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Andrew McCluskey's List: AP Language
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Feb 16, 14
How the automobile industry invented jay-walking.
"On the streets of early 20th Century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside, and play in the streets. All day."
"And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year."
People began viewing automobiles as the evil enemy of the people.
"Automotive interests banded together under the name Motordom. One of Motordom’s public relations gurus was a man named E. B. Lefferts, who put forth a radical idea: don’t blame cars, blame human recklessness. Lefferts and Motordom sought to exonerate the machine by placing the blame with individuals." -
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Feb 18, 13
Phillip Lopate writes about the virtue of self-doubt and how it (self-doubt) is built into essay writing as a form.
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The Essay, an Exercise in Doubt
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