While thinking of this assignment I came to the conclusion the persuasive argument papers are unnecessary and pointless. Persuasive papers do not need to be a college requirement!.
Webster's dictionary describes "persuade"-as to move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action. As I see it, a person with beliefs which can be changed by a single person must have the brain capacity of a monkey. If their views are changed so easily, they obviously lack strong conviction in their beliefs anyway. Now I know that there are people who specialize in changing beliefs, conviction and ideas with only a few words, but I would not allow my own views to be changed unless it was something that I knew nothing about in the beginning and, consequently, held no strong opinions about. .
During this assignment one thing became very clear to me- I lack concern for many things that plague our world. I don't seem to have many views on big issues in the world. The few things that I do seem to care about are things that most people just don't care about. I found my self writing on several topics and not caring about the issues on which I was writing. This is the point at which I decided that I believe the whole assignment was useless to any of the studies I am engaged in at this point in my college career. I thought that a good subject to persuade people on was to refuse this type of an assignment. I realized about half way through the original process of this paper that my composition teacher would be angry about this perceived counter-productive essay. But I came to the conclusion it would be worth it as there is no other topic of interest to others about which I am qualified or care enough to write. I also look at this paper and see that it is very opinionated but, I am positive that if you ask many students they will agree with me. .
I have decided that in my life I don't see too many things to complain about.
