SWA #21 3/26/11

Student paper 2

1. The issue is information technology and if it's use is beneficial or not. The importance is explained during the introduction paragraph through the student talking about how information technology has become so prevelant in today's sociey.

2. Four perspectives are clear. The viewpoints are defined by the student as: "university
professors and school officials, parents of students and young adults using
these technologies, the students and young people themselves, and the makers,
marketers, and producers of such gadgets." The thesis information is informative and concise.

3. The intro does have a good lead into the essay. It captures the reader's attention and prepares them for the information that is in the paper. The conclusion is an effective lead out of the essay because points are wrapped up, the student shares their opinion on the subject, and it is ended with a quote that leaves the audience thinking.

4. Altogether, this essay is an effective essay. It is imformative while keeping my focus and it discusses in detail four different views on the subject. Advice I would give to the reader is to cut out some of the unneeded info that makes some paragraphs a little wordy.

Formal Outline Paper 3 March 21, 2012

Title: The Mandate Debate
Thesis: The birth control mandate in Obamacare has created
much controversy due to the fact it wants to require all employers to supply
their female employees with free access to contraceptives, including some Roman
Catholic hospitals, universities, and other organizations who do not believe in
the use of contraceptives. The public and political opinion on the matter has
been split and views on the issue have been expressed by Catholics, democrats,
republicans, and the White House lawmakers who contributed to the healthcare
bill.
A. Catholic
religious organizations: Against the mandate because it takes away their
religious freedom.
B. Republicans:
Against the mandate because they want to protect their freedom of religion
right. They want to keep their constitutional rights. Many are also against the
mandate because prominent political figures that are republican are also
against it.
C. Democrats:
For the mandate because many democrats see the mandate as an issue of basic
health care. Their views are not so revolved around protecting freedoms.
D. The
White House: For the mandate because as the creators, they say the mandate is
the best possible way to provide women access to contraceptives and respect the
religious freedoms of employers. They believe leaving out churches from the
mandate did away with religious controversies surrounding it.
Conclusion: The controversy surrounding the birth control
mandate can be seen by studying the views of its supporters, the Democrats and
the White House, and by studying the views of its opponents, the Catholics and
the Republicans.

SWA #19 Section III of ICW

Terms I searched:

• METCO-serviced: The Metco Program is a grant program funded by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is a voluntary program intended to expand educational opportunities, increase diversity, and reduce racial isolation, by permitting students in certain cities to attend public schools in other communities that have agreed to participate.

When first reading this, if I would have known what METCO was, I could have understood more about the author's background.

• Bodhisattva: an enlightened existence

Words that Kang uses such as Bodhisattva are not commonly heard, and knowing what they mean helps to understand his main idea.

• James Baldwin: wrote essays that explored unspoken intricacies of distinctions made by race, class, and sex.

Kang said he could mirror Baldwin's rejection of acculturation. And that he couldn't use him to describe his relationship to baseball. Knowing who James Baldwin is makes the point he was trying to make clearer

SWA #20 More Annotations 3/14/12

Bradley, Gerard V. "The HHS Mandate And The First
Amendment." National Review 64.4 (2012): 31-35. Academic Search Premier.
Web. 13 Mar. 2012.

The information in this article is mainly about how the birth control mandate restricts religious freedoms and explains why members of the Catholic church are so upset. The article has much more of an argumentative tone than the others I have read. The author basically is blatantly saying he is against the mandate. He says strong statement about it, saying it "was meant to
to cauterize a political bleed" and "the Obama administration has aimed to handicap the Catholic Church." The author's strong opinion makes him biased. The aritcle, however, is very informative as Bradley adds many facts about the mandate. It will very beneficial to my paper because it actually shows one of the arguments I will be writing about.


"Birth-control mandate combines bad policy with
bad politics." USA Today n.d.: Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Mar. 2012.

This article also attacks the health care bill's choice to force all employers to make birth control available to their employees. It is about how churches were exempt from the bill but Catholic organizations were not, leaving many people without their religious freedoms. The author is obviously against the bill and states their opinions openly. The article is biased because of this but it still provides more information for an argument I can write about in the paper.

ICW 3/12/12

1. Kang is bringing out the idea that people support the people that are from the same country or race as themselves. Kang states that himself and Ichiro are both Asian. Sports, like baseball, have a way of bringing races together.

2. Evaluation: The essay effectively argues that the integration of other cultures into American sports creates both a segregation of races and a union of different races. At times Kang seems to contradict himself in the essay because he points out a lot of different effects race has on American sports. But overall, all of his points are clearly illustrated in the text.

3. If I were to write a paper on the topic of the view on baseball as an American sport, this article would help me to point out how baseball over the years and by gaining immigrant players has remained a very "American" tradition, but it has also changed to be more accepting of a more diverse mixture of players.

Annotations 3/12/12

Clemmit, Marcia. "Health Care Reform." CQ Reseacher. CQ Press, 11 June 2010. Web. 29 Feb. 2012. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2010061100&type=hitlist&num=0.
This artice summarizes what the health-care reform legislation consists of. It also debates whether it is a good idea for the United States. Positives of the reform are listed along with negatives. The article is not biased because the ideas from both sides are discussed without favoritism to one side. The article is basically an informative article for people curious about the health care bill. This will help me in my research paper because it will provide me with more background information about the bill that includes the birth control mandate that is so controversial.

Clemmit, Marcia. "Birth-Control Debate." CQ Researcher. CQ Press, 24 June 2005. Web. 29 Feb. 2012. http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2005062400&type=hitlist&action=addfav&time=1330552367828&.
The source is a text that explores the debate over the use of birth control from 2005. Most of what the article dicusses is ethical and religious reasons for opposing birth control. The article is informative and will be benificial to my paper. Even though it does not directly address the birth control mandate, it does address the issues that have made the mandate so controversial.