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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Breshun Thompson Mr. Trimm EN 1113-45 18 Mar 2013 The Influence of Gender on Career Choices “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” This quote by Roy Disney greatly inspires my argumentative research essay. Throughout my exploratory essay‚ I found that there is a slight effect on being raised in a female/male dominated family in regards to the upbringing of a child. Even though that gender could play a major role in any family involving children‚ one would think that
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2. Every day in America‚ another 28 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2011.) II. Central Thesis Drunk driving is an epidemic that continues to have severe and life threatening consequences for those involved‚ if we simply take a few steps against drunk driving we can help decrease this epidemic. III. Body A. Need: Drunk driving occurs everyday‚ and many lives are taken because of one person choice. 1. Every 52 minutes on
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Argument Essay By: Mina Gedeon Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others‚ to really step in someone else’s shoes. In literature empathy is a major role for emotion in a story‚ it can be viewed and used in many different ways. It can be handled to expose certain characters characteristics and much more. In a novel you must determine how a character feels towards others which can be shoed by empathy. In the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee‚ there are quite a
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English 101 December 1‚ 2011 Should the legal drinking age be raised (or lowered)? Should the drinking age be lowered to eighteen years old‚ when one is considered an adult‚ and assumes adult privileges‚ or should the drinking age remain at twenty-one years old‚ since people are more mature and therefore‚ can be safe and responsible with alcohol? I believe that the drinking age should remain at twenty-one years old because lowering the legal age would not be the best interest of the public’s safety
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Cellular phones‚ for most people today‚ are a necessity in our lives. People take their phones everywhere they go. These days‚ phones have gotten even more complex and we use them as a means for communication by voice‚ text‚ sound‚ and video. Because cell phones are considered such a necessity by many people today‚ the issue has risen regarding the use of phones while driving. These days cell phone use while driving is being compared to driving while being drunk. There are good reasons why people
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electorate. For this reason‚ the issue of whether or not the voting age should be lowered from eighteen to sixteen commands our attention. Although some have argued that lowering the voting age would have harmful consequences‚ the benefits would more than outweigh the potential drawbacks. The argument against lowering the voting age depends on two criticisms that do not stand up to close scrutiny. The first is that lowering the voting age‚ and therefore increasing the number of potential voters in the
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Why do so many college students binge drink? In all 50 states of America‚ the legal drinking age is 21‚ yet so many underage college students suffer from health problems due to extreme amounts of alcohol consumption. Drinking in college has become a new ritual‚ so much so that the days of the week all have been transformed into a reason to drink. Formally known as Monday-Sunday have all been rebirthed into‚ “Messed Up Monday”‚ “Tipsy Tuesday”‚ “Wasted Wednesday”‚ “Thirsty Thursday”‚ “F***ed Up Friday”
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Alcohol Addiction An Argument Essay Have you ever been pressured into doing something you would rather not do? Many people have been in many different ways. It seems that teens are pressured more and more into drinking than anything else. If you choose to drink it is your choice but are you doing it to fit in‚ or just because you want to? There are many different ways an adolescent might take a drink even if they know it is wrong. Some reasons are the risk-taking‚ the expectancies‚ how sensitive
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the Minimum Legal Drinking Age in the United States Over the past twenty years the minimum legal drinking age has been twenty-one in all US states‚ but that has not stopped citizens of the United Sates from attempting to lower the age. Following the end of prohibition in the United Sates during the Great Depression‚ all states agreed on a set of twenty-one to be the legal drinking age. For almost forty years there was no change in the drinking age until a decrease in the age for voting occurred
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