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    In “The Truth about Torture‚” Charles Krauthammer critically analyzes the John McCain‚ an individual with tremendous moral influence who was tortured by the North Vietnamese‚ amendment. This amendment would prohibit all forms of torture from being executed on war prisoners of America. In response‚ Krauthammer states that in certain scenarios‚ torture is not “just permissible‚ but also morally required.” He divides the war prisoners into the following three classifications: ordinary soldiers arrested

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    there is no scenario where it is acceptable to torture innocent children. There are many different types of torture but they can be broken down into two categories: emotional and physical. Emotional torture is when you psychologically effect the victim’s mind and soul. This can be shown through isolating someone‚ threatening him or her‚ humiliating him or her and scaring him or her. Emotional torture can harm an individual just as much as physical torture. Manipulating someone’s emotions causes the

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    Analsysis of “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” There is a cliché quote that people say‚ “Beauty is in the eye of beholder.” But in the essay “The Ugly Truth About Beauty” (1998) Dave Barry argues about how women who spend countless hours on their so called “beauty” whereas men seem not to care. Barry uses juxtaposition and exaggeration to poke fun at men and women behavior and shed light on the harm that the beauty industry is doing. When Barry argues his point of his essay he addresses both genders

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    The Essay – Part 1 The essay is one of the easiest places to pick up points on the SAT. Most students have no idea what SAT graders are looking for. Here is the grading rubric for a perfect score of 6 on the essay: An essay in this category demonstrates clear and consistent mastery‚ although it may have a few minor errors. A typical essay: • • • • • Effectively and insightfully develops a point of view on the issue and demonstrates outstanding critical thinking‚ using clearly appropriate examples

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    Audience appeals and Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth in her speech Ain’t I a Women addresses the issues of women’s rights and racial inequalities at a Women’s convention in 1851. Truth’s purpose is to convey that women and blacks are equaled to white men and that they do not need to be viewed as less. She adopts a conversational tone to appeal to personal beliefs in her anti-slavery listeners. Truth uses appeals to maternal emotions‚ rhetorical questions‚ and allusions to the bible to aid her

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    Rhetorical Analysis on the Inconvenient Truth Al Gore states that in his documentary film An Inconvenient Truth he was only voicing his concerns for strictly moral and ethical reasons containing Global Warming. When really Al Gore’s documentary was just an additional method to help him receive another bid at presidency. Global Warming needs to be brought to the attention of everyone it is an enormous problem in our world today‚ and we should be finding ways to put it to an end. In the documentary

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    Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)‚ Karl Popper suggests that no scientific theory can be classified as truth.  The only thing that can be done is to attempt to falsify the theory over and over again reject the theory repeatedly in different situations.  Each failed attempt will strengthen the theory and bring it closer to the truth.  Hence‚ Popper claimed that the truth of a hypothesis can never be confirmed. A hypothesis is an “if-then” statement‚ which that is an assumption of causality

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    Being a Woman‚ and a Woman of color in the early 1800’s wasn’t easy. Sojourner Truth‚ formally known as Isabella Baumfree‚ is one of the many female suffragist to break the barriers of being silenced. Truth was born into slavery‚ owned by a wealthy Dutch Family. Eventually‚ she got away from slavery‚ and started a new life in New York. She was known for her activism for suffragist‚ and abolitionists. However‚ she didn’t start off with a huge audience. Her public speaking era began on the streets

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    What is truth? A simply complex question‚ truth is what we know‚ what we believe‚ or simply what is definite. I believe that we have personal truths that drive our beliefs‚ both of which are ever changing. In these changing truths‚ there is a common attribute: to further our truth is to strain our own being. For the betterment and continuity of human thought‚ we must undergo personal strains in the hope of going deeper into our changing beliefs. These strains are not all internal‚ for looking for

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    the Women’s Convention in 1851‚ was a very powerful‚ well written call to women to join together for their rights‚ as well as a convincing explanation of why she believes women deserve them. She gives quite clever arguments and intelligent use of rhetorical devices. In the beginning‚ Sojourner uses diction build a connection between her and the people listening‚ by using the word ‘children’. This may have been used intentionally to make them feel as they were listening to a motherly or kind‚ gentle

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