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Logic And Argumentation Are Central To Persuasive Communication
1,820 wordsCommunication is an extremely important factor in our lives and much of the time is spent trying to persuade others towards our views. Logic and argumentation are central to persuasive communication. This document will outline the purpose of persuasive communication and its structure. Persuasive communication will be defined in a way that the main objective of persuasion is to convince the audience of the thesis, the thesis being the conclusion of a discourse. An integral part of persuasive comm...
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York Columbia University Gawain And The Green Knight
2,655 words... s, meaning a bowl. " There are three likely possibilities for what the Grail represented that are supported by evidence: "The Grail as Celtic talisman, as fertility symbol, as Christian relic" 28 Despite this, the actual of the Grail and the quest for it has been one of the primary attractions in these legends. The Christian interpretation is that the Grail was originally the cup used at the Last Supper, with which Joseph of Arimathea caught the blood of Christ on the cross. However, Loomis ...
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Crime Rates Target Population
516 wordsFor example, the United States Census combines their population data with crime data compiled from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting system (UCR) to produce crime rates. These rates are calculated with a constant of 100, 000 and are broken down by type of crime. As described by Sacco and Kennedy in The Criminal Event, the constant in the above equation is designed so the crime rate can be expressed per c (the constant) units of exposure. The selection of the constant is largely arbitrary, but ra...
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True Or False Inductive Reasoning
1,257 wordsSimilarity in several respects between discrete cases. A logical argument by analogy relies upon an inductive inference from the supposition that things are similar is certain known respects to the likelihood that they are also similar in some further unknown respect. Example: "Jennifer enjoys listening to the music of Beethoven, Mahler, and Bartok. Susan and Harold also like Beethoven, Mahler, and Bartok. Chris enjoys listening to Beethoven and Mahler. Therefore, Chris would probably like the m...
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Computer Programs Basic Skills
532 wordsIn Attacking Faulty Reasoning, T. Edward Date defines an argument as a group of statements, one or more of which (the premises) support or provide evidence for another (the conclusion). The premises of an argument are those statements that together constitute the grounds for affirming the conclusion. To more clearly understand the argument given in the news release from the Normaltown paper, it should be placed in an easier to read form, consisting of just the premises and conclusions. The Norma...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
2,114 wordsThe "Nemesis Theory" was an outgrowth of the discovery of Alvarez et al. , that the impact of a large (10 km diameter) comet or asteroid was responsible for the great mass extinction that took place 65 million years ago. Studies of the fossil record by Dave Raup and Jack Sepkoski shows that this was not an isolated event, but one of several mass extinctions that appear to occur on a regular 26 million year cycle. Their original paper analyzed marine fossil families, and was published in the Proc...
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Evidence To Support Point Of View
1,462 wordsBook Review of Slavery in Ancient Greece, By Yvon Garlan, 1988 It is obvious from the beginning that, Slavery in Ancient Greece, was written to the authors colleagues (Garlan). The language, content, and style are noticeably academic and complex. The body of the text is devoted to a historical study of the different types of slavery existing within the Greek society of antiquity. The chapters are constructed to identify and define the different types of slavery and the practices associated with ...
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Nature Of God David Hume
2,184 words"I was from the beginning scandalized, I must own, with this resemblance between the Deity and human creatures. " -- Philo David Hume wrote much about the subject of religion, much of it negative. In this paper we shall attempt to follow Hume's arguments against Deism as Someone knowable from the wake He allegedly makes as He passes. This kind of Deism he lays to rest. Then, digging deeper, we shall try our hand at a critique of his critique of religion, of resurrecting a natural belief in God. ...
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Psychological Type And The Indicator
1,188 wordsRunning Head: MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR Psychological Type and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Northwestern State University of Louisiana Psychological Type and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator One of the most enduring typological classifications was devised by Jung and has served as the foundation for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Anastasia, 1997). The Myers-Briggs (MBTI) designates one's personality type, based upon a classification scheme, which consists of four basic scales and two types...
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Justice Gray Historians Evidence
307 wordsIn the recent past, a story reached public attention because it concerned two historians who had examined evidence relating to the fate of the Jews during the 'Holocaust' Their research led each of them to reach quite different conclusions. Because the subject matter was emotive and highly sensitive, questions concerning the nature of historical authority and the ethical obligations of historians were asked. The resulting debate took place on a public platform and caused Mr justice Gray to make ...
