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  Alcohol should be Banned in the United States

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  Paper 3: Argumentative Essay

  An argumentative essay is one that convinces readers to see things from the author’s point of view. At the end of your essay, you want your audience to agree with your claim, or argument. A good argumentative essay is the result of the author making a claim and supporting this claim with strong evidence. A good argumentative essay also acknowledges the counterarguments to the author’s claim, or the reasons why some people may not agree with the argument that is being made.

  Pre-Writing:

  1. First, you need to choose a topic that you feel strongly about. I am leaving the topic up to you, but please note that there are some topics I do not want you to write about. These include:

  • legalizing marijuana
  • gay marriage
  • abortion
  • gun control
  • changing the drinking age to younger than 21
  • the death penalty

  2. After you have chosen a general topic, try to narrow it down to something specific. Think back to the exercise we did in class to help you do this.

  3. Now write a thesis statement. This should be a 1-3 sentence statement that summarizes your argument.

  4. Once you have a thesis statement, think of the possible counterarguments that exist. Take a piece of paper and make 2 columns. In one column, write down the possible counterarguments that exist against your argument. In the other column, write down your arguments against the counterarguments.

  Writing the Essay:

  Now that you have explored your topic, you can start writing. Make sure your essay fits into the standards we have set for this class (12 pt. TNR font, double spaced, each paragraph indented, 1-inch margins). Your essay needs an introduction and a conclusion.

  Tips:

  • Make sure you use evidence that supports your argument, not just your opinion.
  • Make sure your evidence is logically strong.
  • Make sure your essay follows an order that makes sense.
  • If you are writing about a controversial topic, make sure you are respectful.
  • Make sure each paragraph only contains 1 idea. You can have multiple paragraphs that talk about the same idea.
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  Instagram’s Envy Effect Reflection Paper

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  Read the following essay and answer the questions below. Please do this in a new document. This is due at the beginning of class
  

  1. What is the author’s argument/main idea? If you can find a thesis statement, write it. If not, summarize the main idea in your own words.
  2. How does the author organize her paper? What kind of order does she follow?
  3. What are some examples she uses to support her argument? Give specific examples from her text.
  4. What are examples she uses to show the counterarguments? Give specific examples from her text.
  5. Write a short (1-2 page) essay that either supports her argument or argues against it. You need to include an introduction and a conclusion in this essay.

  Instagram’s Envy Effect

  Everyone’s life looks better on social media. And that’s the problem.

  by Shauna Niequist

  I keep having the same conversation over and over. It starts like this: “I gave up Facebook for Lent, and I realized I’m a lot happier without it.” Or like this, “Pinterest makes me hate my house.” Or like this: “I stopped following a friend on Instagram, and now that I don’t see nonstop snapshots of her perfect life, I like her better.”

  Yikes. This is a thing. This is coming up in conversation after conversation. The danger of the internet is that it’s very very easy to tell partial truths—to show the fabulous meal but not the mess to clean up afterward. To display the smiling couple-shot, but not the fight you had three days ago. To offer up the sparkly milestones but not the spiraling meltdowns.

  I’m not anti-technology or anti-Internet, certainly, but I do think it’s important for us to remind ourselves from time to time that watching other peoples’ post-worthy moments on Facebook is always going to yield a prettier version of life than the one you’re living right now. That’s how it works.

  My life looks better on the Internet than it does in real life. Everyone’s life looks better on the internet than it does in real life. The Internet is partial truths—we get to decide what people see and what they don’t. That’s why it’s safer short term. And that’s why it’s much, much more dangerous long term.

  Because community—the rich kind, the transforming kind, the valuable and difficult kind—doesn’t happen in partial truths and well-edited photo collections on Instagram. Community happens when we hear each other’s actual voices, when we enter one another’s actual homes, with actual messes, around actual tables telling stories that ramble on beyond 140 pithy characters.

  But seeing the best possible, often-unrealistic, half-truth version of other peoples’ lives isn’t the only danger of the Internet. Our envy buttons also get pushed because we rarely check Facebook when we’re having our own peak experiences. We check it when we’re bored and when we’re lonely, and it intensifies that boredom and loneliness.

