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A01: Stone Money
- A01: Stone Money Assignment
- Bitcoin is not Portfolio-Worthy
- Bitcoin Projections for 2015
- Bitcoin, the New Currency
- Island of Stone Money by Milton Friedman
- Japan Prints 12 Trillion Yen
- Japan Shrugs Off Accusations of Currency War
- Japan's 12 Trillion Yen Stimulus
- Japan, The Economy of the Future
- Japan’s Big Spending Plan
- NPR Broadcast: The Invention of Money
- NPR Broadcast: The Lie that Saved Brazil
- NPR Broadcast: Weekend at Bernanke's
- Skyblue's Stone Money Post
- Spending Japan to Vitality
A02: Visual Rhetoric
A03: Stone Money Rewrite
A04: Proposal+5
A05: Visual Rewrite
A06: White Paper
A07: Definition (Category) Argument
A08: Causal Argument
A09: Rebuttal Argument
A10: Definition Rewrite
A11: Causal Rewrite
A12: Rebuttal Rewrite
A13: Annotated Bibliography
Assignments
- A01: Stone Money Assignment
- A02: Visual Rhetoric Assignment
- A03: Stone Money Rewrite
- A04: Proposal+5
- A05: Visual Rewrite
- A06: White Paper
- A07: Definition (Category) Argument
- A08: Causal Argument
- A09: Rebuttal Argument
- A10: Definition Rewrite
- A15: Portfolio Assignment
- E01: Bloated Paragraphs
- E02: Purposeful Summaries
- E03: Cows and Chips
- E04: Critical Reading, PTSD
- E05: Mechanical Trouble
- E06: How To Open
- E07: Safer Saws Claims
- E08: Counterintuitive Predictions
- E09: Advertising Failure Exercise
- E10: Enough About You
- E11: Rebuttal Exercise
- E12: How to Open
Blogroll
Counterintuitive Olympics
- An “Economic” Approach
- Corruption in Figure Skating Judging
- Counterintuitive Reform
- Lessons for Organizational Decision Making
- Mathematics Honors Thesis
- Open Secret Voting
- The Origin of the Problem
- The Tainted Vote Problem Persists
- The US-Russian Conspiracy
- Throw Out Extreme Scores?
- Transparency Increases Corruption
- Vote-Trading in the “Real World”
- Was That Jump a 6?
Counterintuitive Topics
- Anne Frank, Novelist
- Are Multi-Vitamins Dangerous?
- Banks Peddle Crap
- Counterintuitive Life Lessons
- Counterintuitive Psychology Studies
- Counterintuitive Social Systems
- Crowdsourcing
- Cryptic Species
- Disarming Iran Using South Africa Strategy
- DNA for Data Storage
- Do Better Work By Killing Good Ideas
- Do Toms Shoes Help Anybody?
- Elderly Animals
- Elephant Cruelty
- End-of-Life Care
- Ethics of a Three-Parent Baby
- Fish on Free Speech
- Free Heroin to Battle Addiction
- Go To Trial, Crash the System
- Happiness Cannot be Pursued; It Must Ensue
- How the Mind Works
- How to Armor Planes
- How to Change the World
- How to Make Doctors Worse
- How to Make Doctors Worse 2
- Human Life and Moral Choices
- Humane Food Labels?
- Hypocrite Romney
- Improve Doctor Accountability
- Insuring a Stranger
- Internet for Totalitarianists
- Is This Photo Ethical?
- Is Walmart Organic and Local?
- Israeli Cartoonists Curbed
- Killing Japan’s Zombies
- Learning in the Womb
- Life is Asymmetrical
- Massive Online Collaboration
- Men Define Rape
- Mitt Romney Not a Venture Capitalist
- Mormons Baptize Anne Frank
- Obama on NSA Reform
- Paper or Plastic?
- PBS Need to Know
- Pizza Hut at the Pyramids
- Predictions Grab Bag
- Principal Encourages Cheating
- Privacy is Dead. Long Live Obscurity!
- Sleeping On It
- Sponsored Parks?
- Student Wealth and Achievement
- Superweeds
- Surviving the Shower
- The Cost Conundrum
- The Curse of Oil Riches
- The Difference a Caption Makes
- The Hair Part Theory
- The Marshmallow Test
- The Monty Hall Problem
- The Seven Up Shame
- Thought Becomes Action
- White Folks Get Prozac
- Why Are Babies Cute?
- Why Are We Happy?
