Street Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

In Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff, it is clear that there is a huge difference between being ‘book smart’ (intellectualism) and being ‘street smart.’ From the essay, it is evident that intellectualism is not achievable only through proper or formal education in schools or colleges (Gerraf 5). People should consider other subjects such as sports and cars as shapers of intellectualism and this is can actually be discussed out in the streets. Street smart personalities can learn things outside of an academic environment for instance in their neighborhoods. Hidden intellectualism is therefore found in everyday life. People are intellectuals in ...

Introduction:

Graff argues about the contrast between the public argument and street smarts. The author argues that the street smarts have skills that go untapped by the formal schooling. The students have many skills that go unnoticed by the schooling process. Most of the intellectual resources go unnoticed because they are attached to the anti-intellectual interests. People tend to believe that intellectualism is found only in books and philosophies while giving little focus and emphasis on the aspects as sports, dating, clothing fashions or information concerning cars. We tend to give emphasis on the look knowledge while forgetting the important ...

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The mention of Black Liberation Movement (BLM) brings to mind iconic black activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, George Jackson and many others. The influence of these BLM heroes and heroines in America has spread to other movements and ideas about inequality. In the 1960s and 1970s many social activists looked towards prisons for political leadership while considering the prisons to be institutions of oppression and social control (Steinhauer, 2006). Prisoners emerged as icons of state repression and beacons of liberation. In the United States, black prisoners held special sway with their prolific writings ...

Discuss the validity of cultural censorship in children’s media studied in class from two different perspectives

Abstract
The media has been proven the main source of violence and aggressive behavior shown by children in the modern culture. Censorship programs have been used to determine the effect of children exposure to violent films and messages. The following is an argument on the role of the media and television in the social life of an individual irrespective of age, gender, sex, or religion. In order to discuss the validity of cultural censorship in children, two programs were selected. These are the Sesame Street and the Best of Families. The most significant theory used on this discussion ...

Human reactions weighed in environmental context

Human behaviour and its relationship with the environment has long since came into the scrutiny psychological studies with a numerous instances where behavioural and physiological responses are studied in different environments. However, the definition of environment itself has come to attach itself with psychological precepts giving new meanings to the term (work environment, cityscape, crowded environment, etc.). For the purposes of this essay, however, we will consider environment in its purely physiological sense with known attributes like temperature, pressure, spatial dimensions, etc. to throw light on the various factors that influence human behaviour. The video footage I have chosen for ...

Geography: Public Spaces are places where everyone is welcome and is free to express their identity

Introduction
Human Identity has been the topic of concern throughout the humanities, cognitive science, psychology, and psychoanalysis (Horowitz, 2012). The identity according to Dougherty (2006) is formed by natural environment and people’s reactions to the places. Though some places of the cities are called public spaces where the people come for various purposes, they are welcome but it is the social unwritten rule that they must abide by the rules and norms of the public places. Public places have traditionally being open minded according to Walzer (1995) and everyone can get access to the public places. For example, ...

Movie Piracy: Ethical Crisis and Economic Impact

Though movie piracy may seem an ordinary part of the modern reality that the counter-piracy advocates need to put up with, the act of stealing someone’s artwork is still illegal, unethical and economically detrimental. The pro-piracy fighters argue that the increasing access to Internet naturally nurtures the open access to all its content, including the one that is protected by numerous intellectual property laws. Thus, it would be logical to lift the ban on the piracy, which is supposedly helping the movie industry live and prosper, while helping the artists promote themselves within the growing audience. The piracy ...

Chinese health and the effects fast food has made over the last 20 years.

The inevitable process of globalization is undoubtedly accelerating the movement of humanity towards progress. A good example – the Asia-Pacific region, where until recently many millions of people lived in absolute poverty. And now, in terms of welfare, the region approaches North America and Western Europe.
China is the most obvious example. In 1981 there were 84% of people who lived from hand to mouth (The Wall Street Journal). In 2012, according to Gallup the number of people living below the absolute poverty went down to 7% (Kravtsov).
Those millions of people entered the category of the “new Chinese”. This ...

The drug war in Mexico has left more than 100,000 people dead in Mexico in just the past couple of years. “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the leader of the largest drug trafficking organization in Mexico and his capture grabs much attention in the media. Still, there are speculations if the drug war can really end just by capturing the leader. Drug gangs are active and have no fear of the law. The slaying of Gisela Mota, the mayor of Texmico, just one day after she took office is an example of dangers faced by the society and ...

1) Conjunto and Zoot Suit both discuss the political complications and difficulties experienced by Latinos in WWII-era California. Conjunto’s primary conflict is the tensions and injustice that arise between Mexican, Japanese and Filipino-American farm workers, demonstrating the unique struggles these underprivileged people must go through. The characters dream of better lives for themselves and their children in America, only to wonder, “Where did my dream go?” (Mayer 53). The racial dynamics of the different characters nonetheless leave them united in their status as racial minorities; even when they argue over who is ‘more American,’ Gene pointedly says, “being ...

