The Debatabase Book: A Must-have Guide for Successful DebateInternational Debate Education Association IDEA, 2004 - 237 pages "An invaluable resource for debaters, The Debatabase Book provides background, arguments and resources on more than 125 debate topics in areas as diverse as business, science and technology, environment, politics, religion, culture, and education. All topics have been updated and 15 new topics added for the revised edition." "Each entry presents: an introduction placing the topic in context; arguments pro and con; sample motions; and Web links and print resources for further research. Organized in a handy A-Z format, the book also includes a topical index for easy searching."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... ment includes significant nonverbal elements , they are not covered by the model . Third , the model applies only to the simplest of arguments . If an argument is composed of a variety of warrants or a cluster of evi- dence related to ...
... ment includes significant nonverbal elements , they are not covered by the model . Third , the model applies only to the simplest of arguments . If an argument is composed of a variety of warrants or a cluster of evi- dence related to ...
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... ment claim that Harry is a British citizen because he was born in Bermuda . Here is how the structure of that argu- ment was diagramed by Toulmin : Simple Argument Warrant Persons born in Ber- muda generally are British citizens ...
... ment claim that Harry is a British citizen because he was born in Bermuda . Here is how the structure of that argu- ment was diagramed by Toulmin : Simple Argument Warrant Persons born in Ber- muda generally are British citizens ...
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... ment takes a human life . Evidence Capital punishment leaves no possibility for correction of an incorrect verdict . Warrant If a murder is wrong because it takes a life , capital punishment is wrong for the same reason . Warrant ...
... ment takes a human life . Evidence Capital punishment leaves no possibility for correction of an incorrect verdict . Warrant If a murder is wrong because it takes a life , capital punishment is wrong for the same reason . Warrant ...
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... ment ought to be abolished even if only one of the items of evidence is believed by the audience . The moral stric- ture against taking a life is , by itself , a sufficient reason to oppose capital punishment as is the danger of making ...
... ment ought to be abolished even if only one of the items of evidence is believed by the audience . The moral stric- ture against taking a life is , by itself , a sufficient reason to oppose capital punishment as is the danger of making ...
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... ment frequently revolves around the reasonableness of the scope and breadth of the definition . Is the definition so narrow that it excludes instances of the concept that ought to be included ? Is the definition so broad that it fails ...
... ment frequently revolves around the reasonableness of the scope and breadth of the definition . Is the definition so narrow that it excludes instances of the concept that ought to be included ? Is the definition so broad that it fails ...
Contents
II | 17 |
III | 19 |
IV | 22 |
V | 24 |
VI | 26 |
VII | 27 |
VIII | 29 |
IX | 31 |
LXIX | 124 |
LXX | 125 |
LXXI | 128 |
LXXII | 130 |
LXXIII | 131 |
LXXIV | 133 |
LXXV | 134 |
LXXVI | 136 |
X | 32 |
XI | 34 |
XII | 36 |
XIII | 38 |
XIV | 39 |
XV | 41 |
XVI | 43 |
XVII | 45 |
XVIII | 46 |
XIX | 48 |
XX | 49 |
XXI | 51 |
XXII | 53 |
XXIII | 54 |
XXIV | 55 |
XXV | 57 |
XXVI | 58 |
XXVII | 59 |
XXVIII | 60 |
XXIX | 61 |
XXX | 62 |
XXXI | 63 |
XXXII | 64 |
XXXIII | 66 |
XXXIV | 67 |
XXXV | 69 |
XXXVI | 71 |
XXXVII | 73 |
XXXVIII | 75 |
XXXIX | 77 |
XL | 78 |
XLI | 80 |
XLII | 83 |
XLIII | 84 |
XLIV | 86 |
XLV | 87 |
XLVI | 89 |
XLVII | 90 |
XLVIII | 91 |
XLIX | 93 |
L | 94 |
LI | 96 |
LII | 98 |
LIII | 99 |
LIV | 101 |
LV | 103 |
LVI | 104 |
LVII | 106 |
LVIII | 107 |
LIX | 108 |
LX | 110 |
LXI | 111 |
LXII | 112 |
LXIII | 114 |
LXIV | 116 |
LXV | 117 |
LXVI | 120 |
LXVII | 121 |
LXVIII | 123 |
LXXVII | 138 |
LXXVIII | 140 |
LXXIX | 142 |
LXXX | 143 |
LXXXI | 145 |
LXXXII | 146 |
LXXXIII | 148 |
LXXXIV | 149 |
LXXXV | 151 |
LXXXVI | 153 |
LXXXVII | 154 |
LXXXVIII | 156 |
LXXXIX | 157 |
XC | 158 |
XCI | 159 |
XCII | 161 |
XCIII | 163 |
XCIV | 165 |
XCV | 166 |
XCVI | 167 |
XCVII | 169 |
XCVIII | 171 |
XCIX | 173 |
C | 174 |
CI | 176 |
CII | 177 |
CIII | 178 |
CIV | 181 |
CV | 182 |
CVI | 183 |
CVII | 185 |
CVIII | 187 |
CIX | 188 |
CX | 190 |
CXI | 191 |
CXII | 193 |
CXIII | 194 |
CXIV | 195 |
CXV | 197 |
CXVI | 198 |
CXVII | 199 |
CXVIII | 201 |
CXIX | 203 |
CXX | 205 |
CXXI | 206 |
CXXII | 208 |
CXXIII | 210 |
CXXIV | 211 |
CXXV | 213 |
CXXVI | 215 |
CXXVII | 217 |
CXXVIII | 218 |
CXXIX | 220 |
CXXX | 221 |
CXXXI | 223 |
CXXXII | 225 |
CXXXIII | 227 |
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Page 7 - ... located. Studied as rhetoric, one focuses on how these hotels make claims to audiences — how, by structuring these invitations as themes, the hotels affect our understandings of sex and pleasure and experience in Japan. Themed environments certainly should be studied as visual rhetoric as "rhetoric is an action humans perform when they use symbols for the purpose of communicating with one another."29 Love hotels, like any themed space, are the products of conscious decisions to purposively...