As discussed in Friday's practice, I'm going to make brief topic assignments based on suggestions submitted through the comments section below. Please record your brief topics here by Tuesday night; I'll make assignments by Friday.
1. We need to keep watching the Iran stuff unfold (duh) and write a few briefs on it. 2. New offensive in Afghanistan. 3. Military Tribunals in Terror Suspects / Criminal Justice policy towards suspected terrorists 4. military policy (dont ask dont tell, women in combat zones) 5. the EU and the greek financial crisis 6. revisit california prison reform (privitization vs alternatives to prison, i think this may be accomplished through one or more of the meta analysis brief ideas i threw out there)
Meta level type briefs 1. criminology theories. what causes crime? 2. historic approaches to crime: trend analysis 3. tough on crime failed: alternatives? 4. research ethics 5. effective parenting techniques 6. drug policy: past, present, future. 7. nature of entrepreneurs (it isn't about risk!) 8. how we write history: curriculum formation in the US
Meta level type briefs include: 1. Comparative ethical theories 2.Standards in for situational ethics debates. 3. Brief on nature of citizenship (basic obligations, rights, etc.) 4. Role of Non state Actors in society (NGO's, multinationals, etc.) 5. Thresholds for social policy enactments (when and where are general tipping points) also a kairos brief 6. Role of specialized segments of society and power (Fed for economics, APA for mental diseases, etc.)
General Topics: 1. Analysis of bloc countries (who is tied to whom in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia) and the importance of those trading relationships. 2. Mitigating or preventing sovereign wealth default. (not just Greece, there is Spain, Portugal and Italy) 3. Update on human trafficking, particularly in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe 4. Instability in Nigeria, power vacum in Lagos 5. Race relations in Zimbabwe and South Africa. 6. Update on Myanmar and the junta. 7. Do people who upload images and video deserve same shield as journalists? (Think Polk award for Iran incident) 8.Panama canal expansion: too far to bridge? 9. Policy on homosexuals in Africa, legislation banning homosexuality. 10.
1. Appreciation of China's currency. Is it time? 2. Valuation of human life. Ethical and pragmatic rationale for giving greater consideration to our countrymen than those in other nations. 3. The Pakistani ISI. The shadow government that placed the Taliban in power and continues to foster it. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to achieving our foreign policy goals in the region. 4. Google in China. How private industry is impacting public policy. 5. Covert military action and clandestine operations. When is it ok, if ever, to violate international law to capture or kill terrorists? 6. The tea-party movement. Wish as we may, it doesn't look like it's going away. 7. Entitlements. The scale of the problem, how to tackle it, or are we all just screwed. 8. Chuck Norris. How the ultimate bad ass would set the world right.
1. I think that I would need a lot of direction and discussion to make this brief, but I've been thinking about a brief about non-state actors and warfare, how do we deal with them, what rules of engagement should/do apply, possibly incorporating case studies and how we treat/prosecute terror suspects. This might have to be separated into a couple briefs. 2. Possibly an automaker brief, talking about the big three, how they've been affected by the bailouts, particularly GM and their dealings with the Obama administration. 3. In our large group discussion about brief we talked about doing a "best of" series on different disciplines like psychology or philosophy and though I'm sure I'm not nearly as qualified as other people on the team that have probably studied this area more, I'd be interested in doing a "best of sociology" brief, dealing particularly with personal and cultural development from a sociological standpoint.
Sorry this is a little late... I lost the log in for the blogg... Oh and this is Michaela Gay Marriage (the case being herd right now) Corporate Personhood Democratic Retirements Job Creation: A commission Iran- New Sanctions/ Update banning images that protray unhealthy body types- more of a history of efforts it would deal with more than media Native Americans/other native and Copenhagen
I think this is interesting: http://climateprogress.org/
Michaela, I'm not being snippy but are you advocating we update or discard the previous corporate personhood brief? i sort of second this because i think congress passed a bill to limit contribution and mandatory disclosures: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17wed1.html?ref=opinion
this article discusses tea party movement pretty well: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html?pagewanted=2&em
1. The Water Crisis; we need - and I really want to write - a brief about the Water Crisis as it stands today and the implications it will have in the future on global scale. This brief would be useful for a variety of motions.
2. China's human rights violations; specifically in regards to cases like the disappearance of Gao Zhisheng where the international community cries injustice, but nothing is done.
3. Sex trafficking and trade; because most stories don't end like "Taken". Juxtaposing the sex trade against an examination of modern legal prostitution; and the legitimacy of prostitution as an occupation in different societies.
5. Women in Africa; discussing the disconnect between the status of women in the West and those in developing and war-torn nations, and how best to combat the challenges they face, i.e. illiteracy, female circumcision, etc.
6. Iran
7. Haiti and everywhere else; offering some kind of rubric for determining the government's role in rebuilding the lives of people displaced by either natural disasters and climate change, in the near future, specifically non-nationals and Native peoples.
8. Mental illness; looking at how people with mental illness(es) are treated differently under the law, whether we should support a certain type of treatment over another (such as counseling and/or therapy as opposed to Prozac), and the effects of the new healthcare plan.
Current Events Briefs:
ReplyDelete1. We need to keep watching the Iran stuff unfold (duh) and write a few briefs on it.
