My Sources for Thesis Paper

1.http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Cigarette_Smoking_and_Cancer.asp

2. Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (Book)

3. “The Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health 40 years later: still wandering in the desert.” By lancet , academic journal (article)…link- http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11892215&site=ehost-live

4. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/cigarette_smoking/article_em.htm

5. “What fraction of young adults are at risk for future smoking, and who are they? By Gilpin, white and pierce”. Academic journal Link- http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=18396507&site=ehost-live

Final thesis statement

Final Thesis Statement: Public Cigarette smoking should become an illegal drug in the United States. It is an issue that has many different views. Even though many individuals smoke cigarettes to relief them from stress, for satisfaction, peer pressure and because it’s a necessity for them, we can all agree that it’s the leading cause of many kinds of cancers as well as the cause of other deaths. It’s a matter of ending public cigarette smoking and showing our future generations that it is just a sickness that overtime its death rate will increase if it’s no taking into account more severely. It’s amazing how Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.

Thesis Statements

Thesis 1: Public Cigarette smoking should become an illegal drug in the United States. It is an issue that has many different views. Even though many individuals smoke cigarettes to relief them from stress, for satisfaction, peer pressure and because it’s a necessity for them, we can all agree that it’s the leading cause of many kinds of cancers as well as the cause of other deaths. It’s a matter of ending public cigarette smoking and showing our future generations that it is just a sickness that overtime its death rate will increase if it’s no taking into account more severely. It’s amazing how Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.

Thesis 2: Soccer in the United States has to come out of their cage now because is more than just a physical sport. In America, soccer is solely a physical sport, whereas in other countries such as in Europe and South America is about tactics, technique, strategies and physical. They devote themselves to soccer as if it was more than just a game, a job, a responsibility, a subject, a way of life. It’s a lifestyle where you have to practice up to three times a day for 6 days a week. It’s not only physical, but it’s also mental.


Thesis 3: Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. The Coaches and players think they can come up with new creative things such as; formations, plays, and tactics never seen before. However, what they don’t see is that all of that and much more has already happened in the past; this is known as trying to reinvent the wheel. Reinventing the wheel is like plagiarizing a paper, where a topic has been presented and someone else tries to make it their own, that is what many soccer coaches try to do so they can be known and be original, which they really not.

Response to Twitchell and Sullivan

James B. Twitchell and Andrew Sullivan have strong arguments shown on their works which leads to prove what it's going on in the world today, especially in American Society. Twitchell's work demonstrates how materialism has taken over in American society and how it would keep on spreading throughout the world. An example he give us is as follow, "Navin's wife is distraught. She burst into tears. "I don't care about losing the money, it's losing all this stuff.". In the other hand, Andrew Sullivan in his work emphasizes the pursuit of happiness, which The Islamic society and the Muslim's don't want to look at it because they believe in their ways and no other way. I agreed with both of this authors because they show how Americans keep consuming no matter how much they spent, and they are more involve into spending money than thinking about other valuable things in life, such as love and happiness. As American society keeps spreading throughout the world, their materialistic ways are also spreading, and happiness in America is not about fulfilling their emotions and their families needs but more about fulfilling their materialistic wants. In this society, happiness will never be fulfilled, but pursuing that happiness is something that should be seek more often for. In my personal case, pursuing happiness is finishing college, getting somewhere in life, helping my family in Colombia and my parents and having a family in the future.

Jon Stewart on "Crossfire"

Jon Stewart came to the "Crossfire" show and demonstrated the public how absurd this show is. Basically It's suppose to be a Debate program, however as Jon states it's a "Theater" where the two individuals don't give honest arguments, they are simply acting to their roles in their politician's side. Especially knowing that after they finish with their show, they go to "Spin-Alley" where they go to their groups: whether democratic or republican to support their politicians, which is absurd. Jon Stated shows like this "it's Hurting America" it really is because all the people are getting is one side of the story, not both sides. I agree with Jon in the sense that he doesn't agree with this "acting" show and with the system that the United States uses to elect politicians.

Stephen Colbert on Bush

Colbert should've not said everything he did on air, there’s supposed to be some respect for the president. He is the President, he deserves more respect than what Colbert gave him, Bush is in the presidency for a reason, so how about show respect until his campaign it's done. It's a matter of higher values. However, I don't really criticized Colbert so much, yes President Bush deserves respect but it is a free country and Colbert let everything he wanted out, which is great. It shows how when someone believes in something, and you want to say it, go ahead, it's your thoughts; you have the right, that's why we live in a democracy.....

Believe in your power and go forward, but always have this in mind: Respect is indispensable!!!!

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