Word: argumentative
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...editorial board’s goal that staff editorials tend to consistently reflect a particular point of view. On occasion, however, the “Staff” may decide to reverse its position on a particular issue, usually because new evidence or a new argument has arisen. Decisions to reverse a standing position, however, are not arrived at lightly...
...Enough,” National Public Radio correspondent Juan Williams makes the convincing, if unoriginal, argument that many poor black Americans have succumbed to a “culture of failure,” one marked by high levels of poverty, illegitimacy, and incarceration, and low levels of educational attainment...
...culture of failure” is a departure from the legacy of the civil rights movement, Williams writes in his strongest, most essential argument. He backs it up by recounting both the courageous sacrifices made by students in Little Rock and Oxford to gain access to all white schools, as well as the heartbreaking assault and robbery of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks by a black youth who broke into her Detroit home...
...Finally, there is the corrupted culture argument, which is in some ways the most potent. Sex scandals in politics, whether gay or straight, are usually about an abuse of power. Foley was using his position as an elected representative to allegedly troll for action in the page school. He got caught, but he is the only the latest House member to resign under a cloud this year. The House Republicans are on their third speaker in 11 years in power; the previous two were forced out by scandal as well. Tom DeLay stepped down as leader and then announced...
...natured exchange of ideas and ideologies that’s advertised to us, we find that diversity is sometimes much more difficult than it looks in the pictures. In courses that deal with subjects as sensitive as race, religion, or political ideology, a heterogeneous classroom can often mean discomfort, argument, and uncertainty about what is or is not acceptable to say in front of each other. This is particularly striking in classes in African American, Latin American, or other ethnic studies, in which the very people being “studied” are sitting right there in the room?...