* This assignment will showcase your ability to recognize and examine argument structure. Please be sure to follow all of the assignment guidelines, which your instructor will give to you in class or listed below. * In this week's assignment, we are going to take a look at a couple of arguments related to an immensely controversial idea in our society, the idea of same-sex marriage. At the end of Chapter Six you will find two different opinions, Justice Margaret Marshall’s majority
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Classical Argument Incorporates the five parts of a discourse that ancient teachers of rhetoric believed were necessary for persuasion, especially when the audience included a mixture of reactions from favorable to hostile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ beginning in an interesting way providing background or context that was relevant to their specific audience stating their claims and
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reliable or valid) methods that you used to accumulate the data (case) to be explained. Finally revise and edit, and be sure to apply the critical process to your argument to be certain you have not committed any errors in reasoning or integrated any fallacies for which you would criticize some other writer. Additionally, you will want to find out how your readers will object to your argument. Will they say that you have used imprecise concepts? Have you erred in collecting data? Your argument is only
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Devices, and Argumentation Resources: American Rhetoric Web site and Bias, Rhetorical Devices, and Argumentation Due Date: Day 7 [post to the Individual forum] Listen to the speech at http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechcitizenkane2.html by clicking the Windows Media Video link or the Audio mp3 link, or read the transcript of the speech. Answer the following questions in a minimum of 500 words: Identify examples of bias, fallacies, and specific rhetorical
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Jim Valvano’s ESPY’s Speech Analysis An astonishing moment for Jim Valvano occurred on March 3, 1993 at the ESPYs, a national televised event that honors team and individual accomplishments. During the ceremony, Valvano was presented with the inaugural Arther Ashe Award for Courage. When accepting this award, Valvano, who is cancer-stricken, gave a moving speech to his audience in Madison Square Garden. He had his audience and everyone watching across the world in tears, laughter and in serious
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“1992 Republican National Convention Address: A Whisper of AIDS” by May Fisher (1992) at the American Rhetoric website I read the Mary Fisher story. There are plenty of bias and fallacies examples Mary speaks of in this article. Mostly talking about how people are prejudiced and judgmental against people with the HIV virus. How people show no compassion and are so very cruel to the AIDS victims. Mary talks about how her family has shown affection to her through this difficult time but there
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Consider how the ideas of liberation (in terms of labour and nation) are explored in The Plough and the Stars. Sean O’Casey has long been feted as one of Irelands great literary playwrights. This has not always been the case however, as he endured severe criticism of his works particularly The Plough and the Stars, which sparked a riot when staged in the Abbey theatre in 1926, because of it’s “representation of the 1916 rebels as cowards principally motivated by vanity and self-love” (Pilkington
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Case Nr. 8 – Williamson and Oliver 1. Is Williamson and Oliver committing the “fallacy of hoping for A while rewarding B? I don’t think that Williamson and Oliver is committing the fallacy of hoping for A while rewarding B, but if they fail to manage the new reward system fairly they could easily commit it. The main goal of the new incentive plan is to improve the profitability of the firm and make the right decisions to keep the firm prosper over long-term. As the text describes, all PICs
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requires the concept of an average. Using IQ we could divide a population between the clever and the stupid, using an agreed on number. That means that one half of the country can now be classified as stupid. The term, ‘Common sense’ then becomes a fallacy, as it is not common to all as the term suggests, but applies only to those above the average, which is why it is not understood by the stupid, but leads them to believe that their definition of sense is common to all. If we then apply democracy
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such as Coloradans against the Death Penalty and Amnesty International are an interested party. These two sources stand to gain if the death penalty is abolished because abolishing the death penalty is their mission. Ryan Hanschens blatant use of rhetoric is obvious when he states for his argument, “How can we call ourselves the land of the free with a straight face while remaining one of the only first world countries that still executes its citizens?” Also his bias is apparent when he states, “we
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