What is one item, fact, detail, or example you can tell your readers that will help them better understand your claim/paper topic?

Argumentative Paper Format

V. Concluding Paragraph

Generally, this takes the form of a paragraph that can be placed either after the introduction or before the conclusion.

This section of your paper gives the reader the basic information he or she needs to understand your position. This could be part of the introduction, but may work as its own section.

the Sony walkman, built in 1978 by audio-division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara

In the US, the average annual inflation rate from 1900 to 1970 was approximately 2.5%. From 1970-1979, however, the average rate was 7.06%, and topped out at 13.29% in December 1979.

The 1970s were perhaps the worst decade of most industrialized countries' economic performance since the Great Depression.[4] Although there was no severe economic depression as witnessed in the 1930s, economic growth rates were considerably lower than previous decades. As a result, the 1970s adversely distinguished itself from the prosperous postwar period between 1945 and 1973. The oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 added to the existing ailments and conjured high inflation throughout much of the world for the rest of the decade. U.S. manufacturing industries began to decline as a result, with the United States running its last trade surplus (as of 2009[update]) in 1975. In contrast, Japan and West Germany experienced boomtimes and started overtaking the US as the world's leading manufacturers.

1973 oil crisis and 1979 energy crisis

In some ways, though, 1960s liberalism continued to flourish.

Even though very few people continued to support the war in Indochina, President Nixon feared that a retreat would make the United States look weak. As a result, instead of ending the war, Nixon and his aides devised ways to make it more palatable, such as limiting the draft and shifting the burden of combat onto South Vietnamese soldiers. This policy seemed to work at the beginning of Nixon’s term in office. When the United States invaded Cambodia in 1970, however, hundreds of thousands of protestors clogged city streets and shut down college campuses. On May 4, National Guardsmen shot four student demonstrators at an antiwar rally at Kent State University in Ohio. Ten days later, police officers killed two black student protestors at Mississippi’s Jackson State University. Members of Congress tried to limit the president’s power by revoking the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing the use of military force in Southeast Asia, but Nixon simply ignored them. Even after The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, which called the government’s justifications for war into question, the bloody and inconclusive conflict continued. American troops did not leave the region until 1973.

These activists mobilized against the Amendment and managed to defeat it. In 1977, Indiana became the 35th–and last–state to ratify the ERA.

In general, though, Nixon’s policies favored the interests of the middle class people who felt slighted by the Great Society of the 1960s.

How do you want to be remembered mom?

So mom, how do you understand ALS? What is that illness?

Do you like the person you are today because of that?

What went through your mind when I said, do you want to come to work with me and visit with some seniors?

So, what was your proudest moment?

Tell me about your childhood in Mexico.

After you left the room, I began to say: ”I just hugged the man that murdered my son.” And I instantly knew that all that anger and the animosity, all the stuff I had in my heart for 12 years for you–I knew it was over, that I had totally forgiven you.

Just to hear you say those things and to be in my life in the manner that which [sic] you are is my motivation. It motivates me to make sure that I stay on the right path. You still believe in me. And the fact that you can do it despite how much pain I caused you–it’s like amazing.

In the hospital, here I was walking into the nursery to see my beautiful baby, and there were other mommies and daddies seeing their babies, and here I was in this big orange jumpsuit and shackles. And I was really, really, embarrassed.

But then mommy kind of got out of control with them and I wound up getting arrested.

“You may be better off just considering your father dead and gone.”

At one point while dad was gone, mom decided that we would not take any family pictures. She just said it one night at supper and we nodded knowingly as if that made sense. And she decided that she would buy no new clothes until dad came home. There was also a point at which she decided that we should always have a small bowl of rice for supper and that’s all, to sort of share dad’s meager existence.

Oh yeah. It wasn’t the easiest life back in them days. Mother died when I was four. And it was a tough life.

My grandma, everyone referred to her as like a spicy meatball. She swore a lot, but she looked so innocent that no one ever expected her to say the things that she said.