...“I’m going to abort.” If a girl ever said this to me the big question for me would be What could I do to help her? My immediate response would be to ask her if there’s anything I could do then I would try to persuade her not to abort. To do this I’d tell her that abortion is a way of killing a living person who hasn’t been born yet and that there are other options such as adoption. One of the first things that I would ask her would be if there’s anything that I could do. Around this time she might think that abortion is the best way to end “her problem” so I would be willing to listen to her point of view. Even though this may seem as the simplest thing, that might be what she needs, to think out loud and process what she is thinking. Another way that I could be helpful would be by informing her about the health centers that would teach her about the health problems she could have later on due to abortion and help her realize that abortion isn’t the best option....
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...illegal, so why isn't killing your unborn child illegal? Though aborting baby may be legal, there are many reasons why it shouldn't be. As Pope Francis once said, “Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court, or kill you.” While women have the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion, it should be illegal because there can be harm done to the women mentally, physically, and emotionally, the procedure is cruel, and the unborn fetus can even feel pain. So yes, abortion is wrong in every way. Abortion needs to be illegal. Harm is done to the women that have abortions done. Not only physically, but also mentally and emotionally. Infection can happen after an abortion. Damage to a woman's uterus, or even excessive bleeding can become an issue. Many...
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...Michelle Dessens Prof. C. Raack ENG 091 7 December 2015 Be Their Voice. They Have the Right to See the Light! Out of 1,000 women about 17% percent of them have had an abortion between the ages of 15 to 44. With insurance subsidizing abortion cost making it easier to get rid off an unwanted baby it does not just effect them but the society, by showing our adolescent that abortion is morally okay. Abortion should be completely banned due to the cruel methods being used, therefore, new laws should be made to prevent anymore unwanted pregnancy’s and help reduce the number of abortions in the United States. There are too many methods for abortion but not any of them make it any better every single procedure that are being used at extremely brutal...
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...Abortion: Should Parents be able to abort their child? You are a parent, sitting in a doctors office. You have just found out, your child has a birth defect. What are you going to do? You can either abort the child, or continue the pregnancy. This is a very difficult decision for parents to make. Parents should not be allowed to have an abortion because it harms the woman mentally and physically; it is a cruel way to kill a fetus, and it causes future problems in pregnancy. Terminating a pregnancy is a cruel way to kill an unborn because the fetus can feel pain, it limits the number of children to be adopted, and there are organizations who will find a family who can support the child if it has a birth defect. During the procedure, any pain inflicted on the fetus can be felt. In fact, a fetus at the twenty week mark can feel pain more intensely than a grown adult. Abortion also limits adoption chances. Families will take in children with birth defects or disabilities. There are organizations who will take in children with birth defects and find them a good family. The family will be able to care for the child and pay medical bills. The abortion procedure is cruel and torturing to a fetus....
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...Persuasive Paper For your second major assignment, you will be writing a persuasive paper. In a persuasive paper, you convince your reader to take your side on an issue by using several influential techniques, including appealing to your reader’s emotions and establishing credibility and authority. A good persuasive essay will sway your reader to agree with your views. For this particular persuasive paper, you will write about an ethical issue of your choice. Some example issues include: * Euthanasia * The use of social media by employers to screen prospective employees * Vaccination * Abortion * Animal rights * Capital punishment You do not have to choose one of these example issues, but for whatever issue you choose, you must take a stance regarding it and convince your reader that your point of view on the issue is correct. Use persuasive techniques like pathos, ethos and logos to sway your reader to your side. Remember that you can use the same topic in this paper for your future argumentative and research papers, but those papers will be discipline-specific – they’ll ask you to write about an argument and topic within your discipline. If you want to write about the same issue for all three of these papers, you’ll want to take a stance on an issue within your discipline for this paper, too. The grade breakdown for this paper is as follows: Assignment | Point Worth | Rough draft | 40 | Peer review | 10 | Final draft | 100 | Total | 150 | ...
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...The Rise of DIY Abortions is an article adressing the issue of a young girl named Jennie Linn McCormack who at 14, got pregnant for the first time and had many kids after that. The last time she got pregnant, Jennie took abortifacient drugs she bought online and after delivering the dead fetus the next morning. She then decided to hide the aborted fetus under her bed. She then faced felony charges and her case could change the course of abortion law in America as it is known of today. The author uses rhetorical strategies of pathos, logos, and ethos to help argue on why abortions should be illegal or not. The author opens the article with mainly pathos paragraphs by trying to get the emotional appeal of the readers. She does this by sharing the sob story on how Jennie McCormack got pregnant at a very young age and how her life went downhill after that. The author says things like, “She started spending time with an 18-year-old boy in her group of friends. Because he was older and she was a virgin, she trusted him when he said nothing bad would happen if they had sex.” to get you to think that she was peer-pressured to have sex for the first time as if it was not her fault. The author uses Ethos by using a credible source like a case that is well known in the United States. This was to help make the decision of laws on abortion more persuasive to the court. This is a big impact on the article since it has ethical appeal. The logical part of the writing is stated when the article...
