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DO NOT THINK ABOUT the words you are reading when doing these drills. All I want you to do is read with your only goal tosay the words that are written down without worrying about comprehension. a!e sure you ha"e some water handy when

you do these drills and ma!e sure you do each step immediately a#ter the step be#ore it. A$$ %&ADIN' I( A$OUD)))

*. +arm up by reading through the tongue twisters aloud as #ast as you can read. %ead through twice.,. -or / seconds put a pen in your mouth 0the pen should be held in the mouth by your bac! teeth1 ma!e sure you still

enunciate.2 Try to 33spea! through the pen33 i# you seem to be ha"ing di##iculty reading. -or this / seconds read #rom thesection Horrible +riting.4. -or one minute read through the Horrible +riting section as #ast as you can.. -or / seconds alternate 3Aah5s3 between each word as you read straight through the Horrible +riting section. /

seconds6 0e76 3I aah a##irm aah that aah resol"ed aah.32/. -or one minute read #ull speed through the Debate Argument section. 0Only read the bold and underlined sections.2

8. -or / seconds read bac!wards in the Debate Argument section. 0(tart #rom the end 1 read words normally1 but sentencesbac!wards. 0e76 33A##irm I There#ore Un9ust Is :onscription ilitary32 0Only read the bold and underlined sections.2

;. -or one minute read #ull speed through the Debate Argument section. 0Only read the bold and underlined sections.2. -or one minute read #ull speed through the Debate Argument section. 0Only read the bold and underlined sections.2*?. -or 4? seconds repeat the sounds ahh@bahh@dee o"er and o"er as =uic!ly as possible.

**. -or 4? seconds read #ull speed through the Debate Argument section. -INI(H (T%ON'))) 0Only read the bold andunderlined sections.2


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Tongue Twisters

Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, It would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter, That would make my batter better." So she bought a bit of butter – Better than her bitter butter – And she baked it in her batter; And the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter.

ed ott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than ott. Some say ott was not shot. But Shott sayshe shot ott. !ither the shot Shott shot at ott was not shot, r ott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot ott, ott wasshot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, Then Shott was shot, not ott. #owe$er, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, butott.

A tree%toad lo$ed a she%toad &ho li$ed u in a tree. #e was a two%toed tree%toad, But a three%toed toad was she. The two%toed tree%toad tried to win The three%toed she%toad's heart, (or the two%toed tree%toad lo$ed the ground That the three%toed tree%toad trod. But the two%toed tree%toad tried in $ain; #e )ouldn't lease her whim. (rom her tree%toad bower, &ithher three%toed ower, The she%toad $etoed him.

*r. See owned a saw. And *r. Soar owned a seesaw. ow, See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw Before Soar saw See, &hi)hmade Soar sore. #ad Soar seen See's saw Before See sawed Soar's seesaw, See's saw would not ha$e sawed Soar's seesawSo See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw. But it was sad to see Soar so sore +ust be)ause See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.


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Horrible Writing

Butler 97The mo$e from a stru)turalist a))ount in whi)h )aital is understood to stru)ture so)ial relations in relati$ely homologous

ways to a $iew of hegemony in whi)h ower relations are sub+e)t to reetition, )on$ergen)e, and rearti)ulation brought theuestion of temorality into the thinking of stru)ture, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takesstru)tural totalities as theoreti)al ob+e)ts to one in whi)h the insights into the )ontingent ossibility of stru)ture

inaugurate a renewed )on)etion of hegemony as bound u with the )ontingent sites and strategies of the rearti)ulation ofower.

Bhabha 94If, for a while, the ruse of desire is )al)ulable for the uses of dis)iline soon the reetition of guilt, +ustifi)ation, seudo%s)ientifi) theories, suerstition, surious authorities, and )lassifi)ations )an be seen as the deserate effort to "normalise"formally the disturban)e of a dis)ourse of slitting that $iolates the rational, enlightened )laims of its enun)iatorymodality.

