Paper 5 Assignment Plan

(Due to my family emergency, this is the soonest I could post it.)

Issue: Having limited federal funding for abortion makes women pay for a service that should be included in health insurance/health care coverage.

My position: Overturn the Hyde Amendment (which limits federal funding to abortion); do not overturn Roe v. Wade, this keeping abortion legal as well.

Forum/Audience: I plan on writing a letter to Florida’s congress, asking them to vote no on the Hyde Amendment, and lift the restrictions the state places on abortions.

Outline

1. My name is Sarah Wesson. I am 17 years old, a student at UCF, and a young woman.

                           -I am writing today asking you to look at the Hyde Amendment. Look at the rights American women are losing. Allow Florida to start a trend and be the first to lift funding restrictions and allow this medical service to be made available.

2. Issue

                        -Senators, understand that I am writing this not to reprimand you, but to ask you for your help. I understand that abortion is a hotly-debated issue throughout the nation, and I would like to change that. Recognize that the right to choose belongs solely to the woman. Understand that even though many may not share the same values, there must be an even playing field for all women.

3. Solution/Plan

               -Abortions are an expensive procedure, and they are becoming harder to receive. As women seek them out, they must pay anywhere from $350-900! I note this because if the Hyde Amendment is overturned, this fee will become $0. If federal funding supports this procedure and lifts the nationwide restrictions, this problem will be eliminated.

 

THE FINAL GAME PLAN!

Assignment Plan

Issue: Keeping marijuana illegal puts lives at risk and it is limiting our nations ability to become powerful economically once again.

My position: The benefits of legalizing marijuana are greater than its risks. It is less potent than alcohol and tobacco, and hundreds of thousands of people don’t die from marijuana like alcohol and tobacco.

My solution: Legalizing marijuana is going to take a lot of work and time, so i would break it into three phases.

Phase 1: Before the government can officially legalize marijuana, it needs to end the skepticism about its health benefits. Scientific testing would need to be done by the most brilliant minds in America with no bias in the results. Testing can go on for months or even years if necessary to prove the health benefits. If the results support the notion, that its health benefits are there and the government can finally admit it was wrong, then we can move onto phase 2. 

Phase 2: In this phase the government would create a new agency to monitor, regulate, and distribute marijuana. It would branch out into the U.S.A.’s major cities and those places would be where people can legally purchase marijuana for a fraction of the price that it sells for now. The government would also buy land where it can grow, or find willing farmers who will be subsidized for their work. It would be very difficult to attain a growers license and if a grower does something illegal then the license would be revoked with severe penalties. People will have to apply for a marijuana license and there will be a certain criteria to determine if they can recieve one. The license is similar to a drivers license, you need one to buy marijuana, and you need it to smoke as well. An age limit of 18 will be set, as to avoid issues with minors like alcohol has created. Once the government recieves these applications, they will be able to document and create a database of all those who buy/smoke marijuana which will help in regulating and monitoring the drug. Once the database is created with a significant amount of people in it then the distribution centers will open signaling phase 3.

Phase 3: In major US cities, distribution centers would open and people will only be able to buy a certain amount of marijuana a day. The price would be cheaper than the average price it is now for specific strands as to drive out the home growers and dealers. As the demand expands, new centers will be open in more cities.

Audience :

The audience that i would be trying to reach is the representative of florida in the legislature so that this can spark a change across the nation

Forum:

I would present my plan and information supporting it in a video that’ll be educational and serious since I need to make a proposal to an important group of people.

Purpose:

My purpose is to bring a positive change to our nation. I want to clean up drugs from the playground. I want to make adults who can make responsible decisions have the ability to choose what they want to do for fun. I want to help this nation’s economy by presenting an idea that could very well change the face of our nation. Ethical and logical appeals will be most necessary, but I can throw in some pathetic appeals, though that won’t be the focus of my proposal. 

