...Fear of Violence Morgan Campbell ENG/215 March 2, 2015 Professor Paul Korzeniowski Fear of Violence Within todays rapid race of self-preservation, there is still overbearing fear within the society. The three essays, that I plan to lay out their critical argumentative analysis, each share a likelihood for fear of violence in daily lives. The author of “Do We Fear the Right Things” identifies differing types of fears people share. While the next author of “Parents Need Help” correlates the rampant rate of video gaming sales to parental and social nurturing guidance. Lastly, the author of “Bang, You’re Dead” argues the proxy self between fantasy violence and children. In reviewing all three essays, it is easier to identify how the authors construct their arguments using opinions and evidence to persuade the reader. Critical Argumentative Essays After the horrific terrorist attack on United States soil in September 11, 2001, author David Myers wrote the professional essay titled “Do We Fear the Right Things” in December 2001. Myers expressed that the fear of the attack surrendered Americans helpless in daily routines. “In the ensuing months, Americans flew 20 percent less. “No way are we flying…instead, we drove many of those miles, which surely caused more additional highway deaths than occurred on those four ill-fated flights,” (Myers, 2001). Throughout the remainder of his article, it explained a multitude of phobias with detailed numerical statistics and off topic...
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...Favorite Essay Of the many styles and topics of writing my English course has reviewed; the reading I found most interesting was “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux. The essay was over Theroux not liking the masculine identity or being a man in general. I enjoyed Theroux’s essay because he goes straight for the point and the topic was very controversial. Theroux’s essay is about how difficult it is to be a man in America. Men are generalized to be tough, sport crazy and unemotional. I believe that generalization is still common but has deteriorated over the decade. Theroux thinks the way children are brought up is wrong, just because a boy does not like sports does not mean there is something wrong with him. From personal experience, I know that not every little boy likes sports or has the opportunity to be active in sports. I grew up in a small apartment with my father, mother and sister. Living in a room with my sister was very hard to deal with. I had a Nintendo 64 and she had Barbie dolls. There was nowhere to play sports and no place to keep the equipment. We made do with the things we had; I sometimes enjoyed taking the Barbie dolls clothing off and she would play the Mario Brothers. Eventually moving into a house allowed me to be active in football, soccer and baseball. I believe the child’s surroundings can change their path to adulthood. Theroux expresses many things that I find insulting. According to Theroux, to be a man is to be “stupid, be unfeeling, obedient,...
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...The Art of the Personal Essay Critique The Art of the Personal Essay is a huge collection of diverse essays selected by Phillip Lopate. These essays are written by authors from different time periods and different places. The essay I chose for this critique is Going Out for a Walk by Max Beerbohm. This short, humorous essay criticizes the idea of going out for a walk. Beerbohm writes this essay to appeal to readers about a common dislike. The message of the essay is rather simple and starts out with Beerbohm regretting about the good, old days in a baby carriage. Beerbohm then introduces his thesis of disliking walks and gives excuses of how to avoid going on a walk such as writing letters or reading a book. He also describes how giving excuses can be unsatisfactory. He claims walking stops the brain and recounts a story when he and an intellectual friend were going on a walk. Beerbohm explains that walking made his smart friend so mindless that he walked to private property without thought. Later in the passage, Beerbohm gives an example of how the soul and the brain are involved in walking by presenting humorous dialogue between the personified soul and brain. “I take it that not by his reasoning faculties is man urged to this enterprise. He is urged, evidently, by something in him that transcends reason; by his soul, I presume. Yes, it must be the soul that raps out the “Quick march!” to the body. –“Halt! Stand at ease!” interposes the brain, and “To what destination,”...
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...It was the Researched Critical Analysis Essay. This essay required a broad range of sources (both statistics and opinions) to enhance my claim with regards to the topic. Although finding studies and credible sources were quite challenging, structuring the essay in the correct and desired order was the harder aspect of it. Throughout my draft, I was unable to structure the paper into a coherent one, hence, succumbing to organize it. Even though, the research essay seemed to me as the most challenging of all three, writing about a current and highly unstable issue such as the Kashmir conflict gave me this opportunity to climb up the ladder (in terms of writing). Not only, it provided me with an insight of my motherland’s history, it also ignited the sense of patriotism in me, in the same way, as it would engage an audience (particularly, the ones from India and Pakistan) on a wider spectrum. This benefitted me since I was able to understand and use print and digital technologies to address...
