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Then, plan and write an essay that explains your ideas as persuasively as possible. Keep in mind that the support you provide—both reasons and examples—will help make your view convincing to the reader.  \nPrompt 1  \nSome people believe that there is only one foolproof plan, perfect solution, or correct interpretation. But nothing is ever that simple. For better or worse, for every so-called final answer there is another way of seeing things. There is always a “however.”  \nAssignment: Is there always another explanation or another point of view? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.  \nPrompt 2  \n1. When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately…unless it was, you know important, like a league game or something.  \n—Dick Butkus  \n2. Pro basketball has turned into Wrestlemania, which is why I like college basketball and high school basketball. Actually, it’s why I like baseball.  \n—Frank Layden  \nAssignment: Have professional sports influenced the values of American society? In an essay, support your position by discussing an example (or examples) from literature, science and technology, the arts, current events, or your own experience or observations.  \nPrompt 3  \n1. Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.  \n—Oliver Wendell Holmes  \n2. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.  \n—Arthur Brisbane  \nAssignment: Should friends be honest with each other, even if a truthful comment could be hurtful? In an essay, support your position by discussing an example (or examples) from literature, science and technology, the arts, current events, or your own experience or observation.  \nPrompt 4  \n1. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.  \n—Luis Buñuel  \n2. Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.  \n—Friedrich Nietzsche  \nAssignment: Is memory as central as Buñuel believes, or does it merely hold us back? 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