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    Ciara Ramirez COMM1000 11/11/13 Argument Analysis Have you ever looked at your pet dog‚ cat‚ hamster‚ or monkey and pondered the thought of it being used as a lab animal? According to AWA reports approximately 1‚136‚567 animals are used per year for lab testing. And this “testing” is not pretty. Animal cruelty is one of the most controversial subjects when it comes to differentiating views. Nevertheless‚ when illogical points are made‚ such as those in the argument discussed a counter argument

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    person-argument directed at the person rather the argument Ex.) Congress should raise the minimum wage so that workers aren’t exploited. Reply-Nonsense‚ you only say that because you can’t find a good job. - Generalization - An informal fallacy; reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence and making a hasty conclusion. Ex.) I once knew a guy who killed his dog because he thought he could gain special powers this way. The same guy also watched a lot of fantasy cartoons

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    The theme of chapter five of Freakonomics is involving parenting and whether parents really do affect their children as much as it is believed; whether the parents really matter. Levitt and Dubner discuss the roles of parents in the lives of their children‚ including the choices they make to protect them. They provide situations to show how the conventional wisdom of parenting is constantly changing‚ certain beliefs going in and out of style and ideas contradicting one another arising. Parents do

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    Logical fallacy

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    uses drama to portray the real events of witchcraft. He attempts to show how easily very religios people can be fooled by one another. Logical fallacies are a rhetorical device in which he uses in order to have the effect of showing how believable the characters can be. A fallacy that is used throughout the Crucible would be Either or Choice. A fallacy where one is made to think they have just one choice. An example of Either or Choice would be in Act 1 where Reverend Parris tells Tituba “You will

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    can relate to it because I once did the same with some friends when I was younger. When I think about it‚ it was not right what I was doing just as Mr. Suzuki says. Even if this anecdote is helping Suzuki to achieve his purpose‚ it is an informal fallacy known as appeal to pity because there is no evidence; it is only appealing our emotion. Another anecdote which is another appeal to pity is when Mr. Suzuki talks about the fish for which people think do not feel any pain. Even if he describes so well

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    There are two articles about different stances on arguing. One writer‚ Tannen‚ writes in her article that arguing is getting out of hand in the media. Everywhere we look arguments have to be taken to the extreme to excite the audience and ultimately leads to humans being disconnected from one another. The other article‚ written by Heinrichs‚ writes about how he teaches his kids to argue and argue correctly. He uses these methods to increase harmony within the family. Although both articles are very

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    Academic Resource Center Wheeling Jesuit University Ground Floor Ignatius Hall x4473 www.wju.edu/arc/ How Do I Write a Position/Argument Essay? Having a strong thesis has been important all along in your writing. Having a coherent form to individual sentences‚ paragraphs‚ and the essay as a whole has been important all along in your writing. Yet here is where everything comes together‚ where the various compositional forms (cause/effect‚ classification/division‚ comparison/contrast‚ example/illustration

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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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    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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