SWA #16

Katz, Stanford. "Rewriting the Adoption Story." Family Advocates . 9. (1982): n. page. Print.


This article discusses the progression that adoption has made. It also discusses how adoption came to be, and how the first laws about it were formed.


Cook, Lawrence . "Open Adoption: Can visitation with natural family members be in the child's best interest? ." J. Family . 30.437 (1991): n. page. Print.


This article discusses that courts may feel the need to remove children from bad environments for the sake of their well-being, but should the courts place them up for adoption, thus removing all family ties and causing them to completely remove themselves from their relatives. 

SWA #15

Colby Carter
February 27th, 2012

After spending time researching my three topics on both Google Scholar and USC Library website, I found that there is a plethora of information on Open Adoption. The resources were endless and therefore causing me to lean more towards this topic. Depression, really a mental illness, had many articles but not many that were focused on what I want to write about. This is still an option for my writing. The topic that, surprisingly, had the least amount of information was the South Carolina drinking laws, therefore this topic is not in consideration for my research.

SWA #13

1.
A.South Carolina drinking laws
B. Just being somewhere where alcohol is present results in a drinking ticket.
C. I am against the laws, they prevent people from being the designated driver
D. Why they are how they are

2.
A. Open adoption records
B. Adoptive parents want to keep it a secret from the child that they are adopted
C. I am for open records
D. How to change this and why it is the way that it is

3.
A. Depression, really a chemical imbalance or a persons state of mind
B. People assume that being happy is a choice, and that a person has complete control over that decision
C. As a person diagnosed with depression, this is not the case for me
D. Explain that it is a chemical imbalance

SWA #12

Waters, Alice. "A Healthy Constitution." The Carolina Reader: Third Edition. Ed. Lee Kauknight and W. Matthew J. Simmons. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2012. 337-338. Print.

Water says that food can be used “to teach values that are central to democracy” by “becoming connected to the community and the land.” It is also linked with the values that lead our deomcrazy. Waters uses an example of a school who used home-grown and healthy foods and how it improved the student behavior. I do believe that more statistics and more thorough examples would help her prove her point and make her case even more convincing.  

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While this may seem like a hard thing to accomplish, it has been done before and the results are very impressive. In 1998 the US decided on a Tobacco settlement. The tobacco companies agreed to switch from marketing “pro” smoking, to start the show the harmful affects that smoking has. Since this was set into affect, more than half of the smokers have quit, and the smoking rates are half of what they were. The unhealthy foods that have been proposed to have higher taxes have a direct link to Type 2 diabetes and other heart affects. The essay states that while you may be drinking a sugary drink, it is not in place of something unhealthy, it is in addition to. Which is adding to the daily calorie intake. The idea is that the money from the taxes will be used to lower health care costs, and help farmers who produce healthy items have a cheaper production. 

Colby Carter

February 15^th, 2012

Title: Bad food? Tax it

Thesis: The number of obese people in America is steady increasing year by year, the foods that cause this are usually the cheapest, so this theory is to raise the cost of those fatty foods, lower the cost of healthy foods and the number of obese people will decrease.

A. How do you justify taxes foods and increasing the cost of “bad” foods?

1. Per-Unit tax
2. Consumption of unhealthy beverages decreases, so does public health costs
3. Make the change, and see the reward
4. Examples of other countries that are doing this already

B. While this may seem like a hard thing to accomplish, it has been done before and the results are very impressive.

1. 1998 Tobacco settlement
2. Sugary drinks only add calories, not replace
3. Examples of the Tobacco settlement and the doubts that people have about this

C.The predictions for what will happen to Americans if this is put to action is very convincing.

1. List statistics
1. List other ideas of change

D. The changes that would occur due to this increase in tax can only benefit Americans, it does not make sense that a country with health issues like our should not implement something of this nature. 

Concerns

1. Being too repetitive
2. Not enough information
3. Not enough points
4. Too short

SWA #6

SWA #6

The same product, different brands, and two completely different target markets. These are two very well-known, high standard brands, Dior and Juicy Couture, are both advertising perfume. Dior's ad is simply and classy, drawing the attention of the more sophisticated reader. While the Juicy Couture ad draws the attention of the younger reader. The bright colors and fun logo is used to attract attention to the youthfulness feel of the ad. While both ads have the option to smell the perfume, the way that it is positioned on the ad also aids the assumption of who the target market is. The Dior ad has the classic flap on the side of the page to lift and smell the scent. While Juicy Couture has the scent flap positioned on the bottle of perfume that the model is holding, it has a shiny paper over the top of it drawing attention to it. 

SWA #5

SWA #5

The publication that my articles were found in is Glamour Magazine. Glamour discusses the topics of Fashion, Beauty, Entertainment, Sex and Love, Weddings, and Health and Diet. The target demographic is women ages 18 through 49. The majority of products being advertised are clothing, perfume, make-up, eye wear, and movies. All the advertisements have a direct relationship with the topics being covered. The publisher assumes that the women reading this magazine are interested in the latest trends and enjoy reading the topics covered.