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    The passage discusses three topics related to tragic heroes, the protection of endangered species, and resisting conformity to artificial standards. For tragic heroes, they are often positioned between human and divine realms and their downfalls can destroy themselves and others. The passage then discusses how egrets in the US were nearly driven extinct due to hunting for feathers but were protected through conservation efforts. Finally, it discusses resisting conformity to standards imposed by authority figures that restrict self-expression and growth.

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    Topic Sentence Found On The BEGINNING

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    The passage discusses three topics related to tragic heroes, the protection of endangered species, and resisting conformity to artificial standards. For tragic heroes, they are often positioned between human and divine realms and their downfalls can destroy themselves and others. The passage then discusses how egrets in the US were nearly driven extinct due to hunting for feathers but were protected through conservation efforts. Finally, it discusses resisting conformity to standards imposed by authority figures that restrict self-expression and growth.

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    The passage discusses three topics related to tragic heroes, the protection of endangered species, and resisting conformity to artificial standards. For tragic heroes, they are often positioned between human and divine realms and their downfalls can destroy themselves and others. The passage then discusses how egrets in the US were nearly driven extinct due to hunting for feathers but were protected through conservation efforts. Finally, it discusses resisting conformity to standards imposed by authority figures that restrict self-expression and growth.

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    Topic Sentence Found On The BEGINNING

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    Salman Khan
    The passage discusses three topics related to tragic heroes, the protection of endangered species, and resisting conformity to artificial standards. For tragic heroes, they are often positioned between human and divine realms and their downfalls can destroy themselves and others. The passage then discusses how egrets in the US were nearly driven extinct due to hunting for feathers but were protected through conservation efforts. Finally, it discusses resisting conformity to standards imposed by authority figures that restrict self-expression and growth.

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    Topic sentence found on the BEGINNING :

    The tragic hero is typically on top of the wheel of fortune, half-way between
    human society on the ground and the something greater in the sky. Prometheus, Adam,
    and Christ hang between heaven and earth, between a world of paradisal freedom and a world
    of bondage. Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they
    seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more likely to be struck by
    lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of
    the divine lightning: Milton's Samson destroys the Philistine temple with himself, and Hamlet
    nearly exterminates the Danish court in his own fall.
    Topic sentence found on the MIDDLE:
    In colonial days, huge flocks of snowy egrets inhabited the coastal wetlands and marshes of the
    southeastern United States. In the 1800s, when fashion dictated fancy hats adorned with
    feathers, egrets and other birds were hunted for their plumage. By the late 1800s, egrets were
    almost extinct. In 1886, the newly formed National Audubon Society began a press campaign to
    shame feather wearers and end the practice. The campaign caught on, and gradually,
    attitudes changed; new laws followed. Government policies that protect animals from
    overharvesting are essential to keep species from the brink of extinction. Even when
    cultural standards change due to the efforts of individual groups (such as the National Audubon
    Society), laws and policy measures must follow to ensure that endangered populations remain
    protected. Since the 1800s, several important laws have been passed to protect a wide variety
    of species.
    Topic sentence found at the END:
    Sitting in my Ethics class today, I listened with growing anger to my professors attempt
    to separate moral from non-moral behavior. He seemed to feel it was his requirement to give me
    standards by which I could judge my actions. With my anger clearly intact, I drifted out of his
    class and back to a similar experience I had had in an English class in high school. Once again I
    found myself becoming furious with another teacher for inhibiting my writing and stifling my
    growth by applying artificial standards to my work. These standards coerced me into a trap of
    believing that, because I could not express myself as well as Thomas Hardy or William
    Shakespeare, I had nothing valuable to say. Even when studying the great writers, my teacher
    assumed that meanings were black and white and were interpreted the same by everyone. She
    approached writing as a biologist would dissect a frog: dismembering the animal to examine
    each separate organ and leaving across the table only scattered parts that held no resemblance
    to the original being. I can see that same dead frog on the backboard in my Ethics class, but this
    time I refuse to condone the killing. I will not allow the standards of the pseudo-authorities
    to dissect my thoughts and actions merely to have me conform to their conventions.
    Topic sentence found at and BEGINNING and at the END:
    The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has taken a brute-force approach to screening
    species for cancer-suppressing chemicals. NCI scientists receive frozen samples of
    organisms from around the world, chop them up, and separate them into a number of extracts,
    each probably containing hundreds of components. These extracts are tested against up to 60
    different types of cancer cells for their efficacy in stopping or slowing growth of the cancer.
    Promising extracts are then further analyzed to determine their chemical nature, and chemicals
    in the extract are tested singly to find the effective compound. This approach is often referred
    to as the grind em and find em strategy.

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