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1. Sarcasm
can be used effectively to make an argument. When documentary filmaker
and social activist Michael Moore writes "Who cares if 70 percent of
those who graduate
from
2. Michael Moore, a documentary filmaker and social activist, laments the misguided priorities of our elected officials when it comes to education. He notes that
the political leaders -- and the people who vote for them -- have decided it's a bigger priority to build another bomber than to educate our children. They would rather hold hearings about eh depravity of a television show called Jackass than about their own depravity in neglecting our schools and children and maintaining our title as Dumbest Country on Earth. (156)
This misguided use of money and intellect is part of the problem with the education system in this country
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3. For
our political system to function, our electorate needs a basic understanding of
the underpinnings of democracy. Daniel
L. Marsh, former president of
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4. In their examination of the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas controversy, Newsweek reporters Timothy Phelps and Helen Winternitz come to the ominous conclusion that either "a Supreme Court justice had committed perjury to get himself on the bench or Hill and his opponents had engaged in an unprecedented criminal conspiracy in an attempt to defeat him" (441). From the evidence in their book, it seems that someone has committed perjury.
5. After analyzing current sitcoms, New York Times movie critic Caryn James discovers that "they have come to resemble melodrama and soap opera more than they reflect comic versions of real life" (1). James believes that sitcoms are supposed to be "real life" . . . .
6. Former Labor Secretary Linda Chavez, at the end of her union bashing screed, states "I know unions are corrupt" (qtd. in Lopez). What's missing in this essay on the influence of union money in political campaigns is any mention of corporate influence on the political process. In the world that Lopez and Chavez inhabit, big, bad unions are the evil forces -- are "corrupt" -- and corporation are big, benevolent, and beloved by mainstream of America. But if it wasn't for labor unions, and the combined money they can bring to the political arena, would any politicians pay (no pun intended) attention to labor concerns? That's a question that Lopez and her fellow writers at The National Review are not prepared to answer -- though they're more than ready to scare workers away from unions.
7. The literary critic Mitchell
Domhnal notes that "some critics allege that to read
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8. Testing
by
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9. After analyzing current sitcoms, New York Times movie critic Caryn James discovers that "they have come to resemble melodrama and soap opera more than they reflect comic versions of real life." James believes that sitcoms are supposed to be "real life" . . .
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10. The
professed gambler William Bennet -- he of Book
of Virtues infamy -- illustrates this conservative hypocrisy. While he spends millions in gambling (eight
in ten years to be exact), he argues that it is not those of moral rectitude,
like himself, that are despoiling his precious
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11.In a troubling warning on the
problems of the 2004 presidential election, the chairman of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Julian Bond, reported that
"Minority voters are more sensitive to the possibility of what happened in
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12.
The brilliant literary scholar
After all, literature in
general . . . is about love lost or gained, the curious relationship between
language and reality, a father shooting his son's murderer, a man learning to
"see" with the help of a blind man; in short, it is about the flotsam
and jetsam, vagaries and varieties of daily life. It seems only fair to hold
reality up to fiction and see how it compares. (The Short)
This view of literature means that instead of being boring words on a page, literature pulses with the blood of life: if you're splattered with red droplets, you know you've read properly.
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13.
Conservatives
believe in some limits on personal behavior (Cooper and Peck MacDonald 243).
14.
Work
for a living? Feeling a bit poor lately? The link between the two is not difficult to explain when you examine
recent pay raises. In 1997, the average
worker received a raise of 3 percent. Her CEO? Many earned a 21 percent
raise (Cooper 339). Feeling a bit angry
now?
15.
A
flat tax rate sounds like a good idea, but as Newsweek reporters Marc Levinson and Rich Thomas
argue, it would amount to higher taxes for the working class, and no taxes at
all for the leisure class -- those people who live off money handed down to
them (36). Their claims
illustrates the problem such a tax . . . .
16.
At
least one study suggests that tactical stimulation is just as important as food
for nurture (
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17.
A
report first aired on NBC, exposed the doctoring of food by Shop-Wrong supermarkets("Food").
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The
United States State Department concluded that
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Bennet,
William. "
Bordelon, David. "Course Introduction." The Short Story. Course Site.
Cooper, Mary H. "Income Inequality." CQ Researcher 8.15 (April 1997): 337-360. Print.
---. "Voting Rights." CQ Researcher Online 14.33 (Oct. 2004). Web. 18 November 2004.
Elson, John. "The Test That Everyone Fears." Time 12 Nov. 1995: 93-94. SIRS. Web. 3 December 2000.
James, Caryn.
"Dysfunction Wears Out Its Welcome." New York Times 3 December 1995, late ed.: sec. 3:1+. Print.
Levinson, Marc and Rich Thomas. "One Tax Fits All." Newsweek 15 January 1996: 36. Print.
Lopez, Kathryn Jean. "Not Your Father's Labor Union." National Review. Online 5 August 2004. Web. 8 August 2004.
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