Sentences with phrase «written arguments about»

These lessons walk students through the process of developing formal written arguments about debatable topics.

The first Australians and the settlers: An exposition writing prompt allows students to write an argument about whether the Aboriginal clans of the Sydney region had the right to engage in resistance against the settlers.

Not exact matches

«I've heard several arguments over the years about how this doesn't really matter, but I believe it does,» writes Rae in his LinkedIn post.

It's a little harder to deal with the haters who attack whenever you write something positive, or even whenever you write anything at all about Apple, because their arguments aren't entirely incorrect or unsympathetic.

Vik writes: The ongoing argument about this being the new internet to the grandest pyramid scheme is perplexing and similar to the current debate between Elon vs. Zuck on AI.

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

Even among her Fed peers, she stands out as a nerd: «As Fed officials deliberated last April about how long to keep interest rates low, Ms. Yellen delivered a 20 - page speech, with 18 footnotes and 15 charts, making the argument that rates should stay low until 2015 or later,» writes WSJ Fed correspondent Jon Hilsenrath.

Your argument of who wrote the bible, tells of your understanding of the bible, more than it tells about me.

What Hitchens wrote about the evils of religion was not so much a scholarly argument, but more a wave of righteous indignation that levelled everything in its path.

Today in Public Discourse, Maggie Gallagher, Blankenhorn's friend (and former employee), writes a moving personal piece about the Blankenhorn's decision and the ongoing argument over marriage.

I also want to add, that I only wrote twice... my husband used my laptop to make his argument about the Irvings... those are not my words.

«Lewis wrote in a time when, among the educated British public if not among their professional philosophers, there was considerably more agreement than there is now about what constitutes a valid and rational argument for a given case.»

It should be noted that the book was essentially written before September 11, and some last minute stitchings about what the war on terrorism might mean for the world and American culture do not sit well with the burden of his argument.

Try following this again, it's not about education level it's about belief, the secular argument is that people of that age were not skeptical and that is just not true to think otherwise is «chronological snobbery» > Just cause it's written doesn't mean it's true.

the writers gained NO money and power from writing it... sorry... your argument is weak and baseless... and the 4 Gospels were written from about 15 to 30 years after Jesus... pretty ignorant to think it was 40 to 80..

But if I look at your own argument «The scripture was not written to us, for us or about us.»

If the article above was written by a grown adult about the existence of Santa Claus, and if that argument was essentially based on asserting Santa Claus» existence based on faith and the popularity of the Santa Claus myth, then anyone would be justified in scorning those beliefs, especially when that argument extends to declaring that recent findings confirm the existence of Santa (after all, children are still receiving Christmas gifts).

The difference here of course has nothing to do with trustung what «men» have written, it has to do with faith in whatever diety you believe... If you accept that there is a diety responsible for inspiring someone to write about them then really it is not the person writing but the diety writing through them... so your argument from that perspective is moot...

Rational argument, while essential, «will not resolve all controversy,» notes legal theorist Martha Nussbaum in writing about the move to give full equality to gays and lesbians, «because it is very likely that the resistance... has deep psychological roots.»

In college I joined the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and discovered that some people actually think about their faith and write rather sophisticated arguments defending their beliefs.

It is now a commonplace that he probably wrote more on the ontological argument than any other philosopher — a book, a substantial part of two others, and about twenty articles, replies, reviews, and forewords.

Many of us who have written about Rawls» argument have noted that the people behind his famous «veil of ignorance» are a peculiar kind of people (i.e., people very much like John Rawls) and therefore can hardly serve as the normative deliberators producing universal moral principles.

In a lengthy letter published in La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, the former pope answered theological and moral arguments from Piergiorgio Odifreddi, an Italian atheist and mathematician who had written about Benedict in 2011.

That he would write about his brush with death was to be expected, for he wrote about everything: in books and magazine articles» not to mention his collection of observations and arguments published in the back of this magazine each month.

For more than half a century, Father Francis Canavan, S.J., has in his writing and teaching provided arguments both insightful and disturbing about moral reason and practice in our time.

