9th grade english honors
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Additional reading material:

1. Texas cheerleader fires back at critics of her big game-hunting pictures
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cheerleader-defends-big-game-hunting-pictures-article-1.1853247

2. Texas cheerleader, big game hunter shrugs off critics
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/02/texas-cheerleader-big-game-hunter-facebook-critics-backlash/12012007/

3.  In defense of Texas huntress and conservationist Kendall Jones http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-kendall-jones-texas-hunter-cheerleader-20140716-story.html

4. What is the value of a human life?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90760725

5. The value of a human life $129,000
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1808049,00.html

6. China: Death Row Provides Most Organ Donors
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32563370/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/china-death-row-provides-most-organ-#.VBkZWv3IQds

7. A life's value may depend on the agency, but it's rising
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/business/economy/17regulation.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1
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