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Ashley Vanderpol Posted 14 years ago
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Can you rate my essay? (encountering conflict)
Hi, i'm just looking for some opinions on my essay. The prompt is 'Who we are is truly tested and proven when we encounter conflict'
Thank you!!
Why I’m writing this
I’m directing this argumentative piece of writing to discuss and argue the benefits and disadvantages of encountering conflict and how it affects every human being, directed to mainly late teenagers to young adults. The language used with be fairly complex, however it will be easy to understand.
Essay
It is intrinsically human to experience conflict; thus, we will all be forced to respond to conflict at various times and in various forms throughout the course of our lives, and in order to live serenely we attempt to avoid and resolve conflict. While conflict may be as simple as two parties having insignificant disagreement over something, we have seen throughout history that major conflicts in the form of war, religion and international political unrest led to many life-changing experiences on a large-scale. Although the outcomes of conflict may not be an overall bad thing, sometimes conflict can be lead to strengthened friendships or even relationships, as shown in the novel ‘The quiet American’ it was evident with Phuong and Fowler after the incident with Pyle, their relationship grew, even after Phuong was lied to. Some cases conflict really does destroy human relationships with no benefits at all, the Korean War in 1950 left 3,000,000 murdered in a span of 3 years. This event gave no opportunities; the soldiers involved had no allowed opinions and suffered through torture, losing themselves to the war and ruining all relationships they had with others and even themselves. Conflict is in everybody’s life; even mine. An incident with my mother when I was thirteen left us without communication, a traumatic event in a young boy’s life; never a moment goes by without thinking about how I lost my mum. This interpretation of events may be looked at in different ways, knowledge, experience, all of which make it impossible to determine if this traumatic event actually helped me or made my situation worse. The event truly did destroy us; and our relationship. Conflict can be either a negative or positive experience or even both, depending upon the situation.
“Before I read it I began to wonder whether at the end I should lie or tell the truth to Phuong”. (P117) Throughout the novel, Fowler is often caught lies, and sometimes there may be speculation that he is lying to himself. He often lies to try and escape the conflict that is happening around him, and lied to Phuong and her sister about his wife’s divorce, this somewhat shows that Fowler is insecure about himself and cared about Phuong enough to not want to lose her. Even after being lied to, Phuong still manages to forgive him, thus showing that conflict doesn’t always destroy relationships. However, if it wasn’t for Pyle’s death then Pyle would have won and received Phuong as his prize. Pyle’s death, a form of conflict had its benefits on Fowler as it allowed him to receive Phuong. Therefore, in an individual’s interpretation, conflict can potentially do good in one way or another and help with human relationships.
Korea 1950, under American leadership the United Nations went to war for the first time. What began as a conflict between the North and South turned into a confrontation between East and West, threatening to turn into the 3rd world war. It was a war which nobody won, but the losers could be seen everywhere, 3 million civilians were estimated to have died in the span of three years. Encountering conflict is evident everywhere, where there was death, there was conflict. Human relationships destroyed at the sound of a gunshot, not one person mourned their loved ones meaning they lost everybody, even themselves in the devastating war. This form of conflict has enormous effects on human relationships, although the real struggle doesn’t come from external relationships, it comes from within. The soldiers under attack struggled to keep themselves during and even after the war. One’s self is the only relationship an individual needs and if that is broken, devastating consequences may occur. This is a true test on how human relationships are tested.
Certain interpretations and opinions may influence how an individual acts towards certain forms of conflict. I lost someone very close to me at the age of 13; my mum. Different opinions about different topics, a difference in suggestions, also a growing hatred built inside me eventually broke free as I got kicked out of my mother’s house. Conflict shows in many situations that opinions matter and although it may have helped me in the long-term, I can’t help but think about what would have happened if this incident didn’t occur. Many close friends, my other family have all told me that I made the right decision and got out of there, and this in itself is a struggle in human relationships. Perhaps she got told the same information, “I’m a rotten boy, kick him out before it’s too late!” from those same people, wanting nothing but to cause conflict. This truly tested our relationship and in the end it ended our somewhat close mother and sonship. I’ll never know the true reason as to why this happened. However, if it weren’t for this situation I may never have tried so hard at everything I do in life, if I didn’t have conflict in my life I would have no reason to try and to keep bettering myself. Without conflict, relationships would generally struggle to grow, and any relationship lost due to conflict, generally isn’t a relationship worth having.
While many situations in everybody’s life has caused them conflict, it has overall helped us in the end, it gives us reason to keep going and to keep developing ourselves as individuals, improving and testing our relationships with other people and even ourselves. However, some forms of conflict do no good, go by evil and generally are unneeded. In contrast, conflict helps develop and change human relationships, causing us to grow stronger and to gain more knowledge and insight into different situations.
