Describe scene unfavorably using negatively connoted words

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Application - Construct your own sentences and arguments

To practice shifting your view and understanding tone pick one (1) scene below and give two (2) short descriptions of it (a few sentences is a short description): one should use words with positive connotations to describe the scene favorably and the other should describe the scene unfavorably using negatively connoted words.

Describe a wet street after the rain.

Describe a college or professional sporting event.

Characterize a challenging high school class.

Describe a recent movie or television program.

The following is a brief summary of an actual US Supreme Court case where definitions played a crucial role in the decision. If you were a judge, which justice would you agree with and why? Write a short argument (a two or three paragraphs) arguing for one side. Be sure to include a concrete discussion of the meaning of the word at issue, but you may include other arguments as well. Also be sure to argue not only why you are right but why the other side is wrong. (20 points)

Muscarello v. United States (96-1654), 524 US 125 (1998)

Muscarello was traveling in a car with a gun in a locked glove compartment when arrested on drug charges. The law under which Muscarello was charged provides for a mandatory minimum sentence-in this case of five-years-if a gun was carried in a drug-related crime than if no gun was involved. Justice Stephen Breyer argued that "carry" is intended in this law in its ordinary and everyday meaning, without artificial limitation that it be immediately assessable. Quoting Robinson Crusoe and Moby Dick, he pointed to common use of "carry" to mean "convey in a vehicle." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was unpersuaded by the content and sources of Breyer's argument and instead quoted Rudyard Kipling, "M*A*S*H" and Teddy Roosevelt's famous line: "Walk softly and carry a big stick" to show that "carry" is properly understood to mean "the gun at hand, ready for use as a weapon."

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