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    Impact of Children on Committed Relationships Christina Smith Everest University Online Most of the time‚ children have a great impact on a relationship. Before children‚ couples usually tend to spend a lot of time together and have more energy and money (Wood‚ 2010). Once children turn the relationship into a family‚ couples have less time together along with less energy and money (Wood‚ 2010). Our communications go from long and stimulating conversations about anything and everything to mostly

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    WHAT YOU LOOK AT THAT MATTERS‚ BUT WHAT YOU SEE” - H.D. THOREAU To look is to see and vice-versa! Admittedly to a layman and also in common parlance‚ we use the two interchangeably or synonymously. However‚ there’s a difference between the two if we contemplate it. ‘Visualisation’ is a curious issue having various aspects of interpretation. To look at something and to actually realise your vision is not always possible. There is just too much‚ all around us to see and

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    Fallacy Ad Hominem

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    Somebody says criminal is bad people. Is it true? If it is true‚ this could be a form of fallacy. Fallacy is a misconception leads to unreasonable argument or disbelief in people’s ideas. It happens with us everyday. Fallacy has many types and I want to refer to one of them: Ad Hominem. It is a judgment about people’s appearance than the validity of their ideas‚ abilities‚ or work……We usually see this fallacy in our life like politic‚ demonstration‚ even in our working environment. For example: politicians

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    Fallacies of Equation and Division Fallacies of Equation and Division HU 101 -7G 5/18/13 Instructor: George Strohm Fallacies of Equation and Division First I had to define fallacies of equivocation and division to see where I could possibly start with this essay. Equivocation happens when someone is using a key term in an argument; however the meaning of the key term changes during the course of the argument. "To expose the fallacy of equivocation you give accurate and specific definitions

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    People See What They Want to See If we ask someone how she or he sees world‚ almost everyone will answer that by eyes. Yes‚ it is true‚ but eyes deliver only deceptive view of what we see. They will have never shown view on person’s inside. Different thing is when we use our heart for see what is hidden inside that person. It shows us character of this person‚ and how he or she is in life. I think that seeing by heart means to understand other people feelings. There is commandment

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    “We reporting it‚ no matter truth it or not” John Pilger’s documentary movie you can’t see because of war he showed in it. It is not a new report about war cruel or lies in mass-media‚ it is a scream in a silent society about extent of our information blindness. It is a movie you can’t seeyou don’t want to see‚ but you must see. “The war you don’t see” shows us a huge difference between what we expect from mass-media and what we really get. And we always get a lie. How big and how powerful this

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    Rhetorical Fallacy Essay

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    Ferrier-Watson English 1301 10 October 2013 Scheming Advertisements: Unveiling the Fallacies Amongst Us Throughout my life‚ I have been entertained and persuaded by the world of advertisements. But like Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”‚ the images painted by these ads are either tainted do to the sneaky incorporation of fallacies. These fallacies may act in different forms; some of them are almost insidiously trying to persuade you while others‚ have an odd and blatant approach. The commercials are for the

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    and commercials. Bruce N. Waller defines irrelevant reason fallacy when‚ “the reasons given in support of a conclusion are irrelevant to the truth or falsity of the conclusion. The reason given may be true‚ they may be important in other contexts… but they have no bearing on the question at issue…” (Waller). Irrelevant Reason Fallacy is also known as The Red Herring Fallacy (Waller). It is easy to understand why the Red Herring Fallacy is effective. Any argument will seem legitimate when it is filled

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    a continuous debate on the ethics of this procedure. Two prominent documentaries that circulate the media are FrackNation by Phelim McAleer and Gasland by Josh Fox. Each documentary presents its view of pro-fracking and anti-fracking‚ respectively through a series of various logical fallacies. FrackNation efficiently refutes the claims of Gasland through the effective use of logical fallacies. The successful use

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    The Amritsar Massacre took place on April 13th 1919. It was committed by the British‚ who were colonized in India from the 1600’s to 1945. Before the Amritsar massacre‚ there was tension between Indian civilians and the British colonies for decades. This caused protests‚ mostly peaceful‚ throughout India. In March of 1919 the British passed the Rowlatt Act‚ invading the Indians privacy and decreasing their rights. On April 6th leaders of a peaceful protest against the Rowlatt Bill were arrested

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