Mlan Reflection Rhetorical Analysis

Paper #3 The False Dilemma fallacy is having a mistake in a reasoning where you only give two extreme alternatives and leaving out the rest of the possibilities (Diestler 236). For example, in the song Mulan “Reflection” “I will never pass for a perfect bride, or a perfect daughter”, and “If I were truly be myself, I would break my family’s heart” (Mulan). In here she had a dilemma of either being the perfect daughter for her parents or be herself while in real life you could be both and your parents would still think you are the perfect daughter. [paraphrase] Ad Hominem means “attacking the person” (Diestler 243). An example of this is: “Schwarzenegger chided her for her own income-tax shelters” (Breslau). Instead of focusing on the real
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In this song it shows that you can do or in this case, clap whenever you want to. In a two wrongs make a right you would “excuse a bad behavior on the grounds of other bad behavior; the fallacy occurs when someone rationalizes that one person’s or one group’s action is justified because some other person’s or one group’s action is justified because some other person’s or group’s action is just as bad or worse” (Diestler 246). An example of a two wrongs make a right fallacy would be “I would do what I thought made me happy or how I felt. I have no other way of knowing what to do but how I internally feel” (Brooks). Post Hoc is “a fallacy that occurs when there is no real proof that one event caused another event” (Diestler 228). An Example of a post hoc is in the Silver Lining Playbook: PAT SR. She's fucking nuts! When you started spending time with her, it all fell apart. This is the fucking reason right