- Your Deadbeat Facebook Friends Could Cost You a Loan
E04: Critical Reading
E04: Critical Reading PTSD
E07: Safer Saws
E08: Counterintuitive Predictions
E12: How to Open
Essential Websites
Euthanasia Unit
Exercises
- E01: Bloated Paragraphs
- E02: Purposeful Summaries
- E03: Cows and Chips
- E04: Critical Reading, PTSD
- E05: Mechanical Trouble
- E06: How To Open
- E07: Safer Saws Claims
- E08: Counterintuitive Predictions
- E09: Advertising Failure Exercise
- E10: Enough About You
- E11: Rebuttal Exercise
- E12: How to Open
- E12: How to Open
- Rebuttal Exercise: Nuclear Power
- Refutation Exercise: Ag-Gag Laws
Grammar
Infographics
Je Suis Charlie
Lectures
Mammogram Unit
Net Neutrality Unit
Organ Donation
- Advocating Presumed Consent for Organ Donation
- “Not Dead Yet” Wants to Silence Doctors
- China to Stop Harvesting Inmate Organs
- Girl Successfully Sues to Receive Lungs
- How Organ Recipients Are Chosen
- Let’s Harvest Organs!
- Man Ends His Own Life to Donate His Organs
- Organ Donation Articles
- Organ Donor Vultures?
- Woman Seeks Euthanasia to Donate
PTSD Unit
Purposeful Summary Unit
Rebuttal Unit
Riddles
Safer Saws Unit
Sharing Channel
Vaccination Unit
Writing Help
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Dev
- Research Position -Haveanelephantasticday
- Reflective-haveanelephanasticday
- Bibliography- haveanelephantasticday
- Rebuttal Rewrite- haveanelephantasticday
- Causal Rewrite-Haveanelephantasticday
- open strong- haveanelephantasticday
- Definition Rewrite- haveanelephantasticday
- Rebuttal Argument- haveanelephantasticday
- E11: Rebuttal Exercise- haveanelephantasticday
- Causal Argument- Haveanelephantasticday
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Joe Gramigna
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alexmoran17
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alivewit55
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americangods01
- Bibliography – americangods01
- Research Position – americangods01
- Causal Rewrite – americangods01
- Definition Rewrite – americangods01
- Rebuttal Argument – americangods01
- Reflective – americangods01
- Open Strong – americangods01
- Rebuttal Excercise – americangods01
- Causal Argument – americangods01
- Definition Argument – americangods01
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belldere
- Research Position- Belldere
- A13: Annotated Bibliography- Belldere
- Reflective–Belldere
- A11 Causal Rewrite- Belldere
- E12: Strong Opening- Belldere
- A10 Definition Rewrite- Belldere
- Casual Argument (Professors Indoctrinating Students With Liberalism)- Belldere
- Definition Argument- Belldere
- E10: Enough About You- Belldere
- White Paper- Belldere
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bigcounrty609
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bigfoot9
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bj112295
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breadpatrol99
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brxttyb
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crossanlogan
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cswilliams15
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dancingueen
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davidbdale
dontquoteme187
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douglasadams525
- Research Position–DouglasAdams525
- Reflective–Douglasadams525
- Bibliography–Douglasadams525
- Rebuttal rewrite–Douglasadams525
- Causal Rewrite–Douglasadams525
- Start Strong–Douglasadams525
- Monty Python–The Lumberjack Song
- Definition Rewrite–Douglasadams525
- Rebuttal–Douglasadams525
- Rebuttal exercise–Douglasadams525
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dt2018
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faded26
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fromcasablanca
- Research Position – fromcasablanca
- Reflective–fromcasablanca
- Bibliography – fromcasablanca
- Rebuttal Rewrite – fromcasablanca
- A11: Causal Rewrite- fromcasablanca
- Open Strong – fromcasablanca
- A10: Definition Rewrite – fromcasablanca
- A09: Rebuttal Argument – fromcasablanca
- Rebuttal Exercise – fromcasablanca
- Causal Argument – fromcasablanca
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hiralp365
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ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Open Strong- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- A09: Rebuttal Argument- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Causal Argument—ifurreadingthisits2l8
- E10- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Visual Rewrite—ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Proposal+5—ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Stone money rewrite- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Critical Reading- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- summaries- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- visual- ifurreadingthisits2l8
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ilovenas
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jcirrs
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ljkvng34
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luckyleprechaun1
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marinebio18
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mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- E11: Rebuttal Exercise–mom
- E07 – Safer Saws–mom
