There has been a debate over photo identification when it comes to voting in the United States. In You Decide, we go over two individual’s point of view, Hans von Spakovsky and Shelia Jackson Lee. Spakovsky believes it protects the integrity of elections, while Lee believes it suppresses voter turnout. Hans von Spakovsky immediately defines his argument on photo identification by bullet pointing his reasons for supporting photo IDs, for example, he says it prevents “voting under fictitious voter registrations” and “double voting by individuals registered in more than one state or locality.” (Rourke, pg. 96)…
In "Why literature matters", Dana Gioia creates an argument on why reading matters by using logos. Gioia includes results from studies and facts about how literature effects our society now and will in the future. In paragraph one, Gioia states that "The interest young Americans showed in arts-and especially literature-actually diminished. " This helps Gioia come across to the reader as very knowledgeble on the topic. Logos is very helpful when trying to proswade someone to believe what you are saying.…
Filler,James. “Ascending from the Ashes: Images of Plato in Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.” Philosophy and Literature 38.2 (2014): 528-48. Print.…
In Dana Gioia’s article “ Why Literature Matters” Dana Gioia makes a claim that the amount of young Americans shown in art and literature has decreased tremendously. To support Dana Gioia’s claim he does surveys and quotations from famous authors. Dana Gioia’s purpose in writing this article is to grab the attention of young Americans and change their thoughts about art and literature. Dana Gioia is helping young Americans understand how important it is to read.…
For this week’s lab there were two readings. The first was “Hamilton's rule and kin competition: the Kipsigis case” by Monique Borgerhoff Mulder. The second reading was “To give and to give not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers” by Michael Gurven. The first reading, discussed how nepotism is shown more often when animals have more resources. This makes sense because if you have no resources, then you have nothing to give through nepotism.…
As the author goes on throughout this article, he begins with basically stating that prison for poor people, and more specifically, poor black men, is just their ordinary life. He then compares this to privileged white men in college. Then he continues on the mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today, where he then states or tries to relate it to the slavery fundamentals from 1850. The author states that there is now over six million people under “correctional supervision” in America. The estimated amount of people in these facilities is just as startling as the people already in there.…
In the magazine article, the author uses specific diction, imagery and personification to convey a shifting mood from a celebratory reunion with his constantly changing hometown to a reflective and disappointed remembrance, but eventual acceptance of his hometown while he was growing up. In the first part of the passage, the author creates a mainly joyful tone while writing about the place that he used to live as a child. The author writes about the lawns that “curves around” his grandfather’s house and talks about his body “steaming in the cold air.” These two examples of diction and imagery provide an insight into the feelings of comfort and security the author feels coming to his home again.…
Ungar and his Liberal Arts Degree Sanford J. Ungar, the writer of “The New Liberal Arts”, argues that a liberal arts degree isn’t as questionable of a decision as believed to be. He trusts that a smaller independent college is a much more intimate setting where students continue learning habits that only better their mentality in terms of education and personality and will stick with them throughout the rest of their lives. More specifically Ungar believes that attending a liberal arts school provides as close connection with faculty and a chance for young adults to learn responsibilities while getting an education at the same time, just to name a few (Ungar 232). Overall, Ungar goes about his argument in a very unique and organized manner…
Due to the wide variety of plants and animals throughout the world, and their similarities and differences is what proves evolution, according to Chapter 4: The Geography of Life, the biogeography can only be explained by evolution of all the, “diversity of life on continents and islands,” (Coyne, 2009, p. 109). Even though, this idea of evolution is different than previous chapters; must be remembered, that Jerry Coyne is explaining the whole theory, so they are all connected and part of the whole theory. In detail, Coyne explains the evidence associated with different plants and animals around the world, by using biogeography to study the continents, and island, for evidence of a wide variety of different animals that evolved accordingly. To begin with, many factors influence the variety of species in the world, and Jerry Coyne uses the effects of continental drift and the geography as evidence for evolution. Ultimately, Jerry Coyne compares those animals that are…
John Edward Bruce and Jacob Riss readings both had to do with how life was in the 1800’s and also shed more light on the things that were going on during that time. As for John Bruce, he explained the deaths of African Americans; Jacob Riss document explained how life was for people as for poverty and living standards. After further reading and more research, I concluded that many of the things still exist in today’s society. Jacob Riss article explained the lives of people who stayed in poverty and in lower income homes. Furthermore, he mentioned about many parts of New York some of the places he mentioned in the reading were :The Bends, Jew town, different shops, Bandits Roost, Bayar’s Street and the Bottle Alley; each of these places…
Made it through another semester This semester I learned that some of us read and write more then we think we on a daily basis. There are different ways of reading and writing outside of the classroom. After we did the reading and writing journals earlier this semester I noticed that I read more then I write in my free time and for class, like text, social media, ESPN updates, books, and flyers.…
In Peter Singer’s (1995) article “The ultimate choice”, it is published that we have to make an ultimate choice everyday and thus, ethics and self-interests are seem to be in conflict. How should we make our choice? It requires courage to make the right choice from our fundamental values to choose a life we want to live (Singer, 1995). While people in society are facing temptations every day, how strongly can they withstand the value when making an ultimate choice? Self-interest is the motivation of human nature; the actions that arise from the self-interest can be moral or immoral.…
Being a student at Gateway you can learn more things that you ever thought imaginable. Though I have only been at this college for less than a year I have gained a vast amount of knowledge. Both in education and real life lessons that I will carry with me for eternity. In particular my English Composition class as well as my Intro to College…
It feels like so long ago when I first began this English course. I can remember being so excited about the class topic, racism and social justice, which I felt that I had a lot of passion for. Little did I know that I would have to gather up even more enthusiasm and passion to be able to continue writing papers about the same topic all semester long. This course has tested my endurance, and at many times my patience, and for that I am thankful because I know in the end, it has made me a better writer. Despite various minor challenges this semester I believe that I have put in the hard work that it takes and I have achieved the course goals and will complete this class feeling fulfilled and accomplished.…
In the article “College Calculus: What’s the value of higher education?” by John Cassidy, Cassidy discusses the values and drawbacks of receiving a higher college education. Cassidy claims that college education is one of the most valued things by Americans today and despite the cost continuing to increase families still feel the pressure to provide their kids with a better education. Cassidy claims these families know that a higher education will allow their children to have better lives, better wages, and better opportunities, resulting in the pressure to provide their kids with this education. Cassidy also states that college education has become a prerequisite and a necessity for an abundant amount of jobs. He claims that despite the cost…