...Constructing an Argument Section 1: Big Ideas Many people believe that everything is an argument—every piece of writing, every image you see. That's because every time we write something down—with the possible exception of a private journal entry—we are anticipating that someone else will read or see it, and we hope to achieve some kind of response in that reader or viewer. So even if you are writing a description of your favorite vacation spot, you are probably trying—maybe without even realizing it—to convince your reader that your vacation spot is the most beautiful place in the world. Think about it. When did you read any nonfiction writing that wasn't, finally, trying to persuade you of something in some way? Most rhetoricians—that's people who think about argument and language—agree that there are three basic ways to appeal to an audience. You can appeal to logic. That is, you can lay out your argument in clear, coherent steps, so your reader or listener can see how you get from one conclusion to the next. Or you can appeal to authority. Here you may want to find experts or facts to support your argument—think about Tiger Woods endorsing golf clubs. (Of course, do we also trust Tiger to advise us on buying watches? Not so clear.) Or you can appeal to emotion. Emotional appeals can be extremely powerful, especially when you are able to relate your argument to your readers' values or needs. Most good arguments make use of all three appeals in some way. But...
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...Jonathan Peragine Professor McMillan English 101 June 9, 2015 Emergency Decision-Making Unfortunately, people are confronted with medical emergencies all the time. Such emergencies can be very scary and the people involved must make crucial decisions without much time to deliberate. Because emergencies happen so frequently, I usually already have a detailed plan of how to act when I encounter them. However, I know from personal experience that even if a person has a plan for how to navigate an emergency, his plan will go out the window the minute his emergency becomes a reality. He will have to make the best decisions that he can in hopes of them not coming back to rest on his conscience. In my experience, driving my girlfriend to the emergency room with a suspended driver’s license was not what I would have planned, but ultimately satisfied my conscience. A few years ago, my girlfriend decided that she wanted to play college softball. This meant that I had to spend every weekend going to watch her softball games. One weekend, as my girlfriend was up to bat, she tried to bunt the ball and the ball hit her finger, crushing it between the extreme force of the fast ball and the titanium bat in her hands. Because of the strange thud noise that this created, I knew pretty quickly that something had gone wrong. I became immediately nervous and as she turned to me with a pale and distressed face, my stomach dropped into my shoes. As we made eye contact, I began to hear a slight...
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...Research Hypothesis 7 Method 8 Military Based Video Games 8 Shooting Simulators 10 Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer 10 Long Range Precision Shooting Simulator 10 Driving Simulators 11 Flight Simulators 13 Results 14 References 17 List of Tables Figure 1: Real World Improvement Vs. Simulation Realism Military Training FAQ. (2013). In VirTra. Retrieved March 24, 2013, from http://www.virtra.com/military-faq/ 15 Table 2: Long Rang Precision Shooting Simulator Sherer, K. (2007, October 29). Laser Shot announces Personal Weapon Simulator partnership. In Gamzig. Retrieved March 28, 2013, from http://www.gizmag.com/go/8224/.........................................................................16 ABSTRACT This paper explores a brief history and the current utilization of virtual simulators and video games within the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Focusing on modern times, the US military is continuing to utilize virtual simulators and war based video games to assist in the training of troops before going on the battle front. The US Military presently uses numerous types of simulators for training, the following will include the implementation of ISMIT (indoor simulated marksmanship trainer) and LRPSS (long rang precision shooting simulator) as well as flight and driving simulators. In their own time the troops who play war based video games, like Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and Battlefield on either the X-Box 360 or PlayStation 3 platforms also...
