The film 13th by Ava DuVernay empowers and alerts the audience to the majority of the discrimination against people of color and especially black people that are victims of extreme predigest against them in so many different parts of life. The film does not signal out one or two individuals but singles out dozens of people in power‚ people who we think of as leaders‚ and huge organization that make laws for our country. DuVernays claims that we have not moved past the days of slavery and Jim Crow
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LORENZO BROWN EN1420 exercise 3.1 Identify the Logical Fallacies 1. Mabel is not qualified to lead the school board because she used to drink liquor in her 20s. A. Ad Hominem; This is under Ad Hominem because the arguer is supporting her claim by pulling information from the her personal life instead of using the knowledge they know about the subject being a leader. 2. A child can be either an athlete or a good student. a. Either-or; this is under the Either-or category because the argument comes
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discriminated group get even? The whole point is to even out the groups‚ also do we reverse the trend and make blacks and women the discriminated against. Her whole argument is essentially‚ when does this end? This leads to the use of the “slippery slope” logical fallacy‚ which does not make this article convincing to people with other beliefs. In the beginning‚ she brings up the “simple justice” argument that is used to justify legislation like Affirmative Action. This argument is we should favor women
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with is why there is common ground. The excerpt has several logical fallacies which is some type of counter statement that weakens an argument (Writer’s np). There are dozens of articles that are published in newspapers‚ advertisements‚ and other sources that have these logical fallacies. It is not easy to know if an argument is fallacious. The argument might be very weak to very strong. The writer makes the first logical fallacy called red herring. A red herring is when during the argument‚ the
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concludes that the uniform policy should be discarded but it is based on the assumption that just because his/her brother’s uniform cost more than regular clothing then every uniform must cost more than regular clothing. She/he commits the logical fallacy of false analogy. My school uniform only cost me around twenty dollars when a t-shirt from a store like forever21 cost me thirty-four dollar. She then claims that if every student was required to pay as much as her/his brother then many students would
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incidents happen is truly heartbreaking‚ but as far as Alexander’s argument goes it is very well put together. His argument is solid because it does have statistics‚ but on the weaker side it does not maintain a reasonable tone and it also has fallacies. First‚ Alexander’s argument offers some great statistics. Alexander tells us the insane amount of money the family is suing Myspace for “The family’s lawyer‚ Adam Loewy said the family is seeking $30 million worth of damages…”(119). At the
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Jennifer Gleason AIU PHIL201-1203A-08 Introduction to Philosophy Sunday‚ June 24‚ 2012 Logical fallacies My whole paper will be over the logical fallacies and the examples I had made for each one. Now this all have to do with some kind of philosophy terms and what they truly mean but in my own words and examples. 1. Mere Assertion- Mere Assertion is when someone doesn’t want to give up an argument even known they can’t prove their right with no evidence. * Example: My daughter
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logical fallacy- logic of your topic deductive-general to specific inductive- specific to general syllogism- structure for reasoning fallacies- error in reasoning adhominem fallacy- statement that attempts to counter an arguement slippery slope fallacy- statement that attacks an arguement by taking it to such un extreme taht if appears ludicrous either/or fallacy- two alternatives and falsely suggest that one is rejected‚ the other must be accepted false cause fallacy-asserting that if an event
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LOGIC (2S 1415) FINAL PROJECT Rodelas‚ Allyssa Jane D. #29 Song Fallacy Explanation Mahal ko o mahal ako by KZ Tandingan “nalilito litong litong lito sino ang iibigin ko ikaw ba na pangarap ko o siya bang kumakatok sa puso ko oh anong paiiralin ko isip ba o ang puso ko nalilitong litong litong lito sinong pipiliin ko mahal ko o mahal ako” False Dilemma (False Dichotomy) When the arguer sets up the situation so it looks like there are only two choices. In this song‚ the singer
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