Argument plan: your own outline may have more or fewer topics, subtopics, specific details, or additional information in each section. use this sample as a guideline for formatting and organizing, but feel free to adapt each section to suit your own topic, thesis, and information. make sure to include •a hook and thesis statement or claim. •a clear pattern of organization. •a complete outline with all the major points of the argument, including concessions or refutations to counterclaims.

Here is mine 

Since the September Eleventh attacks of 2001, the US government and military has been detaining suspected terrorists. Over 1,200 suspects were detained in the first weeks after the attacks, this action is also called “Indefinite Detention”.  Indefinite detention has been one of the tactics used by the United States after the 9/11 attacks against terrorism. Just as the current citizens’ ancestors immigrated here, there are now people trying to immigrate to America. Only to be detained, turned down, or segregated. The act of indefinite detention is unfair and unjustified, it is against the constitution, and can be inaccurate. September 11th was a very hard day.

One case of indefinite detention is the case of Hady Hassan Omar. He was detained September the 12th, 2001. There was no viable proof that he was associated with Al Qaeda and passed polygraph tests. The FBI kept him detained and tortured him for 73 days, he was also not allowed access to an attorney. He threatened hunger strikes and the FBI told him they would strap him to a gurney and feed him through a tube up his nose, he soon threatened suicide if he was not released before New Year’s day. He was released November Twenty Third 2001 after the FBI could not find viable proof to any association with Al Qaeda (NYT Hady Omar. 1).

Indefinite detention is unconstitutional and is seen as a rights violation in many countries. Indefinite detention violates the sixth amendment, the first amendment, and many

human rights laws. The sixth amendment states “The accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him.” This means that the accused person has rights to a public and fair trial, which Hady Hassan Omar was denied, and was also not allowed an attorney. This further violates the constitution as there was no viable proof, jury, or witnesses.

            Since the September Eleventh attacks of 2001, the U.S. has been using various tactics to combat terrorism, one being indefinite detention. The war on terror started directly after 9/11 and involved mainly the U.S. and Middle East. Troops were deployed in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. The Iraq invasion only lasting until later in 2003 and Afghanistan in 2014. President Barack Obama signed a bill in 2011 that gave the military, law enforcement, and the government the ability to detain suspected terrorists without fair trial 

Currently, since the January 11th 2002 opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison 779 detainees have been held in custody. As of October 2016, 60 prisoners still reside in Guantanamo Bay, twenty of which have already been cleared for release. Thirty-one prisoners have not even been charged for a crime and are not cleared for release. It costs more than seven million dollars annually to hold just one detainee in Guantanamo. More than 200 FBI agents have reported the violent treatment of the prisoners held in Guantanamo and there have been at least 26 reports of prisoners being tortured at overseas CIA facilities before being transferred to Guantanamo 

Indefinite detention is an unconstitutional, unlawful, and inhumane act. Indefinite detention violates the sixth amendment of the Bill of Rights and violates international and human rights laws.  The act of indefinite detention is unfair and unjustified, it is against the constitution, and can be inaccurate. There are many cases of indefinite detention in which there is no viable proof, witnesses, or fairness. Detaining suspected terrorists without proof or fairness is unjustified, unlawful, and unfair.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)