Word: argumentative
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...whole, though, the great significance of foreign languages is an argument against—not for—requiring them in a students’ first year and thereby impinging upon students’ ability to choose what’s best for them. In most cases, undergraduates deeper into their Harvard education can make a more sensible decision on the language they will focus upon, rather than making a hasty decision freshman year (consider the aspiring doctor with a summer internship in Peru, or the economist with a sudden epiphany to embrace the classics...
...same argument appears in Faust’s 1996 book “Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War,” which won the Francis Parkman Prize, given annually to the best book of American history. And while Faust had toned down the rhetoric, her colleagues say she had made her point...
...feel about the role the war has played in your candidacy? I think that with the Republican voters that it has helped. My role in the surge and the success it has achieved, it has helped me make my argument that I have the judgment that none of the others...
...crux of Obama’s argument is that we must the existing political system with one that rewards honesty, pragmatism, and responsiveness if the country is to solve its problems. His background as a legislator, his tone in public speeches, and his campaign’s refusal to engage in mudslinging or to accept money from lobbyists all demonstrate his deep commitment and ability to bring about such sweeping change in American politics...
...this argument relies on a shallow and misguided interpretation of Obama’s hope. As he said in his victory speech after the Iowa caucuses, “Hope is not blind optimism…Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” This is the transformative power of Obama’s candidacy: He offers a vision of change more ambitious than any candidate...