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1. It does , however , raise the question that if the intent of this song was to be blasphemous a necessary component of proving it to be so then why did they do such a bad job of it and spend so much their time going on about politics ; it would suggest somewhat incompetent activists .
2. The very fact that this has become a shows the extent to which those who able to step back from the situation recognise this for what it is ; a clear abuse of presidential power given the thinnest sheen of respectability by a compliant church .
3. Amnesty International and the overwhelming majority of the International media have reached that conclusion .
4. Its a fairly straightforward artistic device .
5. Such religious content as was contained in the protest fairly obviously relates to the setting and is not the main content of the song .
6. The name and chorus of the song performed was Virgin Mary , Chase Putin Out .
7. Pussy Riots protest was politically focussed , the response seems politically driven and now they are prisoners .
8. Where any punishment required for this act and Proposition contends that there was not then it was at most a mild public order offence .
9. It is very hard to see what would be a better definition of the phrase political prisoner .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

The focus of their song was one of political dissent rather than religion
Warrants are needed to prevent abuse
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. This system is the only thing left that prevents government agencies to violate our rights .
2. -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 2 -RRB- David Kravets Justice Departments Warrantless Spying Increased 600 Percent in Decade , 09.27.12 -LRB- 3 -RRB- Trevor Timm , Law Enforcement Agencies Demanded Cell Phone User Info Far More Than 1.3 Million Times Last Year , July 9 , 2012
3. No matter what , George Orwells books should not be perceived as a model for shaping our society .
4. At the end of the day , without any oversight , it would be extremely easy for the government to abuse this power given to it by electronic surveillance tools , without us ever knowing it .
5. In the light of the recent NSA events -LRB- 1 -RRB- , we must try and see past this curtain of fog the government has put in front of us , trying to make us believe that everything it does , it does for our own good and that in this process the law is being respected to the letter .
6. Unfortunately , if the necessary system of checks-and-balances between the government and the masses or judicial courts is lacking , it will always find ways to abuse its powers and violate our rights .
7. Even with the warrant currently being mandatory when trying to tap ones phone , we see that Justice Departments warrantless spying increased 600 percent in decade -LRB- 2 -RRB- .
8. If the government is currently invading our lives when we have specific laws banning it from doing so , why should we believe that this phenomenon wont escalate if we scrap those laws ?
9. The government 's biggest limitation when actively trying to spy or follow a large group of people was technological ; it was difficult - if not impossible - to follow a lot of people for days at a time .
10. But with surveillance tools its becoming cheaper and easier , as is proven by the astounding 1.3 million demands for user cell phone data in the last year seeking text messages , caller locations and other information -LRB- 3 . -RRB-
Recognition when credit is due
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. See further readings : Moyo , 2009 .
2. The prize is therefore for absolute gains in governance , not relative to other countries .
3. The prize is only awarded when credit is due - if leaders have made a significant positive impact this will be recognised and rewarded .
4. Mugabe , Kabila , and Kenyatta are but a few articulating the years of sustained bad governance .
5. The past few years have seen African governments , and heads of state , reluctant to leave office ; driving political coups ; and leading violent crimes against humanity .
6. The Mo Ibrahim prize therefore encourages the good institutions that are necessary for prosperity -LRB- Acemoglu and Robinson , 2013 -RRB- .
7. Instead it encourages improved control over aid and money transferred to African states , it shows that rewards are given based on merit .
8. The state would continue to function on undemocratic governance , and the reward would become a new example of dead money .
9. As the prize is not always awarded it avoids the pitfall that distributing a financial prize where no change has been made to political institutions would reinforce a system .
Sentences: 1. In the age of global terrorism it is a huge risk to allow undocumented individuals to enter and roam freely within any country .
2. So essentially the asylum system provides a loophole for unrestricted immigration , which is both expensive , and dangerous for states .
3. And worse still , even if countries decide that an applicant has no basis to their claim they are frequently unable to deport them because they often go missing , as 75,000 in Britain have , or because , perversely , they may be punished on return to their country for having sought refuge .
4. The majority of those who apply for asylum are working-age males , which implies that there is a strong economic angle .
5. It is not clear that the system works at all .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

