In chapters four and five to “they say” Three ways to respond to “yes/no/okay‚ but” and Distinguishing what you say from what they say. “And Yet” Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstien and Russel Durst say that “you need to be an expert in a field to have an argument at all” (p‚55). Are they referring to an actual job like a lawyer? where they are good on arguing about a certain topic. You must have some sort of topic to go off of to argue your case‚ and to make it believable for others. As for agreeing
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Life isn’t always simple for those in third world countries. Because of this‚ Peter Singer has said that we as a society have a moral obligation to help them by donating to charities. However‚ not everyone agrees with this point. Personally‚ I believe that you never have a moral obligation to do anything‚ unless you personally believe that you must. Some people may not feel obligated to help the citizens of poor countries. More often than not‚ this is because they believe that their charity will
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Reasoning 8 July 2013 Singer ’s goal in the article Famine‚ Affluence and Morality is to try and get people to understand their moral obligation to help those in need. He uses a refugee camp as an example that people are starving to death. But when you look at the article as a whole‚ he is trying to show an even bigger picture. There are people suffering all over the world‚ and there are those who can do something to ease that suffering. Many people choose to turn
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In his essay‚ Peter Singer defines a term‚ speciesism‚ which means the “attitude of bias toward the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of members of other species”(204). Singer compares the speciesists with racists in order to emphasize that like racists who “give greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race”(206)‚ the speciesists “give greater weight to the interests
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a) Explain Anselm’s ontological argument (25) Saint Anselm‚ the author of the book The Proslogian came up with what is believed to be the first formulation of the ontological argument. The writings of the ontological argument in The Proslogian were Anselm’s reflections of the passage Psalm 14:1 “Fools say in their hearts ’There is no god’” and directs his argument at the ‘fools’ From this passage. Ontology means the study of being so therefore Anselm’s argument is formulated to prove the existence
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Terrorism is an act of violence‚ usually done in the public sphere‚ which is used to incite fear in a population in order to coerce change in public opinion or a government’s position on an issue. In many parts of the world‚ groups wage war with their countries‚ either to separate from the government or to overthrow it entirely. Sometimes these people are treated unfairly by their government‚ and their struggles are justified. Other times‚ these groups use violence against both military and civilian
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Over The Counter Statistics show that each year almost seven hundred fifty-thousand United States teen girls have experienced unintended pregnancies. Approximately half are because the girls were not using birth control pills. Birth control pills should be sold over the counter because it would lower the percentage of abortions‚ lower teen pregnancies‚ and even reduce the risk of ovarian cancer other medical issues and other menstrual pains. Birth control has been instrumental in lowering the
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Three strikes raises important questions about how sentencing laws need to achieve public safety. How are such laws made? Who do they target? And why did Michael Reynolds and Mark Klaas start out as allies and end up as bitter political rivals. Over the last two decades (1980-2000)‚ the US prison population has increased 450%. California has led the nation in prison growth since the early 1980s‚ and it incarcerated a higher percentage of its population than any nation on earth by 1994. The same
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childhood. We brought him to Rehoboth beach with us and everywhere else we went. Florida‚ Pennsylvania‚ everywhere. He really was my best friend. As he started to get older‚ he also started to get sick. We couldn’t figure out what was wrong. We frequently took him to the vet‚ but they told us they didn’t understand why his symptoms were occurring‚ and they gave him OTC (Over the Counter) medicine. One day when I came home from school‚
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Peter Singer’s Case for Animal Liberation Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and is considered one of the world’s most influential people. His book Animal Liberation (1975) is the most influential book written on the subject‚ having in a sense started the animal rights movement. Singer argues that animal liberation today is analogous to racial and gender justice in the past. Just as people once thought it incredible that women or blacks should be treated as equal to
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