Persuasive Essays

Learning the English language can become one of the most profitable ventures to an immigrant. The knowledge of the language can make it easier for one to maneuver in their environment as well as get jobs easily to sustain themselves as well as family members. However, the process proves to...

Part of the significant discoveries of the twenty-first century is the rapid and proliferation of social media not only among the teenagers but across people of all ages and gender across the globe. Nowadays internet has become a necessary phenomenon, with most people not understanding the dark effects associated with...

Cool refers to something dangerous, original, a style and always related to sex. The feminist movement has always been cool throughout history. Some of the feminist movements that represented cool in the 90s include the Riot Grrl and the spice girls among many others.  Feminists usually ascribe to girl power...

Everyone has friends who have acted out of character, who have said or done something that is not like them. When such a person is not acting like himself, we know him and how he or she should behave. A Mockingbird, for instance, defines a creature that does not do...

Among other ideas, Medea, Oedipus, and the Aeneid have a common line of death that was a result of a conflict between a man and a woman, which will be considered in this paper. The women of these tales could not see life beyond the pain that had been afflicted on...

Discriminatory Treatment of Police towards Citizens Why is the manner in which the police handle people depending on their class and ethnicity termed to be discriminative? The intensity of force used by law enforcement agents completely contradicts their training and imperative to serve and protect. Both articles explore the issue of...

The Importance of Seat Belts in Vehicles The importance of seat belts in vehicles has been a controversial issue with each side of the debate having solid facts to back up their stand. Having seat belts installed in cars is normally driven by the physics’ concept of inertia based on the...

Introduction United States continue to suffer from poor health despite the many progresses made in other spheres. Citizens are dying younger and facing more illnesses and injuries than other developed nations in the world. The irony of the poor health crisis is that the government is spending a lot of money...

Since its independence in 1776, United States of America has had a depraved history of racism. Socially and legally approved rights and privileges were given mostly to white American but not to the African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Native Americans. There were separate schools for the whites and other communities (Winter 12)....

Modernization of Traditional Heroes Traditional heroes are becoming modernized due to emergence of alternative forms of storytelling in which tragedies are rare. Today, it is an unacceptable norm to let a hero die except in the cases of noble sacrifice or through murder by evil. Even if this happens, the actions...

The Journey of Sonya Sotomayor The first Hispanic and third woman to sit on the Supreme Court bench, Sonya Sotomayor is undoubtedly an icon to many in the world. Her great feats, however, caused many to be curious about her journey. Sonia's appointment as a supreme court judge has dramatically fueled...

Student B’s essay, The Truth about Toddlers and Tiaras, does well to shine a light on the profoundly detrimental effects of the subjection of very young girls to the notion that external beauty, is all that matters in life. By critically examining the effect that Toddlers and Tiaras have had on...