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    The fourth fallacy in Twelve Angry Men is Poisoning the Well which translates to Ad Auditorium in latin. Poisoning the Well fallacy is when you make a statement that already shuts down any argument that your opponent might bring up The character in Twelve Angry Men that used this fallacy was The Yankee. The Yankee said “You can’t change my mind if you talked for 100 years” By The Yankee saying this he committed a Poisoning the Well fallacy because he is saying that no matter what anyone in the…

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    Christianity Vs. Islam

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    Christianity and Islam are expected to be complete opposites, although despite common beliefs this isn’t true according to www.dscoreringislam.org. They have more in common then you may even realize like their beliefs in is Jesus. As a matter of fact, what the church is to Christianity the umma is to Islam. In both religions they view God in a similar light. They both believe in only having one supreme God. Which leads to their being one creator and sustainer if the universe.…

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    Italian Language Myths

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    Ugly or Black Children are Verbally Deprived. In Italian is Beautiful, German is Ugly, the author explains to us that a language’s accent becomes more attractive either depending on the person who is talking. This demonstrates that a member of the opposite sex or who does the judging shows us that the values of this myth. As stated in the reading, “research thus shows that sounds are in the ear of the beholder, to be variably interpreted and socially constructed, rather than out there as some…

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    away female participants. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of the coed aspect of the sport of quidditch on its participants, and to determine how the structure and rules of the sport influenced participants’ attitudes toward the opposite gender. The study was conducted through online qualitative surveys taken by 343 quidditch players, with age ranges of 13-17 years and 18-21 years. The measurement methods were designed to analyze the impact of participating in a coed…

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    warns of the opposite extreme of an equally dangerous subjectivity. “The claim that truth is personal must be defined and qualified with care, for the major movement against objectivism today…is a form of knowing that reduces personal truth to private terms” (Palmer 54). Root demonstrates the battle between objectivity and subjectivity through the character of Mrs. Richards. Mrs. Richards became so opposed to the subjectivity of hermeneutics that she as a result veered to the opposite extreme.…

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    With the term “YOLO” (You only live once) comes a slippery slope of defective decisions; the term serves as a social excuse for premeditated mistakes. Taking calculated risks striving to prosper, and knowingly and recklessly making substandard decisions couldn’t be more disparate. “YOLO” and Carpe Diem are but distant cousins, with completely divergent connotations. Even considering “YOLO” a philosophy remains a mere overstatement. The term “YOLO” and Carpe Diem hold distant connotations: in…

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    The academic journal Essence suggests girls achieve and blossom academically in a single-sex environment because the opposite sex is not present to cause a distraction. Therefore, Single-sex education schools will concentrate on the different ways girls and boys develop academically, as they will try and accommodate those needs to help the students achieve their highest…

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    Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a British physicist who ideas and innovations helped him be viewed as one of the greatest physicist of all time. Though he had some great scientist to come before him (Archimedes or Galileo) it was Newton’s ideas that were deemed to exemplify the scientific method of inquiry that would be soon adopted throughout the science age. Aristotle’s theory of the physical universe was proven to be inadequate to describe the movement of nature, so Newton tried to come up…

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    famous work is his satire Candide, which like Molière’s Tartuffe, was widely banned because it made fun of religion and the government. While both Molière and Voltaire agree on these things, when the subject of women is brought up, they have polar opposite views. Unlike Molière, Voltaire does not see women as capable of anything more than traditional roles. A reoccurring idea and theme in Candide is the idea of rape.…

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    How to Dribble a Soccer Ball Hello guys today i'm am going to be talking about how to dribble a soccer ball. First you need to know the materials. First you need a good flat place to be good and stable. Then you need some good shoes like soccer shoes. Of course you're going to need space. Then you need A well aired ball. You also need a pair of athletics shorts or any type. Ok now after you have all your materials first get your good shoes and tie them up good. Ok now you want to…

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