The Whole System is broken
1. The democratic process is diminished when changing opinion polls interrupts substantive dialogue .
2. Voters become the consumers of political marketing .
3. Candidates become overly involved in defending and explaining poll data .
4. When opinion polls become the constant focus of the media , politicians are forced to pander to an ever-changing public marketplace instead of developing a consistent party or personal philosophy .
5. The advantage would be less political marketing and room for better democratic discussion .
6. Even though poll data would be available during the earlier election season , a plan to control opinion polls would begin to diminish such a focus .
7. Rather than the marketing of a person , important political ideas and public policy discussion occur .
8. Without the excessive use of poll data , a candidates message can be more than an advertisement .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Politicians will be less likely to engaged in political marketing and speak more directly to substantive issues.
1. This could not happen by people power alone ; Gaddafi was willing to crack down to prevent it like Assad in Syria did .
2. The uprising sparked off as a concern for freedom in the country , people were tired of the oppressive regime and wanted to be liberated .
3. After the civil war , people were able to participate in an election of the national assembly considered free and fair for the first time in Libya -LSB- 1 -RSB- .
4. Western intervention in the civil war helped the citizens gain power and force to fight for their rights , by providing them with training , intelligence and logistics among others hence ejecting the oppressive leadership a symbol for liberation .
5. More democratic and accountable government institutions have been set up , NGOs welcomed and civil society empowered .
6. The part of the Mo Ibrahim index that rates participation and human rights rose from 20 % in 2010 to 30.5 % in 2012 -LSB- 2 -RSB- .
7. -LSB- 1 -RSB- -LSB- 2 -RSB- -LSB- 3 -RSB-
8. Libya is becoming much freer with freedom house upgrading the country from not free to partially free -LSB- 3 -RSB- .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Ushered in the liberation of Libya.
1. Profit-led corporations owe a very specific duty to their shareholders - the individual who support and constitute the corporation .
2. Under the corporate-laws of almost all liberal democracies , business corporations must act in their interests , and this invariably means generating profit and increasing the value of the equity that each shareholder has in the business .
3. Corporations , unlike natural persons , are inflexible in their motives and influences .
4. Free speech is preferable to conflict because it acts as a conduit for compromise , but before compromise can take place it must be possible for the participants and audience in a discussion or an exchange of views to be influenced by their opponents arguments .
5. Were a business corporation to announce that it would no longer operate with profit as its core priority , it would collapse .
6. Even if this process might not be inevitable in the real world , it still informs corporate culture to a significant degree .
7. Because this duty is a legal one , and failure to uphold it can be cause to remove corporate decision makers -LRB- directors and executives -RRB- from their jobs and even to bring them to trial .
8. This behavioural imperative is absolute .
9. Natural persons are flexible and pragmatic ; at the very least they have the potential to be so .
10. Profit-led corporations are not .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Corporates that attempt to address social issues damage political discourse.
Interferes with a democratic mandate
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. European Union Election Observation Mission To Kenya , ,
2. Unlike many of the other ICC defendants , Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto have a democratic mandate from elections that represented the will of the voters electoral mandates given to them after their indictment by the International Criminal Court .
3. This must be respected by the ICC and the international community as a whole : even though they are suspected of crimes against humanity by a foreign court .
Sentences: 1. Having been warned that watching the broadcast may cause them offence , viewers still chose to and some , it seems , were duly offended .
2. It seems reasonable , therefore , to assume that the shock was either feigned or a matter of pretence .
3. A free society is predicated on the fact that adults have the right to make choices .
4. In turn that is based on the shared understanding that those choices have consequences ; which may , potentially , cause some degree of harm to the person making that choice .
5. It seems staggeringly unlikely that 55,000 people had accidently been watching opera on BBC 2 having failed to watch any of the warnings in advance or the fairly extensive media discussion in advance of the broadcast .
6. Therefore , those who watched it made a choice to do so and it seems reasonable to consider that an informed choice .
7. The allegation made by those who objected to the airing of this show was that it was blasphemous .
8. There were also objections to the graphic nature of the language and sexual reference .
9. Which leaves the matter of blasphemy ; an offence against a belief system .
10. There was no secret that religious issues were likely to feature in the broadcast and no secret was made of the fact that those views were likely to be both critical and forthright .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

