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| Ideology: | Liberal | Education: | High School | |
| Party: | Democratic Party | Ethnicity: | Asian | |
| Relationship: | Single | Income: | Not Saying | |
| Interested: | in Women | Occupation: | Student | |
| Looking: | Friendship, Networking | Religion: | Agnostic |
| About Me: | I have a strong interest in writing and language. I play the trumpet in my high school's marching band. I am Asian. I own a blog. I live in an upper-middle class suburbia. I am on this site to learn and to have fun. |
| Activities: | Band, Internet, Music, Reading, Writing |
| Beliefs: | I think big business and greed are ultimately detrimental. I firmly believe in the concept of the global community, and dislike nationalism. I think belief in any objective moral truth is dangerous and destructive. I am an environmentalist. I do not prescribe to any religion, but I consider myself spiritual, insofar as I can be spiritual in a rational sort of way. |
| Books: | Atonement, by Ian McEwan; Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller; The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris; Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace |
| Movies: | Art School Confidential, Forrest Gump, Groundhog Day, House of Games, In Brouge, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Shawshank Redemption, Up in the Air |
| TV Shows: | Boston Legal, Glee, House, The Simpsons, The West Wing |
| High School: | Temple City High, Class of 2011
Temple City, California, United States
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Prescriptive Grammar does more harm than good
I would like to thank PoeJoe for accepting this debate, as it is something I have been looking forward to debating for some time; it appears I have found a worthy opponent. To start, I shall attempt to make it clear what I mean by prescriptive grammar as opposed to other types. A prescriptive grammar is a set of rules detailing how someone (whoever made those rules) thinks a language should be used, whereas a descriptive grammar is simply a codification of how a language is actually used by...
Kleptin Tournament: Abortion
Thank you, PoeJoe, for participation in this tournament and for gladly accepting my debate challenge! This is a special debate for Kleptin's special debate tourney: http://www.debate.org/forums/debate.org/topic/5050/ The debate this is based off of is: http://www.debate.org/debates/abortion/10/ Voting rules: "The categories give you 7 points to play with. The contender will always be the one trying to defeat his or her old arguments. "Use the 7 points to show how well t...
The Relative Pronouns "That" and "Which"
I strongly affirm the resolution "that the relative pronouns 'that' and 'which' are entirely interchangeable," and thank my opponent for engaging with me in this delightful debate. Note well that this debate does not directly concern conjunctions, pronouns, or determiners. In this debate, we are merely discussing the uses of "that" and "which" as relative pronouns. For those in the audience not familiar with what a "relative pronoun" is, I recommend this webpage: http://englishplus.com/grammar/0...
The Pronoun "Yall"
I strongly affirm the resolution "that the pronoun 'yall' should be considered acceptable in modern American English," and thank my opponent for engaging with me in this truly controversial and taboo subject. Let's begin. Nowadays, the word "you" can be used for at least three main purposes: 1) Increasingly, even among professional writers and journalists, it is becoming acceptable to use "you" as an indefinite pronoun (e.g. to be emotionally happy, you have to be spiritually happy as w...
Pedophilia
---- Full Resolution ---- Society should take steps to more accept pedophiles. ---- Introduction ---- + I would like to thank my opponent for joining me in this debate, and I would like to thank the audience for taking the time to read this. Thank you. + I request that the audience please not give either side any sources, arguments, counterarguments, and that the audience please wait to do this after the debate has concluded. + I believe the definitions are straight forward. I don...
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| Debates: | 42 |
| Lost: | 10 |
| Tied: | 0 |
| Won: | 32 |
| Win Ratio: | 76.19% |
| Percentile: | 99.17% |
| Elo Ranking: | 3,448 |
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| Forum Posts: | 3821 |
| Votes Cast: | 261 |
| Opinion Arguments: | 0 |
| Opinion Questions: | 0 |
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| • | Affirmative Action | |
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| • | Death Penalty | |
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| • | Estate Tax | |
| • | European Union | N/S |
| • | Euthanasia | |
| • | Federal Reserve | N/S |
| • | Flat Tax | |
| • | Free Trade | N/S |
| • | Gay Marriage | |
| • | Global Warming Exists | |
| • | Globalization | N/S |
| • | Gold Standard | N/S |
| • | Gun Rights | |
| • | Homeschooling | N/S |
| • | Internet Censorship | N/S |
| • | Iran-Iraq War | |
| • | Labor Union | |
| • | Legalized Prostitution | N/S |
| • | Medicaid & Medicare | |
| • | Medical Marijuana | |
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| • | National Health Care | |
| • | National Retail Sales Tax | |
| • | Occupy Movement | N/S |
| • | Progressive Tax | |
| • | Racial Profiling | |
| • | Redistribution | N/S |
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| • | Socialism | N/S |
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| • | Term Limits | |
| • | Torture | N/S |
| • | United Nations | |
| • | War in Afghanistan | |
| • | War on Terror | |
| • | Welfare |