Chicago Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

The use of guns in US has been on the rise over the years, which has brought many controversies. As much as there are gun rights and laws stating its use, still, there lie some elements that render the use of guns uncouth. The rise of use of guns has always been a hot-button issue that has never sorted clarification in US, especially during elections that it’s almost uncontrollable. Many lives are put to risk, with death reports filling the media, often, they are gun related (Kellermann and Rivara, 2013. pg., 550).
Gun related problems, form the activists ...

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, but not all of them have been welcomed or received the same opportunities for a better life. The difference in treatment is explained by the concept of whiteness, which has evolved since colonial days. The immigrant group that set the standards of whiteness was the Protestant, White American who could trace his ancestry to the first Anglo-Saxon settlers. During the nineteenth century immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe began to make their way to American industrial cities such as Chicago. While these immigrants fared much better than the African slaves who ...

Both Jane Addams and Booker T. Washington are incredibly important figures in the realm of providing positive social change in America, offering individual and institution solutions to the problems of economic destitution and social discrimination, respectively. Addams, with her Hull House, sought to provide a center for women and immigrants to have a place to stay, learn languages and trade, and have a place to stay when no one else would have them. Washington, with his Tuskegee Institute, was much more focused on vocational training and providing a newly freed black population with a better chance to enter proper American life during the Reconstruction. ...

The term ‘Intellectual Property’ or IP has gained tremendous importance in modern times. Judiciary systems are becoming increasingly concerned about criminal as well as civil laws pertaining to intellectual property. The scope of such laws would extend to a wide spectrum and could have a deep impact on economies and individual industries. One such industry to be impacted is the gaming industry, particularly video games and virtual worlds.
The gaming industry has witnessed fast paced evolution in the past two decades. Video games today are played through gaming consoles as well as on PCs and mobile handheld devices including cell ...

Efficient communication is essential to enhance effective co-ordination of the activities within any given setting. It requires the transmission of a clear and understandable message from one individual/office to another. The use of words or rather speech is one of the modes of communication. To be able to pass information in an effective manner, one needs to express the opinion of the majority especially in the political realm. This is particularly essential in political forums. The rhetoric aspect of speech is also considered essential especially when deriving a meaning from a given statement. From a clear understanding of these two aspects, speech is ...

Introduction

It is not a secret that school curriculum is literally the issue of wide all-national discussion. No wonder, the effectiveness of students’ education is the main prerequisite of human future.
However, very frequently one allegedly insignificant detail is not taken into account: in particular, the spectrum of skills, on which the main emphasis is made. No doubt, there would be many people, who would fervently defense the opposite position, insisting on the fact that children do obtain all necessary skills.
Nevertheless, this paper is aimed at the proving of simple statement that any curriculum, which considers art education as ...

On February 9, 1950 unknown senator from the State of Wisconsin Joseph McCarthy, shaking by a sheet of paper, stated thaat he have declared on meeting in Wheeling (West Virginia) that he has a list of 205 persons who are known to the state secretary as members of communist party and who, however, continue to work and formulate policy of State Department. (Caughey, 68) He has made similar statements also in other cities of the country. The right-wing press and other mass media have picked up these charges. The name of senator soon became a banner of political reaction ...

Introduction

Tax forms one of the major sources of government revenue; it contributes to economic growth and development as well as the overall prosperity of a country. Based on the method of collection, a tax system can be flat, regressive or progressive. The progressive tax system entails increasing taxes with an increase in individual or household income. The regressive system involves decreasing tax as income increases while the flat tax is a system where everyone pays the same tax irrespective of the income (Roach, 2003). The tax system adopted in a country depends on set objectives, its impacts on taxpayers, ...

The subject of gun regulation has been one of a controversial nature. Various groups argue against the legalization of firearms for public use while others argue that guns are of the essence to the society. The differences in opinion have always been pegged on the issue of the level of crime in the society. On one hand, one group blames guns for a majority of the crimes happening on the world. On the other hand, the other group reiterates that guns are independent of the level of crime in the society. Generally, people tend to concentrate more on the number of ...

