Writing an Argumentative Essay No. 2

Learning Videos:


1) How to Write an Argumentative Essay - Planning

2) How to Write an Argumentative Essay - Thesis Statements and Paragraphs


Plan

Topic:Why Join the Military?
Thesis Statement: The Military is the reason that America is a free country. The military also pays for your education in college. The down side is that your loved ones don’t always make it home.

I. Intro: Thesis Statement
II. Freedom (for)
III. Benefits: Education, etc (for)
IV. Risks
V. Conclusion


Draft


Why Join the Military?

The Military is the reason that America is a free country. The military also pays for your education in college. The down side is that your loved ones don’t always make it home.

Freedom is a big thing in America today because if it was not for the military we would not be an Independent or Free country. For example, if we didn’t have the military we would have already been taken over by ISIS and other extremist groups throughout the states. America is also not the only country saved because of our military, there is also South Korea. There is also countries that the military is still working on such as: Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Syria, Israel, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Iran, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and many more.

If you enroll into the military before you go to college they will pay for your education when you get out and they will pay for what ever you want to have a degree in. There is also more benefits like if you were to die in combat, old age, or sickness the military will pay you family and give them full medical coverage for life. Another benefit is you will have full training on self defense and how to handle a firearm. When you get into certain branches of the military such as the marines you will truly know the definition of organization and strictness.

The risk’s of being in the military is that for some soldiers it is a one way trip and they never get to see their family again and their family never gets to see them again. There are also soldiers that make it home but they have lost an arm, a leg, both legs, both arms, or maybe even all of their limbs. People are always seeing these soldiers that are mentally ill and they wont talk to them touch them because they think that they are weird, but they never think to themselves that the soldiers were just like them before the left to serve our country. These soldiers come back with mental damage but some times they come back home with certain sounds that can set them off such as gun shots or maybe even the loud bangs of a tables legs folding when the person folding them slam’s them shut and those sounds could send the soldier straight into a self defense state of mind and when you are in a lunch room and you see people still standing and talking the soldier could see a war zone of bodies on the ground.

I personally want to join the military and help keep our country free and hopefully make difference in the world but also so that my family can live a care free life safe and free. I would also be able to protect my family and live or die knowing that I served our county not only for the countries freedom but for my families freedom also.

Final Version

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