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    In Cyra McFaddin’s article published in the New York Times titled “In Defense of Gender,” she asserts that male pronouns should not be eliminated from written and spoken English works. McFaddin uses satire in an attempt to make readers sympathetic to a writer’s problem of trying to be nondiscriminatory by using gender-neutral language. Cyra McFaddin’s goal is to convince readers that gender neutral language won’t solve any problems or advance feminist ideas because she believes some take it to the

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    Acknowledged by The New York Times for being “this country’s best-selling poet” Mary Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. Publishing her first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poetry, in 1963 at the age of 28 she was able to begin her lustrous career which continued as she published several more series, one of them being the Pulitzer Prize winner, American Primitive. Critic Alicia Ostriker numbered Oliver among America’s finest poets, as “visionary as Ralph Waldo Emerson.” As a youth Mary

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    Introduction: A New York Times op-ed article on May 14, 2013 revealed that Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy (Jolie). She did not have cancer. What would prompt a healthy individual to perform such drastic and disfiguring surgery if her life were not in danger? It turns out that she carries a breast cancer gene mutation, BRCA1, which increases the chances of developing breast and ovarian cancer. The availability of genetic testing has caused prophylactic double mastectomy rates to increase

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    will be writing about the New York Times v. Sullivan case. The background of this case included the New York Times writing about Martin Luther King Jr who was in Montgomery, Alabama at the time. On March 29, 2016, The New York Times wrote an article titled “Heed Their Rising Voices” which petitioned funds to protect Martin Luther King Jr. The New York Times stated that Mr. Martin Luther King Jr had been in jail seven times, when he actually had only been in jail four times (Wikipedia, 2016). Incorrect

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    The New York Times ( New York Times ) is one of the major newspapers and most prestigious in the United States. One of the categories is noticed in this newspaper is tourism. Along with the development of tourism, tourism concept is understood in many different ways depending on the angle considered. According to the angle of the travel and tourism is a form of convalescence and positive interests of people outside the residence. They travel with purpose: leisure, recreation, scenic view, historic

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    The New York Times V. Sullivan case took place during the Civil right movement in the 1960s. At this time African-Americans were protesting and marching for equality in the south. During this time, several Civil rights leader reached out to the New York Times to post a full-page statement claiming "officials in the south states had used violent and illegal methods to suppress the marches" (Trager, et al, p. 164). The headline for the article was "Heed Their Rising Voices". L.B. Sullivan, police commissioner

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    The newspaper article written May 5, 1896, and published by the New York Times is a report on the events that took place in Chicago May 4, 1896. The primary source is not very reliable. Reliability is the trustworthiness of the information in a source. Although The New York Times is a very reputable publisher, the article does not state who the author is, and there are many misleading numbers, personal and political agendas made by the author. The article is a report on the violent riots in Chicago

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    New York Times and Orange County Register, both newspaper companies from liberal or democratic states, were subtly against the ruling of Section 4 unconstitutional. They could not outright condemn the majority vote of the Supreme Court due to the legitimate reputation at stake. In the next few paragraphs, there will be evidence stating why and how using course readings. In New York Times’s article, “Justices Void Oversight Of States, Issue at Heart of Voting Rights Act,” the article title is the

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    The New York Times is a current newspaper in circulation. It has been around for about one hundred and sixty years. This newspaper has published thousands upon thousands of articles while it has a little over one million subscribers. The New York Times company sustains itself within three ethical values, which are fairness, integrity, and truth. The company also bases its standards on diversity by promoting that “great organizations thrive and grow on a diversity of thought and ideas. The New York

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    questioning the information given. However, The New York Times’ perspective of the Russian proposal to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control goes more in depth and is more reliable than the alternative source End The Lie. End The Lie’s article use the method of media manipulation,s False Balancing because there was a lot more mocking of the situation or questioning of President Obama than giving actual information

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