SUGGESTED ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY TOPICS The following topics are in the form of a question so change it into “an effective and grammatically correct argumentative thesis statement which includes your clearly defined stance”. For instance: Newspaper reporters should reveal their sources because ........ Power and the Individual: When should parents let teens make their own decisions? Because celebrities are so often in the public spotlight‚ do they have ethical responsibilities to set good examples
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Part Two: Analytical Essay The appeal to tradition‚ also called argumentum ad antiquitatem‚ is a commonplace fallacy that posits that an idea is correct simply on the basis that it is similar to a past or present tradition. We see it everywhere: in government‚ in schools‚ in music‚ in the workplace‚ and even in sports. The book Moneyball by Michael Lewis is largely about this idea‚ where Lewis argues that even if something has been done traditionally for many years and worked‚ the traditional way
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wrong but there also to love. We have the free will to love anyone we want and as many people as we want. If free will didn’t exist then we would only be able to love one person for our life time which again isn’t the case because there are so many divorces taking place because people fall out of love with each other. Another example is a prisoner may be said to possess no freedom‚ however he or she still possesses limited choices. In the very least the imprisoned human has the ability to make some
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‘’Against Euthanasia’’ I’m against euthanasia for many reasons. Euthanasia would not only be for people who are "terminally ill." There are two problems here -- the definition of "terminal" and the changes that have already taken place to extend euthanasia to those who aren’t "terminally ill." There are many definitions for the word "terminal." For example‚ when he spoke to the National Press Club in 1992‚ Jack Kevorkian said that a terminal illness was "any disease that curtails life even for
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The essay “Crito” is a dialog between Socrates and Crito’s‚ who is trying to convince Socrates to escape from prison and his ultimate death. Both parties give good reasons on their positions‚ but it ultimately is Socrates’s decision. The Conversation begins with Socrates questioning Crito‚ why he is there so early‚ which he replied that he comes to the prison often and knows the “prison-warder” (43a). He continues to tell Socrates that he could not sleep because his friend is about to be executed
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time who suffers as a result of their inferior status in Greek society. Medea is a representation of the mistreatment of women in Greek society. In the play‚ she complains of how unfairly women were treated. For instance‚ she complains “For women‚ divorce is not respectful; to repel the man‚ not possible. Still more‚ a foreign woman‚ coming among new laws‚ new customs‚ needs the skill of magic to find out what her home could not teach her‚ how to treat the man whose bed she shares. If in this exacting
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The Great Divorce: The Realization of Leisure The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis suggests that choices made on earth have a consequential effect towards our acceptance into heaven or our plummet into hell. In this book pride manifests itself in a hundred subtle ways as souls whine about perceived injustices or irrational motives. Thankfully‚ a few tourists do humble themselves‚ become transformed into marvelously real beings‚ and remain in heaven. But most don’t‚ about which the great Scottish author
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Wade was decided back in 1973. However‚ there are people who say that they believe the mother’s life is more important than the baby or that he has no right to say. Nevertheless‚ the women should not have a right to kill her child. If murder is against the law‚ then killing a baby ought to be as well. Another argument that abortion should not be legal is because the baby does not have a voice in the decision. Approximately 3‚000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction of the World
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that the Institution of Marriage will get less respect and the definition will become unclear. They said that the purpose of marriage which is to pro-create‚ hence the marriage between a man and women is the possible one. However‚ when we see the divorce rate in America for the past decade‚ the number is stable at 50% for the first marriage. This gives
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so they developed groups which formed more like opposing each other rather than being together. I am from India. Andhra Pradesh is one of the states and it has been recently divided into two different states‚ before this bill passed I was totally against for dividing the state‚ but as of the political strategies and everything‚ the state has been divided. So I always had an opinion about people who supported for not dividing the state and for people who wanted the state to be divide. Now nothing can
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