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History does seem to repeat itself, even in the way college students behave. In the 1840s students protested and acted in violent ways. Students at Yale, for example, objected to their mathematics course and burned their books in the streets. Some captured their tutor and kept him tied up all night, and others shot a cannon through tutor’s bedroom window. In the 1940s and 1950s students were a fun-loving, game-happy lot. They swallowed live goldfish, took part in dance marathons, and held contests to see how many people could crowd into phone booth. The more daring males broke into women’s rooms in “panty-raids,” then festooned their own rooms with the ill-gotten silks. Then, in the 1960s, students repeated the activities of the 1840s. They objected to their courses, littered the campuses with their books and papers, and locked teachers inside college buildings. They protested against all forms of social injustice, from war to the food in the cafeteria. The more violent threw rocks at the police, and a few planted bombs in college buildings. In the 1970s students repeated the fun and games of the forties and fifties. They held contests to see how many people could squeeze into a phone booth. They had dance marathons. The more daring ran naked across campuses, in a craze called “streaking”. The slightly less daring did their streaking with brown paper bags over their heads. Yes, history does seem to repeat itself, even in the sometimes violent and sometimes fun-and-games behavior of the students on college campuses.

Topic Sentence	History does seem to repeat itself, even in the way college students behave.
1. Main Point	In the 1840s students protested and acted in violent ways.
a. Supporting detail	Students at Yale, for example, objected to their mathematics course
b. Supporting detail	and burned their books in the streets.
c. Supporting detail	Some captured their tutor and
d. Supporting detail	kept him tied up all night, and
e. Supporting detail	others shot a cannon through tutor’s bedroom window.
2. Main Point	In the 1940s and 1950s students were a fun-loving, game-happy lot.
a. Supporting detail	They swallowed live goldfish,
b. Supporting detail	took part in dance marathons, and
c. Supporting detail	held contests to see how many people could crowd into a phone booth.
d. Supporting detail	The more daring males broke into women’s rooms in “panty-raids,”
e. Supporting detail	then festooned their own rooms with the ill-gotten silks.
3. Main Point	Then, in the 1960s, students repeated the activities of the 1840s.
a. Supporting detail	They objected to their courses,
b. Supporting detail	littered the campuses with their books and papers, and
c. Supporting detail	locked teachers inside college buildings.
d. Supporting detail	They protested against all forms of social injustice, from war to the food in the cafeteria.
e. Supporting detail	The more violent threw rocks at the police
f. Supporting detail	and a few planted bombs in college buildings.
4. Main Point	In the 1970s students repeated the the fun and games of the forties and fifties.
a. Supporting detail	They held contests to see how many people could squeeze into a phone booth.
b. Supporting detail	They had dance marathons.
c. Supporting detail	The more daring ran naked across campuses, in a craze called “streaking”. The slightly less daring did their streaking with brown paper bags over their heads.
Concluding Sentence	Yes, history does seem to repeat itself, even in the sometimes violent and sometimes fun-and-games behavior of the students on college campuses.

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