college student, through the process of writing. At the beginning of the year, I was not very excited about having to write argumentative papers. This is because I did not care enough about the assigned topics to have an opinion. But, I did learn a lot that I would not have known otherwise from having to research information about the topics I chose to write about. For example, in paper #2, I wrote about the niqab and how I believe that it is oppressive to women. Before starting paper #2, I had…
An example of advantageous in today’s generation would be since I’m black I can say the “N-word” but white people cannot say it because it is offensive. Although, neither races should be using the word because of its history and meaning. It is a form of speech in today’s generation that you hear from peers, favorite rappers, and on the media. Argumentative discrimination benefits a person directly or a group they belong to and makes a person “defend discrimination” (Scalzi). An example for…
In these meditations Descartes had complex opinions. In the case of Descartes in meditations a greater individual than him existed. Descartes’ claim insisted with the existence of the idea of God to the real existence of God. To support his argumentative opinions, Descartes points two distinct arguments that were utilized by “Augustine in the fourth century and Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century” (Shouler). They consisted in the casual and ontological argument. The casual argument was…
thought was a timely matter. It took two weeks for Mr.Kallas to grade it, and he promised at the beginning of the semester that if it ever took that long we would receive extra credit. This same process was repeated for the narrative essay and the argumentative…
according to instances of Evans and Davies traits. Evans and Davies suggested that traits of characters could be divided into 2 groups: masculine and feminine, each group involves 8 traits. Masculine characteristics are: aggressive, adventurous, argumentative, assertive, competitive, decisive, risk-taking and self-reliant. Meanwhile, feminine stereotypical traits are: affectionate, emotionally expressive, impetuous, nurturing, panicky, passive, tender and understanding. Definitions of each trait…
Persuasive or Argumentative Did you know that since 2008 the federal government spent almost $700 billion dollars of taxpayer money to bail out companies (“Bailout Tracker,” 2016)? The government has used this money to give to companies that are failing or were about to go bankrupt. This is a small group of people deciding what businesses get the money and stay in business and which ones don’t. The money comes from us, the taxpayers, and it shouldn’t be used to support failing companies.…
1791, he wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson which acted as a call to action to move towards equality for all. In the letter, he employs many rhetorical strategies in order to portray his point of view, including tone, comparison, and the use of argumentative appeals. Thomas Jefferson is a man of great power. He is one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, the framer of said document, and secretary of state to the president. Banneker is aware of all of this, and he…
my essay was providing details. For example, I talk about my experiences in high school when I first came…
activity should I use, an outline or a concept map? The answer to this question depends on the type of assignment given and how many ideas the student already has. Outlines include a careful organization plan, mental effort reduction, improvement of argumentative text, apply structure to ideas, revise ideas, and coordinate a writing process. Concept maps are visual, show…
still feel that insecurity that I could have done better or it’s just hard for me to give myself credit. Mr. Dutt, my instructor, has given us the right amount of homework. I felt it was a smooth process to achieve the assignments at my best. For example, we worked on our rough drafts in and we took the opportunity for Mr. Dutt go over it with us individually, he taught us how to express ourselves in the correct format that we are writing an essay and we read some essays that were very…