Jannel Amaya 5131336 Dr. Shelly Wick Writing and Rhetoric II December 4‚ 2014 Immortality: The Key to Survival or Extinction? Many movies‚ TV shows‚ and books implement a great desire to live forever. Whether it’s to live for eternity with a loved one‚ travel the world for new experiences‚ create cures for impossible diseases‚ or to see multiple generations from one family. Throughout the years many people have already shown the sign that they are living longer. From previous generations humans lived
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Writing Assignment Number 2: The Ontological Argument Through the ontological argument‚ Anselm seeks to prove that God exists and he attempts to refute the fool who says in his heart that there is no God. This fool has two important characteristics: he understands the claim that God exists and he does not believe that God exists. Gaunilo plays the role of the “fool” and challenges Anselm’s ontological argument. I will argue that Anselm’s response to Gaunilo’s attack is not adequate
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DIVISIBILITY ARGUMENT This paper will discuss the dualism’s Divisibility Argument. This argument relies on Leibniz’s Law and uses a different property to prove the distinctness of brain states of mental states. Mary‚ who is a materialist‚ presents several objections to that argument. Her main objection corresponds to the first/third-person approach. She believes that Dave presents that argument only from the first-person approach‚ which is introspection‚ and totally disregards the third-person
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providing vital grounds on how it can ultimately be attained and by adopting the two different senses of knowing‚ the strong and weak sense. He then fortifies his argument by proving the incoherence of a doubter. This essay will look on his arguments against radical scepticism and finally to what extent it is successful. In his argument‚ he emphasises on the three main requirements for knowing‚ one is that the thing has to be true‚ secondly‚ one has to believe in that thing and lastly it requires
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Writing an Argument Assignment MGT/521 Writing an Argument The first essential thought to an argument is to understand the basis of that argument. Each speaker would want to determine the purpose and align their thoughts and sources for credibility and validity. Communication skills are important as well as determining the proper channels when presenting an argument. Four steps demonstrate how to present an argument fairly for both parties. The argument topic is on the use of Wikipedia. The
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about the views of animal rights activists. Regan has written several essays on animal rights and is recognized as a key intellectual leader of the animal rights movement and has also written several books on the subject which makes him very credible in his writings. Regan’s argument is one of change‚ he’s trying to get us to change our views and persuade us that not all animal right activists are extremists. He starts his essay by telling us that “the world will have to change once we learn to treat
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Arguments of Dualism Dualism is the theory that mind and matter are two distinct things. The main argument for dualism is that facts about the objective external world of particles and fields of force‚ as revealed by modern physical science‚ are not facts about how things appear from any particular point of view‚ whereas facts about subjective experience are precisely about how things are from the point of view of individual conscious subjects. They have to be described in the first person as
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The author states that there are arguments provide strong suport for the truth of Peary’s claim of reaching the North Pole and provides three reasons. However‚ the professor states that there is no solid evidence and the arguments are not convincing and he opposes each of the author’s reasons. First‚ the reading claims that The committe concluded that Peary’s accounts were consistent and persuasive. In contrast‚ the professor refutes this pint by saying that it’s true that the committe declaired
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unhealthy is diabetes. “The epidemics of obesity and Type II‚ or late-onset diabetes‚ are rising in parallel‚ driven by modern lifestyles” (Laurance‚ 2005). Laurance makes clear that diabetes is rising because people are choosing to live unhealthy. His word choice clearly emphasizes the seriousness of this issue. A health risk that is tragic but unavoidable is death. “Over 300‚000 deaths per year are caused by poor nutrition and a lack of physical activity” (Van‚ 2008). These deaths can be easily avoided
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Orwell’s central argument is that “ modern English‚ especially written English‚ is full of bad habits” and these bad habits “can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble” (Orwell 2). Orwell argues that“the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes” but‚ “the process is reversible” (2). He also states that “language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes” (1). Language is constantly changing as political times
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