Three ways to persuade 1. You want to project a powerful authority‚ present a good background‚ and build your character well so that people trust you. 2. To help project this image you can speak confidently‚ and listen to opposing arguments. 3. In order not to harm your image you want to stay away from words with negative connotations. 4. If you are presenting your argument with misspelled words and using words in the wrong way in will diminish you credibility. 1. If you start an argument
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Kaplan University CJ340: Applied CJ Ethics Unit 4 Assignment August 26‚ 2013 Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines “slippery slope” as a course of action that seems to lead inevitably to from one action or result to another unintended consequence (Merriem-Webster‚ 2013). The “slippery slope” can refer to almost every walk of live but here it is being applied to law enforcement and accepting gratuities. Here it is referring to police officers accepting what may seem to be harmless
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The fallacy that I have chosen is Scare Tactic Define: Using fear or a threat against another person in the attempts to get them to conform to your way of thinking or desired action. Design: Scenario 1: As a car salesman I would invoke a sense of fear or urgency in the couple by stating that this car has just come in on the lot and will not last the day. I would tell them that this specific used car and the way and which it was cared for is rare. I would go on to say that this car was just posted
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Assignment Overview Prepare a report for the CEO about this situation in two parts: Part One: Respond to the specific questions on the worksheet that follows (100 points possible). Part Two: Write an executive summary for the CEO (100 points possible). PART ONE: Use the case materials to complete this assignment. ANALYSIS 1. Describe one (per instructors change week one) assumptions seen in any documents provided. a. Kelly Through several emails and communications‚ Kelly assume that there
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Meritocracy & Popular Culture Alger’s book‚ Ragged Dick‚ tells the story of an ambitious‚ industrious‚ and honest boy who through hard work and some luck climbs the ladder to a better life and a higher social status. According to Alger‚ he does this not by taking advantage of other people‚ but by keeping an eye out for opportunities‚ working hard‚ and improving himself. The picture I chose was drawn by Clay Butler in 1994. It depicts a Frankenstein-like creature standing on top of a pile of dismembered
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What Office Dress Code means today? Debates are means by which individual or group of people share their views of a particular subject through arguments or forums. Debates use rhetorical appeals‚ which are logos‚ ethos and pathos to send messages across the same audience. Logos is the capacity of making the audience have confidence in the speaker by using logical explanations‚ facts and statistics. On the other hand‚ ethos is an appeal of making the audience believe that the debater’s idea is credible
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Background This CA allows you to demonstrate your knowledge on the basic elements of a formal argument and your ability to critically analyse an argumentative article. The Task There are a total of 3 sections in this assessment. You are required to answer all the questions in all 3 sections. Section 1 carries 20 marks‚ Section 2 carries 30 marks and Section 3 carries 50 marks. Altogether‚ this CA carries a total score of 100 marks. Section 1 comprises multi-choice questions (MCQs) that will
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Evaluate Hume’s claim that miracles are the least likely of events. (35 marks) Hume defined miracles to be a “violation of the laws of nature” According to Hume‚ no matter how strong the evidence for a specific miracle may be‚ it will always be more rational to reject the miracle than to believe in it. The definition of Hume is both logical and objective as it esquires empirical evidence‚ e.g. Ockham’s razor‚ the simplest explanation is the correct one and therefore miracles do not occur. Hume was
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Essay 1 Fallacious has been one of those words that are being used often in our society today. At first‚ I used to think that fallacious reasoning is a way in which we human beings think about a situation but to my surprise‚ I was proven wrong of what the real meaning fallacious reasoning is. Fallacious reasoning according to Purdue owl is a “common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your argument which can be illegitimate arguments or irrelevant points”. In general‚ to my understanding
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Rebecca History 112 Fallacies and Weaknesses February 9‚ 2010 In his article‚ “Blacks Should Stop Agitating for Political Equality‚” Atlanta Exposition‚ 1895‚ Booker T. Washington said that blacks should take advantage of the new opportunities given to them rather than fight for more rights. Though he understood this tendency‚ saying‚ “… it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature
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