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    Luddite Fallacy

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    luddite fallacy is a common‚ flawed belief‚ the job-market’s ability to adapt‚ and its stimulating effect on the economy. Some work to live‚ while others live to work. Throughout the course of history‚ it is seen that humans have developed tools to aid them in working less. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution‚ textile-workers feared their jobs would be replaced by textile machines. There

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    Violent Video Games

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    Hadley Anthony Rodas__reviewed _Vera Barefield’s paper Date: 12/5 Please respond in detailed‚ complete sentences‚ and always explain your answer. IN GENERAL What did you like best about this paper? Why? I really liked the writing style of this paper. In particular‚ I appreciated the directness of the statements‚ claim and thesis. Stating them so plainly makes it easy for the reader to understand the viewpoint‚ and therefore the evidence that author will use to back their claims. There

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    Love Is a Fallacy

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    about the fallacies of logic so that Polly would be the perfect fit for the main character’s standards for a wife. It took him a night to make a perfect girl. And after that intellectual date‚ he decided to make their next dates romantic. After five nights‚ he finally had the courage to tell Polly his feelings that he loved him but he was shocked to the way Polly replied to his words‚ that is‚ in a way that she make use of the fallacies. He told her that he doesn’t have to apply the fallacies all the

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    Gambler's Fallacies

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    Dubner‚ most people predict tails next‚ because they believe that too many heads has come up and that the coin must fall on the tails side‚ even though there is still a 50% percent chance the coin lands on heads. This is the basis of the gambler’s fallacy‚ which is when people make a bad decision because of the sequence of what has happens‚ and it happens everywhere from baseball games to immigration courts. For example‚ people often lose thousands of dollars in casinos everyday simply because they

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    Logical Fallacy

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    Video games have become an integrated part of society both in the older and younger generations. As more and more complex games are made and introduced into the community‚ increased amounts of violence are put into these games to draw in more consumers. Many studies have reported that because of the violence in these games‚ younger children and teens have become more violent not only toward family‚ but also toward government and public property. If this continues on the track that has been established

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    Analysis Of Franklin Foer

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    Franklin Foer is a highly acclaimed American journalist‚ well-known for his eccentric and individualistic writings. His devotion to the World of Soccer has prompted him to write a perspicacious and thrilling book on the sport. The extract is from the book “How soccer explains the world: An unlikely theory of Globalization” which was published on June 29th 2004. The book presents a unique and brilliantly illuminating look at soccer‚ the world’s most popular sport‚ as a lens through which to view the

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    In “Is Facebook Making You Mean?” an article by Lauren Tarshis‚ the author questions whether the negative characteristics of Facebook on children actually outweighs the positive aspects of social media. The author writes using different styles to both emphasize the important information and also to hold the interest of the intended audience. She begins by telling the story of a young girl named Anna who didn’t think through the words that she commented on another girl’s Facebook post and though not

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    Naturalistic Fallacy

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    unscientific. According to Sober (209)‚ naturalistic fallacy refers to the false idea that people develop when dealing with ought and is premises while trying to understand particular phenomena. Moore G.E‚ the first philosopher who invented the concept of natural philosophy by developing and sharing a false idea positing that naturally existing behaviors are right thus should be accepted by human beings. As illustrated by Greene (847) natural fallacy‚ according to Moore is an anecdotal gaffe of identifying

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    Logical Fallacies

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    the issues[sex-ed.] at hand “removes family involvement with the children‚ put kids in an uncomfortable position‚ stripped any sense of morality‚ promote promiscuity‚ and encourages experimentation.” In the passage‚ I have identified the logical fallacies that the author utilized in their argument: personal attack(ad hominem)‚ slippery slope‚ perfect argument‚ false dilemma‚ and wishful thinking. This argument seems to direct its argument toward a general surgeon about his recommendation about educating

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    Love Is a Fallacy

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    Book report ___Love is a Fallacy Love is a Fallacy is a funny story. The narrator of it is Dobie Gillis. He was a self-conceited freshman in a law school---University of Minnesota. And Petey Burch was Dobie’s stupid roommate‚ having a girl-friend named Polly Espy. While Dobie wanted to marry Polly after graduation. So he intended to steal her from Petey. By a chance‚ Dobie could give Petey a raccon coat‚ which was Petey desired to have‚ because he was a faddist. In

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