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...Reaction Paper of Ernest Hemingway’s Short Story “Hills Like White Elephants” “Then what will we do afterward?”/ ”We’ll be fine afterward. Just like we were before.”/ “What makes you think so?”/”That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.”/ The girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of two of the strings of beads.” Notice that the girl called “Jig” questions the man known as the “American”, when he tells her that they will both be fine afterwards. It only means that she believes otherwise, that things won’t be fine, that things will never be like they were before. In fact, it seems as though something inside her had already changed. She realizes she wants to keep the baby. This story centers on a couple’s verbal argument, which is strongly implied by the text and widely believed by many scholars, whether the girl will have an abortion of her partner’s child. Even before this conversation she talks about their lifestyle with a hint of sarcasm and possibly boredom, “I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it-look at things and try new drinks?” You see the girl refers to their sightseeing as “things”, which shows a sense of weariness and tediousness with their regular day to day activity of the same “thing.” On the other hand, the man displays his naivety as he tries to calm her fears, saying “That’s the only thing (baby) that bothers us. It’s the only thing (baby) that’s made us unhappy.” It is...
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...birth, it is becoming increasingly common practice for parents to undergo prenatal genetic diagnosis (PGD). Subsequent selective abortion appears to be the rational course of action following PGD that reveals a fetus that carries certain markers for a disease or disability. However, many disabilities rights advocates, such as Marsha Saxton, argue that this practice is harmful and morally problematic because of what it implies about the value of those currently living with conditions that would likely be selected against. In this paper, I will present Saxton’s Expressivity Argument, as well a few of the most persuasive counterarguments to her stance, and then explain why I am not compelled to discredit the Expressivist Argument by these objections. Saxton’s Expressivist Argument takes the following...
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...Potential Topics * Cars - a blessing or a curse? * Given the traffic congestion on our roads, should we be doing more to keep cars off the road, and if so, what? * Should wolves be re-introduced to certain parts of Scotland? * Should humans treat farm animals more humanely? * Is there any place for zoos in a civilised society? * What is the future for the British (Scottish) countryside - a recreational retreat or a living, working environment for the production of food? Discuss. * Are celebrities entitled to privacy? * Are child beauty pageants morally acceptable? * It has been said that the glory game of football has been turned into the money game. To what extent do you think this statement is true and how has the game been affected? * Did the Olympics actually inspire the British population or what it a black hole for all our cash? * The Ryder Cup is the perfect example of what a united Europe can achieve – is this the way forward? * Do the various ages of consent need to be reviewed for the young people in this country? * How old is “too old” for parenthood? * Have improvements in contraception brought about liberation or a passport to promiscuity? * Has genetic engineering gone too far? * Cloning - a tremendous medical advance or an ominous development? * Should animal organs be used for human transplantation? * Should doctors have the right to refuse expensive treatment to patients who will not change their habits (eg...
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...A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift In the essay A Modest Proposal, Swift’s promoter, David Berkowitz, proposes what he thinks is the right solution to the problems being faced by the public of an eighteenth century Ireland. In this particularly long essay, Berkowitz promotes the idea of selling and consuming children. The promoter proposes the immoral ideas in an unsubstantiated fashion which results in this essay being an unsuccessful research essay. In A Modest Proposal, there are three key elements in this piece of writing that render Berkowitz’s argument baseless: the seriousness of the tone of the promoter, the proposal itself, and the use of unreliable sources used throughout the essay. A Modest Proposal begins with the writer describing the underprivileged state of the country of Ireland. Berkowitz starts to build on and take advantage of the relationship of a writer and his audience. He develops sympathy with the masses of Ireland forcing the reader to begin to sympathize and consider how big the problem is. He says that “this prodigious number of children in the arms, …, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance.”(Swift 2). He implies that having such a great number of starving children is a huge problem being faced by the country. He explains that the mothers of these children are driven to beg for any kind of support they can get for their infants when he says “are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance...
