a system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific
What is pseudoscience?
100
Medical marijuana should be legalized for cancer patients. Marijuana eases pain and reduces nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy. There is no reason for sick people to suffer needlessly.
What is pathos?
100
Part of the pre-writing process, strategies include freewriting, listing, clustering, outlining, and even sketching.
What is brainstorming? (Or idea generation.)
100
New Dehli
What is India?
100
The only flying mammal
What is a bat?
200
a way of talking or singing without raising or lowering the sound of your voice
What is monotone?
200
Censorship of books in US public schools and libraries is acceptable because parents have a right to restrict access to books they feel are unfit for their children. Books are powerful instruments and children should be protected from harmful material.
What is pathos?
200
After the draft is written, major changes in organization often occur in this stage.
What is revising?
200
Oslo
What is Norway?
200
First animal listed in most dictionaries (alphabetically)
What is the aardvark?
300
not interested or involved in politics
What is apolitical?
300
Mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes are overcrowding our jails and prisons. Before the Rockefeller Drug Laws, there were roughly 200,000 people who were incarcerated in the United States. Now, 25 years later, there are nearly 2.3 million people in jail or prison.
What is logos?
300
This stage includes checking for grammar errors, and other minor changes to paragraphs and sentences.
What is editing?
300
Rio de Janeiro
What is Brazil?
300
Humans have seven vertebrae in their necks. Giraffes have this many vertebrae in their necks.
What is seven?
400
a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; penname
What is a pseudonym?
400
Solitary confinement is inhumane. Psychologists and mental health experts state that prolonged isolation causes severe mental distress and suffering.
What is ethos? What is pathos?
400
This is one of many strategies to fight Writer's Block.
(I will accept just about any answer here, as long as it makes sense.)
400
Mogadishu
What is Somalia?
400
Flightless bird that went extinct in 1662.
What is the dodo?
500
always wanting more : not able to be satisfied
What is insatiable?
500
Capturing wild dolphins and introducing them to zoos is needed to protect the species. Marine Mammal Educator Larry Schaefer states, "In order to maintain healthy breeding outcomes and avoid inbreeding, new dolphins must be introduced into a captive facility's stock."
What is ethos?
500
This is one of many revision strategies.
(I will accept just about any answer here, as long as it makes sense.)
500
Kabul
What is Afghanistan?
500
This unusual mammal not only lays eggs, but the male of the species has ankle spurs which produce venom.