 

Outline

Intro
-I’m a college student looking for solutions to the problem of keeping marijuana illegal
-I believe that if we legalize marijuana it can be beneficial for our nation’s society and economy

Problem Section
-Because marijuana is illegal, it has created an underground society of growers, dealers, and buyers
-I value clean neighborhoods where children can play safely
-Since marijuana is illegal, it can sometimes make safe havens such as a playground into a dangerous area

Objectives
-Making marijuana illegal as to bring down the underground world that making it illegal has created
-Make neighborhoods and cities clean from crimes related to marijuana

Solution Section
-Legalizing marijuana to a certain extent to where people need licenses to grow/sell and to buy as well, and lowering the average price per oz.
-Taxing marijuana, like tobacco and alcohol, would generate a large amount of income
-Setting an age limit
-Making it harder and not economically sound for people to buy marijuana from homegrown dealers
-Having a set limit of marijuana that one can be in possession of at any given time would lessen the risk of people abusing marijuana

Cost Section
-It would take police and officials to regulate and create a database of growers, dealers, and those of age who can have the license

Management Section 
-It can be done in a few months after the government makes an agency to regulate and administer marijuana to the people in a safe and organized manner, and i would discuss the phases in this section

Conclusion

-Marijuana has benefits that our country can take advantage of.

Paper 5 Assignment Plan

Issue: The ban on oil drilling should not be lifted because the negative risks are not worth the suggested benefits. Instead we should consider increasing the fuel economy, increasing funding for public transportation, and plan better transportation systems while we look for an alternative energy source.

Audience (Florida Senators): They need to know the negative risks involved with oil drilling and how it can potentially jeopardize our wildlife, beaches, and tourist industry. They also need to know that there isn’t very much oil to begin with and that it won’t be Bush’s goal of being energy independent. In addition to Florida’s senators reading this letter, it could be shared with other Senators who will help contribute to the decision on whether or not the ban should be lifted. As such, they will be looking for the facts, a clear and strong proposal with plenty of details and sources to support my ethos.

Proposal Arguments: This audience looks for a straight forward proposal. The use of headings to separate the main sections will be very helpful in organizing my letter and making it easier for them to locate the information they wish to look at. I’ll start with an introduction followed by the issue and my proposed solution.

Response: I want my audience (Florida Senators) to really consider not letting the bill to lift the ban pass through the Senate. I feel that lifting the ban is the wrong direction for Florida. As such, I want them to consider other options of raising money and becoming energy independent.

Outline:

Introduction

1. My name is Elizabeth Floegel, I have lived in Orlando for 18 years, and am currently a student at UCF.
2. I am writing today to discuss the possibility that the ban on offshore drilling will be lifted
3. Lifting the ban will jeopardize our beaches, marine wildlife, and our tourist industry

 

Issue/Problem

1. After performing countless research I found that offshore drilling proposes great threats
   1. Pollutants
      1. hydrocarbons, mercury, toxic drilling muds leak into waters
      2. harmful to wildlife (causes wide range of health and reproductive problems for fish and other marine life)
   2. Oil Spills
      1. Chances of a spill or accident are heightened by being placed in hurricane prone waters
      2. Could potentially ruin a $50 billion tourist industry for an estimated $2.6 billion temporary oil industry
   3. “The technology has really changed. They can do it in a very safe way” (Dougher, senior economic advisor for American Petroleum Institute).
      1. Recent spill in Australia had “new and improved” technology yet it was a terrible spill
2. There isn’t much oil to begin with
3. Allowing the ban to be lifted jeopardizes what Florida is known for, its pristine beaches and large tourist industry

 

Solution

1. Increasing fuel economy, increasing funding for public transportation, and planning better transportation systems
   1. It would reduce our consumption of oil, making what we use go further
   2. Provide incentive to walk, ride a bike, etc.
2. Look for an alternative energy source
   1. While this isn’t as desirable for the moment due to the current poor economy, it will be better for the future
   2. It’s the only true way to be energy independent
   3. Eventually there won’t be any more oil and we’ll be forced to look for another source…why not get a head start

 

Conclusion

1. I ask that the Senate really consider not lifting the ban on offshore drilling and, instead, make better our public transportation systems and provide incentive to the American people to walk, ride bikes, use public transportation, etc.
   1. This won’t jeopardize our beaches, wildlife, or tourist industry
   2. It will reduce our consumption of oil, providing more time to find an alternative energy source and it will protect our environment/ozone (Go Green!)

