An argument is described as, “an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.” Arguments are used in everyday life in order to prove points. There has been heated debates on whether or not liver transplants should be given to alcoholics. Many may say that Alcoholics shouldn’t be able to get transplants due to alcoholism being a choice. Well Cohen completely disagrees. He makes many valid points that just because someone is an alcoholic doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be able to get any transplants! Throughout Cohen’s article he argues the fact that basically anyone even an alcoholic should be able to receive organ transplants. In the start of the article Cohens approach to explain his point is very interesting. He starts off his thesis stating that, “Alcoholic Cirrhosis of the liver-severe scarring is by far the major cause of end-stage liver disease.” I feel that what he is doing is understanding the problem. He is more stating …show more content…
In the medical section he disagree with the argument that, “because alcoholics do poorly after transplant as a result of their bad habits, good stewardships of organs in a short supply requires that alcoholics be excluded from consideration.” Cohen literally breaks this argument down in two points. He claims that the argument above is false and then he goes on to say that even if they are correct that they should also exclude people who damage their organs in other ways. He bashes the fact that alcoholics are excluded by putting other people’s bad habits in the argument. This is very creative and it does go out of the way in order for him to prove his point. His kind of points fingers at others as if to say, “You’re doing bad as well why you don’t get punished for your actions?” This argument is also creative, because it points the finger and shows that other people are also doing wrong but aren’t considered bad for
In order for this to be an argument, there needs to be a premise and conclusion. The premise of this statement is that the Nazis can’t be stopped when people are just letting them get away with murdering countless minority groups. Furthermore, Arvid’s conclusion is that we should all fight against the Nazis. This
Summary – In an argument you are attempting in persuasion to change the audience’s mood, mind or their willingness to act. In a fight you are focused on beating your opponent rather than winning over the audience. It is important when in the midst of an argument you know exactly what you want by the end of it.
In “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn, the focal point of chapter 17 was an issue for decades and was not enforced after Civil Rights Acts were passed and that was the inequality amongst the blacks and whites through slavery and segregation. It also gave an insight to how African Americans felt through these times and how they began to express themselves through blues, jazz, and poems. Blues were known to have expressions of anger as opposed to jazz that was rebellious. The thoughts of African American poems were often masked, but had a very significant meaning. Through the event where “President Truman in late 1946 appointed a Committee on Civil Rights, which recommended that the civil rights section of the Department
Jonathan Pease is the President & founder of Rock Solid Stabilization & Reclamation, Inc. one of the industry leaders in soil stabilization and road reclamation in the country.
In May of 1776 a resolution was passed at the Virginia Convention in Williamsburg that asked the thirteen American colonies to declare the United Colonies free and independent from the British crown. At the second continental congress the resolution passed and on June 11, 1776 a five-man committee led by Thomas Jefferson was established to write the Declaration of Independence. On July 4, 1776 the members of the second continental congress signed into existence one of the most influential documents in history.
Jake Olson is a blind long snapper for the University of Southern California Trojans. Jake was given a rare form of retinal cancer that took his sight as a child. Jake lost his left eye when he was 10 months old. The cancer forced doctors to remove his right eye when he was 12 years old. Playing for USC has been a lifelong dream for Jake and he never gave up that dream even after he became blind.
Arguments can be made out of just about anything. An argument has two sides, and conveying an opinion is one of those two sides. Arguments sort out the views of others and the support of those arguments represented by those people from past events. These events let others show their argument about what will happen in the future, and of how the future carries on today. Newspaper articles can be arguments, and laws being passed in Congress have a form of argument associated with them. There are many types of arguments that are presented in many ways. In Everything’s an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz, information is given about three specific types of argument: forensic, deliberative, and ceremonial. Forensic arguments deal with the past, deliberative talks about the future, and ceremonial is all about the present. I have identified each of these arguments in the form of newspaper articles.
