Chance

In the book “40 Chances” by Howard Buffett, his story 18 talks about the issues going on in Virunga. Although the gorillas attract a great deal of attention to the place, nevertheless the country is not really benefiting from the gorillas to its full extent because the people are being attacked by M23, gorillas are constantly being attacked and in danger by poachers and illegal charcoal traders, and the tourists can’t come whenever they would like in risk of getting hurt. The people should not…

Statement Of Purpose Project Second Chance is a club intended to help those who have fallen on hard times, such as the homeless. We strive to offer these people a second chance on life by providing them the necessary structure to get a job and also give them financial aid by assisting them in managing their finances. This club started off as an idea to help not only a large population of Americans, but also as a way to one day help people all around the world. Our club would help homeless…

In Erica Chenoweth’s “Give Peaceful Resistance a Chance”, and Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth’s “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict,” both articles argue that nonviolent protest is more effective than that of violent protests. However, Chenoweth’s article is an op-ed piece which is presented to a general audience while the Chenoweth & Stephan piece was written for an academic journal and is directed towards people who are knowledgeable about the subject.…

homeschooled or not should have an equal opportunity to take part in sports or other extracurricular activities. The article “Give Home-School Students Chance to Play” says, “Most of them revolve around the mindset that because I chose not to attend a public school, I should not be able to pick and choose what to participate in" (“Give Home-School Students Chance to Play par 2).…

Woman's body; her choice! People avoid conversations that deal with abortion because it leads to a variety of altercations between one another. Should the woman have the choice to choose to abort? Should the unborn baby get a chance at life? Sometimes life throws curveballs and unplanned pregnancy happens at unexpected times. Fear and unpreparedness flood one's body with news on becoming pregnant, planned or not. Abortion should be illegal throughout the United States in all instances, except…

In this book, Hubner explores a juvenile correctional facility and provides the readers with insight on the school’s ultimate goal of resocializing the teenage delinquents held there. Hubner points to the reason as to why systems that include retributive justice do not work as such, “With a few exceptions, most institutions incarcerating juveniles do not rehabilitate. Indeed, they are not that much different from adult prisons. At best they are holding tank, at worst, they are finishing schools…

In his Essay, Giving People a Second Chance, Ernest Martinez try’s to persuade his audience that Hispanic ex-cons should be given an equal opportunity to work. Martinez’s intent is to convince Hispanic business owners to hire ex-cons. Martinez’s essay had some valid points about ex-cons having an equal opportunity to make a living. But his essay is poorly formed, while he uses emotionally loaded terms, it lacks details and facts. In the first paragraph Martinez speaks on Mexican pride and…

My second chance in the United States. It is difficult in a country where opportunities are very few a country where poverty and violence are not allowed to grow to the person or the country. Since my childhood I dreamed to be in United States every time I looked at a plane passing I would always come running and screaming saying "someday I will fly to the United States in a big plane like those flying birds in the sky". When I was 8 years old, I had the opportunity to come to the United States…

Rhetorical Analysis “A Second Chance” Extra Gum created the commercial A Second Chance to tell a love story between two adults who knew each other since kindergarten and drifted apart; by the end of the commercial their story becomes a full circle when it ends with a proposal. Extra Gum uses this anecdote to appeal to the audience by creating a purpose, tone, and uses pathos that reaches the audience. The intended audience of this commercial are young adults and adults who may be going through…

Stories that are allegorical to me are often the ones that bear the most importance; allegorical stories allow me to insert what I’ve learned from the parameters of the story to apply into my everyday life. Haruki Murakami author of “Chance Traveler” and Benjamin Alire Saenz author of “The Art Of Translation” both authors have similarities in the way they use allegories but they are conveyed in different ways. Murakami and Alire both used what I called in-depth imagery to help the readers see…