Summary Of The Essay 'The Damned Human Race'

The essays “The ‘Values’ Wasteland” by Charles Sykes, “The Damned Human Race” by Mark Twain and “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are examples of three different argumentative writing styles. According to our textbook The Little, Brown Handbook, there are three elements that create an effective argumentative essay and those elements are 1) claims, 2) evidence and 3) assumptions (Fowler & Aaron, 2012, p. 186). Not to mention, knowing a writer’s audition and using reasoning to reach that audition creates an effective argumentative essay. With that being said all three of the essays listed above does a great job with elements used to creating and effective argumentative essay. To create a strong essay, like the essays listed above, critical thinking is necessary to establish an effective such as having a targeted audience, well-developed evidence and a strong opinion. Charles Sykes wrote “The ‘Values’ Wasteland” in which his target based audience was adults who interact with children such as parents and teachers. In Sykes’s essay, he suggested that young people today do not have the values as we used too. In this essay, Sykes’s used research conductive by Josephson Institute for Ethics as his supporting evidence. Sykes critical thinking skills had to determine if this source was …show more content…
Twain states in his essay that humans are fueled by greed and status. Twain conducted experiments at the London Zoological Gardens to support his claim. Twain’s claim is that humans unlike animals take items such as food in quantity based on how much they can take not based on how much they need. The evidence that supported the claim is the experiments done by Twain. The assumption made from this essay is humans are affected by greed unlike animals that will only eat based on what they need (Twain,