and then using logos‚ pathos‚ and ethos to refute his opponent’s statements and present his own perspective. After stating the general purpose of his letter‚ Martin Luther King Jr. specifically addressed the clergymen to set up for his logical counterargument. First Martin Luther King effectively makes use of logos throughout his letter. He clarifies all of the reasons for his arguments and supports them well. His arguments are also logical in their appeal. In the beginning of his letter he gives
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Anselm covered two bases on how God’s existence became self-evident in Proslogian‚ but left many counterarguments open. It seems as if an ontological argument can be used to prove the existence of everything. While his use of syllogism creates a valid conclusion‚ his premises leave openings for other conclusions. For example‚ we could take his first premise
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Transhumanist ideals and human enhancements find themselves under great scrutiny again and again because of ethical concerns over whether humanity should possess the capability to alter what it naturally is. Bioethical attacks jump on new and controversial procedures and are quick to compare them to the experiments of the Nazi Mengele or the fictional Victor Frankenstein. The two are quite similar‚ performing unnatural experiments kept away from the public eye. Both played God in their own ways‚
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Counterargument… With all of the evidence about how bad dance can be on ones body there are many postitives that come from dancing. In "What This Ballerina Knows About Body Hatred" Martuza claims that dancing turned around her eating disorder. She struggled with an eating disorder as a young girl and then she started dancing and it gave her something to work for and participate in‚ therefore her eating disorder went away. Throughout the years of dancing her eating disorder came in and out until
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Dave Sitek once said‚ “There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately‚ at the heart of it‚ they’re people.” This quote about perspective can be applied to Judaism‚ Christianity‚ Islam‚ Hinduism‚ and Buddhism; the five major world religions. Although all of the religions have a different perspective on the world‚ they are still fundamentally the same because of their perspectives on a good life‚ the afterlife‚ and the admiration of one central figure. The
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After reading the opposing arguments put forward by President Wilson and Senator Norris I believe President Wilson made a better case‚ albeit by a small margin. The reasons I believe this are the following: first‚ Wilson touches on how Germany broke it`s word after promising to stop unrestricted submarine warfare‚ and resumed unrestricted warfare against neutral ships. Senator Norris makes an argument for this as well stating that the British have also violated international law by mining waterways
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The setting of 12 Angry Men is a jury deliberation room where the jurors are and required to decide the guilt or innocence of an 18 year old that is accused of committing first-degree murder by stabbing his father with a switchblade knife. Witnesses were presented to give evidence of hearing a quarrel; hearing a threat to kill‚ and have seeing the boy run away. Another witness swore to having seen the boy stabbing his father from a window across from where the murder occurred. Eleven jurors were
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(Hook) Romeo was to blame for the death of him and his star crossed lover for three reasons. The first reason being he was over dramatic and aggressive with many things. The second being he would constantly act out to quickly without thinking of the consequences his actions
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the Erlking is that the father represents the light while the Erlking represents the darkness. This could be true‚ unless I go ahead and say that the father represents the “darkness” and the Erl King represents the “light”. By presenting this counterargument‚ what it means is that this poem is about the child’s coming of age and independence and that the father is actually preventing the child from experiencing new things and going off on his own path of “darkness”. Looking at my first argument
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There are various strengths of the UK constitution; these include the fact that the constitution is flexible‚ it protects the rights of citizens and finally it gives power to the executive. The UK and its constitution‚ in my opinion‚ is a very strong unit‚ this being shown through the points listed above and consequently explained below. One strength of the UK constitution is the flexibility that it has‚ for the reason that the constitution is uncodified or unwritten and is therefore not entrenched
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