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... tion Name Calling , and a racial , ethnic , gender - based , or other kind of slur ? For ex- ample , what is the difference between calling someone a communist and calling someone a nigger ? between calling someone and atheist and a ...
... tion Name Calling , and a racial , ethnic , gender - based , or other kind of slur ? For ex- ample , what is the difference between calling someone a communist and calling someone a nigger ? between calling someone and atheist and a ...
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... tion and narcoticized by technological diversions . Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug , he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil's observation that " Television is the soma of ...
... tion and narcoticized by technological diversions . Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug , he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil's observation that " Television is the soma of ...
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... tion , pronunciation enshrined by the joint efforts of structural linguists , per- missive dictionaries , and allegedly democratic but actually demagogic educators . What really makes a production of , say , Hamlet different , and ...
... tion , pronunciation enshrined by the joint efforts of structural linguists , per- missive dictionaries , and allegedly democratic but actually demagogic educators . What really makes a production of , say , Hamlet different , and ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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