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.

Aliens are taking over the world and it is up to us to stop them.

Paying attention to the words of your writing. Be sure you know what you're saying -- when you see yourself writing "it's the knowing that" or "I believe it's the case," ask yourself or other whether you really want to post this note before looking at your details. And once it's been through two or three group actions, you get the same distortion effect as in the game "Operator": Whatever you said may be unrecognizable. In addition, make sure your notes are nice clear word and logical. It's perfectly possible to write a paragraph that contains no errors in grammar or spelling, but still makes no sense whatsoever. This is most likely to happen when you're trying to impress someone by using a lot of long words that you don't really understand yourself.Finally, be pleasant and polite. Don't use offensive language, and don't be confrontational for the sake of confrontation.

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.

The purpose of the American flag is to be able to recognize the freedom we have as Americans. All Americans have the right to protest in America, but they shouldn’t allow the flag to be the item that is protested against. Americans stand and salute the flag for the ability to be alive and have the freedom to protest. People today are not standing for the flag and national anthem. This is to protest for some that do not feel equal in our society. However, this is unfortunate when people in the military die for our freedom and our ability to protest. Another problem our country has is that Americans wear the flag. Meaning the shirts they wear look like the flag. This goes against our flag codes that are put in place to protect the flag. Americans should not wear the flag, and protest against the flag. Americans should show respect and stand proud to be alive and proud of the men and women in the military giving them the ability to have life, liberty, and the freedom to pursue happiness.

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?”

Schools are allowed to confiscate phones and search them without a warrant as long as they have reasonable suspicion, but often times, people do not understand what reasonable suspicion is, which leads to phones being searched at unnecessary times, and students’ privacy being invaded. In order for a person to use reasonable suspicion as their reason to search another person’s belongings, they must be able to state specific facts that are significant enough to lead to a search. Rumors or anonymous tips that do not include any detail are not reason enough to conduct a search on a student because they are often false and spread to hurt the individual. Though reasonable doubt has specific guidelines, many people, like professor Amy Vorenberg, do not only have issues with its misuse, but also the legality of it in general. In 2012, Vorenberg wrote an article which argued that warrantless searches of student phones violated students’ privacy and could possibly go against the fourth amendment of the US Constitution. The fourth amendment is, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Some people believe that warrantless searches of students’ phones violate the fourth amendment to the US

Too many times in my life have I started a discussion with someone, but wished to end it after only a couple of minutes. Whether it be on the forums of Reddit or in real life, people tend to get hostile when you offer up a differing opinion. The discussion may start civilly, but it often devolves into name calling and childish insults about the other person’s intelligence. In doing so, the discussion has essentially been ruined, as it now has more to do with winning over the other person, than it does discussing the topic itself.

On February 9, 2007, Chris Williams’s life changed forever. As Williams was driving home with his wife and three youngest kids, a car “moving at an unbelievably high speed” T-boned their car “with a force so violent and tremendous that the impact stopped [their] car from going downhill and pushed it back uphill.” In an instant, two of his children, his wife, and their unborn child were killed in the horrific accident. In his own words, “I was ready for death. I tried to will myself to pass out; I wanted to succumb to the process of having my spirit leave my body. From deep inside my body came a sound of excruciating anguish and pain, of body and spirit being crushed.” However, Williams simply faced the overturned car that had crashed into his and chose to “let it go” (“Just Let Go”). Within moments of the accident, he forgave the drunk driver that had killed the majority of his family. Although this is an extreme example, I believe offering forgiveness to those who have wronged me is an important principle in my life. Forgiveness relieves me of holding grudges, seeking revenge, and despising those who use me.

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.

When will one reach life's finish line is not an answerable question. Some do not think about the inevitable, but I do. I have wanted my life to end long ago, I have tried unsuccessfully uncountable times to bring my life to an end "She's just seeking attention," I have heard it said. No, wrong, I just did not take enough pills.

In today’s society, many people struggle to love themselves. What does it take to truly be open with who you are and to be confident enough to deal with anybody’s judgement in this world? With models all over social media, magazines, television, and loved ones always staring and judging, it is hard for one to truly feel accepted in this world. There will always be people in the world who will shame those who are a little too over weight, those who are too skinny, those who choose the wrong person to love, those who are too confident or too insecure...the list is endless. Nobody in this world should have the right to decide what you should look like, how you should act, and who you should love, except for you. What does it mean to be “too this” or “too that” anyway? Rick Warren once said, “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don’t know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.” Society has its own ideas on what perfection really is and what it looks like, making it hard for humans to truly love themselves the way they are. Why is that? Why do we shame others for being themselves after continuously telling them to “Be Yourself.”