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...authors show their awareness of the problem at hand but point the finger at two very different groups of people using factual and statistical evidence as well as personal opinions. Although both arguments are very valid, David Zinkzenko’s essay provides the reader with a lot more than opinion. The title in every essay brings it to life. A spunky title will keep your audience yearning to read what the writer has to say, while a boring title will readers doped up on energy drinks to get through what the writer has to say. David Zinczenko’s title, “Don’t Blame the Eater” catches the reader’s eyes. The title as a whole has the audience asking questions about the “eater”, and who blames them? However, the title of the second article, “What You Eat Is Your Business”, by Radley Blanko comes off as arrogant and insensitive to the reader. An example of a less arrogant title would be, “All You Can Eat”, this title would be more pleasing to the reader allowing them to imagine an all you can eat buffet. As a reader, I take immediate offense to the title because of the negative connotation it gives off. Without a strong claim, a paper has no foundation. Both author’s do exceedingly well when providing a powerful claim to their argument. In the essay “Don’t Blame the Eater” Zinczenko expresses his concern for obesity but argues that the consumer is not the one to blame, fast-food companies are. As he emphasizes on...
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...I am an advocate for equality with education because I see how important education is in my life and where it has gotten me. Also, I know that I have faced adversity coming from a minority background and attending a high school with a low graduation rate. I wrote this essay intended for an audience who has experienced the struggle of educational inequality and know that the problem is still relevant in today’s society, no matter what educational program is in effect. Moreover, I see that nature of research and writing going hand and hand. Research requires someone to do research, formulate an idea, and put everything together to solidify their thoughts. A writer must go through the same process in order to write a piece. For example, an author writing about monsters must first gather some ideas about monsters and how they should act, then put their thoughts and research together in order to create a new...
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...failures and other shortfalls, there have been many successful writers and readers all over who admired and looked to him as someone they aspire to be. Early Writers Montaigne was not known for being a follower however; he did have those who he admired throughout his life. He was a huge fan of Socrates. Socrates usually made it known that there were many things that he did not know. Montaigne adopted this mindset as well, and is known for asking the question, “What do I know” (Laundry, 2011)? “Unlike Socrates, his is not the mastering of nature by reason, the subordination of the outer self by the intellect, but a bringing into balance of the inner and outer self” (Losse, 2002). Montaigne would also provide most of the information in his essays on himself, and his situations as they relate to his life. This is why most considered him to be a bit of a skeptic. Montaigne also had his favorites that he liked to read, Democritus and Heracleitus were philosophers who had slightly different philosophies but one thing they had in common was that they based much of their findings on the human state of mind. From time to time Montaigne would borrow a story, it would be different than the original because he would retell the story based on personal experiences. He made a comment that “he...
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...read, I thought it was like a C/C- paper at best, but somehow, I ended up with a B+ on it. My original paper had spelling issues, passive voice, and a heck of a lot of repetition. For example: “are focused”, “is caused”, “is represented”, etc. (30, 32-33, 40). I just kept making silly errors, including: spelling the word “existence” wrong, using the wrong form of “show”, using passive voice 7+ times, using the word “more” no less than 8 times, spelling the name of the poet wrong (twice), and using verbs ending in -ing 22 times (not including quotes). When I re-wrote this paper, I made sure that I a) got rid of my passive voice, b) corrected by spelling errors, and c) made my writing less terrible. I deleted phrases that I believed were opinionated (which was the majority of my paper), and I replaced them with phrases supported by the text. I wanted to make sure that the √- I got on content turned into a √+. Every change I made was to better fit the text/paper I was writing to the poem. I changed my thesis from: “In Edwin Muir’s “The Return of Odysseus”, Muir emphasized the chaos and hopelessness of Penelope in order to elude to the fact that it is humanity’s desire to have something more in life, whether in life,...
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...In the article “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich argues that women can make significant impacts in history with words. Thatcher Ulrich expands how the unexpected population gave her a new point of view, which made her original quote an incredible influence in society. The author describes how a journalist used her original quote as an epigraph for history data. Thatcher Ulrich explains in details of how several people think that women were not important and useless in history. Thatcher Ulrich points out that history is about what later creations should be remembered in the present, not just the past. The author describes in detail of how three women changed history in sexual fantasies, segregation, and writing words in diaries in order to create understandings. Thatcher Ulrich pushes for remembrance by using her popular quote in order to be heard and include herself in the story. The author influences her quote to help women regain their lives by using words speak louder than actions (Thatcher Ulrich 656-65). Throughout the article, the overall tones was a combination of inspiration and outspokenness. An example of the tone being inspirational was when the author was “making a commitment to help recover the otherwise obscure women” (Thatcher Ulrich 665). The author’s tone made a promise to help women understand that they can make differences in the community (Thatcher Ulrich 665). Another example for the author’s tone being inspirational was when...
