Daughter Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

The short stories, Two Kinds by Amy Tan and Powder by Tobias Wolff, seem to be autobiographical accounts of their childhood memories—Tan of her strict mother and Wolff of his estranged father. While the stories may contain some true elements from their youth, these stories are still fiction and seem to contain a lot of wishful thinking on the part of the authors, a wish that somehow things could have been better. As an adult, one can view his or her childhood past in better—and perhaps more grateful—perspective. On cannot be who he or she is without his ...

Introduction

How much do you love your son or daughter? It’s pretty sure that you won’t allow anyone or anything to harm them. You would give out everything under the sun just to give them the best of everything. These are the ideal treatment that a parent does to their son or daughter. Provide everything that they need or even sometimes, more than what it requires growing a good citizen of the country. But as they grow old, you would then realize that though they came from you, you don’t own them at all. You would really fight for ...

There are a number of differences between the eastern and western cultures. These differences have always existed in eastern and western cultures. The differences in both cultures are clearly visible in terms of lifestyle, thinking, dressing, eating and even expressing emotions and love to each other. There are also differences in the power of love between Eastern and Western Culture and the same has been reflected in various films and novels. This paper proposes a discussion on how eastern and western cultures have different power of love because of three main reasons: firstly, because family is considered as the ...

Introduction

‘King Lear’ is one of the luminous literary works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote this tragic play several centuries ago. ‘King Lear’ portrays the bitter truth of the society and various noted intellectuals consider this play as a rare literature that has ever been witnessed. George Bernard Shaw writes, “No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear” (Shaw 23). This paper intends to argue for the possibility of greed of a family member or any person to destroy the whole family. In ‘King Lear’, greed is the cause of family tragedy hence the paper will argue on the positive and ...

Amy Tan’s exquisite novel The Joy Luck Club, is the unforgettable tale of four immigrant Chinese families residing in San Francisco. The novel is narrated through a uniquely feminist perspective. The Chinese mothers with their essential parochial background coupled with the bitter childhood experiences, growing-up in China during the hard times of the Chairman Mao’s cultural indoctrination and the subsequent political purge, think circumspectly and while-away their time playing Mah jong. On the contrary, the confident American born and raised daughters have a completely different approach towards life. The generation-gap and cultural differences between the mothers and the daughters ...

Introduction

Child beauty pageants have been around for a long time. Brockman suggests they began in the 1960’s, although an article “Child beauty pageants” claimed the first one was staged in a hotel in Atlantic City in 1921, and that since the times of those earlier pageants, the pageant “industry” has grown to feature almost 25,000 pageants annually in the U.S. alone – a $5 billion per year business. As well as becoming much more common (and much more costly to enter), those pageants have also become highly controversial in a number of respects. This essay discusses some of the issues involved and ...

In this paper this paper will examine very closely four stories by Flannery O’Connor and justify the use of the phrase ‘the pain of the past’ in the title. O’Connor’s life and background will be briefly examined, as will the historical context in which she wrote her stories. I will also examine other common features that are characteristic of her stories. The use of symbolism in her stories will be considered. The four stories I have chosen are ‘Geranium’, ‘The Barber’, ‘Greenleaf’ and ‘Everything that Rises Must Converge’ Each of the four stories will then be ...

Edith Wharton is an American novelist, short story writer, and designer of the end of nineteenth – beginning of the twentieth centuries. She is known as a three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first female owner of the Pulitzer Prize. Stories of Edith Wharton brilliantly show psychological and social insight of America’s privileged classes; they are written with humor and incisiveness. One of the late short stories written by Edith Wharton is Roman Fever (1934). The plot of the story concentrates around the meeting of two old friends, Grace Ansley and Alida Slade, their relationship ...

Introduction

The book, “Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice,” written by William Shakespeare, was written in 1603, which is based on the Italian short story known as “Un Capitano Moro (“A Moorish Captain”) which was written by Cinthio. The main character in the book is Othello, a Moorish general who worked and served in Venetian army. In the book, there are also other major characters such as Desdemona and Cassio. The book carries a variety of themes ranging from racism, jealousy, betrayal, love, repentance, and revenge. In this section, we shall focus on the theme of race as depicted from the ...

