GP Essay Outlines for Media, Ageis
GP Essay Outline 1: The media have exaggerated the importance of sport. Do you agree?
Sport in today’s increasingly commercialized world has gone wayward. Athletes no longer train immeasurable hours for pure adrenaline but for cold hard cash. Media coverage on sport has become a 24×7 party that highlights what sells and casts aside sportsmanship and other ideals arising from the sport. The media has indeed exaggerated the importance of sport today.
T.S 1 Commercialism has made sport a lucrative multi-billion dollar business.
T.S 2 Sporting victories have become an outlet for nationalism thanks to media coverage.
T.S 3 Sport still performs its noble function in school and amateur sports.
GP Essay Outline 2:Science encourages doubt; religion quells it. How far do you agree?
Religion is based on the intangible substance of faith and belief. Some quarters opine that religion has a numbing narcotic effect on scientific progress. But this is a narrow-minded and myopic claim. Religion does not stifle inquiry, in fact, science and religion work hand-in-hand to encourage probing of possibilities.
T.S 1 Critics will often cite the restrictions placed on Copernicus and Galileo and how the church tried to stop their research. However, this argument is old and inapplicable to the huge leaps science has made since the early 1600s.
T.S 2 Morals and ethics have guided science even in modern times.
T.S.3. Science can cure religion of error and superstition; religion can cure science of idolatry and false absolutes.
GP Essay Outline 3: Science, unlike religion, promises more than it delivers. Do you agree?
The history of mankind and its progress has been marked by both spiritual and material progress. Two radically different philosophical worldviews have emerged as catalysts and products of such progress: the empirical method of science and the more spiritual one of religion. But the truth of the matter is that science has not delivered as much as it has promised.
T.S.1. Religious pundits will assert that science has failed as it is unable to explain many phenomena’s.
T.S.2. We have received material progress from science.
T.S.3. Religion promises salvation and has developed society along moral lines.
GP Essay Outline 4: We worship the young and scorn the old. What is your view?
In a world where media constantly promotes the young while allowing the old to be largely relegated to the background, it would seem as though our culture is one that worships the young and scorns the old. But the reality in our ageing world is that old is gold. It is the old that actually commands attention today.
T.S.1. The obsession with the pursuits of the young are fuelled by media.
T.S.2. The old are worshipped as they hold tremendous financial power.
T.S.3. Older folk have much experience that is useful in industry and at home.
GP Essay Outline 5: A profit-driven mass media is more vibrant than a government-regulated one. Discuss.
When money or politics serve as the sole impetus for the production of mass media, then it eventuates in the ending of all variety, choice and vibrancy. The real solution for sustaining life in mass media lies in the use of media to disseminate a wide variety of information and knowledge.
T.S.1. The modus operandi of commercial media is governed by corporate sponsors.
T.S.2. Government-regulated mass media is also dangerously focused on funding the growth of particular political motives. t.s.3. Government driven media cannot avoid censorship
T.S.3. Government driven media cannot avoid censorship.
GP Essay Outline 6: Do moral standards impede the progress of science?
Science has to adhere to rules to ensure that it can progress. Progress in science should not be contingent upon immorality and depravity. It would be superfluous to say that the progress of science has been impeded by morals.
T.S.1. The use of animals in clinical trials have been the bane of scientific progress.
T.S.2. Scientific progress, the driving force for the majority of the changes witnessed in the 21st century, requires a critical mind, free of prejudice and open to new ways of thinking.
T.S.3. The debate surrounding embryonic stem cells is not the only example of an ethical controversy born out of scientific research. Genetically modified (GM) plants have also stirred a growing public controversy.
