Driving a Point Home: Meadow Soprano Vs. the Snow Queen

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make these jokes. People thought I was a bit of a wet blanket, but they did tone it down around me and I hope that thought twice before making those jokes in front of Donna even if I wasn't there.
I couldn't do anything about what Donna heard on television, though. The more I started listening for these kinds of messages, the more I seemed to hear on the shows we watched at night. It's no surprise to see this on sit-coms, but even shows that seem to be a bit more sophisticated often convey the same damaging image, if more subtly. I was recently watching an old episode of The Sopranos, the men all seemed to be competent drivers, even under duress, but the one time we see a woman drive, it is young Meadow Soprano, stealing her boyfriend's car keys on a tipsy whim and then driving it right into a ditch. ("Save Us All.") She then throws herself sobbing into Jackie Junior's arms. Jackie and his friends, however, seem to arrive at and escape even their most ill-conceived, ...

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paper the first time you do it. Have one good one that you keep as a model and then copy it each time and just put in the new text. If you irrevocably confused, you can always go back to this one again. Don't forget to change the date.
The whole essay should be double-spaced. Sometimes there's a temptation to put extra line spaces between things, but this is actually never necessary. In Microsoft Word, the short cut is Control-A to select all the text, and then Ctrl-2 to double-space it.
Use one-inch margins top and bottom, left and right. In Microsoft Word you do this go going to the File menu, selecting Page Setup, and then under the Margins tab make sure it says 1" next to Top, ...

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