Advantages of a retirement home for Mrs. Willis

Introduction
For many years, retirement homes have helped families in caring for their loved ones once they grow old. Today, many people work and spend limited time at home. The absence from home makes it difficult to take care of their old relatives once they become unable to provide for themselves. It creates an additional burden to those responsible. Retirement homes seem to offer a solution to the problem; they offer a conducive and safe environment where senior citizens can spend their last years well. It exposes them to other senior citizens they can interact with; such homes provide a safe ...

Compare James Baldwin's view of personal liberation with Jamaica Kincaid's

Compare James Baldwin's view of personal liberation with Jamaica Kincaid's

Introduction

In this paper, the ideas of liberation have been discussed from the perspective of James Baldwin and Jamaica Kincaid. The ideas of both these authors have been derived from their writings. The writings of James Baldwin, which have been used to understand his point of view, include, going to meet the Man, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon, and others. The movie of James Baldwin i.e. the Price of the Ticket has also been analyzed. On the other side, Jamaica Kincaid’s book Lucy has been used for this ...

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably one of the most famous plays in world culture and, although it was first performed over four hundred year ago, it is still frequently staged and speaks anew to succeeding generations of theatre goers. It will be argued that Hamlet portrays what is in contemporary society still a devastating problem – the problems concerning the privacy and scrutiny of what we now call celebrities.
Hamlet is, in terms of sixteenth century Denmark, a celebrity. He is the son of the recently deceased king and might even be regarded as his father’s natural successor. Towards ...

Keeping children safe online is an issue that needs to be taken very seriously by parents. There are many predators out there that, through an online platform, have a way to virtually breech the safety of a child’s home in order to victimize innocent children and teens who often do not have a sense that anyone could try to do them harm. There have been many cases of children and teens having contact online with evil people who use the internet as a means to groom, deceive, and even arrange meetings with them, often with disastrous and sometimes ...

Shakespeare exhibits his keen sense of society in The Tempest, where he portrays the troubling nature—as well as the consequences—of colonial expansion. Shakespeare participates in the condemnation of colonialism, exposing the potential for mental destruction and inhumanity beyond measure when a colonizer deems himself superior to the colonized. Furthermore, he reveals the need to reexamine our history and rid ourselves of residual guilt. The aftermath of remorse and disappointment causes us to suppress memories of our colonial past, “often deluded and unsuccessful in [our] attempts to disown the burdens of [our] colonial inheritance” (Ghandi 4). Shakespeare’s play ...

Introduction

Gender relations transformations ever since the beginning of 20th century are essentially among the most rapid and profound social changes in the human history. For over 7,000 years of the human history from the time settled agriculture and the early states occurred, male domination has actually characterized gender relations of societies together with their predecessors. The other thing to note is that even at the commencement of 20th century, women and men were largely viewed as occupying sharply diverse roles in the society where the place of a woman was essentially in the home as mother and wife. On ...

Introduction:

“Benazir Bhutto” born on 1st June 1953 and eldest daughter of former prime minister of Pakistan, brought out the various issues on the democratic spotlight. Before her demise on 27 December 2007 she highlighted and proved to be one of the political strongholds in the limelight that seeked to address the various democratic views regarding the governance of Pakistan. Consequently, Bhutto was a politician and stateswoman who served effectively served in the docket of the Pakistan government as eleventh prime minister for an effective two Consecutive terms. The period ran from November 1988 and the second term ended in the ...

The issue of understanding diaspora is a controversial subject that is discussed and interpreted different among different generations. Its effects are so influential to the extent that it plays a role in the determination of an individual’s identity. By using a broad range of multivalent narratives concerning ethnicity and identity, Radhakrishnan enables the reader to visualize the ideal picture of ethnicity in the United States. From the narratives used in the text, it is possible to see that ethnicity is conceptualized in different phases. First, opportunism and pragmatism and used to suppress ethnicity (121). Another phase of conceptualizing ethnicity is resistance ...