- Research Position – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- Reflective – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- Bibliography – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- Rebuttal Rewrite – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- Open Strong – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- Rebuttal – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- Causal Argument – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
- Definition Argument – mymomshouldhavenamedmegrace
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ndb1996
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ohearnj8
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palal24
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peachesxo
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sixfortyfive645
- Research Position- sixfortyfive645
- Reflective – sixfortyfive645
- Bibliography- sixfortyfive645
- Rebuttal Rewrite- sixfortyfive645
- Causal Rewrite- sixfortyfive645
- Definition Rewrite- sixfortyfive645
- Open Strong- sixfortyfive645
- Rebuttal Argument- sixfortyfive645
- Rebuttal Exercise- sixfortyfive645
- Causal Argument- sixfortyfive645
suedejackson
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teddysdoggydaddy
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themildewmuncher7
- Research Position – themildewmuncher7
- Reflective – themildewmuncher7
- Bibliography – themildewmuncher7
- Rebuttal Rewrite – themildewmuncher7
- Causal Rewrite – themildewmuncher7
- Open Strong – themildewmuncher7
- Definition Rewrite – themildewmuncher7
- Rebuttal Argument – themildewmuncher7
- Rebuttal Exercise – themildewmuncher7
- Causal Argument – themildewmuncher7
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thirdlady226
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tpaz1
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twofoursixohtwo
- Research Position – twofoursixohtwo
- Reflective – twofoursixohtwo
- Definition Rewrite – twofoursixohtwo
- Bibliography – twofoursixohtwo
- Causal Rewrite -twofoursixohtwo
- Causal Argument – twofoursixohtwo
- Definition Argument – twofoursixohtwo
- E10 – twofoursixohtwo
- White Paper – twofoursixohtwo
- Safer Saws – twofoursixohtwo
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vicarij0
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wakeup5am
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wildcuttlefish
- Research position-wildcuttlefish
- Reflective-wildcuttlefish
- Bibliography—wildcuttlefish
- Rebuttal Rewrite-wildcuttlefish
- Causal Rewrite-wildcuttlefish
- Open Strong—wildcuttlefish
- A10: Definition Rewrite-wildcuttlefish
- A09: Rebuttal Argument-wildcuttlefish
- Causal Argument- wildcuttlefish
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xchuki
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Author Archives: cswilliams15
Reflective Statement-cswilliams15
Core Value 1: I fully understood that writing was both a multi-stage and social process. Since the beginning of the semester I have been building my work so that I could form it into one portfolio. I took each of … Continue reading
Research Position-cswilliams15
Do people want to send their kids to school and fear one day that one day that he or she might not come home? No, of course not no parents should have to worry about their child’s safety when sending … Continue reading
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Rebuttal Rewrite-cswilliams15
Many people believe that the cause of mass shootings stems from the proliferation of guns that exist within our society as a result of lax gun control. Equally troubling is the large number of people who believe that mass shootings … Continue reading
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Causal Rewrite-cswilliams15
A mass shooting occurred because of a failed background check. Background checks exist so that guns do not fall into the hands of those who may potentially do harm to others. For example, minors should not be able to buy … Continue reading
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Definition Rewrite-cswilliams15
Mass shootings have become a common tragedy in our society. These shootings represent a fairly recent trend of terror involving gun violence. The definition of the term or phrase, “mass shooting” appears only in medical dictionaries, which define it as, … Continue reading
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Bibliography-cswilliams15
1) Ehrenfreund, Max. Goldfarb, Zachary. 11 essential facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States. The Washington Post. June 18 2015. Background: This article describes the facts that amount to the gun control situation and the mass shootings. … Continue reading
Rebuttal-cswilliams15
Most people think that the cause of mass shootings has to deal with either gun control or mental health issues. But that is indeed not the case. Surveys show that more Americans are in favor to owning firearms than those … Continue reading
Causal Argument-cswilliams15
Mass Shootings occur because guns are too easy to attain by United States standards. To obtain a gun all people have to do is pass a background check and they will be able to obtain any gun that they desire. … Continue reading
Open Strong- cswilliams15
Do you want to send your kid to school and fear one day that one day that he or she might not come home? No, of course not no parents should have to worry about their child’s safety when sending … Continue reading
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A03-Stone Money Rewrite-cswilliams15
I used to think of money as to just being a currency and nothing more. If people had a lot of money it means that they were successful, but if they didn’t have a lot of money that means that … Continue reading
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