This was a piece of art, advertised and described as such, those likely to be offended were quite welcome not to watch it.
Claim: Even if it matters whether or not humans and animals are similar, humans and animals are in fact similar enough that both should be granted rights.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Singer , Peter .
2. Animals therefore have the capacity for physical and emotional suffering , and so should be granted rights .
3. While we are unable to know exactly what other humans or animals are experiencing , we can make inference from what we observe .
4. First of all , animals have an equal capacity to experience pain .
5. Assuming but not conceding that this is false , we will prove that animals are in fact incredibly similar to human beings , so much so that we should grant them rights .
6. We have already noted that beings do not need to be similar in order to be equally morally considerable .
7. These impulses , emotions , and feelings are located in the diencephalon , which is well developed in many other species of animals , especially mammals and birds .
8. Although human beings have a more developed cerebral cortex than other animals , this part of the brain is concerned with thinking functions rather than basic impulses , emotions , and feelings .
9. In addition we know that animals have nervous systems very like ours , which respond physiologically as ours do when the animal is in a circumstance in which we would feel painan initial rise of blood pressure , dilated pupils , perspiration , an increased pulse rate , and , if the stimulus continues , a fall in blood pressure .
10. According to Peter Singer : Nearly all the signs that lead us to infer pain in other humans can be seen in other species ... The behavioural signs include writhing , facial contortions , moaning , yelping or other forms of calling , attempts to avoid the source of pain , appearance of fear at the prospect of its repetition , and so on .
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. -LRB- accessed 2 August 2011 -RRB- .
2. -LRB- accessed 2 August 2011 -RRB- . .
3. -LRB- accessed 2 August 2011 -RRB- . .
4. When there is n't any scientific evidence to support the differential treatment of one group , it is only based on prejudice and bigotry , which should have no place in a democratic society .
5. Based on the robust nature of the evidence available , the courts in Florida were satisfied in 2010 that the issue is beyond dispute and they struck down the ban .
6. Some studies have gone as far as to demand that in the face of this evidence , gay bans be ended .
7. The overwhelming majority of scientific studies on this issue have convincingly shown that children raised by gay couples are certainly not worse off than those raised by straight parents .

There is no fact-based evidence for this exclusion.
Claim: Belief in Santa stimulates the economy
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Huge sectors of our economy depend on belief in Santa Claus , from the department store grottoes to the entertainment industry , from toy shops and manufacturers to the makers of wrapping paper , stockings , red hats with bobbles on , etc. .
2. And once you take Santa out of Christmas , what else would be stripped away - Christmas trees , lights , tinsel , Christmas dinner ?
3. Without Santa to set an example of generosity , gift-giving at Christmas could go out of fashion .
4. Belief in Santa Claus is also economically necessary .
5. Trust is the basis of all economic exchange , and the consequences of doubt in Santa Claus , in terms of bankruptcies , closures , unemployment and stock market and currency slumps are too awful to imagine .
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. As a 2007 National Academy of sciences report warns us the pervasive lack of knowledge of foreign languages and cultures threatens the security of the united states as well as its ability to compete in the global marketplace and produce an unformed citizenry .
2. The call for students to learn a foreign language not only stems from economic needs but also from the need of improved security and diplomacy , in particular a better understanding of cultures and languages in order to better understand threats to the state and improved foreign services are needed .
3. In many Anglophone countries even in the role of a diplomat there are worrying numbers who do not have the language skills they need , for example in Canada only 16 % of the 180 foreign service officers who were required to have advanced foreign languages skills for their positions , could speak the needed language .
4. Therefore learning languages up to the age of sixteen should be compulsory .
5. Since the increased security post 9/11 the government accountability office -LRB- GAO -RRB- have reported that there are a shortage of foreign language expertise within the government and for this reason may undermine national security .
6. Much of the population of mainland Europe go to great lengths to learn foreign languages , especially the dominant English .
7. English speakers should reciprocate the efforts made by their foreign counterparts ; Nicolas Sarkozy for example is aiming to make France into a bilingual nation .
8. Across Europe at least 20 % of third-level students claim to be proficient in at least two foreign languages .
9. However , in countries where English is a major language , this is not the case ; in Ireland , for example the figure is only 5 % .
10. In the United States the situation is similar only 31 % of US elementary schools and 24 % of public schools teach foreign languages .

