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    Synopsis Schindler List is film that produced by Steven Spielberg in 1993. The film revolves around Oskar Schindler who saved the lives of over one thousand Polish Jewish refugees during the holocaust. Oskar Schindler saved the lives of the Polish Jewish refugees by hiring them his factories. The Polish Jews were relocated from the nearby areas after the Second World War started. German initiated the relocation of the Polish Jews. During this time‚ Oskar Schindler a business man in German came

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    Deceptive Arguments

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    justice system. Answer: n (no deceptive argument) 9. Thurgood Marshall‚ a pro-criminal‚ bleeding-heart liberal‚ considers the harm a victim suffered irrelevant in a criminal trial. Answer: c (personal attack) 10. As Justice John Paul Stevens correctly points out‚ the defendant should have more rights than the state in a criminal trial. Answer: d (testimonial) 11. Victim impact statements force juries to base their decisions on emotion rather than on objective facts. Answer:

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    “THE WRONG RULING ON VOUCHERS” Thesis Statement: “It was a bad decision on constitutional grounds‚ and a bad one for American education.” (New York Times‚ 2002) I. The controversy with Cleveland’s voucher program A. The voucher programs allows students to use stipends to choose where they want to attend school. B. The issue lies with the fact that students’ only options are between low-performing public schools and parochial schools. C. This choice is subsidized by tax payers and therefore

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    most to you in life. Now imagine what life would be like if you never saw or heard from them again. This is what happens to Celie‚ the main character in the novel The Color Purple written by Alice Walker and the movie The Color purple directed by Steven Spielberg. The novel The color purple was published in 1982. The story is told through letters written by Celie to God. The only sentences outside the letters are the first two “You better not never tell nobody. It’d kill your mammy.” The story

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    Bruce Springsteen

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    power on the stage. Bruce Springsteen’s passion for music started with 13 when he got his first guitar but his real career started in 1965 when he joined the band “Castiles”. He changed to a few other times until he finally met his current guitarist Steven Van Zandt. That was when Springsteen released his first album Greetings From Asbury Park‚ N. J.. But only with his third album Born To Run (1975) Springsteen and the E-Street Band had their great breakthrough. Darkness On The Edge Of Town‚ The River

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    In this book‚ Steven Johnson is talking about the control that mass-media is having on people. Everything moves around mass-media‚ internet‚ games and all that includes this industry‚ taking over the idea of „brainwashing”. First of all‚ he’s describing his favorite game from his childhood‚ that his dad bought him when he was nine. The game was called „ American Professional Baseball Assosiation” (APBA)‚ it was a baseball simulation. A company in Lancaster‚ Pennsylvania‚ had analyzed

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    tolerate acts of violence. Dana Stevens’ “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” argues that television does not make you smarter‚ directly contrasting Steven Johnsons article‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” Television has definitely made a mark on our hearts and has most certainly made an impact on society‚ but too much of a good thing is never a good thing. The propaganda photo about television that was found on Facebook is a good lens that helps me understand Stevens’ argument better. The photo assisted

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    Below are the answers to the two exercises in week five. Please note that some of these are a bit subjective so your answers might not have matched these perfectly and that is okay. If you have any questions please let me know.   The essence of exercise one was to recognize that although some arguments are compelling‚ often individuals (or groups) use tactics with the purpose of emotionally distracting from facts. Hopefully‚ know that you have spent some time recognizing these‚ you will be able

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    that many people all over the world would like to have the same freedoms and others would like to take them all away. Each author writes their story in their own words to share their views and leave them open to our interpretations. In Wallace Stevens’ poem‚ “The Death of a Soldier” he depicts that death is swift‚ unemotional and comparative to the season of autumn. Just as autumn dies swiftly and poignantly‚ a soldier’s death is just as cold and ill fated. “As in a season of autumn. The soldier

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    When Steven Spielberg boldly created one of cinema’s most audacious films with Jaws‚ one would contemplate how he would attempt to outdo himself in his next going. This project would become an Close Encounters of the Third Kind a film that doesn’t transports its audience into the startling terror of its characters‚ but instead it conveys the unrelentless force of dazzling awe. It’s worth repeating that Steven Spielberg is a genuinely captivating director‚ a filmmaker who manages to balance his

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