Essays on Disagreeing

Stephanie murmured in her sleep, but didn’t wake, as I crept out of bed. I pulled on my jeans and trudged down the stairs, trying to shake off the memory of last night’s argument; such arguments were becoming all too common these days. I didn’t understand how she could be so much fun, so loving, but then within minutes could behave like she was from a different planet. She was constantly disagreeing with me. I’d never understood Stephanie really, and maybe after two years, it was now too late. When I reached the kitchen and ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time Cholera and Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country are two novels that redefined the contours of Latin American and Japanese literature. Kawabata’s writing style and magical realism went on to win him a Nobel Prize in Literature while Marquez became one of the best writers of the 20th century. In both texts by Kawabata and Marquez there is a constant struggle between tradition and modernity. Water is a significant recurring motif in Love in the Time of Cholera inasmuch as it reflects on the struggle of the main characters to balance ...

Throughout the course of my academic career I have adopted and synthesized various elements of effective academic article construction techniques, yet none have been so fundamentally formative in my ability to engage with the viewpoints expressed by other writers as the principles and techniques outlined in chapter four “The Three Ways to Respond”. In this chapter, I gained a greater degree of understanding regarding effectively engaging in academic dialogue through incorporating the three primary response methods of agreeing, disagreeing or some combination of both to better discern the viewpoints of an author from the perspective of an active reader, ...

Introduction

War has been argued to be a force that is responsible for the punctuation of our life, binding us to our inconsistence moral failing. Diplomats consider war to be the very last resort after other alternatives have been comprehensively exhausted in an attempt to attain consensus in the event of a disagreement between parties (Hedge).

This kind of war that is as a result of exhaustion of other available options in a bid to arrive at a consensus is what is termed as just war, since its conduction is justified by the failure of other available options to establish agreements between disagreeing parties.

Some ...