BEL 313 INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THINKING TOPIC: “THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF TELEVISION” ASSIGNMENT 2 PREPARED FOR: NAME: GROUP: The Negative Effects of Television For most of you‚ as it was for me‚ I grew up watching three‚ four and even five hours of television a day. It was a part of my daily routine and it wasn ’t easy for me to break. I managed to do it when my family and I moved to a small city in the west. After we moved in we found out that you had to buy cable if you
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English March 6th‚ 2015 Assignment (Analysis Essay) In the essay “Give Drugs to Addicts So We Can Be Safe”‚ by Jonah J. Goldstein‚ he does not effectively argue his point and convinces the reader‚ since he uses false comparisons‚ makes inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence‚ and bad assumptions. Johan J. Goldstein tries to affect the reader emotionally but he fails to use it properly. Instead of balancing the emotions of the readers he makes the emotional appeal become a substitute
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disapproval about a subject (Skywire 336). He made it seem that he loved the idea of eating a baby. It would be the new delicacy on all menus (Swift 364-5). With this opinion on the great demand for human flesh‚ he used a hasty generalization. Swift made a hasty generalization by basing his knowledge that everyone would love human flesh on an incident on the island of Formosa (Swift 365). Swift learned through a native of Formosa that when a child was put to death‚ his body was sold as a "Prime
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not everyone will become addicted. He uses his own experiences as evidence‚ stating that he has tried all drugs and became addicted to none. By saying ‘all’ he included a large scope of drugs‚ none of which he reveals to us. Vidal also makes a generalization by saying that not everyone will become addicted because he is one person and can’t speak on behalf of everyone. Altogether‚ Vidal’s statements lack enough valid evidence to fully support his claim. Another claim that Vidal makes is that the
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Juan-Carlos Licona English 102 Professor Black February 8‚ 2015 Insecurity or No? When it comes to sports‚ a competitive mindset is key. In American football‚ it’s hard not to win without communication and teamwork. In the NFL playoffs of 2015‚ the New England Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 for the AFC Championship. In a game that originally portrayed the Patriots as an offensive force to be reckoned with‚ ended out to be a game that goes down in history. After further investigation‚
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Running Head: FALLACIOUS WOMAN Fallacious Woman: An Analysis of Max Shulman’s Love is a Fallacy Robert de la Rosa South Texas College Ms. Laura Steinert English 1302.W06 October 21‚ 2008 Fallacious Woman: An Analysis of Max Shulman’s Love is a Fallacy Reading is a favorite past time of many people in the world. It has the power to transport the reader to other places and times that he might never be able to see. Reading can even take the reader to places
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In the article “Maybe money does buy happiness after all” David Leonhardt (2008) argues that money is a major factor that contributes in the happiness of most of the people. David Leonhardt is the current editor of a New York Times website which involves politics. He was previously the paper’s Washington bureau chief and as an economic columnist‚ he wrote an e-book about economic growth “Here’s the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth”‚ He also won a Pulitzer award for one of
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carry different believes as the author said schools doesn’t have the right to force them to pray with the others‚ but should give them the freedom to practice their own believes and should respect them.. The essay does exaggerate and has many hasty generalizations like when said: “teachers would discriminate them and their classmates would make fun of them’’ which is not true and the problem cannot be based on this. Although the essay is acknowledging the reader of the situation of small
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Hasty Generalization “In epidemiological studies of dog bites‚ the pit bull is overrepresented among dogs known to have seriously injured or killed human beings‚ and‚ as a result‚ pit bulls have been banned or restricted in several Western European countries‚ China‚ and numerous cities and municipalities across North America. Pit bulls are dangerous.” Troublemakers. Malcolm Gladwell. 6 Feb. 2006 In this article the author was generalizing pit bulls as dangerous. Even though
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In your article you used a hasty generalization in order to try and convince your readers. You used a hasty generalization when you stated that people who play video games are wimps. I think that the people that would believe these fallacies are older men and women because they lived before the generation of Americans changed
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