...an effective argument, at times, he racially profiles which is a definite form of deceptive reasoning; in addition, many of Wilson’s arguments lack the elaboration he needs to avoid making hasty assertions. Wilson argues in his essay that not allowing people to buy guns will have no effect on the illegal use of guns, which in essence, is the sole reasoning for wanting to eliminate guns in the first place. He makes the claim that about two-hundred million American citizens own a gun. These guns, though, are not the ones that are generally used for unlawful acts, but rather those that are stolen, borrowed, or privately purchased. Wilson then makes the point that an increase in these control regulations would take a toll on none other than those law abiding citizens that own these guns more for self-defense purposes. Wilson first extends the argument that, “Our goal should be to reduce the number of people who carry guns unlawfully, especially in places- in streets, in taverns- where the mere presence of a gun can increase the hazards we all face.” By beginning his argument with a clear, concise thesis such as this, Wilson begins to setup an organized structure for his argument. Through a clearly planned construction consisting of claims followed by data and counterclaims followed by rebuttals, Wilson makes his ideas easy to follow by this systematized set up. This flow makes his ideas more sinuous which contributes to the cohesiveness of his overall argument. This structure...
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...For my reflection letter I have chosen three essays; Racial Profiling Argumentative Paper, Bullying Research Paper, Brave New World Literary Analysis and three pieces of process work; annotated articles, peer editing, and evidence charts, as the basis for my personal evaluation. From this work, I will reflect on what I learned about create a claim or thesis, find evidence to support my claim, write topic sentences, write relevant commentary or analysis, create a first draft that I have developed, and my strengths; MLA, evidence. I will address my academic essays, create works cited skill that I have learned, grammar and commentary where I need to improve, and I want to improve on write a relevant commentary or analysis and integrate quotes...
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...The first section of the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteen Amendment states that no State may “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Racial profiling, on the other hand, is often defined as law enforcement activities that are operated solely on the basis of race. The unethical and unlawful practice of racial profiling, results in police officers unjustly using an individual’s race or ethnicity as a reason to excessively stop minorities. In a traffic report conducted on the national level for the year 2005, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reveals that “Black drivers (4.5%) were twice as likely as White drivers (2.1%) to be arrested during a traffic stop, while Hispanic drivers (65%) were more likely than White (56.2%) to receive a ticket” (Channin par. 6). The statistics provided by the BJS demonstrate that police actions during street stops were not uniform across racial and ethnic groups. African-American and Hispanic drivers seemed to have a higher likelihood of being pulled over than that of the Whites at the national level. Another article that shows how people of color are the target of racial profiling is “Police Deny Accusations of Racial Profiling with White Teen, Black Dancers” by Ruth Manuel-Logan. In this column, Manuel-Logan describes a recent incident when Houston police stopped and handcuffed...
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...and punish terrorist acts here in the United States as well as around the world, to help law officers, and to strengthen U.S. measures. Three essays have been studied on this subject, (U.S. Patriot Act – Damian Coles, and The Patriot Act: Wise beyond Its Years – John Ashcroft, and Cassady Pitt - U.S. Patriot Act and Racial profiling: Are there consequences of discrimination?) to come up with this critical argument essay. There are advantages and disadvantages of the Patriot Act. Although The Bill of Rights gives us privacy that could be invaded, is effectual for our country because this helps law enforcement have more resources and more freedom to help. Here are two disadvantages of the Patriot Act to be discussed. First racial profiling and, second America’s right to privacy under the Bill of Rights. When someone is considered a criminal or terrorist just because of how they dress, look, or the religion they practice, this is racial profiling. Racial profiling was a problem in the United States even before 9/11 and the Patriot act. During WWI Japanese Americans were put into camps even if they had never lived in Japan and were born in the United States. Because of 9/11 and the terrorist attacks it has been brought back to the front of our minds; this does not mean that the Patriot Act is a bad thing. We had racial profiling before and will continue to have it because at some time or another people will be looked at...
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...Profiling in our Society Today Have you ever felt targeted by police officials and looked at as a criminal? To be accused of a crime but not because you have done something wrong, but because of your ethnicity or religion. To be discriminated against not just by citizens with in our society but the security officials and by the government we as citizens are supposed to confide in and feel protected by. If you can relate to this question, then from one aspect you understand the emotional feeling tied to being profiled. In the article “Ethnic and Religious Profiling Violates Civil Liberties” the author Lee’s purpose is to provide valid arguments of how the events of 911 have fueled the increased acceptance of ethnic and religious profiling against Arab and Muslim immigrants. The author strongly articulates her point and uses several sources as arguments, but her use of circular reasoning fails to persuade her reader. The authors evidence and reasoning is much stronger when pervasive pattern is summarized, well informed evidence bringing to light the issues we face towards profiling is not going away. Reading Lee’s essay there was flow that was evident from the introduction and throughout the body to the conclusion because the author keeps to the same idea in the introduction as in the conclusion that immigrants faced injustice and were profiled for terrorism because they were Arab or Muslim. The author executed clear topic sentences that goes hand in hand with the overall flow...