Barack Hussein Obama Junior was born on 4th August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the son to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Senior. His mother grew up in Wichita, Kansas. His father, however, was a Kenyan from the Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province. Barack’s parents officially divorced in March, 1964 when he was only two years of age. His mother then re-married another foreign student named Soetoro.
Obama lived with his mother and step mother in Indonesia where he attended multi-religious schools. His mother wanted him to get good education and therefore sent him back to Hawaiian ...

After every four years, the American people are always treated to a rare but unavoidable spectacle. It is rare in the sense that it is always gruesome where one has to debate in their mind on a series of hard choices to make. This is the 2012 United States general elections. Having remained with less than a year to that defining moment, various presidential candidates are gearing up their safety belts ready to tackle one man- the incumbent president Obama. Obama, who is running as the Democrat front-runner, has an uphill task against the Republican hopefuls who are trying all possible ways ...

The 1892 Dockworkers and 1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Strikes

In the history of the labor unions, there are strikes that stand out as they were pivotal in the accomplishment of certain goals. The 1892 Dockworkers and the 1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Strikes stand out. A comparison of the two strikes shows they had certain differences and similarities.

The Existent Conditions that led to the Strikes

Both the Dockworker’s strike and the Porter’s strike was carried out due to the poor working conditions of the Negroes at that time. For the dock workers, they used to work for long hours and there was no over time pay. Additionally the pay was little.
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Arguably, I disagree with the legalization of marijuana in Illinois because the public has not been informed on the harm. Illinois should have learned the effects of legalized marijuana on the society from other states. Based on the news and reports from various media sources I disagree with the legalization of marijuana in Illinois. Legalization of marijuana put at risk the intelligence of children. Marijuana reduces the IQ of children. Marijuana block the formation of memory, which means that children risk cognitive impairment in the future (Bennett, 2016). Also, the prisons population will increase because those who are not ...

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 ...

Guns are one of the weapons that have been considered to be very dangerous over the years but with the advancements in technology, other weapons that are more dangerous have been invented. Several decades have passed since the invention of guns as weapons and as time has been passing, there has been advancement of guns in terms of make, size, and weight among others. Initially, the guns that were made were long and bulky and as such carrying them was difficult. Advancements in technology has seen the invention of hand held guns whose portability is not a factor of ...

There are many cases of learners being attacked by people whether aware or not aware of the happening. Innocent children die especially in elementary schools where they are not able to defend themselves. Once at home, the parents are obligated to defend their children from any danger while the teachers are supposed to defend the children once they come into the schools. Therefore, when the students are attacked when they are under the care of the teachers, the teachers come under fire to give answers on the attack that happened to the students. The teachers have to answer these ...

Introduction

Neither constitution nor any parents can stop children from playing video games, as children will find some or other way to play video games. Law Excessive amount of violence in Video games is one of many debated topics in our society. A number of people say that it affects behaviour of children in a substantial manner. These people advocate to ban the games that cater violence on the other hands, a huge number of people do not agree with such logic. They oppose any such step and argue in favour of games even if they portray violence. Court said that “ ...

Discursively framed as “living death,” solitary confinement is considered to be the worst punishment for criminal offenders, as medical experts have noted that such an isolating experiences causes derangement of personhood on a grand scale. Indeed, one’s sense of concrete and tangible personhood depends on embodied relations to other human beings within the matrices of a shared universe in which meaningful experiences through relationships I s of paramount importance. As s result, solitary confinement has time and again been scrutinized in the western world because it is a practice that, human rights activists and lawyers argue, that is abusive in intangible ...

World War II is up to today considered the largest and the worst war to ever happen in history. It started in 1939 from Europe and ended in 1945, spreading to almost all parts of the world and leaving about 70 million people dead. The figure included men, women, soldiers, children and civilians who died mainly due to illnesses, starvation and bomb attacks. The WW2 involved two opposing military alliances, the Axis and the Allies, formed from great nations that participated in the war. Axis was the alliance between Germany, Japan and Italy where as Allies alliance was between ...

