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1. At what point did you know that this piece is satirical? What was the giveaway?

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   Questions: - At what point did you know that this piece is satirical? What was the giveaway?
2. What aspects of American society is Stephen H. Webb criticizing through the lens of his jeremiad against soccer?

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   Questions: - What aspects of American society is Stephen H. Webb criticizing through the lens of his jeremiad against soccer?
3. The Web site First Things is published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, “an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.” What particular part of that audience do you think Webb is addressing? Explain your answer.

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   Questions: - The Web site First Things is published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life, “an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.” What particular part of that audience do you think Webb is addressing? Explain your answer.
4. What aspects of this piece fit the definition of a jeremiad? What aspects do not? Do you think Webb has the right to call it a jeremiad? Explain your answer.

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   Questions: - What aspects of this piece fit the definition of a jeremiad? What aspects do not? Do you think Webb has the right to call it a jeremiad? Explain your answer.
5. Why do you think Webb ends his piece by noting that he and his kids “come home from a soccer game a very happy family”? How does that ending reinforce—or contradict—Webb’s jeremiad against soccer?

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   Questions: - Why do you think Webb ends his piece by noting that he and his kids “come home from a soccer game a very happy family”? How does that ending reinforce—or contradict—Webb’s jeremiad against soccer?