SUMMER 2020

ENG 105 MIDTERM ASSIGNMENT

Name Nuzhat Tahshin (NUHA) Section

ID 1722254630 20

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Section 1: Argumentative Essay [20 points]

Write an argumentative essay on any one (1) of the following prompts.

Prompt 1:
Some experts argue that genetically modified food (GM Food) is the only solution for world
hunger as the world’s population is expected to reach 10 billion in 2025. In the context of
Bangladesh, where agriculture is one of the largest economic sectors, should we adopt GM
farming, or should we continue with traditional organic agricultural methods. Present an
argument supporting or opposing GM food cultivation in Bangladesh with reference to
biotechnological techniques, ethical, and legal constraints.
Prompt 2:
Many people feel that the use of surveillance cameras in public places, such as parking lots, is
a good idea that can help ensure our safety. Others worry that too many cameras violate our
right to privacy and give law enforcement officials too much power. In your opinion, should
we install more surveillance cameras in public places? Why or why not? Support your
position with specific reasons and examples.

Here are some guidelines for the essay.

- You should write a 5-7 paragraph essay.
- You should argue for your position consistently, and with adequate support.
- You should use at least 5 (FIVE) sources to support your points.
- You should use APA format to write the essay, intext citations, and the reference page

Type your ESSAY from the next page.

 ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY 2

Many people feel that the use of surveillance cameras in public places, such as parking lots, is
a good idea that can help ensure our safety. Others worry that too many cameras violate our
right to privacy and give law enforcement officials too much power. In your opinion, should
we install more surveillance cameras in public places? Why or why not? Support your
position with specific reasons and examples.

Can CCTV cameras play an important role in preventing theft, robbery, criminals, and fights
in public place of any kind? Yes it is, a CCTV camera is a device that can capture all types of
evidence footage and not only that it helps to prevent many types of damages.CCTV cameras
are leading the way with electronic devices that reduce our damage but improve us more not
only this it helps to reduce the rate of accidents in our country day by day. We can increase
the use of CCTV in daily life to avoid precautions and we can tell everyone the importance of
CCTV in daily life safety. So we benefit in many ways by installing CCTV cameras such as
many types of crime prevention which occurs in public place can be done by installing
cameras in the society, 24 hours safety in the not only public area but also private area can be
ensured by surveillance cameras ,it also helps to prevent fraud employee and thefts .

First of all, there are some things that happen in public places that we can’t see with our eyes
but CCTV/ surveillance cameras help us to capture what happened. Installing cameras in
public places increases people’s alertness so that they aren’t intimated before committing any
crime (Porter, 2018). For example, surveillance cameras in public place leads to criminal face
recognition, which allows criminals to be identified with eyewitness and evidence (Vigne,
2013). So, this is can create a security among with the people through the security code and
also criminal identification. There are many people who stay at home for fear of criminals
now they are going to outside.

In addition, not only public areas but also private areas are getting more 24hours security
through use of surveillance cameras. CCTV also monitoring many private places such as
lockers, 24 hours a day so that our privacy properly maintained. According to porter,” Porter
believes the Home Office and industry must ensure that only technologies compliant with
relevant standards should be installed in public and private space” (Global, 2020).
Therefore, we can say that a surveillance camera plays an important role in our security
activities.

However, some people argue that too many cameras violate our right to privacy which is
basically some employee aren’t feel safety about that (Macnish). They are arguing that it is
violate their right of privacy. For example, many employee things that their company doesn’t
trust them which is harmful for their company. but with CCTV footage all the news of the
moment is recorded which help us to find the fraud, theft also. No matter what anyone says
the use of CCTV cameras needs to be further enhanced to maintain privacy (DeRouanna,
2019).

CCTV/ surveillance cameras not only help our society from various kinds of damage but also
help us to collect footage in private, public area and protect it from thieves and robbers. Any
others pros and cons ,but if we assess logically , pros outrun cons. Thus it is raising cautions
in the people of the society and maintains the safety of the people .Our government should
come forward to install CCTV in places so that we can prevent crime, harassment, political
crime also. So if we are careful about using CCTV then we can prevent any kind of crime.

DeRouanna, G. (2019, April 2). Surveillance Camera Laws for Business & Property Owners.

CCTV Security Pros. https://www.cctvsecuritypros.com/blog/surveillance-camera-

laws-for-business-property-owners/.

Global, I. F. S. E. C. (2020, July 27). Role of CCTV Cameras : Public, Privacy and

Protection. https://www.ifsecglobal.com/video-surveillance/role-cctv-cameras-public-

privacy-protection/.

La Vigne, N. G. (2013, April 23). How surveillance cameras can help prevent and solve

crime. www.urban.org. https://www.ifsecglobal.com/video-surveillance/tony-porter-

launches-secure-by-default-requirements-for-video-surveillance-systems/. 

Macnish, K. Surveillance Ethics. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

https://iep.utm.edu/surv-eth/.

Porter, T. (2018). Speech to the annual data privacy conference. In the national ANPR

conference. www.gov.uk. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/speech-to-the-

annual-data-privacy-conference.