Practical Proposal Essay Topic

The topic I have chosen for my practical proposal essay is the death penalty in Texas. This interests me because a lot of comments I hear in class make me realize that there are misconceptions about the death penalty in Texas. I gained interest in this topic more after learning more about it in my government class. After some more research I am confident that I can write a very convincing practical proposal essay that proposes to get rid of the death penalty in Texas. The death penalty in Texas is a problem because it is causing the unnecessary death of human beings; also the main reasons for keeping it active are not even really valid when researched. The death penalty is a problem for all the people on death row: the innocent and the guilty. If this problem is not solved soon, several humans will have to end up dying. Some people on death row are innocent people; this means innocent people are being executed by our government.
The Texas state governments have the power to end the death penalty. The state has not done anything against it because of public and political support for it. There are people on both sides of the death penalty argument. Most people do not understand the ineffectiveness of this capital punishment. The problem can be solved if the people and politicians come together and make Texas against the death penalty. The probable benefits of getting rid of the death penalty are saving money, saving human lives, and preventing discrimination. Some people believe the death penalty is just proper justice for certain criminals; the end of the death penalty could mean the end of justice for some people. The financial costs of ending the death penalty could be the cost associated with imprisoning someone for the rest of their life. The taxpayers would bear these costs but the fact is that it costs more to execute someone in Texas than keep them imprisoned for fifty years. The money saved from not executing someone could just be used to keep them in jail.
Texas should get rid of the death penalty because it will save human lives and also because there are a few financial benefits too. The alternative to the death penalty is life in prison without chance of parole. Life in jail without parole would happen if the death penalty in Texas was terminated.

Blog Assignment for Oct. 22

While I was looking through the websites and articles a few of them seemed to pop out and interest me. One of the stories that interested me was about how parking alternatives at the University of Houston had benefits. This was an interesting article for me because this is a topic of frequent discussion on campus. Another article that got my attention was about how kids reviewed cafeteria food. This was interesting because I am curious to see the kind of foods that kids are into these days. One more article I found interesting was an article about the race for the Houston’s next mayor. It interested me because it talked about the vast differences between the different contenders.

My favorite article out of all these would be the one about how kids reviewed the cafeteria food. It talked about all the foods that are and aren’t popular with kids these days. If I used this story as the starting point for my practical proposal paper, my research question would be the following statement. Should kids have better tasting and more nutritional cafeteria food? The information I would need to answer my research question would be nutritional values of the current cafeteria food, the opinions of the kids on the food and an overall review by an adult audience. The main people I could interview for this topic would definitely be kids that eat cafeteria food and the adults that experience it too. Also, I would have to look at healthy nutritional information for growing kids on the internet and medical publications.

Another local issue that I am considering talking about for my practical proposal paper would have to be all the pollution in Houston. This topic interests me because I care about the environment and also because Houston is one of the worst polluted cities in America. Proposing a change could lead to a better environment for Houston’s future. Another issue I am considering writing about would be increasing the number of homeless shelters in order to help the less fortunate. This interests me because I like to help others that are less fortunate than the average citizen. Another possible issue I could write about is traffic in Houston streets. This is an interesting issue for me because I have to endure it every single day. This is a heated topic that people all over Houston tend to discuss routinely.