Justin Benge K Kraus Wrt 101 13 Apr‚ 2013 Hookups Starve the Soul In the essay “Hookups Starve the Soul” by Laura Vanderkam‚ we are given “insight” into college life and what the students may do with their free time. At first glance it may seem that Vanderkam is writing her essay and directing it towards students‚ but she is in fact directing it towards the parents and it seems that the audience is a hostile one too. Vanderkam tries to explain to the parents what is possibly and probably going
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“The Latest from the Feminist “Front” by Rush Limbaugh argument is that how male’s pursuit females. The title “Feminist Front is the first evidence that the writer use to characterize feminist create a facade. The writer claims his views on the feminist movement is rough‚ insensitive‚ cruel‚ and provocative. The writer is rough on feminist with is why there is common ground. The excerpt has several logical fallacies which is some type of counter statement that weakens an argument (Writer’s np)
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following arguments Restating any rhetorical questions as declarative sentences Replacing emotive language with more purely cognitive language. Identify any assumptions List them as separate premises. Identify the type of argument – is it a generalization‚ a categorical syllogism‚ etc.? Finally‚ identify any fallacies it commits. (There may be more than one.) Argument 1: Pro-abortion liberals are wrong to make ‘choice’ the ultimate issue. No one has absolute freedom of choice sanctioned by law
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Ciera Colley M. Conklin ENC 1102-058 27 September 2011 Project 1: Ad Analysis It is obvious that women and men have play different roles in advertising. Men are portrayed as the dominant figure‚ while women are portrayed weak or as objects. For example‚ in this ad the male figure is taller and his face doesn’t have as much lighting as the female figure. Appearing in 1961‚ a time remembered by family values and consumerism‚ this ad for a Kenwood Chef food processor uses the stereotype
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argument‚ making fallacies more difficult to diagnose. Also‚ the components of the fallacy may be spread out over separate arguments. A fallacy has a lot of forms 1 Fallacies 1.1 Fallacy of Accident or Sweeping Generalization 1.2 Converse Fallacy of Accident or Hasty Generalization 1.3 Irrelevant Conclusion 1.4 Affirming the Consequent 1.5 Denying the antecedent 1.6 Begging the question 1.7 Fallacy of False Cause 1.8 Fallacy of many questions 1.9 Straw man 2 Verbal fallacies 2.1
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crime. Camille Paglia’s editorial “On Date Rape” gives a glimpse into the mind of an extremely biased opinion on date rape. Her general belief is that if a woman gets raped while on a date‚ she is at fault. Paglia’s article is defective due to hasty generalization‚ false analogy‚ and false cause. Landry 2 Paglia’s view is that in her day and age‚ women
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In the education system‚ tenure is a policy that allows a teacher to have a permanent contract of employment. If a teacher wants to gain tenure at the K-12 level‚ they must work with the same school system for a certain amount of years depending on the state. At the university level‚ tenure is earned by contributing to the field of study a teacher is under. This gives teachers an incentive to get a teaching job and work hard in a teaching position. A common downside of teacher tenure‚ though‚ is
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Introduction In the article “Why we need violent video games‚” Gilsdorf (2013) draws attention to the fact that violent video games are not the reason for aggressive behavior amongst youths; rather he suggests that they are an outlet for people’s aggression. Ethan Gilsdorf started out in journalism as a Paris-based travel writer and he is the author of the travel memoir investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players‚ Online Gamers‚ and Other Dwellers
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Race 1 Danielle Race Dr. Elisabeth McLaren English 102 7 July 2014 Don’t blame it on the Pa Pa Palcohol Author Tuan C. Nguyen article‚ The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance‚ is about “a new form of powerized alcohol...product [that] has made it farther than any other we can trace.” Nguyen sets up history leading up to and including today happenings with Palcohol. Similar to Nguyen article‚ Future of muchhyped Palcohol is uncertain‚ by Lynn Walsh‚ is about how news broke
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Senioritis: a common illness that is said to strike high schools across the nation and stand as an excuse for plummeting grades from the senior class. It is believed that seniors become incredibly antsy their last year of high school and are looking into the future for a solution to their bored life. Seniors also begin to question whether the classes they are taking are meaningful or not‚ while sloughing off the tension that comes with high school because they have been there four years and know
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