#lincoln douglas debate

[wring-wraith]

This is your monthly reminder to vote for the hardest and most convoluted topic category that nsda has to offer in order to punish LD and Pufo kids for their sins

#speech and debate #nsda #topic voting #pufo #public forum #lincoln douglas debate #debate

[1134soup]

This LD topic is so lame I hate arguing right to housing it’s so overused I’ve heard it millions of times before ): the best topics were the 2021-2022 Nov/Dec and Sept/Oct topics genuinely they were so much fun to argue and last year’s was kinda boring it was just environmental, healthcare, and then borders (which was hell on earth to argue)

#speech and debate #nsda #Lincoln douglas debate #debate #LD debate

[apushdril]

i regret to inform you, that by resorting to Swear language, you have forfeit this debate. Farewell my bitch

#apush #us history #history memes #dril #acw #lincoln-douglas debates

[lincolndouglas]

I hate tournaments that do topics months ahead. I get wanting prep for nat quals but how abt not picking a topic that will be released TWO DAYS before the tournament???

#all the LD topics for march/april suck anyway #LD #Lincoln Douglas #speech and debate #debate #forensics

[theamberwizard]

me after fucking lying in the 2ar:

#lincoln douglas #ld #debate #nsda

[deadpresidents]

Were the Lincoln and Douglass debates the first real presidential debates and why did they only have them in Illinois instead of other states?

Although Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were opponents in the 1860 Presidential election, the Lincoln-Douglas debates weren't Presidential debates at all. The Lincoln-Douglas debates took place in 1858 during their campaign for the U.S. Senate from Illinois.

The first Presidential debates were those between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960. There were a handful of Presidential primary debates before that, but JFK-Nixon were definitely the first between the major party nominees for President.

#Presidential debates #History #Presidency #Politics #Lincoln-Douglas Debates #Abraham Lincoln #Stephen A. Douglas #1860 Election #1960 Election #John F. Kennedy #Richard Nixon #President Kennedy #JFK #President Nixon #1960 Presidential debates #Commission on Presidential Debates #Presidential Politics

[castielhoney]

if you've got a hateful opinion, please do not talk about it on my blog or by reposting. this INCLUDES:

anti-jared, misha, or jensen

anti-destiel

homophobia

transphobia

anti-jared, misha, or jensen stans

be nice to each other and be respectful or kindly show yourself out. thank you!

--an addendum specifically in regard to destiel/any other ship (aside from morally/ethically wrong ones); if it brings someone joy and does no harm, it isn't your business and you have no place to be hateful about it.

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if you do lincoln douglas speech and debate please rant about it to me. i love hearing people talk about it

#many many many people adore the idea of destiel and it makes them happy #and if it does?? #butt out. no one has any Right opinion about spn! #and that's the beauty of it!! #it's a fictional show and ART and we all get to interpret it in our own way and that is so great! #tumblr is a place that most people go to have fun and smile at headcanons and drawings and whatnot #so if you've got a rude opinion or see one you disagree with #you can block people! you can filter tags! be gentle with one another. #nsda #speech and debate #lincoln douglas

[tmarshconnors]

"I could write shorter sermons, but once I start I get too lazy to stop.".

Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

Born: 12 February 1809, Larue County, Kentucky, United States

Assassinated: 15 April 1865, Petersen House, Washington, D.C., United States

#Abraham Lincoln #16th President #American History #Civil War #Emancipation Proclamation #Gettysburg Address #Union Leader #Illinois #Assassination #Honest Abe #Great Emancipator #Republican Party #Leadership #Constitutional Law #The Lincoln-Douglas Debates #Presidential Legacy #Commander in Chief #Abolitionist #Illinois Lawyer #National Unity #quoteoftheday #today on tumblr

[wring-wraith]

this is a call out post.

#nsda #speech and debate #debate #lincoln douglas debate

[1134soup]

goddd I am so tired of reading libertarian philosophers i can’t wait for the Jan/Feb topic to be over if I ever hear the words “Starvin Marvin” one more time I’m going to go insane

#nsda #speech and debate #forensics #ld #lincoln douglas #ld debate

[understandably-odd]

i just want to get cozy and read my book is this to much to ask 😭😭😭

#have so much act stuff to do and i also have a lincoln douglas debate argument to write. both are due tomorrow. agh #does anyone wanna tell me why our government should stay the way it is with 2-3 reliable sources #i’ve already written my bit on why it should be dismantled #jack quacks

[obtener2]

