What to Expect Today Turn in Final Draft Comparison/Contrast
Essay 75 Readings Quiz Where Have all the Parents Gone? and If
Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger Would You? Discussion
and analysis of Quiz Readings Quiz Partner Exercise - Editing
Introduction to Argument Essay Partner Activity Pros and Cons Death
with Dignity
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Quiz Barbara Dafoe Where Have All the Parents Gone Phillip
Meyer If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger Would You?
Probably
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Analysis Barbara Dafoe Where Have All the Parents Gone Phillip
Meyer If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger Would You?
Probably
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Cause and Effect Essay This type of essay explains the cause
and effect and examines the connections between them. A cause
refers to actions or circumstances that lead to a result or
consequence. An effect means the result or consequence.
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Cause and Effect Example: The Depression Cause of The Great
Depression: stock market crash How would we elaborate? We'd discuss
the behaviors, carelessness, errors, and even cultural attitudes
that led to the crashexplaining why it was devastating. Effects of
the Great Depression: joblessness & poverty What should we say
about the effects? Businesses went underexplain HOW the crash
caused this Describe poverty in detailexplain how this couldve been
handled more efficiently or even avoided
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Analysis Barbara Dafoe Where Have All the Parents Gone?
Discusses causes of changes in family structure (increased divorce
rate, necessity of both parents working) and the role of parents
(decreased role) and the effects of this change in children.
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Background of Author Barbara Dafoe has written widely on
marriage, family and child well-being for such publications as the
Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and
Washington Post serves as the Director of Civil Society Studies at
the Institute for American Values She is conservative defender of
traditional marriage and family Wrote this essay in 1990
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Background of Author Barbara Dafoe Author of The Divorce
Culture Theme: Americans who once viewed divorce as a last resort
have come to see it as an entitlement. Whitehead does not oppose
divorce as such. She assumes that it is often the only possible
remedy for an irretrievably broken or violence-ridden marriage.
Rather, it is against casual divorce that she argues - divorce that
focuses on one person's rights, needs, and desires without regard
to the consequences for others, especially children.
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Analysis Where Have All the Parents Gone? Essay emphasizes
todays parents are not teaching good values and social policy needs
to support family values.
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Analysis Where Have All the Parents Gone? Argument 1 Kids as
capital sees children as future workers Problem with this it leaves
out the role of parents American children aren't prepared to run
the race (compete in the global economy)
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Analysis Where Have All the Parents Gone? Argument 2 In 1960,
the vast majority of all American children grew up in family
households with both married parents present in the household.
Parents stood at the center of society. Today, the majority of
American children will live either in a single-parent household or
a stepparent household during some point in their childhood. That
represents a major change in the family experience of kids
today.
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Analysis Where Have All the Parents Gone? Argument 3 Why this
change in family? What's led to that over the past 40, 50 years?
According to Dafoe, three big factors contribute to these recent
family trends. 1.High rates of divorce. Half of all marriages today
are projected to end in divorce, and that's first marriages.
There's an even higher rate for second marriages. 2.Unwed
childbearing -- many families form without marriage occurring at
all. 3.Growing level of father absence from family households.
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Analysis Where Have All the Parents Gone? Argument 4 What's
caused that? What's caused the high divorce rate, fathers dropping
out? 1. Economic factors new economic pressures of child rearing:
work longer and harder outside the home. For all but the extremely
well-off, a second income became essential 2. People changing their
minds about importance of marriage and children
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Analysis Where Have All the Parents Gone? What Needs To Be Done
(according to Dafoe)? Society must adopt family policies that value
and support parents.
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Phillip Meyer If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger
Would You? Probably Published in Esquire Magazine in 1970 Reports
on Stanley Milgrams experiment on obedience which began in July
1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war
criminal Adolf Eichmann.
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Cause - Effect Looked at Effect (Holocaust) and tried to
determine the cause of those who inflicted this horror and
brutality on people. What caused them to do this?