Horatio Alger's ideas and ideal about the American Dream was drafted at a time when social scientists were discussing the survival of the fittest. Nonetheless, the story of Ragged Dick shows that Alger was just as concerned about social responsibility and stewardship. Ragged Sick was Alger’s most famous work at the time and the author's name has since become synonymous with moral values in the United States, especially as they pertain to politics. Alger wrote about one hundred novels and stories for juveniles, which were originally published between the 1850s and 1900. Horatio Alger is now possibly better known ...

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Business Strategy
According to Data Monitor (2011, p. 4) Starbucks is the world largest specialty coffee retailer with many coffee shops in 62 countries across North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Middle East. . Since inception, the firm has been able to traverse the United States and globally and open franchises at an impressive rate. Starbucks headquartering is in Seattle, Washington and employs close to 182,000 people as at September 2013 (Starbucks to outsource its HR Function, 2013. P.17). The firm recorded $14,892.2 million in the financial year ending 2013. Jennings (2012, p.19) says ...

The economic growth of United States became even better in the 1900s which also brought about the disparity of wealth between the rich and the poor. The government and Wall Street have been working together in order to formulate laws that will favour the banks and the rich community (Penner). When there is a reduction of tax payment the rich will be able to continue investing and increasing their wealth while the poor may increase their wealth but it will not be same because they cannot afford to take risks with their wealth. The politicians also get their funding from ...

Individual Reaction to the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction
Through advancements in science and technology, human beings have managed to create machines that work more or less in the same way as the human brain, performing tasks like mathematical calculations and language translations. This is what has come to be known as Artificial intelligence (AI) which is the kind of intelligence that machines exhibit when certain manipulations and programming is done to them. Some of these machines like the IBM computer, Watson, are capable of mimicking or performing certain cognitive functions that are normally associated with the human brain only. Artificial intelligence research thus deals with problems ...

Perez in his book “The Desi Chain” talks about the Cuban-American culture that he sees as an achievement by the 1.5 generation. He explains that the 1.5 generation is an individual who is neither in the old generation nor in the young generation. He or she belongs to the middle generation, and his or her culture is unique from those of the older or younger generation. He attributes this achievement to the intercultural placement that enables them to undertake the negotiations and reach agreements that result in ethnic culture (Perez 06). He, however, says that the 1.5 generations is ...

The following essay is a response paper to the book “Days of Rage” by Bryan Burrough. It mainly talks about the main concerns addressed by the author including the organized gangs in America during the 1970s in the wake of the Vietnam War. In this response, I have brought together various sources. These sources include print resources, such as the book itself and other hard-copy journals. Online resources used include website articles such as the wall street journal and the New York Times. These sources have given conclusively concluded reviews that helped in writing this particular response.
Bryan Burrough ...

Introduction

The United States has adopted a culture that promotes whistle blowing in most industries. Research indicates that organizations without proper mechanisms for reporting unethical behavior report twice as high fraud related losses compared to those that do not. Johnston (2005) stated that over 40% of all fraud cases in such companies are detected by whistleblowers in comparison to 4% by internal audits, 11% through external audits, 1% by accident, and 18% through internal controls. This shows that the whistle blowers are important and therefore should be protected by the law. However, while the whistleblower protection laws are written to protect ...

Introduction

Most agree that going to college is a positive step, and that gaining a college degree opens up more job opportunities with better pay, meaning that it is likely that graduates will enjoy a better lifestyle, plus various other benefits. However, the costs of spending four years at college are considerably more today than they were in years gone by. This essay argues that those costs are too high, and leave many graduates with a huge debt to pay off, reducing the amount of net salary received in the first years of post-graduate employment.

The Arguments

Odland (2012) describes college costs as “outrageous” and that ...

There are some subtle differences in the two essays, although they both point out the negative aspect of gender norms and expectations. For Jensen, Masculinity is just a bummer. It’s all about primal conquest and competition to determine who the is Alpha male and where everyone else is on the social hierarchy. It’s exhausting and has some very negative consequences, from stress to violence towards women. He seems genuinely tired of men being forced to adhere to the strict guidelines of masculinity. Zeilinger is looking at men from the outside and seems to focus more on generalizations and ...

What is the problem?

At present, the majority of residents of Ohio State, let it be an individual, a student, etc. are burdened with debt. The poor debt scenario of the Ohio State came into scene when during 2005, the bankruptcy rate went double to the rest of United States. However, as per the data published by a website, although Ohioans carry less debt burden that the residents of other states, however, still the level of debt is high. Important to note that although the state’s residents carry less mortgage burden but the credit card and student loan amount has reached an alarming stage.

