Black Friday

Please read and reflect on the following piece about the possible boycott on Black Friday. Explain the recent backlash to this issue and your thoughts on this controversy.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/11/black-friday-employees-push-back/1

Pizza is a Vegetable???

According to Congress, pizza will now be classified as a vegetable.
Read the following ( 2 ) articles about school lunch politics at work. With childhood obesity rates soaring, are we taking a step backward in response to pressure from groups who see it in their interest to serve junk food in our schools?
Please offer a detailed response to this issue.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-school-lunches-lobbyists_n_1098029.html

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/veggie-politics-how-budget-cuts-can-make-pizza-a-vegetable/

Penn State Scandal

Read the following editorial regarding the Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal. Reflect on the author's rhetoric and offer your views on this case. How persuasive is her argument?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/08/opinion/jones-penn-state/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Child Abuse

Read the following article/watch the video about a Texas judge who was videotaped beating his 16 year old daughter. This was recently released years after the abuse by his own daughter. The judge claims he was within his rights as a parent to discipline his child in such a manner. Should this have any bearing on his judicial career on the bench or is this simply a private family matter?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/justice/texas-video-beating/?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29