Anderson and Graff have an argument about setting battle room scenarios unfair or not. Ender is placed in the Rat Army. The commander, Rose De Nose, immediately hates Ender and warns Ender to stop practicing with the Launchies. Ender sees Dink, (Ender is assigned to Dink’’s platoon) as a kind soul,but is suspicious sometimes because of Dink’s actions. Ender and Dink talk one day and Ender finds out that Dink was promoted twice, but refused to be commander because he didn’t believe in school. Dink says the real enemy is the teacher, not the students. Dink doesn’t want the adults to ruin his childhood and life. Dink tells Ender that he thinks the Buggers have vanished and the school is running to keep the I.F. in charge. Ender doesn’t believe…
The general argument made by Teresa Watanbe and Jason Song in their work, College Students Confront Subtler Forms of Bias: Slights and Snubs, is that victimhood is occurring in colleges around the U.S. More specifically, Watanbe and Song argues that students are getting effected by slight comments which hurt their feelings or emotions. They write, “minor slights harm student performance, mental health and work productivity,” In this passage, Watanbe and Song is suggesting people feel down in the dumps and they can't get back up because of all the negative energy to goes towards them. In conclusion, Watanbe and Song's belief is…
In the Psychologist’s view: Rogerian Argument claims you would first state the problem, and give the opponent’s position, while validating whatever you find in the challenger’s position. Roger explains how doing all the steps first and then stating last what your position would be and how it would improve the opposing position. By using this type of strategy, you would find a common ground with your challenger and your own position may be more accepting to your claim, as well as having the challenger listen to your point of view, with a possibility of change or compromise.…
According to Eliana Dockterman, “ By all measures, this generation of American kids (ages 3 to 10) is the tech-savviest in history: 27% of them use tablets, 43% use smartphones, and 52% use laptops.” Eliana Dockterman’s goal in the passage is to build an argument that persuades the audience that there are benefits to early exposures to technology. She uses evidence, reasoning/ connecting claims, and persuasive elements to present her argument.…
Wormald consistently and effectively uses evidence from both contemporary and modern sources to support her arguments throughout the article. Her evidence is largely used critically, with evaluation of source material appearing in either the main body of the text or in the footnotes. Consequently, this evaluation of evidence provides for a stronger and more convincing argument by demonstrating the reliability of her sources. Wormald is also able to acknowledge flaws in her evidence, but successfully justifies the use of flawed evidence by arguing for its importance, and demonstrating how it can still support her arguments, such as the vengeful writings of Anthony Welton. It is unclear, however, exactly how far the evidence may be extrapolated to the wider British population, as much of the evidence is taken from upper class and educated individuals in personal contact with the king.…
This argument analysis examines the article Recognise What? Problems with the campaign for constitutional recognition (Maddison, 2017). Published in the May/June issue of the Indigenous Law Bulletin, Maddison describes the process to recognise Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders as the first people of Australia in the constitution. The article explains this process through several accounts, resistance to the campaign and the role of the ‘Recognise’ campaign. Throughout the article, Maddison argues that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be recognised as the first people of Australia while acknowledging the problems with the campaign. The analysis will identify the main claims, evidence used to support these claims and the assumptions made by the author. Maddison uses several forms of evidence to support her 3 main claims and the underlying assumptions.…
In this essay I will address the issue of whether more states should enforce the death penalty. In her opinion piece, Lori Ornellas argues that the death penalty should be enforced by more states. In this essay I will demonstrate the flaws within her argument.…
Mickey Hess looks at the use of multiple identities by rap musicians to obscure the conflicting contradictions between authenticity and marketability. Hip hop, having budded from a culture of oppression against African-Americans, grew as a medium of resistance. Hess cites Tricia Rose’s words, stating that hip hop, in the context of resistance, wages an “ideological warfare with institutions and groups that symbolically, ideologically, and materially oppress African Americans” (pp.298). Therefore, the experience of oppression and life in the projects is central to most rappers’ identities as hip hop artists.…
I really enjoyed this article. It has been one of my favorites thus far. Kimball had many quality arguments and opinions on what needs to change within the church. His main point of this article is stated on page 86, "I believe true emerging churches must go deep within, and form the inside out, rethink. reshape, and revalue how we are about everything as culture changes. We must rethink leadership, church structure, the role of a pastor, spiritual formation, how community is lived out, how evangelism is done, how we express our worship, etc. It is not about what we do in the worship service, but about everything". I agree with Kimball that the Church still has a lot of growing to do, and trough that growing there must be some changes made along the way. Over the years we have lost our way, and need help guiding us back on the right path.…
According to reports yesterday, July 23, 2013—the rubout argument has been proven by the investigative team. For this essay, the question will be—“Is it right to kill criminals?”…
As you mentioned in your post, all adults should be treated with respect. Even if older adults possess cognitive declines or deficits, nurses should still always treat this patients with respect and dignity. Older adults may experience declines in the swift ability to remember recent events, but remote memories are still highly preserved. Furthermore, although ageing does affect the speed in which cognitive and motor processes are preformed, the older adult still can successfully complete these activities, it may just take them longer (Tabloski, 2014). Nurses should never resort to hushing, rushing, or downgrading older adults who may have difficulties completing tasks that younger persons take for granted. As a busy floor nurse,…
Roger and Me is a documentary starring Michael Moore that reveals the hard hitting economic impact General Motors left on Flint, Michigan. Throughout the film it is clear that General Motors was a huge factor in Flint’s financial system and slowly by surely it becomes evident that many of the residents living in Flint were eventually someway shape or form affected by layoffs from General Motors. These layoffs came from General Motors attempt to adopt the concept of globalization, all the while General Motors tries to make sense out of the lay offs by stating that the Japanese auto makers were intense competition and their only result at the time was to either close the factories or look to the government for subsidies. While all this is being said, the truth had been told that General Motors was experiencing some of the highest profit rates in the previous years of that company. There are a couple of reasons why I would partially side with Roger Smith, however given the opportunity to be placed in Mr. Smiths shoes my loyalty would be completely with the workers that helped General Motors…
There are always two sides of the same coin, and the coin is the subject of existence. To go against Unger’s, I Do Not Exist, I will use Descartes view of dualism and the fact that, according to him, humans do exist. Yes, there are other views of existence that could go against both of these philosophical views, but Unger and Descartes really counterbalance each other. As mentioned before, Unger explains he doesn’t exist due to anything which exists having a finite amount of small parts. If these parts were continually taken away, one could exist until at one point it would not, due to losing all their parts. In respect to Unger, his argument is correct when dealing with objects such as “tables or chairs, rocks or stones or ordinary stars,”…
Write a four page paper in which you use Rogerian argumentation to address one of the following issues:…
Roger Williams writings in The Key into the Language of America reflected his nontraditional views of the Natives during his time. While most Englishmen in America viewed the Natives as “savages,… wild men,… barbarians,… or heathens,”(page 90) Williams “saw that the American Indians were no better or worse than the “rogues” who dealt with them, and that in fact they possessed a marked degree of civility.” (page89) The fact that he came to his conclusion by actually submerging himself into the Native American culture gives his perspective and idea more substance than those of the other Anglo-Americans who held their judgments without actually studying the culture.…