Florida Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

How many people in our society would yearn for higher education? But does everyone have equal access to it? This argument surrounds the negative impacts of higher education cost in America and how many intellectually qualified high school graduates cannot afford tuition to enter even the cheapest of institutions, known as the community college.
A recent research on Florida Memorial University located in Opa Locka Florida, revealed that the cost per semester, when all courses were considered, to enroll in a Bachelors of Science 4 year degree program was $6,175 per semester for in- state students with an ...

English is similar to all the living languages in the world, which is constantly changing amidst the changes taking place within the global environment. It is a dynamic language, and there has to be a standard set to distinguish a uniform code of language that can be understood in many areas around the world. For this, Standard English was set up “to ensure accuracy and clarity in communication” (Roy 39). It is therefore, important to ask how important is Standard English when it comes to businesses in Miami, Florida and other cities that are multicultural? In a huge community ...

It’s no secret that there are probably more people on the welfare system now than in previous years. Welfare is basically cash money that a recipient can use for anything. It isn’t regulated, like food stamp purchases, and that means that the government cannot stop recipients from using it for illegal drugs, instead of buying nonfood items, like toilet paper or paying for prescriptions. Because of this, many states created welfare reforms that focused on drug testing to weed out the individuals who may not be using their welfare for legal practices. There are many states that have ...

Looking up the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, arranged marriage is defined as a kind of marital union, where two people are married in accordance to the arrangements made by a third party, usually the parents of the bride and groom (O’ Brien 40). In arranged marriages both prospective spouses agree to have the assistance of a third party, e.g their parents, and identify a husband or wife respectively. Although arranged marriages differ from forced marriages, which occur when either the bride or groom or even both of them are married against their will, they still should be considered unacceptable. We live in a ...

In the United States, members of sexual minorities began to fight for the right of marriage to each other in the 1970s, which evolved with the wave of mass movements for civil rights of racial minorities. This idea, which was originally categorically rejected by American society, gradually acquired the right to life. In 2002, after the European Court of Human Rights called for the registration of marriages of transsexuals in the United States, a new wave of debate and litigation, this time centered on the acceptance of homosexual marriages and their compliance with the Constitution of the United States. In ...

Since as far back as society dates, the death penalty has been used as a means to punish severe crimes. Many societies have determined that taking a life unjustly of another should lead to the forfeit of one’s own life. In the 18th century BC, The Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon employed the death penalty for the punishment of twenty-five crimes. The first death sentence recorded was in 16th century BC Egypt. Christian Old Testament law, based of an “eye for an eye” based law required one committing a crime to make amends. Under that, murder could only be made ...

The War of 1812 is a significant event for the United States of America (America) that introduced much of the reforms characterizing the status quo. It placed much emphasis on respect for American sovereignty and diplomacy – with emphasis on respecting America’s diplomatic rights, the sanctity of American political unity and American economic development. On the other hand, it places heavy weight on controversial American expansionist effort on British Canada and Spanish Florida. Nevertheless, the War is a necessary one due to its positive consequences to the development of America as a nation.

America saw several opportunities to expand its territory during ...

Introduction

Every segment of the American economy is under pressure and college education has not been left behind. The cost of college education has risen sharply in the recent past and a big percentage of American College students risk being left out of college education if the cost rises further. The increase in costs has come forth in spite of the excruciating cost-cutting done by colleges on every activity in the institutions. The increase in tuition fee actually outperformed the overall inflation rate.

The increase in cost of college education in US could eventually put college education out of reach for ...

For many years the working class has implored the government to make welfare recipients subject to drug tests. Often thought as abusers of the system, welfare recipients have resisted this idea, insisted that they are not criminals. They are simply people who are down on their luck. However, with the Census Bureau reporting that more people were on welfare than were working full time in the fourth quarter of 2011, it was time for something to be done . States began to pass legislation enforcing that all welfare recipients would be subject to random drug screenings, as well as an ...

11-11-2013

In October of 2013, two girls from Florida, ages 12 and 14 were arrested. The charge: aggravated stalking. (Sanburn 2013) Their cyber-bullying led to the suicide of 12-year-old girl named Rebecca Sedwick. (Sanburn 2013) This is one of the more clear-cut cases where the bullying and the suicide were obviously connected. One of the suspects posted the following on Facebook, a popular social media site:”I bullied Rebecca nd (sic) she killed herself.” (Sanburn 2013) This case illustrates a growing problem among young people of today, that of cyber-bullying. The rate of teen suicide has been creeping up between 2007, when ...

I chose my essay to be ‘an argument for making the death penalty mandatory for murders’ because it has been a dilemma in the society. There have been sections advocating for its abolishment and those for its reinforcement. However, statistics show that murder rates are increasing and break outs in prison increase due to advanced technology, hence there have been calls to make the death penalty for murder mandatory so as to rid offenders from the society and prevent the crime reoccurring.
To make my essay stronger for the portfolio, I did revisions in the four sections of the ...

Should the death penalty be mandatory for people that kill other people?

The saying goes do unto others what you would have them do unto you. Therefore, the price for taking away life should cost the offender his or her life. Different kinds of punishment have been used to discourage criminals from unlawful actions, and the greater the criminal act the greater should be the punishment. The death penalty is a controversial issue and people base their arguments for or against death penalty on practical, emotional, religious or practical grounds. People in favor of the capital punishment argue that it improves peace in the society by ensuring that such people do not ...

