Assignment for 10/5 (Work on This Assignment Immediately)

Note: On 10/5, meet at 8 a.m. in Drescher 203 (the computer lab).

• Assignment for Friday, 10/5 (to be completed before class):
• Go to OneLook (http://www.onelook.com/). Type in euthanasia. Explore the dictionary results (on the left). Study several definitions. Next, type in and explore the term assisted suicide.
• Click on this link to read more on euthanasia and assisted suicide. How do they differ?
• In Doc Sharing's "Physician-Assisted Suicide" section, print out, read and annotate these four texts: Kaveny's "Dignity & the End of Life," Huttmann's "A Crime of Compassion," Siegel's "Treating the Pain by Ending a Life" and Hendin's "Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Mental Illness."
• For each reading, note in the margins where you find the Logos, Ethos and Pathos appeals at play.
• In TSIS, read and annotate Ch. 6 (pp. 78-90). Bring to class three discussion points.
• Do Ex. 1 (pp. 90-91) in your notebook. This exercise asks you to develop an additional paragraph for Schlosser's passage. In your paragraph, add an objection to Schlosser's argument (a naysayer), and then respond to that objection as Schlosser would.