The Eagle’s Nest

This blog is being set up to be a communication tool for my English classes at Sarasota Military Academy.

Archive for September, 2009


HRLP Worksheets

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HRLP Chapter 21

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE (must be correct for credit):

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. In literature scars and imperfections usually mirror moral, emotional, or psychological scars or imperfections.  List three characters that have scars or imperfections.
  1. List three pieces of literature where characters make a pack with the devil.

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Figure out Harry Potter’s scar. If you aren’t familiar with Harry Potter, select another character with a physical imperfection and analyze its implications for characterization.

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HRLP Chapter 20

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE (must be correct for credit):

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. In literature the meaning of spring (three min.).
  1. In literature, define the meaning of winter (three min.).
  1. In The Wasteland, which month is called the cruelest?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Find a poem that mentions a specific season. Then discuss how the poet uses the season in a meaningful, traditional, or unusual way. (Submit a copy of the poem with your analysis.)

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HRLP Chapter 19

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE (must be correct for credit):

70-79 – One option

80-89 – Two options

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. When characters go south, what does that generally mean?
  1. What does the flatland usually symbolize?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Discuss at least four different aspects of a specific literary work that Foster would classify under “geography.”

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HRLP Chapter 18

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE (must be correct for credit):

70-79 – One option

80-89 – Two options

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1. Generally, what three things does baptism (submersion in water) represent in literature?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Think of a “baptism scene” from a significant literary work. How was the character different after the experience? Discuss.

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HRLP Chapter 17

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE:

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. What is it called when a writer writes about sex and means strickly sex?
  1. List three literary meanings often represented by sex.

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Choose a novel or movie in which sex is suggested, but not described, and discuss how the relationship is suggested and how this implication affects the theme or develops characterization.

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HRLP Chapter 16

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE:

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. Blame it on _____________________.
  1. List three female sexual symbols in literature.
  1. Which short story by Lawrence does Foster contend may have Oedipal elements?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

In today’s society sex sells.  In literature sex is more veiled, but still present.  Discuss a piece of modern film or writing that actually hurt itself by making sex the star instead of the story line or characterizations.   Suggest ways in which a more subdued approach would have improved the work.

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HRLP Chapter 15

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE:

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1.  If a person is suspended in air, even briefly, it has meaning.  List three possible meanings.

2.   Flight is _______________________.

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Select a literary work in which flight signifies escape or freedom. Explain in detail.

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HRLP Chapter 14

Read Introduction (Initial)__________                 Page Credits_______                                 Grade________

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE:

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1.  List three features that might make a character a Christ figure.

2.  Which Hemingway character is seen as a Christ figure?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Apply the criteria on page 119 to a major character in a significant literary work. Try to choose a character that will have many matches. This is a particularly apt tool for analyzing film — for example, Star Wars, Cool Hand Luke, Excalibur, Malcolm X, Braveheart, Spartacus, Gladiator and Ben-Hur.

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HRLP Chapter 13

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE:

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1.   What is the name of the British social thinker who felt that helping the poor was a bad idea?

2.  What mixture does Foster call Ezra Pound’s politics?

3.  Which stratum of society does Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher deal with?

4.   In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) two political guests are invited to lunch.  What is her purpose?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Assume that Foster is right and “it is all political.”   Use his criteria to show that one of the works you have read in high school is political.

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HRLP Chapter 12

Read Introduction (Initial)__________                 Page Credits_______                                 Grade________

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE:

70-79 – One option

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1.   Symbols have one definite meaning in what type of writing?

2.  In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the river is a road and the raft trip a quest.  What is                 gained by Huck?

3.   What other than objects and images can be symbolic?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Use the process described on page 106 and investigate the symbolism of the fence in “Araby.” (Mangan’s sister stands behind it.)

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HRLP Chapter 11

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CHOOSE YOUR GRADE:

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1. Explain the two categories that violence falls into in literature.

2. They’re __________________________ only on the inside of the novel–on the outside they’re planned,                                                plotted, and executed by somebody, with malice aforethought.

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Present examples of the two kinds of violence found in literature. Show how the effects are different.

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HRLP Chapter 10

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1.    Which Victorian novelist is credited with the line, “It was a dark and stormy night”?

2.    If you have a character walk through the rain to get somewhere, what are you most likely

tying to symbolically portray?