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...Ethan Kolodny Kolodny 1 Debra Booth English 1301-375 2 October 2014 Essay 1 The political cartoon, “Anglozona Illegal Tan Block”, was published by St. Luis Post Dispatch on April 28, 2010 by Matson. Because of the plain white background, a centered image of a sunscreen bottle is caught by the eye. The bottle, with the same colors as the Arizona state flag, has a picture of a cactus dressed as the Statue of Liberty, holding a tablet that is inscribed with the words, “Show I.D.”, in one hand, and a flaming torch in the other. The sunscreen is 12,000 SPF, and claims that it, “Protects from Police Harassment.” With the situation at hand in 2010, this cartoon was created, and each element presented on the cartoon is a representation of something during that time. In 2010 the state of Arizona created a law that gave any police officer the power to determine if a person was an immigrant or a U.S. Citizen. The law was created because of the mass amounts of illegal immigrants taking refugee in the state, hiding out, and trying to live in the United States. The law also required immigrants to carry documents that proved they were not illegals, or else they were considered, “breaking the law”. The law gave officers the right to arrest people, based on their skin tone. The, “Anglozona Sunblock”, cartoon was created in order to show how messed up this law was, and bring it to the public's attention. With an impossible amount of 12,000 SPF, the sunscreen would not let any light get...
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...Jefferson Chen Professor Queen Writing 39C 21 February 2013 Essay of Prospective Claims: Michelle Alexander discusses how mass incarceration has ruined and dismantled many lives of young African Americans. The problem she discusses so passionately in her book is a relevant problem in our society today. Ever since Ronald Reagan’s presidency and forward, campaigns have been targeting crime and especially rug related crimes. While it is clear that many of these young African Americans are going to prison due to drug related crimes, stopping the war on drugs altogether is not the solution. Although stopping the drug war may seem efficient for stopping the incarceration of young blacks in the present, it does not guarantee that these same people will not commit other crimes. The cost for stopping the drug war is allowing drug usage and distribution to run rampant which can cause the society and the neighborhoods around the areas to become unsafe. Alexander discusses how there is no way around this issue and dismantling the system of mass incarceration is the only resolution; however if these poor neighborhoods were funded with government money, drug abuse can potentially become lower or even be stopped. Alexander is also discussing how a handful of reforms cannot be a solution to the problem. She argues that all the financial grants that are given to police departments for drug arrests and racial profiling should be halted. She believes that by halting the funding and supplies...
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...Racial & Ethnic Short-Answer Questions (15) Should reparations be paid to the descendants of victims of slavery? • Some reject the decision made in the Bakke case that providing a remedy for the effects of racial discrimination is unconstitutional. They argue that the idea of reparations is rooted in international law. • Affirmative Action is inadequate, the ‘Maafa’ (meaning disaster, i.e., slavery) is a crime against humanity, and therefore compensation is required. • In the past 50 years apologies and financial compensation has been given to a wide range of groups, including survivors of the Jewish holocaust (as well as descendants of the victims), Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned during the Second World War and native Americans who had their land illegally seized in the USA. • African Americans have been demanding compensation for slavery since the end of the American Civil War. Immediately after the abolition of slavery, the demand was for 40 acres and a mule to ensure they would not be dependent on their former slave-owners. Then, between 1890 and 1917, there was a movement to lobby the government for pensions to compensate for their unpaid labour under slavery. Since 1989, Congressman John Conyers Jnr (Michigan) has introduced a bill every year to study the case for reparations. Each of these initiatives has been largely ignored by the political establishment. • Reparations would ensure full recognition of the scale of the Maafa and, at the same time...
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...People who don't recognize their privilege, or even if they do they refuse to face the problem. Defensive and stereotypical statements such as "I do not know where to start." or " "But I'm not racist. I'm really not!" are what white people often use to refute the arguments regarding whiteness and white privilege. When confronted about issues pertaining to racism, teachers and people uneducated about racism would use the excuse "I do not know where to start." While there are many books, well-written essays, and even poems shed much-needed light on racism and white privilege. "But I'm not racist. I'm really not!" is a statement used to undermine race issues and refuse to acknowledge the mostly unintentional white supremacy that is still in our world...
