Revised Thesis

In it's current state fracking, a way to obtain natural gas, has it's ups and downs. The procedure is a step towards clean energy however, it leads to pollution and use of trillions of gallons of water.  With the right modifications to its procedure and fixing human mistakes, the energy industry may be able to turn it into a safe and reliable source of energy.

My subtopics will be about the cost of this procedure, problems with the current procedure, regulation of the industry, and the environmental pollution it is causing.

My claim is important because it focuses on how an industry is having negative effects on the environment and people. My subtopics will exactly what the problems are that make this procedure negative in certain areas.

Toward a Policy on Drugs

Narrow topic:

A policy to minimize drug abuse.

Thesis:

I do not think that either approach take sufficient account of the social realities of drug abuse...
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Expectations:

Discuss
a. Criminal justice system
b. Try a different approach to drugs
c. Refer to other countries situation and how they deal with it
d. Explanation of why our current policy doesn't work

Subtopics and sub points:

- Current status of war on drugs
a. Define usage
b. Define punishments
c. How war on drugs should work and why it doesn't
d. Showing the economic implications of our course of action

- Legalizing as a solution
a. Deregulation
b. Decriminalization
c. Medicinal drug trade

- Crime
a. Correlation between violence and crime
b. Arguing against correlation

Conclusion:

Before we offer a solution, we need to understand the problem better

BS

I think the primary claim in this episode of Bull Shit is that college is a flawed system because they're to concerned with diversity. It did a good and bad job at focusing on the different parts of college that they thought was Bull Shit. I liked how they focused how language codes were stifling the first amendment but I didn't like how they interviewed Noam Chomsky, they didn't include much of his responses to their questions.