Everything's An Argument With Readings By Andrea Lunsford

Perspectives: Always Consider Them

Arguments are everywhere; everyone has used some sort of argumentation in their life. Whether it’s asking permission to go out, begging a professor for additional time on a due assignment, or arriving late to class. Your examining different evidence to decide which way is more dependable to use to make our stateluisament or an argument. In other words, an Argument is a sequence of statements that are used to persuade an audience with reasons for accommodating a conclusion. Creating arguments is something that isn’t hard to do, what is hard to grip on is, finding the logic in an argument. I found myself creating similar scenarios; pretty much made three comparable settings that all fight for the same point.

My first scenario was person smoking marijuana. My second one is a teenager sneaking into a movie theatre. The last one is a person arriving late for a job interview. You might say, “What do all of these settings argue?” Well In my opinion, all this set off a negative situation, the person smoking marijuana, sneaking in the movies without paying, and the person who gives off a first bad impression arriving late to an interview. All of these circumstances give of the perceptive of a bad persona for each individual. But is that always the case? Not choosing one text, but mashing all of these into one, creates my argument. “Instead of depending on the obvious viewpoints stated, take in mind other perspectives that might create that situation”.

We’ve all, at least once, have given off a first bad impression. But does that mean that we should be punished for errors that weren’t intentionally made. This is why we should always consider the possibility of there always being more explanations for the things that are happening. Many will see it as an excuse, and many would take in mind other perspectives that set of the situation. Sometimes your perception of a person might change if you were to find out something that you completely didn’t take to consideration before. For example, the person whose smoking weed; can you admit that your first possibly impression is that he’s a drug addict, that he’s possibly under bad influences, or he’s smoking to fit in with crowds; you know under those lines. Especially if this is viewed from a matured audience. Well the majority of people will, until told otherwise. But instead of being told otherwise from your ideas, take the time to consider news one. Maybe this person does it because it helps them. Marijuana is a medicine after all. If you refer to “Why people use marijuana: Top 10 reasons” at AboutAdittionBlog.org, it informs the benefits of marijuana and reasons why THC helps people sleep, relive stress, pain, fear and other psychological reasons. Taking in other perspectives not only makes you into an unbiased person, but it shows that you analytic and logical person.
In the book, “Everything’s an Argument with Readings” by Andrea Lunsford, are selections of stories explain this very argument.

These stories helped shape my scenarios and created my argument about being open-minded with perspectives. One story in particular, in regards to achieving the American dream as an immigrant really sheds light on the point in hand. “Moving to the U.S” by Kirk Semple is about the success of three business men who emigrated from their country to the U.S. and triumphed with the thanks of modern technology. All three men did not speak English fluently, they were still able to go between the lines and challenged the belief of having to know English in order to succeed in America. The purpose of Semples article is to show readers that the traditional perspective of English as an official language is not essentially the only perspective to reflect

upon.
If a person is sneaking in to watch a movie, let say he or she wishes to watch desperately but has no money, should he or she be considered a thief or and a delinquent.?

When I was in Mexico, back in 2007, I went to go watch a newly animated movie about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, dubbed in Spanish. While waiting in line with my cousins from Mexico, I was distracted by a young man being escorted out the movie theatre. As my cousins and I waited for the movie outside the lobby of the theater, I was able to hear the reason why security and staff escorted the young man I seen before I bought my ticket. The employee had said that the young man who just was kicked out was sneaking in to watch a movie that he no money to afford to watch it. I felt bad for the young man because initially my first thoughts of this man, was that he was up to know good. But if I took to consideration the other aspects of the situation going on, I might have noticed that he had rugged dirty clothes and that his left shoe had a hole. My perception of the young man changed after. Same goes for some who lets say arrives late to an important job interview. The interviewer might not want to even go on with the interview and dismiss the person. My nephew was that person who arrived late and got dismissed for it. But I believe his reason was valid enough to get a second chance or an extension. He was late because my father, his grandfather had a diabetes attack that he believed needed immediate

attention. The interviewer didn’t except any excuses because he perceived Joey, my nephew, to be inadequate and unreliable for the job.
In any type of situation where you find yourself perceiving or judging something or someone by the type of occurrence it is, it is always important to remember to have an open-mind about other possibilities. Appreciate the different perspectives and their contributions to fully understand the situation and context.