Please choose one of these questions total (not per reading one per each section) to turn in for your Guided Reading Question Assignment.
Your guided reading questions should be typed up and submitted by clicking on this title. Your response should be 8-10 sentences long (if it’s longer that is fine) and it should integrate at least 1 quote from the assigned reading in MLA format. Be thorough in your responses and think of examples.
– Please conclude your response with a question at the end about the topic (ethics, concept, you are discussing, etc.).
(https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html(Links to an external site.).
Please see the rubric for this assignment below.
P. 577-590 Doing Ethics
1. What is legalization, criminalization, decriminalization, and harm reduction (579)?
2. What is gun control and its different variations (581-582)?
3. What are Degrazia’s policy recommendations pertaining to gun control (582)?
4. How would a utilitarian perceive drug use (585)?
5. What is the harm principle, paternalism principle, and legal moralism (585-587)?
p.593-600 Doing Ethics
1. Why is it “absurd” to deprive an adult of a drug (593-594) according to Szasz?
4. Why do most people take drugs (595)?
5. How should “dangerous drugs” be treated and why (599?
p.601-609 Doing Ethics
1. Why did heroin addiction decrease in the 1970’s (601–602)?
2. How is crack worse than heroin (646-647)?
3. What are the benefits of making drugs illegal (604-605)?
4. Why would legalizing drugs like cocaine contribute to the degradation of the human personality for Wilson (throughout the entire essay)?
“The Price We Pay” PDF (see below)
1. What is pornography (237)?
2. What are the harms caused to the participants of pornography (238-239)?
3. What are the connections between the dehumanization of girls and women in pornography and rape, battering, sexual murder, etc. (242-243)?
4. What are the different philosophical views on rights? What is the liberal sexual morality perspective on rights (243-245)?
5. How is sexual autonomy constrained by the harm principle (247-248)?
Rubric:
| Score | Description |
| 15-14 (A) | ▪ Responses are thorough and analyze the content or question asked.▪ They make connections to the course content and/or other experiences through integrating textual references from the assigned reading (quotes from the text that are relevant to the point being made and explained in one’s own words and properly cited in MLA format).▪ Responses are posted by the due date and fulfill the length requirements.▪ Response asks a thorough question about the topic, concepts, ethics. |
| 13-12 (B) | ▪ Responses are generally thorough and mostly analyze the content or question asked.▪ They make connections to the course content and/or other experiences through integrating textual references from the assigned reading (quotes from the text) that are sometimes relevant to the point being made and mainly explained in one’s own words and properly cited in MLA formal.▪ Responses are posted by the due date and fulfill the length requirements.▪ Response asks a question about the topic, concepts, ethics but it is a bit unclear. |
| 11 (C) | ▪ Responses are not always thorough and do not clearly analyze the content or question asked.▪ They make connections to the course content and/or other experiences, but they don’t always integrate textual references from the assigned reading and the quotes are not explained clearly. MLA format is not consistently followed. ▪ Responses posted by the due date and fulfill the length requirements.▪ Response fails to ask a question at the end. |
| 10-9 (D) | ▪ Responses are not thorough and do not really analyze the content or question asked.They make a few connections to the course content and/or other experiences, but textual references are either not integrated or improperly integrated. MLA format is not followed. ▪. Response does not fulfill the length requirements. |
| Below 9 (F) | Responses are extremely vague and does not analyze the content or question asked.Connections are not made to the course content and/or other experiences and there are no textual references. MLA format is not followed.Response does not fulfill the length requirements. |
Your guided reading questions should be typed up and submitted by clicking on this title. Your response should be 8-10 sentences long (if it’s longer that is fine) and it should integrate at least 1 quote from the assigned reading in MLA format. Be thorough in your responses and think of examples.
– Please conclude your response with a question at the end about the topic (ethics, concept, you are discussing, etc.).
(https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_in_text_citations_the_basics.html(Links to an external site.).
Please see the rubric for this assignment below.
P. 577-590 Doing Ethics
1. What is legalization, criminalization, decriminalization, and harm reduction (579)?
2. What is gun control and its different variations (581-582)?
3. What are Degrazia’s policy recommendations pertaining to gun control (582)?
4. How would a utilitarian perceive drug use (585)?
5. What is the harm principle, paternalism principle, and legal moralism (585-587)?
p.593-600 Doing Ethics
1. Why is it “absurd” to deprive an adult of a drug (593-594) according to Szasz?
4. Why do most people take drugs (595)?
5. How should “dangerous drugs” be treated and why (599?
p.601-609 Doing Ethics
1. Why did heroin addiction decrease in the 1970’s (601–602)?
2. How is crack worse than heroin (646-647)?
3. What are the benefits of making drugs illegal (604-605)?
4. Why would legalizing drugs like cocaine contribute to the degradation of the human personality for Wilson (throughout the entire essay)?
“The Price We Pay” PDF (see below)
1. What is pornography (237)?
2. What are the harms caused to the participants of pornography (238-239)?
3. What are the connections between the dehumanization of girls and women in pornography and rape, battering, sexual murder, etc. (242-243)?
4. What are the different philosophical views on rights? What is the liberal sexual morality perspective on rights (243-245)?
5. How is sexual autonomy constrained by the harm principle (247-248)?
Rubric:
Score
Description
15-14 (A)
▪ Responses are thorough and analyze the content or question asked.
▪ They make connections to the course content and/or other experiences through integrating textual references from the assigned reading (quotes from the text that are relevant to the point being made and explained in one’s own words and properly cited in MLA format).
▪ Responses are posted by the due date and fulfill the length requirements.
▪ Response asks a thorough question about the topic, concepts, ethics.
13-12 (B)
▪ Responses are generally thorough and mostly analyze the content or question asked.
▪ They make connections to the course content and/or other experiences through integrating textual references from the assigned reading (quotes from the text) that are sometimes relevant to the point being made and mainly explained in one’s own words and properly cited in MLA formal.
▪ Responses are posted by the due date and fulfill the length requirements.
▪ Response asks a question about the topic, concepts, ethics but it is a bit unclear.
11 (C)
▪ Responses are not always thorough and do not clearly analyze the content or question asked.
▪ They make connections to the course content and/or other experiences, but they don’t always integrate textual references from the assigned reading and the quotes are not explained clearly. MLA format is not consistently followed.
▪ Responses posted by the due date and fulfill the length requirements.
▪ Response fails to ask a question at the end.
10-9 (D)
▪ Responses are not thorough and do not really analyze the content or question asked.
They make a few connections to the course content and/or other experiences, but textual references are either not integrated or improperly integrated. MLA format is not followed.
▪. Response does not fulfill the length requirements.
Below 9 (F)
Responses are extremely vague and does not analyze the content or question asked.
Connections are not made to the course content and/or other experiences and there are no textual references. MLA format is not followed.
Response does not fulfill the length requirements.