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Saddam is in captivity, thank goodness.  But why is he on trial?  It is obvious without a doubt that he has committed or been behind thousands of crimes and hundreds of people will testify to that.  But has on trial still, recently a woman has came out and talked to the court about how Saddam tortured her in ...

This year I took five classes, but out of all of them the one that I learned the most in was my Public Speaking class.  I learned so much abo0ut public speaking that I didn’t have any clue was even needed.  There is so much that you need to research, write, and use to give a good speech that most people wouldn’t ever ...

Chapter 15 in the Writing Arguments textbook is about Proposal Arguments.  There are 3 things that aid in the structure of a proposal argument and they are a description of a problem, proposed solution, and justification for the proposed solution.   With this type of argument there are special concerns, one of them is the need ...

Chapter 14 in Writing arguments is about Evaluation and ethical arguments.   When making a categorical evaluation you need to have a good structure, so make sure you have an enthymeme, claim, stated reason, grounds, warrant, backing, and conditions of rebuttal.  If you have all of these your evaluation will be very well ...

Chapter ten in the penguin handbook is about writing to persuade, I like this type of writing the most because it seems to be the easiest for me.  This was a very insightful chapter also, it shows how you need to find a real arguable topic and not just make an argument up out of nothing.  There are two types of arguments and they ...

If there is one thing I hate about our country is lawsuits.  While my father is a lawyer and I work at his office, I still hate lawsuits, that is if they are retarded.  Yes, I said retarded, not frivolous or anything like that, but just plain out retarded.  The main one that comes to my head is people suing McDonalds because ...