Logical Fallacies
Logical fallacies are forms of flawed thinking. They’re often disguised as reasonable claims, which means that detecting them takes practice. This video discusses some logical fallacies that should be understood and avoided.
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The Comma: Introductory Elements
This video details how to use the comma with introductory elements. Among other things, the discussion explains how words, phrases, subordinate clauses, and conjuncive adverbs link to main clauses.
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Sentence Types
This video on sentence types discusses the subject-verb relationship and active versus passive construction. It also specifies the four sentence patterns: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Moreover, the video explains how to format elements of an MLA paper by adjusting settings in the paragraph dialogue box.
The Most Isolated Man in the World: Brazil’s Lone Indian
Deep in the Amazon rainforest lives the most isolated man in the world. Tonight, he will sleep inside a leafy hole he has dug himself in the ground, the same way he has for the past 20 years. The last surviving member of a tribe that was decimated by expansionism and “development” projects, this man
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Museum Mysteries: Death Masks
When most people think of masks, they think of parties, but the tradition of a “death mask,” or a mask cast after someone’s death, has a much more morbid, yet historical meaning. Death masks capture every wrinkle, hair, and pore in a final record of a person’s life. They are in some ways the best,
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Welcome, Dr. Clyde Tombaugh. We’ve Been Expecting You.
I got on my knees and leaned forward in my seat to get a better view. The teacher, a visitor from the high school, dropped the flaming sheet of notebook paper into the milk bottle and then placed the hardboiled egg on top. The paper flared briefly and then went out. But the egg slowly,
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