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Argument: Several charitable organizations in Pleasantvillle provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenager volunteers has significantly declined. The Pleasantville school board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. teachers, parents, and other community members agree that is important for young people to learn the value of community service. requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. for this reason, the Pleasntville school board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantvillle high school to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation. Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted. Response: Now a days, teenagers have more responsibilities and less leisure time and should not have another requirement of completing 40 hours of community service on their backs, limiting other important necessities they may have. Teenagers are very involved in sports, prepping for college in all sorts of ways and some even have jobs. Instead they should be given the choice but shown the importance of why and let them choose. High school is a tough time for teenagers. They are trying to balance school, sports, jobs and more. They may or may not have time to take part in social media. Although charity is important and builds character, they need to be taught that character first and be able to choose if they want make a good decision or not. College is competitive meaning students are doing all they can to get accepted. This includes taking accredited college courses in High school, performing in sports or extra curricular activities, working to build their resume and studying for the SAT(a test for students to be accepted into college). Teenagers may be more stressed if they are pushed into another responsibility. This may also cause teenagers rebel, push them over the limit or quit because it is too much to handle. Instead of forcing the teens into community service, the School Board should educate them on the importance of community service. One way they can do this is to use the ongoing motivation of getting into college as a booster with the idea that more community service can get increase their chances of getting into a good school. They can also educate them on time management so they can inevitably fit in some volunteer hours. Also incentives such as extra credit to the students who perform the most community service could also motivate the teenagers. Educating them, instead of pushing them into it can be more beneficial because it can build the students character by choosing a non-selfish decision and it can also create a more positive attitude among the students instead of the community service becoming a drag or time waster in their naive minds. Overall, the school board should not force students into 40 hours of community service due to teenagers busy schedule and for their mental health of not feeling overwhelmed but instead enlighten them about the option of participating in it. There are always alternative and positive ways into getting more participants in community service than to negatively push them into it. Some students may be able to juggle it all while other teenagers can not add anymore to their plate of responsibilities.

Claim: The emergence of the online "blogosphere" and social media has significantly weakened the quality of political discourse in the United States. Reason: When anyone can publish political options easily, standards for covering news and political topics will inevitably decline. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claims is based. Response: Over recent years, social media and blogging have become more common due to easy access to technology which has had a negative impact on the news and political issues in the United States. The affect bloggers have on social media is causing not only the news to decrease its reliable sources but also causing the people of America to not know what is true or not. People watch their daily newscasters religiously because they put their full trust in them. However lately the news have become more susceptible to gossip and social media issues than covering real facts. This is because the news has to now compete with social media and bloggers therefore diminishing the real topics in the world while increasing irrelevant topics. Although these topics may help get viewers to watch and focus on important topics, the majority of the topics are focused on smaller and non-important issues. People have become so used to gossip and entertainment that the news has to ultimately "dumb" their program down to issues such as what this political icon is wearing instead of what actions they are taking to help the community or people. The decrease in actual real news topics have made Americans confused in what is actually important or real and what is just fun or strictly opinionated. These non credited bloggers are making claims that are influencing the peoples opinions. The news networks have to follow up from these bloggers that so many people are following and continue their topics on the real news so they do not lose viewers. and continue to gain more. However, these topics the bloggers are refering to may not accredited or true, leaving Americans confused or with false information which the news viewers may be adding on to just so they can continue to make money. Although tis is causing a domino effect of dumbing down the news to further on dumbing down the American people. All in all, bloggers and social media people should control their opinions due to the affect it has on actual newscasters and their political topics they choose to discuss which have been declining in importance over the years. The American people should not have to guess if the news is reliable or if it is just another entertainment guide and the newscasters should not have to choose belittling topics just to keep viewers and compete with social media. There has to be middle ground.