I wrote this last year - Sophomore in College - this is how you write (got a 96% on this paper, too ) - Best thing I've ever written, too. It's damn good!

You're telling me a college student can write much better than someone who has their degree already and is working as a journalist at a music magazine company? Get lost.


Last part of intro:

While there was mass support for the United States’ involvement, and while the initial motives were genuine and benevolent in nature, the war was wrought with severe mistakes and miscalculations which ultimately rendered the conflict unwinnable. By the time Richard Nixon entered the White House in 1969, the frustrated and war-weary public demanded an end to this already decade long conflict. Nixon did achieve peace by withdrawing all military forces from Vietnam, but this did not occur until 1975, thus yielding six years of yet more critical mistakes and struggles.

Thesis:

While the media did indeed negatively impact Nixon’s effort in the conflict and its aftermath, the fact that he used contradictory rhetoric, made tactical military blunders, and shifted the motives from a world-inclusive fight against communism to a self-interested need of preserving credibility, all depict that Nixon had only himself to blame for not achieving “peace with honor” in the Vietnam War.

Well crafted segment from argument 1:

In 1969, the American public voted in a Republican for the presidency hoping for change and improvement, fed up with the incompetence of the Democrats who created the disarray in the first place. However, Nixon proved to be no different than his liberal counterparts, and perhaps was worse due to the contradictory nature of his policies.

Conclusion:

Due to this type of media coverage, it is almost certain that some of Nixon’s actions were negated by the coverage. However, Nixon made far too many mistakes of his own in order for the media to be blamed in any significant way for his blunders or in inability of achieving peace with honor. If Nixon was more confident in his policies, and if he transposed that confidence onto the battlefield while keeping the initial motives and focus of the war in tact perhaps not only would he have achieved peace with honor, but may have also achieved victory. However, the complete opposite occurred. Only Nixon is to blame, not some guy in a suit and tie standing in front of a camera.