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Some Statements to Think About

Directions: Read the following statements.  Decide whether you agree or disagree with the particular statement.  Then, immediately following each statement, write at least 65 words telling all the reasons why you agree or disagree.  Put the number of words you have written after each section.

1. People with physical disabilities should be given special treatment in schools, stores, lines, parking lots and the like.

2. It is wrong for American companies to move their factories to countries like China where workers are paid incredibly low wages with no health benefits simple to avoid paying a hefty salary to American workers.

3. Economically poor students who have received a substandard education should be given special consideration when they begin college.

4. There are winners and losers.  Winning is the only thing that counts.

5. Society is still so tipped in favor of males that women must work much harder than men to get ahead in the professional world.

6. People can get good, meaningful jobs if they put their minds to it.

7. There is not reason ever to justify denying a person his or her God-given, “inalienable” rights.