Rosales 1 Cecilia Rosales Professor Allen Final Summary-Response Essay 16 October 2011 Argument Culture: Confrontation Online In “The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen‚ she describes our adversarial society in debates and dialogues. Tannen discusses our culture’s style of seeing issues‚ questions‚ and conflicts as having two sides that battle each other for one goal. She states that using war metaphors: war on drugs or fight against AIDS‚ makes every conflict a battle in the minds
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Summary & Response: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Living in a world where it is foreign to be colored was hard for many people of this nature in the 1920s. For Zora Neale Hurston‚ this was not a challenge at all. This high-spirited girl gives an explanation of how it felt to be‚ “...like a brown paper bag of miscellany propped against a wall” (Hurston 197). Written by Hurston herself‚ “How It Feels To Be Colored” gives us a humorous‚ sarcastic-ridden view of what her childhood was like from her
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Summary Response Paper In this article she is talking about online dating. She believes that there is nothing wrong with it and sees it as just another method to meeting new people. She states that people have been going on blind dates for as long as the mind can remember so what is wrong with setting up your own blind date? She says that the stigma against online dating with the people in the twenty something age group is interesting. This is interesting because it is that age group that came
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Agents of Change and Nonviolent Action* Nonviolent action is a way for ordinary people to fight for their rights‚ freedom‚ and justice. It is frequently associated with moral or ethical nonviolence‚ but I will address it here as a distinct phenomenon‚ separate from any moral or ethical underpinnings‚ to expand on how it works as a pragmatic way to exert leverage in a conflict. Nonviolent action is based on the insight that power in a society is ultimately derived from people’s consent and obedience
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Terrorism "Terrorism" comes from the French word terrorisme‚[12] and originally referred specifically to state terrorism as practiced by the French government during the Reign of terror. The Jacobins cited this precedent when imposing a Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.[14][15] After the Jacobins lost power‚ the word "terrorist" became a term of abuse.[8] Although "terrorism" originally referred to acts committed by a government‚ currently it usually refers to the killing of innocent
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Is Terrorism Distinctively Wrong 911‚ the Paris Bombing‚ Mumbai Train Bombings‚ and the Oklahoma City Bombing were all horrific acts of terrorism. The common view when it comes to terrorism‚ is that it is entirely and utterly wrong. Not many would choose to argue against this. The philosopher Lionel K. McPherson however‚ argues that terrorism is not distinctively wrong. He argues that terrorism and war are similar and because of that they should be criticized equally. Even though I agree with some
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In “Dealing with Feelings‚” an article excerpted from a college textbook “Communicate!‚” the author Rudolph F. Verderber indicates the best way to deal with feelings is by describing them rather than withholding or displaying them. The author explains‚ first‚ withholding feelings‚ hiding them inside and not giving any clue to their existence‚ is an inappropriate way of dealing with feelings. Psychologists believe that when people withhold feelings‚ they can cause physical problems as well as psychological
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Terrorism has become an important topic in the recent decades‚ often as a negative connotation of immorality. Does terrorism as used by the modern states mean what they expunge? The documentary My Daughter the Terrorist and lecture by Dr. Bryan present different pictures on some realities behind the term terrorism. My Daughter the Terrorist focuses on the life of a soldier in the Tamil Tigers‚ what is considered a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka. Dr. Bryan is an Irish anthropologist that is looking
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Answers to Terror James Swanson ENG 122 English Composition II Kari Lomanno 14 July 2014 Terrorism is defined as the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. Unfortunately‚ when many people hear the term terrorism‚ they think of 9-11 and the horrific events of that day. That reason is why most individuals think that military force is the most logical answer to snuffing out terrorists. One of the largest problems with that course of action is the loss of human life
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Genesis of Suicide terrorism Scott Atran To cite this version: Scott Atran. Genesis of Suicide terrorism. Science‚ American Association for the Advancement of Science‚ 2003‚ 299‚ pp.1534-1539. <ijn 00509568> HAL Id: ijn 00509568 http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/ijn 00509568 Submitted on 13 Aug 2010 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents‚ whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research
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