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New York is proud to serve as the birthplace of YMCA Youth and Government, where the program was established in 1936 by Clement A. Duran. The program now offers both middle school (grades 6–8) and high school (grades 9–12) model state government assemblies to students and schools across the state.
A thesis statement is a statement of one's core argument, the main idea(s), and/or a concise summary of an essay, research paper, etc. [1] It is usually expressed in one or two sentences near the beginning of a paper, and may be reiterated elsewhere, such as in the conclusion.
[9] [4] [10] In the school context, the United States Supreme Court has identified three major relevant considerations: [9] The extent to which the student's speech-in-question poses a substantial threat of disruption (Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist.). Whether the speech is sexually vulgar or obscene (Bethel School District v. Fraser).
Good News Club v. Milford Central School, 533 U.S. 98 (2001), was a (6-3) decision of the U.S. Supreme Court written by Clarence Thomas holding that a public school's exclusion of a club from its limited public forum based solely on the club's religious nature was impermissible viewpoint discrimination.
Essays whose governing intent is descriptive or narrative are relatively uncommon in college writing. Exposition and argument tend to prevail. [11] Exactly the same guidelines that hold for a descriptive or narrative essay can be used for the descriptive or narrative paragraph.
In the argument above, the statement, "Fred's cat has fleas" is up for debate (i.e. is a claim), but in the explanation, the statement, "Fred's cat has fleas" is assumed to be true (unquestioned at this time) and just needs explaining. [19] Arguments and explanations largely resemble each other in rhetorical use.
Argument evaluation is the determination of the goodness of the argument: determining how good the argument is and whether, or with what reservations, it ought to be accepted. As mentioned above, in schemes accompanied by critical questions , a measure of the goodness of the argument is whether the critical questions can be appropriately answered.
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