Everything's An Argument With Readings By Andrea Lunsford

Perspectives: Always Consider Them Arguments are everywhere; everyone has used some sort of argumentation in their life. Whether it’s asking permission to go out, begging a professor for additional time on a due assignment, or arriving late to class. Your examining different evidence to decide which way is more dependable to use to make our stateluisament or an argument. In other words, an Argument is a sequence of statements that are used to persuade an audience with reasons for accommodating a conclusion. Creating arguments is something that isn’t hard to do, what is hard to grip on is, finding the logic in an argument. I found myself creating similar scenarios; pretty much made three comparable settings that all fight for the same point.

These stories helped shape my scenarios and created my argument about being open-minded with perspectives. One story in particular, in regards to achieving the American dream as an immigrant really sheds light on the point in hand. “Moving to the U.S” by Kirk Semple is about the success of three business men who emigrated from their country to the U.S. and triumphed with the thanks of modern technology. All three men did not speak English fluently, they were still able to go between the lines and challenged the belief of having to know English in order to succeed in America. The purpose of Semples article is to show readers that the traditional perspective of English as an official language is not essentially the only perspective to reflect

When I was in Mexico, back in 2007, I went to go watch a newly animated movie about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, dubbed in Spanish. While waiting in line with my cousins from Mexico, I was distracted by a young man being escorted out the movie theatre. As my cousins and I waited for the movie outside the lobby of the theater, I was able to hear the reason why security and staff escorted the young man I seen before I bought my ticket. The employee had said that the young man who just was kicked out was sneaking in to watch a movie that he no money to afford to watch it. I felt bad for the young man because initially my first thoughts of this man, was that he was up to know good. But if I took to consideration the other aspects of the situation going on, I might have noticed that he had rugged dirty clothes and that his left shoe had a hole. My perception of the young man changed after. Same goes for some who lets say arrives late to an important job interview. The interviewer might not want to even go on with the interview and dismiss the person. My nephew was that person who arrived late and got dismissed for it. But I believe his reason was valid enough to get a second chance or an extension. He was late because my father, his grandfather had a diabetes attack that he believed needed immediate