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Which of the following is an example of a definition argument?
1. School funding should be equally distributed to all school sports, not just saved for popular sports like football and basketball.
2. School sports distract high school students from their educations and are a waste of school funding.
3. When it comes to high school athletics, dance should be considered a sport just like football, track, or basketball.
4. Football became the most popular high school sport because the large teams help get many students involved in athletics.

Match each of the following arguments below to the correct type of argument. ( Definition, Evaluation, or Neither )
1. Gun control does not actually control guns or gun owners.
2. Having universal health care does not make a country socialist.
3. Universal health care in the United States would be too expensive and limit people’s medical options.
4. The current U.S. economic situation does not qualify as a recession.
5. Buying a home is a terrible investment and most people are better off renting.
6. Student loan debt is severely impacting young people and harming the U.S. economy

The Romantics felt that Enlightenment thinkers imposed “rules and order” on nature in order to understand it. Romantics, on the other hand, stressed the importance of freedom and creativity when interacting with nature. In at least 300 words, write a short speech in which you argue whether it is more important to understand nature through the lens of science or understand it through our own emotions. Is it more important that we as human beings understand nature’s value as quantifiable and measurable? Why or why not? Explain, citing evidence from the text as well as your own experience to convince your intended audience.

Using the word box below, identify the fallacies in the following statements. For each
statement, write one or two sentences in which you explain the flaw in reasoning. Refer to
Rules for Writers, p. 79, and/or Practical Argument, pp. 151-162, for a detailed explanation of
these logical fallacies.
a. slippery slope b. non sequitur c. hasty generalization
d. false authority e. guilt by association f. begging the question
g. bandwagon h. ad hominem i. false dilemma (either/or)
j. false cause k. red herring
1. You should vote for Jonathan because everyone else is.
2. We must either build more prisons or crowd more prisoners into existing cells.
3. This car must be reliable; it’s the kind my dentist drives.
4. If we censor pornography, we will ultimately lose freedom of speech.
5. I know that store is badly managed. One of the salespeople there was rude to me once.
6. If women dressed more conservatively, they wouldn’t get raped.
7. You can’t trust a guy like that; his brother was found guilty of tax evasion.
8. We should cut welfare because people on welfare are getting too many benefits.
9. The union is arguing for a cost-of-living raise, but its leaders are all a bunch of crooks.
10. Children would doo alot better at school if they didn’t spend so much time watching
television or playing video games.
part 2
1. What do the letters in the acronym MLA represent? (See Rules 392)
2. True or False: To be fair and ethical, a student writer must acknowledge his or her debt to
the writers of the sources used in that student’s paper.
3. Define plaggiarism. (See Rules 372, 397-399)
4. According to MLA standards, in addition to a separate Works Cited page, students who use
outside sources for their work must also document such use in another way. What is this
“other way” called? (See Rules 398)
5-6. How is the “other way” from question #4 done in a student essay? (See Rules 398)
7. True or False: To indicate that one is using a source’s exact phrases or sentences, one must
enclose them in quotation marks.
8. True or False: When a student summarizes or paraphrases from a source, no documentation
of that source is needed.
9. True or False: There is no direct connection between the in-text citation and the alphabetical
listing on the Works Cited page.
10. Define signal phrase. (see Rules 408-409)
11-15. On a separate paper and using the information given below, preppare an MLA Works
Cited page for the following book by a single author. The title of the page must be
centered on the page. The entry must be doubble-spaced throughout, and all lines after the
first line must be indented (hanging indent). (See Rules p. 431/#1 and p. 475)
Lowboy, a novel written by John Wray in 2009 and purchased by a
student from a local bookstore. Picador, a company with its main
office in the city of New York, published the book.

1. If a 18 year old girl that is 5 foot 7 inch tall and weighted 135 lbs did her laundry for one hour how many calories would she burn? 2. If a 18 year old girl that is 5 foot 7 inch tall weighing 135 lbs drove a car for 45 minutes how many calories would she burn? 3. If a 18 year old girl that is 5 foot 7 inch tall weighing 135 lbs did power yoga for 1.5 hours how many calories would she burn? 4. If a 18 year old girl that is 5 foot 7 inch tall weighing 135 lbs washed dishes for 30 minutes how many calories would she burn? 5. What are some activities that you looked up?

In Sui Sin Far’s short story “Mrs. Spring Fragrance,” Mrs. and Mr. Spring Fragrance try to become “Americanized.” What activities, or beliefs, or desires, seem to constitute Americanization in the story? How does internalized racism play a role in various characters’ views on Chinese culture? In your responses, think about how Julia Alvarez’s short story “Snow” enters the conversation about “Americanization.” How do ideas about Americanization change in a Cold War context? Please reference specific moments and quotations from the stories to support your ideas.

Why is it important to use proper grammar, punctuation and capitalization in English writing?
Find a picture of an office room online. Then, write a descriptive paragraph consisting 4-5 sentences containing:
an introductory sentence,
location of the office,
interesting features of the office, and
what you feel about the office.
Please attach the image after you write the paragraph.

