D#9, HW#6, Outline

Project Claim: Stress can lead to tragedy at schools if left unchecked.

Reason 1: Stress can lead to suicide

• Warrant/Principle: People under stress sometimes get depressed.
• Backing: feelings like you can never get cough up with your school work can be depressing
• Evidence#1: Therapists have correlated stress with depression and suicide.
  
• Warrant/Principle: People usually trust what therapists say.
• Backing: Therapists have an interest in their patience and their research.
• Backing: Therapists have gone to school to become an authority on mental disorders.
• Backing: Therapists usually see a lot of people not just base what they report on one or 2.
• Evidence#2: School officials have dealt with suicide at their schools.
• Warrant/Principle: School officials have hands on experience with school suicides.
• Objection: School officials are not trained in mental disorders.
• Rebuttal: School officials have hands on experience with stress and students.

Reason#2: Stress can lead to violence at schools.

• Warrant/Principle: School massacres in the past have been stress related.
• Backing: There are many causes of stress such as being teased or bullied.
• Evidence#1: The Columbine Massacre.
• Warrant/Principle: The kids involved were tired of being bullied or teased for being different.
• Backing: They targeted people who bullied them.
• Backing They targeted people who ignored them.
• Evidence#2: The Virginia Tech Massacre.
• Warrant/Principle: The student involved killed people he did not like.
• His statements after the shooting made on television stated he did not like rich people because they thought they were better than him