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Re:Latin America

Recently there has been a claim that if there is going to be a nuclear 
war then we should be discussing it.  First, we have been discussing 
nuclear wars forever and one has never happened.  I don't think that many 
of us really think that there will be one over some issue in Latin 
America.  Secondly, aren't you sick of debating nuclear war impacts?  I 
certainly am.  

Tara Tate also claims that there would be very little impacts under the 
education and recreation topics.  I disagree.  Just because they may not 
lead to a nuclear war impact does not mean that there are not important 
impacts.  The education topic has great impacts.  For example, the future 
competitiveness of our nation with the rest of the world.  I believe that 
the impacts of topics such as education and recreation may not be as easy 
to see and weight in terms of lives lost as that of Latin America, but to 
me they seem to be much more realistic.  They have impacts that I can 
actually see and believe are happening.  

Many of you also say that Latin America has very easy access.  Again, I 
tell you that the only access we would have to anything on the Latin 
America topic that is not generic and out-dated would be through the 
internet.  It would be very difficult to do all of our research through 
the internet since our system is not open all the time and it goes down 
an awful lot.  The education topic on the other hand is very accesible 
since most schools do have an education department and material to go 
with it.  Education information is also available on the internet and 
information as to how to acces it has already been posted here on the L.

Tara Tate also claims that the Latin America is small enough.  I can not 
agree.  I think that it could be narrowed enough so that it was small, 
however I do not believe that this will happen.  I think that there is a 
tendency when it comes to foreign policy topics not to limit it enough.  
For example, the topic from the spring of last year about the US 
fostering democracy was extremely large.  You could pick just about any 
country in the world to debate about.  I fear that the same kind of 
broadness would arise in a Latin America topic.

Tara also says that the education topic could be too broad.  Of course 
all of the resolutions have the chance of being defined as large topics, 
but at least with the education topic there is a general area of research 
and a lot of general information which could help you even if the 
resolution was broad.  Also, the education topic would be very easy to 
narrow and I believe that they will.  I will get back to you all with 
specific education resolutions that I think might be fun!  Until then I
must go!  Thanks for your thoughts!  Hope you had a wonderful Easter and 
God Bless!

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Amy Anderson                                 aanders@cc.cumber.edu
Cumberland College                           (606) 539-0340
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