A Strategy of Recruiting People to Your Debate Club

Disclaimer: This article is not an authoritative writing. It is particularly based on my personal experience of managing my high school debate club that was quite successful (I thank my colleagues, juniors, teachers, and school for their help), and intended to provide suggestion that may be applied to make debate club more sustainable. But I…

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This House Believes That Development Aid Should Be Made Conditional upon Recipient Country to Significantly Reduce Their Military Budget

The wording of the motion does not explicitly call for a mechanism/goal or any complex and specific setup whatsoever from Team Affirmative. However, there are several important things to focus on this motion. We get it that the military sector is generally an undesirable channel to invest DEVELOPMENTAL aid on. Team Affirmative should expect that…

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This House Believes That Developing Countries Should Heavily Prioritize Development of Soft Infrastructure over Hard Infrastructure

The stipulations are clear, the geographical bias and context is explicitly worded, so this is pretty much a straightforward motion. The goal of this motion is to have a discourse that aims to seek the best way to improve a country (of course, you don’t say). That being said, of course both Team Affirmative and…

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Points about Media in A Debate

POSITIVE POINTS We support the existence of media as the critical element of democracy. Media as a part of journalistic product brings significant contribution on ‘check and balance’ actualization. It nurtures governance process, potraying transparency and also determining accountability of each public decision which relates with social welfare. There are several characterizations of media which…

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GM HWS Round Robin 2017 Round 4 – Given the choice as an individual who is a typical, healthy 30-year-old, this house would elect to never again feel the emotion of sorrow.

Dan Lahav, HWS Round Robin 2017 Round 4 Member of Government Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/KR9RfcjOcqI?t=1866 Opening Being sick is part of nature. It is therefore part of the human experience. The flaw for Opening Opposition, however, is that the fact that something is part of human nature necessarily makes it a good part of your…

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