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Blake | 6 | Opponent: Edgemont KX | Judge: Garcia 1AC Presencing |
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1AC - MaquiladorasTournament: Caucus | Round: 2 | Opponent: New Trier | Judge: McIntosh One of the problems that many Mexican women face while working in maquiladoras has less Subpoint B— Working Conditions Declining real wages despite higher productivity, ¶ avoiding profit sharing and requiring overtime, Subpoint C— Modern Day Slavery Anne Vigna’s incisive account of the maquiladora sector –in-bond plants that import Thus we present the following plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Mexico by establishing a program providing significant tax benefits for US companies working with Mexican Maquiladoras that meet strict criteria for wages, workplace conditions, and complexity. Direct foreign investment will be provided to assist the Government of Mexico with concrete plans to improve maquiladoras and jointly set up a program between the US and Mexican departments of Labor designed to improve the skills of maquiladora employees. We’ll clarify. ¶ First of all, the United States government must encourage American companies to ¶ Thirdly, a program designed to improve the skills of the maquiladora employees should be is one of the flimsiest pieces by a major columnist that I can remember ever The value of survival could not be so readily abused were it not for its Critics of sweatshops frequently ground their protests in appeals to human dignity and human rights | 10/27/13 |
1AC - PresencingTournament: Blake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Edgemont KX | Judge: Garcia Trace and I as debaters find ourselves unable to encounter the areas and people affected by the topic authentically because we will always see through a lens of underlying assumptions and determinations of truth that were engrained in us by our social positions Thus, for Spivak, it is dangerous to assume that one can encounter the The widely and rapidly spreading devastation of language not only undermines aesthetic and moral responsibility Specifically the resolutions understanding of the topic areas and people in those areas as in need or as having something to benefit from engagement with the US precludes authentic engagement with the affected populations of the resolution as beings in their own right independent and separate from the us What, however, the panoptic Eurocentric eye of the Enlightenment comes to see in I understand that I am speaking from the position of a white woman and that gives me privilege – therefore with that privilege – Trace and I resist the enclosure of the topic by illuminating the assumptions of the topic. This oppositional inquiry into the topic renders inoperable the enclosure binary of imperial logic. The judge must act to subvert the imposition of established knowledge to untangle our engagement from the truths we have constructed and advanced. This subversion of the removal of expectations of truth and closure is critical to avoid enframing and instrumentalzing the other most important thinkers, were both blinded in their insight, which is, of The Truth of the matter is there is no truth. All of our knowledge and experience is determined by what we encounter, the acknowledgment of the void of truth is that there fundamentally is no metaphysic that can address all people and identities the step away from ‘’pax metaphysica’’ is the only way to address violence against other modes of being William Spanos, in America's Shadow, offers a brilliant application of postmodern philosophy and Our affirmative is a key step to a form of knowledge structured around co-production removal of the certainty and comfort of the spatailizing discourse of the topic the step back from the ‘’researched’’ as an object is a prerequisite to topical analysis vote affirmative to legitimatize engagement Pearce 2008 (Jenny Pearce, International Centre for Participation Studies/Department of Peace Studies at University of Bradford; “We Make Progress Because We are Lost: Critical Reflections on Co Producing Knowledge as a Methodology for Researching Non governmental Public Action” eprints.ncrm.ac.uk) Co-production of knowledge is a less certain and controlled methodology than traditional research To acknowledge the resolution we must open ourselves to the contradictions that encounters with the other. Only by the rupturing of our truths and certainty of the resolution can the analysis of the topic can be valuable. This means we must investigate ontological orientations before we can have a meaningful type of engagement Fernando 10 Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. New York, Dresden. | 12/21/13 |
1AC - PresencingTournament: Blake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Edgemont KX | Judge: Garcia Trace and I as debaters find ourselves unable to encounter the areas and people affected by the topic authentically because we will always see through a lens of underlying assumptions and determinations of truth that were engrained in us by our social positions Thus, for Spivak, it is dangerous to assume that one can encounter the The widely and rapidly spreading devastation of language not only undermines aesthetic and moral responsibility Specifically the resolutions understanding of the topic areas and people in those areas as in need or as having something to benefit from engagement with the US precludes authentic engagement with the affected populations of the resolution as beings in their own right independent and separate from the us What, however, the panoptic Eurocentric eye of the Enlightenment comes to see in I understand that I am speaking from the position of a white woman and that gives me privilege – therefore with that privilege – Trace and I resist the enclosure of the topic by illuminating the assumptions of the topic. This oppositional inquiry into the topic renders inoperable the enclosure binary of imperial logic. The judge must act to subvert the imposition of established knowledge to untangle our engagement from the truths we have constructed and advanced. This subversion of the removal of expectations of truth and closure is critical to avoid enframing and instrumentalzing the other most important thinkers, were both blinded in their insight, which is, of The Truth of the matter is there is no truth. All of our knowledge and experience is determined by what we encounter, the acknowledgment of the void of truth is that there fundamentally is no metaphysic that can address all people and identities the step away from ‘’pax metaphysica’’ is the only way to address violence against other modes of