Hasty Generalization “In epidemiological studies of dog bites‚ the pit bull is overrepresented among dogs known to have seriously injured or killed human beings‚ and‚ as a result‚ pit bulls have been banned or restricted in several Western European countries‚ China‚ and numerous cities and municipalities across North America. Pit bulls are dangerous.” Troublemakers. Malcolm Gladwell. 6 Feb. 2006 In this article the author was generalizing pit bulls as dangerous. Even though
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In your article you used a hasty generalization in order to try and convince your readers. You used a hasty generalization when you stated that people who play video games are wimps. I think that the people that would believe these fallacies are older men and women because they lived before the generation of Americans
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Should Drugs Be Legalized In his essay “Drugs”‚ Gore Vidal calls into question the legalization of drugs for three main reasons: not everyone will become addicted to drugs‚ crime will decrease with said legalization‚ and man has the right to make his own decisions‚ and do what he thinks is best for his life. Although Vidal wrote his essay in the 1970s‚ drug legalization is still a highly debated topic of today. Vidal wants his audience to agree with his logic‚ that drugs should be legalized‚ sold
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Tips IF YOU MUST GENERALIZE... Abstractions often show up when you want to make some kind of generalization. If you must make a general statement‚ there are two ways you can help make it more informative: 1. Remove as many abstract nouns as you can. 2. Sharpen its focus with representative examples and concrete illustrations. Look at these "before and after" examples and learn how to replace generalizations with concrete specifics. Mark the abstract nouns in the "General" examples with your
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Juan-Carlos Licona English 102 Professor Black February 8‚ 2015 Insecurity or No? When it comes to sports‚ a competitive mindset is key. In American football‚ it’s hard not to win without communication and teamwork. In the NFL playoffs of 2015‚ the New England Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 for the AFC Championship. In a game that originally portrayed the Patriots as an offensive force to be reckoned with‚ ended out to be a game that goes down in history. After further investigation‚
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“Will Dropouts Save America?” by Michael Ellsberg “Will Dropouts Save America?” written by Michael Ellsberg for the New York Times highlights the ideas that millionaires such as Steve Jobs‚ Bill Gates‚ Mark Zuckerberg amongst many others were all college dropouts and yet managed to not only create notorious companies‚ but also jobs for many Americans. Ellsberg‚ also the author of “Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You think and It’s Not Too Late‚” strongly believes that the those who
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Are all neat people lazy‚ wasteful‚ insensitive‚ and less moral than sloppy people? Are all men more interested in sports while women focus their time on housework and cleaning? The answer to both of these questions is no. These questions bring up generalizations that are dealt with in both of the short essays which are which are as follows: “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt‚ and “Batting Clean-up and Striking Out” by Dave Barry. Suzanne Britt describes the generalized behavior and
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Corporate Responsibility and Society June 13‚ 2013 While commuting home from work‚ you take a detour through a residential area to avoid a congested main artery. Because only a few drivers take the detour‚ it removes several minutes from your commuting time due to the light traffic. Is your action generalizable? I do believe that my actions would be generalizable; therefore it would not pass the generalization test. According to Hooker‚ the meaning of generalization test is that the reason
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The term “hangry” is defined as being in an irritable state due to being hungry (Urban Dictionary). Numerous of individuals tend to relate to this feeling and act out when they haven’t eaten. This is caused by not feeling satisfied‚ therefore people are most likely to be short tempered. This phenomenon is used in many of the company Snickers’ ads to showcase people as “hangry” when they’re in the need of food. Additionally‚ when people are hungry they seem to act like somebody else and not themselves
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The central theme of this reflection‚ is to explain what both straw man and hasty conclusion mean. Straw man is a clever and subtle‚ but quite common‚ way of distorting and then attacking an opponent’s argument. Someone who uses the straw man technique will take his or her opponent’s claims and exaggerate or distort them. He or she would also proceed to pick apart and eventually destroy this newly created‚ false‚ more easily attacked argument. An example of the straw man fallacy would be‚ a speaker
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