 

Paper 5 Assignment Plan

Issue: With government cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), all forms of cultural and artistic expression are suffering financially, including museums, theatres, music programs, historical sites, art exhibits, and public art education. In fact, many schools no longer offer dramatic arts programs to their students due to lack of funding. This will hurt the effectiveness of a child’s education. As our world begins to rely heavily on the importance of technological advances and the cyber-world, children may find less exposure to the medium that creates history, provides inspiration, and unites communities.

Specific Position: Without the support of the government in this public-sponsored resource(public education), there is little that low income areas can do to improve the quality of arts education; as a result, the low level of emphasis placed in music, visual art, and drama classes for students can begin to damper creativity. If this continues, citizens may begin to forget the importance of the arts to our students, no matter what their age may be. (When describing this importance, I will include some correlations to the experience  of a student in a first grade music class to the skills applied by a managing executive at a large corporation- surprisingly, there are ties, which can be supported through research statistics)

Audience: I will be writing to Florida State Senator Lee Constantine, representative of District 22 (my home district). I will be utilizing my connections with Senator Constantine (He is a UCF honors graduate, was born in my hometown, and is an active member of the K-12 education committee. Yes, I was very fortunate.) He is very active in the protection of the environment, so I wish to thank him for his work, as this is something students like me still value at the University of Central Florida. Because he is an alumnus, I will also say that I place my trust in him to do all that he can for the better of our Florida education system.

Forum: This proposal will be written in a professional letter format.                           Lee Constantine is a member of the Committee on Education PreK-12, he is aware of the programs of focus in our public schools, so my focus can be directed onto the benefits of keeping funding for arts education, which will be supported by studies completed by the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies and the U.S. Department of Education. I will also support my argument with personal experiences with the arts in my education and how it involved into a philanthropic event in my 12^th grade year. I will apply an emotional appeal to my argument and maintain credibility from the studies compiled by education agencies, groups supporting the arts, and even people who do not see the importance of arts in education (counterargument).

Purpose: I want to gain his support for funding of arts education in our Florida public schools. I am also hoping that he can be a voice in the Republican party for the benefits of continued funding for arts in our publicly-run schools. I will not be talking about funding for other arts events because I want this letter to directly focus on children’s benefits of receiving a well-rounded education that has opportunity for creative outlet (My plan is to include some reference to studies I have accumulated that speak on behalf of underprivileged children and the correlation between their success rates and their exposure to expressive outlets in their education).

Some key points:

- The arts are essential to public education and the establishment of civil engagement

- It is estimated that the same amount of funding that goes into most state art programs could not even pay for 30 miles of highway construction (Ohio Arts Council)

- The NEA has served the public good for years by nurturing human creativity, supporting community spirit, and fostering appreciation for excellence and diversity of our nation’s artistic accomplishments.

- Communities of all types find ways to come together through participation, creation, and celebration of the arts and culture in their area.

- All forms of the arts- theatre, visual, and music classes for public school students- create social connections that extend way beyond community borders.

 

Thank you for any suggestions or comments

Sarah Thomas

Paper 5 Plane

Issue: Lowering the drinking age to 18 combined with making it a requirement to get licensed to buy alcohol

Position: Lower age will change teens attitude toward drinking, alcohol license will take irresponsible drinkers away from alcohol

Audience: Congressman Ander Crenshaw

Forum: Letter to congressman

Purpose: Changing the legislation

Outline:

 

INTRO

 

Who am I?

