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By:Michaela Western and Ram Goli

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  w does this relate?Frequently, society rushes into a hasty conclusion, without taking into account all the contributingfactors that might alter their point of view. People who do so are “begging the question,” assuming

true, without gathering enough evidence. Words can wreak havoc, and when those words come froto an uneducated one, they can terrify the naive. When the Casa Grande administration received anonymous “John Doe” ranting about how the school’s wireless routers are damaging the studen

people’s responses would be to panic. However, the administration did no such thing, and did theDoe’s theory is not yet proven or disproven; controversy stands on the topic His email is an exampquestion;” an all too common device that is used by all manner of people, including politicians looor people like the WiFi John Doe, looking to scare. Without research into the federal guidelines surrouters and their electromagnetic energy, as well as the school’s statistics on its WiFi usage, anyonetaken his unreliable information and ran amok with it, spreading unnecessary fear and panic. In ad

chocolate has recently become an issue of much concern. Signing up with the Fair Trade USA orgathat cocoa used in the production process is not farmed by an unpaid child laborer, and a Fair Traon the chocolate wrapping. If someone doesn't see the trademark logo on their bar of chocolate, t

that their chocolate resulted from slave and child labor, and refuse to purchase it again. Howevecertifying ones chocolate with Fair Trade can be tedious and expensive. The process might preven

manufacturers from paying to have their chocolate licensed, even if the labor involved was humanecan make the wrong assumption without confirming the origins of the mouth-watering bar they

Assumptions of the unknown can destroy reputations and businesses, and opportunities can suddoors. These rushed conclusions give root to problems that arise in society today; if a few seconds

preceded the assumptions, we would find ourselves in a place surrounded by less corruption a

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Works Cited

"Cocoa." Fair Trade USA. Fair Trade USA, 2010. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.

Jones, Jack, and Alex Figeuiredo. "Wi-fi Whistleblower Attempts to Raise Public Awareness."The Gaucho Ga

Feb.

2014, 14.5th ed., News sec.: 1+. Print.