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...A case by the name of “Driving White Black” in Maryland The ACLU opened a class-action lawsuit against the Maryland State Police in 1993 on behalf of Robert L. Wilkins, an African American attorney who was stopped, detained, and searched by the police in Maryland without any apparent justification. Records indicated that African Americans had been unlawfully discriminated against by the MSP. Reginald T. Shuford, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Program, declared that "there can be no denying that racial profiling by police continues to persist in communities across the nation, despite ongoing efforts to combat it...Hopefully today’s decision will set a powerful precedent for transparency that will enable any police department that illegally and unconstitutionally targets people of color to be held accountable.” (ACLU p. 2). In the words of Shuford, nationwide police do not dispute that they have not engaged in racial profiling, as they have appeared to have done. It further states that the events of that day will make it unlawful to target individuals of a different race without providing any supporting...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis July 20th, 2013 For this assignment I chose to review Stefon Harris’ “There are no mistakes on the bandstand” TEDTalk. After review I found the concepts and narrative to be very applicable to the business realm as well as daily life. Stefon presented many different ideas and opinions to the process of creativity that are normally lost in typical creativity examples. From what I gathered, Stefon is a musician, a vibraphonist to be exact. While I am not familiar with what a vibraphonist is, I assume it focuses mainly on instruments such as the xylophone and similar instruments. Stefon is not who I would have expected as a guest on TEDTalks but his perspective is refreshing. I viewed Stefon’s on YouTube which showed the video to have been posted in December of 2011. This talk was very interesting because it used jazz music as the example to creating something organic and fresh. The driving point of the presentation was that perceived mistakes are commonly viewed as problems when in reality they should be not be seen as mistakes but as a shift in the mainstream thought process. Creativity comes in many forms so what one person sees as a mistake can instead be seen as a new way of continuing. Commonly, creativity is stifled due to perceived problems with the thought process and non-conformity is extinguished. We view these non-conformers as hiccups generally which eventually wears on a person’s creativity and ends when that person no longer wants...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Lahore University of Management Sciences] On: 02 May 2015, At: 09:58 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rana20 Understanding the influence of interpersonal relationships on identity and tourism travel Julia F. Hibbert a b a , Janet E. Dickinson & Susanna Curtin a a School of Tourism, Bournemouth University , Fern Barrow, Poole , BH12 5BB , United Kingdom b School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University , Kalmar , Sweden Published online: 25 Jan 2013. To cite this article: Julia F. Hibbert , Janet E. Dickinson & Susanna Curtin (2013) Understanding the influence of interpersonal relationships on identity and tourism travel, Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 24:1, 30-39, DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2012.762313 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2012.762313 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness...
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...because this film contains much information about political statements, philosophy, and religions. Children of Men tells the story of Theo Faron, one of the many bureaucrats from the energy department in UK. He seems like a common citizen, but does something uncommon later. In fact, the first thirty minutes is not quite interesting for me, but things has changed significantly after Julian is killed by shot. Later, Theo becomes a hero by rescuing Kee’s child, the child of miracle. This film has many advanced and significant aspects on many perspectives. So this paper is going to analyze the unique features in it. Narrative The story is located at the United Kingdom in 2027. At that time, human beings have experienced 18 years of infertility. Children of Men is a film with realistic narrative, because the story runs chronologically. And it follows the classic five-part narrative structure. We can clearly recognize the introduction: Theo hears the news about the death of baby Diego. Conflict and obstacles are throughout the story that Theo finds out Luke’s plan and helps Kee escape to “The Tomorrow”. Later climax comes with the ceasing fire of government army and revolt when they see Kee’s kid. And by the end of the film, we can hear kids laughing, which leaves us a hope that human beings can continue on. Meanwhile, this film contains many nondiegetic elements, which always attracts me and let me pause and investigate. At the beginning, the death of baby Diego comes from the news report...
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...2004, the Iranian transgender community suddenly experienced a spike in Western press media coverage. The nature of such press often focused on the juxtaposition between Iran’s policies on Iranian trans individuals and their rampantly homophobic sodomy laws. Oftentimes the narrative presented on mainstream television is laced with shock in recognizing the Iranian government’s financial support of sex-reassignment surgery for trans individuals, a right given “after years of petitioning and repeated inquiries [from] Iranian trans woman and advocate, Ms. Maryam Khatoon Molkara.” What typically follows this recognition is some form of anti-Islamic rhetoric stemming from the possibility that gay and lesbian Iranians...
