Morality and Politics of Justice:
Should The United States Intervene With Aleppo?
Project Reflection:
The morality and politics of justice project tasked students with choosing a social issue that is relevant to them and creating a question to ask about it and a 3 part writing segment and an art piece. The first writing piece dealt with the students understanding of their topic prior to researching it. The second piece was written after students had researched the pro side to their question. The third after they researched the cons to their questions. The students final task was to create a visual piece of some sort which used ethos, pathos, and logos to communicate their viewpoint and answer their original question. To back up their argument students had to utilize a philosophical viewpoint of some type. To accomplish this we spent the first part of this project learning about the different moral philosophies students could use to back up their argument.
For this project I wrote a script which I then recorded to create a video. Throughout multiple critiques my script was only changed to add arguments from a deontological and utilitarian point of view and a small background of the Syrian Civil War. Mechanically my writing stayed the same with only some slip ups in grammar and punctuation. The one major improvement I made to my writing was streamlining it in order to create a script that flowed better.
One thing I would like to know more about this issue is exactly what resources Syria holds. It has been said that a major reason for the U.S getting involved in Iraq and Afghanistan was for the oil that could be taken. At the exhibition it was proposed to me that if the U.S was to join the Syrian Civil War it would be for the natural resources that Syria possesses. I do not know if there is any truth to that assumption so it becomes something that I would like to know more about concerning the Syrian Civil War.
As far as I have seen there is no person whose opinion takes a middle ground to my issue. The people I have talked to have been exclusively on one side of this issue, namely, “ The United States should not intervene with Aleppo.” Whether they are saying this genuinely is unknown to me, but nobody has expressed a middle ground. However, based on my understanding of the pro’s and the con’s I would say that there is a middle ground. The middle ground to my issue is taking steps to help the Syrian refugees without deploying troops.
The morality and politics of justice project tasked students with choosing a social issue that is relevant to them and creating a question to ask about it and a 3 part writing segment and an art piece. The first writing piece dealt with the students understanding of their topic prior to researching it. The second piece was written after students had researched the pro side to their question. The third after they researched the cons to their questions. The students final task was to create a visual piece of some sort which used ethos, pathos, and logos to communicate their viewpoint and answer their original question. To back up their argument students had to utilize a philosophical viewpoint of some type. To accomplish this we spent the first part of this project learning about the different moral philosophies students could use to back up their argument.
For this project I wrote a script which I then recorded to create a video. Throughout multiple critiques my script was only changed to add arguments from a deontological and utilitarian point of view and a small background of the Syrian Civil War. Mechanically my writing stayed the same with only some slip ups in grammar and punctuation. The one major improvement I made to my writing was streamlining it in order to create a script that flowed better.
One thing I would like to know more about this issue is exactly what resources Syria holds. It has been said that a major reason for the U.S getting involved in Iraq and Afghanistan was for the oil that could be taken. At the exhibition it was proposed to me that if the U.S was to join the Syrian Civil War it would be for the natural resources that Syria possesses. I do not know if there is any truth to that assumption so it becomes something that I would like to know more about concerning the Syrian Civil War.
As far as I have seen there is no person whose opinion takes a middle ground to my issue. The people I have talked to have been exclusively on one side of this issue, namely, “ The United States should not intervene with Aleppo.” Whether they are saying this genuinely is unknown to me, but nobody has expressed a middle ground. However, based on my understanding of the pro’s and the con’s I would say that there is a middle ground. The middle ground to my issue is taking steps to help the Syrian refugees without deploying troops.