• 19 years old (not legal to drink in US)
• Enlisted at the age of 17
• Currently active in the US Marine Corps Reserve
• Canadian citizen (legal to drink in native country)

 

Why am I writing?

• Believe I have a strong ethos to my issue and have the ability to get the ball rolling

 

Significance and Stakes of problem

• New legislation will change the attitude of teen drinkers ultimately saving lives
• With more teens drinking it could result in a temporary spike in drinking related deaths

 

ISSUE

 

Understanding the issue

• Only reason the drinking age was changed back to 21 in the 1980s was because legislators were blackmailed by highway authorities with financial cuts
• Binge drinking is a huge problem in the US and is only getting worse
• Comparing US with other countries of a lower drinking age shows that the U.S. has the highest numbers of binge drinking
• The U.S. is ¼ countries with the high drinking age of 21

 

How does it effect me and others?

• Can not legally drink
• Results in people I know breaking the law, which results in less respect for the law itself
• When alcohol is obtained for a party have viewed first hand binge drinking and alcohol abuse, including pre-gaming for party then driving to it drunk because they knew they wouldn’t be able to get alcohol because of their age

 

Why should you care?

• If you’re under 21 and over 18 and want to drink legally
• Will result in more responsible teen drinkers with the education program and more respect for the law resulting in lower deaths

 

 

 

 

PROPOSAL

 

Specific claim and reasons

• Lower age
  • Show that government responds to the people and general view will be more respectful to the law
  • Make alcohol seem less like this forbidden fruit and more as a part America’s lifestyle, resulting in less binge drinking
• Education program
  • Teach teens no matter what they should always have a designated driver
  • Show teens what the signs of alcohol poisoning are and no matter what bring their friend to the hospital if they show these signs
• License
  • Make it a requirement to complete the education program to get the license to purchase alcohol
  • Could make the license restricted to age, 18 to buy beer, 21 to buy alcohol (done in other countries)
  • If someone is viewed abusing alcohol make it on a point system like a driving license, and if it’s a repeat offender make it impossible for them to buy alcohol

 

How does this address the problem?

• Will lessen binge drinking
• Instead of taking drunk drivers off the road remove them from alcohol altogether
• Knowledge is power, so if teens know more about the signs and costs of abusing alcohol they are less likely to abuse this new privilege

 

How to do it

• Grandfather people over 40 (or some high age) from the education plan, but still have to pick up the liquor license
• Everyone under the age will have to do the education program which could be done at the local DMV or online, once accomplished online a certificate could be sent into the government for the license itself
• Make it a requirement for places that sell alcohol to have magnetic scanners to scan the new ids, making it a lot harder to fake them and invalidate them if they are abusing alcohol (DUI’s)

 

END

 

• Bring this outdated law back on the legislation floor, don’t wait for more drunk teens to die on the floor because their “friends” are worried about getting caught underage drinking, and don’t see the sign that their friend is about to die, taking drunk drivers off the road is only half the problem, take them away from alcohol all together

 

 

 

Assignment Plan and Outline for Paper 5

Issue: Should Major League Baseball implement a salary cap system?

Position: I believe that a salary cap should be put in place in order to control excessive by certain teams. This would also allow more competitive balance in baseball. My proposal is that MLB should completely restrict teams from spending past a certain amount instead of simply taxing those that do go over.

Audience: The audience for my proposal is MLB Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig. As the Commissioner of MLB, he is one of the key people who could make a salary cap a reality along with the approval of the team owners and MLBPA. Selig should already be very knowledgable about this issue because of having to deal with it so many times in recent years. He has often stated that stated that a salary cap is not needed because the current luxry tax/revenue sharing system produces greater parity than in the other North American sports. However, I may be able to change his stance on the issue by showing the positive impact it would have on MLB and how badly it actually is needed. He was once the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, a small market team, so I may be able to relate to him on that point since I am a fan of the Marlins, another small market team.

Forum: The forum for this proposal argument will be a letter sent to Commissioner Selig. I believe that a letter seems more formal and shows that the issue is important.

