Argument Essay Topics

• Gun Control: Against it, I want guns to be legal
• Abortion: Pro life every child has a chance to live
• Economy Bail out: Might not be the smartest decision
• War on Terrorism: I think we made the right decision
• Driving Age: I think it should be raised
• Drinking Age: It should be lowered
• Legalization of Marijuana: Make it Illegal
  

Brainstorming Visual Aids

Five visual aids i could use in my paper could be:

• Chart showing the percentage of players using and their stats
• Pictures of steroids
• Pictures of the effects of steroids
• Graphs from The Mitchell Report on the rise of use of steroids since the 80's
• Charts of the cause and effect and symptoms of users of steroids
  

Planning My Presentation

• Why players decide to use steroids
• The Mitchell Report
• The effects of steroids on your body
• What baseball is doing to stop the use of steroids
• Has it helped
  

Pinged!

I pinged technorati!!!!

ChaCha Review

ChaCha

Strengths

• Can ask other humans questions and they will give you the answer back within 5 minutes
• Has a very large database
• You can apply to work for them and make money
  

Weaknesses

• It is hard to find the search tab
• You must join the site in order to use all of its great functions
  

Databases

• It is very large and ranks up there with Google and Yahoo
  

Operators

Default operation	Keywords
Search operators supported	Parenthesis and Quotations
Proximity or exact phrase	It searches a proximity not the exact word
Truncation or stemming	N/A
Wild card	N/A
Other	Does not use AND or +/-

Case Sensitivity

It is not case sensitive. I searched polish and Polish and the exact same results showed up.

Stop Words

There are no stop words you just have to file through the searches and find what you are looking for.

Advanced Search Function

There is no advanced search function.

Limits

Date	n/a
File type	n/a
Field searching	n/a
Language	n/a
Family filter	n/a
Domain or site	n/a
Other	n/a

Sorting

You can sort by searching the web, images, video, audio, and news.

Display

Number of hits	no
Open in new window or tab	no
Cached pages	yes
Clustering	no
Thumbnails	yes on videos
Suggestions for refining/narrowing search	yes
Spell check	yes
Sponsored results identified	yes they are at top and highlighted
Update date	no
Other	n/a

Help Function

They have FAQ's and you can ask a question if you are stuck and they will answer it.

Special Features

You can ask a real live person a question and they will answer it. You can ask it on-line or in a text.