As for his argument, Carter writes learnedly about the most notable crises of American republicanism, especially the Constitutional period, the Civil War, and the New Deal.

Raison's Filter Fiber © (joking about the copyright)-- bad letter combinations / words to avoid if you want to post that wonderful argument: Many, if not most are buried within other words, but I am not shooting for the perfect list, so use your imagination and add any words I have missed as a comment (no one has done this yet)-- I found some but forgot to write them down.

But when I began writing about gender equality in evangelicalism, it became apparent to me that no matter how careful my tone, no matter how reasoned my arguments, no matter how gentle my critique, my work would inevitably be characterized as «divisive.»

While the author can hardly be said to have identified all our problems and their solutions, he most assuredly has chosen to write about crucial issues, and he has done so with clarity, forceful argument, and purposeful - ness.

I was hoping to stretch this out and make a much longer argument, but that's about all you need to write.

So feel free to take your time and go through my article slowly and try to respond more to what I was writing, instead of going all Alex Jones off of a headline you disagree with, but that is part of a larger argument about what MLB needs to start doing to increase the diversity of its pool of talented applicants.

I have heard the argument that it clearly is the case that no one knows, so what is the point of writing about it — which rather ignores the fact that something is going to happen, even if we have no idea what that something is.

Katie, I have read enough of your own writing to know what you might say about this argument.

By contrast, I have heard of cases pertaining to some newer member states where the state in question would not even send a representative or written arguments to the court (here again I think it was about prejudicial questions, not infringement proceedings but it shows how specific countries approach EU litigation in general).

«I want to be clear about what's happening: rather than go before the members of our State Committee this weekend and make an argument as to why he deserves our endorsement, Governor Cuomo has instead chosen to respond the only way he knows how: retaliating with bullying and threats,» Lipton wrote.»

«When the review into LIBOR is looked at, it will of course include this market [the oil market], and will aim to publish conclusions by the end of September... as a result of this debate, and the arguments from my Hon. Friend [Robert Halfon], I will also write to the FSA about concerns raised today... It is absolutely right that we enhance transparency in the oil and commodity markets... It is clear from the data that there is a considerable time - lag involved [between oil prices and petrol prices].

«The left must avoid the trap of countering an argument about less state by making a case for more state,» he writes.

I will write about the arguments for and against both ideas in due course, but will for today limit myself to the implications which they have for the maintenance of the Coalition.

Writing to a friend about E = mc2, he said, «The argument is amusing and seductive, but... the Lord may be laughing over it.»

Argument *: If you really believe science is over, why do you still write about it?

Written by a controversial atheist - neuroscientist named Sam Harris (no relation to the guy from the book above)-- the author provides a mash up of personal storytelling to back up his heavy hitting — science - backed — arguments about why spirituality isn't all fluff.

The larger you got, the argument went, the more likely you were to achieve By Ashley Feinstein Why You Should Be Writing Down Your Goals We hear a lot about the importance of goal - setting but most of us don't have

Much has been written about the feminist bona - fides (or lack thereof) in Fury Road, but this small, perfectly choreographed instance of inter-gender action - hero collaboration — with the weapon wielded by a distaff badass whose aim is true — would seem to settle the argument once and for all.

There is a very clear sense in which I am being unfair to The Congress as I am writing about a dramatic film rather than a philosophical essay but Folman's decision to critique dramatic artifice whilst engaging in dramatic artifice means that The Congress draws your attention away from the drama and towards the film's flawed philosophical argument.

Thoughts and discussions and heated arguments are why we all watch movies and write about movies and read about movies.

No matter how involved the argument, writing about the movies almost always comes down to a question of personal taste, to that web of influence through which we filter each new film.

I would urge those writing about low - cost areas in particular to be careful about buying the argument that a huge proportion of local students are poor.

They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.

Jason Bedrick has written extensively about tax credit programs and has refuted many arguments against them.

Teachers will need to incorporate lessons that ask students to analyze exemplar oral and written arguments, and they will need to increase the number of writing and speaking assignments in which students argue their opinion about a topic or theme, using text - based evidence as support.