One of the problems which beset many governments today is corruption. With the era of globalization, countries are finding ways on how to eradicate corruption in order to be globally competitive. Investors will definitely not invest in countries whose governments are known to be corrupt. The question that bugs us now is whether corruption can be eradicated or at least be prevented. This essay hopes to argue that corruption can be prevented and can be removed.
Corruption figures worldwide are horrendous. According to the Tax Justice Network, almost $30 trillion have been embezzled in the last 15 years ...

Since the National Collegiate Athletic Association, also known as the NCAA, already extends scholarships and funds to pay for tuition, fees, room and board, and other allowable expenses, the NCAA should continue not to pay the student athletes who participate in athletics. College sports are called college sports because athletes that are in the NCAA are students and not professionals. Just like any other job you go to college to hone your skills and advance them for the future. The advantages student athletes receive from the NCAA are more than generous. According to the “National Collegiate Athletic Association” (ncaa.org), ...

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? ...

Introduction

Motivation is the drive that an individual has towards a certain goal. Motivation contributes by influencing the effort and interest that an athlete puts to a task. Hager (124) in his study describes motivation as a personal matter because what motivates an individual at a certain time may not motivate another individual at the same time. To improve and maintain an athlete’s performance motivation is essential. Athletes who lack motivation are likely to skip regular session of training and hence may not get to fully train with the required intensity. Miller (87) in his study states that lack of motivation leads athletes ...

Secularization from Civil War to 1930

Religious difference exists in all places worldwide. As a tool of conviction, religion is so sensitive that if it is not handled properly it can split a country causing civil unrest. It is instructive to note that the longest wars to have existed in the history of humanity were caused by religion. Due to its volatile nature, many countries including the United State (U.S) have decided to separate public life from religious practices (Andrew et al. 72). After the civil war to around 1930s, U.S has shown a continuous trend of separating State from religion in a process referred to as secularization of ...

Despite of living in a world that has extensively benefited from the capitalist production system, it still seems necessary to make questions about its ethics. There is no doubt that since its adoption and generalization, people around the world has experimented unprecedented wealth and freedom, but there are still issues that plague the world where capitalism has had no power to solve. Many even find the cause of said problems in the capitalist system. This paper will analyze the definition, elements and criticism of capitalism as exposed by William Shaw in his book Business Ethics to find out if capitalism ...

Eduardo Porter is a columnist and is writing the Economic section columns for the New York Times. He has written several articles, during his role as a member of The Times’ editorial board. He has written on several topics, which include business, philosophy, economics, and mix of several others. He has a vast experience in the field of Journalism and has been writing since last two decades.
As per his research on happiness and his analysis on the perspectives of psychologists and economists, happiness tends to be meant for subjective well-being. There are three parts, which include – satisfaction, positive feelings, and ...

Economic agencies should have the authority to set enrollment of university programs based on projections of job availability because of a number of reasons. First of all, the main cause of unemployment is the skills gap between the market for employment and educational institutions. This means that universities are churning out graduate who do not possess skills relevant to the job market. According to Manpower Group’s 2012 talent shortage survey, 40 percent of employers believe that graduates lack essential skills. The best solution to such a problem is that economic agencies should be allowed to use job availability projections to ...

Introduction

The setting of this film is in Cuba, which was experiencing the “special period” in the mid-1990s. This period in Cuba was characterized by shortage, a great degree of social change and disillusionment. These negative features came up as a result of the collapse witnessed in the Soviet Union. Therefore, this meant that they would not get supplies of basic commodities and thus they were faced with serious shortages. Consequently, Cuba was in dire need of hard currency, which was initially not the case when they were still beneficiaries of the Soviet Union. Eventually, Cuba resorted to tourism and this was ...

Italian futurism was a movement launched in Milan the capital of Italy by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909 and its main aim was to capture and embrace the idea of modernity, the sensations and the aesthetics of movement, speed and industrial development. It had a manifesto, dubbed as the futurist manifesto and published on the front of a French newspaper le Figaro.
In the futurist manifesto, Marinetti criticized passatismo, the cultural tradition in Italy. It further called for the destruction of libraries, feminism and museums. Sooner than could be thought, futurism had expanded into an international movement. Its participants gave additional ...

