Influence

My parents are huge influences to me. They both work really hard at their jobs and are just down to earth good people. Without my parents in my life I wouldn't be the person I am today.

The main thesis statment that the author has is that debate/arguements have a negative effect on out culture. The writer is writing to the American public and he is trying to get them to change the way we are brought up in school by arguing. In the writing the auther uses examples of philosopher Janice Moulton and examples of English professor Peter Elbow.

School Type

I think my school was a middle-class school. They were a few extremely well off people in my school and they made up probably 5%-10% of the school but for the most part the school was basically made up of the middle class, which was close to 60%-80%. Everyone had the pretty much same income through their parents, who all had middle class white collar jobs. Their were a select few who had very little money and that group probably lied second in numbers.