... convinces your readers that your proposition is right. Use the guidelines below and the example that follows to help you develop your essay. (Also see "Thinking Logically" in the index for more.) Searching and Selecting 1. Searching * Review your texts or class notes for possible topics. Also think of related issues or problems you hear debated locally or nationally. ( ... ? Given the supporting arguments, is the conclusion valid? ACADEMIC WRITING Essay of Argumentation Student writer Jennifer Nanna's essay presents a well-organized argument about the U.S. government's decision to interv...

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... upon as a terrorist country. We believe that Saddam has not properly destroyed or given up all of his illegal weapons. So we are sent our troops in Iraq in order to find the weapons that we accuse him of having. We believe that he keeps moving the weapons so that the inceptors can not find them. ... innocent citizens of his country daily. His inhumane acts often get him compared to Hitler. Saddam would take his fellow country men and kill them in the streets for everyone to see. He had a machine built that would slice people. If Saddam wanted them to suffer he would throw the person ......

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... terms like that? However, if it's more like 50 gallons of oil for every pint of American blood, then I'd say, lets get down to business. In the first Gulf War, around 300 Americans lost their lives. Figuring the average American loses about 8 pints of blood per death, it amounted to one pint of ... risking their lives. We could design an Easter game, and whoever finds oil in their egg is up for a beheading. Why should we put our soldiers through fear and death in a foreign country when they can achieve the same goals in the comfort of their own nation? However, we have to consider how to...

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... the grief and worry friends and families of the soldiers at war go through, and the word "discomfort" stands for the uneasiness the soldiers feel being placed in an unfamiliar environment, knowing that they could perish at any given moment. War is a plague, contagious and deadly. Wars have been fought for hundreds of ... may also get drawn into providing soldiers and supplies, thus spreading the impact of the war and increasing the number of casualties. For example: the war in Iraq. Britain is not the original country to feud with Iraq; it is the United States. However, since Britain is t...

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... Research Unit for Political Economy (RUPE). The group RUPE's book came from a more liberal viewpoint which oppose the war in Iraq. "Behind the Invasion of Iraq " explains how the real reasons for war in Iraq ties in with the United States economic and political interests. In this comparative essay I will be introducing the authors and their beliefs, the Bush Doctrine, the real reasons behind war ... in Iraq, and explaining the arguments in both novels to conclude which is more plausible. The author of "Behind the Invasion of ... Iraq " is the Research Unit for Political Economy (RUPE) ...

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... the mud - bricks. These bricks were made from a mixture of mud and small pieces of straw or reeds. Leaving them out in the sun to dry would harden them. This would take most of the water out of the brick making it more durable. These bricks were used to build the first stage of the ziggurat. An average of ... 7,000,000 mud-bricks would have been needed. To make the bricks the Nile mud is used. First it is moistened. It is then kneaded thoroughly with an Egyptian hoe. Next it is put in ... bricks to be stamped with the name of the king who is on the thrown at the time. After that the bric...

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... only leads to another locked door in the seemingly wasted desert country. The gloomy liberation of Iraq has transpired into little more than the obliteration of a country that can never be wholly restored. Why should the citizens of Iraq hail the coalition force who destroyed thousands of lives, the electricity or "beating heart of Iraq", water purification, and manufacturing capability? (page ... 10, Sept.) "The war interrupted the therapy, he relapsed and now there is little chance, without new and more effective medicine, that he will survive," a journalist discovered, in regards to a...

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... the mud - bricks. These bricks were made from a mixture of mud and small pieces of straw or reeds. Leaving them out in the sun to dry would harden them. This would take most of the water out of the brick making it more durable. These bricks were used to build the first stage of the ziggurat. An average of ... 7,000,000 mud-bricks would have been needed. To make the bricks the Nile mud is used. First it is moistened. It is then kneaded thoroughly with an Egyptian hoe. Next it is put in ... bricks to be stamped with the name of the king who is on the thrown at the time. After that the bric...