Select the correct text in the passage. Which two details best show how the people of Winesburg feel about George? [7] On the station platform everyone shook the young man’s hand. More than a dozen people waited about. Then they talked of their own affairs. Even Will Henderson, who was lazy and often slept until nine, had got out of bed. George was embarrassed. Gertrude Wilmot, a tall thin woman of fifty who worked in the Winesburg post office, came along the station platform. She had never before paid any attention to George. Now she stopped and put out her hand. In two words she voiced what everyone felt. “Good luck,” she said sharply and then turning went on her way.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015
Motherhood for Dollars
By Cristina Sampang
“They come from alien cultures to fill our culture’s most important job, raising our kids. We’ve decided to let other women take care of our children so that we can give them a better life. It’s an excruciating decision, as the nannies know better than anyone…”
Susan Cheever, Global Woman
It’s beginning of September at Vancouver’s Jericho Park. Today, as I sit alone on a knoll absorbing the sunshine, the oaks and the maple trees around me are gently shedding their leaves. To my right lies the duck pond surrounded by weeping willows. To the east, tall evergreens conceal the apartment buildings that line Fourth Avenue. To the north, the undulating peaks of Cypress Mountain guard the beaches of English Bay. Yet I didn’t see the magic nor feel the peace these surroundings offer. Instead I peer beyond the bay towards the Pacific Ocean. As if I could discern across this ocean the two adjacent houses in Antipolo, a town in central Philippines — where two of my daughters live with their families. This evening, I watch the bay and I think about them. It’s early morning back there. They should be waking up soon.
Jericho Park represents the North American edge of my fractured life, the cliff upon where I could look down at the deep, invisible divide that keeps my dreams forever incomplete. Season after season, this park never fails to remind me where my brain says I should be as opposed to where my heart wants to be, and that getting them in the same place remains to be done.
But I’ll see my girls tonight when I get home. We’ll exchange news, trade stories, laugh together and have a good look at each other, then blow kisses and say, “Bye-bye. Lub you. Mwah-mwah!”  Afterwards I’ll go to bed happy, back to my own life. And they back to theirs. We do this regularly through our web cams. I’ll have to wait for a few more months though, before I can really kiss them and hold them in my arms, and distribute the presents I’ve been hoarding in my
Balikbayan
Box.  My life revolves around these homecomings.
I’m here and they’re over there because years ago I made a tough choice.  A single parent at the age of 26, I left my three daughters in my mother’s care to look after other women’s children in Singapore, then four years later, in Vancouver, Canada.  In return, my children went to a good school, they had generous allowances, mobile phones, and all the brand-name denim jeans my money could buy. They had everything, except my presence.
I remember the first time I left for Vancouver. My whole family went to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to see me off. We walked together to the departure gates, as far as the security personnel would let us. When it was time to go, I kissed each of my three daughters goodbye, then walked towards the doors. I heard Maricel start to cry. Maricar and Catherine joined in. My heart was pounding. I walked away, faster and faster, without once looking back. Because I knew that if I stopped, if I looked back — like Orpheus at the gates of Hell — my dreams would disappear. But I had to leave. My plans for them were only half-achieved.
While working in another country, I think about them every day. I silently tallied in my calendar all the birthdays and hugs and kisses that I missed. I made sure that I talk to my daughters by phone at least once a week, to send their allowances twice a month, and go home to them every year. I reminded them every chance I got that I was here and they were there because I wanted them to have the things I never had as a child. I told them that going away was very hard for me, but sacrifice was required of us to break away from poverty and lack of education, circumstances that most of the people from my farming village in the Philippines will spend the rest of their lives in.
Until today, I never realized I’ve been living my life in smug delusion. Although I had been physically absent from my kids’ daily lives, I’d believed I’ve raised them right, and expressed my motherly love in a variety of personal and material ways. I thought I’ve learned from, and done better than other mothers like myself.
“Not so,” writes Catherine, my youngest, about the past: “When I was a kid, I’d wanted to tell you, ‘I don’t care about the allowances and the toys. I want you to stay home with me and my sisters. You’ve always said you loved us. Do you think I believe you?’ But I never expressed these things because I was afraid that if I did, you would never come back.”
“Not so,” says Maricar, my middle child, of the present: “Me, I would never leave my kids to work in a foreign country. I can’t imagine my child crying alone in the middle of the night because I’m not there. I know what it feels like.”
Because I waited too long, I failed to bring my daughters to Vancouver. Maricar and Catherine both dropped out of college and got married in their teenage years. Only Maricel, my first-born, has a university degree. All three of them have their own families now and are living away from me. Catherine lives in Washington, USA, with her American husband. Yet, despite these kids having grown up and chosen their own paths, they remain little children in my mind. I stay trapped in a time warp, doomed to be fighting my guilt and trying to make up for the years I’ve lost: visiting yearly, bringing them chocolates, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and umbrellas; treating them to mall shopping trips… cooking with them, snuggling with them and telling them stories; treating them like little kids. And whenever I leave to pursue my own life once again, we’re back to replaying the same old good-bye drama at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, only this time my daughters are accompanied by their own children and husbands.
Until perhaps, I promised myself, I’ve managed to bring all of them to Vancouver. Next time I leave them at the airport gates, I will look back and wave, because my dream has changed.
Argument Essay” Writing”:
Instructions:
* This is an open book assignment. You may use a regular dictionary, a thesaurus. You also use the reading.
* Essays must be written legibly and “double-spaced”. Cite the information you borrow from the text and use APA as your method of documentation.
* Write an essay on ONE of the following topics. You should demonstrate essay organization with about “450 words”.
* Your essay should reflect your knowledge of good grammar, structure, cohesion, unity and completeness.
1) Topic: Referring to the article “Motherhood for dollar”, argue for or against the idea that mothers need to stay home and take care of their children in order to give them love, education, and a sense of experiencing the warmth in a family. Some relevant ideas can be: abortion, feminist movement and independent women, surrogate motherhood, etc.

The unhappy stepparents found that living with two families of kids who hated each other was _________________________—something had to change.
clamor
contract
duplicity
equivocal
irresolute
rescind
stagnant
uniform
untenable
vilify