Changez's Argument Essay

1. For my television commercial I used the popular Sham wow infomercial. According to the site the Sham Wow is “a washcloth, which will dry, and polish any surface. They are like a towel, chamois, and sponge all in one--except they're extremely absorbent and can be used over and over.” However, a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America gives Sham Wow a “C” and says it’s a normal towel so why have so many Americans fallen for the gimmick?

Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer illustrates the life and death of Christopher McCandless, and his search for the true meaning in life. McCandless’ family was well-off and he graduated from Emory University with honors. Everything in McCandless’ life came easy, and because of this he wished to find what it meant to work for something. Through his perilous journey across the United States, McCandless found a way to inspire others everywhere he went. His independent and carefree mindset inspired other adventure seekers. Because McCandless desired to push the status-quo, he trades material wealth in order to find the richness in life.

Since its inhabitance, competition and dominance has been a concept that remains prevalent throughout American life. Past ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, Cultural Imperialism, and Ethnocentrism are all practices and beliefs comprising what it means to be American for many citizens, while also continually shaping outside perception of Americans today. On one hand, many countries have and continue to fully embrace American culture, globalization, and the rise of capitalism. In contrast, many countries have and continue to reject America’s stride for world assimilation regarding their ideals and values.

It shines a light on changes that stem from cultural hegemony that not only does it come from a few persuasive to the right area of an affluent individual but it can also come from the deliberate aspiration a half-conscience hopes which concludes little with class relations. Lears wanted to showcase how certain influential Americans have unintentionally changed their social results which in turn transforms their own class concept of cultural hegemony.

The first statement in the passage, “All who consider other teachings equal to or higher than the Gospel err, and they do not know what the Gospel is” reflects the Protestant theology that the Bible is the highest form of authority when making decisions in matters of faith and morals of Christianity. The “Gospel” is the teaching of Christ and this statement conveys that people who believe that teachings other than the teaching of Christ (Bible), are the same as or higher in authority than the Bible, do not know what the Bible and its teachings are. This proves that Zwingli is supporting the belief, of the Bible being the highest form of authority, in his writing.

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With the prospect of expanding further west, many Americans were interested in gaining authority over lands occupied by the Native American people. Prior to the Dawes Severalty Act, each tribe had communally owned land. Dawes Severalty Act made it law that Native American owned land was in fact American land and that individual Natives owned a portion of their own land. This benefit was in exchange of two features. Firstly, Native Americans were granted citizenship from the United States of America. Secondly, the Native American people effectively have up an integral part of their culture: community. In splitting the Native lands into smaller native lands, the U.S. was able to further its goals.

Esteemed teacher at Elk Grove High School was arrested Thursday morning. Two Elk Grove police officers barged in on her first class of the day not only to find that she had controlled substances on her, but she also tried planting them on a student in said class.

Have you ever been so desperate that you were willing to give up? Alfred is seventeen year old boy who dropped out from high school. Alfred works at a grocery store and hangs out with street kids. Alfred begins to realize that he needs to do something he decided that he will be a Contender. He goes to Donatelli's gym to start his training. Donatelli is a very important person to Alfred throughout the story. He also gets good advice from him and learns a good important lesson.

The folk panorama of America noticeably shifts and become less outlined by the “Anglo-Protestant culture” (Foreign Policy), than previous occurrences. It may be considered a warning instead of a danger to American’s identify, if we tend to change modern day back to historical traditions. Conversely, American culture needs to be clarified on what it is. The approach that fundamentalists and non-traditionalists comparable to Samuel Huntington, manage to theorize culture as stable, instead of alteration. Due to this response, everyone should observe and state that American culture and identify will always continue to change, especially with the migration of countries.

In truth, its history dates back as far as the sixteenth century, following the first great expansion of European capitalism, which resulted in slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism (Ezema, 2009). Throughout history, world powers have continually sought to perpetuate their way of life: from the philosophy and mythology of the Greeks, the political ideologies and linguistics of the Romans, and the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Daghrir, 2013). Thus, it comes as no surprise that the aftermath of the post-war era, which saw the collapse of Soviet communism and the emergence of the United States as the sole hegemon, saw the aggressive spread of American ideals, values, and beliefs. Indeed, just as American goods flooded world markets in the post-World War II era; American culture now penetrates every continent through the aggressive development of mass communications, trade expansion and information technology.

Changez’s allusion to Plato revealed the insidious construction of an American identity; In the same manner, through Changez’s use of narrative monologue, Hamid demonstrates Changez’s experiences of alienation by the American society, namely America’s proclivity to confer Changez’s American identity with one hand and steal it with the other. When Changez reflects on his summer vacation with his Princeton classmates in Greece, he notes his peers’ propensity for materialism, contempt for elders and hubris. In response, he says, “I found myself wondering by what quirk of human history my companions-many of whom I would have regarded as upstarts in my own country, so devoid of refinement were they- were in a position to conduct themselves in the world as though they were its ruling-class” (Hamid 34).

Exercises 10: This is essentially an argument. The author argues, “Love looks not with eyes but with mind.” However, Shakespeare primary argumentative claim is that true love is able to ignore superficial beauty and appreciate the genuine value of a person. Thus, he believes that Cupid, being the agent of love, is therefore blind to appearance. Cupid is often portrayed in art as wearing a blindfold, "painted blind". Yet, the following passage contains some argument and has been interpreted as argument. Therefore, the entire propositions preceding the first judgment and/ or claim of the passage serve as premises.