Ima Student Mrs. T. Chur English 1301 12 November 2009 Molly Ivins and Her Crazy Gun Theory Molly Ivins‚ in her Op-Ed called‚ “Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get Rid of Guns‚” argues for an absolute abolition of civilian gun ownership. Ivins begins her argument with a sarcastic attitude toward gun laws in the United States. She calls herself “not antigun‚” but immediately announces that she is “proknife.” She seems at first to offer an unbiased view‚ claiming not to want
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Writing 121 9 June 2014 Response: Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get Rid of Guns Molly Ivins‚ a liberal columnist who was made famous by picking fun at her home state of Texas and mocking politicians‚ battled breast cancer before she died in 2007. Although her essay‚ Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get Ride of Guns is over a decade old‚ her words are still a hot topic today. Molly Ivin’s essay takes on the gun control debate‚ engaging the audience with a sarcastic perspective that leaves them asking
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Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog but Get Rid of the Guns Essay In “Get a Knife” Molly Ivins does a good job in using logos to argue and persuade her audience to ban guns from civilian ownership. Even though good points were made as to the reason why guns are bad‚ not everything was easy to agree with. Ivins argument was based on bias assumptions and flawed examples that caused her argument to decline. Ivins begins her argument by giving the counter argument. “I am not antigun. I’m proknife.” (Paragraph
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In Molly Ivins essay “Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get Rid of Guns‚” she explains how it is better if guns are banned. Guns aren’t being used by people who are being supervised and we aren’t required some discipline to use guns. She also brings up that all guns do is kill. However many people do not agree with Ivins‚ there is a web page dedicated to just saying bad things about her and her essay. Many of those comments do not try to argue against her points with good facts. One of the comments
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Angela White English 101 10/18/2010 Synopsis Get a Knife; Get a Dog‚ but Get Rid of Guns Molly Ivin’s view is she is not antigun she is pro knife .She supports the second amendment and believes that all children 14 and under are too young to be having guns. And having so many guns owners is destroying our security of this Free State. She believes that guns should
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Dogs protect our livestock‚ homes‚ and children. They detect bombs‚ lead the blind‚ and track criminals and the stranded alike. Some tow boats to shore. Others race across fields in search of game. Some dogs flush‚ retrieve‚ or point. Others herd‚ gather‚ drive‚ or drove. Some dogs pull sleds‚ taking us where we could never go alone. Others sniff out drugs‚ detect heart attacks‚ or listen to sounds in the forest we could never hear. Some dogs fill stewpots while luckier ones sit on cushions in royal
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Bailey 1 Tristan Bailey Prof. Cogman Comp. 1 30 January 2015 Summary In the argumentative essay “Get a Knife‚ Get a Dog‚ but Get rid of Guns‚” Molly Ivins suggests that other forms of selfdefense‚ such as knives‚ are more practical than the use of guns. Although she doesn’t support the use of guns in a community setting‚ she does support the second amendment and argues that 14 year old boys and “wacky” religious groups are not part of a well regulated militia. She also argues that
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2. Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most challenging? Why? Financial because they might have one parent take take care of the kids and maybe that person is a caregiver and can’t afford to send to kids to a better school or get them an IPad or something of the sort. 3. Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most interesting to
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Get Geico‚ Get Happy! Geico is a car insurance company which has used several advertising techniques that address many of the fifteen basic appeals‚ described by Jib Fowles‚ to gain potential customers (Fowles 1). For instance‚ the need for affiliation has been catered to through advertising depicting Geico as the best there is. People tend to affiliate themselves with top companies. Emotional appeal is catered to primarily; the premise being to invoke the idea that getting Geico insurance will
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well as get out of the dog house. To start my process of this culinary apology‚ I gather the necessary items for the task at hand. Rummaging through my kitchen cabinets‚ I acquire a bowl‚ a ten inch non-stick pan‚ and cutting board. My next step is to search the utensil drawer for a large chopping knife‚ whisk‚ and a plastic spatula. To prepare my working area‚ I place the pan on the stove top with my spatula on the ready next to it. Following this‚ I position the cutting board and knife on the counter
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