This House would make lessons in a foreign language compulsory for school pupils
This House would ban the use of trans fats in food stuffs
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Healthier equivalents of trans fats exist
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. There is little urban sociability .
2. A high-rise complex , in contrast , according to architect Carl Fender , occupies very little land , so you get a lot of peoplecloser in to the facilities such as theatre , reception , gardensand you have safety and amenity .
3. Socializing is implicitly encouraged in order to offset the disadvantages of those shared spaces , the peace and serenity of a private garden in a residential house is offset by the social atmosphere of shared facilities .
4. Urban sociability can be promoted by high-rise housing that encourages chance meetings with neighbours through the sharing of mutual facilities , often in social settings .
5. As such , they offer a distinct contrast with increasingly anti-social modern societies .
6. Architect Lawrence Nield argues in modern citiesone leaves home in an air-conditioned car , arrives in the parking space beneath the office , and then goes by elevator to the office floor .
7. There is very little chance for deliberate or accidental contact .

This House would build high rises for housing
Claim: Harsh interrogation is not necessarily an effective tool for extracting valuable information.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Harsh interrogation of captives has not been shown to be effective -LRB- White , 2007 -RRB- .
2. Those who are prepared to die to advance their cause are unlikely to yield information , no matter how much they are threatened or tortured .
3. Where captives do provide information , they often state simply what they think that the interrogators want to hear , rather than anything that is true -LRB- Mazzetti , 2007 -RRB- .
4. In addition , given the cellular nature of many terrorist organisations , those captured often have very little useful information to begin with .
5. Even if they have been involved in a plot , they may only have information about a very small part of that plot .
6. Furthermore , winning the trust of prisoners can lead to more effective information than the use of torture .
1. The House of Lords should be reformed in order to better reflect the British people so that their actions and decisions benefit the whole of society and not just their own .
2. They represent a social and economic elite and seem to flaunt diversity monitoring in a house with only 181 female peers and a staggeringly low 31 peers from ethnic minorities .
3. This unfair skew in the favour of the conservative has the power to slow down and revise legislation and is a gross misrepresentation of the British population .
4. The traditional provenance of the House of Lords translates to an in-built Conservative majority .
5. Even so called Liberal and Labour peers are usually conservative in their opinions .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

The House of Lords has an inbuilt conservative majority.
This House believes Africans are worse off due to natural resources
What is a possible side to this debate?

Resource abundance has led to poor governance
Claim: International Law Mandates Quebec be allowed Independence
What evidence supports this claim?

1. This is but one example of the very clear denial of basic representation and self-governance that afflicts the Quebecois in Canada .
2. Quebecois legislation protection their basic rights to retain their language and culture have been met with contempt and legal action by the federal Canadian government and courts .
3. Reference re Secession of Quebec , , 1998 , 2 S.C.R. 217 , < > Maxime Bernier on Quebec law : We dont need Bill 101 , , 4 February 2011 , < > Hudon , R. , Bill 101 , , < >
4. Therefore , Quebec has the legal right to self-determination and independence in international law .
5. International law recognizes the right of all peoples to self-determination .
6. International law recognizes Quebecs right to self-determination and denying them self-determination is therefore a violation of international law .
7. The Quebecois have been systematically denied adequate representation in the federal government of Canada .
8. The international community has decided that it is oppressive to individuals to live under a government that is systematically incapable or unwilling to protect them and their interests .
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. It seems there is little value to belief one way or the other , so arguing for Gods existence seems simply to be a waste of time .
2. If God were proved to exist , or not to exist , little in life would change at all .
3. It seems as if life goes on whether God exists or not .
4. Theologians , philosophers , and laypeople have been fighting both in academia and on the actual battlefield over the question of Gods existence , yet in all the centuries no definitive answer one way or the other has been given by either side .
5. Thus a position of atheism serves to relieve the hassle of pointless debate .

This House believes atheism is the only way
This House would fund the provision of higher education by taxing graduates
What is a possible side to this debate?

A graduate tax would make access to higher education fairer and more equitable
This House would only teach abstinence for sex education in schools
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Abstinence-only education deters people from having sex at a young age.
Marketing aimed at children should be subject to strict regulations.
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. Unlike adults , children are not able to make healthy decisions for themselves .
2. They dont understand what calories , sodium content , or saturated fats are .
3. They are unable to comprehend the long-term effects that fast food might have on their health and development .
4. On the other hand , a toy is instantly appealing to them and offers a straightforward incentive to opt for such a meal .
5. As long as the negative consequences can not be explained to kids in a clear and compelling manner , we should not make unhealthy food even more desirable for them .
6. We should not allow children to make bad choices based on information they dont understand .
7. Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity .
8. Fast Food FACTS : Evaluating Fast Food Nutrition and Marketing to Youth .
9. Yale University .
10. November 2010 .
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Psychological problems can only be treated if the person is alive .
2. Treatment for the psychological problem should be considered to go hand in hand with saving the patients life as in the B vs. Croydon Health Authority where force feeding was ruled to be complemented the use of other methods to treat her psychiatric problems .
3. Life is more important than dignity , many medical treatments are unpleasant or painful but they are necessary to preserve life .
4. Without force feeding the anorectic patient will often die .
5. In Australia about 80 per cent of all anorexic children required hospital admission -LRB- from 101 cases -RRB- , and of those , 50 per cent required tube feeding as a life-saving measure to manage starvation .
6. When a patient requires emergency treatment doctors should do what is necessary to save the patients life .

