In academic writing‚ an argument is usually a main idea‚ often called a “claim” or “thesis statement‚” backed up with evidence that supports the idea. In most college papers‚ one needs to make some sort of claim and use evidence to support it. One’s ability to do this will separate a good paper from other papers. We use argument in everyday life to convince somebody of my ideas or opinion‚ convince our teachers we deserve a better grade. A better argument is accomplished if no emotion is involved
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Everyone has their views and opinions on the death penalty. They are either for it or against it‚ but what does that really mean? Sixty-three percent of the population of America are for it because a human being killed another human and they think that it is only fair that the defendant also dies. Then the other thirty-seven percent are against it either because it may have been a loved one that had killed someone and they do not want to see their loved one be killed or they think that killing the person
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As learning and collaborative practices occur in many contexts throughout life‚ this paper aims to focus and discuss these terms in a higher education‚ online environment. A combination of social‚ technological and economic drivers has resulted in major pedagogical changes in higher Education online (Engineering Subject Centre 2011). Much of the change is centred to accommodate the increased amount of diverse students and their needs as they pursue study in the online environment. The increased diversity
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Jean-Paul Sartre‚ 19451 My purpose here is to defend existentialism against several reproaches that have been laid against it. Existentialism has been criticised for inviting people to remain in a quietism of despair‚ to fall back into a the middle-class luxury of a merely contemplative philosophy. We are reproached for underlining human nastiness‚ and forgetting‚ as the Catholic Mme. Mercier has it‚ the smile of the child. All and sundry reproach us for treating men as isolated beings‚ largely
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about the growing nationalism of America and not about increasing regionalism” (Arrington‚ 1984‚ p. 247). The argument that these manipulations can take place is therefore predicated on a misinformed understanding of how these types of elections can have an effect on the priorities of the various individuals and interested parties who are taking part. This demonstrates a point to the argument which seems to be based on notions of political entitlement that are not necessarily the case. In this sense
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As with all things in life there are decisions that need to be made‚ decisions that could potentially change your whole future. Many parents these days are coming to the point where they need to decide whether to vaccinate their sons and daughters against HPV or not. The human papilloma virus a very common virus. It is the most common sexually transmitted infection that affects about 80% of sexually active people. Doctors‚ scientists and physicians have worked for a long time trying to generate
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Fiscal cliff‚ a seemingly disturbing new term for American’s to digest about our growing deficit problems is stirring up panic and stress for our country’s economy. A lot of American’s are worried about the future of our country and how we can deal with our increasingly scary issue of debt. Even before the United States was founded in 1776‚ we have had a debt to be paid. It has grown in towering amounts since then and now is an issue we may never get out of. The debt crisis is a result of the
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For my opinion I’m going against racial profiling meaning that I’m going to talk about it in a CON perspective. To me racial profiling can cause a lot problems‚ and the reason for that is because when the police are racial profiling they could be going for the wrong person because of the color of their skin‚ the person that the police stopped could be innocent and while the police is there trying to see what that person has done wrong the police could be missing out on catching a real criminal. Racial
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means to protect the greater good‚ maximizing societal benefits (Dershowitz‚ Blackboard pg. 1-2). In the ticking-bomb scenario‚ torturing the terrorist to gain information for the location and/or disposal of the bomb would be permissible because it is all in the efforts to protect the thousands of people in danger. But under this theory‚ the justification for torture comes at the cost of violating the terrorist’s rights and possibly providing precedence for torture to be carried out in instances that
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criticism‚ and gets much scrutiny from anti Animal-Testing groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and CAAT (Coalition to Abolish Animal Testing). The controversy behind animal testing is that there are so many petitions against animal testing and some people go as far as to not consume products like toothpaste or
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