Paper on Assisted Suicide needs to be 1000-1200 words before works cited page. USE CREDIBLE SOURCES I.E. NO WIKIPEDIA! NO MORE THAN 20% OF THE PAPER SHOULD BE SOURCES! ¶ 1= Explain the issue and describe the Rhetorical situation: Exigence, Interested parties, and Constraints ¶ 2= First perspective ¶ 3= Second perspective ¶ 4= Third perspective ¶ 5= What is the author’s view and why they believe that way For your first formal assignment, you must write an exploratory argument of 1,000 to 1,200 words on the academic issue that you have identified in the journal article you summarized and the three subsequent articles you have found and read. Your exploratory argument must follow MLA style, including the use of parenthetical citations and a “Works cited” page. Your exploratory argument is not designed to convince or to persuade readers of a position. It is an exploration of ideas designed to stimulate and to clarify your own thinking on the issue you have chosen. Although you may already have beliefs and opinions about the issue you have selected, you should set your views aside and focus on examining your sources’ various positions on the issue. Although you will state your tentative position on the issue in your conclusion, readers should not be able to discern your position until that point in your argument. Effective arguments of all types must present all sides of an issue fairly. The success of your exploratory argument will hinge upon how well you can do this. When you read and describe opposing points of view, always give the authors and their ideas the benefit of every doubt. Try to understand how these authors arrived at their positions. You should rely primarily on summary and paraphrase, rather than direct quotation, in presenting the ideas of your source. Your use of paraphrase and summary, however, does not reduce your obligation to cite the sources of your ideas, using parenthetical citations and appropriate signal phrases. Your exploratory argument must provide sufficient background on the issue about which you are writing, describe the various positions taken by the authors you cite and the evidence they use to support those positions, and, in your conclusion, explain the tentative position that you have reached, based on your limited research. • Your exploratory argument must be 1,000 to 1,200 words long (excluding the works cited page). STUDENT EXAMPLE: Student Name ENG 111 Exploratory Essay 13 March 2005 Home-Schooling Vs. Traditional Forms of Education The home school movement has grown from 100,000 in 1984 to nearly 2 million home-schooled students today (Lyman par.3). Not that long ago, the thought of schooling children at home was almost unheard of and thought to be something that would be done in the pioneer days. In 1969, Raymond Moore, a former U.S. Department of Education employee, and John Holt, a veteran teacher in alternative style schools, laid the foundation for what some have ca.

1. Paper on Assisted Suicide needs to be 1000-1200 words before
works cited page.
USE CREDIBLE SOURCES I.E. NO WIKIPEDIA!
NO MORE THAN 20% OF THE PAPER SHOULD BE
SOURCES!
¶ 1= Explain the issue and describe the Rhetorical situation:
Exigence, Interested parties, and Constraints
¶ 2= First perspective
¶ 3= Second perspective
¶ 4= Third perspective
¶ 5= What is the author’s view and why they believe that way
For your first formal assignment, you must write an exploratory
argument of 1,000 to 1,200 words on the academic issue that
you have identified in the journal article you summarized and
the three subsequent articles you have found and read. Your
exploratory argument must follow MLA style, including the use
of parenthetical citations and a “Works cited” page.
Your exploratory argument is not designed to convince or to
persuade readers of a position. It is an exploration of ideas
designed to stimulate and to clarify your own thinking on the
issue you have chosen. Although you may already have beliefs
and opinions about the issue you have selected, you should set
your views aside and focus on examining your sources’ various
positions on the issue. Although you will state your tentative
position on the issue in your conclusion, readers should not be
able to discern your position until that point in your argument.
Effective arguments of all types must present all sides of an
issue fairly. The success of your exploratory argument will
hinge upon how well you can do this. When you read and
describe opposing points of view, always give the authors and
their ideas the benefit of every doubt. Try to understand how
these authors arrived at their positions. You should rely
primarily on summary and paraphrase, rather than direct
quotation, in presenting the ideas of your source. Your use of