Everyone wants to be “happy.” Everyone endeavors to fulfill their desires for their own pleasure. What makes this ironic is, the fact that most don‘t know what the actual definition of happiness is. “In Pursuit of Unhappiness” presents an argument, which states that not everyone will be happy. Darrin McMahon, the article’s author, explores the ways our “relentless pursuit of personal pleasure”(McMahon P.11;S.3) can lead to empty aspirations and impractical expectations, making us sad, and not happy. Rather than working to find the happiness of others, we should all focus on finding what makes ourselves happy. It is easier to find happiness in the little things
The 1920's was a time when cultural and social changes began to take place in the history of the United States. People began to grow in prosperity, change the rules when it came to morals and manners, and the cultural civil war of individual rights. This is the time when women are fighting for their rights to be equal in comparison to their white male counterparts. During this period women are realizing their impact on how society functions and the roles they play. This was the beginning of the true feminists’ mission. After “August 23, the day when the Tennessee legislature finally enacted the Federal suffrage amendment" (Eastman,
Putnam, begins his argument by stating the scientific fiction which state that, let us imagine that our brains have been removed from our bodies and are placed in a vat of nutrient which keeps our brain alive (Putnam, 1981:6). He furthermore explains that we can imagine that the machine (computer) our brains are connected to they cause illusion that everything is normal. (ibid.).
The usage of strategies in my interpretation statement was how Rushkoff used methods of persuasion, fear, and the aim of cognitive approach to show that looking toward the future was more beneficial than the present. The strategy I have used on writing this paper was connecting emotional feelings to readers and insert hesitations of their situation by texts that could associate with them. Before, my statement was about how Rushkoff used logical reasoning to prove his claim. Now, is a new thesis, “Throughout the article, he uses examples that people in modern society would be able to connect to through strategies of pathos, ethos and a cognitive angle. As an additional supportive strategy Rushkoff did, he establishes fear in certain types of
Argument (P. 88) – The point of an argument is to convince someone through using truth or logic, also known as logos: facts, evidence, reliable testimonies, common sense and determining probability. This does not require the presence of an opposing force to ague. If I were to write a paper on television being the leading cause for poor vision, that would be an argument.
To argue is to attempt to convince a reader to agree with a point of view, to make a decision, or to pursue a particular course of action (Eschholz, Rosa, and Clark 429). In an argument there are three main elements: ethos, logos, and pathos. In ethos, the author tries to build his/her character to the audience. In this particular essay, Mr. Keillor does not build his credibility very well. The only information he reveals is that he is a democrat, which can be found in paragraph one of the essay. The details of Mr.
In this passage, the audience truly sees the meaning behind Herbert Kohl's message. His purpose for writing comes back to the fact that people interpret situations differently in every way. Kohl not only wanted to highlight the purpose behind wanting to learn something new but he also wanted readers to be aware that most time it does not come down to the inability of someone who doesn't want to learn but the real reason behind why they don't want to. People have different opinions on topics such as these but Kohl wanted to show that being able to want to stand up for your culture and the meanings behind it are rather important. Behind Kohl's purpose for writing, we see an insight into his past life relating to Wilfredo's. Kohl's reason for
Most people aren’t familiar with ways our government is trying to lower health care costs of the homeless by putting them in houses, here is their chance to learn. “Housing First” approaches are aimed at reducing the number of homeless people in metropolitan cities, especially in USA and Canada. In Tulsa, the Mental Health Association operates housing models that are successful using the Housing First approach, but only with a success rate of around nine percent. These programs are able to help people achieve self-sufficiency. Special consideration is given to people who have mental illnesses. The main advantage of the approach is it makes an efficient use of the existing systems and services, and then eliminates the need for new ones. The approach has been said to lead to better quality of life, less alcohol and substance use among the beneficiaries, and less use of emergency services by the beneficiaries. Despite all of the advantages and purposes, the program has many challenges that make one think it’s not as successful as first projected. This could lead to program loss or the challenges being dealt with appropriately. If the government wants to use money to help end homelessness, they should put it towards resources and organizations that can, not towards homes where the homeless go to be ignored.