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This assignment asks you to push your analysis into examining the positions that people argue within a controversy. Here, we return to the same sort of analysis we started in speech #1. For this speech (5-7 minutes) you are asked to expand your research and analysis into creating a sketch of the different positions people take with regard to a controversy. You are no longer focused on what the controversy is, but rather how people locate themselves in relation to the controversy (for example, what they think the solution is, if they think it is a problem, what the differences in solutions proposed is).