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... been found. However the key issue is the oil. Iraqi people have never been liverated by the US. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein commited extremely "grave violations of human rights" in that thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens were subjected to all kinds of spiritual and physical misery. Therefore, America should volunteerly "meet the challenge to help liberate the Irapi ... people from the "totalitarian state".(Bush) In fact, what Iraqi people faced was horror and aggression. During the bombardmentof Baghdad, the western world was noved by the plight of Ali Ismail Abb...

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... the system that was created for such a situation. With most of his allies gawking at the inability of his brain to realize that he is in the wrong Mr. Bush stormed into Iraq rooting up everyone who gave him opposition. He had his troops search everywhere for those "Weapons of Mass ... case that there was a connection between the two. They sighted a meeting between Mohamed Atta, the mastermind of the September 11th attacks, and top Iraqi officials in the Czech Republic as a connecting point. Since then the Czech Republic has rescinded its comments that there was ever a meeting and the Bu...

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... the Assyrian people. The Assyrians are people that have been and still are highly respected for their church beliefs and systems. From having masses in Aramaic, the language of Jesus, to having ancient teachings from the bible, the Assyrian church is truly a wonder and something that should be ... preserved for generations to come. As Assyrian Representative, I would try my hardest to guarantee an establishment of Assyrian churches in many of the major cities of Iraq and fight for religious rights. With Iraq primarily being a Muslim country, it is hard to institute a long ... Along with...

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... 's power we are also spending money on rebuilding their country afterwards. Rebuilding their homes, providing them with basic necessities such as food water shelter ect. Pleasures and luxuries in which some people from our country don't have. We destroy their lives then we pay them. The money could be better spent ... sicknesses and epidemics. But the honest truth is the money isn't being better spent. People's perceptions have been swayed into thinking that this war in Iraq will be won with relative ease. The idea that any war can be won quickly and swiftly is preposterous. The UN has ...

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... book was written by a genius writer who gave us the reflection of today and future with his ideas about telescreen, war, and classification of society. In this book he foreshadowed about these topics for our world. I am really surprised that all of his comments on these topics are true nearly after 55 ... which has a great effect on the citizens of a country. Similar to the book the television is also used as a propaganda machine. The latest example took place in the elections of Turkey. A media boss, Cem Uzan, who owns four TV channels, attended to the elections as the chairman of a new...

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... more specifically President Bush, has single handedly alienated the Canadian people by threatening to impose embargos on Canada's booming economy. In this essay, I will try to explain why tensions between the United States and Canada are running higher and higher between each passing day. History ... has shown as well as in contemporary times that the United States flexes its power in the face of countries that do not comply one hundred percent with American policy. This flexing that the United States does in ... Counsel on mere suspicion that a country has weapons of mass Destruction?...

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... article kind of makes me think of a possible conspiracy to just give The United States an excuse to go into Iraq and take Saddam out of power in order to get control of his oil. If we get control of his oil we would rule the oil industry for as long as the earth lets us ... our oil. Why do you think President bush is trying to find out how to make cold fusion type technology with oil instead of water? I also think we started this war in Iraq in order to give the Americans some sort of relief, moral boost, or some sort of closure for the Twin Towers tragedy. The ... their country? The U...

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... reading and learning the beginning cultures has given us all a better understanding of cultures. I think of how these symbols and pictures simplified the lives of our ancestors. From record keeping in daily activities or trading among each other and recording historical events. Those pictures, symbols and letters gave us the foundation for our written communication and self expression that we enjoy ... today. Their findings have given great insight to Pre-Islamic and all origins. The oldest scripts are known as Cuneiform in Mesopotamia and Hieroglyphics in Egypt. The writings are thought...

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... Media Lets face it, media is not what it use to be. Our media, instead of feeding off of news in general, is now feeding off of bad news that people are attracted to. This change moved in on us slowly, but I believe now it has gone too far. While researching articles from the past and articles ... on the war with Iraq. People look at this and cant help but read because they are so curious to what happened and if it could happen to them. In the past people would be used to hearing stories about a meteor shower or a new type of car that is on the market. I looked at two similar ... has sca...

