Thinking Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

It is of concern, it worries me, it begs the question, and ‘who am I?’ It is a life of self-seeking; searching trying to make sense of what makes me what I am. Who defines me? Is what I think I am what should be entitled of me, or is this a life of conformity? Femininity, unfortunately, confined us to the unfortunate position of finding a place to fill, occasionally, which turns out to be most of the time taking up roles which, if we have not volunteered to take yet, relegated to us by manhood.
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Games are an important part of human life and help in relaxing the mind. Card games improve the intelligence of players as they are required to apply deep thought and sound decision making within a limited span of time. However, it is imperative to note that each game has its own rules, hence evoking varied tastes and preferences among the players. One of the most interesting games is card games, which come in various forms and types. There is a lot of calculated moves and intelligibility behind all the moves made by each player. Notably, the game also develops Continue reading...

Introduction

This argumentative essay will examine different thoughts regarding religion. This analysis has been carried out with the help of specific epistemology. Some of the most important discussions are carried out in order argue critically about the practices of religion, ethics and science.
1.Ethics
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Ethical system based on humanity and equality is essential for making a balanced society. Any kind of ethical system, which is backed by the factors of humanity and equality, will surely give benefits to the people living in any part of the world. It is no denying the fact that every ethical system is based Continue reading...

Introduction

The purpose of the following essay is to explore the fundamental aspects of the Descartes` theory on the distinctness of mind and body as formulated in the Sixth Meditation of a philosophical treatise ‘Meditations on the first philosophy’, as well as to present the objections against the Descartes` statement that the mind is distinct from the body. I would also like to briefly summarize the main points of the Sixth Meditation in regard to the existence of material things and the relation between the imagination and the pure intellection.
In the Sixth Meditation “Concerning the Existence of Material Things, Continue reading...

Evolution is gradual. The changes that come with it are long lasting and in addition have long term effects on different morals. Just like anything else, morals too have evolved over time. For instance, in the beginning what used to be right and sound can never be said to be so today. It is not so long ago that man walked on all fours. Nowadays, such a scenario would be treated as medical case. When people are born, they have an empty brain that is ready to take in everything that is on display. This through the surroundings (cultural Continue reading...

When it comes to adolescents making decisions for their own life, typically it depends on what the subject material is. By the time an individual reaches adolescence, they are picking what they want to wear, what they want to eat, and many of the movies they watch in their spare time. Parents begin to relinquish some of the rules they held over the individuals as children in order to let them grow, become independent, and learn lessons on their own. However, many ask where to draw the line. Adolescents are capable of making many decisions for themselves concerning small Continue reading...

I Would Never Have Sex with Someone on a First Date
I Would Never Have Sex with Someone on a First Date
Why should I even bother whether or not to have sex with someone on a first date? In the first place, I did not even bother to think of having sex at all with someone or somebody. I do not even want to entertain the thought that I would like to have a date with another person because I focus on my studies. Nonetheless, for the sake of argument, I would definitely not agree to have sex Continue reading...

A critical re-examination of Plato's Phaedo argument reveals that learning involves a recollection of prenatal knowledge. Plato`s thoughts on the knowledge that rests upon recollection is brought out through Socrates, his speaker. Socrates gives too much attention to the case of equal stones and sticks which are in most of the occasions viewed as existing without complete success that resembles a Form. Plato takes two different approaches in handling the theory of knowledge. In both the Phaedo and Meno, he presents this theory of knowledge as a recollection (Sedley, 1992, p 312). Plato presents his theory as a Continue reading...

Zeno Paradoxes

Zeno of Elea is a mathematician and a Greek philosopher who is famous for his paradoxes that deals with or explains the continuity of motion. He was born during 490 BCE and was a strong devotee of Parmenides who also introduced the Eleactic school of thought in the current southern Italy. He survives in Parmenides, Plato's dialog and from it the origin of paradoxes becomes clear. One of the most familiar paradoxes put across by Zeno states that I cannot walk over you as I need to get there halfway, and in the event that I succeed I must Continue reading...

Nurture and nature have been two most controversial aspects in self-identification and family. Nature refers to the innate qualities that are inherent in individuals whereas nurture is the external environment aspects that shape the identity of an individual. Nurture is derived from ones environment, and includes attributes or aspects that have no relationship with the genetic characteristics of the person. Which of the two is superior to the other in the way they shape the identity of the person? Although both play and interacting role in development and eventually identification, nurture tends to have an upper hand in shaping Continue reading...

