Policy Communication-Neg-John-Edie-Holiday-Debates-Hosted-by-The-Blake-School-Module-1

School: Texas Tech University - Course: COM 2012 - Subject: Accounting

OFF T USFG Our interpretation is that AFFs should have to defend a topical policy action. They violate: "Resolved" before a colon means legislative forum ACC 13 # Army Career College. 12. Punctuation -- The Colon and Semicolon, United States Army, Warrant Officer Career College, Last Reviewed: December 19, 2013, http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/wocc/ColonSemicolon.asp Thecolon introducesthe following : A list, but only after "as follows," "the following," or a noun for which the list is an appositive: Each scout will carry the following: (colon) meals for three days, a survival knife, and his sleeping bag. The company had four new officers: (colon) Bill Smith, Frank Tucker, Peter Fillmore, and Oliver Lewis. A long quotation (one or more paragraphs): In The Killer Angels Michael Shaara wrote: (colon) You may find it a different story from the one you learned in school. There have been many versions of that battle [Gettysburg] and that war [the Civil War]. (The quote continues for two more paragraphs.)Aformal quotation or question : The President declared: (colon) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." The question is: (colon) what can we do about it? A second independent clause which explains the first: Potter's motive is clear: (colon) he wants the assignment. After the introduction of a business letter: Dear Sirs: (colon)Dear Madam: (colon) The details following an announcement For sale: (colon) large lakeside cabin with dock A formal resolution,after the word "resolved:"Resolved: (colon) Thatthis council petition the mayor . The text of the resolutioncalls for debate on hypothetical government action. Ericson et al 3 Jon M. Ericson, James J. Murphy, and Raymond Bud Zeuschner, Ericson is the dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University. He served as president of the Northern California Forensic Association (ncfa) and is a member of the forensics honor societies Pi Kappa Delta and Delta Sigma Rho. He founded the American Issues debate tournaments on value questions while he was the director of forensics at Stanford University, The Debater's Guide, Third Edition, http://hs.stdoms.org/ourpages/auto/2009/10/28/44705084/DebaterGuide.pdf In policy propositions,each topic containscertainkey elements , although they have slightly different functions from the comparable elements of value-oriented propositions. 1.Anagentto do the acting—"TheUnitedStates " in "The United States should adopt a policy of free trade." Like the object of evaluation in a proposition of value, the agent is usually the subject of the sentence.2.Theverb should—the first part of a verb phrasethat urges an action. 3. An action verb to follow should in the should-verb combination. For example,should adopthere means to put a program or policy into actionthroughgovernmental means . 4. A specification of directions or a limitation of the action desired. The phrase free trade, for example, gives direction and limits to the topic, which would, for example, eliminate consideration of increasing tariffs, discussing diplomatic recognition, or discussing interstate commerce.Propositions of policy deal withfuture action. Nothing has yet occurred. The entire debateis about whether something ought to occur . What you agree to do, then, when you accept the affirmative side in such a debate is to offer sufficient and compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. Security cooperation refers to government assistancedesigned to achieve allied strategic objectives Serafino '16 [Bolko J. Skorupski and Nina M. Serafino; August 23; Research Assistant; Specialist in International Security Affairs; Congressional Research Service, "DOD Security Cooperation: An Overview of Authorities and Issues," https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R44602.pdf] Terminology:Security Assistance andSecurity Cooperation "Security assistance" and"security cooperation"are two terms thatrefer toU.S. activitiesto train, equip, and otherwise assistforeign partners. The termsecurity assistanceis ageneric termusedthroughout the U.S. governmentto describeassistance provided to foreign militaryand security forces, regardlessof the agencyproviding that assistance . However, DOD uses the term security assistance to refer specifically to assistance provided under Title 22 authority, funded with monies appropriated to the State Department and managed by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), an agency under the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Policy.3 DODdefines"security cooperation" as abroad set of activitiesundertaken by DOD to encourage and enableinternational partners towork with the UnitedStates toachievestrategic objectives. Includedin the definitionare DOD interactions withbothforeign defenseand foreign nonmilitarysecurity establishments.Security cooperation includesall DOD-administered security assistance programsthat (1) builddefense and security relationships that promotespecific U.S. security interests, includingallinternational armaments cooperation activities and security assistance activities; (2) develop allied and friendly military capabilitiesfor self-defense and multinational operations; and (3) provide U.S. forces withpeacetime and contingencyaccessto host nations.4 According to DOD, security assistance is asubsetofDOD'ssecurity cooperation portfolio.