Honor Dead Racists

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Hikmet Demir
English 1302
01/25/2018
Jacquelyn Harrah In-Class #1 1.)In the essay “Should We Rename Institutions that Honor Dead Racists?,” Rini argues that people rename things all the time. Name one example that she uses? -She gives example of renaming Mount Diablo and she gives reason that Government rules disallow naming a geographic development after 'a living individual, f 'Mount Reagan', was unsuccessful, however this has not halted the Mount Reagan Task from questing after another top to rechristen that shows changing name depends on person name can call bad thing such as Satan. 2.) In Daniel Orozco’s short story “Orientation,” some readers may come to believe that his narrator is unreliable. Why might someone come to this

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