Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez is an undocumented immigrant who has been deported from the United States five times. In the summer of 2016 Mr. Sanchez shot and killed thirty-two year old Kathryn Steinle who was walking on Pier 14 in San Francisco with her father. In early September her parents filed a claim against the city of San Francisco and its federal officials. Months before in March, San Francisco sheriff Ross Mirkarmi informed jail staff that they would no longer disclose information about illegal immigrants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Mr. Sanchez had been released from jail in April even though the ICE had planned to take him into custody to deport him.…
“We honor our past because it shapes our future,” this is one of the many quotes that Otterbein University holds dearly. Otterbein University holds this value greatly. Otterbein gives equality to all students, faculty, and others since 1847. Before any women’s rights and the abolishment of slavery, Otterbein University allowed people of color and women to receive a fair and equal education. Otterbein University is a mid-sized college located in Westerville, Ohio.…
We are on this rollercoaster called life. It is not a smooth ride, but one with ups and downs. And it's a struggle because we are temporarily stopped by challenges. Different people face those in different ways. How do would you react to an obstacle?…
In this essay I will be comparing to sides of an argument pertaining to the expenses of universal healthcare in the United States. One written by a man named Greg Olear, and the other by an anonymous author. The first batch of arguments are for a universal healthcare system written by Greg Olear. His first argument says that this is in the Constitution, stating it is the job of the president, the Congress, and the Supreme Court to, above all, uphold the charges set forth in the Constitution.…
Didion sets the tone by connecting morality to the “air” of her uncomfortable environment. Didion’s position on morality is that “we have no way of knowing” about morality, about what is good, right, and correct and she challenges our own consciousness as well. While Didion claims that there are no universal standards of what is right or wrong are correct, I disagree when she says, “How many madmen have said it and meant it” and includes Jesus Christ in her examples of madmen. These statements are one-sided because, which is a major weakness to her argument. Didion informs the general public audience that she is in a very uncomfortable stage.…
Slade’s main argument is that mental health workers will need new approaches to assessment and treatment if the aim is enhancing well-being rather than treating illness. Well-being is becoming a key focus of international policy. In the same way that tertiary prevention is an important health advancement strategy, well-being is possible for people undergoing mental illness. He argued that assessment and treatment of the individual will need to change if the main aim is enhancing well-being instead of treating illness, and that there are also more difficulties for mental health professionals to become more vigilant in their view of their role, and to construct their job as more than working with individuals.…
From my assessment results, the outcome stated that I was in agreement with 10/13 questions. I was somewhat hesitant in reading the result, but was pleasantly surprise to see that it was completely different from what I thought the outcome was going to be, based on Machiavelli’s readings. After reading the results, I agreed where it states that no one thing is completely right or completely wrong, for an individual must be open to new thoughts; they should be able to see and take risk into that which is unfamiliar, or not favored, in-order to make possibilities a reality. Bedell, Huter, Angie & Vert (2006) stated that the Mach scale determines the extent to which respondents agree with Machiavelli's statements, on how a leader should act…
In order to avoid the awkward “please pass the potato salad” at Thanksgiving between you and your conservative cousin Carl, most people will avoid discussing politics altogether. For example, Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary, held interviews with pool reporters—in other words, conservative news outlets that aligned with his political leanings. This coincides with the claims made by Joseph E. Uscinski in his article Fake News Freakout, where he said, “People tended to avoid news they disagreed with—and when they nonetheless did encounter a message that they rejected, they found ways to discount it or to interpret it in a manner that made it congruent with their pre-existing opinions” (Uscinski, Fake News Freakout). With the First…
While reading Enrique’s Journey, the most prevalent concern that Enrique faced was the difficulty immigrating to the U.S-Mexico border. Towards the end, Enrique encountered the Rio Grande which separates the U.S. from Mexico and even then he was not allowed to pass. How can a land of immigrants later decide to deny the right to immigrate to the U.S.? The laws concerning the right to immigrate should be geared more towards protecting that right rather than infringing on it. While it is true that outsiders have tried to attack the U.S., that doesn’t mean we should deny people the opportunity to build a life for themselves and their families in America.…
In the end, Wente's editorial made for an enlightening read for some discussion and debate but missed her mark here in being able to convince the reader through any persuasive effort she may have had by imploring poor use of authority and enabling an irrational way of thinking. Wente's lack in understanding of what it means being a parent herself made her argument baseless and claims ever-more dubious. Discussions like this calls for a voice to reasoning, a voice in objection, and clarity, and, preferably, a voice of unparalleled firsthand account. Unfortunately for Wente she is not that voice.…
Before significant change in the Indigenous incarnation system, there needs to be a shift in the jurisdictional control of Indigenous affairs. There are many different Indigenous nation that exist in Canada with “diverse governmental traditions, territories and aspirations” (Hogg 192) James Tully’s argument for renegotiating treaty-federalist relations is a potentially viable solution of a multitude of nations that would remain flexible and accommodating unique governmental traditions. The problem with current relations are that Aboriginal peoples have been treated as though they are a part of the federal-provincial institutional structure and are subject to the laws and jurisdiction of Canadian authority. This is ahistorical and counter to…
Teenagers can be very goofy people. They are known to talk a lot with their friends and hang together in groups. They’re in love with their phones, talking and texting most of their time. Always loud and ignorant, they even start fights in public places. What adult wants be around teenagers who make a mess when they’re eating while playing their loud music?…
The “cyclical argument” of the Phaedo imparts the ideology Socrates had in regard to the immortality of the soul and his views about death, which he was about to face himself. Among a gathering of his most faithful followers, his friends are astonished that Socrates is not desolate about his ill fate, but rather, he is delighted with it. Socrates proclaims that the life of a philosopher is merely a preparation for death since the mind is most pure when the pressures of the body is felt least. He even informs them that he believes in the soul and the afterlife. After his friends vocalized their skepticism of his beliefs, he begins a discourse in which he attempts to prove the immortality of the soul.…
Attitude was mainly used to set the tone of the paper, but it was also used to describe his feelings about his situation. Pathos was used throughout the paper when he talked about his feelings to make the reader feel sorry for him. The last rhetorical device, person, was used throughout the paper, beings that it was written in first person. In the first part of Rodriguez’s writing, he used attitude, pathos, and person to catch the reader’s attention.…
James and Pascal’s defences of faith in some of their most famous arguments, specifically Pascal’s, devalue faith by making faith selfish, providing an obvious out to faith, and making the decision of faith into a gamble, oddly, his devaluation of faith does not hurt his argument, it makes it easier to convince the skeptics. To prove that Pascal’s argument devalues faith and to understand why it doesn’t negatively affect his argument, it’s necessary to understand the whole argument. His argument can be split into quite a few premises. He starts with the possibility of God, which is the main idea of his argument. Basically, it’s possible that God does exists, and it’s also possible that God does not exist, something nearly everyone agrees on.…