Introduction and thesis

Gay adoption occurs as one of the most equivocal topics that have generated an immense debate across various settings all around the globe. In fact, gay adoption occurs as one of the most equivocal topics across various contexts. Speaking of gay adoption this connotes to act of allowing gay couples to adopt children (Greenberg et al. 14). While much has been hypothesized regarding gay adoption is essential to note that there are various ways in which gay adoption is good. Those opposed to gay adoption often articulate gay couples are a bad example to children and allowing them to adopt ...

The factors that drive College Tuition fees

On the other hand, it could be argued that increasing productivity in higher education may be difficult without compromising the quality of the services offered (Archibald & Feldman.) They argue that the costs of the higher education industry has increased at the same rate that the costs for every other industry that employs highly educated and skilled workers has increased like doctors, lawyers and dentists. Since the productivity growth is slow and cannot be increased without compromising quality and wages for highly skilled workers have increased at the same time, the costs of higher education have naturally increased. They also ...

INTRODUCTION

A wave of religious revivalism swept over the United States in the 1820s and 1830s which led to increased calls for temperance and other perfection movements like abolition of slavery. By the turn of the century, women played a huge role in the temperance which occurred in 1920s and 1930s. In the temperament, alcohol was seen as destructive force in families and marriages and the source of all evil (Behr, 46, 1979). A new wave which was led by Anti-Saloon League attacked the sale of liquor. The attack was driven by a reaction to urban growth together with the rise of ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Pro Gun laws 2nd amendment
There are no two arguments that America loves its guns. The history of this great country is full of episodes of guns being used to defend not just lives, but also defend the values of this land – liberty and equality. The second amendment too acknowledges the need for gun possession for ensuring safety of its citizens. But in no where, in the law books of this country, it is written that, guns should be distributed without any checks.
Easier gun accessibility would increase the chance of gun distribution among criminals and the ...

Introduction:

The United States Army launched an effective reserve recruitment campaign in1981 with the slogan Be All That You Can Be. According to an article published by The Army History Museum Advertising Age included it as No. 18 in its list of “The Top 100 Advertising Campaigns of the 20th Century.” . It was paused abruptly when America entered into war in the Mid-East in 1991, resumed after hostilities ceased and continued until it started to lose its effectiveness. It provides a perfect opportunity to examine a situation driven rhetorical argument according to the theories extant in Lloyd F. Bitzer’s essay The ...

A faction is a group of people of people who are in support for something or are against something (Adair, p90). It is formed due to shared beliefs by the people; mostly it is considered as a political organization. According to this federalist’s paper, a faction is believed to limit the liberty of some individuals and therefore go against the constitution (Ball, p56). The best way to deal with factions is to completely remove the causes of factions or deal with the effects. The one issue that stands out is that people should not be allowed to have similar interests as ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this criminal ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences. Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this criminal ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself. Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences.
Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes this ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself.
Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences.
Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes ...

Gun control by description is the regulation; practice as well as suggestion that are intended to confine and limit the public ownership and the usage of all sorts of firearms. All around the globe, different countries and states have formulated their own policies and procedures that are aimed at controlling their citizens from the ownership as well as usage of guns. In the United Kingdom for instance, their laws are very stern against the public possessing guns while the United States have comparatively unassertive limits when it comes to the issue of owning guns. It is therefore a topic that ...

In ancient Greece when someone committed a murder the weapon was destroyed because the Ancient Greeks believed that fate was decided by the gods so the murder was not as responsible for the crime as the weapon itself.
Instrumentality when used in reference to weapons is the hypothesis that the increased availability of weapons in a certain area also increases that areas likelihood of weapon based offences.
Essentially the increased availability of guns increases the chances that a criminal will choose a gun as their weapon of choice for committing crimes, not to mention this also increases the range of crimes ...

The media has totally changed especially in United States has changed how people view presidents as leaders. Through presidential debate system, the media has managed to put the presidential candidates to task over what they have to offer the country when elected the leaders. During the last campaigns for instance, it was evident that nobody would just wake one day and start saying that he or she wants to be the president. It is after one has been vetted by the public and questioned in terms of policies they have which aim at transforming and elevating the country from ...

