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Richard Daniel Altick. 1967. Note the many instances the authors cite of loaded language , such as name - calling and the glittering generality . ( a ) Write an essay explaining why people are susceptible to the irrationality and ...
Richard Daniel Altick. 1967. Note the many instances the authors cite of loaded language , such as name - calling and the glittering generality . ( a ) Write an essay explaining why people are susceptible to the irrationality and ...
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... loaded language can be combined with irrelevant or unproved evidence to stir prejudice may be taken from the field of art . A modern critic condemned certain pictures as " a conventional rehash of cubist patterns born among the wastrels ...
... loaded language can be combined with irrelevant or unproved evidence to stir prejudice may be taken from the field of art . A modern critic condemned certain pictures as " a conventional rehash of cubist patterns born among the wastrels ...
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... loaded language , is the mark of the genuinely critical reader . He cannot passively accept what is offered him in the guise of truth . His role is always an active , searching one . If he prefers the gold of truth to the baser metal of ...
... loaded language , is the mark of the genuinely critical reader . He cannot passively accept what is offered him in the guise of truth . His role is always an active , searching one . If he prefers the gold of truth to the baser metal of ...
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