Lincoln-Douglas third joint debate, Fair Grounds Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 "Constant exposure and fatigue were unavoidable in meeting these engagements. Both contestants spoke almost every day through the intervals between the joint debates; and as railroad communication in Illinois in 1858 was still very incomplete, they Were often obliged to resort to horse, carriage or steamer to reach the desired points. "Judge Douglas succeeded, however, in making this difficult journey something of a triumphal procession…On the Illinois Central Railroad he had always a special car, sometimes a special train. Frequently he swept by Lincoln, side-tracked in an accommodation or freight train. "'The gentleman in that car evidently smelt no royalty in our carriage.' laughed Lincoln one day, as he watched from the caboose of a laid-up freight train the decorated special of Douglas flying by." [Source: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Ida M. Tarbell, Vol. I, page 309-11]

A Family and Nation Under Fire iBooks https://goo.gl/SAVc8A nook https://goo.gl/DSQXGu Amazon: https://goo.gl/A3brGd KSU Press http://goo.gl/Z3z4Xs

#lincoln #slavery #charleston #illinois #debate #douglas #photooftheday

[mourning-again-in-america]

there *are* actually a lot of interesting negative tradeoffs that "urbanism moar" would likely unnecessarily incur if done naively but who gives a shit about rising transaction costs due to horrible logistics

#my actual position on the matter is that things are fucked enough that urban design isnt remotely on the pareto frontier in a lot of ways #and the actual trick is figuring out the continuous path from where we currently are along possibilityspace to highest density goodness #under uncertainty #but thats the case for everything and that's boring so instead its just 'your culture sucks no yours does' #motherfuckers if i wanted that the nineteenth century managed to say that a lot better #may as well read the lincoln douglas debates

[rosewaterandivy]

Ernest Frank only has lovely things to say about you

Another Thursday morning in Mr. Moore’s home room to which Eddie is, as always, late. He prizes the white tardy slip between his fingers and tosses it on the baseball coach’s desk before slipping into his usual seat.

Right behind you, of course.

The composition book slaps against the wood laminate of the desk while he scrambles for a pen in his bag. His hand flexes in the various recesses of the backpack only to come up empty.

He sighs and rolls his head back to stare at the white ceiling tiles. He contemplates his options.

Eddie could ask Wheeler or Buckley, both only a row or two over from him and obnoxiously prepared for a day of classes.

Or he could ask you and risk disrupting your reading of… Dune? A book he definitely fell asleep reading and subsequently had given up the ghost only to reread The Fellowship of the Ring once more.

Only he’d never exactly gotten the courage to speak to you despite his many opportunities to do so. As member for NHS, it’d been a near miss that he’d lucked out with Wheeler as his tutor instead of you. And on one particular Hellfire night when he was walking back to the drama room, he’d passed the debate club mid-Lincoln Douglas prep when you’d inadvertently made some sophomore cry over being anti-death penalty.

You were smart. And you were scary. You were scary smart. But in a way that made him pop a semi in Government during yet another one of your tirades about the separation of church and state while the rest of the class rolled their eyes and complained.

He eyes the clock above the chalkboard, hands counting down the mere minutes left before the bell for first period. And yet again, he’s wasted another opportunity to talk to you.

Slinging a bag over your shoulder, you give him a small smile and wave to Nancy on your way out.

The bell trills out signaling yet another educational experience at Hawkins High, when he spies a worn and battered book left behind in your desk.

Grabbing the paperback before he can think better of it, Eddie realizes that he has no way to get it back to you. The debate team leaves for a tournament today, which means you won’t be in class this afternoon to hem and haw about the three branches of government.

He pockets the book and figures he’ll get it back to you later next week.

At least, that’s the plan. But then he starts reading it again, your copy this time, and finds that he can’t put it down.

He’s so invested, in fact, that he does end up borrowing a pencil from Buckley and writes his thoughts in the margins. Doesn’t even realize what he’s doing until it’s too late. Just knows that he wants to talk to you about the Atreides and Harkonnens and the Kwisatz Haderach and the Fremen.

Eddie finishes the book just in time for home room with Mr. Moore on Monday. Drops the book unceremoniously on your desk and tosses his tardy pass to the coach as he takes his seat.

Holding the book in one hand, you thumb through the pages and scan his notes.

“Thought you didn’t crack books Munson, much less annotate them.”

“I read,” He quips back, affronted by your lazy drawl and smirk.

“Well, I distinctly remember you saying that you didn’t.”

“Much.” He supplies, smiling as you finally turn around with a raised brow. “I believe the question was if I read much.”

“And you said no.” You shake the copy of Dune, all 896 pages of it.