The stand your ground law became a hotly debated topic due to the case that involved Trayvon Martin and revolved around the shooting down of an unarmed 17-year-old by a watchman. The shooting occurred in 2012 and since then there have been suggestions to make laws that protect citizens, this was amidst the hotly contested nationwide debate on gun control. The trial sparked the law, and the facts were crucial as Zimmerman claimed to act in his defense as Treyvon looked suspicious.
This led to a series of protests and rallies in anger against the killings before his burial ( ...

Annotated Bibliography

Lott, John. Should Bans Against Carrying Concealed Weapons Be Lifted On College Campuses? 9 March 2011. Web. 13 April 2016.
In this article, the opinion of the author (John Lott) is expressed as concerns the conceal and carry gun policy. According to this articles which made an appearance on foxnews.com, little cases of crime were reported in the areas where students permitted to carry guns did so. However, he notes that areas that were declared gun free had several cases of petty crime saying that lack of guns exposed the vulnerability of such areas to crime. Lott uses the ...

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The Abolition of Slavery
Introduction
Historians evaluate in several ways the distinctions and similarities of the North and South just before the Civil War. The North’s population was 50 percent more than the South’s. Blacks comprised just over one percent of the North’s population while about 95 percent of Southern blacks were slaves. The North emphasized manufacturing and commercial enterprises while the South focused on agricultural development, mostly with the labor of slaves (Pessen 1121).
This essay discusses topics related to the important issue of slavery ...

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was more successful as a writer and traveler than he was as a conquisidator. He was an early explorer, exploring the New World hailing from Spain, as well as a protoanthropological author. He was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz in the year 1490 into a wealthy family. Orphaned at a very early age, Cabeza grew up under care of his maternal aunt. Pedro de Vera, his grandfather, had conquered the Canary Islands and would serve a large shadow in Cabeza de Vaca’s ambitions in ‘the new world’ America. His name cabeza means ‘head’ and de Vaca means ‘ ...

Hundreds of people pass away on the daily basis because of gunshots and about three times of these people get severely injured. Thousands of families are destroyed; fractured bones and hearts broken are a result of gun violence. If wounds and disabilities resulting from guns were characterized as a disease, it would have been viewed as a widespread problem across the globe. Although, human beings are the creator of this weapon, guns are obviously not good for health of human beings. The incidents occurring around the world due to gun violence are of different types. A mass execution in high school of ...

The Importance of an Emergency Management Plan: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery

It may not come as a surprise to say that, as humans reach out in search of food and shelter, it is the environment around them that is being abused. As man’s needs grow, so too does the pressure on the environment grow, as a result of which, an ecological imbalance is created unconsciously. And once an ecological imbalance occurs, a series of events are triggered that culminates in large scale loss of life and property. There is no doubt the importance the environment has on life on this planet, but man himself, pressed for space, finds no other option but ...

“We thought we knew what we meant by the expression “Being” but now we are perplexed.” Heidegger quotes from Sophist by Plato;
Despite the strong synonymy of the term Dasein with Martin Heidegger, this fundamental concept in existential philosophy was used by several philosophers before his treatment. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel notably assigned the meaning of “existence” or “presence” to it. However, Heidegger’s interpretation has attracted more relevance, as a way of ones involvement with and caring for the immediate world that frames his life; whilst remaining alive to the contingent element of that involvement, the priority of the ...

Introduction

Munera was an ancient repetitive Rome game which involved gladiators. Rome was a known ancient entertainment city in the world engaging in many forms of entertainment and games, which included Munera. The significance of manure was that of brutal entertainment of the emperors and the crowd's thirst of blood. The games had social significance and were a means of communication and sacrificial rituals. The paper seeks to approach Munera games as a text and bring to light clear implications of the games. Focusing on the way Munera was used as sacrificial rituals, funeral and also as a representation of masculinity in Rome. The ...

Question 1

As president Barrack Obama’s second term of office comes to an end, several observations can be made about some of the positive and the negative effects he has had on the welfare of the American citizens as well as the country in general. Some of the achievements that Obama was able to realize include the fact that he influenced the congress to come up with better regulation on pertinent issues such as the rights of the gay people and immigrants. The topic of gun control is another contentious issue that president Obama also managed to address during his ...

Introduction

The Electoral College was originated during the end of 18th century with the aim of giving due importance to the educated ones while considering that the average farmer did not knew much about the government and politics. Education is a necessity of a democratic government to be elected fairly for which the population is required to be educated. However a major population of US was not educated in late 18th century. So the Electoral College was established as the electoral process of US and this system is under debate by many expert analysts currently. The election process in US starts with the ...

Reilly Dowd, an online reporter for ABC news website, poses a rhetorical “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?’’ in his article “ Young African Americans Support President Obama, but Turnout Not a Guarantee.” He further suggests the existence of a divide among young African American voters in the 2012 elections. From various sources as regards the 2008 presidential elections, President Obama won a staggering majority of the African American vote and a significant proportion of the vote from the young population under 30. It is a shared worry that much of the enthusiasm that helped bring the African Americans in droves ...

Drugs such as marijuana and cocaine and amphetamines and heroin together with drug-addiction are correlated to crime in a number of ways. Being a criminal offence to use, to be in possession, to produce, or to dispense these drugs, they are categorized as prohibited. The upshots of usage of drugs, including aggression, including robbery to obtain funds to acquire drugs, including aggression against competitor traffickers, affect the society every day and are criminal effects. A number of treatment alternatives are on hand to tackle inmates' requirements and conditions in the correctional system. Drug treatment programs in correctional centres most often than ...