2. paraphrase and summary, however, does not reduce your
obligation to cite the sources of your ideas, using parenthetical
citations and appropriate signal phrases.
Your exploratory argument must provide sufficient background
on the issue about which you are writing, describe the various
positions taken by the authors you cite and the evidence they
use to support those positions, and, in your conclusion, explain
the tentative position that you have reached, based on your
limited research.
• Your exploratory argument must be 1,000 to 1,200 words
long (excluding the works cited page).
STUDENT EXAMPLE:
Student Name
ENG 111
Exploratory Essay
13 March 2005
Home-Schooling Vs. Traditional Forms of
Education
The home school movement has grown from 100,000 in
1984 to nearly 2 million home-schooled students today (Lyman
par.3). Not that long ago, the thought of schooling children at
home was almost unheard of and thought to be something that
would be done in the pioneer days. In 1969, Raymond Moore, a
former U.S. Department of Education employee, and John Holt,
a veteran teacher in alternative style schools, laid the
foundation for what some have called one of the greatest
educational movements of our time. In the years since, home
schooling has become more widely known and many people are
taking into consideration the possibility of this untraditional
form of elementary and secondary education. There are three
different points of view about home schooling: There are people
who believe that home schooling is the best form of education;
there are those who believe that public school will provide the
best education; and there are people who believe that private
school provides a better education.

3. There are many reasons why people choose to support
home schooling. Some people think that children can get a
better education at home, compared to a traditional form such as
public or private school. “Popular belief holds that home
schooled children are socially backward and deprived, but
research shows the opposite: that home-schooled children are
actually better socialized than their peers,” says Claudia
Hepburn, Director of Education Policy at the Fraser Institute
(Taylor par.2). Some people are home schooled for religious, or
family reasons. Some people believe that they can better
develop their child’s character or morality by teaching them at
home. Susanne Allen, 35, a home-schooling mother from
Atlanta, claims that being schooled at home will make her
children “better citizens” because home schooling gives
children the opportunity to work together rather than working
individually. Allen said, “They learn to be caring for other
people by seeing older siblings care for them” (Cloud par.16).
Home schoolers are really being prepared for the real word,
contrary to what some may believe. Working with their siblings
at home prepares them for the relationships that they will have
outside of the home.
Some people dislike public or private school education because
they object to what the schools teach or because they believe
that there are too many student behavior problems. Luigi
Manca, a communications professor at Benedictine University
in Lisle, Ill., who home schools his daughter says, “The
problem is the schools have abandoned their mission. They’ve
forgotten about educating” (Cloud par.8). Amy Langley, a home
school mother of two in Decatur, Georgia, believes that “Two-
income families don’t participate enough to make public schools
work, and too much class time is spent on discipline” (Cloud
par.16). There are many people who believe that the pros of
home schooling outweigh the cons, but there are still people
who believe that the traditional forms of education are better.
One of those traditional forms of education is public
school. Some people choose to send their children to public

4. school because they went to public school themselves and they
never really thought of doing something different for their
children. Another reason is that many families cannot afford to
send their children to private school or to teach at home because
both cost more money than you would spend to support the PTA
at a public school. Some parents believe that the public schools
are changing their methods to provide a more challenging
curriculum by piling on the homework and adding more tests to
the syllabus. In 1997 in a Public Agenda survey, 42% of parents
of kids in public school said private schools had higher
standards; only 22% said their own schools were more
demanding. But in a new survey, Public Agenda found that 35%
of public school parents still think that private schools are more
demanding and 34% think public schools are tougher (Carnahan
par.17). Of this year’s Presidential Scholars, 107 attend public
schools. Of National Merit Scholars, three-fourths attend public
schools, and nearly two-thirds of Harvard freshmen come from
public schools (Carnahan par. 8). These statistics show that a
public school education may be the best choice. Public school
education may be getting better, but there are still those who
believe the only good education is a private school education.
Private school is the other traditional form of education
that most people are accustomed to. A reason some people
choose private school over their other options is because they
think spending the extra money will guarantee them a better
education. Some parents, like Susan Rhea of Dayton, Ohio,
choose a private school education over a public one because
they feel that their children are not being challenged in public
school. Rhea, who pulled her first grade son out of public
school, says, “His school just wasn’t challenging” (Carnahan
par. 1). Another reason might be that people think that private
schools are run very well compared to the public schools, which
are overseen by local governments. Statistics show that
national test scores would be even lower than they are now if
the private schools were omitted from the total results. Private
school supporters believe that the government number crunchers

