Help!

[TheSlyMoogle]

So I have to write a paper in my English class about whether I think the war in Iraq is a Justified war.

So I need five sources from which I pull information from on my paper.

He says that internet sources are ok for this paper, because it's hard to find a lot of material offline about it.

Basically could you guys post some websites that contain information about the war (i.e. How much it has cost so far, how many people have died, when it was declared, blah blah.)

This would help a lot, because I know a lot of you people are politically savvy and I'm definatly not.

Thanks in Advance my friends!

[Crono]

Please don't tell me that you're writing about how this war was just for oil, or something stupid like that.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Crono

Please don't tell me that you're writing about how this war was just for oil, or something stupid like that.

After the war started, didnt you tell me you thought it was over that? Maybe it was someone else.

I think Dylflon knows a lot of good sources, he did a lot of research on it a while back.

[Professor S]

A better question would be "Why are you writing a paper on Iraq in an ENGLISH class?"

Sounds like another example of a teacher trying to impose through implication and guided discussion their views on politics to their students. I'm currently getting my teacher certification and I will NEVER bring up my views on politics in the classroom in any fashion, In my opinion thats an abuse of power by a teacher.

You should be writing a paper on James Joyce or Chaucer, not the friggin' war in Iraq.

[Blackmane]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

A better question would be "Why are you writing a paper on Iraq in an ENGLISH class?"

Sounds like another example of a teacher trying to impose through implication and guided discussion their views on politics to their students. I'm currently getting my teacher certification and I will NEVER bring up my views on politics in the classroom in any fashion, In my opinion thats an abuse of power by a teacher.

You should be writing a paper on James Joyce or Chaucer, not the friggin' war in Iraq.

I had an english teacher last semester (she was black) and almost all the essays we had to read were about racial discrimination, environment disasters, and other radical idealist essays. I was so pissed at all the crap I had to read and write about.

One of my classmates actually brought it up to her in private, and she targetted him in front of the class to make him sound like a bigot and a racial bastard. Now that is wrong.

Too many teachers think that their job is to show kids how to think and what to believe because that is what they believe. It is ridiculous.

[Jonbo298]

Vampyr's post is the only one that goes with the thread....

But anywho, I don't know of much but hopefully people answer the original question of the sources. I usually just follow the news/yahoo/google.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Blackmane

I had an english teacher last semester (she was black) and almost all the essays we had to read were about racial discrimination, environment disasters, and other radical idealist essays. I was so pissed at all the crap I had to read and write about.

One of my classmates actually brought it up to her in private, and she targetted him in front of the class to make him sound like a bigot and a racial bastard. Now that is wrong.

Too many teachers think that their job is to show kids how to think and what to believe because that is what they believe. It is ridiculous.

I agree completely. In my opinion, if you have to reinforce your opinion by making 30 kids ignore what they should be studying to stroke your ideals, you should not be a teacher. If religion is banned from schools, so should politics.

[TheSlyMoogle]

*Smiles*

Yes my English teacher is probably trying to get me to be liberalist or something, but that's besides the point, people are always going to do stuff like that, and you know, it happens.

Oh well.

But none of the arguments in the thread helped me at all.

[GameMaster]

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

I agree.