...In spite of the fact that, the issues presented in the articles were different. The author of these two articles, implement a variety of rhetorical strategies within their arguments. However, only a few has the utmost effect on its audience. Furthermore, it can merely be the use of understatements were significant. The use of understatements and hyperboles, conveyed the main argument that the these writers were meant to elicit. The articles “Lost Veneration” and “Making the World Safe for Stupidity”, uses the rhetorical strategy of understatement. In the text, the author writes “Americans now spend so much time doting on scientist, spoiling soldiers and kissing the pamper fannies of the middle class….” ( The Lost Veneration). This...
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...racists’ opinions about the Indians. He feels confused, because he is in love with the Indian girl, Prudence Mitchell. As Nick gets home his father tells Nick, that he has seen Prudence and Frank Washburn together. When Nick hears that, it breaks his heart. 2) Question 3. The story takes place in the mid-vest part of America, it’s warm and sandy. The story takes place in a village, and the date is the fourth July. The point of view is over the hills, in Petoskey. The time is at evening/night. Question 6. The story is a highly charged, unfriendly, hopeful, hostile and loving story. 3) Question 7. The themes in the story are: growing up, illegitimate love, racial love and generation gap. Question 10. In the start of the story, we hear about 9 drunken Indians. The tenth Indian is Prudence Mitchell, she is very important to the story. She has a name and a last name; the other Indians are pointless to the story. Prudence is different; she is not like the other Indians. 4) In Ernest Hemingways short story the attitude is objective, Hemingways opinion about Indians did not express in short story. In the song “ten little Indians” the attitude about the Indians is very bad. I think the song describes how stupid Indians are in their opinion. The song tries to express that the Indian race is...
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...Instructions | This quiz consist of 20 multiple choice questions and covers the material in the second half of Chapter 9. Be sure you are in Chapter 9 when you take the quiz. | * Question 1 5 out of 5 points | | | Of course animals have rights. Just look at how powerless they are in comparison with modern humans.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Circular reasoning | | | | | * Question 2 5 out of 5 points | | | The Book of Mormon is true because it was written by Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith wrote the truth because he was divinely inspired. We know that Joseph Smith was divinely inspired because the Book of Mormon says that he was, and the Book of Mormon is true.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Circular reasoning | | | | | * Question 3 5 out of 5 points | | | Rhubarb pie is a dessert. Therefore, whoever eats rhubarb pie eats a dessert.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | No fallacy | | | | | * Question 4 5 out of 5 points | | | Televangelist Jerry Falwell said that God's anger with feminism led to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Given Falwell's closeness to God, we have no alternative than to blame the feminists for this atrocity.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | Authority | | | | | * Question 5 5 out of 5 points | | | Either we have prayer in our public schools or the moral fabric of society will disintegrate. The choice should be obvious.Answer...
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...our intellect. In Source 1, the author claims that we are dumb because a common high school senior does not know the answers to a handful of random questions. Although past “geniuses” are skilled in memorizing facts, this current form of smart is more skilled in solving problems and learning concepts in order to solve the questions in which they do not have the factual knowledge on. Now are we really the “dumber generation” even if we developed a new way of learning that results in a larger grasp of concepts? Even though there are people who still think that we are intellectually inferior to adults, others argue that we are not indeed. The indication of their reasoning being that we are being judged without receiving a chance to prove that we are smarter than we appear. These tests and comparisons are performed on high school students or young adults in college. A person’s mind does not even finish developing until the age of 26. Of course the results come up as us being stupid because our minds are being compared when they are not even considered to be “full minds” yet. This generation may be “dumb” or “stupid” now but in 10 maybe 15 years when we are the ones who have developed the latest and greatest technology or set a record of scientific breakthroughs, maybe we will come back to take these test or try and answer the questions again and show that the dumbest generation was not the kids, but it will lie in the people who tried to dumb them down in the first place....
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...Alin Beane Steve Young English I 06 March 2017 Fate Versus Decisions Do you feel fate controls you? In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, two children of rival families fall in love and commit suicide due to their corrupt lives. The question is how was the play controlled? One argument is that fate controls the play, while another is that the characters’ stupid decisions did so. While there is an argument that the decisions control the play, it is more conceivable that you cannot control your fate and fate is the responsible party in the play’s control. It is conceivable that our retarded decisions control our lives, for in Act 3, Scene 1, Tybalt’s decision to duel with Mercutio led to Romeo slaying him. There is merit in the belief...
