Staff
Debate Theory
The Topic
Drones Aff
Debate Arguments
100
This person has coached three National Debate Tournament champions.
Who is Will Repko?
100
This part of the disadvantage connects the link to the impact.
What is the internal link?
100
These are the six countries in this year's resolution.
What are Iraq, Afghanstan, Turkey, Kuwait, South Korea, and Japan.
100
This movie is referenced to describe the coming apocalypse from robot proliferation.
What is Terminator.
100
This argument contends that plan implementation should be contingent upon another country's acceptance of the plan.
What are consult counterplans.
200
These staff members coach debate at Michigan High Schools.
Who are Ruth Kay and John Lawson.
200
This is what the affirmative uses to test the competition of a counterplan.
What is the permutation.
200
This is the idea that the United States can influence the world without use of its military.
What is soft power.
200
This author is the primary source used in the aff to argue that U.S. drone use is illegal.
Who is Phillip Alston.
200
This is the attempt to limit knowledge by concealing new acts of revealing.
What is enframing.
300
This is the youngest staff member (other than RAs).
Who is Ryan Nierman?
300
This genre of counterplan tests the implementation of the plan.
What is the process counterplan.
300
This is concept that US military presence in one country scares another country from acting out.
What is deterrence.
300
This author argues that humanitarian international law must continue to humanize to ensure more just forms of international law.
Who is Zeng
300
These are the five stock issues.
What are significance, harms, inherency, topicality, and solvency.
400
This person is one of the founders of the 3NR.
Who is Bill Batterman?
400
These are two reasons why some people consider international actor counterplans to be illegitimate.
What are..they are unpredicable; do not test the opportunity cost of plan; not real world, etc.
400
This is the leader of Japan.
Who is Kan.
400
This is the reason in the 1AC that terrorism will cause extinction.
What is the U.S. will retaliate, causing escalation to full scale global nuclear war.
400
This argument asserts that the status quo should be preferred until proved otherwise.
What is presumption.
500
This staff member is the only staff member to win the Top Speaker Award at the National Debate Tournament.
Who is Gabe?
500
This argument suggests that you can enact the plan without being responsible for the advantages.
What is the floating PIC.
500
This is the exact wording of the 2010-2011 high school policy debate resolution.
What is Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its military and/or police presence in one or more of the following: South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey.
500
These are the three internal links for why drones limits the U.S.' ability to fight terrorism.
What are anti-Americanism, intelligence overload, and interrogation prevention.
500
This group of voters, who helped Obama get elected, is likely to abstain from voting, unless Obama takes action to reinvigorate their interest in his agenda.
Who are the millenials.
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