issues in the city because one of the main characters, James Farmer Jr., states that Marshall, Texas was “the last city to surrender after the Civil War," The movie is about a poet and professor, Melvin B. Tolson, who teaches at the all black school called Wiley College. He was inspired by the Harlem Renaissance decides to start a debate team, which was very taboo for a black college to have back then. At first he butts heads with the influential father of one of his best debaters, James Farmer Jr., but, eventually he succeeds in the formation of a great debate team.

Judy Gross went to, and graduated from Teacher’s College Columbia University. She is certified as a reading specialist, and found joy in helping kids becoming better readers. She helps kids in the second grade, for the most part.

Whether or not if income inequality assists in the determination of being more successful in the world, has been an issue that’s been up for debate for quite some time? If there is a sort of economic ladder that challenges us differently, and why do we all have to climb it differently? In the Intelligence Squared debate between Elise Gould and Ed Conard, assisted by their partners Nick Hanauer and Scott Winship, a lot of data was thrown around and opinions were stated, but let’s look into one thing they both agreed on, there is income inequality in the United States.

There are more Americans who consider abortion morally wrong than those who say it is morally acceptable, according to a new Gallup poll.

As a liberal who is magnificently passionate about socio-political issues, and also as a refugee and a person of color who could easily be targeted by the bigotry of controversial speakers, I certainly appreciate the liberal bubble that I am in. However, I cannot help but wonder if hiding in this comfortable bubble is a productive measure to take if my end goal is to help improve these controversies and serve disadvantaged communities. The truth of the matter is that outside of our small, liberal community, there are people who do not share the same viewpoints as us. Sooner or later, we will all have to confront people with such viewpoints. Therefore, what matters the most is for us to learn about them, understand them, and learn how to respond to them in a constructive and productive manner. It is only through doing so that we

My grandfather has always said if the people do not vote than it is unacceptable for them to complain about our government. Growing up with the belief of voting makes me willingly involved in politics and eager to fulfill my responsibility as an American citizen. However, my grandfather did not pass on any type of advice when coming to an election with two repulsive candidates. Our country is stuck between two unpleasant options and the only thing we can do is pick the less of the two evils.

Considering the notmal amount of grammatical and spelling errors in Robert's forum comments, I have to wonder who wrote this for him. But I digress, Robert's point seems to be that Democrat's only methids of debate is to belittle the other side. Robert obviously considers himself to be above such behavior and to be the better person, We can tell, because he delivers touching lines such as "Leftism/liberalism/socialism is evil, it always has been, it always will be, as it germinates and incubates in the hatred of others."

After an exhausting forty-five minutes of debating I knew my goal was complete, regardless of the decision of the judge. I have always perceived debate as a competitive affair and many still do. I use to try everything in my power to win: debating slyly, confusing my opponent with big words, and forming false claims in the debate, most of the time to a fault, not understanding the bitter debate environment I was creating. Then one day while preparing in the summer for my upcoming debate year, I watched a CEDA College Debate Round online and the arguments being made inspired me. They began debating not about policies that could be implemented, but the impact the words and discourse of their performance had on the people watching the debate round, it changed the entire game. Volunteering and helping those in need had always been part of my life from assisting Kindergartens gain a strong foundation by learning about key principles in religious education classes to trying to alleviate poverty in the local community by using grassroots movements with the Aga Khan Foundation, so when I realized I had an opportunity to inspire and help others realize that the words they say have a real impact on individuals around them. However, it wasn’t until my senior year of high school

Ideological state apparatus (IAS) in the movie “Street Fight” Political Science Junior Jean Simon Ideological state apparatus are items that are not controlled by the state formally but transmit values to society members with an aim of maintaining law and order. Some of state ideological apparatus include law, education, church, and media. In the movie ‘Street Fight’, various ideological state apparatus are portrayed.

Learning how to avoid probate can save heirs' time and money, prevent family disputes, and allow easy transfer of inheritance property upon death. Many people are not even familiar with probate let alone how to prevent it from occurring. Probate is required within all states of the U.S. to ensure decedent estates are settled according to inheritance laws. It is a time-consuming process that can take several months to complete.

Denzel Washington played the role of Professor Melvin Tolson who coaches the debate team at Wiley and almost goes undefeated the whole season. The debate team consisted of four African-American students, there was a female student and three male students. The team has so much success that they are invited to debate versus Harvard University and end up defeating them. During the season and versus Harvard the subjects that they debated about deal with racial discrimination, inequality, and human civil rights mistreatments. Throughout the movie there is racist acts happening around and against not only the students and Mr. Tolson but the whole African-American community. Although this movie is based on a true story it happened a little different in history, instead of Wiley College going head to head with Harvard University they actually debated against University of Southern California who at that time was defending champions. They ended up defeating the defending champions and it was a big deal because in this time it was a lot of discrimination between the whites and the blacks. This movie relates to the real world as far as it mimicking true events that happened in history and having it deal with the debating makes it be a very political point in