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...Academic essay on Annie Proulx's "Job Story" Choices are something we all make. Not necessarily important choices, but there will always be a time to make them. It's not always good choices, but they have to be made. There will always be consequences, whether it's bad or good. Throughout the story, Leeland Lee has to make a lot of choices. Where to live, where to work and when to work. All the different choices he made, put him in the position he is now. Leeland Lee is an awkward-looking young boy. His face is heavily boned, which he has gotten from his mom, his neck is quite thick and he has red-gold hair. His eyes are as pouchy as a middle-aged alcoholic. His nose is broad and lays close to his face. Lori Bovee is Leeland Lee's wife. She has an undistinguished oval face, and hair of medium length. Leeland Lee is the protagonist of the story, because he is the main character. I would say Leeland is a flat and static character as he is an endless optimist. He doesn't give up when it comes to finding a new job, and despite his wife dying he still gets a job at Unique Eats. The reason he is a static character is because he doesn't change at all. After getting several different jobs he doesn't change anything, after his mom and wife dies he doesn't change one single thing except the fact he isn't listening to the radio anymore, but since that have been an important factor of the story all along, it can also show a lot about how he has changed. The story starts November...
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...Essay on “Job History” written by Annie Proulx In the short story “Job History” written by Annie Proulx, we follow Leeland Lee from the time of his birth, until he is about fifty years old. In the short story we follow Leeland through his harsh life, with ups and downs, in the form of thoughts, feelings, incidents, etc. Leeland is born in a ranch in Wyoming, and lives there with his wife Lori. Leeland does not look particularly good, in fact he is a very unattractive man; (page 91, line 12)“Leeland’s face shows heavy bones from his mother’s side. His neck is thick and his red-gold hair plastered down in bangs. Even as a child his eyes are as pouchy as those of a middle-age alcoholic, the brows rod-straight above wandering out-of-line eyes. His nose lies broad and close to his face, his mouth seems to have been cut with a single chisel blow into easy flesh” And in the top of that, we see how Leeland through his life, tries to find a successful career, but fails consistently. He moves various times from place to place, too seek occupation and good business. But it is hard when you’re a high school dropout, without a career. Leeland have to changes his job constantly, because of his lack of luck, and since he can’t get along white his bosses. He is never able to stay at one job or place for long, which lead to problems in the family. He has a hard time supporting his wife, and their children financially. Throughout the story the author, Annie Proulx manages...
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...An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal[->0] point of view[->1]. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism[->2], political manifestos[->3], learned arguments[->4], observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article[->5] and a short story[->6]. Almost all modern essays are written in prose[->7], but works in verse[->8] have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope[->9]'s An Essay on Criticism[->10] and An Essay on Man[->11]). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke[->12]'s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding[->13] and Thomas Malthus[->14]'s An Essay on the Principle of Population[->15] are counterexamples. In some countries (e.g., the United States and Canada), essays have become a major part of formal education[->16]. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and admission essays[->17] are often used by universities[->18] in selecting applicants and, in the humanities and social sciences, as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams. The concept of an "essay" has been extended to other mediums beyond writing. A film essay is a movie that often incorporates documentary film making styles and which focuses more on the evolution of a theme or an idea. A photographic essay[->19] is an attempt to cover a topic...
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...We all know love. We have all loved in some kind of way. We love our parents, significant others and even our friends. But we can also love other things like animals or material things. But what is the difference between loving and liking? And is it better not to love and feel pain or to love and be hurt in the progress? Jonathan Franzen seeks to answer these questions in his essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. The essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” is, as mentioned, written by Jonathan Franzen and published in The New York Times, May 28, 2011. Jonathan Franzen is born in 1959, and he is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist. The essay is based on the commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College in Ohio, USA. “Our technology has become extremely adept in creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly. (…)” As Franzen claims in his essay, many people can feel like they love their technological object. It gives them a satisfaction, which human interaction maybe wouldn’t. Franzen however thinks, that people in general don’t love material things: they like them. There is a major difference between loving and liking – even though it might appear small. “Liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving.” Products are made to be likeable, but if that concept in transferred to a person, you would instantly see...
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