Essay Instructions: I go to UCLA and we turn it electronically to turnitin.com so it needs to be new not found off the web. I need an essay paper for public issue life cycle! Our essay should take utilitarianism, rights, justice/fairness, virtue ethics. All four need to be discussed within the essay. They don't have to be equally discussed because one might weigh in on the topic more then another but our professor said all four should come along some amount. Each paper will be graded on TOPIC(concreteness, originality, complexity), CONCEPTS (quality of argument and evidence), and WRITING (organization, flow, grammar, spelling). On each of these three dimensions, your paper will be evaluated as EXCELLENT, GOOD, or POOR. EXCELLENT counts three points, GOOD, two points, and POOR, one point. It has to be a public life cycle of a social issue. It has to be something real meaning there has to be articles discussed about it. I was going to do life in Iraq. She wants it to be something that maybe hit the news and then died out or got bigger. How did it break out, why are the people concerned or why and how did the media portray it! Here is what she sent out in an email that gives two examples.....
(I sent out this announcement earlier today, but since I didn’t receive a copy of the e-mail, I’m not sure whether it went through, so I am resending it.)
Your PILC analysis must be driven by some question/puzzle/tension.
Here are two examples of questions/puzzles/tensions we worked out in class:
1. Social issue PILC (paper #1):
a. In the 1970s, the issue of gay liberation was mixed in with the issue of "man-boy love" (more so in France than in the United States). Since then the two issues have separated and blown up in opposite directions, with opposite outcomes: society has become increasingly tolerant of gay man and totally intolerant of pedophiles. Why?
b. On the gay liberation issue, liberals have consistently run ahead of public opinion, conservatives behind. On the pedophile issue, conservatives have often run ahead of public opinion, liberals behind. (If you find it hard to believe that liberals would support pedophiles, consider that in 1977, in France, leading French existentialist, feminist, and postmodern intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Roland Barthes, signed a petition calling for the decriminalization of consensual sexual relationships between men and boys.) Why?
There are faxes for this order.