Practical Proposal Topic

I have decided to write about the requirements to become a lower court judge in Texas courts. You do not need to have a law degree to become a judge in lower courts within Texas, all you need is to be 18 and a resident of Texas. This topic interests me because these judges are supposed to uphold the law and yet are not required to have taken any law classes or ethics classes, they are not qualified to have the responsibility they are trusted with. This is a problem for every citizen of Texas, if they go to court they could get an under-qualified judge hearing their case. People may not get the justice they deserve. The people of Texas have the power to solve this problem, they can voice their concerns through protests and who they vote for. This is a democracy the people do not work for the government, the government should be working for the people. The benefits of having lower court judges required to be educated in their field would increase the effectiveness of our justice system. The costs of this proposal would be carried by the judges already appointed to their office. These Judges get paid $140,000 per year, they can afford to get themselves law degrees.

Assignment for Tues, Sept 29: Paper Idea

The topic I have chosen for the casual paper assignment is insurance companies. I want to write about this because almost nothing gets me more heated than when I talk about the unfair ways insurance companies treat their clients (specifically auto insurance companies). The reason it makes me so angry is because I am a male under 25, the demographic who pays the MOST out of any other demographic for auto insurance. For my thesis I will say: “If insurance companies start charging rates based on the individual rather than stereotypes, then It will be more fair and more democratic and ultimately better for society.” For my paper I will research what types of studies insurance companies base their rates off of, how accurate those studies are, and who is benefiting from the stereotypes that those studies create; the consumer or the company? I will also try to research what rates have been in the past and how they have changed over time. I will also research how fair the insurance companies are being to their customers in terms of insurance settlements, especially if they are giving more or less money to males under 25 than the other demographics.

Visual Argument

Doubter

This article talks about how a college education is not always the best way to succeed in life. It says how apprentice programs and on the job training can be just as beneficial as a college degree. This fails to show however how a college degree gives a wider spectrum of education. When graduating you need a variety of different classes as well as your major’s focus. You could say people with a college degree are “renaissance men” while people who only train for a certain job are just worker bees with no variety of education.

“Our system for education and training is uncongenial to a lot of people who don’t like to sit in the classroom” There’s not many people who enjoy sitting in a classroom, its a necessary skill to develop your attention capacity. There are very few people in the world who just have the natural talent to do complicated work like power-plant supervising. College education is necessary to expand our understanding.

believer

This article talks about how a college education is not for everyone and is not the only way into middle-class earnings. “Arguably the most valuable skill in today’s economy is the ability to learn new skills” I agree that a college classroom is not for everyone, some people need more hands-on experience to learn the skills necessary to perform a job. Maybe a more practical teaching environment would even be more superior in many ways to a classroom. It would train people how to do their jobs more quickly and more efficiently, it would cut the ‘fat’ out of an education so to speak. Why does a math major need to take psychology classes or why does a music major need to take political science or economics?

This article challenges the assumption that a college education is really the best way to train our workforce and presents many practical alternatives. “What constitutes education is far more varied than a college sheepskin.” Apprentice programs, on the job training, and certification programs are all valuable ways to learn a skill, why should they be any less valuable than a college education?

Shory Story “Orientation” Writing Assignment

The short story “Orientation” is told by a narrator introducing someone (who never has any dialogue) to his/her new office workplace. One of the implicit arguments this story addresses is the impersonalness of the office workplace setting. The narrator says several surprising things about some of the co-worker’s personal lives that are very factual and to-the-point. The narrator never gives any personal opinion or feelings about the information. The story dramatisizes how people in the office setting know so much about their co-workers but dont truly know their co-workers. The narrator never tries to understand or reason out his/her co-worker’s behaviors, he/she only relays factual, impersonal information about the co-workers. “Amanda Pierce also has a husband, who is a lawyer. He subjects her to an escalating array of painful and humiliating sex games, to which Amanda Pierce reluctantly submits.”

The narrator also mentions the consequence “Or you may be let go”several times throughout the story after telling the new employee something not to do, including not to make an emergency phone call without checking with a supervisor first. This enforces the impersonal feeling as well as contradicts the concept of an ‘emergency phone call’. This part in the story shows how having set rules and regulations in places like an office workplace is impersonal in itself rather than judging things on a case-by-case basis.

The story seems to be dramatisizing how un-natural it is for us (as humans) to work in places like offices and how in-humane and impersonal it makes us. It pokes fun at rules like pacing yourself to however much work you have in your IN box or being forbidden to answer phones and letting the voicemail get the call. And it portrays the lacking relationship and human compassion in the office workplace needed within any community of human beings.

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