This House would force feed sufferers of Anorexia Nervosa
Sentences: 1. No state or leader can be entrusted , morally , with that power and responsibility .
2. These effects could never be morally acceptable , particularly as the basis of ones national security strategy .
3. They place humanity and most forms of life in jeopardy of annihilation -LRB- Krieger , 2003 -RRB- .
4. The entire point of nuclear weapons , however , is their massive , indiscriminate destructive power .
5. Their use could kill tens of thousands of civilians directly , and their catastrophic environmental after-effects would harm many more all around the world .
6. Nuclear weapons are , by their very nature , indiscriminate and disproportional ; any weapon which could not possibly be used in a responsible manner should not be permitted .
7. Over the past fifty years , we have seen a general tendency towards limited warfare and precision weapons , allowing military objectives to be achieved with minimal loss of civilian life .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

States should not possess such destructive, cataclysmic weapons
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. In 1945 there were only 51 UN members , so eleven Council members were adequately representing all voices .
2. Today the UN membership has risen to almost four times the number of the original one , yet there are only fifteen voices in the Council .
3. This means that there are many countries who do not have anyone on the security council that has similar priorities to them , their views may well be unrepresented .

This House would expand the United Nations Security Council
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. It is an accident of geography , or history , simple bad luck that has resulted in some countries getting large numbers of immigrants while many others get none .
2. The first developed country on migrant routes get large numbers as those wishing to seek asylum have to apply in the first safe country .
3. Similarly those countries next to conflict zones , or places affected by natural disasters , get very large influxes of migrants who hope to return home as soon as possible ; there are more than 1.1 million refugees from Syria in Lebanon a country of less than 6million .
4. It is right that there should be a mechanism to help even out the burden of migrants and that rich developed countries should be those who pay that cost .
5. Syria Regional Refugee Response , , , accessed 19 August 2015

It is just to redistribute migrants
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. Celebrities are uniquely placed to help bridge this gap and foster sympathy and understand about the fight for gay rights because of the relationship they foster with people in society .
2. People feel as though they have an emotional connection and familiarity with the people who are rocketed into their family rooms through their TV every night .
3. Celebrities are uniquely placed to help break down misunderstanding and prejudice against the gay community .
4. One of the biggest obstacles to breaking down prejudice is the fact that people do not associate with the cause and can view it as alien and a problem that they have , not one that we can understand .
5. Therefore , outing gay celebrities fosters a particular type of sympathy and understanding for the cause that can not be achieved any other way .
6. This level of familiarity means that when they are outed as gay leads to a breakdown of the idea that gay rights are an issue for them as its an issue that now directly affects you .
7. Moreover , the emotional connection you feel you have with the characters these people play , means that you personalize their situation more than you would with any other form of gay rights activism .

This will help people connect with the cause of gay equality
1. If the people within a nation want democracy , it is not wrong -- indeed it may even be morally required -- for us to assist them by imposing democracy against the will of the governing class .
2. Often internal movements lack resources , weapons , or organization , making the fight for democracy very difficult .
3. When individuals seek to defend their rights against an oppressive regime , other nations do them a disservice by allowing evil to win out .
4. Thus NATO 's intervention in Libya was in support of rebels often seen as part of the ` Arab spring ' wave of democratization but the internal movement even if it had large amounts of support was being suppressed and would have been destroyed without outside intervention .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Imposing democracy can be a way to support individuals unable to fight for democracy themselves.
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Basic Books .
2. Anarchy State and Utopia -LRB- pp. 54-56 , 137-42 -RRB- .
3. Nozick , R. -LRB- 1974 -RRB- .
4. This is all part of what could be called a `` dynamic capitalist system '' which values individuality -LRB- honing your basketball skills -RRB- , rewards ability -LRB- having basketball skills -RRB- and risk-taking -LRB- risking that you will succeed with it -RRB- .
5. On the other hand a mediocre basketball player would not be paid at all since there is no demand to see mediocre basketball , his service does not have an attraction on the market and will thus be eliminated / .
6. People are ready to pay for the service he offers -LRB- excellent basketball -RRB- and consequently his high wage will be justified .
7. The market is thus decided upon what people need and therefore there will be no excess products or services offered e.g. let us presume that many people want to see high quality basketball , a person like Michael Jordan who has a talent for basketball and has honed his basketball skills would in this case be much in demand .
8. If many people want the same thing the demand will be higher and it will be profitable to offer them on the market since it will sell , therefore the people are in command of what products are being offered to them through their own want .
9. A free market gives the power to the people to choose and decide what products and services should be offered to them .

