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    “Advertising: 15 Basic Appeals” by Jib Fowles (from "Mass Advertising As Social Forecast") 1. Need for sex- surprisingly‚ Fowles found that only 2 percent of the television ads‚ he surveyed used this appeal. It may be too blatant‚ he concluded‚ and often detracts from the product. 2. Need for affiliation- the largest number of ads use this approach: you are looking for friendship? Advertisers can also use this negatively‚ to make you worry that you’ll lose friends if you don’t use

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    Nica Javier CRITHIN A62 Ms. Hazel Biana August 5‚ 2013 “Thank You for Smoking” film viewing Identifying fallacies paper. The movie‚ “Thank You for Smoking” is a comedy with a tobacco industry lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor as the lead. The movie has an eerie comic theme which tackles the serious issue of the addicting substance of tobacco‚ or to be more specific‚ nicotine. The idea which the movie was trying to portray was that this lobbyist was a great speaker who is able to manipulate many

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    Logical Design Part 2 CIS 111 August 30‚ 2013 Hello sirs‚ my name is ‚ it has come to my attention that there are some misconceptions about the value in normalizing your database. I wanted to write this correspondence to address any concerns that you may have about flexibility while entering your data into the system. This letter is to assure you and the other members of your executive board that you will have some flexibility within your E-R Model. I would like to introduce you to the

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    moon landing hoax fallacy

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    race or distract from Vietnam‚ put Neil Armstrong under lights on a secret set somewhere in the desert. Despite theorists’ claims that man never landed on the moon‚ their supposed evidence contain black and white fallacy‚ circular reasoning‚ non sequitur fallacy‚ and straw man fallacies. Scientists have proven that these claims are invalid with explanations of the discrepancies that theorists have failed to acknowledge. Conspiracy theorists have pointed out that when the first moon landing was

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    concept that will be thoroughly analyzed and discussed is the gambler’s fallacy‚ and how it corresponds with the study conducted by Roney and Trick (2003). As stated by in the textbook‚ “The gambler’s fallacy is the belief that if an event has not occurred for a while‚ then it is more likely‚ by the “law of averages‚” to occur in the near future” (Anderson‚ 2015‚ p.269). Therefore‚ an individual subjected to the gambler’s fallacy will believe that the next coin toss will land on heads if the previous

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    Unit 8 Study Guide 1. How many liters of blood does the average adult have? 5 Liters 2. What are the components of blood? WBCs‚ Plasma‚ RBCs‚ and Platelets 3. What does the hematocrit measure? It calculates the proportion of complete blood which is made of red blood cells. 4. What percentage of blood are cells? 45% 5. What percentage of blood is made of plasma? 55% 6. What do erythrocytes look like and what is their function? Erythrocytes provide oxygen to the body

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    SOLUTIONS MANUAL CHAPTER 15 PUT AND CALL OPTIONS PROBLEMS Exercise (strike) price 1. A stock has an exercise (strike) price of $40. a. If the stock price goes to $41.50‚ is the exchange likely to add a new strike price? b. If the stock price goes to $42.75 is the exchange likely to add a new strike price? 15-1. a) No. For stocks over $25‚ the normal interval is $5‚ with a new strike price added at the halfway point or $42.50 (between $40 and $45). b) Yes‚ the stock price has equaled or exceeded

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    Chapter 15 Entities Overview SOLUTIONS MANUAL Discussion Questions 1. [LO 1] What are the more common legal entities used for operating a business? How are these entities treated similarly and differently for state law purposes? Answer: Corporations‚ limited liability companies (LLCs)‚ general and limited partnerships‚ and sole proprietorships. These entities differ in terms of the formalities that must be observed to create them‚ the legal rights and responsibilities conferred on

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    fact‚ the fallacy‚ questions claims made with certainty about what would have happened if a past event or condition would have been different from what is actually was. Fallacies are errors in logical reasoning‚ or when an arguments language is wrong or vague. However‚ many of these errors aren’t determined in the argument until they are analyzed because they appear to “look good”. There are numerous types of fallacies: informal fallacies‚ formal fallaciesfallacies of ambiguity‚ fallacies of presumption

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    The Anti-Vaccine Fallacy

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    How does the writer of ‘Jabs myth is literally sickening’ attempt to persuade readers to share her point of view? In the ‘Herald Sun’ opinion piece ‘Jabs myth is literally sickening’ (Monday‚ May 13‚ 2013)‚ Rita Panahi structures her piece effectively to alert the public in general‚ and parents of babies and young children in particular‚ of the reasons anti-vaccination is a growing and dangerous trend and proposes some hard-nosed remedies. The author’s stance is revealed in the headline. By labelling

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