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HIRE QUALIFIED ACADEMIC WRITERS 

Read the story on page 873 Soraya Chemaly: What’s Really Important about “Trigger Warnings”Answer the following questions in a word documentComprehension1. Chemaly claims that arguments about trigger warnings are proxies for discussions of “deeper problems” (1). What are these problems?3. Chemaly writes that our sense of empathy is “informed by epistemology, status, and stereotypes” (5). What does epistemology mean? How is this term related to empathy?4. According to Chemaly, “the idea that any trigger warnings constitute censorship is not only incorrect but also definitively misleading” (8). Why?5. What are trigger warnings fundamentally “about”? Do you agree or disagree with Chemaly’s point?Purpose and Audience2. Where does Chemaly address opposing arguments? How effectively does she refute them?3. Does Chemaly make concessions to those with opposing points of view? If so, how do these concessions affect your view of her argument?Style and Structure1. Chemaly begins her argument by mentioning Jennifer Medina’s essay “Warning: The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm.” Why do you think Chemaly begins this way?3. How does Chemaly use cause-and-effect in her essay? Point to specific examples.4. Vocabulary Project. In paragraph 1, Chemaly says, “Conversations about trigger warnings, however, seem more and more like superficial proxies for ones about deeper problems on campuses regarding diversity, equality, the corporatization of education, and, the dreaded word, privilege.” What is a proxy? Where else in the essay does Chemaly use this term? In each instance, what point is she trying to make?5. In paragraph 13, Chemaly says, “Those most inclined to resist on the basis of ‘censorship’ appear to frequently be the same people who take their free speech and autonomy for granted and their truth as normative and universal.” Does she provide enough evidence to support this generalization? Explain.