In my point of view, many problems in people’s life happen because they are bored. When they do not know what to do, often it is much simpler to think of something not useful or decent and start realizing it. I am sure that when people have some specific goal in life, and when they are moving towards it, they are not bored and live happy life. In this essay, I will consider certain arguments for and against my viewpoint.
First, I want to state that people who are bored can harm themselves. It is essential for people Continue reading...

The enlightenment refers to the sprawling of intellectual, social, philosophical, and cultural movement that spread through France, England, German, and other parts of Europe during the 1700s. Enlightenment thinkers advocated for self-autonomy in thinking, free of the limitations of traditional authority. The process of “modernity” traces its origin to this movement, as an heir, with seeds implanted in this period. Evidently, the process began with a vision of an autonomous free individual, but later contributed to the instrumental means-end thinking that has shaped modernity. The writers of the enlightenment mastered everything they regarded as worth learning, ranging from science Continue reading...

The image of the evil demon does not arouse the thoughts and use power over people to accept the things that are not true. Instead, the evil demon is a device which is a way by which Descartes thinks everything he used to think true to be false. It leads him to all his doubts he has acceptably raised regarding those things he regularly held to the truth. The acknowledgment that the understanding that he had gained on false grounds is at best uncertain and leads him to make up his mind to overturn all those things that he Continue reading...

Argumentative Essay: Idealism versus Realism

Introduction
The philosophy is the basis of human intellectual development because the knowledge provides mental infrastructure that operates in order to assist the humans in terms of understanding the world that exists around them. However, there are marked differences between the two leading schools of thought in this regard. According to Augustine, idealism is conventional approach towards gaining knowledge (Barnes, 237). The basic strings of idealism go back to the era of ancient Greeks who thought that their intellectual capacity was sufficient regarding accumulation of knowledge in the world (Page 116). Realism on the other side argues that human Continue reading...

In today’s world, higher education is being valued more now, than it ever has been before. Within the realm of education, people often ponder what the best setting for students is, and how they can better learn. For instance, a common theme is American education, is the notion that smaller classrooms, lead to a more productive and educated class. This is easy to imagine, hence the lesser amount of students equals more time for the teacher to aide students individually. This is a common theme that is embraced by parents and students alike. However, some people tend to Continue reading...

Zhuangzi’s Way in the Past and Today

Introduction
Zhuangzi, also known as Master Zhuang, is one of the famous and earliest thinkers, who have made significant contributions to a philosophy, which has been named as Daojia. Zhauangzi is considered as contemporary of Mencius, who is a Confucian thinker, but there was a lack of communication between them. He is considered as great literary philosopher, and his name is included among the best philosophers China has produced so far. The style of Zhuangzi is poetic, humorous, mythical, indirect, and narrative. He has critically analyzed the usual evaluations and the generalization, considered different forms of understanding in different Continue reading...

Part I

Kripke states first the principle of the necessity of origin; and then, second, the principle of essence; and finally gives an answer to the mind/body problem, given the nature of pain. For this essay, I will recount Kripke’s original response to the mind/body problem, given his support of his claims.
Kripke argues in an innovative way that one doesn't discover possible worlds, but in language, the modal realities are stipulated in such a way that how one attribute of Roger, for example, in one possible world can be compared with the attributes of another. What stays the same? Continue reading...

Common core math applies standards that place a greater focus by course instructors and a deeper understanding by the learners compared to the previous math standards. Students need to solve math problems accurately, to accurately apply the best math concepts and equations in solving real-world problems and understanding concepts without having to memorize answers. All these while demonstrating the reason for applying the chosen concept or why the equation used is accurate. The standards help students think critically and gather the knowledge needed to succeed at the subsequent higher levels (Layton, 2014).
Critics may fight the common core idea Continue reading...

Why The Novel “Lord of the Flies” should be taught in college

Civilization has long been under the control of rules and regulations that keep us civil and respectful toward one another. This is guided by laws and rules that were set in place to do exactly that keep people all civilized. When we live by these laws every day it is easy to forget that this is not our nature. Most people are not naturally civilized and you only truly see their colors when they are provoked. The “lord of the flies” is a fictional novel by author William Golding that is based in the middle of a war. It Continue reading...

On Argument, What Some Call “Self-Writing,” and Trying to See the Back of One’s Own Eyeballs,” was written by Jim W. Corder. The author strongly defends “self-writing” and its central relation to rhetoric. In the first part of the essay, Corder talks about the unique version of Aristotle’s rhetoric by detailing five and not four rhetorical classes. The classes highlighted entail intellectual, willful, emotional, spiritual and corporal rhetoric. Corder adds a 6th class that discusses the rhetoric experienced by both the writer and the reader. He highlights that it is difficult for any person to realize “the Continue reading...

Is Bluffing During Negotiations Unethical?

