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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HOMELESS by Anna Quindlen In this story “Homeless” Anna writes about analyzing what homeless don’t have and to look at them differently‚ it all started by a women named Ann and there she had realized of the homeless. She‚ Quindlen‚ knows what Ann is talking about how home is very meaningful‚ I also understand. Hopelessly Quindlen terminates that our faculty of being home has adjusted. During the time‚ I originally discord with Anna that the homeless are the one to give tender feelings. She convinced
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say that I have found Saint Anselm Ontological Argument to be very interesting and I was so fascinated by his life and the stand he took to prove his reasoning in his argument. In fact Anselm’s most famous work is his attempt to prove the existence of God in the Proslogion (or discourse) known now as the “Ontological argument.” I also found it very interesting that Mr. Immanuel Kant‚ another great philosopher in my view said the ontological argument attempts to show that which we can conceive of
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everyone. Some people view a home as a physical structure that is a reliable place to live. While others view a home as a place of acceptance and family. Anna Quindlen worked a story on homeless people trying to find an answer to this very difficult topic. Quindlen met people who would socially be termed ‘homeless’‚ but Quindlen learned that maybe the conventional term does not quite cover it. A home can be a perfectly square house with a white picket fence and a golden retriever in the front
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disease is related to unopposed and prolonged estrogen stimulation. As a result‚ the activeness of the active cancerous cell in the body will be lowered down. Having doubt with the weaknesses in the article‚ let us proceed to counter arguments. The first argument put forward by the writer is smoking is the only solution that bring peace to the smokers. I don’t completely agree with this line as there are millions of morally ways to gain a peaceful feeling. Based on a suggestion‚ “exercise courtesy
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use the method‚ set forth by Galileo‚ to lay the foundation for Philosophy. “He also looked to defeat skepticism on its own ground” (Kemerling). His cogito argument is significant because it is the foundation for his philosophical thinking and the first solid truth after emptying the basket of apples. His evil demon and dreaming doubt arguments are part of his method of doubt and his reasoning for starting philosophical reasoning from scratch. In order to use the scientific methods Descartes must
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adopted it or rejected it according to the result.” By establishing this credibility early in the essay‚ Twain is able to play with the audiences’ expectations later when he displays his experiments to be a comparison on human and animal traits. The result is an entertaining essay‚ which slowly decomposes Twain’s validity as a scientist‚ but highlights the satire behind his work. For the remains of the essay‚ Twain goes on to mention unfavorable traits that are specific to man‚ and promptly correlates
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they desire because that requires a higher education. Jobs require a high school diploma and higher paying jobs require a college degree. Without a high school diploma a single family may be forced to stay in the projects‚ shelter or may even become homeless. Education is a major factor in poverty. It determines opportunities in jobs and careers. Secondly‚ unemployment is a factor that causes poverty. No one can live without a steady income. People in poverty are either without a job‚ have a job
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In the face of death‚ science and rationale‚ is it unethical to safely assist those who are suffering and have the desire to die with dignity and purpose? Physician-Assisted Suicide has and will continue to be a very controversial topic of discussion when talking about the health and dignity of the terminally ill. Although none of us ever want to think of our loved ones becoming ill‚ rates of devastating diseases such as cancer are rapidly increasing around us. This makes the probability of one of
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reality—that is‚ the idea that objects are wholly present and only present in the ‘now’—a bold conclusion is made: that the endurantist contradicts himself in believing an object that has changed is identical to itself in a time before it had changed. The argument is this: endurantists believe that every object is numerically identical to (is the same as) itself at every point in time during its ‘object-hood’ or lifespan. For example‚ a piano is the same object now as it will be ten years from now. However
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