This House believes that capitalism is better than socialism
Sentences: 1. This style is necessary to extentuate the small areas where there are differences between the parties .
2. The public are totally turned off by a style of politics which seems to rely on the levels of club house theatrical abuse that you can throw across at each other in parliament and across the airwaves .
3. Wintor , Patrick , Corbyn : its time for a new kind of politics , , 12 September 2015
4. Introduce real differences on the big issues of government , particularly the economy and society , then such minor point scoring fades into insignificance .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Lack of difference encourages Punch and Judy politics
Any detention bill will have to be in line with human rights.
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. The process of sectioning ensures this by having two separate doctors diagnose the patient as both mentally ill and a threat to themselves or others ; these diagnoses are then presented to an independent AMP -LRB- approved medical practitioner -RRB- who makes the decision about whether or not the individual can be detained .
2. The 2007 British mental health act was actually created partly in order to update the Mental Health Act 1983 so that it conforms to current human rights law .
3. Therefore they should be no concerns about these detentions violating anyone 's human rights .
4. If a doctor or AMP believes this should be extended to 28 days , then the process is repeated again independently .
This House believes that the UN should restrict arms sales to rogue nations.
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

The UN is able to restrict arms sales to rogue nations.
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Passing a law would ensure that this no longer happens and family ties between generations would be strengthened .
2. , Daily Mail -LRB- 31 January 2011 -RRB- , viewed on 19 June 2011 .
3. This law would give parents a greater stake in their child 's education and development .
4. Rather than being concerned with saving for later life they will want to think about the future and long term prospects of their children .
5. Similarly a child would be legally responsible for the well being of their parent past adulthood , encouraging children to think more carefully about the decisions they make in regards to care .
6. The stark figures that between 2005 and 2009 , 667 elderly people died from dehydration in care homes and 157 died of malnutrition suggest that children neglect their parents in terms of ensuring they are placed in adequate care .

This house believes children should have legal obligations towards parents after adulthood.
This House believes the republican party has lost its way
What is a possible side to this debate?

The Republican Party has been hijacked by the Tea Partiers who simply don’t have a coherent message or ideology
Sentences: 1. If you accept that the open source software industry is a positive force , then simply by considering open source software , governments are doing well .
2. More dramatically , in 2002 , Real Networks opened up the source code for its world renowned RealPlayer media and music software package and , in 2005 , IBM offered 500 key patents -LRB- out of 40,000 -RRB- to the open source community .
3. Sun Microsystems released its Solaris server operating system to the open source community under the Common Development and Distribution licence in 2005 .
4. Even when governments do not ultimately select an open source program , by simply including them in the competitive bidding process , they have been able to radically change the approach that Microsoft and other closed source companies take to producing IT solutions .
5. Under threat from Linux , Microsoft has launched the Open Source Initiative through which it shares elements of some of its programs source code with key partners to enable the development of software for platforms like Windows Mobile .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Government contracts can change the software industry for the better.
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Dangerous chemicals are pumped into rock formations that are also the source of groundwater for millions of people .
2. The residents of areas where shale gas is found and drilling may occur have a right to maintain their health , something which drilling may affect .
3. Dramatic film of inflammable gas leaking through drinking water pipes underlines the risks posed by this uncontrolled experiment under our homes .
4. In 2008 a hydrologist found benzene in a water well in Wyoming above where fracking was occurring .
5. While there is a chance that lives are at risk , either from water contamination or from gas explosions as a result of the fracking such risky methods of extracting natural gas should be banned .
6. Companies are in denial over these dangers , but their refusal to come clean about exactly what chemicals they are using is hardly reassuring .

