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In Hallwards Ted Talk, Hallward talks about reducing the power of shame with an interesting example from the LGBTQ community. She suggests that supporting marriage equality in the USA is like a domino effect throughout the states. Hallward interestingly ties this domino effect to shame by claiming, “It feeds right back to the sources of external shame, and it begins to reduce their power.” In Massachusetts, marriage equality has been the law for ten years. Because of this, the rate of teen suicide in LGBTQ teens has been cut in half. She then goes on to explain that shame is what is the center of our suffering. If we go towards the shame, we can start to heal from it. Sharing our shameful stories can especially help heal yourself and others who went through the same thing. Hallward believes that sharing our stories can be a force of social change. Hallward states, “I think that telling our vulnerable silence stories is like a form of nonviolent social change and it can be unstoppable.” 

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Responding to the larger conversation with the thesis is what a writer needs to do. Very early in the discussion the writer needs to explains what they are responding to in order to keep the reader engaged. There are many other powerful ways to begin writing like revealing a fact or statistic.

Reminding the reader about the claims you’re responding to can help them follow along better. The templates in the book can provide a good way to perform a common moves with writing. They challenge the widely accepted belief and analyze it.

In The New Civil Rights, according to Yoshino, the False Self and the True Self both exist in a person. The True Self is who a person truly is on the inside and the False Self balances the personality. By forcing the melting pot theory, many immigrants are pressures to tone down their practices. In doing this, the immigrants are covering some of their True Self. Yoshino also talks about freedom as a concept. He claims that its more important than the individual freedoms of a particular group.

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