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Non-Scientific and Technological Aspects
 
For your topic please consider the following questions regarding the non-scientific and non-technological aspects of your issue as you prepare your presentation.

Recognize that none of these aspects of the issue can be considered in isolation. It is your responsibility to prepare a presentation that shows the diversity of opinion surrounding the issues selected, and how it has developed.

Politics:

Webster's definition of politics is the art and science of the government of a state or the opinions principles or policies by which a person orders his participation in such affairs and finally scheming and maneuvering within a group.

For your topic consider the political ramifications of the issue.

What state, local, or federal laws deal with the issue selected?

Is there a clearly Democratic, Republican, or Independent view on the issue?

If so, what is it?

Economics:

the study of the way in which natural resources are used and how the wealth they produce is divided and of the application of the underlying principles to the needs and prosperity of society

What are the economics of your issue?

How much money has been invested in the development of the technology regarding the issue?

Who invested this money?

What Federal agencies?

What corporations?

What individuals?

What return is expected?

 

Here are some specific examples of the types of information that will help put your issue in context.
  • How many dollars have been spent on the issue in comparison to our annual national defense system?
  • How many dollars have been spent in comparison to monies invested for education this year at the state, federal and local level?
  • How much has been spent in comparison to the FGCU total annual annual budget?

Religious:

man's expression of his acknowledgment of the divine a system of the beliefs and practices relating to the sacred and uniting its appearance in the community.

Are there particular religious groups that are opposed to or in support of the issues in your group?

Which?

Why?

What grounds do these groups use for their claims?

What is the evidence in support of their position?

Cultural:

relating to culture the training and development of the mind, the refinement of taste in matters acquired by such training. The social and religious structures and intellectual and artistic manifestations that characterizes society.

What is our society's opinion of these issues?

Are there different cultures within our society that have a different opinions of the issue? Consider another society outside of the United States; do they have a different opinion about this issue?

What is it?

Why might their opinion be different?

 

What do YOU use to help you decide what to do, believe and support or oppose?

When you compose your presentation consider specifically how you might appeal to our emotional mind  to take the same stance as you do on the issue.

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