NOVA Persuasive Essay

In 1983, Raymond Carver introduced his short story “Cathedral” to the public. The first-person narrative takes place within the narrator’s home, where his wife is waiting upon the arrival of her blind friend Robert. The narrator, however, becomes more concerned about how Robert’s visit will affect him rather than enjoy the situation. Once Robert arrives, the narrator tries to understand the blind man, but he is unaware of what tasks Robert is capable of performing due to the narrator’s inability to “see”. In time, Robert shows the narrator the difference between looking and seeing through illustrations of a cathedral, drawn by the narrator with his eyes closed. “Cathedral’s” narrator exposes readers to anti-heroic views

Being an athletes is one of the best-paid jobs on Earth. Being that they are paid so much the cost for the consumer is very high. The prices of tickets and sports memorabilia have been steadily rising over the years. The average ticket prices for the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL all rose 5% to 10% this year, according to Jon Greenberg, executive editor of Team Marketing Report. (Mihoces).

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“Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay and present it to the class in a week. You will be graded based on how convincing it is. Today we will be choosing topics,” announced Mr. Bowerbank, my 7th grade English teacher and ruler of classroom 110. My class simultaneously groaned at the prospect of work. I simply lifted my head with intrigue as it was already May and about time we had our first essay. He then proceeded to give examples of topics we could choose and gave us some time to think before we had to tell him our topic. My classmates were already rushing to tell the teacher their idea lest someone else steal it. That meant the usual abortion, death penalty, or drug use topics were out. I really couldn't think of anything and the teacher was slowly making his way through the remaining students like an executioner beheading criminals in a line. I have always thought that he would make a marvelous supervillain if he had a curly mustache, a tophat, and a cape. Eventually my name was called. I slowly dragged myself over to his desk. Even sitting down, he still seemed to tower over me. “What is your topic Cindy?” As usual in such desperate times, my mind turned to food. “Waffles are better than pancakes.” I figured that a waffle was just a differently shaped pancake with a nicer texture. “Hmm. Excellent topic. I look forward to your essay!” I survived to live yet another day.

Have you ever overcame an obstacle? If so, was it a challenge for you? Maybe you are

Life is a wonderful thing but at times it can be quite cruel. If you have a belief that is not common amongst anyone else or is unfavorable to many, then you find yourself in a stump. People will always fight with you, argue with you, yell with you, fight for you. But it is always hard, for sometimes it is not your place since you are not there yet. I know what I want to do with my life but because I know, does not mean I will. Society is a tough place for me and others like me... unless you are of another race or your skin is darker, then it is much harsher for you. I want to change the world, discover the world, explore the universe, but will the life of a society like ours, let me?

SAT (Standardize test) is a homogenize test in structure and composition that is used for college admissions in united states over the last century passing for many changes since was created. The test has been very useful for different colleges. Was designed to help the administration to determinate which students have the coefficient to attend to their courses. Indeed, the SAT has been a key of succeed in the highest education and it is suppose to help students to be prepare and know if they can go through the process in college. Nowadays, many colleges in United States had eliminate the test as a requirement to enroll their programs. Even though Opponents of the standardize test claim that should be thoroughly eliminated from all the college because it is unfair, obsolete, and cause health problems.

You are on a plane 10,000 feet up, and it is negative 4 degrees fahrenheit, with a 200 mph wind in your face, and there are 23 pounds of money attached to you, and 4 parachutes tightly strapped on your body. Would you jump? After threatening to blow up a passenger jet and getting his demands of $200,000 and 4 parachutes, Dan Cooper jumped out of a Boeing 727 on November 24, 1971 and was never seen or heard from after that. Dan was mistakenly said as D.B in a newspaper article and the name stuck with him ever since. There are theories that Cooper landed in a body of water and died because of hypothermia, or some say that he died after the jump and got eaten by wolves. The theory that's most likely proven is that D.B. Cooper survived his escape. There is anecdotal and physical evidence, and expert testimony that can prove Cooper’s survival.

All over the world, citizens’ desire to talk about sensitive subjects, such as race, sexual orientation, and death, has diminished in the last decade. The modern trend is to avoid certain topics so as not to offend anyone. Unresolved subjects, however, require person to person communication in order to minimize their damaging effects. One major topic of conversation that is avoided by people every single day is suicide. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States today and takes the lives of about 44,193 Americans every year. For some in this world there seems to be no hope, no relief from their upsetting feelings, but this is a growing trend that needs to stop before it takes the lives of more because despite what they may believe, there is hope in and for the world we live in.

Once I stepped foot inside my house after coming home a couple minutes late of my curfew from a night out to eat with my cousins, my mother immediately yells at me for going out too much with them. She yelled in my language and in broken English, “Molly Ann, you never do anything in this house! Why you keep on going out with your cousins when you never do anything to help around in this house!”

When you have a dream, what are your dreams made of? In my opinion, dreams are just like treasures of life. Each dream is owned by a different person, and no one can criticism it. “Never let anyone lower your goals” (Alexander 66). Dream just likes spiritual support to a person. Having a dream will give people hopes to think that they have the abilities to do variety of businesses in the world. In this case, dreams encourage people to learn persevere because during the process of approaching goals, there will be enormous mount of difficulties. Thus, people will be persist by convincing themselves that they have the ability to overcome. In the book, The Crossover, Josh Bell who is the main character wants to be one of the best basketball player in the world, and this is his goal. However, during the process of becoming the best player, he met lots of difficulties, so he practiced harder to “Hustle dig/ grind push/ run fast/ change pivot/ chase pull/ aim shoot/ work smart/ live smarter/ play harder/ practice harder” (Alexander 57).

A mammal, completely covered in scales sits in the grasslands at night. At only about 5 pounds, these creatures roam alone and are ready to protect themselves from any danger by spewing a noxious acid into the air. They roll completely into a ball, covering their faces, and use the scales on their tails to attack predators who approach. Completely harmless, the animal eats ants with only their sticky tongues that extend further than their body length. Although one probably couldn’t guess what animal this is, these eight species across Asia and Africa are considered ‘vulnerable to critically endangered.’ This animal can protect itself from its expected predators, but humans have become the unstoppable surprise. Thrown into bags and taken from protected lands, the animal mentioned is the pangolin.

Suddenly the unforgettable “Jaws” music plays in my mind, like a broken record on repeat. Cue the monstrous "Jaws" that broke the box office in the summer of 1975. With the mock-up of a twenty five foot shark, this brilliant movie caused watchers everywhere to considerably rethink their summer destination spot. Every summer, I at least watch this horror film with my family during the quaint summer party that we have at the beginning of each summer break, but you could probably catch me watching it the night before vacation. In the summer of 2016, my family and I had decided that the perfect, relaxing vacation would be in Topsail Island, North Carolina where we could sit by the waves or swim in the canals. I had always been a little scared of sharks and their pointy teeth, but the thought of seeing one in open water causes chills across my skin because sharks are known for prowling and harming anything in their vicinity.

The United States army works arguably harder than any other Americans and they work to protect us so that we can feel safe in the land home to over 300 million people. Recently the National Football League has seen some very controversial behavior, during the National Anthem players have sat, kneeled, raised fists and embraced teammates who have done the following to raise awareness for police violence. But while doing this they have disrespected our army who are all over the earth protecting us so that we can do the things that we love such as playing football. I think that the players in the NFL should not be able to kneel during the National Anthem because it disrespects a country that is fighting so the people in our country can feel safe.

If I could choose any three people to eat dinner and spend an evening with in U.S. history they would be Maria Tallchief, Sojourner Truth, and Thomas Jefferson.