of the Negative Side Rebuttal of the Team Captain of the Affirmative Side Duration Constructive Speech: Minimum of five (5) and maximum of seven (7) minutes Interpellation: Five (5) minutes Rebuttal Speech: Three (3) minutes Issues for Debate A. Whether or not it is Necessary? (Necessity) B. Whether or not it is Beneficial? (Beneficiality) C. Whether or not it is practical? (Practicability) Criteria for Judging A. Evidence - 25% B. Delivery - 30% C. Interpellation - 30% D
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may also improve your English level. Second‚ we will join City Forum for a few times . You may not only feel the mood of fience debate directly but also increase your general knowledge about recent news. It may also useful in Chinese and Liberal studies. Last but certainly not the least‚ we will join a large- scale debate competition held by Hong Kong Joint School Debate Association. There will be more than forty schools take part. It is valuable for you to train your courage and show your talent
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a spiritual euphoria. However‚ in most western countries this drug has been criminalized and made illegal by the Geneva Convention Dangerous Drugs Act (1925). Australia has decriminalized cannabis in all states since 1987. There has been a heated debate surrounding the legalization of cannabis. In order to further understand the reasoning between both sides I will be looking into the advantages and disadvantages of both the legalization and criminalization of cannabis. There are numerous advantages
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Often held as a rite of passage and entrance into the Christian church‚ baptism is much more than just symbolic ritual. Baptism was commanded by Jesus Christ in the Great Commission recounted in the book of Matthew. Even though we are simplistically called to be obedient by being baptized the Christian church has long debated the aspects of this ordinance. Denominations are divided on the basic meaning‚ types and modes of baptism even two thousand years after the founding of the Christian church
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The nature/nurture debate is a debate that I did not learn much about until I was in college. Before college‚ I was mostly taught that it is either nature or nurture. The main points of the nature/nurture debate was discussed in class. There are people that think the nature/nurture debate as one or the other. Nativists are people who believe in nature. They believe everything that a human is made up of is determined by genes only; genetic determinism. There are people who believe that everything
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Debate Opening Statement Can we change our impact on the rate of global warming? There are all these campaigns for us to combat global warming and reduce our emissions‚ we have all the science to maybe not stop it but effectively reduce it to stable conditions. It is evident that the temperatures and sea levels are rising and this proves global warming is out there; but it still doesn’t make a difference we still do nothing because Global warming is irreversible; we are so deep
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Death Penalty Debate Paper BCOM/275 The death penalty is an issue that has continually created conflict in today’s society. Many people arguing whether or not the death penalty should exist. Who’s to say whether the death penalty is a form of justice and therefore a valid and appropriate punishment or whether it is a “cruel and unusual” form of punishment. “The Arizona Supreme Court threw out the death sentences for a Tucson man who bludgeoned his girlfriend and her two children
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Debate Paper For decades gay rights has been at the forefront of national debates‚ especially the debate on gay marriage. In today’s society gay marriage is being pushed to be legal in all 50 states‚ currently it is only legal in Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ Maryland‚ Maine‚ New York‚ Vermont‚ Iowa‚ Washington and most recently Rhode Island. The debate over whether gay marriage is moral is really up to which side of the debate one stands on. Currently in the United States same
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Nature versus nurture is a debate that is unsolved. It has been around for centuries and covers a broad range of topics from intelligence to homosexuality. Looking deeper into homosexuality‚ there are two main arguments. The first is called the nature debate. It states that homosexuality stems through genetics and heredity. The twin study is one widely used in psychology‚ mainly because identical twins carry the same DNA. The argument with this is if you have a set of identical twins and one is
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The nature versus nurture debate has been around for centuries. It is the argument over whether heredity or the environment has the most impact on human psychological development. In the debate nature refers to human’s genotypes‚ the set of genes inherited from parents. Nurture refers to environment factors an individual is exposed to over time. A phenotype refers to the characteristics resulting from interaction of a genotype with the environment (Carter 192). Generally‚ psychologists argue that
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