Tartuffe is the most famous play written by Moliere. In the view of many contemporary literary critics, Moliere qualifies as one of the world’s greatest comic playwright (Kasparek, 1977). The other famous play by Moliere is called The Misathrope. The two comprise of Moliere’s greatest pieces. Tartuffe’s plot revolves around wealthy bourgeois Orgon religious piety that almost destroys him but luckily, the pretender Tartuffe is discovered before he completely takes advantage of Orgon. Moliere’s Tartuffe has been a subject of controversy since its writing. The play generated a great deal of discussion owing to its perceived mockery ...

Childhood Obesity in the United States

Larry, you know I respect your opinion but there are some things I cannot just sit by and watch. Let me tell you a few things on childhood obesity and maybe you can understand my concern. This is where a child gets fat and the fat in her system begins to have a negative impact on her health and wellbeing. A child is considered to be overweight if her body mass index is considered to be or above the 95th percentile on the scale (Freedman, Mei & Srinivasan, 2007). Sure, you say she is cute round and chubby but this ‘’heftiness’’ may ...

The Cinderella, Fairy Tale has been handed down from generation, depicting the hatred of Cinderella’s two step-sisters and her step-mother. The general consensus of this story is Cinderella’s step-mother and step-sister are full of hatred and they unleashed it on her. There is the possibility that the story has another side. Maybe, Cinderella’s extended family has never known love; they do not know what being loved is like. Not knowing or ever experienced love their behavior is understood. No one can display a behavior to which he or she is not exposed. Such a life would deem anyone ...

The collection of stories called “Distant View of a Minaret” that was written by an Egyptian female author Alifa Rifaat had a huge impact on the understanding of sexuality in the contemporary Middle East. It’s been known the questions of gender and sex are often ignored in that part of the world. Due to a long history and a deeply rooted faith, people of this area lack democracy. Their societies have been built on conservatism, traditions and ethics that are very often unfair to certain groups of people of those societies. Those people usually include females, slaves and ...

Angela Davis’ analysis of the naturalization of the prison system within American society puts it open that for the most of the time, the multiple ways the prison system permeates our daily lives (morally, economically, ideologically, etc) is not considered (Davis 78). However, we consider it and we do think about it because we are so removed from it. We only understand the prison system in terms of what we see in popular media. In my essay, building from Davis’ notion of the naturalization of prison and her attempts to “denaturalize the prison system” (Cecil 1), I explore the ...

The Playboy of the Western World is set in the world of the Irish, with its first scene opening into a rough and dirty shebeen. When Christy, the play’s protagonist comes in and declares that he has killed his father by splitting his head with a spade, everyone is smitten. The previously insignificant and shy Christy, whose father refers to as a lazy, good for nothing son, becomes an instant hit with the village girls, a widow and even Pegeen, the daughter of the landlord who is betrothed to be married by Shawn (Synge 2). The author, Millington ...

Margaret Atwood is the promising Canadian author who has written a number of famous poems and novels. She is mainly known as a great novelist and champion of the cause of Canadian literature. Atwood focuses on the binarity of existential experience in Canada. Land and mind, wilderness and civilization, alienation and identity are the opposing elements in Canadian life and she has immensely tried to create a sense of existential experience in her works. She “spent much of her early life in the northern Ontario and Quebec bush country” (Oxford Companion 31). Atwood’s famous dystopian fiction, The Handmaid's ...

There can be no denial of the fact that the novel, Great Expectations, is one of the finest works of literature. The novel has intrigued the literary critics as well as the avid readers alike, and it is deemed among the most famous literary works in the history of literature. The stalwart author, Charles Dickens goes on to exude his literary quintessence and aesthetic appeal in this novel that has left a lasting mark in the minds of one and all owing to its content and portrayal. Indeed, this novel in context is one of the most apt literary ...

AE 20D

December 3rd, 2014
PARENT’S WISHES
People have dreams to get married and start a family. My father once implied that life is hard and sometimes sad, but all the harshness of life dissipates when you have children. He says having children should make me happier. My parents set goals for me to achieve in order to make them proud of me. Also, their expectations on what I should do did not stop when I graduated high school. Parents usually develop expectations once their child is born, and many develop their expectations for what their children’s goals ...

