An Argument on Gun Control: Ann Coulter’s “Guns Don’t Kill People‚ the Mentally Ill Do” In this lengthy article “Guns Don’t Kill People‚ the Mentally Ill Do‚” that was published in the Townhall Daily‚ the author‚ Ann Coulter‚ argues about a major prevailing issue today‚ gun control. She believes the problem isn’t the guns themselves‚ but the mentally disturbed people. Coulter credits the declining mental health system as the main setback. She supports her argument by providing tragic examples
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1. Doesn’t the same hold for all the other things? Don’t you call shapes and colours admirable on the account of either some pleasure or benefit or both? 2. Doesn’t this also hold for sounds and all things musical? 3. And certainly things that pertain to laws and practices – the admirable ones‚ that is- don’t fall outside the limits of being either pleasant or beneficial. 4. Doesn’t the same hold for the admirability of the fields of learning‚ too? Conclusion. Whenever one of two admirable things
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"On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens." - Oliver Cromwell’s Soldiers ("Humble Representation") "I make war on the living‚ not the dead." - Charles V (when advised to hang Martin Luther’s corpse on the gallows) ""It’s Tommy this‚ and Tommy that‚ And chuck him out the brute‚ But it’s ’Savior of his Country‚’ When the guns begin to shoot! For God and the soldier we adore‚ In time of danger‚ not before! The danger passed‚ and all things righted‚ God is forgotten and the
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brother is a brother to his siblings. Socrates expresses that love’s desire suggests that one does not own what he or she loves. Socrates further explains this by giving the example of a healthy man having the desire to remain healthy. One’s desire for things is for the future. The desire rests in the preservation and not the lack thereof. This statement of love being a love of something shows that there is a connection
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studies done. One of the studies used in article “Playing with Prejudice” shows that “children between 8 to 17 years old make up the group that plays the most video games” (Burgess et. al. 552). Attracting this audience at such a young age is very easy to influence and lure them in‚ and over time this will affect their mine set and behaviors. In order for the author to prove his credibility to the audience‚ the writer uses research and data to support his argument. The writer uses the method of logos
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among the fox and the lion; for the lion cannot defend itself from traps and the fox cannot protect itself from wolves. It is therefore necessary to be a fox in order to recognize the traps and a lion in order to frighten the wolves." Machiavelli in this chapter describes how necessary it is for a person to have instincts of two kinds. You can’t be a powerful leader if you don’t know how to win a war‚ and you can’t be a smart leader if you cannot get out of one. Kastely argues "We argue by description
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better represent the whole and protect the interests of all than could the representation of either sex alone.” She does not want one gender superior to another. It is vital that America works toward egalitarianism and then equal representation. This government is quickly moving to an abrupt halt‚ and it will no longer prove itself effective without representation of both men and women. It is only reasonable that a government shelter and watch over all people‚ its protection should not discriminate
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she was down to the bottom with her husband. This is one of the ways the author helps set up the theme‚ when he talked about she started out‚ he pointed some important things out. Like. That she was rich‚ she was happy. Then she married a poor man and she went to his standards‚ she should’ve been happy with who she was because she had decided to marry that man herself. She saw something in that man that no other woman had seen in him.
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Rhetorical Analysis of Born into Brothels In Calcutta’s red light district‚ several children are trying to get by in brothels. Their mothers are prostitutes and their fathers are gone‚ unreliable or unknown. Zana Briski journeys to Calcutta to photograph the lives of the prostitutes‚ and she ends up teaching their children about cameras and photography. Briski finds that the kids have true potential‚ not only in their photography but in their lives. She tries as hard as she can to find better futures
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be broken. Me: Yes! Here is another example: Imagine you are flying over the ocean in an airplane‚ when you suddenly think about what would happen if one part of the plane were to fail. The plane would crash. You then cheer up by a single thought; this plane over the course of many years was tested and designed. You trust in the builders‚ because your airplane could not made by chance‚
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