Comparing, Contrasting, and Evaluating a Pair of Arguments
Suggested Essays

From The Mercury Reader (Pearson Custom Publishing @ www.mercuryreader.com)

• Edward Abbey, "The Right to Arms"
• Adam Smith, "Fifty Million Handguns"
   
• Linda Chavez, "Demystifying Multiculturalism"
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The Debate Has Been Miscast From the Start"
   
• RoseMarie Gionta Alfieri, "Should the State Know Your HIV Status?"
• Amitai Etzioni, "HIV Sufferers Have a Responsibility"
   
• Leon R. Kass, “Why Doctors Must Not Kill”
• Jack Kevorkian, “A Case of Assisted Suicide”
   
• William Bennett, “Should Drugs be Legalized?”
• One essay arguing in favor of legalizing drugs – obtained through research
   
• Peggy Carlson, “Why We Don’t Need Animal Experimentation”
• The essay, “Animal Research Saves Lives,” by Heloisa Sabin (Wall Street Journal, 18 Oct. 1995) – referred to in the first paragraph of Carlson’s essay – obtained through research
   
• Martha Bayles, "Body and Soul: The Musical Miseducation of Youth"
• Allan Bloom, "Music"

Note: To view three sample papers in response to this assignment, go to: www.ar.cc.mn.us/stankey/Personal/TYCAPres.htm