Final Paper

You can find the full text of Iraqi Constitution at the Washington Post.

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101201450_pf.html

Final Paper

I haven’t had a history or political class in a very long time, very long time, so before I begin to look at another countries constitution maybe I should look at ours first. I need a quick 101 class on the Constitution and Bill of Rights and I found a website where you can even teach elementary and high school students on the subject.

The following is the website: http://uscontitution.net/constteach.html

Fahrenheit 9/11

When I was finished watching the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, I couldn’t understand some of the controversy or statements made in class regarding the movie. While I agree that the movie did contain some fallacies, the parts that evoked the most opinion for me came right out of Bush, US troops and other participants, not the narration of Michael Moore. While I am aware that editing can take out of context what someone says, some comments made were simply black or white. The movie did have a lot of emotional appeal especially when they showed the troops and mother. When I watched the movie I had a more critical ear because I had heard the discussion in class before watching it, but before I watched it I believed we shouldn’t be in war and by time the movie ended I still thought the same. My perspectives on Bush, our government and Michael Moore did not change with an hour and a half of television. I simply did what I do with everyone else trying to get their point of view across: listen, try to understand their perspective, and accept or not what they said.

Gun Control

I am for gun control, however, in evaluating the arguments in the articles of “Next, Comprehensive Reform Of Gun Control” and “Gun Laws Are No Answer”, I feel the argument against gun control was stronger. The first article, “Next Comprehensive Reform of Gun Control”, uses some fallacies and gives nothing concrete until the 4th paragraph but then in the last three paragraphs it seems its only the writer’s ideas. I think the article “Gun Laws Are No Answer” is stronger than the first one because it uses more statistics and gives the example of Bonnie Elmasri. There were a few sentences in this article such as, “And that a 1989 ban on “assault weapons” in that state has also resulted in increased violent crime” that left me with the question “how can you directly link the ban to increase in crime?” Every time it mentioned crime going up due to laws, bans or waiting time, I wondered how they were able to link the increase solely on the bases of laws, bans or waiting time.