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... to two hundred miles because of the earth’s circular shape. Marconi proved that development of radio was possible on a worldwide scale. The audion by Lee De Forest was an invention that strengthened the performance of the radio. De Forest's’ creation was a vacuum tube device that could amplify weak radio reception into a strong signal. In 1912, De Forest developed a regenerative circuit that could heighten the output levels of radios. However, De Forest did not realize the potential of his invention and was forced to file legal action to patent his invention. Despite, winning rights De Forest was never acknowledged by the radio industry for his invention. De Forest also developed phonofilm, being able to record sound while taking film. This invention resulted in the ability to watch movies with sound. The invention of AM and FM radio by Edwin Armstrong increased the efficiency of radios. Despite controversy regarding the sole inventor of the regenerative circuit, Armstrong invented a device that could produce radio waves called amplitude modulation or AM. Additionally, in order to eliminate radio static, Armstrong invented frequency modulation or FM. Frequency modulation allowed for the much better quality sound to be heard on the radio. During World War One, Armstrong figured out how to find the location of the enemy by searching for radioactivity using his...
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...months my wife and I have been fretting because we have no experience raising children. Our first child is due within the next four days. Thankfully this book by Siegal & Bryson has shed some light on the subject. To be honest, this class is an answer to our prayers. Every night I have been taking notes and sharing all these profound and revolutionary techniques for developing a child’s brain with my wife before we go to bed. I have always known that my current actions and beliefs could be traced back to the way I was raised! My parents loved and provided for me but they had a very crazy relationship. There was parties, drugs, adultery, fighting, as well as physical and verbal abuse. It is obvious to me now why I have always struggled in relationships. According to Siegal & Bryson, the dysfunction I witnessed between my parents gave me an insecurity about myself, them, and relationships (2011). I am even confident enough to say that, as an alcoholic, my mirror neurons began connecting with their poor behaviors at an early age. Today, I am saved by His grace and being made new! One of my objectives in life is to have a lasting and influential effect on people. It is easy to understand how happy I was ten months ago when my wife told me that we were going to be parents. That meant, I was going to be given an opportunity to have the kind of influence on people that I had longed for!! If you couple that experience with my life objective, hopefully you can see how important...
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...good for the U.S. legal system and could have changed the outcome for Aileen Wuornos. In this paper I will discuss what third wave feminism is, then I will discuss what feminist criminology is and how it applies to the Aileen Wuornos case, and lastly I will show that with advanced studies into the field of feminist criminology, odds of severe crimes committed by women could decrease. The third wave of feminism is not easily describable. However, it can be framed by saying that it is a movement that continues to advance the women’s rights agenda of the second wave (Zimmerman et al. 77). Unlike the second wave which was intended to give a voice to all women, the third wave tends to reflect more on the individual. By focusing on personal narratives, responsible choices, and by individual level political activism, the third wave gives us the idea that anyone, not just straight, privileged white woman can identify themselves as feminist and be accepted. (Zimmerman et al. 78) It is the idea that feminists do not need to rely on well-known leaders to promote change because all individuals are capable of encouraging it. Because of this individualistic...
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...described in this section as required by the RFP. Copies of any documents not included with this proposal as an Attachment, Appendix or Exhibit will be provided immediately upon request. 6.1 Required Safety Forms and Data and Experience Modification Rate (EMR): XXXXX’ and its significant subcontractors’ Safety Forms and Data are included in this section as required by the RFP. 6.1.1 XXXXX Experience Modification Rate (EMR) (Insert Form Here) 6.1.2 OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses Reports (Insert Form Here) 6.1.3 OSHA Total Recordable Cases Incidence Rate (TCIR) (Insert Form Here) 6.1.4 Days Away from Work, Job Transfer, or Restriction (DART) Rate (Insert Form Here) 6.1.5 Data and Trends Narrative (Need whatever explanation SME’s are going to use to explain away our “High Risk” to “Extremely High Risk” rating in these categories) 6.2 Significant Subcontractors’ Experience Modification Rate (EMR) (Insert Form Here) 6.2.1 Significant Subcontractors’ OSHA Form 300A (Insert Form Here) 6.2.3 Significant Subcontractors’ OSHA (TCIR) Rate (Insert Form Here) 6.2.4 Significant Subcontractors’ (DART) Rate (Insert Form Here) 6.2.5 Significant Subcontractors’ Data and Trends Narrative (Insert Form Here) 6.3 Safety Program and Procedures XXXXX approach to Safety on all worksites includes adherence to contract-specific safety requirements. For Kings Bay, this includes but is not limited to the following...
