PA#6 They Say, Part 3 (Summarizing)
Read Carl Singleton's short essay on pp. 192 -94 of WFS and Bagaric and Clark's essay on pp. 196 - 199. Summarize one essay's main arguments in a paragraph.
Write carefully. Your paragraph will become the basis for your next essay.
The author's name and the title of the essay should appear somewhere in
the first sentence. Early on, you should summarize or quote the main
idea of the essay.
After that, summarize the main arguments that Singleton uses to support
that main idea. Note that you are writing only a summary paragraph.
Don't evaluate any of the ideas in the essay.
Note also that you must choose wisely the
ideas that you decide to write about. Please concern yourself with the
main facets of the argument and not the details and examples. (You may eventually have to comment on the details and examples in other paragraphs of the essay you will have to write. Don't use them in this particular paragraph.)
By Tuesday (9/16/13) at 5 PM, blog the paragraph. We'll look at some of them in class on Wednesday (9/17).
Bring your paragraph to class on Wednesday (9/17/14).
In the essay WHAT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM NEEDS IS MORE F’S which is wrote by Carl Singleton, present a new view of the problem of contemporary education system of American. Carl believes that the best solution to deal with the education problem is widespread giving of F’s. The situation of contemporary education in American is that the high-school graduates is growing, the reason is not students achieve the requirement, is that the deteriorate grading system and low quality teaching at first place. As a result, He argues that by giving F’s, student and present can face the failure directly and seriously, also the failure of student can encourage the teaching skills of teachers.
ReplyDeleteErin Fannin PA#6
ReplyDeleteIn the essay Torture: When the Unthinkable is Morally Permissible, coauthors Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clark argue against the universally held belief that torture is never morally acceptable. Torture, they say, is permissible when and only when the outcome is to save an innocent person. Bagaric and Clark also bring up that killing a perpetrator in a hostage situation is often a desirable outcome, but that causing mere pain to a suspect is firmly forbidden. This contradiction is a far more alarming moral issue than that of torture. The discomfort of the wrongdoer is made a priority over the lives of the innocent. Critics counter argue that to allow torture will dehumanize society. Bagaric and Clark respond by saying that these critics are only thinking of the suspect’s wellbeing, and to allow innocents to suffer dehumanizes society more than torture ever could.
David Krein PA#6
ReplyDeleteIn the essay, What our education system needs is more F’s, by Carl Singleton, a view that some would deem harsh, is presented. Carl argues that more failing grades as an immediate need, is what our educational systems need as opposed to more money and better teachers. Not only would giving F’s to students force them to work harder, but it would also force parents to become more concerned and proactive in their children’s education. Also, Carl states that giving F’s would further help our educational systems “come to terms with cost as a factor in improving our educational system.” So, not only would giving F’s benefit just students, but also their parents and whole educational systems.
Mallory Torr
ReplyDeleteIn the essay, What our Education system needs is more F's by Carl Singleton, Singleton presents a different view on Eduction. Singleton clams that our educational system needs to hand out more failing grades, that more money or having better teachers will not be the fix. Singleton states this in the essay, "Higher salaries, more stringent certification procedures, getting back to basics will have little or no effect on the problem of quality education unless and until we insist, as a profession, on giving F's whenever students fail to master the material.” With this idea in mind he claims that this will help parents become more active in the students live, Well also benefiting the student. Overall, Singleton states that teachers giving out more F's will result in a stronger educational system.
Gopika Nair
ReplyDeleteCarl Singleton, author of What Our Education System Needs is More F's, argues that failing students in their exams on a wide scale is the only way to improve the American education system. According to him, handing out passing grades to students who are undeserving of it has in fact led to the drastic increase in illiteracy rates among high school graduates. Singleton contends that giving an F where required will force parents to take an active interest in their children's education, thereby motivating the students to perform better in exams. Additionally, if more students get F grades, it will force principals, school boards, and voters to acknowledge that education does not come free. It will make the authorities and citizens realize that more money is needed to accommodate failed students. This, in turn, will encourage the public to look at the educational system from a more informed perspective than take it for granted, as they often do now. Singleton claims that more F's will also lead to immediate outcomes. The number of illiterate high school and college graduates will register a drop as more students will be encouraged to pay attention to their studies. While the author admits that giving F's won't solve every problem in the educational system, he reiterates that students must not be allowed to pass their exams until they have fully met the required standards expected of them.
Peter Hamblett
ReplyDeleteIn Steven M. Wise’s essay about Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights focused on the fact that “all nonhuman animals, are things with no rights.” Which to me is complete b*ll sh*t. Evidence has shown that some nonhuman animals have extraordinary minds so why do they not have rights? Wise’s main focus is on the neglect and torture of nonhuman animals. Nonhuman animals are being abused and operated on without any law stepping in between the animal and the abuser. Animals are being operated on without anesthesia, which to a human is torture, yet, no one cares about the animals feelings. A proven fact by Jane Goodall is that apes who are one of many abused animals, have the exact if not more emotions then us humans do. Wise’s point is that in the twenty-first-century a law should be created for the protection on animals, with the amount of information we have no animal deserves to be abused and/or tested on without a reason.
