Be sure your essay has a thesis statement Please underline your thesis statement Be sure that your essay refutes counter-arguments Please refer to the syllabus for additional essay writing guidelines Please refer to the six paragraph essay handout for argumentative essay guidelines Be sure that your essay engages Socrates’ and Machiavelli’s viewpoints Be sure that you quote Socrates and Machiavelli to back up your claim Be sure to edit your work Try to write with short and concise sentences • What is Socrates’ method of imparting knowledge? And then, answer the question: • Socratic Method is the method by which Socrates make people realize that they don’t know anything about the things that they thought they knew well. Machiavelli and Socrates Everyone has their own philosophies to deal with life as it is thrown at them. Machiavelli and Socrates offer guidance to societies so they may succeed, as noble rulers. Machiavelli gives his go get them attitude to help maintain power, which I agree with, and Socrates lays out his ideas of enlightenment to rule.
Ryan Lawson ENG-101 10-09-09 Anne Lamott has written a humorous essay describing the difficulties encountered by writers when attempting to write a thoughtfully composed work. When reading, “Shitty First Drafts,” several strategies were encountered regarding the successful composition of a piece of writing. Considering how writers work in reality, writing an unorganized elementary first draft, and blocking all pressures surrounding the composition of a certain work are all useful strategies when facing the difficulties of writing. The following paragraphs will describe the usefulness of these strategies during the complicated and often dreaded writing process. In her essay, Lamott emphasizes that both professional and amateur writers encounter obstacles during the writing process.
I considered a good writer to be anyone who could effectively convey a message to a reader. Since going through the first two units, I have learned that good writing is quite a bit more complicated. Author Keith Grant-Davie discussed how important to good writing it was to analyze your subject matter to understand who all of your possible audiences are and who you may be representing when writing your material, and to address all parties appropriately. If an author can do this effectively, I believe that it is a crucial part of becoming a good writer. Unit one also taught me to reevaluate how important certain priorities when it came to writing.
This discussion of rhetoric and writing was such a significant contribution to the topic that it is still being taught today. Socrates discusses the relationship of good speeches and bad speeches in respect to the persuasiveness of the speech. He does this by acknowledging that what makes a good agreement or speech is the layout of it.
As Ms. Gussow explains, “In order to get the gross idea of a form down, you have to generalize. Yet in order to make the drawing come alive, to become individuated and fascinating, you have to notice what is unique about this situation, what catches the eye.” Thesis brings the strength of an essay focusing on the central idea of a written text. It simplifies and organizes the main idea. It should be supported with strong evidence and captures the eagerness of the readers to read the written text. An effective thesis
Russell says that the value of philosophy must be primarily sought (p.18). According to Bertrand Russell, “Philosophy aims primarily at knowledge, the kind which results from a critical examination of the grounds of our convictions, prejudices and beliefs (Perry, John, Michael Bratman, and John M. Fischer, p.18).” It cannot be said that philosophy has had a very great success in its attempts to provide definite answers to its questions. Although philosophy is unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, “Philosophy is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
In my opinion, I got the idea that this book was written more for the workings of the mind but at the same time Steinbeck wanted to make you feel something as you read this. I think it was written for the workings of the mind because he wanted to get his point across about the constant internal battle of good vs. bad. What I enjoyed most about this book was the way he used characters to portray actions or ideas. For example, he used Cathy to represent evil and Aron to represent the internal battle of good vs.
))—those who govern must be wise c. all classical philosophers agreed one purpose of government-help people learn about and perform their civic and moral duties 2. Greek and Roman history although democracies appear to begin well... tend to end in tyranny  poor attack rich a. class warfare chronic
At the conclusion of her essay, Ozick personifies the essay as “she”, giving us a better idea of what an essay would look like or would do if it were a “she”. Ozick says “She may be bold, she may be diffident, she may rely on beauty or cleverness, on eros or exotica. Whatever her story, she is the protagonist, the secret self's personification”. She uses the title in her essay to say that the writing can be looked at as if it were an actual person. It embodies the writer, yes, but it also embodies a person.
Nobel laureate Marie Sklodowska -Curie, argued that “nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” The relationship between fear and knowledge has been discussed since Classical Greece; philosophers like Plato and Socrates, later inventors like Einstein and even today’s writers like Jostein Gaarder have divergent views on this issue and the question of knowledge in general. In this essay, I want to argue that a broader knowledge and thus broader understanding of the outreach of the unknown, will contribute to the recognition of ignorance and therefore knowledge as well as ignorance will both create the notion of fear. This vicious circle is sustained by discourses and therefore statements, beliefs and practices that produce knowledge as well as fear, such as nurture and indoctrination. Ignorance regardless the cause of its presence, is able to create the notion of fear. An ignorant child will not understand that a darkened room contains the same dangers as an illuminated room: none.