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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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- 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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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
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- A09: Rebuttal Argument – fromcasablanca
- Rebuttal Exercise – fromcasablanca
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hiralp365
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ifurreadingthisits2l8
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- A09: Rebuttal Argument- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Causal Argument—ifurreadingthisits2l8
- E10- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Visual Rewrite—ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Proposal+5—ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Stone money rewrite- ifurreadingthisits2l8
- Critical Reading- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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thirdlady226
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tpaz1
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twofoursixohtwo
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- Bibliography – twofoursixohtwo
- Causal Rewrite -twofoursixohtwo
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vicarij0
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wakeup5am
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wildcuttlefish
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Category Archives: americangods01
Rebuttal Argument – americangods01
Bursting Bubbles The NSA’s primary job is to keep us, the American public, safe. The heads of our government vehemently claim that the NSA’s spying has prevented 54 potential terrorist attacks as their big claim to legitimacy but the truth is … Continue reading
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Open Strong – americangods01
The NSA is doing more harm than good to everyone but there is not enough being done to stopping it. In its attempts to keep the United States secure, it is overstepping its boundaries in every major country in the world, … Continue reading
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Rebuttal Excercise – americangods01
Antagonistic 2. “The First Amendment’s freedom of speech and press is blind-sighted with Ag Gag legislation. Limiting the constitutional right to photograph and record punishes those who seek free speech and press, without proof of harm. Instead of punishing the … Continue reading
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Causal Argument – americangods01
Snowden Lit the Fuse After Edward Snowden revealed the information he had on the NSA, the public was in an outrage. He was largest contributing factor to the national controversy over the NSA in 2013 and since then, other whistleblowers … Continue reading
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Definition Argument – americangods01
One thing many people ask about is what the NSA actually allowed to monitor. In the eyes of the general public, the NSA has become the omnipotent Big Brother figure listening to every conversation and looking at every email. Before … Continue reading
E10 – americangods01
We cannot function without money which is why it plays such a big role in our society. We must trust in the government and the banking system to properly handle our valuable money especially when it gets directly transferred into … Continue reading
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Safer Saws Claims – americangods01
6a. “Now these manufacturers are facing dozens of lawsuits brought forth by people whose injuries could have been prevented had SawStop or similar safety mechanisms been in place.” 6b. First: There are manufacturers that are facing dozens of lawsuits. Second: … Continue reading
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Proposal+5 – americangods01
For my research essay, I will be evaluating the merits and downfalls of the NSA’s extensive surveillance and their affects on the American public. After Edward Snowden’s critical reveal of the levels of surveillance the NSA had over America in 2013, … Continue reading
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E04 Is PTSD Contagious? – americangods01
“But she’s got a warrior’s skills: hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger, for triggers. “ This is a definition claim defining hyperawareness, hypervigilance, adrenaline-sharp quick-scanning for danger as warrior skill. This is also a categorical claim because it categorizes these traits … Continue reading
Stone Money Rewrite – americangods01
A Trusting Agreement: Money We all know that our money, at least in the United States, is worth…well what it’s worth. We rely on the Federal Reserve to do its job by deciding the value of each unit of money and we … Continue reading