Significance of the problem?

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The aim of this paper is to examine the impact on quality of the financial reporting before and after the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). ‘The purpose of financial statements is to deliver information about the financial situation, functioning and financial flexibility of a business that is valuable to an extensive variety of stakeholders in taking important financial decisions‘(Kwame and Manesh). In order for the investors to make vital invest decisions regarding the future of their business, immense importance is placed on the standard and quality of information available to them in the accounting genre. This is ...

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While they claim that a picture is worth a thousand words, it may portray different meanings depending on culture. Music is extraordinary; it is a universal language that is poses minimal cases of discrimination. Music is a language that conveys emotion across all cultures. Regardless of the previous exposure or culture, individuals can watch or listen to a song and detect whether a song contains happiness, fear and sadness. The lyrics, the dance, melody and tone bring people to unity. For this, we can refer to the Shakira’s Waka Waka song in 2010. The song was a hit all over the world despite being sung ...

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Prostitution is an age old profession existing in the world from immemorial time. In the US as per the estimation made by the Prostitutes’ Education Network, over 100,000 American women are involved in the profession (Dionne 2013). Women's right activists consider prostitution a sinful act that undermines the integrity and dignity of women by victimizing them to sexual, physical, mental and emotional abuse. In the context of millions of young girls and women being exploited all over the world for commercial sex trade, it is a matter of great dispute whether or not the profession should be made legal. Over ...

It is clear that no martial arts would ever need to be banned from a sport that has been calling itself "Mixed Martial Arts." Different to what the opening scene to the first episode of the show called "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" mentions that, the sport of Mixed Martial Arts is something that is considered to be beyond just Boxing, Wrestling Muay Thai, and Jiu-Jitsu. When Mixed Martial Arts first started, the sport was not even looked as Mixed Martial Arts at all, because all that was contained within the "mix" was a list that was full of fighters who were ...

Stop and frisk essay introduction

"In that moment you are so scared," that is how Kasim Walters, a 17 years old New Yorker described his feelings when he was stopped by the police in his neighborhood in Brooklyn (Weir). The controversial stop and frisk policy came into effect in New York following the Terry v. Ohio case in 1968 in which the Supreme Court of the US made a significant ruling that a police officer doesn't violate the Fourth Amendment when he stops and frisks someone suspected on reasonable grounds of having committed a crime, about to commit a crime or is committing a crime. Over the ...

Gary Ross' 2012 adaptation of the young adult dystopian novel The Hunger Games was an effective, if somewhat uneven, film anchored by strong performances and interesting ideas. The tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the Capitol, is given a bleak and stylized look, fleshing out the world of the film while often shying away from real violence and issues where it counts. The sense of isolation that the protagonist feels is not unlike Foucaultian Panopticonism: Foucault came up with the idea of the ...

Adoption refers to the process whereby an individual takes parenting responsibilities of another person. In this case, all parenting responsibilities transferred to the adopting parent(s) are lasting and therefore the process should be recognized by the society. Various countries have their different laws that guide the adoption process. In Russia, adoption is legally recognized by the law provided that the adopting parents meet all the requirements by the law. However, the emerging issues surrounding the security and welfare of the Russian children adopted by Americans has led to the implementation of a new adoption ban. This paper argues that ...

The article “The New Immigrant and The Issue of Assimilation” by Tamar Jacoby in The Aims of Argument 7th ed.; Crusius and Channell (Eds.) 2009; McGraw Hill is a detailed account of the comparative scenario of immigrant prospect in US in terms of its economy, society, nation and an intriguing future of the generations to come. Developed more based on statistics and general empirical observation and trends, Jacoby, however, seems to have over generalized the issue in some respects. Let us take a tour delving deeper into what the article represents.
The article seems to have a target audience of socio- ...

Norah Vincent, a lesbian journalist, decided that the only way to discover the truth about the lives and experiences of men was to live as a man. She did so for eighteen months, and it led to one of the most remarkable journalistic feats since the white reporter John Griffin darkened his skin and lived as a black man in the South. Griffin’s 1961 book Black Like Me became an instant classic and was made into a movie in 1964 and he faced threats and harassment from many whites and was forced to move to Mexico for a year. Vincent, who charged her ...

David Hernandez’s poem Pigeons is a comparison piece. Hernandez compares the activities and treatment of pigeons to those of Hispanics. He uses symbolism, imagery and tone as techniques in conveying his theme of racism. Overall, it is an accessible poem with a clear subject matter.

Hernandez uses the first line of the poem as a statement: “Pigeons are the spiks of Birdland” (Hernandez 1023). This provides a sound introduction to the theme and the tone of the rest of the poem that is to come. Hernandez was Hispanicwhich somehow makes the word ‘spiks’ even more shocking; this was, no doubt, intentional. He ...