3.    What is the main function of the image of the rainbow?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Discuss the importance of weather in a specific literary work, not in terms of plot.

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HRLP Chapter 9

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. In literature, what does myth mean?

2.    List three town or team names that come from Greek or Roman myths.

  1. What four struggles of the human being are present in the story of Odysseus’s return

home?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Write a free verse poem derived or inspired by characters or situations from Greek mythology. Be prepared to share your poem with the class. Note that there are extensive links to classical mythology on the Internet.

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HRLP Chapter 8

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

1.    Name two Slavic folktales that were made into Disney movies.

2.    We want____________________ in our stories, but we want ___________________________, too.

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Think of a work of literature that reflects a fairy tale. Discuss the parallels. Does it create irony or deepen appreciation?

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HRLP Chapter 7

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Option Two:

  1. In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, what are the four white men on horseback compared to Biblically?

2.    What Biblical personage is Grendal a descendent of?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Read “Araby” (available online). Discuss Biblical allusions that Foster does not mention. Look at the example of the “two great jars.” Be creative and imaginative in these connections.

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HRLP Chapter 6

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Option Two:

  1. What is the title of the musical based on Romeo and Juliet?

2.    Quote three lines by Shakespeare.

3.    What two books did pioneer families usually have?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Discuss a work that you are familiar with that alludes to or reflects Shakespeare. Show how the author uses this connection thematically. Read pages 44-46 carefully. In these pages, Foster shows how Fugard reflects Shakespeare through both plot and theme. In your discussion, focus on theme.

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HRLP Chapter 5

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. When O’Brien has his character fall through the road, which piece of literature is he comparing his story to?
  1. John Gardner reworked the classic Beowulf into what postmodern masterpiece?
  1. In which Shakespearean play does a character let her friends stage her death and funeral

in order to teach her fiancé a lesson?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Define intertextuality.   Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.

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HRLP Chapter 5

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Option One: Write a minimum of a 25 word summary.

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Option Two:

  1. When O’Brien has his character fall through the road, which piece of literature is he comparing his story to?
  1. John Gardner reworked the classic Beowulf into what postmodern masterpiece?
  1. In which Shakespearean play does a character let her friends stage her death and funeral

in order to teach her fiancé a lesson?

Option Three  (minimum of 100 words):

Define intertextuality.   Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.

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HRLP Chapter 4

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1.     What is the line number and meter structure of a sonnet?

2.    What does Foster claim is true of short poems compared to long ones?

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Select a sonnet and identify which form it is.   Discuss how the content reflects the form.

(Copy the sonnet and mark to show your analysis).

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HRLP Chapter 3

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Option Two:

1.    Name three things other than vampirism that vampires represent in literature.

2.    In what way does the Henry James’s Daisy Miller employ a figurative vampire?

Option Three (Minimum of 100 words):

What are the essentials of the Vampire story?  Apply this to a literary work you have read or viewed.

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HRLP Chapter 2

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  1. In literature, whenever people eat or drink together – what is that called?

2.    In Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) what is the eating scene really about?

3.    In which story did the mother’s effort to get her family together for a meal only occur after

her death?

Option Three (Minimum of 100 words):

Choose a meal from a literary work and apply the ideas of Chapter 2 to this literary depiction.

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HRLP Chapter 1

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  1. What is the real reason for a quest?

2.   What five elements make up the quest structure?

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List the five aspects of the QUEST and then apply them to something you have read (or viewed0 in the form used on pages 3-5.

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HRLP Introduction

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  1. In Lorraine Hanberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) in what way would Walter Lee be selling his soul by accepting the check offered for his home?
  1. List four conventions of poetry.
  1. What three items separate the professional reader from the rest of the crowd?

Option Three (Minimum of 100 words):

How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature? How does the recognition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature? Discuss a time when your appreciation of a literary work was enhanced by understanding symbol or pattern.

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The Scarlet Letter

Turn in on the day the last chapter is due to have been read.

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Hester in Disgrace

(Chapters 1-4)

1. Describe the narrator of the story. How does the narrator differ from a traditional first or third-person narrator?

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The Scarlet Letter

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Hester in the Community

(Chapters 5–8)

1. Discuss the effect of the punishment upon Hester’s personality.

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The Scarlet Letter

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Chillingworth and Dimmesdale

(Chapters 9–12)

1. Compare and contrast the effects of sin upon Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth.

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Changes in Hester

(Chapters 13–15)

1. Discuss the Puritan moral law and the crime of independent thinking.

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Hester Attempts to Take Charge

(Chapters 16–19)

1. Compare and contrast the personalities of Hester and Dimmesdale in the forest. How does Hawthorne use the forest as a multiple symbol?

