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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
- Definition Argument- wildcuttlefish
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xchuki
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Author Archives: jcirrs
Research Position—jcirrs
Shut Down Sea World Beloved animals are close to our hearts. Whether it is a pet or wild, everyone has a favorite animal. What if you were told that your favorite animal was endangered? This means that a specific species … Continue reading
Posted in A15: Research Position, P/jcirrs
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Reflective—jcirrs
Core Value I. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development. Throughout the semester in Composition II, I have learned to validate persistence and understanding in structuring … Continue reading
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Bibliography—jcirrs
Hoyt, Erich. “Dangers to Trainers.” PBS. PBS, 1992. Web. 27 Sept. 2015. Background: Erich Hoyt’s, veterinarian, article “Dangers to Trainers” talks about how orca whales are wild animals and they occasionally will attack. He explains how many accidents with trainers … Continue reading
Posted in A13: Annotated Bibliography, P/jcirrs
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Rebuttal Rewrite—jcirrs
SeaWorld should not be shut down. If the park were to be shut down, the captive animals would not be able know how to survive. All of the current captive orca whales were either captured more than 35 years ago … Continue reading
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Causal Rewrite—jcirrs
SeaWorld Is Putting Trainers In Danger SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment claims to have been providing personal, interactive and education experiences with wildlife sea creatures for more than 50 years. The park creates orca shows year-round featuring “specialized” whale trainers. They … Continue reading
Posted in A11: Causal Rewrite, P/jcirrs
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Open Strong—jcirrs
SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment claims to have been providing personal, interactive and education experiences with wildlife sea creatures for more than 50 years. The park creates orca shows year-round featuring “specialized” whale trainers. They take the responsibility to have held … Continue reading
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A10: Definition Rewrite – jcirrs
My favorite animals are orca whales. SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment has been holding orca whales captive for over fifty years. Beloved animals are close to our hearts. Whether it is a pet or wild, everyone has a favorite animal. How … Continue reading
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Rebuttal—jcirrs
SeaWorld should not be shut down. If the park were to be shut down, the captive animals would not be able know how to survive. All of the current captive orca whales were either captured more than 35 years ago … Continue reading
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Rebuttal Exercise – jcirrs
Antagonistic 3: Strikes Down Ag-Gag Law “Idaho’s so-called “ag-gag” law, which outlawed undercover investigations of farming operations, is no more. A judge in the federal District Court for Idaho decided Monday that it was unconstitutional, citing First Amendment protections for free … Continue reading
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Causal Argument—jcirrs
Causal Argument: SeaWorld is putting trainers in danger -trainers are not marine biologists, they’re performers -orcas are wild animals, expect the unexpected -after many attacks, SeaWorld no longer allows trainers to be in the water with the animals We trust … Continue reading
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