Archive for August, 2007
The World Health Report 2007
The WHO recently released the 2007 World Health Report. You can find the link here. Here are some good cards:
Interconnected world much more at risk for spread of infectious diseases
WHO 2007
(World Health Organization, The world health report 2007 : a safer future : global public health security in the 21st century. accessed online [...]
University of Richmond – Free Files
I have to admit again, I am very happy that the HS c-x topic somewhat overlaps with our NFA-LD topic. It means there is tons of free stuff available that is *somewhat* relevant. This makes it helpful to see what good files look like, get ideas for cases and disadvantages, and overall help in [...]
Where is everyone from?
This blog has a pretty neat counter from StatCounter that provides a lot of interesting data. It helps to show what types of systems people are using so I can make sure the site will work.
one of the features is an attempt to pinpoint where everyone is visiting from. I thought this map [...]
Free Book on Africa
The Council on Foreign Relations (read: very credible) has a free book on Africa available.
Check out the book here
First Try on Bio Tech Case
After downloading a ton of free evidence from the NDCA (see previous post here) I was reviewing what cases seemed to make the most sense to me. One that stood out was the bio technology case.
Basic idea behind the case is that Africa’s agriculture can’t quite seem to produce enough food to feed the continent. [...]
Comments Re-enabled
I’ve installed a few behind-the-scenes features to hopefully control the number of spam comments the site receives. At one point last season 100-200 spam comments were appearing each day!
Please feel free to leave question/comments/suggestions/etc to any of the posts from now on to the site. Hopefully spam will not become a [...]
Great article in Foreign Affairs
Came across this article in Foreign affairs about Global health. I think it could become a case idea but more likely you could cut this into a good disadvantage. It has some great points about the need for global health workers. Here a few of the quotes:
Garrett 2007 (Laurie, The Challenge of [...]
Massive Amount of Free Evidence Available
By way of the Global Debate Blog, the NDCA has made available tons of high school camp evidence. While the topic for the High School C-X community is slightly different than NFA-LD’s topic, both are on Africa and a ton of the evidence is relevant and helpful. Not only that, but download a [...]
Some Good sites to start
Just got the topic and wonder where you should go from here? I would recommend before writing any cases to really understand what you will be debating. As you spend a week or two reading some background material the issues and arguments that are going to come up this year will feel more [...]
Must Act Now Cards
When I competed in C-X debate in high school we always ended our cases with what we called the Must Act Now Cards. We wanted to really drive home the need to enact our policy NOW and it always seemed like a good way to end our case on a high note that really [...]
