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Let's Just Ban Everything

Summary

By Alayna, Arya, Isabella, Oluwapelumi

Author

Ken Hamner

Thesis

It is justified- the personal freedoms of a few don’t outweigh the long-term personal right to longevity of the many.

Thesis

Summary of Introduction:

Grandparents had tobacco-related cancer and unfortunately passed. Hamner was interested to see how second hand smoking relates to health-risk statistics.

Summary Of

introduction

Summary

Just because you don't agree what someone is doing with their body doesn't mean you have the right to get it banned. For example; if you don't like smoke, simply avoid it or do the best you can to avoid it. Most people understand the things that they are doing to their body effect them in a negative way. However, they still continue to do it and that is their decision that they are making. Anything can hurt you; You can not just ban everything.

Main Points

The first two examples are somewhat understandable of wanting to put restrctions on. Then it slowly starts to support the thesis better.

It is peoples decisions to be doing unhealthy things to their body.

Examples

Example 1

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Alcohol produces physiological and psychological addiction, cancer, heart disease, immune suppression and brain damage. The dumb actions you do when you are drunk is your own responsibility.

Example 2

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Cholesterol is harming people and giving them heart disease. There is a lot of cholesterol in hamburgers and fast food. Fast-food industries are addicting little kids to hamburgers and greasy foods.

Example 3

The Blue Bonnet girl is getting young teenage males to eat more butter.

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Example 4

Guns are a big short-term health risk and so are knives. If we get rid of "dangerous" red meant we don’t need knives anyways. Basically anything sharp we should ban.

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Example 5

Playgrounds and things that are outside such as sidewalks, or anything that has edges should be coated with a soft rubbery material. It is dangerous for clumsy, because people can easily hurt themselves if they trip and fall.

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Example 6

Pollution is a hazard and getting into water and making it dangerous. Water shoudl also be banned because even though we drink it everyday we still die one day. Life itself is hazardous so we should just get rid of that.

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Questions

Accompanying questions

1. What is the thesis of "let's Just Ban Everything

2. Why does Hamner open by stating that he has "lost two grandparents to tobacco-related cancer?

3. What are the sources of the examples in the essay?

4. Are Hamner's examples effective? That is, do they do a good job or convincing an audience of college students?

5. Which paragraph uses hypothetical examples? Are these examples convincing? Why or why not?

Question 1

The thesis of Let’s Ban Everything is: It is justified- the personal freedoms of a few don’t outweigh the long-term personal right to longevity of the many.

Question 1

Question 2

His grandparents were the ones that were smoking and he mentioned there was an article related to secondhand smoking and how it was affecting health of the people that were being exposed to cigarette smoke. His grandparents were making the conscious decision to smoke

Question 2

Question 3

The second paragraph uses information from Friday’s Collegian article about second hand smoking but after that paragraph, everything is just based off of the authors thesis.

Question 3

Question 4

Hamner’s examples are very effective because it shows that everything can be dangerous and you can’t ban everything in the world. It also proves that people live their own life and they make their own decisions, whether is effects them negatively or not. You can’t tell people how to live their life just because you don’t agree with it.

Question 5

Paragraph 8 uses hypothetical examples. The example is banning water and life itself. You can’t ban water because if you don’t hydrate you will die within three days. We can limit pollution, but we can’t get rid of pollution and we cant get rid of polluted water and we obviously can’t ban life.

Clouse, Barbara Fine. “Let's Just Ban Everything.” The Student Writer, David Patterson, St. Louis, MO, 2012, pp. 198–199.

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