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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.
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?
What Federal agencies? What corporations? What individuals? What return is expected?
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.
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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