December 2012
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Proposition of Policy, Reduced Drinking Age
      Proposition of Policy: Congress should implement a policy that amends the MLDA 21, lowering the drinking age to 18.       Senator Sherrod Brown         Parker Catalano pcatalan@umail.iu.edu         CMCL-C228 16668, Argumentation and Public Advocacy Professor Brian Scott Amsden November 29, 2012             “I’ll be fine mum… just trust me xxx”: the words that will tear at a mother’s...
Dec 2nd
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Proposition of Value, Reduced Drinking Age
      Proposition of Value: Defending, Reduced Drinking Age Opposing, Current Drinking Age       Functional Essay       Parker Catalano pcatalan@umail.iu.edu         CMCL-C228 16668, Argumentation and Public Advocacy Professor Brian Scott Amsden November 5, 2012               Imagine one day that you are driving home from the mall after picking up your child and his friend, and your life...
Dec 2nd
October 2012
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Ancient and Medieval Art, Essay #1 - Formal...
Parker Catalano FINA A101, Ancient and Medieval Art 27 August 2012 Formal Analysis             The pair statue of Ptahkhenuwy and his wife appears to be a freestanding sculpture dating back to the Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty (2465-2323 B.C.E.).  As seen on the statue, the colors appear to be rather muted except for intricate detail on the jewelry that is adorned by the wife. It is also important...
Oct 6th
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Proposition of Fact, Reduced Drinking Age
          Proposition of Fact: Reduced Drinking Age           Parker Catalano pcatalan@umail.iu.edu       Argumentation and Public Advocacy, CMCL C228 16668 Professor Brian Scott Amsdem September 10, 2012                   On Sunday, August 5, 2012, Carmel High School student Brett Finbloom died of alcohol poisoning while at a summer party, days before the start of college. The individual...
Oct 6th
May 2012
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Critique; "Hype"
Parker Catalano Mrs. Satchwell ACP W131 13 October 2011 A Critique on Kalle Lasn’s “Hype”             Dogmatically citing numerous examples of advertising and its respective corrosive effect on the minds of nearly every American citizen from waking till slumber, Kalle Lasn biasedly assaults corporate advertising and its flood of psycho-effluence through use of emotionally-charged arguments,...
May 21st
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Analytical Summary; The Man Who Couldn't Stop...
  Parker Catalano Mrs. Satchwell ACP W131 3 October 2011 Road to Weight Loss, a Matter of Willpower             In his article, “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Eating,” MacArthur Fellowship recipient and Harvard Medical School professor Atul Gawande sheds light upon a growing epidemic of obesity, with willpower – not surgery – as the solution to a thinner society.             Gawande observes that, as...
May 21st
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Weighted Comparisons; The Killings
Parker Catalano Mrs. Satchwell, ACP L202 Microtheme #4 Weighted Comparisons 25 April 2012 Impulse, the Making of a Killer             Swindled into the radiation of violence and emotional crippling that accompanies the murder of young Frank Fowler creeps an unnatural question of a more bestial fashion, what creates a killer? Andre Dubus answers this rather dynamic question in “Killings,” where...
May 21st
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Microtheme #2 Hard Lessons
Parker Catalano Mrs. Satchwell Microtheme #2, ACP L202 2 March 2012 Stereotypes, the Convolution of Poverty and Wealth             Jimmy Santiago Baca presents and boldly debates the notion of the alienation of Mexican workers in his ruthlessly sarcastic poem, “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans.” The poet unravels a tangle of refrains to reveal an enormous truth: Mexicans are not taking...
May 21st
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Microtheme #1 Father Poems
Parker Catalano ACP L202, Satchwell Microtheme #1 9 February 2012 A  Contemplation on Abuse, is it there?             Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz” is an intricate piece of literature steaming with controversial, twisted imagery depicting the abuse of a young boy by a bumbling, drunken father. Entwined within the sixteen lines is a story that may be read from two polarized...
May 21st
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Trends Analysis: E-Commerce Shopping
Parker Catalano Mrs. Satchwell ACP W131 14 December 2011 Trend Analysis; the Future of Online Retailing With the age of information technology at our feet, the use of online retailing has peaked in recent years to demonstrate that consumers have begun to swap teeming stores for fast-paced acquisitions using revolutionary e-tailing technology. Global surveys piloted by The Nielsen Company...
May 10th
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Analytical Summary: Song of Solomon
Parker Catalano Genres of Literature, ACP L202 Mrs. Satchwell 28 March 2012 Enlightenment, the Birth of Character Inside the everyday tangles of existence, in a world painted with racism, escape, and destitution, Toni Morrison brings together the chronicle of a man whose life is given to him not only through the wealth of his upbringing, but in his drive for answers to a mythic family past....
May 9th
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and...”
– James Matthew Barrie, Sr.
May 8th
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Microtheme on Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You...
Parker Catalano Mrs. Satchwell, ACP L202 Microtheme #3A – The Journey 29 March 2012 Sexuality, the Vessel of Sin Woven into the twisted recounting of Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” stands a figure of possible demonic proportions; a man whose mere presence develops into an ominous pit of disgust within the belly of the protagonist, embellishing the...
May 8th
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