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...Melbrooksjew 10/28/2014 Argumentative Essay “Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking- perhaps even a new sense of self”(Carr, P.g 2). The article “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the internet is doing to our brains”, is an interesting article written by critically acclaimed author Nicholas Carr. Nicholas Carr speaks upon how the internet is losing one's ability to concentrate on large physical texts or regular literature, and trading this ability for quick, to the point, internet articles and information. But this trade off is considering as without the ability to concentrate on literature, ones ability to critically analyze and have deep, thought provoking thoughts on what the person has read is suffered immensely. The main thesis that Nicholas Carr demonstrates throughout the article is “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy in a Jet Ski.” ( Carr. P.g 1). Nicholas Carr’s thesis explains that before we were all introduced and influenced by the internet, we were able to understand the physical text in front of us. We were able to have deep, critical thoughts that almost felt like an adventure. But now, do to the Internets speed and wealth of information, we don’t...
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...Sustainability, School of Geosciences, The University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK. Email: r.a.howell@sms.ed.ac.uk Investigating the LongTerm Impacts of Climate Change Communications on Individuals’ Attitudes and Behavior Rachel A. Howell1 Abstract To assess the effectiveness of climate change communications, it is important to examine their long-term impacts on individuals’ attitudes and behavior. This article offers an example study and a discussion of the challenges of conducting long-term investigations of behavioral change related to climate change communications (a vital and underresearched area). The research reported is a longitudinal panel study of the impacts on UK viewers of the climate change movie The Age of Stupid. The heightened levels of concern, motivation to act, and sense of agency about action that were initially generated by the movie did not measurably persist over the long term. The results also show that behavioral intentions do not necessarily translate into action. Data analysis raised issues concerning the reliability of participants’ causal attributions of their behavior. This and other methodological challenges are discussed, and some ways of avoiding or lessening problems are suggested. Keywords climate change communications, proenvironmental behavior, behavioral change, behavioral intentions, public attitudes Article Downloaded from eab.sagepub.com by guest on October 6,...
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...BOSTON FIGHTS DRUGS –PART A Group 10: Aishwary Kumar (B15066) Aman Preet (B15069) Sailendra U (B15104) Saaransh Rai (B15106) Satyam Sidharth (B15107) Sudarshan P (B15117) DRUG USE MODEL Classification into Non Users, Experimental, Regular and Drug Dependent users of which first 3 are our target segment Provides structure for data analysis Can be used to highlight the ethnic, geographical and socioeconomic distribution of individuals Screening questionnaire an important tool to identify the number of participants to be chosen for each group for FGD FGDs could act as brainstorming sessions which may provide insight to the moderators Time Taken/participation is lower Interactions may be recorded for future reference by psychologists Since, the participants are children, they will be more comfortable to discuss about it in peer groups rather than being confronted 1-on-1 SELECTION OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Recording can be done, for future use Flow/ Direction of the discussion can be controlled Face to Face interaction Information can be known from body language, expressions etc. Questions can be explained to people who find it difficult to interpret FGD Not as lengthy as One to One interview Storytelling was Crucial, and it should depict realistic, local characters Teenagers should scoffed at antidrug ads which were exaggerated or involved local celebrity “Take me out of the ball game...
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...has devised this short quiz for you to test your knowledge... 1 In Spain, the main purpose of a business meeting would usually be to: a) make decisions by discussing in length the pro's and con's of an option b) reach agreements by consensus between everyone concerned c) brief their team about something already decided by specific decision makers 2 You are asking a question of your junior Japanese colleague and he/she looks down and answers you after a few seconds. You think the chances are that he/she: a) has something to hide and is looking for an answer that would boost him/her in your eyes b) is paying respect to your position and your question c) hasn't got a clue what the answer is and feels ashamed Click here to watch sample workshop videos. 3 In Italy, the majority of people think that a good manager should: a) have at hand precise answers to most questions his/her subordinates may raise about their work b)be able to direct his/her subordinates to those who may have the right answers to most of the questions they may raise c) be critical of his/her subordinates for asking him/her questions as he/she considers that, if they are in the right position, they should know the answers themselves 4 In Germany, performance review is usually perceived: a) very well, as a way to give a chance to everyone to develop their own competences b) very badly, as it may be seen as a way to challenge their skills and knowledge c)...
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...Chapter 2: Waging War [Ts`ao Kung has the note: "He who wishes to fight must first count the cost," which prepares us for the discovery that the subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title, but is primarily a consideration of ways and means.] 1. Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, [The "swift chariots" were lightly built and, according to Chang Yu, used for the attack; the "heavy chariots" were heavier, and designed for purposes of defense. Li Ch`uan, it is true, says that the latter were light, but this seems hardly probable. It is interesting to note the analogies between early Chinese warfare and that of the Homeric Greeks. In each case, the war- chariot was the important factor, forming as it did the nucleus round which was grouped a certain number of foot-soldiers. With regard to the numbers given here, we are informed that each swift chariot was accompanied by 75 footmen, and each heavy chariot by 25 footmen, so that the whole army would be divided up into a thousand battalions, each consisting of two chariots and a hundred men.] with provisions enough to carry them a thousand LI, [2.78 modern LI go to a mile. The length may have varied slightly since Sun Tzu's time.] the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and sums spent on chariots and armor...
