TITLE: In Class Debate

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So today was pretty okay besides for the fact that my wrists had been pretty f--ked up for over a week now. Hrmmm, I've been pretty busy too these days and not getting my necessary amount of sleep! Butt, it's all good tomorrow's a friday and that means the weekend is seconds away<3 Ugh,, so like everytime i save this thing it keeps on deleting parts of my blog which is starting to annoy me like crazy. but whatever, let's go on with what i've got to say. So in class we argued, debate actually on two topics as seen below.

Topic One: Was George W. Bush the Worst President of All Time?
[Sara: Affirmative vs. Tamara: Negative]
Pretty much Sara was saying that George W. Bush was the worst president of all time. Some things she pointed out were how the economy is in a horrible state as we are in debt of about 3 billion dollars, still in war, the education is dying and also that he was simply an inefficient president. For instance, as we lose money, school budgets are getting cut off and so the education is falling, meaning that the future is dying out slowly. Also for Hurricane Katrina, he did not help until 2 weeks later when people were nearly dead and helpless as the hurricane had gotten the best out of them. On the opposing side we had Tamara trying to get to the point that George W. Bush was not the worst president of all time. To get her point made she was mentioning numerous, previous presidents that had done far worse than him. Some presidents she had talked about were Kennedy, Clinton, Nixon, and even Harrison. Tamara talked about how bad of an example they all were and the flaws to each one of them as a president. Then, after the two spoke, each a minute each, the audience began to ask questions. One statement from the audience being: "Why blame it on Bush? Economy started going down with Clinton and the banks." There were other various questions made by the audience that really made both the affirmative and the negative think very hard. Then, during the rebuttal, both opponents summarized their argument and explained why they won. To me, I think they both did a good job on debating at such short notice of preparing.

Topic Two: Legalization of Marijuana and Tax it to Get Money for the Recession?
[Kelechi: Affirmative vs. Jennifer: Negative]
I have to say that this particular debate was interesting, but only the affirmative was fierce, to the point and was the better debater and thus it was not that great as a whole. Anyways, Kelechi was basically saying that we're in a lot of shit already and a lot of people are doing pot and stuff anyways, so just tax it. Honestly, I myself somewhat agree with her. There are tonsss of people who does marijuana and we might as well legalize for a bit and tax it to get some money, i mean come on, our economy right now is in a terrible state. Yet, I do not particalarly full on support this idea because i know that there are better ways to get money for the recession, but on the whole, its not too shabby of an idea. So, pretty much that was Kelechi's argument. Jennifer on the other hand did not have much to say for i feel as she too was convinced with what Kelechi had said and she was just not well prepared enough to have led on a full on debate to go against Kelechi's views. Thus, Jennifer was talking about all the shit people will cause when they are high and how it will screw up one's education. She also says that businesses should make thigns cheapter so that people will start buying into the economy. Honestly, I have to say that she had really weak arguments and did not follow with her that easily. A question that arised from the audeice was "Marijuana is more healthier, natureal and does not distort your mind as much as alcohol and cigarettes and such, but how come those are legal and marijuana is not?" I totally have the same question and it's true.

There you have it, two in class debates we had in class today,
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