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...(blackstone): women lost their identity after marriage (merged with husband) & considered inferior to men (acted under husband) - Result: Tenants in the entirety or joint accounts > assumed man put in all the $ (women has BOP to prove otherwise) ii. After 14th amendment > women began to feel that they should have rights as well B. 19th Century: 2 sphere ideology where women queen of home & men marketplace people > no = protection because genders seperaet 1) Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th amendment - a. Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) i. FACTS: Bradwell and her husband ran the most influential legal paper in the Midwest & she wanted a license to practice law > was denied to her on the basis of the fact that she was a woman ii. CLAIM: P & I Clause gives the right to earn a living to all American citizens iii. NOTE: EPC not really used for these arguments because men and women were so separately situated iv. HELD: claim was denied (cited Slaughterhouse cases 1872 which...
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...(blackstone): women lost their identity after marriage (merged with husband) & considered inferior to men (acted under husband) - Result: Tenants in the entirety or joint accounts > assumed man put in all the $ (women has BOP to prove otherwise) ii. After 14th amendment > women began to feel that they should have rights as well B. 19th Century: 2 sphere ideology where women queen of home & men marketplace people > no = protection because genders seperaet 1) Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th amendment - a. Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) i. FACTS: Bradwell and her husband ran the most influential legal paper in the Midwest & she wanted a license to practice law > was denied to her on the basis of the fact that she was a woman ii. CLAIM: P & I Clause gives the right to earn a living to all American citizens iii. NOTE: EPC not really used for these arguments because men and women were so separately situated iv. HELD: claim was denied (cited Slaughterhouse cases 1872 which...
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...value system. How we then communicate with one another reflects our attitude towards our social environment. According to Baron and Byrne (1997), “Attitudes are lasting evaluations of various aspects of the social world” (p. 112). It is essentially the mental state when responding to objects and situations through the opinions, perceptions and value systems formed, which are all as a result of early socialisation. Communication, whether verbal or non-verbal, is essential in human interaction. Therefore, the study of communication is essential in understanding human behaviour. The field of social psychology deals with how we think about and interact with others, so it is no surprise that this field will be the basis of reasoning in this paper. Relationships are very important in our social reality; however, they are also very fragile. Building relationships instead of destroying them will depend on our understanding of our ongoing interaction with people. Our attitudes will always tell a very interesting story as they are deeply imbedded in our self identity. As individuals we tend to get passionate about specific concepts, this passion really demonstrates our attitudes on social information. For this reason, the influence of attitudes on human behaviour is dominant and relevant. It can then be said that our behaviour intention is actually dependent on our attitude towards the particular behaviour. The communication process is one of transferring meaning from one person to...
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...UNIT 1 Special Note: The argumentative essay is a very useful test of a student’s ability to think logically. Argue: v. 1. to persuade someone to do or not do something. 2. to give the reasons for your opinion, idea, belief, etc. Argumentative: adj. someone who is argumentative often argues or like arguing. Argument: n. a set of reasons that show that something is true or untrue, right or wrong etc. When you have an opinion and try to convince your listener or reader to accept your opinion, you are agreeing with or disagreeing with something. For example: In an everyday situation, you may try to convince a friend to go somewhere or in a composition or speech class, the instructor may make an assignment in which you must support or oppose the use of nuclear energy to produce electricity. If you agree or disagree on an issue, you will want your reader or listener to accept your point of view. There are a few types of argumentative compositions such as: 1. Advantages and disadvantages 2. Expressing opinions/providing solutions to problems 3. Expressing arguments for and against a topic 4. Compare and contrast something or somebody PURPOSE of ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAYS * An argument follows when two groups disagree about something. * People can have different opinions and can offer reasons in support...
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...list of topics below, which was shared in Week 1’s lecture, choose a topic in which you have more than just a passing interest. The best topic to choose is one which impacts you in some way. Having personal experience with the topic will probably lend some perspective on it and may get you closer to an angle on it. Also, sometimes research can be daunting, but if you have personal experience with the topic, or are even passionate about it, you will probably be more motivated to keep working when the “going gets tough.” Thus, while “interest” in a topic is important, mere interest will probably not sustain you through this project. You might ask yourself, “What is it about this topic that sparks my interest enough to write a ten page paper about it?” Once you choose the topic, please respond to the five questions below. Each of your responses should be approximately two paragraphs in length. This assignment will be graded using the Week 1 Assignment Rubric available in Doc Sharing. Education | Technology | Family | Health and Wellness | School Bullies | Multitasking and Technology | Sexualization of Girls | College Students and Weight Issues | No Child Left Behind Act/Race to the Top | Technology and Social Isolation | Gender Discrimination | Childhood Obesity | Grade Inflation | Perils of Social Networking | Unequal Rights in Marriage, Children | Fad Diets | College Students and Underage Drinking | Online Dating/Online Predators/Sex Offenders | Children...
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