October 29, 2012

1. October 29, 2012 Journal Explain the difference between dressing like a pop star and dressing like a rock star. Write a thesis and give evidence to prove your point. Quote The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -Joe Ancis Word of the Day The child was clearly ingenuous, as she did not understand the mean names that her older siblings were calling each other.

2. Pop Star v. Rock Star

3. Ingenuous (adjective) • Sincere; artless; innocent; naïve

4. Reminders/Announcements • Spelling test: November 13. • Two weeks left in the trimester. Do me a flavor, kiddos, take the tests and turn in your make up work. • Lady or the Tiger?essay will be due on Tuesday, November 6th. We have a work day Friday. Depending on how you use your time will decide if you get another work day.

5. Review • Introduction • Thesis • Evidence

6. Inference • What is it? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHUgdwyxTF0

7. Conclusions • This wraps things up. • It leaves the reader thinking about what they learned. • You should re-state your thesis, in a slightly different way.

8. Moral Dilemmas • What is a moral dilemma? • What you need to do… • Be QUIET!!! • Decide which side you want to go to. • Move to that side of the room. • Write a thesis that explains why you came to that conclusion. • We will discuss the dilemma. • If you change your mind, move to the other side of the room.

9. The Traffic Light • It’s late at night and no one is around. You come to a traffic light and it turns red. You can see clearly in both directions that no one is around. Do you stop because it’s the law or do you run the red light?

10. Heinz’s Dilemma • In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. the drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $400 for the radium and charged $4,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money and tried every legal means, but he could only get together about $2,000, which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying, and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said, "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from if." So, having tried every legal means, Heinz gets desperate and considers breaking into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.

11. Concentration Camp You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?

12. The Accident • You are an emergency worker that was driving along and came upon the scene of an accident. When you arrive you see that the car belongs to your wife. Fearing the worst you rush over to see she is trapped in her car with another man. • She sees you and although barely conscious, she manages to mouth the words “I’m sorry”… • You don’t understand, but her look answers you question. The man next to her is her lover with whom she’s been having an affair. • You reel back in shock, devastated by what her eyes have just told you. As you step back, the wreck in front of you comes into focus. You see your wife is seriously hurt and she needs attention straight away. Even if she gets attention there’s a very high chance she’ll die. • You look at the seat next to her and see her lover. He’s bleeding heavily from a wound to the neck and you need to stem the flow of blood immediately. It will only take about 5 minutes to stop, but it will mean your wife will definitely die. • If you tend to your wife however, the man will bleed to death despite the fact it could have been avoided. • Who would you choose to work on?

13. The Pregnant Woman • A pregnant woman leading a group of people out of a cave on a coast is stuck in the mouth of that cave. In a short time high tide will be upon them, and unless she is unstuck, they will all be drowned except the woman, whose head is out of the cave. Fortunately, (or unfortunately,) someone has with him a stick of dynamite. There seems no way to get the pregnant woman loose without using the dynamite which will inevitably kill her; but if they do not use it everyone will drown. What should they do?

14. Sophie’s Choice • You are an inmate, imprisoned in a concentration camp. A guard tells you that you must choose one of your two children for him to take to the gas chamber. You have an eight-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter. If you choose neither, he will take them both. What would you do?

15. A Mad Bomber • A madman who has threatened to explode several bombs in crowded areas has been apprehended. Unfortunately, he has already planted the bombs and they are scheduled to go off in a short time. It is possible that hundreds of people may die. The authorities cannot make him divulge the location of the bombs by conventional methods. He refuses to say anything and requests a lawyer to protect his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. In exasperation, some high level official suggests torture. This would be illegal, of course, but the official thinks that it is nevertheless the right thing to do in this desperate situation. Do you agree?

16. The Airplane • You are on a plane that is crashing. When the emergency lights come on and the oxygen masks come down, no oxygen mask comes down in front of the person sitting next to you. Do you give up your oxygen mask for this person, or do you let them fend for themselves? Another option is possibly to share, to take turns, but this could result in both people dying. For some people, it might depend on who is sitting next to them. If it was a loved one, especially someone’s child, the answer might be clearer. What if it were a stranger? Would you be as eager to give up your life for that of someone you don’t know?