so my first general thank you post didn't appear for some reason, so just to reiterate--thank you everyone for so many responses! it's great to hear a variety of perspectives. if you're curious my assignment is to take two issues that you all addressed in your answers and propose possible solutions.
also, thanks for redirecting me to the thread re: questions like this. i understand how they could become repetitive and annoying on a forum such as this, and i appreciate your time all the more in answering them because of that.
OK, first of all, I'm sorry if current or previous classmates have posted these questions to your forum before--obviously this assignment has been the same for several years now. Feel free to redirect me. However, I'm only looking for at least two responses (though more would be great--I'm...