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...essay, you will undertake a similar project. Through your personal narrative, you will investigate some misunderstood or misperceived facet of American culture (technology, entertainment, consumerism, etc.) or life (family, illness, disability or any kind of difference, etc.) in order to persuade your readers to think differently. In this week’s discussion, we examined the various strategies used by authors to persuade their audiences. We noted that these authors did not simply assert a thesis and then defend or “prove” it; rather, the authors invited us to explore and think further about a topic. However, as readers we weren’t taken on an unfocused or disorganized journey: * The focus (or what we might understand as the “thesis”) of each essay was clear and woven throughout the essay. * The focus was well supported through appeals to logic, emotion, and through the writer’s expertise on the topic. * The essays were organized in persuasive ways. * The writers carefully crafted their language and tone to appeal to the audience. Title- A prospective from an average American becoming changed and labeled with PTSD. The year is 2006 in Tucson, AZ during the holiday season. Going through the motions of every day life as a Career Airman in the USAF. After finishing a long week of work on a Friday, my phone rings from my Supervision. I was instructed to report to the shop ASAP. As I’m driving back towards the office thoughts are running across my...
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...Personal Position Paper: Environmentalism Caring for the Earth? Should Christians become Tree-Huggers? In today’s society, many environmental issues are being casually overlooked by the same people who constantly complain about them. It is an ever increasing problem that will eventually become irreversible if we Christians do not respond to the issue with definite action. The four key elements of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral provide strong evidence that God has called humans to make a difference in the environment. Several examples that are found in scripture, proven by reason, witnessed through experience, and guided by tradition aid in proving God’s desperate plea to us to care for the earth. By using the quadrilateral in its entirety, I will be able to provide sustainable information that will create a viable conclusion to why I personally believe that Christians should indeed become “tree-huggers”. What does scripture say in terms of protecting the environment? Scripture, the norming norm of all sources, is ultimately the main stemming source which provides moral guidance in helping humankind make wise decisions. It is an outlining source that answers many, if not most, of life’s difficult questions both indirectly and directly. As far as answering the question as to whether or not Christians should become “tree huggers”, several specific instructions provided in scripture are commands given from God to His followers to treat the earth and all the nonliving things within...
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...Module C: Texts and Society - Elective 2: Into the World Novel: The Story of Tom Brennan (Burke, J C, the Story of Tom Brennan, Random House, 2005, ISBN-13: 9781741660920) Rubric: In this elective students explore a variety of texts that deal with aspects of growing up or transition into new phases of life and a broader world. People encounter different experiences and respond to them individually. These personal experiences may result in growth, change, or other consequences. Students respond to and compose a range of texts that illustrate different pathways into new experiences. They examine the features of texts that shape our knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about individuals venturing into new experiences. You could be asked to respond to a question in the HSC exam in ANY form. E.g. essay, report, speech... etc. Tom is the teenage protagonist in a phase of transition, he copes with: - Living with trauma - A transforming sibling relationship - Social acceptability in a new place - Relationship with the opposite sex - Family coping mechanisms - Defining self worth through male-female relationships - Emotional growth - Changed place in social order - Social judgment - Mateship - Being mentored through the transition Synopsis: The Story of Tom Brennan by J.C. Burke starts with a fatal car accident – a young driver who’s had too much to drink goes too fast and in an instant two of his friends are dead and his...
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