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    Topic: Mock Trial Purpose: To persuade the audience that the Modes of Persuasion are the most important lessons to learn in speech. Organizational Pattern: Persuasive Arguments I. Introduction A. A triangle is the strongest shape out of every shape in the universe. Now we can see how pathos, logos, and ethos make a triangle correct? Well the proof is there cause triangles can’t lie, cause they are shapes, and shapes can’t speak, therefore they cannot lie. B. Today I am here to persuade

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    What became of the Alcatraz Escapees? The famous prison “Alcatraz” wasn’t always a high security prison. Alcatraz first opened as a military base in order to fend off attacks from the sea. However, Alcatraz never had to fire a shot in anger, and so the government found a better use for it. Alcatraz became the highest security prison in America. Tons of the worst criminals in America were sent there and 3 men tried to escape. No one knows what happened to theses men, only that they were never heard

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    1. From “reading” the Jim Brady story, we learned how to analyze, use documents to find out the real story about Jim Brady, and how stories are told differently as generations pass. We learned more about the story as the semester was getting closer to ending. Like how we usually think of history as a collective of facts and not something to analyze and think about. Throughout the rest of the year, we have looked through documents to support our arguments. We all definitely learned how to analyze

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    Moon Conspiracy

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    is a very bright whitish object, which reflects the light from the sun as brightly as snow. Since the astronauts were constantly surrounded by the bright reflecting surface of the moon, they were always brightly lit” (We went to the moon). The mythbusters proved that the astronauts and camera did not pick the stars by making similar dust to the moon and shined light on the dust and it reflected brightly and the brighter the moon is the harder it is to see the moon. And like what Erin Ruberry said

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    high tide came in. So most people think that they were headed to Angel Island which is a nearby island. But if they used their intuition they would realize that the tide would take them to the Marin Headlands by the Golden Gate Bridge.When the Mythbusters used a scale model tide tank of California the results were shocking. The tide took them straight to the Marin Headlands and nowhere near Angel Island. When they left was a crucial element of the escape, if they left at the wrong time they would

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    John R. Airesman Mr. Jack Writing for the Humanities, period #1 17 November 2017 Technology Overload “Truck driver in Texas crash that killed 13 was texting” is just one of many similar headlines in the recent news (Lozano). In March of 2017, a 20 year old had been texting while driving which caused him to slam into a church minibus. Thirteen innocent people were killed because he chose not to wait until he was done driving to send the message. Obviously, he allowed an obsession with technology

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    Ever since I was a little kid, I had been fascinated by the idea of an infinite universe. I would watch shows like Mythbusters, Cosmos and Through The Wormhole and I would be fascinated by the idea of several interwoven phenomena coming together to form one distinct unified theory to explain the working of our entire physical universe. My mind would ponder questions way beyond the understanding of myself as well as most of the scientific community. Questions like “What was the origin of the universe

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    power would be at the ideal level. This raise for minimum wage earners would put more money in people’s pockets, which will in turn be spent on goods and services, and thus further stimulate economic growth locally and nationally (“Minimum Wage Mythbusters”). In order for businesses to grow they need customers that have money in their pockets because increased incomes will boost consumer demand and the consumer spending that powers our domestic economy. Many experts agree that raising the minimum

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    Lab Report Reflection

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    During my student teaching experience and my first year of teaching, I noticed that many students struggled to coherently write about their results or conclusions at the end of a lab. Therefore, during my second year of teaching, to help my students strengthen their writing skills, I decided to incorporate a few lessons on the procedures of writing a lab report. Once we had covered the essential parts of the “Scientific Method,” we segwayed into discussing the importance of lab reports in the real-world

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    Minimum Wage Thesis

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    In 1938, The United States enacted a minimum wage law under the Fair Labor Standards Act that made employers pay their workers at least twenty-five cents. The law was intended to reduce the amount of Americans living in poverty and keep track of unjust business practices. Still to this day, we Americans argue over the controversy due to low minimum wage and high inflation rates. The deregulation of business and the inconsistent government policies have led to an alarming problem, the minimum wage

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