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... ! (propagandized) Today coalition forces easily finished off the last of the anti-American Saddam loyalist in Baghdad. This brings the end to a reign of terror and dictatorship in one part of the Middle East. The people of Iraq were thrilled to see the American troops coming to save them. The liberation of Iraq was much overdue and had ... it happened sooner the people would have endured a substantial amount less suffering at the hands of the Islamic fundamentalist. There are still many countries in the Middle East that are stuck in the past and are yet to adopt democracy and western ide...

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... find them. But again and again, Iraq got away with it and the U.N. did nothing. Saddam Hussein, one of the most ruthless government rulers in the world today governs Iraq. Hussein has been compared to the likes of Hitler and Stalin, and much like the cold war; the war against terrorism ... has been described as a "long twilight struggle". It's a never-ending fight in the dark that we can only give false hopes of winning. At first comparison, Hussein and Hitler aren't very similar. Obviously Hitler was a German Nazi leader ... Iraqi leader. But as well all know the depth of human nature d...

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... do not want our military to go to Iraq and fight for the Iraq people, so they have freedom as well. There are always many reasons to fight in a war, but there are always going to be people who object. Many Americans believe we should pull our troops out of Iraq, because we are not ... , the Americans do not understands why America wants to help Iraq to become free. President Busy decided to have our military troops go to Iraq to fight in this war. It all started off when terrorist Osama Bin Lodin had two of our planes crash into the World Trade Center. President Bush decided to send ... ...

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We all know what happened last Thursday in Madrid. Five terrorist attacks in trains killed 200 people and injured hundreds of them. All these few days before the elections in Spain. In the beginning no terrorist group had taken the responsibility for the attacks and everybody was confused. The Spanish government and Athnar ... public that it had nothing to do with Al Kaida and the fact that Spanish troops were involved in the war in Iraq. Their aim was not to be connected with their decision to support the war in Iraq and lose the elections. This proves another theory of Furedi that the polit...

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... continue interviewing Dane because he had to go to class, he still got his point across. He obviously supports the war. Though a few people I talked to were in favor of the war, even more people were opposed. I talked to Anthony Thomas (junior) and Adrian Perryman (freshman) and they both were opposed to the war ... think it's a bunch of nonsense. We"re over there fighting for someone else's freedom and leaving ourselves open for attack. We have way too many problems in America to be fighting for the rights of someone else." What Anthony said was very true and made me think about how I s...

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... have developed or come into possession of nuclear or powerful chemical weapons, they may have used them or let terrorist use them against other countries. A nuclear or chemical attack anywhere in the world could start a war that would have disastrous results. On the other hand those who oppose the war have legitimate opinions. Those Americans who remember the Vietnam and Korean ... wars have not forgotten. Thousands of soldier's lives were lost in what seems to have been pointless battles. No Americans really want the repeat of either war or the uncertainty that comes with war. Addition...

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... The amount of the bonus may vary by military specialty up to but not exceeding $8000. However, the greatest incentive the military offers is in the form of the numerous federal benefits. The benefits range from remarkable life insurance options to rewarding retirement benefits and extraordinary educational opportunities. All ... hours per day, 365 days per year, regardless of duty status. For as little as $9.00 per month, a member's spouse and children are included in the life insurance. The coverage for the member's spouse is $100,000 and the coverage for children is $10,000 per child. ...

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... information fed to us, legitimate or does it have hidden biases not understood by the common reading public? The news shown to the American public is biased in many ways. The war in Iraq is represented in one perspective - which is the American viewpoint. The damage to artillery, the injuries, the casualties are all American. What about the Iraqi people, the poor defenseless ... victims in this war? They are hardly mentioned. Another bias demonstrated in the local news is the minimum attention placed on international news. Although a war is raging with American troops, only 10 minutes o...

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