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Arguments of Definition
A student writes a cookbook for her master’s thesis, hoping to make it easier for people to eat good, healthy food for less money. Her work helps redefine current definitions of thesis.
A panel of judges must decide whether computer-enhanced images will be eligible in a contest for landscape photography. At what point is an electronically manipulated image no longer a photograph?
A conservative student group accuses the student government on campus of sponsoring a lecture series featuring a disproportionate number of “left-wing” writers and celebrities. A spokesperson for the student government defends its program by questioning the definition of left-wing used to classify some of the speakers.