ARGUMENT ESSAYS* Essential elements of an argument essay: 1. Written on a controversial topic 5. Uses sound logic 2. Expresses a clear stance 6. Anticipates and refutes opponents views 3. Provides convincing support 7. Organizes information in emphatic order 4. Uses a reasonable tone 8. Appeals to the reader’s emotions‚ ethics‚ logic Reasonable tone: reasonable tone uses qualifying words: usually‚ seldom‚ some‚ few‚ many‚ most‚ often‚ frequently‚ perhaps‚ seldom‚ it seems likely
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What is Prejudice? What is prejudice? Why does it exist? What can I do to counter prejudice? So first of all there are many types of prejudice statements. The general idea of prejudice is someone or something being based on the cover or what they look like or what you have heard about something. An example of prejudice is if you hear something bad about a book and you don’t even read the book because you don’t want it to be bad. Also if you see a book and the cover is weird and you choose not to
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2013 Word Count: 754 Argument Essay Some individuals would agree that torture would be necessary if terrorist/criminals that were captured possessed information that could potentially harm millions of people or families. Now torture has taken on a whole new meaning. Torture is the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something‚ or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. In Michael Levin’s essay “The Case of Torture‚”
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Princess B. Towe English 101-017 21 November 2014 Argument Essay Why Smokers should Stop Smoking? It is a fact that most of the people who smoke are aware that it’s not good for them. Then why they continue smoking? Maybe they do it because they haven’t really become conscious about all the effects that smoking has. There are a lot of reasons they shouldn’t smoke and to talk about all of them will probably take me much more than a college essay length. But I personally think there are three important
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The Counter Culture Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology‚ a war against Communism‚ and an internal war against racial injustice‚ a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became young adults‚ they found far more discontent with the world around them. This lead to a subculture labeled as hippies‚ that as time went one merged into a mass society all its own. These
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ARGUMENT ESSAY GRADING As students we all have been challenged to do our best. Throughout our lives we have been labeled with our grades; in high school‚ the ones with low grades were left alone in misery‚ while the ones with higher grades were praised as the leaders of this horse race. Then‚ the question that comes into mind is: is it right to categorize students‚ does grading contribute to education? It is assumed and stated in
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April 14‚ 2014 Prompt: Should offensive speech‚ like hate speech and bullying - online or in person - be restricted and prohibited? “On October 17‚ 2006‚ Megan Meir‚ a thirteen-year-old girl in Dardenne Prairie‚ Missouri‚ who had been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and depression‚ committed suicide because of postings on MySpace‚ an Internet social networking site‚ saying she was a bad person‚ whom everyone hated and the world would be better off without” (John O. Hayward). Throughout
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Around the world‚ restaurant industry has been growing much faster than the population. Fast-food restaurants‚ which the easiest way to overcome long-term and presto working hours with short-term lunctimes‚ lead. However‚ in addition to opportunity of “easy-eating” for workers‚ we have to think of these restaurants’ own workers. About two-thirds of the fast food workers are under the age of twenty. It’s an informed choice because teenagers accept to work longer with low wages and‚ because of their
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Collin Brozek Scott Harber Comp. I April 14th‚ 2013 Argument Essay There are a plethora of reasons why pop and soft-drinks are bad for personal health as well as the environment. Never the less there have been an increase of obesity cases and children with diabetes caused solely by the consumption of sugar filled beverages. The consumption of soft-drinks and other carbonated beverages have multiple negative effects‚ and I want to briefly cover ten or so reason as to why soda is hazardous to
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German Estrada Mrs. Trejo English 1A 07/09/2013 Argument Essay We live in a small world. People are always going to be rude‚ offensive‚ and uncivil‚ and that’s just how this world is. I am not saying everyone is though‚ but once in a while we see or hear that part of someone who just is not having the best of days and is being the rudest most disrespectable person anyone has ever seen and that automatically makes that person a bad influence in our society. Well I do not think it is‚ every person
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