There’s a small furrow between your brows as you weigh the semantics of the conversation. He decides that it’s cute and vows to make you replicate it as many times as he can get away with.

“Well,” he sighs out with a slight shrug. “What is ‘much’?”

#eddie munson x reader #eddie munson x you #Eddie Munson fanfic #eddie munson fluff

[larkandkatydid]

If you were to recommend 1-3 books on the American Civil War, what would you recommend? I’m interested in learning more but it’s considerably outside my historical interests. (I am American, I am just an ancient/medieval history person).

So, what I love about the Civil War era is how perfectly and oddly the very ancient and the very modern intersect. John Brown would have fit perfectly in with the ancient Macabees and Frederick Douglas would fit perfectly in 21st century America and yet they hung out! These are people having very Bendectine monk ideas about God's Will but also God seems to be willing the existence of the modern liberal democracy we all know and enjoy. It's a Black Plague level of death that scrambles people's ideas of the afterlife but includes the first widespread use of photography.

Anyway, this is requiring such extreme discipline on my part but here are three, in three different catagories:

If I had to pick one single Civil War book, I'd go with Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. I think Eric Foner, in general, is where one starts and this is my favorite Foner book. I think it really shows you the entanglement of serious theological/philosophical debates and actual bloody battles, which, to me, is the unsettling beauty The Civil War: you literally see the grand philosphical dream of a better world being built out of human skulls and the grandness of the dream being adjusted to be worth that pile of skulls.

For the best Civil War book published within the past year, and one that I think will eventually get to Foner-levels of foundational, I would recommend Kidada E Williams' I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. I think this is going to end up being an early classic in what will become a way richer body of work studying the violent end of Reconstruction and making use of the scholarly tools of genocide studies. It's a grim read, but it's so excellent.

For a personal choice, I'd recommend S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the Civil War. This is, by far, my favorite book about Grant. It's the best at showing that Grant, like Robert Oppenheimer is a terrifying counterpoint to the old fascist line about liberal weakness: liberal democracy, when pressed, unleashes onto its enemies a brutality previously unknown in the world. What I love about Grant, and which this book really captures, is how dismissive he was of the idea that war is about honor or glory or love of country. He knew that war was about killing the other guy in such numbers that he gives up.

[insertlovelyperson]

what after-school clubs/activities/sports do you think the counselors were involved in?? i need things to think about during a long car ride & busy weekend :)

Thanks so much for the ask! Hope this hasn't come too late for that car ride/busy weekend of yours <3

Abi - She definitely did art or something, no matter how basic that headcanon is. But at the same time, her love of art is one of the more defining traits we’re shown in canon. And she’s good at it too. I could see her winning with a lot of her entries in local shows. I think she’d have also helped with after school tutoring for a teacher she really liked.

Nick - He’s a little harder to pin down... maybe some kind of culinary club? I could see him trying out a bunch of different clubs and programs without ever committing to anything, only because he has friends who are interested in trying them and they don’t want to go alone. Therefore, they ask Nick to go with them.

Emma - Drama club, and I think she’d have been pretty darn good at it. Maybe she doesn’t have dreams of broadway like some of the others, but that’s not gonna stop her from scooping up all the lead roles. Theatre class beef is real (I’ve heard so many horror stories…) and she’d THRIVE off of it.

Jacob - Like the other ask I answered, I think Jacob would be on the football team (groundbreaking, I know) and do lacrosse in the off season. He’d be that kid in a knee brace 24/7, and he’d always find a way to talk about it.

Kaitlyn - She’s another one that’s hard for me to pin down. Maybe Key Club? I could see her volunteering in her spare time, and she’d probably be the president/vice-president/treasurer of like… five different honor societies.

Dylan - Robotics team. Nerd.

Ryan - I feel like he probably wouldn’t feel like participating in unpaid after school activities? I thing he’d get a job instead (Gamestop?? Some off-season stuff for Chris??)

Laura - Debate team. She was captain her junior and senior year, and she did Lincoln-Douglas debate. And she was scary. She was that one girl you see when you walk into you room assignment, and you say to yourself, “Whelp. Guess I’m not placing today.” She attended the Harvard Invitational one year and made it to semi finals. No computer. No internet connection. Just two G-2 pens, three sheets of paper, and a dream.

Max - Student government. This fucker is so likable, he was probably his class’ president all four years in a row (and homecoming king. AND prom king).

#the quarry #dylan lenivy #ryan erzahler #nick furcillo #abigail blyg #kaitlyn ka #emma mountebank #laura kearney #max brinly #jacob custos