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    On February 9‚ 1950‚ Joseph McCarthy‚ a Wisconsin Republican Senator‚ made a speech‚ entitled “Enemies from Within”‚ against Communism in Wheeling‚ West Virginia. McCarthy’s speech contained several rhetorical devices‚ such as alliteration‚ name-calling‚ and pathos‚ to support his negative views and opinions on Communism. McCarthy uses a great deal of alliterations to keep his audiences’ attention. “Mad moment” (paragraph 4) and “sloppy sentimentality” (paragraph 9) are two of the alliterations

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    Summary of Fallacies

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    References: Baasham‚ G. (2000). Critical Thinking: A Student Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction to Critical Thinking‚ pp 7. East Tennessee State University-ETSU‚ (2006). Seven Step Decision-Making Model. Retrieved June 4‚ 2006 from: http://www.etsu.edu/acadvantage/acadv/decision.htm Kirby‚ G.R. & GoodPaster‚ J.R. (1999). What is Thinking? Critical Thinking‚ (2nd .ed.). Prentice-Hall‚ Inc. pp. 8.

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    The building selected for this project is the Fisher House In Philadelphia By Louis I. Kahn. It took Kahn seven years and many different designs to complete this work starting from 1960. Though the Fisher House is one of the few private residences designed by Kahn that came to completion‚ it serves as a great instance of his architectural achievements through the underlying stylistic forms and philosophical values. For various reasons such as the recession caused by the second World War and stylistic

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    the object feels. We can sidestep this molecular picture by dealing with objects as a whole‚ and treating the energy transfer as the flow of heat‚ rather than kinetic energy transfer among particles. |Specific Heat for Various Materials | |Material |Specific Heat | | |(J/kg C°) | |Water |4186 | |Aluminum |900 | |Steel

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    Types of Fallacies: * “Argument” from pity: when feeling sorry for someone drives us to a position on an unrelated matter * We have a job that needs doing; Helen can barely support her starving children and needs work desperately. But does Helen have the skills we need? We may not care if she does; and if we don’t‚ nobody can fault us for hiring her out of compassion. But feeling sorry for Helen may lead us to misjudge her skills or overestimate her abilities‚ and that is a mistake in

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    Fallacy Summary and Application Paper What information can be gathered from‚ "Begging the Question‚" "Hasty Generalization‚" and "Appealing to Emotion?" Though from first glance‚ they generally do not have much in common. However‚ when looking deeper‚ you will see that they are all different types of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies‚ by definition‚ are errors of reasoning. Or‚ to put it in a simpler form‚ errors that may be recognized and corrected by prudent thinkers (Downes‚ 1995)

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    Specific Population

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    Specific Population and the Advocate Role June 23‚ 2013 Introduction “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor‚ never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented.” (Goodreads‚ 2013) Advocacy is about speaking up for people who cannot speak up for themselves or helping individuals speak up for themselves. An advocate is a person who is there to make sure that the best interest of the client is always kept in mind‚ advocate support their clients

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    Unreliable Narrator From the perspective of how figures of speech help to characterize in Love is a Fallacy An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility has been seriouly compromised in fictions (as implemented in literature‚ film‚ theatre‚ etc). It is a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty‚ misleadingly biased‚ or otherwise distorted‚ so that it departs from the “ture” understanding of events shared between the reader and the implied author. The discrepancy between

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    Specific Phobias

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    objects or situations. Specific phobias are very common. Most cases are mild and not significant enough to require treatment. The most common specific phobias are fear of animals (usually spiders‚ snakes‚ or mice)‚ flying (pterygophobia)‚ heights (acrophobia)‚ water‚ injections‚ public transportation‚ confined spaces (claustrophobia)‚ dentists (odontiatophobia)‚ storms‚ tunnels‚ and bridges. When confronting the object or situation‚ the phobic person experiences panicky feelings‚ sweating‚ avoidance

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    Specific Gravity

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    Introduction: Specific gravity or relative density is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a given reference material. Specific gravity usually means relative density with respect to water. Temperature and pressure must be specified for both the sample and the reference. The following formula is used- Specific gravity= density of sample/density of same volume of water. Specific gravity is commonly used as a simple means of obtaining information about the concentration of solutions

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