Purpose: The goal of this proposal argument is to convince Commissioner Bud Selig that MLB needs a salary cap, and then work towards actually implementing it. I will hope to achieve this through logos and pathos. I will use statistical information to show him that despite what he and others believe, there really has not been equality and balance in MLB since the current bargaining agreement was put into place. I will try to appeal to pathos by creating a connection to Selig as we are both baseball fans of small market teams. I will also detail how the proposed salary cap should be carried out by studying aspects of the salary caps used by the NFL and NBA, showing my credibility.

 

Outline

Introduction

          - Introduce myself as a baseball fan.       

          – Discuss the issue of a salary cap in MLB, my position on the issue, and why it’s relevant to me.

          – Discuss the overall importance of the issue by showing how it affects competitive balance and the growth of the sport.

Issue/Problem

          – Use facts, statistics, and my situated ethos as a fan to show that I understand how a salar cap works as well as how the current system works.

          – Provide examples of how a salary cap could be beneficial for fans of all teams.

           – Explain how a salary cap could positively affect the growth of MLB and help certain small market teams thrive.

Proposed Solution

           – Use database to provide claims and warrants for the use of a salary cap in MLB

           – Explain how a salary cap would create competitve balance in baseball.

           – Show the feasability of proposed action by comparing with other sports and showing how the other major sports in North America have carried it out.

End

          – Restate the benefits that would come from the salary cap and how MLB will be better off with it.

          -  Connect to Selig as one baseball fan to another.

Assignment Plan/Outline Paper 5

Issue: Texting while driving ought to be banned on a national level for all ages.  I would like to see members of Congress push for a texting ban the covers all age groups.  If the ban were to pass it would make our roads safer.

Audience: My audience is my representative from my hometown 5^th Congressional district, Virginia Brown-Waite.  As a member of Congress, Congresswoman Brown-Waite knows of the piece of legislation currently in up for debate.  That piece of legislation is a ban on texting while driving by 16-18 year olds anywhere in the United States.  My representative is a republican, and republicans are known for resisting big government legislation; however, if she sees that my cause is to protect America’s safety she may be more likely to vote for the piece of legislation. 

Other Audience Members: My goal is to appeal directly to Congresswoman Brown-Waite, but parts of my letter may be brought to the House Floor.  If this happens I hope to appeal to everyone’s interest and remind members of Congress that this is an easy pass.  This piece of legislation is something a large majority of their constituents want.

Proposal Arguments: My representative would want a proposal that includes a specific suggestion for legislation and a compelling argument on why a vast majority of her constituents would support such legislation.

Response: My goal is to convince my representative to push this piece of legislation through and to hopefully convince my representative to expand the law to cover a ban on all ages.

 

Outline

Intro: -Introduce myself

-          Explain that I’m writing as a 19 year old student that knows my peers text regardless of dangers

-          Summarize the importance of banning the primary distracting component on the road

-          Explain that I’m at risk as a college student who drives on a campus packed with distracted drivers on a daily basis

Issue: -Texting and driving poses a major risk on a national level and federal legislation should be put into place to ban texting

-          26 % of Americans openly admit to texting and driving while 83 % of Americans think it should be made illegal

-          18 states plus the District of Columbia banned texting while driving (needs to made a national effort)

-          President Obama banned federal officials from texting while driving (not that far from unrealistic)

-          This is a piece of legislation that is making headway, can easily pass, and is widely recognized as crucial

Conclusion: Push legislature to think of the stardom building a piece of legislation gives to her because it is widely recognized by polls that texting while driving should be illegal

-          Most of her constituents are the baby boomer generation and they are in fear as they reach retirement of how texting while driving can jeopardize their lives

-Gavin Rynard

Assignment Plan Paper 5

Beware the Overshare!!!

Issue: Oversharing on online mediums: what can students do to make sure they get hired, not fired? The issue is that students are getting brushed aside due to careless inclusion of undesirable things on their pages.

