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Argumentative Reflection
Argumentative Essay Reflection One of my central struggles throughout high school has been
writing essays and reports for all classes not just english. I was a little worried when I signed up to
take this course, since it counted as a college credit. Even though I was worried about taking this
course, but I am thankful that I did. The main reason behind my decision to take this course is
because I thought it would better prepare me for college. This argumentative essay was one of the
hardest essay that I have written. I have never written in this style before this essay. Even though, I
have never been the best writer, I have always got good grades. After receiving my first rough draft I
knew this class was not going to be easy. The part
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One of the areas of my writing where I was struggling in using my voice. Granite, there were parts
of my essay where I successfully integrated quotes within my voice, but for the most part that was
my weakest area. For example of one of my better integrated quotes, in my third paragraph when I
say, "Today, consumers rely on social media for everything, whether it is communicating with old
friends, finding new friends, shopping, researching, and staying informed with the latest news.
Daniel adds that, "'Americans who take part in political activities on social networking sites also
tend to be highly active in other areas of political or civic life'" (29), which insinuates that people
rely on social media more today than we have in the past". This was one of my better examples
because I further explain and analyze the quote in my voice instead of just ending the sentence after
the quote. One of my poor examples is, "Many people who suffer from depression care a lot about
what others think about them. That is why many of those people tend to turn to social media as an
outlet to express their feelings". I made a bold statement and did not back up what I said with my
voice I just ended that sentence and moved on. Instead of moving on I should have explained it
further and told them why people tend to turn to social media to express their feelings. One of the
areas of my writing where I was
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Argumentative Essays
Failure is the step towards success. Do you agree?
It is often assumed that failure is a deterrent to achievement. Rather, failure should be seen as a
motivator for a person to keep trying until the objective or aim of a particular mission is fulfilled.
Failure often times leads a person to feel helpless, disappointed and depressed. However,one should
not allow this to set them back in trying to achieve the ultimate aim one has set out to do. Failure in
the beginning can often be a powerful incentive to reassess one's position in wanting to achieve the
particular aims; to analyse whether the purpose is worth the trouble the person has to undergo and
the whether the obstacles are surmountable. Practical and
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Another disadvantage of being an only is that he lacks companionship. He has no brother or sister to
confide in. Growing up as an only child can be very lonely. If you have siblings you will have to
share everything, so you get less; but you also get less of the bad things. Siblings can support and
comfort each in times of trouble. The elder siblings learn to care for the younger ones and the
younger ones learn to respect their elder siblings and have someone to look up to besides their
parents. You are more balanced person than an only child. Another advantage of having siblings is
that your parents' attention is divided among your siblings. As a result, there is less pressure on you
to perform well, be it academically or in other areas. Having siblings also means that you have
companionship, the joy of caring and sharing, and security. I, personally, am happy that I am not an
only child.
Students should not take up part time jobs. Discuss.
Nowadays, students love to have part–time jobs. Their parents approve it easily as they are said to
gain experience from working. However, having a job is a big responsibility for a student. Before,
teenagers at their age were working to help their family because of poverty. Nevertheless, they were
actually eager to study and learn at school for their future. It was not the same as the teenagers
nowadays where they are more likely competing to each other to have a job. Most of the
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| Breastfeeding is better for your baby | Argumentative Essay | | |
Islas, R.
Argumentative essay
Among the many decision a woman faces when she is pregnant, is whether or not she will
breastfeed her child. In our society and in this day and age, this has become a matter of choice as
opposed to long ago where formula was nonexistent and the only means of nurturing your baby was
to breastfeed. Many women are oblivious to the health risks their baby may endure having not being
breastfed. Research and studies show that babies who are breastfed have better health among other
things if they are breastfed. To add to that, formula companies tend to obscure the truth and bribe the
doctors in to promoting their product. This
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Because of this, many doctors have received a cut for promoting formula from these major
manufacturers. While the new mother who has just given birth to her baby feels that formula feeding
is better since the doctor recommended it, little does she know that the doctor is doing what he was
endorsed to do. Could this mean that many doctors are withholding the truth for money? It may very
well be and I will further discuss this issue. According to studies done in the US, fewer than half of
the babies are exclusively breastfed during their first two days in the hospital. "By the time they are
six months old, only 19 percent of US babies receive any breast milk
" (Coburn, 2000, 1). This is in
large part due to the doctor's orders. Little do these mothers know that the doctors are pushing
formula products on these new mothers because they are obliged to do so under a contract. Coburn
also states "To promote artificial feeding, formula manufacturers spend millions of dollars securing
exclusive distribution deals for formula samples, at a yearly average of $6,000 to $8,000 per doctor"
(p.2). Many formula companies distribute their products to hospitals to advertize their formula. It is
a form of bribery, because if you give the doctors and physicians money they will without a doubt
encourage the recommendation of that
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Victoria Okafor
Dr. Stainbrook
English 111–121
02 December 2015
Do TV Shows Like 16 and Pregnant Promote or Discourage Teenage Pregnancy?
