PCR0025 CRITICAL THINKING 26 SEPTEMBER 2012 SECTION A: MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS [80 MARKS] 1. Susan is about to make a business deal with a Japanese organization‚ and she thinks that the business deal will be successful because all Japanese are hardworking. Which critical thinking hindrance does this issue exhibit? A. Stereotype B. Egocentrism C. Herd instinct D. Wishful thinking 2. In a 1989 international study of 13-year-olds‚ Koreans finished first in Mathematics and Americans finished
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Traditional Marriage or Non-Traditional Marriage‚ That is the Question Teresa Brasaemle PHI 103 Instructor Bence May 18‚ 2014 The argument that will be assessed is “In Defense of Traditional Marriage”‚ Anderson presents the question: “Should the government recognize same-sex relationships as legal marriages?” (Anderson‚ R.T.‚ 2013). However‚ the author does offer numerous premises in relation to the argument that do help in the support of the conclusion that the marriage laws should remain
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Sex Education: a review The phrase ‘social problems’ nowadays can be described in many different meanings‚ from various aspects. It may include a crime as small as stealing candies to murder. Another case of a social problem being frequently discussed in our country is the immoral or improper sexual behaviours‚ especially among youngsters. I have chosen two articles pertaining to this issue. For the first article‚ it is written by Loh Ling Ming‚ a writer from News Straits Time (2005)
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bonds needed to overcome the psychological dependence on the drug. Social perception of an addict is one that is homeless‚ unemployed‚ and an otherwise non-contributor to society which is a fallacy; upper-class and otherwise hard-working individuals suffer the same consequences of heroin use. It is a slippery slope that can result in the same fate as those of a lower socioeconomic
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growers will ask for the same thing. Then it will be the cotton growers‚ citrus growers‚ truck farmers‚ and cattle raisers. In the end‚ the cost will be astronomical.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Authority | Correct Answer: Slippery slope | | | | | Question 3 5 out of 5 points | | No one has ever proved that the human fetus is not a person with rights. Therefore‚ abortion is morally wrong. | | | Selected Answer: | Ignorance | Correct Answer: | Ignorance
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Clinton’s presidency. As “President’s Address to the Nation” is a speech asking everybody to support the troops to keep fighting in Iraq‚ I‚ as an audience‚ am not persuaded at all because of his illogical fallacy in the arguments. In this essay‚ I will analyze how and what are the illogical fallacies he uses in the speech. The “President’s address to the Nation” is a claim of policy. President Bush is asking people to support his policy that “we” have to keep fighting the war “until either we or
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therefore because of this.” For example‚ Jim saw Sisi in the hospital; she must be ill. n) Red herring refers to an attempt to distract the audience from the true issues of an argument. She gave Jim a birthday gift because she loves him. o) Slippery slope means that one event will inevitably lead to a series of events that end in a catastrophe (Goshgarian and Krueger 56). For example‚ if we allow same-sex couples to get married‚ then the next thing we will be allowing people to marry their parents
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perspective (ex. Montag) People of the society Showing how the government portrays books and the lives of people who read books as bad‚ yet their lives are still better than the ones lives by the people in the society. Pathos Gadarene Swine Fallacy & Slippery Slope Fallacy Analytic Paragraph Explaining Meme: This meme shows two major messages throughout how the major use of technology as well as the deprivation of thinking‚ learning‚ books‚ and nature greatly affect a person negatively. The main
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exist‚ explain how you determined this. The author downplays a study in paragraph 3 whit her use of‚ “but” where she discredits a study on negative affects on divorce. 6 Identify and name any fallacies used by the author. If none exist‚ explain how you determined this. The author uses the fallacy‚ “With the appeal to fear” in her statement “but if divorce itself hasn’t reduced America’s youth to emotional cripples‚ then the efforts to restrict it undoubtedly will.” Here‚ she is stating that
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Race 1 Danielle Race Dr. Elisabeth McLaren English 102 7 July 2014 Don’t blame it on the Pa Pa Palcohol Author Tuan C. Nguyen article‚ The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance‚ is about “a new form of powerized alcohol...product [that] has made it farther than any other we can trace.” Nguyen sets up history leading up to and including today happenings with Palcohol. Similar to Nguyen article‚ Future of muchhyped Palcohol is uncertain‚ by Lynn Walsh‚ is about how news broke
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