Business practises' produces the ethical dilemma of bluffing negotiation tactics. As with any philosophical question about moralities there are two sides of the argument, one side arguing that it is ethical to bluff during negotiations and another side arguing that it is not ethical. Arguing on the side of yes it is moral to bluff in certain situations during negotiations is the University of California’s ethical philosopher Fritz Allhoff with her unique position. Also in support of gray area of bluffing during negotiations is James Lawrence providing legal guidelines supporting negotiators barging for their best interest. Finnally, Murrmann, Continue reading...

“The Great Gatsby” is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Though the novel focuses on Jay Gatsby predominantly, Nick Carraway the novels’ narrator has a considerable role to play. As the novel advances, Nick gradually transforms to become the most interesting character and a major player. He changes overwhelmingly during the course of the novel a fact that makes the novel even much more interesting (Lee 40).
Nick Carraway being the narrator of the novel plays a very imperative role owing the fact that the events are narrated from his perspective. Considering that the narration incorporated in Continue reading...

1) Anyone with vision knows that it is the most pervasive of all the senses. To find the truth in this is that one someone hears something, like something falling off the table, one looks to confirm if what one has heard is what it sounded like. But when someone has seen something it is already convincing enough. Vision does not appeal to the other senses for confirmation but the other senses appeal to vision in this way. While it may be the most convincing of all of the five sense. Descartes did not believe that it should be Continue reading...

The paper describes the Byzantine Empire at the time of Justinian; in relation to it, the paper explores the powers reflection in law, architecture, and art, it describes Western Europe under the rule of Charlemagne (747-814). In the Early Medieval times when the focal power demonstrated ineffectual and was not ready to secure the subjects, feudalism, created with subjects (vassals) swearing constancy to capable master for insurance in return for military administration. As the administration weakened further, the masters picked up control of more grounds and more men ready to battle for them; thus, their energy developed. Manorialism created Continue reading...

Michelangelo has been studied as a think tank of art ever since he painted master illustrations that nurtured the style of renaissance period. It should be noted that he brought the concept of man as a subject of art work that generated a lot of debate during the era of renaissance period. Sistine Chapel Ceiling includes illustrations shows mere interest in men as Michelangelo claimed that men brought the beauty of world together. Sistine Chapel Ceiling is the art work that has been selected for the purpose of evaluation in this paper. In addition, a discussion will be carried Continue reading...

Introduction

Philosophy is an important discipline which reflects people’s beliefs about what is true or real in accordance to individual values. Philosophy allows people to think rationally and hence determine the right course of action. The Early Greek philosophers were mainly concerned with justifying and answered questions on where everything originated (Rudebusch 2009 p 139). Educators surely need to have a standing point that enables students to understand why they think and act the way they do. Socrates and sophistry are both philosophies that can enable people to understand the logic and fallacies behind different critical facts. The two Continue reading...

Overview of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed

This paper reviews Paulo Freire’s ideas expressed in his book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it presents an argumentative position on the lack of factual reasoning in Freire’s thoughts. The ideology or school of thought that is advanced by Freire is such that education system as it is, is a prison for the student rather than a means to impart knowledge. In this regard Freire contends that the teacher-student relationship is one in which the teacher forces down knowledge to the student. The student on the other hand has no choice but to take in what is Continue reading...

Asperger’s Syndrome is named after Hans Asperger; an Austrian physician who studied the case in 1944. According to his findings, children who have Asperger’s Syndrome are typically clumsy. In addition, most of them exhibit the lack of non-verbal communication skills and shows little up to no empathy with their friends; hence they became the subject of scrutiny and the laughingstock of the class. Although the cause of Asperger’s is still an enigma, scientists claim that Asperger’s autism is probably the result of malfunctioning of the genes (Klin, Volkmar & Sparrow, 2000). Because of their complex personality, Continue reading...

In the recent past, there has been a debate over who is actually to blame for the steady rise and increase in the number of obese people in the society. There is a school of thought that articulates the reasoning that healthy eating habits and obesity squarely lies on the shoulders of the individual human being. This line of thought and reasoning postulates that one has the choice to decide on whether he or she will eat healthy or junk food from the restaurants and the corporations at large. On the other hand, there is a school of thought Continue reading...

Legalization of marijuana is a bulky topic; a deep message underlies this debate. Alcohol and drug abuse is number one issue in the United States. The controversy rages on as both sides have clear points of view.
There are many pros and cons of marijuana legalization. However, there is no doubt that use of marijuana harms health and use of this drug will be significantly increased with its legalization. Thus, it is necessary to take everything into account before making a decision whether marijuana should be legalized.
On February 26th, 2014 a recent poll in Texas showed that 49% Continue reading...