  When you’re laughing at a meal with friends, are you scrolling through Pinterest? When you’re in labor with your much-prayed-for-deeply-loved child, are you checking to see what’s happening on Instagram? Of course not. We check in with our phones when it seems like nothing fun is happening in our own lives—when we’re getting our oil changed or waiting for the coffee to brew.

  It makes sense, then, that anyone else’s fun or beauty or sparkle gets under our skin. It magnifies our own dissatisfaction with that moment. When you’re waiting for your coffee to brew, the majority of your friends probably aren’t doing anything any more special.

  But it only takes one friend at the Eiffel Tower to make you feel like a loser.

  I’m a writer. I use Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest and my blog as part of my professional life—as a way to connect with readers and be part of a conversation that we’re creating together, a conversation about creativity and faith and writing and parenting and community and life around the table. It’s a lovely conversation, and part of my work involves reading many blogs and commenting on lots of photos and scrolling through status after status.

  Some days it feels rich and multi-faceted. I learn and I’m inspired. I find recipes I want to try and stories I want to live. I feel connected and thankful to be part of such an intelligent and creative internet community.

  And then on some days, I feel like I have nothing to offer, like I must be the only one who isn’t a graphic designer and hasn’t yet managed to display her entire darling life online with lots of chevron and mint accents. I feel so certain that my life is a lot less darling than other peoples’ lives.

  But that’s the Internet. The nature of it. I so easily fall prey to the seduction of other people’s partial truths and heavily filtered photos, making everything look amazing. And their amazing looking lives make me feel not amazing at all.

  Let’s choose community. Let’s stop comparing. Let’s start connecting.

  Some days when I sit down at my laptop, instead of choosing to be an observer via Facebook, I choose to be a friend via email. Instead of scrolling through someone else’s carefully curated images, I use those few seconds to send a text to a person I really know and really love and really want to be connected to.

  It’s not about technology or not. I’m not suggesting you get all old-school-pen-and-paper about it (unless that’s your thing). It’s about connecting instead of comparing. Instead of using the computer to watch someone else’s perfectly crafted life, enter into someone’s less-than-perfect life. You can use Facebook if you want, but you might find email, Skype and phone calls work better.

  The distinction I’m making is public vs. private, not in person vs. long distance. I have very close, very honest friendships that depend on phone calls and Skype dates and long wandering emails, and I’m thankful that technology allows for those connections. But I don’t think you can build transforming friendships that take place only in a public sphere like Facebook or Instagram.

  For many of us, walking away from the Internet isn’t an option. But using it to connect instead of compare is an option, and a life-changing one. Using technology to build community instead of building carefully-curated images of ourselves is an option, and a worthwhile one.

  And on the days when you peer into the screen of your laptop and all you see are other people’s peak experiences that highlight your lack in that moment, remember that life isn’t about the story you tell about yourself on the Internet. It’s about a million more beautiful and complex things than that, like love and faith and really listening. It’s about using what you’ve been given to craft a life of gratitude and passion and grace.

  Remember that the very best things in life can’t be captured in status updates.

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  http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech/stop-instagramming-your-perfect-life
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  Manifest Destiny and The Career of Thomas Jefferson Essays

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  There will be four essays. You will choose TWO and write a complete essay on EACH topic. Each essay is worth 50 pts.

  Broad topics to think about for the essays.

  • The Roots of Manifest Destiny, Justification, Results. Pro or Con?
  • Assess the career of Thomas Jefferson.
  • Transformation of U.S. from Revolutionaries to Nationalists
  • Transformation of U.S. from Nationalists to Sectionalists

  Vocabulary you should know for your essays (this is by no means complete)

  List 1

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Embargo Act
  • Louisiana Purchase
  • John Marshall
  • Adams-Onis Treaty
  • American System
  • Transportation Revolution
  • James Madison
  • War of 1812
  • War Hawks
  • James Monroe
  • Era of Good Feeling
  • 2^nd Bank of the U.S.
  • Panic of 1819
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Marbury vs. Madison
  • McCulloch vs. Maryland
  • Gibbons vs. Ogden
  • John Quincy Adams
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Erie Canal
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Texas Revolution
  • William Henry Harrison