Thank you!!
Why I’m writing this
I’m directing this argumentative piece of writing to discuss and argue the benefits and disadvantages of encountering conflict and how it affects every human being, directed to mainly late teenagers to young adults. The language used with be fairly complex, however it will be easy to understand.
Essay
It is intrinsically human to experience conflict; thus, we will all be forced to respond to conflict at various times and in various forms throughout the course of our lives, and in order to live serenely we attempt to avoid and resolve conflict. While conflict may be as simple as two parties having insignificant disagreement over something, we have seen throughout history that major conflicts in the form of war, religion and international political unrest led to many life-changing experiences on a large-scale. Although the outcomes of conflict may not be an overall bad thing, sometimes conflict can be lead to strengthened friendships or even relationships, as shown in the novel ‘The quiet American’ it was evident with Phuong and Fowler after the incident with Pyle, their relationship grew, even after Phuong was lied to. Some cases conflict really does destroy human relationships with no benefits at all, the Korean War in 1950 left 3,000,000 murdered in a span of 3 years. This event gave no opportunities; the soldiers involved had no allowed opinions and suffered through torture, losing themselves to the war and ruining all relationships they had with others and even themselves. Conflict is in everybody’s life; even mine. An incident with my mother when I was thirteen left us without communication, a traumatic event in a young boy’s life; never a moment goes by without thinking about how I lost my mum. This interpretation of events may be looked at in different ways, knowledge, experience, all of which make it impossible to determine if this traumatic event actually helped me or made my situation worse. The event truly did destroy us; and our relationship. Conflict can be either a negative or positive experience or even both, depending upon the situation.
“Before I read it I began to wonder whether at the end I should lie or tell the truth to Phuong”. (P117) Throughout the novel, Fowler is often caught lies, and sometimes there may be speculation that he is lying to himself. He often lies to try and escape the conflict that is happening around him, and lied to Phuong and her sister about his wife’s divorce, this somewhat shows that Fowler is insecure about himself and cared about Phuong enough to not want to lose her. Even after being lied to, Phuong still manages to forgive him, thus showing that conflict doesn’t always destroy relationships. However, if it wasn’t for Pyle’s death then Pyle would have won and received Phuong as his prize. Pyle’s death, a form of conflict had its benefits on Fowler as it allowed him to receive Phuong. Therefore, in an individual’s interpretation, conflict can potentially do good in one way or another and help with human relationships.
Korea 1950, under American leadership the United Nations went to war for the first time. What began as a conflict between the North and South turned into a confrontation between East and West, threatening to turn into the 3rd world war. It was a war which nobody won, but the losers could be seen everywhere, 3 million civilians were estimated to have died in the span of three years. Encountering conflict is evident everywhere, where there was death, there was conflict. Human relationships destroyed at the sound of a gunshot, not one person mourned their loved ones meaning they lost everybody, even themselves in the devastating war. This form of conflict has enormous effects on human relationships, although the real struggle doesn’t come from external relationships, it comes from within. The soldiers under attack struggled to keep themselves during and even after the war. One’s self is the only relationship an individual needs and if that is broken, devastating consequences may occur. This is a true test on how human relationships are tested.
Certain interpretations and opinions may influence how an individual acts towards certain forms of conflict. I lost someone very close to me at the age of 13; my mum. Different opinions about different topics, a difference in suggestions, also a growing hatred built inside me eventually broke free as I got kicked out of my mother’s house. Conflict shows in many situations that opinions matter and although it may have helped me in the long-term, I can’t help but think about what would have happened if this incident didn’t occur. Many close friends, my other family have all told me that I made the right decision and got out of there, and this in itself is a struggle in human relationships. Perhaps she got told the same information, “I’m a rotten boy, kick him out before it’s too late!” from those same people, wanting nothing but to cause conflict. This truly tested our relationship and in the end it ended our somewhat close mother and sonship. I’ll never know the true reason as to why this happened. However, if it weren’t for this situation I may never have tried so hard at everything I do in life, if I didn’t have conflict in my life I would have no reason to try and to keep bettering myself. Without conflict, relationships would generally struggle to grow, and any relationship lost due to conflict, generally isn’t a relationship worth having.
While many situations in everybody’s life has caused them conflict, it has overall helped us in the end, it gives us reason to keep going and to keep developing ourselves as individuals, improving and testing our relationships with other people and even ourselves. However, some forms of conflict do no good, go by evil and generally are unneeded. In contrast, conflict helps develop and change human relationships, causing us to grow stronger and to gain more knowledge and insight into different situations.
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