How do i write an essay about selfishness and greed?

Explain what selfishness and greed is, and explain why people may have these qualities. Show what selfishness and greed has done in the past to people and how it can affect current people.

Explanation:

By explaining what selfishness and greed is, you’re allowing the reader to understand what the rest of the essay is about. By describing how it has affected people in the past and present, you’re showing its relationship with humans.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."