5. show conclusively that far better results are being produced by
private schools. Some parents also appreciate the religious or
moral foundations of many private schools.
Everyone has an opinion about education and which form
is the best. Home schooling is the new form of education that is
rising in popularity, public school is a form of education that
has been around for many years and is most widely used, and
private school is the other traditional form of education that
some people still trust over the other options. The evidence
shows that home schooling is the best form of education. Home
schoolers achieve higher test scores than students in other forms
of education do. Public and private schools waste time on things
that are not relevant to school. Home schoolers learn
socialization skills away from the dangers and peer pressure
associated with public and private schools, and home schoolers
learn study skills and develop the ability to direct and organize
themselves toward a goal. College admissions officers have
begun to seek out home schoolers because they have already
developed the study habits that university students need. Home
schooling seems to be the obvious choice for education because
of all the evidence supporting it. Home schooling has not
always been a popular form of education, but it has grown in
size and popularity for the short amount of time that it has been
around.
Works Cited
Carnahan, Ira. “Public Choice.” Forbes. 11 June 2001.
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¶ 1= Explain the issue and describe the Rhetorical situation:
Exigence, Interested parties, and Constraints
¶ 2= First perspective
¶ 3= Second perspective
¶ 4= Third perspective
¶ 5= What is the author’s view and why they believe that way
Respond in 100 words
You learned of critical and sensitive periods in development in
this unit. Watch the following video and read the case study.
Human Early Learning Partnership. (2010, January 12). The
Importance of Early Childhood Development. [Video file].
Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89VFIk4D-
s
Case study
You are the director of an early childhood program serving teen
mothers and their babies based in the local alternative high
school. Your community is partnering with the high school to
work with pregnant teen mothers early in their pregnancy to
provide education and resources. You are developing an
interactive presentation for these mothers targeted at discussing
critical and sensitive periods of development in early childhood
and how they differ.
Your answers to the following Discussion topics should be

7. framed for teen mothers and give specific examples from
development.
· Contrast critical periods and sensitive periods of development.
· What types of biological and environmental issues can affect
critical and sensitive periods of development and why?
· Explain how culture affects development. Please give original
and specific developmental examples .
Running head: ASSISTED SUICIDE
Layeni 1
Ayotunde Layeni
Professor Wilson
ENGL 1301-11162
22 January 2014
Assisted Suicide
Assisted suicide is considered a suicide undertaken with the
help of another person or group of people mainly when an
individual is suffering from physical illness. This issue has
attracted a heated debate across the globe because most people
consider it to go against the morals of the society (Kopelman,
De & Society of Health and Human Values 47). Moreover, it
presents religious, ethical and legal concerns as to whether it
should be allowed or not. However, certain countries have
legalized assisted suicide where the patient has the right to take
the final act. While countries and some medical practitioners
allow assisted suicide, it triggers controversies as to what
grounds should it be allowed. Religious and cultural basis has a
vital role in deciding on the issue.
However, several questions arise; do individuals have a right to
die? Is it morally upright to participate in assisted suicide?
What impact does assisted suicide have on the society and
future generations? Does it mean people control life (Friedman
6)?
I am curious about the issues of assisted suicide because it
affects life. It might not affect my life directly but it does affect

8. the way I think concerning the issue. I want to understand on
what legal grounds is assisted suicide allowed given that the
cultural contradictions pose several challenges (Rubin, 1). I am
interested in knowing how families of a patient considering
assisted suicide base their decisions and how they live without
being haunted by the act.
I already know that assisted suicide exists. Some people allow it
even when they know it goes against their religious beliefs.
Furthermore, certain cultural groups do not allow assisted
suicide even when they know the person is feeling unbearable
pain. Life is vital and should be respected hence most people
stick by that.
I need to find out the perceptions of different races and ethnic
communities across the globe concerning assisted suicide. I
would like to how the citizens of those countries who consider
assisted suicide legal believe and picture the issue. I also want
to establish whether or not more countries are willing to
incorporate the idea in their constitution (Friedman 39).
Works Cited
Friedman, Mark Assisted suicide. Oxford: Raintree. 2012. Print
Kopelman, Loretta and Society of Health and Human Values.
Physician-assisted suicide. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. 2001.
Print
Rubin, Edward. Assisted suicide, morality, and law: Why
prohibiting assisted suicide violates the establishment clause.
Vanderbilt Law Review, 63(3), 761-811.2010. Web. 22 Jan 2013
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