Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Cannon Center Chaos
Lines extending out the doors. Scarce amounts of food. Limited available seating. Problems such as these exist in the Cannon Center on the weekends. The Cannon Center is open from 6:30 in the morning until 8:00 at night, on the usual weekday. However, on Saturdays and Sundays, the popular food spot for freshmen closes at 6:00 P.M. The concern increases though, when you take fast sundays and firesides into consideration. On fast sundays, the Cannon Center does not open until 3 P.M. and closes at 6 P.M. and on nights of firesides, it closes at 5:30 P.M. These hours do not provide enough time for a person to eat at a leisurely pace and allow them to enjoy the food. On days like these, it often takes a long to time to even enter the dining center. The lines can be excruciatingly long, especially on fast sundays. In order to solve the problems, I believe the Cannon Center should extend their hours on the weekends in order to allow everyone to enjoy a refreshing, unstressful meal, expecially on the Sabbath day.
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I like your topic; this is something that readers can relate to and will want to read. Your writing style captures the reader's interest and is entertaining. As you continue with your writing, make sure to consider possible counter arguments and address those. One possible counter argument to closing the Cannon early on Sundays could be being considerate to the employee's Sunday schedules.
I believe you have a legitimate argument here. I would just be careful of some of the counter arguements people might throw back. For example, I don't think the hours should be extended too much because after all, it is the Sabbath and labor is required to run the Cannon Center. However, I totally understand the concern for being rushed and not having enough time to eat.
I agree completely with your argument, and think the hours should be extended as well. I am sure everyone is interested in this, as it appeals to most of us.
I like this argument as well but as Scott said there are some pretty major counter arguments that need to be considered. I mean I don't like the lines either but then again those people have to work. However I do think that that can be addressed in a way that you would be able to tackle that argument. Good job though!!
I really like your topic and agree with it. There are many ways to make a change that will benefit everyone who eats at the Cannon Center. However, like everyone else mentioned I think one of your biggest counter arguments is having employees working on Sunday.
I think this is a great argument to make--and like everyone else said, think about the counterarguments.
What I would recommend doing is coming up with all the possible reasons why it should have longest hours, and then choose the ones that will be most powerful on your audience, the administrators who will actually be able to make the change. For example, as it is currently developed, eating at a leisurely pace is not a very powerful argument. Yet if it was developed in a body paragraph, and you made it important by relating it to family dinners and the Sabbath importance of spending time with people, then it might be one of your powerful arguments.
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