Among all other things in society, technology has the greatest manifestations of development throughout human history. Military, transportation, medicine, communications, and so on; these can be and has been redefined by technological advancement. At first, technology simply begun with agricultural and transportation purposes, but now, it is already the ‘standardized form’ of human processes – even in the most critical medicinal treatments. Since the Scientific Revolution, many claimed that such technological/industrial advancement gave way to the philosophers to produce and extend true knowledge to everyone (Shapin 119), and that such happening is a surge forward and watershed advancement (Kreis, “Medieval Synthesis ...

Gun control is without a doubt a tentative issue which should be dealt with in a way that preserves people’s right to defend themselves but also preserves human life. We live in an age where children use guns to settle arguments, something has to be done, but who’s really at fault?
I think if a child shoots another child, that child has no concept of right and wrong or life and death and the parents need to stop blaming guns for their own failings, the problem isn’t that guns exist it’s that parents are unaware of their children ...

Literature is an artwork which includes drama, fiction and essays among others whose work can be either the truth or imaginative. Literature writing is intended at making human being analyze the message, relate it with what the writer is talking about before making any judgment or conclusion. Its work is to pass a message in a literally manner in the society through making the human kind think more critically. Literature has the ability to transform the reader from the human perspective and take him/her beyond the mundane of imaginative world of tale, animation or the waters, change the reader’s mood, ...

Introduction

The western countries are the most governing and powerful countries in the world, but there are economic pressures from the Far East countries since the past decade to provide stable results in terms of finance. In the beginning of the 21st century the western countries were able to withstand all the economic slowdown like the crumpling of stock market, the 9/11 attacks, the Katrina hurricane in 2005 and the war against Iraq; however during the same time the far east countries like the Republic of China, Philippines, Thailand and many more caused a threat to the economy of the western ...

The Voting Age

The paper will address the variables of including teens in the electoral decisions by lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. The paper will address whether the individual feels positive, effect on the sense of responsibility, character, and societal expectations of teens. My stand on this issue is that 16 year olds should be allowed to vote since they are responsible enough to make wise decisions.

They are five rules that govern elections in Chicago. The first rule is one should be a United States citizen. The person should at least 18 years old on the election date is ...

The two events that shaped European society between 16th and 19th centuries were the so called “Lutheran Reformation” started by Martin Luther and the “Scientific Revolution” initiated by Copernicus. Although both of them have profoundly changed the European way of thinking, it is possible to suggest that the Scientific Revolution had a stronger impact on the European society.
The magnitude of the effect of these two events can be evaluated based on several aspects. First of all, Scientific Revolution had an impact on all European countries, while the Reformation took place mainly in Central/Northern Europe. Secondly, although both had a ...

INTRODUCTION: The term divorce in many aspects of life indicates negative impacts to the children. Research indicates that divorce has also beneficial effects to the children of the affected families. To many, the mention of the term divorces to them, divorce cannot have anything positive, but keen studies show that divorce has some benefits.

THESIS: Children should be involved in divorce.

POSITION 1: Divorce increases the understanding and health relationship of the children who get involved in divorce situations.
A).It is the observation of the proponents of divorce that those children, whose parents get divorced, have a better understanding in life as compared to the ...

Differences between efficient and group-level explanations for war

The efficient explanation for war is centered and derived from the constitution as well as from the legal structures within an entity. This means that wars are constitutionally appropriate if the lives of the citizens are threatened by an outside entity. This means that the decision to engage in war is independent on social or other cultural background (Danziger 35). The group-level decision is centered on the idea of dominance. Countries decide to engage in war for reasons that are defined buy cultural and social differences. Countries are therefore in a rush to enter into war with other countries, not ...

Movie piracy is the unlawful copying and circulation of movies in print, videos, DVDs or electronic files; it is also the illegitimate accessing, showing, and selling of copyright guarded material such as movies and TV shows. Recent developments in digital machinery make server-based or peer-to-peer (P2P) folder sharing on the Internet suitable and comparatively quick (Johns 350). A pessimistic result of this new technology, though, is online larceny of copyrighted substance. This paper seeks to establish the predicaments of movie piracy, centring particularly the consequences of movie piracy, both negative and positive, on all the stakeholders, and the counter ...