Petition for Space 09-10 CX Topic

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We believe that the results of "poverty" and "health care" as the final options for the 2009-2010 national debate topic are unacceptable and based on fundamental flaws in reasoning. The graph of clear results clearly shows space winning the "1st choice" category 12-8, though health care is winning the "2nd choice" category. We ask the NFHS to please consider adding space to the ballot.

188 Signatures

  • Lawrence Chang
  • Lingxi Chenyang
    • Comments
    • В
  • Nishant Jayant
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    • В
  • Dustin Darby
  • George Liu
  • Nicholas Chan
  • Richard
    • Comments
    • Seriously.
  • Shalott Cecchini
  • Kasra Ghodsi
  • Sarwar Khan
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    • В
  • Aziz Ali
  • Aprameya Mysore
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    • the space topic would encourage a lot more in depth and innovative cases, on both critical and policy levels.
  • Darienne Hartman
  • Vijay Kasschau
  • tuyen pham
    • Comments
    • space is so much better and educational as our society is disregarding this part of our science
  • Sam Jaffe-Goldstein
  • Andrew Casso
  • Layne Kirshon
    • Comments
    • on a topic about policy-making, a healthcare topic would destroy any and all creativeness and flexibility because there would only be one affirmative. While education about healthcare is vital, that can be gained in other ways. Space accesses a much broader literature base and is more dynamic and interesting to discuss. In addition, the EXTREMELY high probability that obama will pass healthcare legislation this year could destroy the topic.
  • Natalie San Luis
  • Lazaro Cardenas
  • Jamil Ahmed
  • Nikhil Bontha
    • Comments
    • Please, reconsider the topic choices.
  • Charlie Powell
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    • Poverty and Healthcare are overused, already being debated regardless of the topic. Limiting the debate to such common arguments are not conducive to education.
  • Daniel Goldstern
  • Dylan Gorman
  • Adam Kostrinsky
    • Comments
    • Space seems like an awesome topic...healthcare and poverty don't have a good enough literature base
  • Andrew
  • lol
    • Comments
    • lol
  • Annabelle Marcovici
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    • The space topic has a much wider topic base, is better for recruiting new members who would likely fall asleep at the mere words "health care" and "poverty," makes available a plethora of impacts - from traditional hegemony to the environment (solar-powered satellites) to education, etc. and can even incorporate poverty by means of employment - there is tons of lit that talks about how revitalizing the aerospace sector opens up countless jobs and improves education. The topic is also narrow enough that there won't be too many unpredictable cases, but just enough that TOC teams would have the ability to branch out and research something wholly unique. I strongly feel that the poverty and health care topics do not have the same strength. With health care, one can choose between 5 cases total and poverty will probably be either Ks or Gilligan every round.
  • Deepesh Patel
  • Matthew
  • Regan Bozman
  • Arnav Kejriwal
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    • I respectfully disagree with the choices and hope they are reconsidered.
  • Rajesh Jegadeesh
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    • В
  • Zashaly Moreira
  • Ankit Shukla
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    • В
  • Kevin Tong
  • Stacy Kapustina
  • Philip Sailer
  • Raza Mushtaq
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    • I think the literature is very limited and doesnt provide a lot of ground for both aff and neg.
  • Reid Ehrlich-Quinn
  • Kurt Cook
  • Djallal Yahia
  • Sean Chang
  • Ian Irlander
    • Comments
    • space would be hella tight
  • scott
  • Joshua Gooldberg
  • Zack Parker
    • Comments
    • This is absurd please add space.
  • Shree Deshpande
    • Comments
    • SPACE FTW
  • Mark Trouville
    • Comments
    • space is sweet