Persuasive Essay

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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.

The basic right to own a gun has been a hot controversy among lawmakers in recent years. Many believe making it hard to get a gun or taking them away completely would benefit the average citizen but this is not true. This may slow down the rate that criminals get guns but will not stop them from getting their hands on one. The right to own a gun should not be controlled or taken away because it takes the right of self defense and protection away from citizens, is not proven to lower crime and gun related deaths, and is a basic right in the constitution protected by the second amendment.

After a long look at assessment I was feeling quite discouraged about teaching art. The check boxes on a rubric, the standards that needed to be pushed on students feel constrictive. In film, you have a lot of planning to do prior to shooting your first shot. Sometimes the thrill in creating in this medium is about the script. Sometimes it’s the costumes or the lighting. The choices are endless. I want to make my classroom feel less like a student/teacher driven assessment and much more like a studio with mentees. Kathryn Douglas’ article was an inspiration for my post this week. Her expression of freedom in the classroom is inspiring.

I am terribly sorry to inform you that I cannot turn in my essay. This is because in math class yesterday I was trying to solve an equation while minding my own business, when Mrs.Gibson decided to call on me to answer a question. Now, normally I would've been fine and I would have answered the question with ease, but that particular question was excessively difficult and I didn't know the answer. So, in a split second I had to decide between 3 options.

When it comes down to the United States of America, are we really as patriotic as we say, when it comes to pledging for our country ? Explaining, that we pledge our self for this country everyday, so why are we going against the very foundation of our country? “ Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives “ - John Adams, letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808 ( US diplomat and politician 1735-1826 ). John Adams, our 2nd president of the United States, stated we should never question our loyalty to the homeland ( United States Of America ). This raises the question “ Should players be allowed protest, during the National Anthem ? “ Currently, many U.S. citizens are very angered by the protest of NFL players protesting the United States anthem. Which enraged both non-protesters and protesters, but shouldn’t we be united as one, not individually and not pinned each other.

Terry awoke to the loud pounding on the broken door of his cave. He swam outside to find nothing but the darkness of the sea at night. He slowly floated back into the safety of his small, frugal cave.

The terms lunatic and insane are thrown around too lightly. Former citizen of Canton, Massachusetts, Rod Matthews, is the person who should be described by both of these terms. The grown man was only a young, scrawny child when he killed the innocent Shaun Ouillette. Prior to this incident, young Matthews abused wild animals, blew up fish, and lit several fires. However, this was just the start of his mental stability fading away. One Christmas, he was extremely bored, so he decided to light his couch on fire. Eventually, he wanted to set a whole mall on fire, knowing that his mother was working inside of that mall. Matthews was also taken to a psychiatrist to be tested for ADHD, but wasn't treated with anything except Ritalin (a medicine commonly used for children with ADHD). The average child with ADHD doesn't have these murderous and torturous behaviors. Disguised by his middle school’s best smile, Rod Matthews should have been permanently placed in a psychiatric hospital, rather than being sentenced in prison.

The different viewpoints and beliefs that people have weighs on the purpose of standing or kneeling during the pledge, which has led to a lot of controversy from the press, president, national league players, and people of small communities. I agree with the concept of taking a knee, because the main purpose of players taking a knee is to get the media’s attention to express the effect of police brutality on communities in America. In today’s society communities are focused upon the less important things in life, people are being murdered by police and there’s no action being taken to stop it, but when someone kneels to show respect a huge social media uproar starts.

The YouTube advertisement video entitled “Android: Friends Furever” was one of the most shared videos of 2015 with 6 million shares on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. After reviewing this video, it will be determined if the advertisement is emotional or rational. Next, the target audience for the advertisement will be disclosed. Finally, an explanation for the viral status of the video will be provided.

