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."