Levine 96 As my story is an august tale of fathers and sons, real and imagined, the biograhy here will fitfully attend to the utati$etra)es in *anet's work of 'les noms du r-, a a)anian roman)e of the errant aternal hallus /'es on%dues errent'0, are$ised (reudian no$ella of the inferential dynami) of aternity whi)h annihalates /and hen)e en)ulturates0 through the

deferred introdu)tion of the third term of insemination the henomeno%logi)ally irredu)ible dyad of the mother and )hild.

Leahy 96Total resen)e breaks on the uni$o)al redi)ation of the e1terior absolute the absolute e1istent /of that of whi)h it is notossible to uni$o)ally redi)ate an outside, while the eui$o)al redi)ation of the outside of the absolute e1terior isossible of that of whi)h the reality so redi)ated is not the reality, $i2., of the dark3of the self, the identity of whi)h is notoutside the absolute identity of the outside, whi)h is to say that the eui$o)al redi)ation of identity is ossible of the self%identity whi)h is not identity, while identity is uni$o)ally redi)ated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the realityof the self0. This is the real e1teriority of the absolute outside4 the reality of the absolutely un)onditioned absolute outsideuni$o)ally redi)ated of the dark4 the light uni$o)ally redi)ated of the darkness4 the shining of the light uni$o)allyredi)ated of the limit of the darkness4 a)tuality uni$o)ally redi)ated of the other of self%identity4 e1isten)e uni$o)allyredi)ated of the absolutely un)onditioned other of the self. The re)ision of the shining of the light breaking the dark isthe other%identity of the light. The re)ision of the absolutely minimum trans)enden)e of the dark is the light itself3the

absolutely un)onditioned e1teriority of e1isten)e for the first time3the absolutely fa)ial identity of e1isten)e3theroortion of the new )reation sans deth3the light itself e1 nihilo4 the dark itself uni$o)ally identified, i.e., not self%identity identity itself eui$o)ally, not the dark itself eui$o)ally, in 5self%alienation,6 not 5self%identity, itself in self%alienation6 5released6 in and by 5otherness,6 and 5a)tual other,6 5itself,6 not the abysmal in$ersion of the light, the realityof the darkness eui$o)ally, absolute identity eui$o)ally redi)ated of the self3selfhood eui$o)ally redi)ated of the dark/the reality of this darkness the other%self%)o$ering of identity whi)h is the identifi)ation erson%self0.


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Debate Argument

Elections DA

Obama will win, but itll be !lose"mo#els $rove%oliti!al Wire &'(4 /A 7oliti)al ews Blog )iting Alan Abramowit2, an !mory 8ni$ersity rofessor and author of The Polarized Public? Why American Government is So Dysfunctional , 5*odels (ore)ast a arrow bama 9i)toryhtt433oliti)alwire.)om3ar)hi$es3:3model?fore)asts?a?narrow?obama?$i)tory.html0

Alan Abramowit2 lugs the latest aro$al and @7 growth numbers into his residential fore)asting model and finds 7resident bamais e1e)ted to win re%ele)tion by a $ery narrow share of the two%arty $ote. "&hether we base our redi)tion on 7resident bama's >Caro$al rating in the @allu 7oll in early *ay or a more sohisti)ated fore)asting model in)ororating e)onomi) )onditions and the 'time for )hange'

fa)tor, it aears likely that we are headed for a $ery )lose ele)tion in o$ember. Both models make bama a slight fa$oriteto win a se)ond term. #owe$er, the final out)ome will deend on the a)tual erforman)e of the e)onomy and the ubli)'se$aluation of the resident's +ob erforman)e in the months ahead . Those interested in assessing where the residential ra)e standsshould fo)us on these two indi)ators rather than the day%to%day e$ents of the )amaign, whi)h tend to dominate media )o$erage of the ele)tion."

