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Essay Assignment:  Choose one of the following topics for a comparison/contrast essay

1.  Two people from your country who have influenced social change.

2.  Occupy Wall street and the Arab Spring.

3.  Two social movements from your country.

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Write a paragraph comparing/contrasting the lives and work of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.

Finish the sentences on formal relative clauses

Reading 7-1 How Fair Trade Works

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Open the Hyper Parent document in your drive.  Follow the link to the NY times interview with Carl Honore.  Read it and answer the questions for tomorrow's class.

Have fun.

If art is a minority interest, should the government spend money funding it, or should the government use the money for more important things?

Three paragraphs, 250-300 words

Enjoy!

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 Open the link and read the interview

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/how-will-we-read-the-book_1_b_1163455.html

Answer the following questions:

1.  Is Pritchard optimistic about future book sales? Give two reasons

2.  How will books change in coming years?

3.  Will writers have to change?

4.  In his opinion, what will happen to bookstores?

5.  How does he respond to the notion that electronic books allow for increased piracy?

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Please do exercise 6-4 in the Use of English section, as well as Reading 5-1, not 6-1, which we did not complete last week.

Enjoy!

PM 1 class

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/01/health/drugs-adderall-concentration/index.html