The stereotype of women making decisions that are extremely selfish are initially for there self beneficence in this movie as it eventually leads to selfish behaviour and self destruction. The selfish behaviour occurs when Elsa Schneider took the grail and got all possessive over it like it’s all hers and executes like there will be no aftermath to her actions because there is no one superior than her. When Elsa Schneider took the grail and verbally expressed “We have got it, come on! It’s ours Indiana, yours and mine” (Steven Spielberg). Elsa knew she couldn't take the grail past the seal but she did it because she did not perceive the consequences but rather the benefit, all because of the stereotypical selfish behaviour of women. The moment when Dr Elsa Schneider took the grail and said “We have got it, come on! It’s ours Indiana, yours and mine”(Steven Spielberg), shows the how feminist attributes of females such as selfish decisions was shown in this scene. When the words were spoken, the shining gaze in Elsa’s eyes clearly shows how everything she was doing to get the grail was for her own benefit clearly making it a selfish decision. The grail was clearly not only hers and she was not suppose to cross the seal but then again, self benefitting decisions always lead to negative events and negative impressions on the character. Women are usually seen as making decisions that either hurt others or are only benefiting them as this is exceptionally shown in this scene as

Today’s society is run solely on technology and social media; at least it seems like it. Everything you want to know can be found on the internet; dating, cooking, college courses, essays and other things you can imagine. It is a great thing and also a bad thing. Everything should not be on the internet. However, some people can do more online than in person due to lack of transportation or sometimes disabilities. Some people work online from home, which is a great way to earn money for people with disabilities, household responsibilities or do not have transportation.

Richard Matheson writes a novel that follows Rober Neville as the only human being on the earth where he finds himself the sole survivor. He is trying to describe the struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Rober Neville listens to classical music, drinks himself into oblivion, and tries to make friend with a dog, possibly the last living being on earth. I quickly become absorbed in Neville's battle to keep existing, because that's pretty much all you can do when the world and everything and everyone in it has gone to hell. Since he is the only survivor, he wants to keep alive in the new world of vampires. How can you survive in the vampire's world? Probably, like Neville, killing vampires with piercing stakes into their hearts. When you are doing the same thing every day (killing), you become obsessed and you want more and more. Matheson justifies himself for his acts of violence to survive in the world. Is there any reason to kill? Can a man survive on his own? Apparently, the answer is no, which proves that despite the effort we make, we can never be protected from every danger.

It was a. Monday afternoon at Hillsborough Middle School in Hillsborough, NJ. In the lunchroom, you were able to hear hundreds of friends communicating with each other about how their day been. You could see long lines of people trying to get their lunch before the twenty minutes. In the lunchroom, between all mumbling voices, my friend told me she has been having a difficult time trying to study for all the exams she has in the same week. She said she took a quiz in science and got an ok grade, but she was not proud of the outcome. She had ranted to me about all the homework and studying she had to do for multiple subjects in the same week. This made her worry a lot more about her grades because if she didn’t study enough for one of the assignments she would get a poor classification. Nearly every student has the same difficulty with homework, tests, and quizzes which results to students worrying too much about their grades. Even when students take their exams or do their homework there is always something else to be losing sleep over. The question is... are students not putting in effort or “,is there really too much to handle?”

I've gotten into trouble before, there's no arguing that. I can name many times I've gotten myself into scenarios that got me into trouble. Some on purpose, some accidental. Lots of the time, for fun. My friends and I have gotten ourselves into many things, no one usually gets hurt, well except for the time we skied under the ropes at Crested Butte and my friends and I hit a cliff and I ended up having to get brought down on a stretcher from the ski patrol, definitely got hurt then, but it all ends being a good story after anyway. That's what a lot of mistakes end up being, are stories to tell down the road, I suppose you could say it's quite a story now, but not a story I'm proud of in any way. I got myself into a situation that I wish I never was in, a story that I wish I didn't have the opportunity to tell about now. There's many things that night I wish I could've gone back and changed, but there's no rewind button on life, so I have to live with it and the consequences now. That's life really.