a political cartoon on Andrew Carnegie. After answering one or tw scaffolded questions for each document‚ students had to write an essay discussing the advantages and disadvantages of industrialization to American society between 1865 and 1920 and how industrialization affected different groups. Document-Based Questions may be the state’s newest challenge for students‚ but DBQs are really nothing new. When you show students an illustration and ask them‚ "What’s going on in this picture?" you’re asking
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Since the dawn of time‚ humans have pretentiously stomped through Earth lacerating trees and slaughtering animals without even one ephemeral compunction. Is this destruction not commensurate with murdering a human? Society has decided that it is not; however‚ we’ve also agreed we have an obligation to conserve the plants and animals--who are also arguably sentient--of the Earth. Why then should the law protect humans from senseless killing but not equally-sentient beings? If the two are not as diametric
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problem of gun violence. Unlike most Americans‚ I stand on both sides of this debate. I understand the apprehension that many people feel toward “gun culture‚” and I share their outrage over the political influence of the National Rifle Association. How is it that we live in a society in which one of the most compelling interests is gun ownership? Where is the science lobby? The safe food lobby? Where is the get-the-Chinese-lead-paint-out-of-our-kids’-toys lobby? When viewed from any other civilized
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I have to write a paper to see the papers I need so this is what you get...I’m sorry for any inconvenience because of me...I just need one more paper!!!! My essay is too short you say? Well then I guess I’ll have to make it longer...hmmmm what should I write about? I know!! I’ll write about how today’s education system is awful and terrible. Today’s education system is whack. They cause students to want to kill themselves because of stress...today’s average high school students have higher stress
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Student: Amina Hajdarevic Section: ______ COMM 1201 – Public Speaking RENDER Assignment: Dr. Martin Luther King – “I Have A Dream” speech ASSIGNMENT (10 points): View the “I Have A Dream” speech delivered by the late Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ on the March on Washington‚ August 28‚ 1963. The full video of the speech (about 18 minutes) is posted on iCollege (MLK folder). Read the exact text of the spoken speech (posted on iCollege‚ MLK folder). Highlight words‚ phrases‚ or any part
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I have a dream I have a very interesting dream. I dream to be a man. When I was a little girl in the countryside‚ I was told to do all kinds of housework‚ cooking‚ washing and cleaning. One time‚ when I was washing clothes for my elder brother‚ I asked my mother: “mum‚ brother never does any housework‚ can’t he even wash his own clothes?” Mum patted me affectionately on the head and said: “well‚ you’re a girl‚ dear‚ we should serve the men.” “But why? Are girls inferior to the boys?” Just at that
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Running head: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ’S SPEECH‚ "I HAVE A DREAM ’ Martin Luther King Jr. ’s Speech‚ "I Have a Dream ’ Marsha Spainhour Sandhills Community College Public Speaking Kathleen Kruska November 16‚ 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. ’s Speech‚ "I Have a Dream ’ The true test of a speech is born of its immediate impact and its long-term value as a rhetorical document. It is a small wonder that only a few speeches transcend their own moment in history and become resonant literature
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“I Have a Mother” I have a mother who loves me for me. I have a mother‚ who through all the hurt and pain; she stayed there for me through thick and thin. I have a mother who calls me for no apparent reason just to tell me how much she loves me and how she just watched the new Young and the Restless. I have a mother who taught me right from wrong‚ what to do and what not to do. My mother may not be perfect‚ but in my eyes‚ she is God Like. She is there for me when I need someone to talk to about
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Would You Have Quit? If I was a soldier in the American Continental Army during the Valley Forge time period‚ I would probably have quit the war. The reason that I would want to quit is i wouldn’t want to fight in a war‚ at all. I don’t think that fighting and killing is the answer to a country’s problems. However‚ if i was in the war then I would have quit because times were hard for the soldiers and for the people who were supporting the war‚ the Americans were losing the war‚ and they were
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LaToyia Benton Professor Feriante English 1301-3031 31 March 2013 Girls Have Power In Sady Doyle’s article‚ “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: The Unwarranted Backlash Against Fans of the World’s Most Popular Vampire – Romance‚” is based on a typical fairy tale romance that is successful because it is geared towards teenage girls that have an idea of love; only this time it is not of Romeo and Juliet‚ but of a vampire and a human being. Although Doyle reveals that the Twilight series is not
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