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Summary: In response to requests for briefer and less expensive argument readers, Contemporary and Classic Arguments offers an ample selection of readings in a compact size for about half the price of similar books. Adapted from the best-selling full-size argument text/reader Current Issues and Enduring Questions, it offers both a provocative selection of contemporary arguments to engage students with some of today's most pressing topics, and a collection of classic essays that provide time-tested models of effective argument. ...show moreSummary: In response to requests for briefer and less expensive argument readers, Contemporary and Classic Arguments offers an ample selection of readings in a compact size for about half the price of similar books. Adapted from the best-selling full-size argument text/reader Current Issues and Enduring Questions, it offers both a provocative selection of contemporary arguments to engage students with some of today's most pressing topics, and a collection of classic essays that provide time-tested models of effective argument. ...show less
Preface PART I. DEBATES ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES 1. Affirmative Action: Is It Fair? Terry Eastland, Ending Affirmative Action Burke Marshall and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Not Color Blind: Just Blind 2. Cell Phones: Should Their Use While Driving Be Prohibited? Advocates for Cell Phone Safety, Yes, Prohibit Their Use Robert W. Hahn and Paul Tetlock, No, Don't Prohibit Their Use 3. Censorship: Should Public Libraries Filter Internet Sites? David Burt, Yes, Install Filters Nancy Kranich, No, Do Not Install Filters 4. Gay Marriages: Should They Be Legalized? Thomas B. Stoddard, Gay Marriages: Make Them Legal Lisa Schiffren, Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron 5. Gun Control: Would It Really Help? Sarah Thompson, Concealed Carry Prevents Violent Crimes Nan Desuka, Why Handguns Must Be Outlawed PART II. CASEBOOKS ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES 6. The Death Penalty: Can It Ever Be Justified? Edward I. Koch, Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life David Bruck, The Death Penalty Potter Stewart, Gregg v. Georgia Harry Blackmun, Dissenting Opinion in Callins v. Collins Sister Helen Prejean, Executions Are Too Costly -- Morally Casey Johnson, Yes, The Death Penalty Should Apply to Juveniles Emma Welch, No, The Death Penalty Should Not Apply to Juveniles Alex Kozinski and Sean Gallagher, For an Honest Death Penalty 7. Drugs: Should Their Sale and Use Be Legalized? William J. Bennett, Drug Policy and the Intellectuals James Q. Wilson, Against the Legalization of Drugs Milton Friedman, There's No Justice in the War on Drugs Elliott Currie, Toward a Policy on Drugs 8. The Just War: What Are the Criteria? G. E. M. Anscombe, The Criteria of a Just War Peter Steinfels, The Just War Tradition and the Invasion of Iraq George A. Lopez, Iraq and Just-War Thinking William A. Galston, The Perils of Preemptive War Andrew Sullivan, Yes, a War Would Be Moral 9. Privacy: What Are Its Limits? Amitai Etzioni,Less Privacy Is Good For Us (and You) Simson Garfinkel, Privacy under Attack Nadine Strossen, Everyone Is Watching You E-mail responses to Nadine Strossen Judith Wagner DeCew, The Feminist Critique of Privacy 10. Sexual Harassment: Is There Any Doubt About What It Is? Tufts University, What Is Sexual Harassment? Ellen Goodman, The Reasonable Woman Standard Ellen Frankel Paul, Bared Buttocks and Federal Cases Sarah J. McCarthy, Cultural Fascism 11. Torture: Is It Ever Justifiable? Clinton R. Van Zandt, It Should Not Be Permissible to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information Vincent Iacopino, It Should Be Permitted to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information Philip B. Heymann, Torture Should Not Be Authorized Alan M. Dershowitz, Yes, It Should Be "On the books" Michael Levin, The Case for Torture PART III. CLASSIC ARGUMENTS Plato, Crito The Myth of the Cave Thomas More, From Utopia Niccolò Machiavelli, From The Prince Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream Letter from Birmingham Jail Judy Brady, I Want a Wife Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics James Rachels, Active and Passive Euthanasia Index of Authors and Titles
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'Silent Hill: Revelation' is not your typical horror movie
The movie duo of "Silent Hill" and now this new, "Silent Hill: Revelation" are both based on a popular video game, so it only stands to reason that, if you failed to see the original movie (as did I) you would be as lost as if you picked up the video game for the first time, and tried to play it.
In fact, I was beyond lost, although I suspect, with the exception of The Devout (those who are deeply into the game) there were more than a few who were as lost/indifferent as myself.
Indifferent, because I found myself not the least bit interested in the main characters. In the plot, the star player, Heather, played by Michelle Williams lookalike Adelaide Clemens ("Rectify," "Parade's End," "Camilla Dickinson") a popular Australian television actress, makes it a point to tell classmates that she wants to remain anonymous and unnoticed. With me, she succeeded.
Although her parents are named "DeSilva" in the original, her last name here is Mason and British actor Sean Bean ("Lord of the Rings" movies, "Sharpe's..." series, "Patriot Games") returns from the original as her dad, Harry ("Christopher DeSilva" in the first movie, and I don't know why).
He takes a "little more than cameo" role into this movie, while the star of the original movie, Radha Mitchell ("The Crazies," "Finding Neverland," "Man on Fire"), returns in a cameo crossover link up to the first film.
Carrie-Anne Moss ("The Matrix," "Chuck," "Disturbia") as Claudia Wolf (I have NO idea who she is or where she comes from) briefly portrays the bad gal and yadda-yadda-yadda...
Simply because there is hardly any plot here -- and what there is, is nonsensical -- this movie's storyline makes the "Saw" and "Hellraiser" franchises (as bad as they were) read like "Gone With the Wind."
"Silent Hill: Revelation" is a series of horror scenes linked together with just enough spirit gum to make a movie. It was as though the writers were sitting around trying to think of a way to make their rent money.
"Hey," says Writer One, "Remember those old ideas we had for a frat party Haunted House we had in college?"
"Yeah," says Writer Two, "Let's link them all together and make a script!"
There was the carnival scene, for all of us with a clown phobia (clowns are from the circus, not the carnival, but Hollywood makes that mistake on a regular basis).
There is the very popular haunted operating room, from the first movie (and the original video game), for those who fear starch white clad nurses or the occasional appendectomy.
A really cool department store stockroom scene (the only part of the movie that I enjoyed) involved a creepy mannequins and a mannequin spider that I didn't care for.
At least the "Saw" films had a halfway entertaining way of linking the horror sequences together. In "Silent Hill," the plot seldom thickens to even the point of water.
I was unable to keep up with the plot, but I didn't really care to. I was bored with the characters and found each one with very little personality. Where the audience is supposed to care about the protagonist in a movie, I not only did not care about Heather, but was ready to kill her myself in a couple of scenes.
This movie originally got a pretty fair assessment by the different movie rating websites, but I don't know how. If you asked either of the two couples who were in the multiplex screening with me, they probably wished (as, did I) that "Silent Hill" had remained silent.
I thought it funny that I had not even heard of the first movie, even though I am an amateur film buff, as well as a smalltime critic. After seeing the sequel, I don't feel all that slighted.
This movie will not appeal to horror movie buffs, splatter movie aficionados, or even the date night crowd. Maybe the video gamers will wait patiently in their basements for the DVDs to arrive, but other than that...
Billy Summers is a freelance photographer who also reviews films for the Putnam Herald. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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