2. New offensive in Afghanistan.
3. Military Tribunals in Terror Suspects / Criminal Justice policy towards suspected terrorists
4. military policy (dont ask dont tell, women in combat zones)
5. the EU and the greek financial crisis
6. revisit california prison reform (privitization vs alternatives to prison, i think this may be accomplished through one or more of the meta analysis brief ideas i threw out there)
Meta level type briefs
1. criminology theories. what causes crime?
2. historic approaches to crime: trend analysis
3. tough on crime failed: alternatives?
4. research ethics
5. effective parenting techniques
6. drug policy: past, present, future.
7. nature of entrepreneurs (it isn't about risk!)
8. how we write history: curriculum formation in the US
US gov't contracting out manned space flights/ pursuing or dropping a manned space flight program
ReplyDeleteWho is the 'Tea party', and what exactly the tea party movement is: Tea Party convention, candidates, rallies, supporters etc
Meta level type briefs include:
ReplyDelete1. Comparative ethical theories
2.Standards in for situational ethics debates.
3. Brief on nature of citizenship (basic obligations, rights, etc.)
4. Role of Non state Actors in society (NGO's, multinationals, etc.)
5. Thresholds for social policy enactments (when and where are general tipping points) also a kairos brief
6. Role of specialized segments of society and power (Fed for economics, APA for mental diseases, etc.)
General Topics:
1. Analysis of bloc countries (who is tied to whom in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia) and the importance of those trading relationships.
2. Mitigating or preventing sovereign wealth default. (not just Greece, there is Spain, Portugal and Italy)
3. Update on human trafficking, particularly in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe
4. Instability in Nigeria, power vacum in Lagos
5. Race relations in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
6. Update on Myanmar and the junta.
7. Do people who upload images and video deserve same shield as journalists? (Think Polk award for Iran incident)
8.Panama canal expansion: too far to bridge?
9. Policy on homosexuals in Africa, legislation banning homosexuality.
10.
1. Appreciation of China's currency. Is it time?
ReplyDelete2. Valuation of human life. Ethical and pragmatic rationale for giving greater consideration to our countrymen than those in other nations.
3. The Pakistani ISI. The shadow government that placed the Taliban in power and continues to foster it. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to achieving our foreign policy goals in the region.
4. Google in China. How private industry is impacting public policy.
5. Covert military action and clandestine operations. When is it ok, if ever, to violate international law to capture or kill terrorists?
6. The tea-party movement. Wish as we may, it doesn't look like it's going away.
7. Entitlements. The scale of the problem, how to tackle it, or are we all just screwed.
8. Chuck Norris. How the ultimate bad ass would set the world right.
1. I think that I would need a lot of direction and discussion to make this brief, but I've been thinking about a brief about non-state actors and warfare, how do we deal with them, what rules of engagement should/do apply, possibly incorporating case studies and how we treat/prosecute terror suspects. This might have to be separated into a couple briefs.
ReplyDelete2. Possibly an automaker brief, talking about the big three, how they've been affected by the bailouts, particularly GM and their dealings with the Obama administration.
3. In our large group discussion about brief we talked about doing a "best of" series on different disciplines like psychology or philosophy and though I'm sure I'm not nearly as qualified as other people on the team that have probably studied this area more, I'd be interested in doing a "best of sociology" brief, dealing particularly with personal and cultural development from a sociological standpoint.
Sorry this is a little late... I lost the log in for the blogg... Oh and this is Michaela
ReplyDeleteGay Marriage (the case being herd right now)
Corporate Personhood
Democratic Retirements
Job Creation: A commission
Iran- New Sanctions/ Update
banning images that protray unhealthy body types- more of a history of efforts it would deal with more than media
Native Americans/other native and Copenhagen
I think this is interesting: http://climateprogress.org/
ReplyDeleteMichaela, I'm not being snippy but are you advocating we update or discard the previous corporate personhood brief? i sort of second this because i think congress passed a bill to limit contribution and mandatory disclosures: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17wed1.html?ref=opinion
this article discusses tea party movement pretty well:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html?pagewanted=2&em
I'd really like to write a brief on climate change denail: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/a-historian-looks-back-at-the-climate-fight/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businesspundit.com/sex-trafficking/
ReplyDeleteBrief Topics:
ReplyDelete1. The Water Crisis;
we need - and I really want to write - a brief about the Water Crisis as it stands today and the implications it will have in the future on global scale. This brief would be useful for a variety of motions.
2. China's human rights violations; specifically in regards to cases like the disappearance of Gao Zhisheng where the international community cries injustice, but nothing is done.
3. Sex trafficking and trade;
because most stories don't end like "Taken".
Juxtaposing the sex trade against an examination of modern legal prostitution; and the legitimacy of prostitution as an occupation in different societies.
5. Women in Africa;
discussing the disconnect between the status of women in the West and those in developing and war-torn nations, and how best to combat the challenges they face, i.e. illiteracy, female circumcision, etc.
6. Iran
7. Haiti and everywhere else;
offering some kind of rubric for determining the government's role in rebuilding the lives of people displaced by either natural disasters and climate change, in the near future, specifically non-nationals and Native peoples.
8. Mental illness;
looking at how people with mental illness(es) are treated differently under the law, whether we should support a certain type of treatment over another (such as counseling and/or therapy as opposed to Prozac), and the effects of the new healthcare plan.
women integrated into combat roles: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/womens-work/?ref=opinion
ReplyDeletei think this would make a good cabin fever motion, too
what happened to the topics?
ReplyDelete