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Analysis Of When Dna Is Not Destiny By Sharon Begley

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The article is “When DNA Is Not Destiny” by Sharon Begley appeared in the Newsweek on December 1, 2008. Begley is a professional science writer who was born in the United States and graduated from Yale University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977. The article discussed whether people should consist the belief of personality is immutable and decided by the genes that we born with. In the article, Begley begins by refuting Wilde’s argument that personality traits are decided at birth and plays a main role throughout one’s life that is constant and unchangeable. She grabbed reader’s attention by using a rhetorical question to imply her idea that personality could possibly change under the influence of other factors. To confirm

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