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The Christian Quote that Everyone Takes out of Context 7
- Culture
- November 13, 2018
“[E]very saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” A quick Google search for that Oscar Wilde quote will suffice to show just how popular it is. It’s been engraved into jewelry, tattooed onto skin, and posted on Pinterest over picturesque backdrops of mountains or train tracks. The meaning is simple and edifying:
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A Quick Guide to Writing an Excellent Essay 3
- Education
- November 13, 2018
Introduction, statement of case, outline, proof, refutation, conclusion: the six parts of organization are, remember, parts, not necessarily paragraphs. Though students have often been taught that every paragraph must have a topic sentence, one sentence that distills the proof in the paragraph which is proving the thesis, that is not strictly true. What is essential
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What UK Parents Are Doing About Today’s ‘Oppressive’ School System 0
- Education
- November 13, 2018
When it comes to exports, the US ranks third behind China and the European Union. But even while it trails in the exportation of physical goods, the US seems to be succeeding in the exportation of new ideas. One of these is the modern homeschool movement. And one of the countries avidly buying into this
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This Former Navy SEAL Has a Veterans Day Message for All Americans 0
- Culture
- November 12, 2018
Rep.-elect Dan Crenshaw of Texas appeared on “Saturday Night Live” to give a message of unity and connection this Veterans Day weekend. Crenshaw, a retired lieutenant commander and now Republican congressman-elect for Texas’ 2nd Congressional District, was thrown into the spotlight the weekend prior to Election Day when “SNL” cast member Pete Davidson mocked him for the wounds
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Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins 3
- Economics
- November 12, 2018
In 1939, the same year the Germans and the Russians mutually consented to rape Poland, T.S. Eliot rather famously (or, I suppose for some, infamously) declared: “If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.” Eliot, of course, could not have been more
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Why the Great War Matters Today 0
- Culture
- November 12, 2018
1918. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That hour, that day, and that month brought an armistice to the First World War, a conflict that proved just the prelude to the bloodiest century in the history of humankind. November 11, 2018 marks the centennial of that armistice. That war and
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