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    to fruits while watching television. So‚ in her writing she had list five reasons why she thinks that junk food is addictive. After reading this article‚ I found that this article is not well written based on several reasons such as fallacies. One of the fallacies that can be detected in this article is that this article is merely an opinion of the author. This is because the position of the author is unknown. She gave her opinion about junk food based on her experiences. For example‚ in the first

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    Douglass despised Christianity in America because it was appalling to see the interpretations most slave owners gathered from the bible. Douglass makes mention of how Christianity controlled everything in America. The words of the bible were law‚ judgment‚ mercy‚ and faith. “Woe unto you‚ scribes and Pharisees‚ hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint‚ and anise‚ and cumin‚ and have omitted the weightier matters of the law‚ judgment

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    What is New Media? Vin Crosbie‚ 1998 (revised to include world usage figures and Napster example‚ 2002 Only its simplicity makes its difficult to understand. To work successfully in New Mediayou must understand what the New Media are. There is a saying about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity — that what makes it difficult for some people to comprehend is its simplicity. That you don’t need to acquire more information to understand it‚ but that you must instead discard preconceived notions

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    How Social Media Affects Our Lives? Professor Donald Gutstein TA Anis Rahman Xinyi Zhang 301187237 Introduction With the rapid development of technology and fast pace of life‚ people are surrounded by all kinds of information everyday‚ it is an era of information explosion varietal forms of communication have appeared to people’s daily lives (21. Kadiri). Information Explosion could simply be defined as the rapid increase in the amount of published

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    Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays Amir Khan Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a doctoral degree in English Literature Department of English Faculty of Arts University of Ottawa © Amir Khan‚ Ottawa‚ Canada 2013 Library and Archives Canada Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Published Heritage Branch Direction du Patrimoine de l ’édition

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    Red Herring fallacy is a fallacy‚ which someone presents a new issue‚ or argument that disturbs from the original topic. So they try to bring an unrelated subject to interfere the topic that originally was started in the beginning. For example: Daughter: Mom‚ Can I go to a party tonight? Mom: How can I be certain your not going to drink alcohol? Daughter: Ugh mom‚ how can you even consider that when I’ve been doing homework all day! This is an example of red herring because “doing homework all

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    Discuss two or more media texts you would describe as post modern and discuss why you would give them this label Moonrise Kingdom‚ Anderson (2012) is a film which explores a narrative through a combination of high art and kitsch. Anderson tells the story of a scout who flees his camp in order to pursue a love interest with a consistent use of many aesthetic post-modern features‚ such as nostalgia‚ parody‚ eclecticism‚ pastiche and hyperconsciousness in order to give further depth to the initial

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    red herring fallacy to illustrate how people often throw arguments off course by raising an irrelevant issue. During an argument between Putman and Proctor‚ Miller writes‚ “I [Putman] never heard you so worried about society‚ Mr. Proctor. I do not think I saw you at Sabbath meeting since snow flew” (Miller I. 28). Miller shows how Putman effectively derails the conversation‚ preventing the other people from continuing to talk about witchcraft. Miller’s use of the red herring fallacy helps to develop

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    social concern‚ making the public blame the media for any rise in aggressive behaviour in young people. Huesmann and Moise (1996) give five ways that exposure to media violence may lead to aggression. One of these five ways is observational learning and imitation which is linked to the social learning theory that Bandura put forward. Huesmann suggests that children will observe the behaviour of certain role models they may identify with within the media‚ and then recreate this behaviour later on

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    Article Assignment #2 “See Aggression... Do Aggression.” In “See Aggression...Do Aggression” Bandura’s theoretical proposition was that he believed that children can learn to be aggressive. Bandura decided to conduct an experiment to see if he was right. He believed that if you expose a child to either a aggressive model or a nonaggressive model that the children would imitate the actions of the model. His test would show to just what extent the children mimic the behaviors displayed. In the

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