  List 2

  • John Tyler
  • James Polk
  • 54’ 40 or Fight
  • Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
  • Oregon Territory
  • Mexican War
  • Whigs
  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
  • Mexican Cession
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Stephen Douglas
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Republican Party
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Dred Scot
  • Lecompton Constitution
  • Charles Sumner
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • Election of 1860
  • Raid on Harper’s Ferry
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  “The Under Dogs” By Marina Azuela

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  READ ALL OF “The Underdogs” by Mariano Azuela (see link below for reading)
  http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi508.pdf

  **in 2-3 pages (times new roman font. double spaced lines). Answer and back:

  Source Documents Question Two: What do these documents tell us about women’s status in colonial Mexico?
  Use document as source and
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  Should English be the Official Language of the United States?

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  Debate Prompt: Census figures indicate that Hispanics, many of whom come from Mexico or are of Mexican ancestry, are the fasting growing population in the United States.This has caused some to argue that “American” culture is in danger, specifically with regard to the English language.Others suggest that multiple languages and a more diverse population would be beneficial to the U.S.This debate centers around several questions, amongst them:

  • should Hispanics be required to learn English before being granted work visas?
  • Should English be made the official language of the United States?
  • Should schools require English-only instruction?

  **** My side on the debate: English should not be made the official language of the united states.
  Schools should not have English-only instruction.
  Give reasons for all debate questions. Census data, future of the united states

  6-8 pages. MLA format. NO WIKIPEDIA SOURCES!!
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  Response to “THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN”

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  Please read the following article and write a 2 page response (TNR size 12, double spaced, 1 inch margin). Think about the following: What was your reaction to the bombing? What is the argument being made in this article? Do you agree with the argument? Have you ever experienced discrimination similar to what is being discussed in this article?

  Don’t worry about making your writing perfect—I want you to focus on your ideas, your arguments, your thoughts, and your opinions. Make sure you print this out before class—I will not accept anything that is printed in class, and anything that I receive after class will receive a late grade.

   

  THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN

  POSTED BY AMY DAVIDSON

  A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,” as his fellow-tenants described it to the Boston Herald, with a “phalanx” of officers and agents and two K9 units. He was the one whose belongings were carried out in paper bags as his neighbors watched; whose roommate, also a student, was questioned for five hours (“I was scared”) before coming out to say that he didn’t think his friend was someone who’d plant a bomb—that he was a nice guy who liked sports. “Let me go to school, dude,” the roommate said later in the day, covering his face with his hands and almost crying, as a Fox News producer followed him and asked him, again and again, if he was sure he hadn’t been living with a killer.

  Why the search, the interrogation, the dogs, the bomb squad, and the injured man’s name tweeted out, attached to the word “suspect”? After the bombs went off, people were running in every direction—so was the young man. Many, like him, were hurt badly; many of them were saved by the unflinching kindness of strangers, who carried them or stopped the bleeding with their own hands and improvised tourniquets. “Exhausted runners who kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood,” President Obama said. “They helped one another, consoled one another,” Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, said. In the midst of that, according to a CBS News report, a bystander saw the young man running, badly hurt, rushed to him, and then “tackled” him, bringing him down. People thought he looked suspicious.

  What made them suspect him? He was running—so was everyone. The police reportedly thought he smelled like explosives; his wounds might have suggested why. He said something about thinking there would be a second bomb—as there was, and often is, to target responders. If that was the reason he gave for running, it was a sensible one. He asked if anyone was dead—a question people were screaming. And he was from Saudi Arabia, which is around where the logic stops. Was it just the way he looked, or did he, in the chaos, maybe call for God with a name that someone found strange?

  What happened next didn’t take long. “Investigators have a suspect—a Saudi Arabian national—in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned.” That’s the New York Post, which went on to cite Fox News. The “Saudi suspect”—still faceless—suddenly gave anxieties a form. He was said to be in custody; or maybe his hospital bed was being guarded. The Boston police, who weren’t saying much of anything, disputed the report—sort of. “Honestly, I don’t know where they’re getting their information from, but it didn’t come from us,” a police spokesman told TPM. But were they talking to someone? Maybe. “Person of interest” became a phrase of both avoidance and insinuation. On the Atlas Shrugs Web site, there was a note that his name in Arabic meant “sword.” At an evening press conference, Ed Davis, the police commissioner, said that no suspect was in custody. But that was about when the dogs were in the apartment building in Revere—an inquiry that was seized on by some as, if not an indictment, at least a vindication of their suspicions.

