claim that is either true or false and needs to be verified through experience‚ experiments‚ correlations‚ and theoretical explanations). However‚ the authors never provided any type of verification for their empirical claims that they have made. For example‚ the claim ‘Rap glorifies crass materialism by any means’ is an empirical claim. This claim may seem to be acceptable but without any proof through evidence‚ one may have a hard time accepting it due to the fact that there are raps
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Fallacies are defects that have the power to weaken an argument. Fallacious arguments are much more common than we may think‚ and they tend be persuasive to the casual listener or reader. Politicians‚ celebrities‚ and advertisement commercials constantly make use of them. As an example of a fallacy‚ I’m going to use the Hollywood celebrity Alec Baldwin in the commercial for Hulu. Alec Baldwin is known for his success in the movie industry. His career began on television in an NBC soap opera called
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1. Romanticism can be described as a cult of the autonomous isolated self. Explain how Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther exemplifies this mystique of inward personality. What role does childhood/childishness play in Werther’s love? What is it the love of? What ideal does it flee? What ideal does it embrace? Why does it logically end in suicide? Goethe’s character Werther is the inward personality because he lives not in the world of the real‚ but in his own mind. He has not entered the real sphere
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devices. The history of the modern computer begins with two separate technologies—automated calculation and programmability—but no single device can be identified as the earliest computer‚ partly because of the inconsistent application of that term. Examples of early mechanical calculating devices include the abacus‚ the slide rule and arguably the astrolabe and the Antikythera mechanism‚ an ancient astronomical computer built by the Greeks around 80 BC.[4]The Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria (c
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contradicts them. An example of this is my friend’s uncle. My friend’s uncle has been a smoker for the past twenty years and believes that cigarettes are harmless. Despite numerous studies and reports warning against the dangers of smoking‚ my friend’s uncle still refuses to believe that smoking is harmful. This is an example of belief perseverance because he stuck to his initial belief that smoking is harmless even when evidence contradicts it. 2. The emotional reasoning fallacy‚ covered in Chapter
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to readers because she admitted to being terrified to fight in the game. 3. Voldemort from the Harry Potter series is a perfect example of an antagonist. Voldemort is pure evil‚ having killed Harry’s parents and attempting to kill Harry as well. Voldemort was so feared that witches and wizards would not even dare say his name. 4. Scar‚ from‚ The Lion King‚ is an example
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While statistics help consumers to stay informed with the current world‚ it can also be used improperly due to poorly collected data‚ leading questions‚ and fallacy. Poorly collected data can lead to misleading results (Dressler‚ 2010). Results can be inconclusive if the data collected does not represent the population of interest. An example of a bad data collection can be putting a survey form in a magazine that is mostly read by liberals. As a result‚ it will obtain
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SCWAMP- Straight‚ Christian‚ White‚ Able-bodied‚ Male‚ Property-Owning. I remember once back when Miller Lite had these series of “Man Law” commercials‚ but at the time I did not notice that they where performing a SCWAMP analysis. “The Men of the Square Table”‚ consisted of Jerome Bettis (retired running back for the Pittsburg Steelers)‚ Eddie Griffin (comedian and actor)‚ Ty Murray (rodeo cowboy)‚ Triple H (wrestler)‚ Burt Reynolds (actor)‚ and others. All these men were straight‚ and were not
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the tendency to notice and search for information that confirms one’s beliefs and to ignore information that dis-confirms one’s beliefs.” (Baumeister) Like many biases can be beneficial as well as detrimental to ones future. The textbook uses an example of someone who is told by a phychic that he will become a famous astrologer. He most likely had an interest in this topic‚ and quite possibly could have been his dream job. He chose to follow this path‚ most likely because he wanted to in the first
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A cognitive bias is described as the subconscious hindrances found in our own ways of thinking. An example of a cognitive bias is the "planning fallacy". Planning fallacy is when we are overly optimistic in the amount of time required to complete a task. I feel as if I run into this problem a lot in my own way of thinking. I am the type of person who likes to have a plan and to be organized‚ but in certain cases the time required for the completion of task longer than I anticipate. This underestimation
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