Carl Singleton’s essay about teachers giving more F’s in the class room is simply a way to make student learn the required materials in the class room. College students have to come into college and take basic courses because they simply didn’t learn them in high school. Singleton also made a point about giving F’s where it is deserved would force parents to get more into their kids’ education. This could include cutting TV away from the student and more time for homework. Singleton stated that he knows that giving everyone F’s isn’t just going to fix the problem, but unless we fail those students who should be failed, other suggested solutions will make little progress toward improving education.
ReplyDeleteCory Feuerstein
ReplyDeleteCarl Singleton makes many good and bad points in “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s.” Carl Singleton argues that giving more F’s would do wonders for our education system. Singleton’s main reasoning for wanting there to be more F’s given is that he believes these F’s would force into the light, all of the major “issues” in the American education system. In this reading, Carl Singleton shares many specific reasons for why giving F’s would be beneficial. Singleton believes that not only would they make students more conscious and involved in their work, but they would also cause teachers to demand just as much from themselves as they would from there students. Also, he believes that giving F’s would cause principles, school boards, and voters to see the importance of having teachers work just as hard as the students because there would be an evident price for having to accommodate students who have to retake classes that they’ve failed. Carl Singleton makes a very good point by saying that giving F’s when deserved would likely force parents of the students to step away from their television sets and get more involved in what their children are doing academically as well. Lastly, Carl Singleton’s biggest point that he makes about the benefits of giving more F’s in our education system is that everyone would be able to read. He states that there would be no illiterate college graduates, high school graduates, and college freshman. While Carl Singleton doesn’t believe that the giving of more F’s in our education system will solve all of the issues, he believes that this idea will make more progress than any other idea and that it is the single most important requirement for solving the problems of education in America today.
Carl Singleton implores the use of more failing grades in his essay, What Our Education System Need Is More F’s. Singleton asserts that flunking students who have failed to master the required material is the only way to ensure the success of the students’ future and the improvement of the education system as a whole. He points out that teachers’ accommodations of students who don’t understand the material by passing them is what has, “contributed to massive ignorance”, but later suggests that accommodations should be made by retaining them at a single level until mastery is achieved instead. Singleton claims that by sending students home with F’s their parents will be forced to take action; Singleton also states that the responsibility of the students failure lies in the hands of their parents. He believes that giving more F’s will also require more of the teacher, thus improving the quality of education. Singleton’s refutation that this simple change could solve “all the problems” is appeased by stating that other solutions for sub-par education can be more effective once the delivery of more F’s to those deserving is enforced.
ReplyDeleteDavid Herbawi
ReplyDeleteIn Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke’s essay Torture: When The Unthinkable Is Morally Permissible, they make the argument that it is morally acceptable to use torture on a suspect when the lives of the innocent are being threatened. In their view, the popular notion that torture is always morally reprehensible is misguided and simplistic because they’re situations in which torture may be the only way to save innocent lives, saying that “given the choice between inflicting a relatively small level of harm on a wrongdoer and saving an innocent person, it is verging on moral indecency to prefer the interests of the wrongdoer.” Mirko and Clarke use the analogy of a hostage situation, where it is considered acceptable for the police to shoot and kill the gunman threatening to kill his hostage, as long as the police have a “clear shot.” Mirko and Clarke then address what they claim are the main counter arguments of the anti-torture camp; they reject the slippery slope argument because torture is already widely practiced across the world, and that those against torture get so caught up in the rights of the suspect that they forget about the rights of potential victims.
Jon Griggs PA #6
ReplyDeleteMirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke, authors of the article “When The Unthinkable Is Morally Permissible”, argue that not only is torture a good source of action to save lives, but also anyone who believes differently is morally inadequate. According to them, torture is a good tool to use when the evidence suggests that this may be the only way to save the life of an innocent person. They defend this claim by implementing our right to self-defense and the defense of others justifies the act of torture in such a case. They use the example of a hostage taker who is threatening to kill an innocent person unless their demand is met. The police shooting the hostage-taker in this situation is permissible because they are trying to save a life. Bagaric and Clarke argue that the hostage taking scenario is universally accepted and that torture is not because critics’ morals can’t see past the interest of the suspect being tortured. Critics suggest that torture leads to a dangerously slippery slope and that it will dehumanize society. However, Bagaric and Clarke counter by saying if standing around and allowing an innocent person to be killed isn’t dehumanizing society, than torturing a suspect can’t be either.
Pan Niyomthai
ReplyDelete"I recommend giving those F's" are the exact words Carl Singleton, a member of the faculty at Fort Hays State University, said as he argues and explains the degradation of present day education system in his essay "What Our Education System Needs is More F's." Singleton points out the flaw(s) in American educational system, arguing that the point of university is not for students to drop by here and there and leave with a degree to go earn money. His major concerns are the fact that teachers may be too soft on students by giving grades they don't receive and that students should spend more time on their course materials if their basics aren't mastered.
Carl Singleton, a member of the Fort Hayes State University, argues that academic authorities such as teachers in school systems should give out more F's, in his essay called "What Our Education System Needs Is More F's." Singleton believes in the theory of giving more failing grades to students will eventually have them put more effort into their work. Also, he believes that if the teachers give out more F's, the parents of young students will begin to focus on school work a lot more than they do now. Delivering more F's would force the teachers to do a better job at teaching their part of the overall curriculum. According to Singleton, this solution should solve "all the problems" although it will be a process.
ReplyDelete