Ideas for Proposal 11/10

Earlier this evening I had absolutely no idea what to write this proposal paper about so I called my mom and asked if she had any good ideas. Well, my parents like to give advice and it can get really annoying- "do the problem with the economy! It's so interesting!" Blah, blah. So then I realized that I wanted to write about teenage rebellion. I figure we've all gone through it so I have at least had some first hand experience, but I've also realized where my parent's were coming from when they put all those restrictions and rules confining me to my house by 9:30 every Friday night when I was younger, and gradually giving me more freedom. I think that the problem that I'll discuss will be that of teenage rebelliousness and how teenagers go through the stage of not listening to their parents and doing everything just to spite them. I'll talk about why we do this using my opinions as well as official doctors, etc.  Then to finish my paper I'll talk about different solutions- what parent's can do, what kids can do, and why parent's put restrictions on us and how in the long run we can actually benefit from it. I'm not sure if "we" actually benefit from the rules, but I know that I did and that I'll probably want to raise my kids very similar to the way that my parents are raising my siblings and I right now. 

"The Hardest of the Hardcore": Let's Outlaw Hired Guns in Contemporary American Warfare

After reading this I was a little confused as to what its purpose was. Was this article proposing a solution to a problem or just addressing a problem? Primarily I only really saw the background information, theses put in different paragraphs to keep reiterating it's main point, and the information used to back up the idea that action must be taken to outlaw hired contractors. Then I read the "Thinking Critically" part and it became a little clearer that his paper was "almost entirely devoted to showing that a problem exists." If he hasn't convinced people that there is a problem with the civilian contractors, than I don't know what his paper does. He stated that there was a problem and gave multiple reasons as to why it is a problem. It almost got boring because after the 3rd or 4th point he didn't need to convince me anymore, I had gotten the point. I think that after that he could have proposed some solutions.  This would have made me want to become more involved and learn more because there would have been a point that I could've started with to solve this problem. All in all though I learned something new, and I guess that although this is considered a "planning proposal" type of essay, I don't think that I will necessarily choose this type of writing in my next paper.