Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 187 views

    Karina Esparza - Argument Essay Money Is The Root of All Evil Good

    Uploaded by

    api-478634456
    Money has become the driving force in our world and has led to immense evil, according to the author. Historically, nations and individuals have committed atrocities in the pursuit of money, such as Spain exploiting native people for gold in the Americas. Slavery advanced the African slave trade for profit. Today, people engage in organized crime and murder for money, while wealth is concentrated among the 1% as billions live in poverty and hunger. The author argues that money has grown to be the root of evil in our world by motivating harmful actions and prioritizing wealth over human life.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Karina Esparza - Argument Essay Money Is The Root of All Evil Good

    Uploaded by

    api-478634456
    187 views4 pages
    Money has become the driving force in our world and has led to immense evil, according to the author. Historically, nations and individuals have committed atrocities in the pursuit of money, such as Spain exploiting native people for gold in the Americas. Slavery advanced the African slave trade for profit. Today, people engage in organized crime and murder for money, while wealth is concentrated among the 1% as billions live in poverty and hunger. The author argues that money has grown to be the root of evil in our world by motivating harmful actions and prioritizing wealth over human life.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    karina esparza - argument essay money is the root of all evil good

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Money has become the driving force in our world and has led to immense evil, according to the author. Historically, nations and individuals have committed atrocities in the pursuit of money, such as Spain exploiting native people for gold in the Americas. Slavery advanced the African slave trade for profit. Today, people engage in organized crime and murder for money, while wealth is concentrated among the 1% as billions live in poverty and hunger. The author argues that money has grown to be the root of evil in our world by motivating harmful actions and prioritizing wealth over human life.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    187 views4 pages

    Karina Esparza - Argument Essay Money Is The Root of All Evil Good

    Uploaded by

    api-478634456
    Money has become the driving force in our world and has led to immense evil, according to the author. Historically, nations and individuals have committed atrocities in the pursuit of money, such as Spain exploiting native people for gold in the Americas. Slavery advanced the African slave trade for profit. Today, people engage in organized crime and murder for money, while wealth is concentrated among the 1% as billions live in poverty and hunger. The author argues that money has grown to be the root of evil in our world by motivating harmful actions and prioritizing wealth over human life.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 4

    Karina Esparza

    Mr. Stephens

    18 August 2019

    APELC B6

    Argument Essay

    Branches of Evil

    Money is the seed of evil-- it has grown into the epicenter of life. It can determine one’s

    quality of life from their quality of education, to their quality of health, and in simpler terms, to

    their access to food. While some individuals obtain strenuous amounts of money, like Jeff Bezos

    who has a networth of 110 billions of dollars, 35% of the world live in extreme poverty,

    according to the UN. Overall, money has been overwhelming because it has the power to lead a

    better materialistic life. Money is the root of evil; historically, it inspires nations to wipe out and

    torture others, it motivates people to participate in horrible acts, and it denies individuals of life’s

    simplest necessities.

    The goal of many nations is to be a superpower: to be rich and powerful, pursuing money

    in different manners. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spain among others, were desperately in

    search of gold, money, after discovering the Americas. A man named Hernan Cortes voyages to

    central Mexico, and purposefully sickens the Natives in the name of gold, offering blankets

    infected with smallpox. Cortes is seen as a hero to Eurasia, he got rid of natives and gifted Spain

    with a new money source. According to American History, Connecting with the Past, by Alan

    Brinkley, additional actions to be rich was slavery. The African Slave Trade was advanced, they

    forcefully pushed Africans onto a boat to be exported to the “New World.” The Portuguese and

    England used humans: tormenting, raping, killing, and working them to death so they could be
    successful in cultivating cash crops and mining gold. These acts were evil, they took the life and

    breath from millions, just for the end goal of money.

    Money is appealing individuals, making it sane to commit horrible, illegal actions for it.

    The appeal of money does not discriminate against social classes, forcing individuals into

    prostitution rings, murders, or into organized crime. For instance, according to a 2018

    Congressional Research Service report, about 150,000, the population size of Salinas, died as a

    result of an intentional homicide since 2006, and they were indeed “organized crime-related.”

    The article continues to emphasize that Mexican drug cartels obtain an estimated “$19 and $29

    billion annually” from selling drugs in the US. Money seems to be the sole motivator- it shows

    that people are willing to commit evil acts like murder in order to get what they want. In a

    scrutinized level, those who distribute in communities, or transport the product are willing to

    devastate communities to make money.

    It is evil to live in a world where the cost of ending world hunger does not seem as

    valuable as the US Defense budget, or taxing the 1% its fair share. According to the Times, 1%

    of the global population controlled “82% of the wealth generated” in 2016. This is compared to

    3.7 billion people not seeing an increase in their own wealth. People are remaining poor. It is evil

    that a system gives money the power to decide life and death: one child dies every 5 seconds due

    to hunger related causes. Money is the root of this global evil.

    Life revolves around making and using money. It has had the power and effect to be evil,

    from torturing societies, to being the motivation for organized crime, to allowing a system to fail

    individuals. It is the seed to hateful acts, blinding people from acknowledging or changing their

    habits.
    Works Cited

    Brinkley, Alan. American History: Connecting With the Past. 15th ed., 2015.
    “Mexico Drug War Fast Facts.” CNN, Cable News Network, 15 Feb. 2019,

    https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/02/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-fast-facts/index.html.

    Suliman, Adela. “A Billionaire Bonanza Is Driving Global Inequality.” Time, Time, 22 Jan.

    2018, https://time.com/5111971/billionaires-global-inequality-income-oxfam-wealth/.

    You might also like