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    through abuse‚ violence‚ or disasters. Cutting might seem like the only way to find relief. According to the movie shown in class‚ "Can You See My Pain‚" someone who self-injures thinks they need to cut in order for them to live. Cutting is a behavior that starts as an attempt

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    Introduction The purpose of this paper is to find a decision-making model by using various resources. I will focus on identifying the steps in the decision-making model‚ how the model applied to a recent workplace decision and examines how critical thinking affected the decision. Critical Thinking Thinking is the central process of how we transfer our thoughts. Our thought process is transferred either on paper or spoken verbally‚ these methods assist with transferring one ’s thoughts clearly

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    the inter-web. It was during one of these instances that I found myself scrolling through an article relating to a phenomenon‚ or rather a mistaken belief‚ known as the Gambler’s fallacy. And true to my inner geek‚ I continued to read about it in-depth‚ to get to its statistical and psychological roots. The Gambler’s fallacy is the belief that if an event has occurred more than normal during some period‚ it will happen less frequently in the future or that if said event occurs lesser than usual during

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    The Monster You Can’t See It is a feeling of deep sadness that lies within somebody. Some people may know what it feels like to be temporarily sad and have the feeling eventually go away. This is a feeling that stays with a person on an everyday basis. The person usually will hide this pain to the outside world‚ but is struggling with it on the inside. Depression is a feeling of constant sadness. There doesn’t have to be just one thing to trigger it‚ but a bunch of things that happen over time

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    Fallacy in Car Advertisement A woman and a car equal sex? It is very interesting and yet very powerful idea of a man’s desire. This is one of the common advertisements for the car industry. In the magazine or on the television‚ we see advertisements of variety fields of product or services. Many times‚ company uses different types of fallacy to appeal people’s reasoning to make appropriate choice. It can be very distracting to focus on the correct message of the creator’s idea. At the same time

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    University of Phoenix Material Dawn Bratthauer 11/19/2012 Final Exam: Fallacies‚ Assumptions‚ and Arguments Part I: Fallacies THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENTS CONTAIN VARIOUS KINDS OF FALLACIES. EVALUATE EACH AND IDENTIFY THE FALLACY USING THE MATCHING LIST ON PAGE 2. 1. We can recognize that athletes who participate in sports must be given special consideration in our grading system‚ or we can let the university sink into athletic oblivion. H. False dilemma 2. I don’t know what colleges

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    The the article “The Chatbot Will See You Now‚” the author Nick Romeo introduces one of Syrian refuses’ experience of using a psychotherapy chatbot Karim designed by an artificial intelligence startup‚ X2AI. Romeo describes X2AI’s purpose to make Karim. The author mentions that there were difficulties and challenges to introduce this AI chatbot to Syrian refugees. Furthermore‚ it was difficult for X2AI to gain a trust in their products from Syrian refugees. The author also points out in the article

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    informal fallacy of weak induction. It draws a conclusion from events of an exaggerated and improbable chain reaction. The following DIRECTV commercial shows a clear example of a fallacy of slippery slope: “When you wait forever for the cable guy‚ you get bored. When you get bored‚ you start staring out windows. When you start staring out windows‚ you see things you shouldn’t see. When you see things you shouldn’t seeyou need to vanish. When you need to vanish‚ you fake your own death. When you fake

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    Where do you see yourself in 5 years: Probably this is the most challenging question in the near future of my life. But in my opinion finishing University with a degree as good as possible will be the best start you can have. Also I think it is very important to have the best basis you can reach for your future life and what would be better than an outstanding result at University. Furthermore I would probably try to finish graduate classes. Right after this big step there will be several ways

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    Laken Sutton March 20‚ 2013 English 102 Gompf Revised Paper Women vs. “Love is a Fallacy” “Love is a Fallacy” is often viewed as an anti-women story. To many this piece exploits females by insulting women using stereotypes that have been around for a long time. The female sex‚ as a whole‚ has been fighting to overcome these degrading assumptions. This story uses a girl named Polly to display all women. She depicts them as ignorant and gullible individuals. During the Story‚ Polly is treated

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