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Dimmesdale Reconsiders

(Chapters 20–22)

1. Discuss Puritan values as exemplified by their celebrations.

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Resolution

(Chapters 23–24)

1. How does Pearl change after the scaffold scene?

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Positon Research Paper

THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF POSITIONS.  REVERSE THE STATEMENTS IF YOU TAKE THE OPPOSING VIEW.  Find one you like and sign up.  If you don’t, then you will be given a topic.

Violent juvenile offenders ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system.

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Human genetic engineering is morally justified.

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Capital punishment is justified.

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Terminally ill patients have the right to die when and how they choose.

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Abortion on demand is a woman’s reproductive right.

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Students should be allowed to have cell phones in school.

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School vouchers for private schools should be allowed.

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Credit cards do more harm than good.

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Corporal punishment of children should be illegal.

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Parents should not purchase war toys for their children.

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The United States should withdraw from Afghanistan.

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Schools should ban junk food.

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Pakistan is more an enemy than an ally of the United States.

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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was justified.

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The federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was appropriate.

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The United States is losing the war on terror.

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Human cloning should be allowed in the United States.

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Professional athletes should not be allowed to compete in the Olympic Games.

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The electoral college should be abolished.

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The United Nations has failed at its mission.

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Parents should be held legally responsible for the actions of their minor children.

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Beauty pageants do more harm than good.

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The Constitution should be amended to allow foreign-born citizens to serve as President.

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Homeland security is more important than the protection of civil liberties.

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Violent video games should be banned.

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Schools should ban animal dissection.

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Teacher’s wages should be increased.

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The use of cellular phones while driving should be banned.

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The United States should have a draft for military service.

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Public funds should not be used for professional sports stadiums.

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Schools should provide for single sex instruction.

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Florida should substantially increase the minimum wage.

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The United States should pay reparations for slavery.

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Schools should allow outside food vendors to serve lunch.

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The United States should adopt English as the official national language.

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Illegal aliens should be deported and have to immigrate legally.

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Cigarettes should be illegal.

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Television is a bad influence.

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Torture is justified for national security.

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School attendance should be voluntary.

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The Supreme Court should end affirmative action in higher education.

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The invention of gunpowder did more good than harm.

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The United States should have more than two political parties.

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The government has taken separation of church and state further than originally intended.

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The Constitution should contain a right to privacy.

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The North should have let the South secede.

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Slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War.

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Supreme Court justices should be elected.

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The President has too much power.

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Foreign adoptions should be encouraged.

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Social security should be rescued.

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Television liquor ads promote underage drinking.

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China should be condemned as a violator of human rights.

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The Salem witchcraft hysteria was caused by a fear of women.

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The antiwar movement prolonged the war in Vietnam.

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Prisons create a criminal personality.

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The burning of the flag should be banned.

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The courts discriminate against fathers in custody hearings.

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The “three strikes” law deters crime.

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Home schooling is an effective method of education.

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Global warming is a serious threat.

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America’s drinking water is safe.

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Vitamin supplements are beneficial.

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Illegal immigrants are harming America.

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Men and women should share domestic responsibilities.

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Women should be allowed to serve in military combat.

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Schizophrenia is genetic.

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Labor unions are no longer necessary.

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The government stimulus bill is working to repair the economy.

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President Obama is a native born American.

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America needs a national health care plan with a public option.

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The media has an inordinate amount of control on the lives and minds of Americans.

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The right to bear arms is guaranteed by the constitution and should not be overly regulated.

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There is a real and serious nuclear threat from North Korea.

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The drinking age in the US should be lowered to 18.

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Marajuana should be legalized.

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The destruction of the world’s rain forests needs to be addressed soon or they will cease to exist.

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Free healthcare is not a right the cost and should not be forced on the American taxpayer.

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Infant vaccinations present a serious risk for the development of autism.

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Instead of being a force for good, the Christian church is a source of oppression.

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Pigs make good pets and should not be valued just as a source of food.

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Steroid use should be banned.

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Hunting does more good than harm.

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Touch screen computers have many benefits over other models.

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