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...freshmen telling them that their campus was a hive of intellectual debate, reason, and free speech, scandalous. The blowback from this decision was immense. Tons of Millennials were offended and triggered by the fact that they may have to hear the opinions of people who disagree with them or hear facts, statistics, and jarring world history without trigger warnings, how weak, right? Cameron Okeke on the other hand, paints a different picture of these so called “weak Millennial snowflakes”. In his essay “I’m a black UChicago graduate. Safe spaces got me through college.”...
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...reentering school. This is that it explains that these students fall behind academically in courser work; increasing their chances of dropping out of school. The article stated, “In one city, within a year of re-enrolling in high school, nearly two-thirds of the first-time ninth graders and over three-fourths of the repeat ninth graders who were incarcerated and returned to school will either withdraw or drop out of school. Therefore, this section in the article helps support the argument that suspensions and expulsions lead to more dropout rates rather than addressing behavioral issues. Also, this helps explain how students fall into a cycle of being removed from the educational setting due to zero tolerance...
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...write a paper on it. The Author goes into great detail about the mistreatment and stereotype put upon blacks during the slavery era. There are a lot misconceptions about the issue of slavery, but this book clears things up. Cole, Margaret. Women of To-day. This book helped in the sense of getting a view of how women view rasing young men. A lot of the young women in the book explained it as being very hard and stressful. This book came out over 50 years ago so during that time it was war and a lot of issue that ended in their being a lot of single mothers. The book is finished by saying “ A father is needed for any young man to succeed”, and that is where I get my strong opinion about single homes in my essay. Douglass, Frederick. "My Escape from Slavery" This passage helped probably more than any other because he went through slavery and escaped. He talks about the struggles he is put through and also how many of his close friends and family were hurt. He explains in strong detail his journey to freedom and also says he Smith 2 doesn’t understand how he made it. Lastly, he uses strong detail in explaining the names he was being called while being hunted. Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. What this passage did for me was take me deep into the actual selection process of buying slaves. Once reading further into it. I realized that the process is almost identical to what...
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...abolition of other types of corporal punishment such as branding and flogging and propose that imprisonment should also replace the death penalty (McCord and Latzer 9). However, the death penalty has proved to be a punishment befitting certain crimes such as horrific murders as it is the ultimate punishment. It has taken many harmful elements off the streets besides acting as a deterrent for both the convicted criminals and other potential murderers out there. In essence, it has saved many innocent lives that otherwise would have fallen prey to the evil schemes of murderers. Indeed, there is no course more worthy than saving innocent lives. This essay presents an argument in support of the death penalty by considering its numerous benefits as backed up by ample evidence from credible sources. In order to build the argument, the essay shall also consider some of the opinions of those who oppose the death...
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...abolition of other types of corporal punishment such as branding and flogging and propose that imprisonment should also replace the death penalty (McCord and Latzer 9). However, the death penalty has proved to be a punishment befitting certain crimes such as horrific murders as it is the ultimate punishment. It has taken many harmful elements off the streets besides acting as a deterrent for both the convicted criminals and other potential murderers out there. In essence, it has saved many innocent lives that otherwise would have fallen prey to the evil schemes of murderers. Indeed, there is no course more worthy than saving innocent lives. This essay presents an argument in support of the death penalty by considering its numerous benefits as backed up by ample evidence from credible sources. In order to build the argument, the essay shall also consider some of the opinions of those who oppose the death...
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...Immigrants of the U.S. As defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of an immigrant is “a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence”. Therefore, immigration in Unites States’ history dates all the way back to 1565 and the first European settlement in America or what they deemed as the ‘New World’ at the time. People choose to immigrate to other countries for various reasons, whether it is for safety, a chance at a new life, to experience another culture, or even just for the desire to explore the world. This essay focuses on the broad history of immigration in the United States, the various stakeholders’ in the issue and their stances and arguments, as well as organizing these arguments into different categories. The first wave of migration to hit America was The Great Migration that lasted between 1630 and 1640, a decade in which over twenty thousand Puritans escaped from Britain to America due to the disputes between the Puritans and King Charles I and Parliament. Between the 17th and 18th centuries, hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrived in America in order to colonize, with over half of the immigrants coming as indentured servants to the wealthier colonizers. These immigrants came from all across Europe and were all focused on establishing themselves as early as possible in America and to hopefully become rich and famous. The first stakeholder in the issue of immigration in the United States was the government and in particular,...
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