Teenage pregnancy has become a major issue in today's society for our adolescents. This is a major
problem for all who are involved. It creates hurt and a struggle for on the parents, especially for the
mother (Gonchar and Schulten). Also for the parent(s) of the teenager this creates struggles for them
because more often than not, they end up with the load of caring and looking after the child while
the teenage parents are at school or out doing other things that teenagers do. Raising a child as a
teenager is not easy. Teen parents are more likely to struggle to deal with parenthood, and the
child
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The television show 16 and Pregnant was initially created to try to symbolize the hardship of being a
teenage parent (Taylor). The stories of these young girls are often times very similar being that they
have a miserable nine months of pregnancy just to give birth as a single mother, no longer with the
father of their child. This show displays the sorrow and struggle that the mother has in just the first
few weeks into being a new mother.
On the other hand, some view that these types of shows somewhat "glorify" the reality of having a
baby as a teenager. Both Teen Moms and 16 and Pregnant offer the young teenage girls that they
document great deals of money in order to record their pregnancy, birth giving, and first couple of
weeks of motherhood. This in itself, to some teenagers, shows that it isn't all that bad. Many teen
moms believe that they could possibly become one of the documented females if they end up in the
situation of being a teen parent and could earn money off of it and a little fifteen minutes of fame
(Henson). Also, they think that they could be featured in Teen Moms, the spinoff of 16 and
Pregnant. This would just introduce even more money to the teen. The show is not intentionally
trying to promote teenage pregnancy. This is just the viewpoint that some uneducated teenagers take
from watching it. This is definitely not the realistic and commonsensical way of viewing teenage
pregnancy.
In
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Argumentative Essay
Argumentative Essay Braden Rawson Social Networking or the use of specific websites or
applications to interact with other users is one of the many key and driving factors today in our
world. We find ourselves lost for many minutes or possibly hours at a time on any particular app or
website. Looking deeper into the issue of social networking and its impact on our life, I highly doubt
we have accomplished anything at all. A very smart man once said, "Time is money." If that quote is
true do we find ourselves in the twenty first century wasting money on pictures of people we don't
even know and moments we were not a part of? As technology has evolved and become so apart of
our world its effect spread to all ends of the spectrum of every
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ProCon.org reports that 59% of students with this access use social networking sites to discuss
educational topics and 50% use the sites to talk about school assignments. After the student leaves
school grounds he or she is still required to complete various assignments or projects. With these
comes many questions or concerns on how the teacher may want a specific item completed, or even
maybe how to even start an assignment. Social networking and the ability to interact with fellow
teachers and students after school hours is crucial to the success of every student. There truly is not
enough time in each school day to cover or complete all work that is necessary. With Facebook and
our friends just a click away we enter in a world of more focused student centered learning. Those
self–driven students will seek our answers and solutions to any work assigned for outside of the
classroom. Collaborating and working with like–minded people will not only benefit them in the
classroom, but also be a crucial skill in the work force of our world. Social Networking brings along
a few negative but controllable aspects. There are countless stories about people of all ages who
have been affected in some way or another by cyber bulling. The Story of Megan Meier was one
that you will never forget. She hung herself in a closet because a certain boy
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Argumentative Tone
Both Janet and Dave made great points, but in two different tones. Dave gave a more negative more
negative tone. Although Janet gave a positive tone. It's more of an opinion on what you think. Just
like Dave and Janet.
Dave definitely sent a more negative tone because he wanted to get rid of ads in school
. "It's time to
ban commercial advertising in schools" (Kessler). He wants commercial advertising out of schools.
He wants ads ban because he says students can't avoid them, but they need the money. So what can
they do?
Janet sent a positive tone because she wants adverting in schools. she thinks that they need the
money and advertising would help" The advertising money in our school received last year helped
two teachers who were going to
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Argumentative Essay
To whom this may concern, Good Afternoon, the reason for this letter is to appeal the decision of me
being denied unemployment benefits. The reasons stated for my termination were incorrect and
false. The decision made by Unemployment Insurance was based off incorrect information. I
worked as the Security Supervisor for Colonial Security Services. We were contracted to work for a
private school called Pingry School. My hours were overnight from Sunday 11pm–8am. Overnight
there wasn't anyone in the building that allowed us to not wear our full uniform until it was time to
be posted at the front desk at 6am. (Pants and shirt) Those were the words of Jim Westgate from
Colonial Security. (However, he will dispute it now that I was terminated)
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At 0745 that morning, I did take my cell phone out of my pocket while at the front desk. There
weren't any visitors present; it was 15 minutes until the end of my shift. I do have a daughter and
checked if I had any messages regarding her. The time it took to check was 10 seconds (if that). All
actions done as to my supervisor duties were done via my personal cell phone. Never was there a
policy or conversation told to me about being on my cell phone. Not with Colonial Security or
Pingry School. Pingry employees working outside, inside, office, and front desk, all walked around
talking, texting, using their personal cell phones. Employees of Colonial Security all contacted me
via my personal cell phone during my working hours. On the morning of July 5th, Mike Virzi (main
boss with Pingry) walked up to the front desk talking loudly on his personal phone. At that time, I
was taking my phone out of my pocket to check messages. He asked if I was playing games, I
replied "No". He then asked what I was doing. I answered checking something. He stated to put
your phone away. I paused for a second and looked at him, while putting my phone away, I did ask
him why? It was never an issue of me using my phone for the past 7 months working there. Mike
Virzi was in a bad mood and had a very disgusting attitude. He decided to project his personal
problems unto me. I was then asked to leave for the remainder of my shift,
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