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Title: Icebreakers


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Icebreakers!
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What is an Icebreaker Fact?
  • Should do one of the following
  • Define the controversy
  • Provide a shocking statistic
  • Provide necessary background to clarify the
    controversy

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What does the icebreaker achieve?
  • "In 2008 alone, nearly 300,000 teens underwent
    aesthetic plastic surgery," said Dr. Frederick N.
    Lukash, a board-certified plastic surgeon in New
    York and the spokesman for the American Society
    of Plastic Surgeons

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  • A 1995 survey of police chiefs, for example,
    ranked the death penalty last among the ways to
    reduce violent crimes.

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Rewriting the Fact for Intro
  • A recent undercover investigation of online
    firearms dealers by the city of New York found
    that 62 percent of private gun sellers agreed to
    sell a firearm to a buyer who said he probably
    could not pass a background check, according to
    Daniel Webster, director of the Center for Gun
    Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University.

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Add a prefacereword and eliminate when necessary!
  • A recent investigation by Daniel Webster,
    director of the Center for Gun Policy and
    Research at Johns Hopkins University, revealed
    that "found that 62 percent of private gun
    sellers in New York City agreed to sell a
    firearm to a buyer who said he probably could not
    pass a background check."
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