Specific Position: The employer is in the right. Students should respect that and clean up their profiles; getting hired is more important than standing up for free speech. I am proposing that student online profiles be cleaned up by final exam time senior year for some part of their grade so that they can have the benefit of having a clean profile. Of course schools can’t force students to clean up their profiles but it could be extra credit too.

Audience: The dean of the honors college (he needs to be convinced to put on this presentation) and then it follows that the audience will be job-seeking students at UCF. I want to convince the dean to put on a presentation that will show students how and why they should clean up their profiles and then make it a part of the grade for honors symposium or something similar.

Forum: The initial forum of the argument will take place as a proposal to the dean of the honor s college asking him to help endorse the presentation to the final forum which will be a presentation/assignment to honors students in honors symposium instructing them how and why to clean up their profiles.

Purpose: instruct students on the ‘why’ of preventing oversharing and then tell them how not to do it. The greater purpose is to prevent UCF honors students from not being hired because they have inappropriate profiles-a stupid reason to not get a job after so many years of hard work. The argument will use all three appeals, logos, pathos, and ethos. The logical appeal will come from the evidence of people who have lost their jobs as a fact to oversharing. Pathological appeals will show the extreme misfortune that this can cause. Ethical appeals will simply encourage the students to be decent people in how they present themselves. Rhetorical strategies will be used throughout the paper to emphasize key points and accentuate important details.

Answers to Questions:

1) Oversharing on online mediums: what can students do to make sure they get hired, not fired? The issue is that students are getting brushed aside due to careless inclusion of undesirable things on their pages. My proposed action is to make online cleanup a part of the honors symposium grade and my argument will be directed to the dean of the honors college. I am qualified to support this because I am educated on the perils of oversharing and I am a student too.

2) The audience knows a little bit about this issue- they might know that really egregious bouts of oversharing like drug or drinking pictures can get them in trouble but they may not remove these or know how to adjust settings on their Facebook accounts. They will most likely value getting a job over anything else and will pay attention to the presentation.

3) The dean of the honors college will supervise the final distribution of the presentation and assignment but he most likely will not edit what I write for the presentation.

4) Proposal arguments directed at honors symposium students typically include an incentive like “do this or you will not pass honors symposium” so this one will too.

5) I want the audience to follow my advice and clean up their online profiles. This will save any lost souls from losing jobs.

OUTLINE

Proposal to the dean of the honors college to get him to implement a presentation and assignment into the honors symposium curriculum:

I)                    Introduction

1. Explanation of purpose, the ‘whys’ of oversharing, and how this change will benefit the students of the honors college.

II)                  The ‘whys’ of oversharing’

1. Why students do overshare
2. Why they should not overshare
3. What can happen to students if they do overshare.
4. Why students should clean up their profiles

III)                The ‘hows’ of oversharing

1. How to clean up your profile as a student
2. How to clean it up so that it can actually be a positive part of the student’s application to a job

IV)               Examples

1. Horror stories
2. Example of an online profile working in a student’s favor.

V)                 Explanation of Assignment

1. Students must clean up their profiles
2. Students must provide evidence that their profiles are clean in a presentation
3. Students can write an essay explaining why cleaning up your profile is a good idea

VI)               Awarding of grade

1. Reward for cleaning up profile
2. Explanation of reward

VII)             Overview-Main Point

1. Getting a job > free speech/looking cool/whatever else.

Database will be used to provide specific examples and substantiate claims throughout the written proposal to the dean. There will also be substatial information about the idea of the assignment and its implementation.

-Gail Parsons

paper 4 assignment plan

better late than never.

i hope.

 

assignment plan is a little shakey, lets go!

 

Topic: NASA’s spending

Issue: Should NASA’s spending be cut?

Claim: NASA is wasting money on frivolous projects, this money could be used elsewhere, we cant afford to waste money in this recession.

