Charlotte Felchak COM-126 August 16‚ 2012 Professor Tammany Agenda-Setting and the Presidential Election The presidential election of 2008 was a historic one for many reasons. This was a year of political turmoil and a true reflection of a country in economic crisis. The media played a significant role by influencing the American voters which decided the outcome of the election. For the Democratic Party‚ Barack Obama and Joe Biden won the primary election. John McCain and Sarah Palin
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of the arena. The tax dollars generated by the arena itself will be put toward paying the balance of the 290 million dollars in bonds. Therefore the arena will require no new taxes; no sales taxes‚ arena taxes or property taxes will increase. The fallacy lies within the slanderous accusations of Chris Hanson being a crook because he is a hedge fund manager. This editorial is taking a biased superficial position by categorizing his occupation‚ when in fact his occupation is to mitigate risk and analyze
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PCR0025 Critical Thinking All Foundation ONLINE NOTES LOGICAL FALLACIES Logical fallacy: An argument that contains a mistake in reasoning. 2 major groups: 1. Fallacies of relevance 2. Fallacies of insufficient evidence Fallacies of Relevance Mistakes in reasoning that occur because the premises are logically irrelevant to the conclusions. 1. Personal Attack 2. Attacking the motive 3. Look Who’s Talking (Tu Quoque) 4. Two Wrongs Make a Right 5. Scare Tactics 6. Appeal to Pity 7
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questions: · What are some examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and specific rhetorical devices in the speech? · How did the speaker address arguments and counter arguments? · Were the speaker’s arguments effective? Explain your answer. This speech was done before election time of the new governor. This video had many examples of fallacies. “Using emotion the wrong way most often creates what is known as a fallacy. Fallacies occur when you use an illogical argument.” The running
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Based on my experience‚ Fallacies of Premises categories “…involve illegitimate citation or discussion of evidence.” are the most common fallacious interpretive approaches. The fallacy of Partial Evidence is one of the most used types of fallacies of premise‚ “Limitations of time or implicit commitment to a preunderstanding can cause the student to deal with only a part of the relevant evidence‚ leading to a skewed interpretation.” An example is when someone uses only partial information they have
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Assumptions and Fallacies Write a 150- to 200-word response to each of the following questions: • What are assumptions? How do you think assumptions might interfere with critical thinking? What might you do to avoid making assumptions in your thinking? • What are fallacies? How are fallacies used in written‚ oral‚ and visual arguments? What might you do to avoid fallacies in your thinking? 1. According to The Random House Dictionary‚ assumptions is the act of taking for granted or supposing
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Presidential versus parliamentary systems ILONA MÁRIA SZILÁGYI Miklós Zrínyi National Defence University‚ Budapest‚ Hungary This article is a comparison of presidential and parliamentary systems. They are the two most popular types of democratic governments. They have common and dissimilar features. In both presidential and parliamentary systems the chief executive can be removed from office by the legislature but the way of it is different. Dissimilar feature is the election of the chief
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What is debate?? Debate is a method of interactive and representational argument. The goal of a debate is basically to solve a certain issue or problem Structure Speaker Roles Prime Minister (First Affirmative) • Define the motion • Provide clarity and precision on exactly what the subject of the debate is Set-up your case – elaborate what your side wants (stance) and how you want to go about it Provide an outline of the team’s case Present and develop your arguments Summarize Speaker
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Charles Foster Kane campaigning for Governor‚ there were many examples of bias‚ fallacies‚ and rhetorical devices. An example of political bias in his speech was when Kane said that “every straw vote‚ every independent poll shows that I’ll be elected”. This shows political bias because it is an opinion of Charles Foster Kane and there is not any supporting evidence to prove that what Kane says is the truth. Examples of fallacies present in this speech would be in the beginning of his speech where Kane
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2012 Presidential Candidate Editorial The upcoming election is not only the most important time of the year in politics‚ but it could also be considered as one of the most important and vital elections our generation has seen. Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama both have very different and confrontational views in general‚ but more specifically in subject fields such as the economy‚ healthcare‚ and the taxes & budget systems. Although I am unfortunately not eligible to vote‚ I am
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