Proposal topic

Health & Safety: Topic Proposal

1. What will be the topic of your definition argument? Explain.
Body modification: an act of trendy, twenty-first century self-expression or a body mutilating health hazard, physical and mental?

2. Write a first-pass definition thesis that your paper will support. The claim must identify a choice of a specific case, a category and at least two or three preliminary criteria.
Body modification: an act of trendy, twenty-first century self-expression or a body mutilating health hazard, physical and mental?
Does making modification illegal break freedom from self-expression or is it
preventing a spreading health hazard

3. Describe an audience that would find your claim interesting or controversial. Why would they care about your claim?
People with body modifications (split tongues, scarification, piercing etc...) who think of it as freedom for expression vs. doctors and such who think of it as an extreme health hazard.

4. List some items that are obvious members of the category, some that are non-members, and some borderline cases.
genetic enhancement of people and animals
ear piercing in children
forgien bodies put into a live body to save it (pacemakers)