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...“Brain Change” In “ Mind over Mass Media” by Steven Pinker he writes how technology is not making us stupid, but is actually making us smarter: “ The Internet and information technologies are helping is manage, search and retrieve our collective intellectual output at different scales, from Twitter and previews to e- books and online encyclopedias. Far from making us stupid these technologies are the only thing keeping us smart.”(Pinker). The constant updates that these devices are giving us are yes, more convenient but not making us stupid. Pinker believes that the technology is very much distracting, but not if the users have some self control. Pinker said “ Distraction is not a new phenomenon. The solution is not to bemoan technology but to develop strategies of self-control, as we do with every other temptation in life. Turn off email or Twitter when you work, put away your Blackberry at dinner time, ask your spouse to call you to bed at a designated hour.” He argues that although these devices can distract us and interfere sometimes, they can easily be shut off to allow full focus. It is the users of these devices who are at fault, not technologies. In the essay, Pinker is very much disagreeing with Carr. While Carr takes the other side and argues that technology is altering the way we think in a negative way causing us to skim through things and expect the obvious answers, Pinker believes that using technologies like PowerPoint and search engines are causing us to be...
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...verb tense. 8. My point in my narrative are evident. 9. I ended my story satisfactorily. 10. I have proofread several times thoroughly. Earning My Degree I have always wanted the best for myself and family, so one day I decided to work towards my future. I have always been the type to work hard at what I do. I try my best to get what I want. I thought of my accomplishments and I figured I was missing something. I had a job, but I knew it was going to be a dead end one. I was already a high school graduate, so I thought why not go back to college and further my education. I was on the road to success, after that idea. Choosing my program was not hard for me. I have a long line of family members that are in the health field. So why not I thought, I would be following in the footsteps of my elders so they can feel that they have set an example for me. I decided on becoming a Medical Assistant. This way I could still set my goal in pursuing me education and apply for better jobs upon graduating. I have always loved to help people. Communicating and meeting new people are my strong points. I was comfortable with this the whole way thru college. Since, it had been a while since I been back to school. When I started my Medical Assisting courses I was a little reluctant. How would the instructor be like? Would anyone make fun of me if I asked a stupid question? Or would I make any friends? These...
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...world, most Americans use the internet daily for daily needs. It has become very common to go online because it makes research and socializing easier. The internet is a great place for social networking and meeting or communicating with people across the world. Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, claims that using the internet can make people less intelligent. After spending a number of days researching on the topic of internet use, I have came to agree with Carr. I not only agree with him, that using the internet does make internet users less intelligent, I also believe that using the internet too often can make a person addicted to the internet. Once a person is addicted to the internet, they not only become less intelligent, like Carr believes, but they also develop mental and psychological problems. People should be more aware of internet addiction. The signs and symptoms should not be avoided when someone sees themself in the addiction situation. Once they become addicted, it is like a real drug, it will pull them in slowly and be hard to get away from. DSM IV and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) define addiction in terms of substance dependence or pathological gambling. To define internet addiction, it would be someone that meets at least three of the following criteria: tolerance, salience, withdrawal symptoms, difficulty controlling use, continued use despite negative consequences, neglecting other activities...
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...Study Habits & Test Anxiety The following information provides tips for better study habits and decreased test anxiety. The Immediate Environment The environment in which you study can have a big effect on how efficient your study time is. Check your place of study for the following conditions: * Noise * Interruptions * Lighting * Temperature * Neatness * Comfort * Equipment Minimize distracting noise. Some people need some sound and some like silence. Find what works for you. Culprits are family and friends. Consider a "do not disturb sign" and turning on your answering machine. You can catch up with folks later. 75 watt bulbs are best, but not too close and placed opposite the dominant hand. Better cool than warm. Have plenty of room to work; don't be cramped. Your study time will go better if you take a few minutes at the start to straighten things up. A desk and straight-backed chair is usually best. Don't get too comfortable--a bed is a place to sleep, not study. Have everything (book, pencils, paper, coffee, dictionary, laptop, calculator, tape recorder, etc.) close at hand. Don't spend your time jumping up and down to get things. Preparing for or Anticipating Test Anxiety * What is it you have to do? Focus on dealing with it. * Just take one step at a time. * Think about what you can do about it. That's better than getting anxious. * No negative or panicky self-statements; just think rationally. * Don't worry; worrying...
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...Question One: What is the background to the Neo-Nazi Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting in 2012? Brian Murphy described the day to be a “beautiful Sunday morning, the kind that you hope for”.1 Sikh Temple members including women and children, were reading scriptures and preparing food for the communal lunch called a langar which is offered to the community regardless of their religious beliefs.2 Many Sikhs in the United States worship on Sundays at a Gurdwara, temple. Singing and meditation in a prayer room is part of a typical Sikh service. According to the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the United States is home to an estimated 700,000 Sikhs, majority of which have an Indian origin. Sikhism is the fifth largest organised...
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