Part 1:

Kongzi, or Confucius, often known as the Socrates of the east, has been a pretty influential figure in the Chinese culture. He is considered to be the first man in China to emphasize on education for everyone and its role in building one’s character. Based on the learning abilities, he considered humans to belong to upper, middle or lower groups. However, his view on human nature has not been well- documented. From whatever we know, he only spoke once directly about the human nature. In The Analects of Confucius XVII, verse 2, he said that by nature, the Continue reading...

Importance of communication and current state:

Communication is of supreme importance in us humans. Almost nothing would work if we weren’t able to communicate with each other. Each man, then, truly would live like an island, living in solitude and aloof of anyone else’s reality. For a concept that is so imperative to our social life, it is hardly ever acknowledged and frequently abused. Before the technology boom, communication was always face to face, where people could get a real time experience of our gestures, body language and expressions. But in today’s day and age, most of our communication is either written Continue reading...

Literature

“Why the Rich Get Richer and the Poor, Poorer” by Robert Reich
Based on Robert B. Reich’s views concerning the decreasing job opportunities for routine producers (e.g., factory workers), in-person servers (e.g., bank tellers), and symbolic analysts (e.g., CEOs), the increased immigration affect the American economy in such a way that even with declining population among the second group of workers (that is, in-person servers) resulting to reduced competition for their jobs, increased immigration may nonetheless cancel it (Reich 515). Immigration may be a hopeful sign if the country needs more in-person servers for its aging population, small Continue reading...

English

In this Writing Proficiency Elements (WPE), I did everything I can to follow correctly most, if not all, instructions in order to have a passing grade. I started with a lead-in sentence in my introduction about money and happiness. I only not presented a balanced perspective about the issue that “money doesn’t buy happiness,” but also agreed that “money does keep most of us happy as well.” I cited previous essays, articles or research findings and I also admitted that happiness is a complicated idea, concept and construct. I set an example on how such is the case. Continue reading...

Lean services apply the lean manufacturing concept in the service environment. Lean service is not interested in the production of “hard” goods but services that are not tangible. Therefore, it is possible for lean work to be applied in the service industry. The following are some of the aspects that make lean service possible.
The service wastes such as delays in those customers may wait for long before delivery, duplication of data in that one has to re-enter or repeat filling in of forms, and unclear communication that promotes seeking of clarification, wasting time in locating a service provider, Continue reading...

Meditations & Bad Dreams

Introduction
Descartes and Christopher Grau found similar difficulties in putting full faith in perceived realities. Descartes set these down in his series of Meditations. Grau used them as the foundation of the film The Matrix. Both men sought the answer to the same question. They wanted to find a method by which individuals could be sure that the reality perceived did reflect the real world. Descartes decided to fix his thinking by rejecting everything knew and rebuilding on an honest foundation. In reach the truth, he needed a way to rule out every other possibility.
Like Descartes trying to Continue reading...

“All punishment is mischief; all punishment is itself evil”. This is a famous quote by Jeremy Bentham, famous British jurist and philosopher. Bentham died in 19th century. So is it expediency to think so nowadays when it is already 21st century, when material and spiritual values have changed? Things that used to be immoral back in 19th century are common today in our modern world, so can this quote be considered practical?
One will say that crime should not be punished as they do not separate such things as “punishment” and “crime”. These two words are equal to such Continue reading...

A deductive statement or a deductively valid argument is one that has its premises succeeding to guarantee the conclusion of the argument. An argument is said to be sound if the valid argument has true conclusions. On the other hand, in an inductive statement or an inductively valid argument, the premises are anticipated only to be so reliable that, if they were correct, then it would be improbable that the conclusion is not true. Unlike the deductive argument, which is either valid or else invalid, the success or strength of an inductive argument is an issue of degree since Continue reading...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century. His philosophy influenced not only the various sections of philosophical knowledge, thereby extending its reach and scope, but also the development of such sciences as logic, mathematics, linguistics, the list of which is not complete. Moreover, if the twentieth century largely passed under the sign of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, in Wittgenstein's philosophy this century got its most profound understanding. It is all the more ironic that the philosopher did not leave a special essay on social philosophy and philosophy of Continue reading...

- Introduction
- Our society have witnessed the rise and drop of many social inequities, but the subject of stereotyping yet remain and has remained for many years, decades, or else millennium.  In United States and in further nations around the planet, we are accountable of judging a person merely based off one chronicle that we had the opportune to hear about their ethnic group or society. 
- Starting from the 20th century till today, America has been able to go through several changes in society that was never thought to have been possible before. Nevertheless, the expectation that Continue reading...