Argumentative Essay

Descartes gives three arguments to try and make himself believe that all his thoughts, beliefs and previous knowledge is nonexistent or has no value. He is trying to convince himself that he knows nothing. I think this is a rather difficult task to perform considering that no matter what you try to do to convince yourself of something you will always go back to your old thoughts and beliefs. It is just how our minds work. The first main argument I am going to talk about is the Dreaming Argument…

Without friends no one would choose to live (Aristotle). Although there are a few controversy views on friendship across many generations friendships develop in our early stages of life. Our most prominent friends are while we are smaller such as close family members or even more relatable, our siblings. To further define friendship is the conduct of friends and a union between individuals. Friendships serves as therapeutic value (Kaiser 2012). They are there to be supportive and give guidance.…

On September 26 of 2017 I attended the Matchbox 20 concert at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Matchbox 20 is an American pop/rock band. The band consist of five members, Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale, Adam Gaynor, and Paul Doucette. Each member of the band plays at least 3 instruments and rotates who is playing what instrument in many of their hit songs. Matchbox 20 has been around since 1995, and has visited St.Louis numerous times. From the start of the…

Sophia Miana Professor Hitch English 100 3 October 2017 What is Gentrification Mia and her family have lived in the same town since the first time she developed memories. She’s also known her neighbors the same time she’s known her family. One day, she comes home from school, and witnessed a notice taped to the front door of their house. The paper read that there will be reconstructing of old houses and construction of new buildings in her area, and that the price of their house was going to…

The existence of God has been debated throughout history. There are many arguments for the existence of God but there are two commonly-accepted arguments among theists: the cosmological argument and the teleological argument also known as the argument from design. In his article entitled “On Being an Atheist”, H.J. McCloskey attempts to refute each of these arguments. His stated purpose in the article is to provide reasons for atheism and to show that it is more comforting to be an atheist than…

2b. The critique presented by Gould and Lewontin in the Spandrels paper describes the shortcomings of the adaptationist program that had been the predominant path of evolutionary thought for decades. Adaptationists see natural selection as the only and all-powerful force that can overcome any constraint to species' traits, and that evolution in turn relies exclusively on natural selection. In challenging this concept of adaptation, Gould and Lewontin are not denying the existence evolution by…

Up until the 1930’s scientist and doctors said Cigarettes were considered safe and, it was not until recently, nearly 85 years, later that scientist are truly beginning to understand the long term effects that cigarettes leave on the body. Presently the Center for Disease Control report that cigarettes cause over 480,000 per year. (CDC). In 2006 the government began place stricter and sticker punishments on the Tabaco companies forcing them to sponsor anti-smoking campaigns. To combat that…

Throughout the world, many hundreds of people have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. Some of these illnesses are very painful and can cause suffering to those diagnosed until they eventually pass away. Today, a few countries have legalized a method to circumvent this suffering; it is known as physician/euthanasia assisted suicide (EAS). In America, a handful of states have legalized this new medical approach but there is still a lot of opposition for moral and religious reasons. Most…

In 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was dismissed from her position for suggesting that schools engage students in the explicit discussion about masturbation. When looking back, putting aside personal or religious beliefs concerning the topic, it would appear that masturbation would serve as a countermeasure against teenage pregnancy and the transmission of sex-related diseases, but when politics enters the discussion, everything rational gets tossed out the window (Canino, J. T.,…

On the release out of the hospital, Bella was given to Cecilia Celeste, her grandmother. Only left with a wedding ring and a caregiver Bella 's life began. The parents of the child, Marcus and Arabella Celeste went off, so their daughter could grow up without the pressure of following the family business, to let their daughter follow her own destiny. And for the years up until seven Bella always wondered about her parents, and was always greeted with a subject change no matter what the question.…