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    Laken Sutton March 20‚ 2013 English 102 Gompf Revised Paper Women vs. “Love is a Fallacy” “Love is a Fallacy” is often viewed as an anti-women story. To many this piece exploits females by insulting women using stereotypes that have been around for a long time. The female sex‚ as a whole‚ has been fighting to overcome these degrading assumptions. This story uses a girl named Polly to display all women. She depicts them as ignorant and gullible individuals. During the Story‚ Polly is treated

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    One of the most apparent logical fallacies in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ is called “No True Scotsman‚” or rather‚ an appeal to purity to emphasize an argument. The play is set in a small town in Massachusetts in the late 1690s. This setting is well known for its overbearing Puritanism and its government that could almost be characterized as a theocracy. As a result of this emphasis on religion‚ the characters of the play often resort to fallacies that hold religious beliefs at the forefront of

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    and how happy we actually are with the outcome. The essay is based on experiments done by two professors: Daniel Gilbert and George Loewenstein. The experiments show that humans are never as happy as we think we will be with an outcome because affective forecasting and miswanting cause false excitement and disappointment in our search for true happiness. Gertner jumps right into his essay with examples. He repeatedly states that we are wrong to think that nice things will make us happy. His language

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    TITLE: ’’BELIEVE IN GOD IS NOT A FALLACY" Does an intelligent‚ powerful‚ and willful being exist who is the independent eternal uncaused cause of all the rest of existence? It is my thoughtful and rational conviction that such a being‚ commonly called God‚ does exist in reality and that all the rest of reality is dependent on this being for existence. I therefore would say I believe in God. Now having the conviction that God exists is clearly a controversial position. Even as having the

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    Olaudah Equiano Fallacy

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    Today‚ it is known that these instances are only superficial to the true extent of the horrors on these slave ships‚ but such matters were far too delicate to publish at the time‚ and many people would most likely have rejected such a story as a fallacy. Equiano writes‚ "In this manner we continued to undergo more hardships than I can now relate‚ hardships which are inseparable from this accursed trade." (1230). While it seems like a simple statement‚ it works on the minds of the readers in a way

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    This research paper consists of a mood disorder named Seasonal Affective Disorder associated with depression. Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal and his associates at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) discovered Seasonal Affective Disorder in the 1980’s. Recently‚ according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV and DSM-5 states that its status was changed. It’s no longer classified as a unique mood disorder but now its more specific such as seasonal patterns for recurrent

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    There are many cognitive and affective characteristics of intellectually gifted adolescents which differ from those of their non-gifted peers. These characteristics have the potential to assist academic and social development‚ or conversely may present social and academic difficulties for the adolescents. Two cognitive characteristics and two affective characteristics typically associated with gifted adolescents will be examined to explore the relationship between these characteristics and their

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    mood?" In this investigation we are measuring people ’s emotion with consuming different foods. We are measuring sadness to happiness by giving some people yoghurt and tea‚ and finding out how those foods affect their mood. SAD stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder and is the feeling you show when you are not happy. There are many examples to show for cause and effect relationship between mood and food. In this report I will explain how tea and yoghurt affects your sad mood? Tea contains an ingredient

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    The Fallacies of Fad Diets The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds. − Carl Sandburg‚ The People Speak “How did Jennifer Lopez lose 40 pounds after having twin babies? The Dukan Diet is the answer!” or “Jennifer Hudson lost 80 Lbs! Thanks to Weight Watchers!” − thumb through any supermarket tabloid or spend only an hour in front of TV and you ’ll catch a glimpse

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    A. Identify the affective traits of the main character and the significant person/people in the main character’s life. The main character of the film is Jess who is really talented teenage-girl. She is dreaming being a professional soccer player and play with her super hero David Beckham. Even though her family do not let her play‚ she is trying every possible way. She is lying to her family to play soccer with her friends. All these things show us‚ she is really infatuated with being a soccer

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