Stock Issues

1. Yes, the problem that needs to be solved is one of great importance. How long before people die unjustly on college campuses before we as a people decide to intervene?

2. The proposed solution would solve the problem in the long run; inversely many other problems would arise in 'total' gun control like a gun black market.


3. Yes, by creating more opportunities for mentorships and gun awareness programs.

4. The proposed solution of abolishing guns is very liberal thus impractical. For such a law to be passed an event that changes the world would have to occur.

5. The positive consequence would be the freedom from the fear of gun accidents but the negative side would be the openness for someone with a gun to openly fire on unarmed civilians.

Proposed Solution to Arz. Bill to Allow Guns on Campus

The recent North Illinois University shooting was less publicized than the Virginia Tech. shooting but still held the same fiscal value to me, due to the fact that I attend a University. An article spoke on the recent problem at NIU bringing up a solution of allowing concealed weapons on campus in Arizona. Senator Johnson, republican, lead the charge in trying to secure a safe future for college students. This "Right-Wing-Wacko" does bring up a valid point in maybe things would be different if weapons were allowed on campus. Although the senator is looking out for the greater good of the people I would propose a different solution to the problem, a near totalitarianism approach to the subject at hand. By this I mean a governmental takeover of the guns pandemic and banning guns now to preserve the future. Even though this is 'Gun-happy' Texas and will probably never happen but the idea could cleanse the world of guns. Getting rid of all guns and putting extreme punishment on those who disobey the law is a bit rash though. This idea defies one of the main principles that the United States was built on, right to bare arms, but changes must be taken to insure the safety of innocent people who go to college to avoid the struggles of everyday life. If extreme gun control would help to preserve life then so be it.

Analysis of Charles Bukowski's "let it Enfold You".

Charles Bukowski is a seemingly troubled man who wrote a poem on things he hates, cannot stand, and later accepts later on in life. The poem "Let it Enfold You" is a writing in which Charles explores the true intentions of human nature and the feelings people are hiding deep within themselves. In such passages as, "I trusted no man and especially no woman" Charles gives a basic idea of the stanzas to come in which he explains his pet peeves ranging from countries in Europe to the color orange. Later Charles sees the world as a place full of hate, just as he hates. Charles states, "..that I wasn't different from the others, I was the same, they were all fulsome with hatred, glossed over with petty grievances.." signifying how he was no different from any one else. Also he began to find larger meanings in small things such as "I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark". The transformation of Charles gradually takes place as he notices even more subtle ideas of life and humanity. For example, " maybe the other life had worn me down. I no longer found glamour in topping somebody in conversation. or in mounting the body of some poor drunken female whose life had slipped away into sorrow" shows how insignificant the ways of his past were to this new, more mellowed out, Charles. This sentence in particular examines how beauty can be seen in even the mouse hanging out on the dresser.

" I began to see things:
coffe cups lined up
behind a counter in a
cafe.
or a dog walking along
a sidewalk.
or the way the mouse
on my dresser top
stopped there
with its body,
its ears,
its nose,
it was fixed,
a bit of life
caught within itself
and its eyes looked
at me
and they were
beautiful.
then- it was
gone.

As the story unfolds Charles falls back into small recession as he explains his suicidal thoughts not being as prominent as he says here " The knife got near my throat again, I almost turned on the gas again but when the good moments arrived again I did'nt fight them off like an alley adversary". " I saw the shape of my wife's head, she so still, i ached for her life, just being there under the covers", shows how he is even more in tune with the world around him by expressing his love for his wife. The poem wraps up by showing us his first real encounter with another male and showing some sense of acknowledgment other than a blow to the head, " i saw the mailman,
honked, he waved back at me". This signifies brighter days to come along with the idea of people are not as bad as he once thought.

Implicit Argument

An idea that is indirectly stated usually in poetry, short story, ect.