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For this weeks discussion it was a requirement to choose two article with in the chosen reading articles. For my first article I chose Mark Twain’s Buying Gloves In Gibraltar. The article depicts a gentlemen’s entering a store and how he was easily influenced by a attractive young lady on an item entirely different than what he set out to get. In the reading I enjoyed the manner in which the author offered the reader a visual of the events leading up to the climax of the story. In the story I feel the reader is able to gain a better understanding on how manipulation plays a key factor on some off the impulsive decision we as humans make. Similar to how a man can be easily directed by a attractive women, we all as humans are capable

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