This house would restrict the use of fracking to extract natural gas from shale
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. It is difficult to see what could be a more flagrant example of possible harm than allowing your child to die when an available remedy could save their life .
2. Their beliefs may well lead them to conclusions that others might consider reckless but that is their concern .
3. Nobody is questioning the rights of adults to take actions in accordance with their faith , even when these may cause them some personal harm .
4. If that harm is caused to those who can not resist or who are incapable of responding , intervention is required .
5. However , when those actions impact others in society , it is a matter for social concern and , frequently , the intervention of the law .
6. We do not , for example , allow religious practices such as sacrifice or torture in pursuit of a religious end , however religiously convicted the parents might be .
7. The law explicitly includes children in this category .
8. We expect the legal and medical professions to accord particular protection to children against the actions of others that could harm them including , in extremis , their parents .
9. The case of Kristy Bamu , murdered by his parents , practitioners of voodoo , in the belief he was a witch , is just one such example .

This House believes that important decisions about childrens health should be made by medical professionals and not by their parents
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. Part of this political clout however , comes from the continued cooperation of other Western Liberal democracies with the U.S. in failing to the sign the cluster bomb treaty despite pressure from other countries , the U.S. fails in this capacity and loses the support of the countries that it relies on to maintain its political status .
2. The U.S. is often seen as the greatest representative of Western liberal democracy as it is the most economically powerful .
3. The continued refusal of the U.S. to tow the same line as fellow liberal democracies makes it look bad internationally ; especially considering that one of the main instigators behind the cluster bomb ban is the U.K. traditionally a great ally of the U.S. politically .
4. The U.S. is one of the only remaining Western Liberal democracies to allow the U.S. of cluster bombs .
5. Moreover , given that the U.S. currently does not help with demining work , this further worsens relationships with other countries .

Rejecting the Ban on Cluster Bombs Hurts the international image of the U.S.
1. Wikipedia , List of conflicts in Africa , accessed 10 January 2014 ,
2. The vast majority of conflicts in Africa have been internal .
3. Ending all conflict is ambitious , ending only inter state war in Africa on the other hand is not .
4. The AUs declaration does not define it .
5. What is War ?
6. Western Sahara might be considered to be frozen with very few deaths as a result of it and the Sudan conflict is in large part a result of the border being new .
7. The only conflicts that might count as inter-state that might be considered ongoing are the situation in Western Sahara and border clashes between the Sudans .
8. None of these are ongoing .
9. The only true inter state conflicts have been the wars between Israel and Egypt , the Eritrean-Ethiopian war , the Uganda-Tunisia war , and the Second Congo War .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Not all conflict is war
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. As such the American Jobs Act is likely to stimulate the economy through the creation of a bigger and better trained work force .
2. Whilst those who are temporarily unemployed will eventually come back into employment and start contributing to the economy , they will often be offset by those losing work .
3. The long term unemployed in America are important to the economic recovery .
4. Should the U.S. be able to harness these workers and create extra employment capacity to keep them in employment , then the U.S. economy will see a boost as the number of people gaining work will outnumber those losing work to a more significant level than seen ordinarily in an economic recovery .
5. For the U.S. economy to gain headway , spare capacity must be created in the economy for those who have not been employed for a long period of time .
6. Specifically these programmes help those without jobs take temporary or voluntary work whilst they also pursue on the job training in order to make them more employable in the long run .
7. The American Jobs Act helps in this area by creating what is known as a Bridge to Work program which capitalises on initiatives that many states have put into place in order to deal with long term unemployment .
8. Further , prohibitions on discrimination based on length of unemployment will also come into place .
9. There is also a $ 4000 tax credit for employers that hire long-term unemployed workers .

This House Would Pass the American Jobs Act
This house believes that developed countries have a higher obligation to combat climate change than developing countries
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Developed countries have the greatest capacity to combat climate change.
This House believes in a world government
What is a possible side to this debate?