being William Spanos, in America's Shadow, offers a brilliant application of postmodern philosophy and Our affirmative is a key step to a form of knowledge structured around co-production removal of the certainty and comfort of the spatailizing discourse of the topic the step back from the ‘’researched’’ as an object is a prerequisite to topical analysis vote affirmative to legitimatize engagement Pearce 2008 (Jenny Pearce, International Centre for Participation Studies/Department of Peace Studies at University of Bradford; “We Make Progress Because We are Lost: Critical Reflections on Co Producing Knowledge as a Methodology for Researching Non governmental Public Action” eprints.ncrm.ac.uk) Co-production of knowledge is a less certain and controlled methodology than traditional research To acknowledge the resolution we must open ourselves to the contradictions that encounters with the other. Only by the rupturing of our truths and certainty of the resolution can the analysis of the topic can be valuable. This means we must investigate ontological orientations before we can have a meaningful type of engagement Fernando 10 Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. New York, Dresden. | 12/21/13 |
1AC - RenewablesTournament: Minneapolis South | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: Relations Obama will arrive in Mexico with good and bad news. On the positive side The U.S.-Mexico relationship is ready for renewed collaboration on a range Discussant Johanna Mendelson Forman stressed the linkages connecting climate change, energy, and economic Now is key to reverse Anti-US sentiment throughout Latin America In May, President Barack Obama visited Mexico and Costa Rica and vowed to strengthen It’s unfortunate that the two presidents chose to hold their May 2-3 summit While there were economic motivations for Canadian policy in Central America, security considerations were Sharing a 2,000-mile border and extensive interconnections through the Gulf of Terrorism remains a serious threat to the security of the United States. The Congressional But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a Despite its many virtues, however, the book paints an overly optimistic portrait of America’s economic crisis and threats to US security have undermined its traditional global-leadership Despite having been favored with considerable hydrocarbon resources, Mexico’s energy security is in a Mexico and the United States are no longer distant neighbors whose economies are engaged in Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and Preliminary reviews of scientific literature and surveys of cli- mate scientists indicate striking agreement Warming is an existential risk – quickening reductions is key to avoiding extinction The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2 This white paper describes the current deficit in the U.S.-Mexico border The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from If Mexico addresses these challenges, it will emerge as a powerful player on the Solvency SECTION 4: BECC – THE BORDER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER 25¶ Since 1995, Border environmental funding now US aid to Mexico high now – Merida Initiative U.S. aid allocated under the Merida Initiative will continue to be delivered BECC solves greenhouse gas reduction and resolves status quo coordination struggles Much of the municipal GHG/climate change activity for both sides of the border Renewables solve quickly – outside expertise is key Solar investors in the US and further afield would really love to get their hands Amidst the darkening cloud of violence that grips the US-Mexico border region, | 10/3/13 |
1AC - SpanosTournament: MN RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Blake SW | Judge: Baxter-Kauf Thus, for Spivak, it is dangerous to assume that one can encounter the The widely and rapidly spreading devastation of language not only undermines aesthetic and moral responsibility Specifically the understanding of the topic areas and people as in need or as having something to benefit from engagement with the US precludes authentic engagement with the effected populations of the resolution as beings in their own right indepdent and separate from the us What, however, the panoptic Eurocentric eye of the Enlightenment comes to see in Thus in the face of overwhelming binaric certainty we advocate the judge endorse the resolution as a void in which all knowledge of the other should be presumed annulled and illegimate this opening of a space in which we don’t presume the other dissolves the dualistic complex of western superiority The judge must act to subvert the imposition of established knowledge to untangle our engagement from the truths we have constructed and advanced this subversion of the removal of expectations of truth and closure is key to avoid the enframement and instrumentalzaition of the other most important thinkers, were both blinded in their insight, which is, of The Truth of the matter is there is no truth all of our knowledge and experience is overlaid onto what we encounter the acknowledgment of the void of truth is that there fundamentally is no metaphysic that can address all people and identities the step away from ‘’pax metaphysica’’ is key to shift value away from colonized modes of being William Spanos, in America's Shadow, offers a brilliant application of postmodern philosophy and | 10/11/13 |
Additional 1AC CardsTournament: Caucus | Round: 1 | Opponent: you | Judge: ing you Our affirmative is a key step to a form of knowledge structured around co-production removal of the certainty and comfort of the spatailizing discourse of the topic the step back from the ‘’researched’’ as an object is a prerequisite to topical analysis vote affirmative to legitimatize engagement Pearce 2008 (Jenny Pearce, International Centre for Participation Studies/Department of Peace Studies at University of Bradford; “We Make Progress Because We are Lost: Critical Reflections on Co Producing Knowledge as a Methodology for Researching Non governmental Public Action” eprints.ncrm.ac.uk) Co-production of knowledge is a less certain and controlled methodology than traditional research To acknowledge the resolution we must open ourselves to the contradictions that encounters with the other. Only by the rupturing of our truths and certainty of the resolution can the analysis of the topic can be valuable. This means we must investigate ontological orientations before we can have a meaningful type of engagement Fernando 10 Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. New York, Dresden. | 12/15/13 |
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