Here is a page for you to post your proposals. You can complete everything in a Word Document and then copy and paste it to the “reply box”. This work is due by 10:30 am Monday (10/19).
Essay #3 Proposal
Oct 16th, 2009 by
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8:49 pm - 10-18-2009
Essay # 3: Speculating About Causes Proposal
Name:: Ashley Lindrose
Everything in this proposal could be tentative. Feel free to revise when you come up with better ideas.
Tentative title:
Social Networking: A Social Phenomenon
The phenomenon or trend you plan to analyze:
Why is Facebook so popular?
Introduction
Some background info:
More than 64 million active users. 250,000 new users registered each day. Mark Zuckerberg started it when he was 19 at Harvard.
Source you’ve found: “Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need To Know About Facebook”
How is it related to your own experience?
I use it every day.
Tentative thesis
Forecast sentence:
Facebook has grown to be one of the fastest growing and most used websites.
Give at least three possible causes and indicate which one is the most plausible cause.
1. Easy
2. Great way to keep in touch
3. Sense of belonging
4. Great advertising for businesses
11:21 pm - 10-18-2009
The phenomenon or trend you plan to analyze:
Texting
Introduction
Some background info:
Texting all day everyday. It may be causing anxiety. Distracting in schools. Failing grades. & sleep disorders. But it’s easy, fast, and can communicate whenever.
Source you’ve found:
“Texting may be taking a toll”
How is it related to your own experience?
I text everyday.
Tentative thesis:
Texting is a growing phenomenon that allows people to communicate quickly, quietly, and descretely. However texting is also a growing cause of fatal car accients amoung teens and younger drivers. Texting also may cause distractions in schools and sleeping disorders.
Forecast sentence:
Texting is one of the phenmenons of todays culture, but is it safe?
Give at least three possible causes and indicate which one is the most plausible cause:
1.Convient
2.Quick
3.Distracting
4.Harmful?
5.Questionable
10:46 am - 10-19-2009
Essay # 3: Speculating About Causes Proposal
Name:: Remington Petrow
Everything in this proposal could be tentative. Feel free to revise when you come up with better ideas.
Tentative title:
Cannabis: Legality of a Generation
The phenomenon or trend you plan to analyze:
Why Marijuana is illegal in some places and legal in others, alongside possible medical implications of its usage.
Introduction
Some background info:
Illegal in a large majority of countries, decriminalized in some.
Source you’ve found: EveryoneDoesIt.com
How is it related to your own experience?
Uhhh… N/A
Tentative thesis:
Although illegal across much of the world, marijuana might not be as bad as the media and politicians would have you believe.
Forecast sentence:
As a recreational drug, Cannabis has evoked controversy since its inception into popular culture, much as were cigarettes.
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