  “There must be enough evidence to keep him there,” Andrew Napolitano said on “Fox and Friends”—“there” being the hospital. “They must be learning information which is of a suspicious nature,” Steve Doocy interjected. “If he was clearly innocent, would they have been able to search his house?” Napolitano thought that a judge would take any reason at a moment like this, but there had to be “something”—maybe he appeared “deceitful.” As Mediaite pointed out, Megyn Kelly put a slight break on it (as she has been known to do) by asking if there might have been some “racial profiling,” but then, after a round of speculation about his visa (Napolitano: “Was he a real student, or was that a front?”), she asked, “What’s the story on his ability to lawyer up?”

  By Tuesday afternoon, the fever had broken. Report after report said that he was a witness, not a suspect. “He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time,” a “U.S. official” told CNN. (So were a lot of people at the marathon.) Even Fox News reported that he’d been “ruled out.” At a press conference, Governor Deval Patrick spoke, not so obliquely, about being careful not to treat “categories of people in uncharitable ways.”

  We don’t know yet who did this. “The range of suspects and motives remains wide open,” Richard Deslauriers of the F.B.I. said early Tuesday evening. In a minute, with a claim of responsibility, our expectations could be scrambled. The bombing could, for all we know, be the work of a Saudi man—or an American or an Icelandic or a person from any nation you can think of. It still won’t mean that this Saudi man can be treated the way he was, or that people who love him might have had to find out that a bomb had hit him when his name popped up on the Web as a suspect in custody. It is at these moments that we need to be most careful, not least.

  It might be comforting to think of this as a blip, an aberration, something that will be forgotten tomorrow—if not by this young man. There are people at Guanátanmo who have also been cleared by our own government, and are still there. A new report on the legacy of torture after 9/11, released Tuesday, is a well-timed admonition. The F.B.I. said that they would “go to the ends of the earth” to get the Boston perpetrators. One wants them to be able to go with their heads held high.

  “If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil—that’s it. Selflessly. Compassionately. Unafraid,” President Obama said. That was mostly true on Monday; a terrible day, when an eight-year-old boy was killed, his sister maimed, two others dead, and many more in critical condition. And yet, when there was so much to fear that we were so brave about, there was panic about a wounded man barely out of his teens who needed help. We get so close to all that Obama described. What’s missing? Is it humility?

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  Facebook given big thumbs up by analysts

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  For a variety of reasons, some businesses attempt to “manage” their reported assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses, or income. You can search the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Business Week or other financial/business periodicals for articles on the subject. Do not search scholarly journals, as the articles will typically be unnecessarily lengthy and complex. In a minimum of three and maximum of 5 typed (double spaced, 12 point type) pages summarize what the company did, why they did it, what reported financial numbers were affected, and the dollar amount by which the reported numbers were affected.
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  What kind of writing would Orwell identify as “bad”

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  1. http://www.george-­‐orwell.org/Politics_and_the_English_Language/0.html
  Read the Orwell’s article on the link and answer the questions around 200-­‐300 words. What kind of writing would Orwell identify as “bad”? How would he characterize good writing? Why does he prefer simple, concrete language to abstract language? What is the difference between Latinate and Anglo Saxon words?

  2. What is Hitchens’s primary argument in this piece? What sorts of emotional and logical arguments does he use? How effective are they? Answer the questions around 150-­‐200 words.
  Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-­‐ZUXyGWvJY and read the article “Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?”  attached.

  3. How would you characterize the ethos Goodstein creates in discussing this topic? Why might she do so?
  Read this http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/weekinreview/09good.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0
  Answer the questions around 150-­‐200 words

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  hitchens.pdf

  1.pdf
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  Book Review on Judicial Tyranny the new kings of America by Mark I. Sutherland

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  Assignment to analyze the sound

  Analyze the sound in one sequence of Pulp Fiction by filling in the following chart. Then look at the questions at the end of the chapter on sound and respond in a brief essay to one of the issues brought up in those questions.

  Describe Sound	Diegetic /nondiegetic	Internal/ External	On/off screen	Synchronous Asynchronous