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    Against Bullfighting

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    picadors keep on abusing him‚ provoking painful wounds that cut into his neck muscles with a pica. After that the banderilleros‚ blood-thirsty‚ with an item called banderilla weaken the bull even more. Severely injured‚ the bull charges with rage against the steel that destroys his organs. The matador is supposed to break the artery next to the heart‚ but that never happens. Instead he drills his lungs and the bull often vomits blood. Agonizing in a blood bath‚ the puntillero puts an end to his life

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    Against Interpretation

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    uncommon for teachers to ask their students to “dig deeper” into the text that they are reading. In fact‚ every high school English course that I took part in involved interpreting the texts the way that I saw it. After reading Poetics by Aristotle and Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag‚ I now realize that it is not always important to find the hidden meaning of texts. As a student‚ it is necessary to look closely at the texts‚ however it is not always necessary to find incantations while interpreting

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    Against plastic surgery •It’s the fact that it promotes a continuing descent into all things vain. Rather than accepting their perceived (important keyword) flaws‚ growing‚ and developing character‚ they take a chance going under the knife. Plastic surgery rarely produces the desired results and creates more unhealthy obsession with things that would be relatively trivial in a mentally healthy person with proper priorities. Even if‚ by some miracle‚ someone is completely happy with their surgery

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    For and Against Essay

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    FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY – USEFUL EXPRESSIONS POINTS TO CONSIDER • Make a list of the points for and against • Start with a topic sentence which summarises the topic of the paragraph • Do not use informal style • If possible use well-known quotations USEFUL EXPRESSIONS AND LINKING WORDS/PHRASES (for second paragraph) • Firstly‚ First of all‚ In the first place‚ To begin/start with • Secondly‚ Thirdly‚ Finally • To list advantages: One/Another/A

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    Against School

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    Against School John Taylor Gatto Against School is an article that represents the writer’s view and his experience in the American schooling system .This articles were written by John Taylor Gatto. He is an American teacher who spends thirty years in good and bad schools in Manhattan. He found out that boredom was his specialty as teacher. Also he was not the only one who was bored as an instructor and if we ask the teachers about their boredom they will blame kids. Whereas kids blame

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    Against School

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    Taylor Larza Professor Theis English 104 5th March 2013 Larza v. Board of Education “Against School” is an essay that argues the true effectiveness of the current public school system‚ and how it affects children later in the real world. John Gatto‚ a teacher of 30 years in the Manhattan school system and winner of many prestigious teaching awards‚ discusses how high school was just a breeding ground for boredom. The boredom not only affects the children‚ but also the teachers. Gatto believes

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    of white males‚ or as Boyd more specifically articulates‚ “white‚ heterosexual‚ Anglo-Saxon‚ Protestant (evangelical)‚ middle-class‚ middle-aged‚ southern‚ able-bodied men.” (10) Although Boyd’s work covers a vast range of topics‚ he outlines his “seven theses” at the onset of the book. In addition‚ he provides an outline of the book‚ wherein he details the book in three parts‚ as follows: “Part 1 is an elaboration of the development of the dual identities - the lonely warrior and the desperate lover…

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    Against Religion

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    Norton‚ 2010. Print. Fatah‚ Tarek. The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart‚ 2010. Print. Garry‚ Patrick Michael. Cultural Whiplash: the Unforeseen Consequences of America ’s Crusade against Racial Discrimination. Nashville‚ Tn: Cumberland House‚ 2006. Print. Harpur‚ James. The Crusades: an Illustrated History. New York: Thunder ’s Mouth‚ 2005. Print. Henningfeld‚ Diane Andrews. Religion. Farmington Hills‚ MI: Greenhaven‚ 2010. Print

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    7 Possible generator arrangements This section discusses various generator arrangements and their suitability for use in the conversion of a traditional windmill. The generator arrangement may include a speed-increasing gearbox or belt-drive and/or a power electronic frequency converter. See also the Appendix: Background information on induction generators. 7.1 Fixed-speed induction generator Many modern wind turbines (especially those manufactured during the 1990s) use a four-pole induction generator

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    Against Dualism

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    Can one reasonably be a dualist in this day and age? Thomas Nagel is correct to argue that‚ ‘dualism....is usually adopted on the grounds that it must be true‚ and rejected on the grounds that it can’t be.’ Such a seemingly paradoxical statement‚ which exists within what I will call the ontological common-senseness of the human experience‚ represents my position with regard to dualism‚ as will be argued within this essay. Acknowledging but notwithstanding the natural attraction to some sort

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