)$e!i*i!ally, Obama is winning swing state in#e$en#ents, but new government s$en#ing !auses ba!+lash

alston &'-. /&alliam A., !2ra Dilkha Ehair in the Brookings InstitutionFs @o$ernan)e Studies 7rogram, where he ser$es as a senior fellow. Aformer oli)y ad$isor to 7resident Elinton 5Si1 *onths To @o4 &here the 7residential Eontest Stands as the @eneral !le)tion Begins6 =3: er)ent ad$antage. >K It is hard to see how bama )an win a ma+ority of the oular $ote unless he rebuilds his standingamong Indeendents. But it is not )lear his )urrent strategy is the one best )al)ulated to bring about this result. Indeendents )are moreabout e)onomi) growth and eual oortunity than they do about redu)ing gas in wealth and in)ome . &hile half of them belie$e that the 8.S. e)onomi) system is unfair, = er)ent think that they themsel$es ha$e been treated fairly. 7erhas that is why only > er)ent thinkthat in)ome and wealth gas need to be fi1ed through ubli) oli)y. >P A re)ent reort = found bama statisti)ally tied with Homney among

Indeendents in swing states, with ON er)ent of these Indeendents u for grabs. Among these 5Swing Indeendents,6 bama now en+oysa lead of >> to OK er)ent. But there are some warning signs. These $oters are slit on bamaFs e)onomi) management, and they strongly referHeubli)ans both on the budget defi)it and go$ernment sending, issues of great )on)ern to them. And a))ording to the reort

they are not mu)h mo$ed by the fairness argument. By = to OK er)ent, they said it was more imortant to fi1 the budget defi)it than to redu)e thein)ome ga. A luralityL>: er)entLthought that redu)ing the budget defi)it was the single most effe)ti$e way ostrengthening the e)onomy . (or this key grou, the themes of growth and oortunity trum both the )onser$ati$e fo)us on e)onomi) freedomand the liberal emhasis on e)onomi) ineuality. They are most worried about the national debt /N> er)ent0, )ongressionalgridlo)k /== er)ent0, and the ability of the ne1t generation to a)hie$e the Ameri)an dream /> er)ent0. And they are mu)h angrier about thefailure of Eongress to address our roblems than they are about &all Street bailouts or the suggestion that the wealthy donFt ay their fair share of ta1es.

/n*rastru!ture investment 0OW is un$o$ular"Ameri!ans unwilling to $ay Al#en 6'-4" Bernard . S)hwart2 Senior (ellow at the Eoun)il on (oreign Helations, /!dward, 5The (irst Henewing Ameri)a 7rogress Heort andS)ore)ard4 The Hoad to owhere6 N33


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/n#e$en#ents will blame Obama1esurgent 1e$ubli! -- /a))ording to a oll by Hesurgent Heubli), 59T!HS B!I!9! A*!HIEA IS &HS! (( T#A ! BA*AT ((IE!6


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nu)lear )onfli)t )ould e$en lead to Hussia's and Israel's in$ol$ement using nu)lear weaons. In a best%)ase s)enario,the 8.S. will destroy all nu)lear, )hemi)al, and missile fa)ilities in Iran with )on$entional and low%yield nu)lear weaons in a lightning surriseatta)k, and Iran will be araly2ed and de)ide not to retaliate for fear of a $astly more de$astating nu)lear atta)k. In the short term, the 8.S. willsu))eed, lea$ing no Iranian nu)lear rogram, )i$ilian or otherwise. Iran will no longer threaten Israel, a regime )hange will ensue, and a ro%&estern

go$ernment will emerge. #owe$er, e$en in the best%)ase s)enario, the long%term )onseuen)es are dire. The nu)lear threshold will ha$e been )rossed by a nu)lear suerower against a non%nu)lear )ountry. *any more )ountries will rush to get theirown nu)lear weaons as a deterrent. &ith no taboo against the use of nu)lear weaons, they will )ertainly beused again. u)lear )onfli)ts will o))ur within the ne1t

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