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Personal growth and audience awareness in academic writing

I will be discussing what I believe are the two most important course outcomes and how I learned to apply them. Thinking back to the beginning of this class I was terrify and intimidated by the simple thought of writing an academic paper.

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Twain's crucial inversion: refuting Marx's bildungsroman critique of Huck Finn

The character of Huck Finn is based upon the idea of the crucial inversion, which Twain develops at every instance of the novel. For example, in the beginning of the novel, Huck is meant to be civilized by Miss Watson -- but instead he is climbing out the window to play at being pirates with Tom.

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Michael Specter's "Seeds of Doubt" and the GMO debate with Vandana Shiva

Michael Specter raises the specter of Malthusian catastrophe -- a world overrun by a population that cannot be fed -- in order to quiet the claims of Shiva, the iconic anti-GMO leader from India, who categorically dismisses Monsanto as a multinational thuggish corporation that is out to gain…

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Legalizing voluntary active euthanasia in the United States

The article discusses the need to legalize and regulate voluntary active euthanasia in the United States (U.S.).

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Moral obligations to reduce world poverty according to Peter Singer and Thomas Pogge

There is little doubt that global poverty is a significant issue, creating hardship and suffering for many people. The statistics are astounding; every day 34,000 children under the age of five years die due to poverty, this equates to 11 million children a year (Eskelinen 11).

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Trump's "fake news" accusations and CNN's media responsibility

Fake News One of Donald Trump’s common terms or catch phrases when he rants and raves on social media would happen to be “fake news”. This pejorative is commonly aimed at news outlets like CNN and other media outlets that cover him, fairly or not.

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Native American influence on the U.S. Constitution and founding fathers

The event or issue discussed in this document is the influence of Native Americans on the U.S. Constitution. There is a fairly lengthy history of research that contends that Native Americans actually played a considerable role in the founding of the U.S. Constitution.

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Adam Grant on raising creative children

What follows in this brief report is a review and reaction to a New York Times article about child development.

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The history and complexity of abortion in America

Abortion refers to the termination of the pregnancy and most members of society tend to feel strongly and often myopically about their opinions of abortion.

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Blaise Pascal's mathematical innovations and theological writings

A Biography on Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal was born in France in the region of Auvergne in the town of Clermont-Ferrand in 1623. He came from a Catholic family, not surprising since France was known in the Middle Ages as the Eldest Daughter of the Church (Coulumbe, 2012).

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