Paraphrase each of the following short excerpts and include the appropriate parenthetical documentation. Use a signal phrase in each of the excerpts you paraphrase.

Question

• “Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.” (from You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, by Deborah Tannen, page 26)

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• “Most Americans eat great quantities of food frequently, based on convenience. In fact, the entire fast-food and TV dinner industries have flourished due to our fast-paced lifestyles that demand we eat ‘convenient’ foods.” (from The Maker’s Diet, by Jordan S. Rubin, page 31)

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• “The increase in storm intensity in recent years has been tracked by the insurance industry which has been hit hard by recent disasters. Until the mid-1980s, it was widely thought that windstorms or hurricanes with insured losses exceeding one billion (thousand million) U.S.
dollars were only possible, if at all, in the United States.” (from Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, by John Houghton, page 4)

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• “Indeed your chances of really getting where you want to go in life often hinge on your reaction to some shattering setback. Will you give up or will you keep on trying? It’s as simple as that. And what you decide, decides your future.” (from You Can If You Think You Can, by Norman Vincent Peale, page 4)

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• “Despite the obstacles, some Americans manage to become financially independent each year without the state lottery, casinos, a big inheritance, or a successful business or invention. How? The answer, quite simply, is planning.” (from Saving on a Shoestring: How to Cut Expenses Reduce Debt and Stash More Cash, by Barbara O’Neill, page 11)

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Answer 1

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• Schjeldahl, Peter. “In with the New: Cubism at the Metropolitan Museum.” The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2014, pp. 78–79.
• Malkin, Elisabeth. “Mexico Arrests Ex-Chief of Antidrug Agency.” The New York Times, 22 Nov. 2008, A6.
• Lvovich, Natasha. “Sister in Russian, Cousin in English.” The New England Review, vol. 35, no. 5, 2014, pp.114–125.
• Adams, H. L., & Williams, L. R. (2011). Advice from teens to teens about dating: Implications for healthy relationships. Children and Youth Services Review, 33(2), 254–264. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.
• Kohn, A. (2006). The homework myth: Why our kids get too much of a bad thing (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.