Running head: WRITING AN ARGUMENT PAPER Writing an Argument Paper LaQthia Cooks University of Phoenix Management – MGT521 Instructor: Diane Hunt-Wagner August 8‚ 2011 Writing an Argument Paper The Internet contains several encyclopedias and research websites. Some websites are valid‚ credible‚ and reliable whereas‚ other websites are not. This paper represents as an argument of whether Wikipedia online encyclopedia is a valid‚ credible‚ or reliable source of information and
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Descartes is the pioneer of modern philosophy. His "I think‚ therefore I am" is the first principle and proposition of his philosophical system. His thoughts occupied an extremely important position in the whole history of philosophy. At first‚ Descartes wrote in Meditation‚ “The first such belief was that I had a face‚ hands‚ arms and the whole structure of bodily parts that corpses also have—I call it the body‚” which gives his first understanding to “I”‚ then he continues says‚ “The next belief
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The chief problem with U.S. schools apparently isn’t high dropout rates or underqualified teachers but standardized testing. This is the only conclusion that can be drawn from the push by parents and teachers in Buffalo‚ Philadelphia‚ Seattle and elsewhere to help students opt out of taking standardized tests. Members of this burgeoning anti-test movement fail to grasp testing’s valuable role in motivating and guiding students and teachers. Preparing young Americans for success in the global economy
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save lives by protecting the head against injury in an accident. People who dislike the feel of wearing a helmet‚ often justify themselves with arguments that refute established knowledge about the safety benefits of helmets. This established knowledge is based on testing and statistical studies covering decades of helmet use. Over time‚ some of these arguments against using helmets become popular myths. Here are three of them: A Helmet Is Too Thin to Protect against the Forces of a High-Speed Impact
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According to World Farm Animals Day ‚“Each year‚ more than 58 billion cows‚ pigs‚ chickens‚ and other innocent‚ sentient animals are caged‚ crowded‚ deprived‚ drugged‚ mutilated‚ and manhandled in the world’s factory farms and slaughterhouses. In the US alone‚ 10 billion land animals are abused and slaughtered every year.” The majority of those killed are chickens and other types of birds. Undoubtedly‚ meat eaters have their reasons for eating meat‚ from misconceptions‚ to being raised on it and
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Outline of Rowe’s Chapter on the Argument from Contingency in His Philosophy of Religion‚ Part II Notes on Rowe on the Cosmological Argument‚ Part Two: Four Criticisms of the Argument 0. Review 0.1 Dependent beings: a being whose existence is accounted for by the causal activity of other beings 0.2 Self-existent beings: beings whose existence is self-explanatory‚ or accounted for by their own inner nature 0.3 The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR): There must be an explanation for (a) the
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1 Risk Chapter and Its Management Multiple Choice 1. The major types of business risk include all of the following except: A price risk B diversification risk C pure risk D credit risk Answer: b Type: K 2. Credit risk is a. : the risk that a firms borrowers will not make promised payments. b. the risk that a firm will not be able to get credit from lenders c. the risk that a firm will not have sufficient funds to make payments to their creditors d. the risk due to changes in
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Graffiti is a long living “symbol of youth and music culture‚ graffiti is one of the four elements of hip hop” (Wexler 6). Suzanne Wexler states that graffiti “first appeared on the New York subways in the 1970s‚ representing a form of public art” (6). For the most part‚ graffiti is tolerated‚ as long as it is aesthetically appealing and not defacing someone’s property. Problems arise when people go and deface a public place‚ such as an occupied business‚ building‚ house‚ car‚ etc. Then‚ the city
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there Descartes can use their logic to appeal to the skeptics and ultimately persuade them away from their own mistaken beliefs at the same time. To go about doing this Descartes uses the Meditations in which a fictional meditator can illustrate the process of meditation to come to a rationalization of truth about reality. This meditator is used as a narrative illustration so that people can resonate by with the meditator by following his logical thought process and thereby use the Meditations to
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Explain ethical arguments in favour of abortion Although the topic of abortion is very controversial‚ there are many ethical arguments in favour of it. These include viability‚ consciousness‚ and the view that the mother has the choice about whether or not to terminate the life of the foetus. Viability is the point at which the foetus is able to survive independent from the mother. This is around the 20 week mark of pregnancy and the foetus then has the status of personhood. Prior to this point
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