Joy Kogawa’s essay, “Grinning and Happy”, is an argumentation about Japanese Canadians in internment camps. In her essay she argued the way life actually was in an internment camp and described many hardships that they had to face while an old newspaper clipping described them as great workers who were happy with the way they lived.
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Stephanie
3/13/2012 09:01:50 am
"An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil" by Bonie Laing is a persuasive essay about pencils and computers. Bonie explains how pencils are a very cheap and effective way to write stories, and there are many more things you can do with a pencil than a computer.
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Travis
3/31/2012 03:51:28 am
I didn't agree with this essay. I think that the backspace key is really all the counterargument I need. It looks neater, you can move things around, you can email your writings, and you can save back up copies.
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Travis
3/31/2012 03:56:31 am
That was poorly worded. The "backspace key" sentence and the next sentence were two relatively unrelated thoughts.
Inderdeep Lidhar
3/13/2012 10:52:10 am
"Thanks for Not Killing My Son" by Rita Schindler is one of the most ironic and astonishing pieces I have ever read. She uses induction to persuade her readers that beating someone up for no reason is wrong. Gang violence really affected this women and what did she do about it? She wrote a very sarcastic, albeit powerful, essay "thanking" the thugs who did this to her son. The extent of the injuries to her son, that she goes into detail about, makes me very sad and I hope that no mother has to go through what she did. This essay is probably my favourite from all that I have read so far.
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Arshpreet Singh
3/13/2012 01:49:44 pm
I enjoyed reading the essay "Thanks for Not Killing My Son" written by Rita Schindler. This essay is written in a sarcastic tone. I felt very sad for the lady, when she talked about the injuries of her son. I think she repeatedly says "thank you" in order to convince people that beating for no reason is unacceptable.
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Karan
3/14/2012 03:55:41 am
In the 'The Seven-Minute Life of Marc Levine', Natalie Petrowski powerfully expresses her sorrow, anger and regret on a university shootout that took place in Montreal. I think it's really effective how the she describes Lepine as a ticking bomb whose countdown has reached its end. She uses a number of literary devices such as repetition and metaphors to put her point across. It' s certainly one of the best essays I've read thus far.
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Jessica Ros
3/15/2012 03:02:07 pm
I deeply enjoyed the sarcastic and witty tone of Bonnie Laing's "An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil". At first, the piece was clearly argumentative, stating that a pencil was better than a computer. But as I continued reading, I was persuaded that, in some ways, a pencil really was better than a computer. Overall, I finished the essay with an urge to invest in some more writing utensils.
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sebastian klinkenberg
3/22/2012 07:11:02 am
"thanks for not killing my son" by Rita Schindler is written about a mother thanking a bully for not killing her son. she repeatedly says "thank you" to the bully for not killing him. she uses more persuasion then argumentation in this essay.