Parentheses: Quiz 1

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Tom’s paper argues that the religious rights of minorities are most commonly oppressed in countries that are predominantly Muslim (e.g., Saudi Arabia), Communist (e.g., China), or governed by a dictator (e.g., Zimbabwe).

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Her morning exercise routine (a mix of push-ups, planks, and squats was starting to show results.

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Our student association (a) will lobby to merge all citation styles and (b) permit limited amounts of plagiarism in difficult courses.

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Penelope Bryant writes that The Collected Works of A.J Fikry is “a witty exploration of contemporary literary culture” (87).

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In Indonesia (the most populous Muslim country on earth), some provinces have adopted Sharia law as the foundation of their legal system.

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The theory of punctuated equilibrium (a term coined by Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge) is the idea that evolution happened not gradually, but in sudden spurts (the theory of punctuated equilibrium supposedly explains why intermediate species do not show up in the fossil record).

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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales contains several examples of corrupt figures interpreting (or “glossing”) literature for personal profit.

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A number of studies have shown that condoms protect against the spread of HIV (but that they do not significantly reduce the spread of STDs and STIs, e.g., HPV, chlamydia, and herpes).

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Her discourse, he says, is “full of rapture” and her gaze “able to raise one to a galliard / That lay in a dead palsy” (Webster 1.2.73, 79-80).

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This city council plans to spend the bulk of the infrastructure money on three projects: (a) a new sports rink, (b) an expansion to the mayor’s holiday home, and a second library for the north end of town.