Articles for Debate: The Value of Human Life

Use the following articles to assist you with ideas for your debate. Take notes from the articles on the Cornell notes sheet. You must also complete the bibliography for EACH article that you use. You do not have to use all of these. Some might be more helpful than others depending on your position and reasons.

As a group, you should use at least ONE of the articles or short stories we covered in class in your debate. You may also visit other online sites, but you must also cite these as well on your Cornell notes

Life Value Calculator

http://www.lifehappens.org/human-life-value-calculator/

Your iPhone was built, in part, by 13 year-olds in China by Henry Blodgett (Flesch-Kincaid: 8.2)

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46027028/ns/today-today_news/t/your-iphone-was-built-part-year-olds-china/#.T84zRaN5mK0

Why the Syrian Regime is Killing Babies (Flesch-Kincaid: 11.0)

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/31/opinion/ghitis-syria-killing-children/index.html?hpt=imi_t5

Is Victoria's 'Secret' child labor in Africa? by David A. Love (Flesch-Kincaid: 11.4)

http://thegrio.com/2011/12/16/is-victorias-secret-child-labor-in-africa/

Pope: No Human Life is Dispensable (Flesch-Kincaid: 12.0)

http://www.zenit.org/article-33828?l=english

49 Decapitated Bodies Found in Mexico (Flesch-Kincaid: 12.0)

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/13/world/americas/mexico-remains/index.html?npt=NP1

As U.S. Agencies Put More Value on a Life, Businesses Fret (Flesch-Kincaid: 12.0)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/business/economy/17regulation.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1

What’s the Value of a Statistical Life? (Flesch-Kincaid: 12.0)

http://stats.org/stories/2011/value_statistical_life_jun27_11.htm

Stem Cells in Court, Scientists Fear for Careers (Flesch-Kincaid: 13.4)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/science/06stem.html?ref=stemcells&pagewanted=print#

No Man is An Island by John Donne (poem)

http://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.htm

Mi Historia by David Dominguez (poem)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/240052

The Value of One Life (poem)

http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=562674&sitename=apoetslaststand&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry

Charts from the Social Security Administration (scroll to bottom of page). These charts can lend themselves to rich discussions about the relative worth of different groups of humans according to government tables.

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html