Tag: 2010 National Speech and Debate Association U.S. Extemp topic area analysis

As was done for the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) national tournament, Extemp Central provides you with this topic area analysis for the United States extemp portion of next week’s NFL national tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.

In the final installment of our four-part series, we explore four of the thirteen topic areas at the 2010 NFL National Tournament in United States Extemp.

Topic Area #10:  National Security and Homeland Security
Topic Area #11:  The Obama Administration
Topic Area #12:  State and Local Politics:  Major Elections, Budgets, Welfare, and Immigration Issues
Topic Area #13:  U.S. Policies, Programs, and Regulatory Policy

Keep reading to explore these areas in further depth.

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As was done for the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) national tournament, Extemp Central provides you with this topic area analysis for the United States extemp portion of next week’s NFL national tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.

In the third of our four-part series, we explore three of the thirteen topic areas at the 2010 NFL National Tournament in United States Extemp.

Topic Area #7:  Education
Topic Area #8:  Energy & the Environment
Topic Area #9:  Health Care Reform

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As was done for the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) national tournament, Extemp Central provides you with this topic area analysis for the United States extemp portion of next week’s NFL national tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.

In the second of our four-part series, we explore three of the thirteen topic areas at the 2010 NFL National Tournament in United States Extemp.

Topic Area #4:  America:  The Path from 2000 to 2010
Topic Area #5:  The American Judiciary:  Nominations, Recent Cases, and Theoretical Approaches
Topic Area #6:  The Banking Crisis and American Business

Keep reading to explore these areas in further depth.

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As was done for the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) national tournament, Extemp Central provides you with this topic area analysis for the United States extemp portion of next week’s NFL national tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.

In the first of our four-part series, we explore three of the thirteen topic areas at the 2010 NFL National Tournament in United States Extemp.

Topic Area #1:  The 2010 and 2012 Elections
Topic Area #2:  The American Economy:  Economic Theory and Core Economic Policymaking
Topic Area #3:  American Foreign Policy:  Theoretical Questions and Ongoing Foreign Engagements

Keep reading to explore these areas in further depth.

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As was done for the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) national tournament, Extemp Central provides you with this topic area analysis for the United States extemp portion of next week’s NFL national tournament in Kansas City, Missouri.

Since this is my third year writing a topic area analysis for the NFL National tournament for the website, I’ll rehash my thoughts about why I think United States extemp is more difficult than International extemp.  These thoughts were printed in last season’s topic area analysis:

First, it is very difficult to write thirteen rounds of questions about the United States. Yes, we are a great country and many of the things that take place here establish policy that significantly alters the globe. However, trying to come up with nearly thirty questions per round about issues only in the United States is very difficult. This is compounded by a problem all extempers are familiar with at some local tournaments: a lack of quality questions. I remember senior year the first question I drew was “Why does the right hate public education?” I also have encountered questions about whether prisoners should have to work, questions about timber companies, and questions about water problems in Utah. All of these questions show that there is a depth to U.S. extemp that can get very nit picky and there might come a time in the tournament when an extemper is going to be forced to talk about an issue they may never have heard of or not have a lot of substantial material to support a speech in their file boxes.