Family is a fundamental unit that shapes our identities in life. Every individual is born of a family. The cohesiveness of the family unit is integral in make sure that an individual is able to obtain the family values. Members of the family have a better understanding of an individual’s strengths and weaknesses. Based on the level family support, individuals are able to either embrace or shun their families’ values. This argumentative essay seeks to explain how family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and or inhibit an individual’s self-identity. This paper will also include what I know about my ...

Ashford University

Introduction and Thesis
There are a number of issues that haunt the education system in the United States, not least of all the role of the state. “Is it a self-evident axiom, that the State should require and compel the education up to a certain standard of every human being who is born its citizen?” (Mill, n.d). The First Amendment gives people the right to freedom, and this cannot be compromised at any cost. Mill, in this article discusses the role of the government in the field of education. The government, he says, can take an active role in education provided ...

American anthropologist Edward Bellamy went to a Jewish community center in Venice, California to observe the life of elderly Jewish immigrants who survived through the holocaust. In his book titled Looking Backward, Bellamy recorded various events that occurred in the community. She wrote her own commentaries about these people through the “lens of an outsider.” Analyzing social interactions inside of the community, Bellamy realized how these people confront and overcome the poverty, invisibility, and society’s segregation together in the community. By continuously carrying and modifying their original Jewish traditions, their people have established their own unique culture apart from ...

Essay Prompt Two

Guilt and remorse are two common themes from “What Work Is” by Philip Levine and “Now We Are Five” by David Sedaris. These themes lead the reader to understand the cruelty of materialistic society and the important of family bonding.

In growth it is clearly seen in the poem that the health conditions of the workers were very pathetic while the work was tiresome and very difficult. The author therefore shows the cruelty of the society in treating its workers ruthless without taking consideration the amount of labor and productivity they are contributing to the state or country. The ...

The Diary of a Mad Black Woman is a 2005 romantic comedy drama movie written by Tyler Perry. It is a movie about a couple, Charles McCarter and Helen McCarter. After 18 years of marriage, Helen is thrown out of her matrimonial home by her husband and replaced by Brenda his mistress who is younger than Helen. Helen is forced to move in with her grandmother Madea where she tries to reconstruct her life and she meets Orlando. At first, she is not sure if she can ever love again but through her relationship with God, she is able to forgive Charles of ...

In today's comparatively progressive society, the value of established and traditional gender roles are increasingly being reviewed and investigated. Given the long-running activities, rights and perceptions attributed to women over the past several centuries, it is not hard to believe that these traditional roles for women (wife, homemaker, sex object, recipient of men’s advances and charity) are often ardently defended by societal norms and practices. It is clear that women have certain expectations placed upon them that are reinforced by the society around us - women are supposed to go out and find a man to marry, and to ...

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the claim made on the greatly renowned classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. I would claim that the novel portrays various characters where it would be acceptable to mention and link them to the very controversial topic Women and Honor Killings. This paper clarifies how the story of the Scarlet Letter is a fine example of how women and honor killings occur in different societies and cultures and also with proper evidences it will be made further clear how this claim can be interrelated with the Hawthrone’s story and characters of ...

Disney’s Responsibility to Its Customers

Every business must consider the health and well being of its customers, and Disneyland is no exception. Having recently come under fire for refusing muscular dystrophy customer Tina Baughman to use a Segway instead of a wheelchair or motorized scooter at their California theme park, Disney must reconsider what it means to look out for the health and welfare of all of its customers (Cohen). There are several reasons why a business such as Disneyland must consider these factors. Considering the health and welfare of customers, including those with disabilities, is good business practice making the establishment more attractive to a wider variety ...

In 1974, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was passed as concerns about child abuse began to emerge (Pecora 230). In reaction to this act, the Child Protective Services (CPS) was founded by partial funding by the federal government (Pecora 231). Nevertheless, the CPS received 2 million child maltreatment reports in 2010 of which 90.3 percent were investigated, of these, only 24,976 were indicated and investigated (Child Protective Services). This leaves a large number of cases that have not been investigated. Moreover, it is a now a known fact domestic violence in the household can also have negative effects on ...