Counterclaim: NASA has revolutionized many industries including healthcare, computers, and communications, they can continue to do good work. its also one of america’s proudest industries. also, many hardworking, brilliant minds will be out of work if NASA goes under, which will worsen the state of our depression.

My Plan:

I’m going argue both sides of this, then reevaluate the issue with a middle ground. After establishing both sides as convincing and valuable, while telling about stakeholders, reasons, appeals, etc, I will say that there should be a necessary middle ground. We are forced into action by our circumstances but cannot move against the organization outright. I will end by proposing we monitor spending, which will be a leadin to my 5th paper.

The structure will be as such:

a thesis summary of the issue

those for cutting

those against

and the relation of these arguments in a conclusory fashion, leading into my proposal.

 

This paper will be primarily an evaluation.

 

I hope I pull /some/ points for this.

Paper 5- Go Green

Issue: Should Marijuana be legalized medicinally in the state of Florida?

My Position: I fully support Marijuana becoming a legal drug for all to use for whatever purpose they see fit.  In this case, I am very FOR legalizing marijuana for medicinal use.

Proposed Action:

I propose that marijuana shops be set-up and sold only to those who have a medicinal need for it.  The term “medicinal need” needs to be clearly defined and broken down to specific diagnosed sicknesses or diseases that would need marijuana as an aid in healing or in therapy.  The state, along with a group of certified physicians, will need to come up with a list of diseases/sicknesses in which marijuana would help the patient.  Once this list is defined then marijuana ID cards will be given to those that have been prescribed marijuana by their doctors.  There should be a database established so that everyone who receives a prescription for medicinal marijuana will be on it along with their prescription information such as remaining number of refills, what illness is being treated, physician, strength of medicinal marijuana needed, and the daily/weekly consumption prescribed by the doctor.

The information contained in the database for each patient should be accessible through the marijuana ID cards.  Meaning that whenever a patient goes to get a refill, they would only need their marijuana ID card and it would serve as both permission to buy and their prescription all in one.  This will help avoid the illegal false prescriptions that people sometimes fabricate.  Only the doctors will have this database and only they will be able to upload and prescribe medicinal marijuana to a patient in the database through the use of fingerprint technology.

I also propose that there should be a centralized area in which marijuana is sold.  This will make it much easier to control and monitor if any problems ever occur.  There should be certain rules put into effect for shop openers that would have to keep them at a certain distance away from schools, day-cares, and bus stops.  I say this not because I feel that those who use marijuana would be a threat but because I know that there are many parents out there who would like to keep their children away from this drug and as long as the child is a minor then the parents have every right to do so.  We must respect their feelings in this decision as well and keep marijuan a truly “victim-less” drug by only affecting those who are willingly affected.  (patients)

I also feel that the laws for marijuana should be similarly set-up like those for cigarettes and alcohol at the moment.  People should not be able to smoke out in public areas or drive while under the influence of marijuana.  Companies should also be able to uphold their “no drug” policy for their employees.

Audience: My audience will be the governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, and his board of executives.  I will address them through a letter that I will both mail and e-mail to the addresses indicated on his website

Purpose: My purpose here will be to convince the governor that even though not everybody benefits from the therapeutical aid of marijuana, there are many people in Florida that do and that are currently suffering because they are being denied the access to the very drug prescribed to them by their own doctors and specialized physicians.  I do not want to necessarily convince thegovernor to see everything my way and in my light, but I want to at least get him to consider and think about my goals and initiative in writing this letter.  I want him to at least put himself in the shoes of those people who could truly benefit fromt his innocent and “victim-less” drug.  I will do this with a strong use of both pathos and logos.  Pathos will be exercised through the testimonies of many people who are suffering due to illnesses like cancer, leukemia, and glaucoma and could potentially find therapy that would allow them to have a better quality of life through marijuana.  Logos will be exercised through the many sources that I will include.  I will focus in on the sources from research that has been done on marijuana and how its affects have proven to be medicinal/therapeutic.

 

-Brenda Garcia