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Time And Space Basic Beliefs
1,437 words"Human beings are not aware of their assumptions and basic beliefs, much as fish are unaware of the water in which they live. " Discuss This topic sentence implies discussing assumptions and basic beliefs of the human mind, and how they sometimes seem to act independently of our awareness. In order to do that, we must first attempt to define these two concepts. An assumption is a premise taken for granted in a train of thought, one that is included but not evaluated in a conclusion. For example,...
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Oil And Gas Oil Gas
1,829 words... Oil/Gas Exports. The impact of the East Asian economic crisis on the direction of non-oil / gas exports is not simple. As one would expect, there has been a sharp decline in exports to slumping economies such as Japan and Korea. In fact, Japan has, until 1998, been the largest single national market for Indonesia's non-oil / gas exports (Table 21). The sharp drop of non-oil / gas exports to Japan (- 23. 1 %) and Korea (- 17. 5 %) contrasts with the relatively good performance in Singapore (1...
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Running Head Social Dimensions Of Crime
1,507 wordsRunning head: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CRIME Social Dimensions of Crime March 29, 2009 Social Dimensions of Crime There are few major conclusions concerning the distribution of crime by race, gender, age and class. It is believed that individuals involvement in crime decreases with age, implying that younger persons are more likely to commit crimes. Also, there is an opinion that females are less often to offend irrespective of the age, as males are more aggressive by nature. There are also few sour...
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Educated Person Medical Experiments
1,002 wordsDo You Have What it Takes? A Breakdown of the Educated Person by Thomas Burkhardt An educated person is a well rounded person. To be educated is to knowledgeable in many areas. Diversity is essential in the sense that many different things inspire thought, which then derive permanent conclusions from these experiences. Anyone who has the audacity to call themselves educated needs to have a firm grasp of many different areas. These categories span through Science, Technology, Language, Art, Feeli...
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Long Run Three Articles
783 wordsCritical Review Ecstasy makes an interesting topic for public discourse due to its increasing popularity and questionable side effects. The public as consumers of the media must decide if any information given about this topic is accurate and reliable. In this paper three articles will be analyzed. The first one, ? Bill to Increase Penalties on the Drug Ecstasy? by AnneMarie Tavella, deals with the legal aspects of the drug and argues that a bill should be passed to change possession of 15 grams...
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Mental Illness Witch Hunts
2,574 wordsBeliefs and theories about mental illness vary greatly throughout the eyes of professionals. Many view mental illness as a serious condition, while others take it less seriously and see it as a part of everyday life. Although many think doctors are always right, they underestimate the influence and power these physicians exercise based upon their own personal views and ideas. Illustrated in the article, ? Social Class, Ethnicity and Mental Illness, ? Ann Vander Step and Bruce Link try to show wh...
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Society Has Changed Sal And Dean
2,289 wordsThe more things Prison Journey The more things change, the more they stay the same. Society is continually evolving, yet human nature remains constant. Over time, new technologies have served to dramatically alter society, but the needs and desires of individuals within that society have remained the same. The most basic of these needs is the compulsion to find one s place within society. There comes a time in everyone s life at which it becomes necessary to define their role in the world. To de...
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Prima Facie Racial Identity
1,439 wordsAs children, most of us were given a playground definition of racism. Racism meant assuming bad things about someone just because of the color of his / her skin. Think about this definition. Its apparent simplicity actually contains three separate components. First, a racist has bad intent. Second, a racist makes prima facie assumptions. And third, a racist targets an immutable characteristic; in other words, something we cannot change and which we did not choose. Lets begin with the notion of r...
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Sun Will Rise Matters Of Fact
1,103 wordsHume: Matters of fact and relation of ideas In David Humes Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, he attempts, by way of empiricism, to uncover the basis for knowledge and reasoning. Hume deals with the principle of induction, and his views on synthetic and analytic truths. Take his favourite example: his belief that the sun will rise tomorrow. Clearly, this is a matter of fact; it rests on our conviction that each sunrise is an effect caused by the rotation of the earth. But our belief in that...
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Essay Quot Admissions Officers
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