A world government would enhance the probability of mitigating global environmental problems
Claim: Importance of education to national economic performance.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. A nations most important resource is its human capital , and in the modern world it is vital to have a skilled , educated workforce in order to remain competitive .
2. Many nations have already adopted year-round schooling .
3. By following their example , we will be giving our young people an important advantage in the employment market and thereby improving the countrys economic prospects .
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. The level of emotional involvement in bringing the child up is immense .
2. Parents pour all their souls into children , who , in turn , often leave them disenchanted and exhausted .
3. Parents also have to share their childs problems , fears and traumas , so that the amount of grief that parents take on themselves doubles -LRB- or even triples , depending on how troublesome the child is -RRB- .
4. Not only that , but those who have offspring also become more vulnerable .
5. They worry about their kids from the moment they are born until the day they themselves die .
6. Parents to-worry-about list is endless : from childs nutrition to summer camps , from accidents to social acceptance , from choosing a school to moving out .
7. Having raised children , parents become emotional wrecks .
8. All parents agree that it is emotionally draining and stressful , in 1975 , advice columnist Ann Landers asked her readers , If you had it to do over again , would you have children ?
9. seventy percent of respondents said no .
10. * * Goldberg , 2003 ,

Having children is emotionally draining for parents
Claim: Admissions tests such as the LNAT exaggerate small differences in performance
What evidence supports this claim?

1. A law degree is key to entry to the top tier of society and high income earners .
2. Lawyers are often extremely high paid , and occupy a prestigious position in society .
Claim: A teacher-student relationship is not one between friends or equals.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Even if such friendships were entirely innocent , they would still cast enough suspicion on the teacher-student relationship to put considerable strain on the teachers role as educator and their ability to do the job .
2. You have to ask why a teacher would do this .
3. According to Carol Shakeshaft an expert in sexual misconduct by teachers : -LSB- e -RSB- ducators who use social media for personal and intimate conversations and contact are not much different from those who spend their time hanging out with students at the beach .
4. Interacting with ones teachers the same way as with ones friends , sharing personal information , can only erode the respect and distance that a teacher needs in order to be an authority figure and a mentor for her young charges .
5. The honest answer is that it rarely has anything to do with student learning .
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. In many non-western societies gift taking and giving in the public realm is a matter of traditions and customs .
2. Norms and values differ between countries .
3. It is hypocritical for the west to target developing countries for this as many so-called democracies are hopelessly compromised by business interests through political funding and lobbying .
4. Moreover , gift giving is a part of negotiations and relationship building in some parts of the world .
5. The United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bans large bribes but allows for the payment of small customary sums in order to ease transactions .

This House believes that bribery is sometimes acceptable
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. In London , where transport and affordable housing are major problems , ` new tower blocks offer a way of alleviating both problems ' .
2. High-rise housing offers solutions to both problems by maximising the number of people that can live on a scarce , fixed amount of available land .
3. Urban migration , whereby populations flock to urban centres looking for work , leaves cities short on affordable housing , transport links and can either lead to inner-city poverty or urban sprawl .
4. High-rise housing is a successful housing solution when faced with the problem of population growth and urban migration .
5. In contrast , Melbourne , where the population is expected to rise by 3 million people by 2050 , ` better use of available city land has been identified as a key to maintaining Melbourne 's liveability , and halting urban sprawl ' .

High-rise housing is a successful solution to the problems of urban migration and urban sprawl
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. To appeal to the childs right to life is just circular whether a fetus has rights or not , or can really be called a child , is exactly what is at issue .
2. Everyone agrees that children have rights and shouldnt be killed ; a fetus is not a life yet .
3. These are important events in a womans life , and if she does not want to go through the full nine months and subsequent birth , then she should have the right to choose not to do so .
4. There are few if any other cases where something with such profound consequences is forced upon a human being against her/his will .
5. Women should have control over their own bodies ; they have to carry the child during pregnancy and undergo childbirth .
6. No one else carries the child for her ; it will be her responsibility alone , and thus she should have the sole right to decide .

Women have a right to choose
This House would prosecute war criminals
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

War criminals need to be prosecuted in order to provide justice.
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Although deficits in times of plenty are a grave concern , during a recession most economist agree that deficits may be necessary .
2. However , these pressures are not the main source of concern .
3. Ultimately maintaining a permanent deficit harms the economy creating both inflationary pressures and effecting interest rates .
4. Ultimately the US Government has to pay its bill just like everyone else .
5. The implications should conflict arise between the two are severe as China , effectively has the capacity to bankrupt the US and the dollar at a time of its own choosing .
6. Increasingly , its debt is owned by the major Asian economies ; especially China .
7. However , the US is no longer mostly in debt to itself as has been the case in the past .

This House would prioritise eliminating the budget deficit over increasing domestic spending