Bullshit

Throughout his memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn discusses the varying causes of homelessness in America. He discuses every topic from mental illness to poverty, drug abuse to alcoholism, and how each had there own effect on the homeless. While there are a multitude of possible reasons as to why someone is living on the street, Flynn focuses on the effects it has on an individual and on the reactions of society. Flynn calls attention to the rampant crisis of homelessness in…

proof. I find this to be bullshit because I would not just believe that it was “God” who created us there has to be a greater explanation. The universe is so vast that our minds should expand on believing that there is a powerful being in the universe not necessarily the God everyone believes in. The Cosmological argument is not one I would believe when explaining our existence (Sober, 44-46). The Cosmological argument is bullshit and Frankfurt’s definition of bullshit is a great way to define…

Frankfurt,”Bullshit,” is a phenomenon that is often employed loosely, as a term for abuse, but it has no specific meaning. According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, the word or term bullshit means nonsense or foolish insolent talk. Bullshit has many reasons for use and many of them are meant to deceive people. Nonsense or bullshit has always been a part of language, it does not matter what type of language it is or what subject like politics, or sports, bullshit will always be used. Bullshit…

Your Reasons Are Bullshit All college students have been late to class at least once, what was their reasoning? Their alarm did not go off, they thought it was Friday,or did they not do their homework? Mr. Bernard Roth, author of, “The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life” effectively uses Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle in his argument in Chapter two as he uses ethos, pathos, and logos to show that reasons are bullshit. Ethics sounds easy, right? Can…

On Bullshit is a 1986 essay written by Princeton University professor Harry Frankfurt in which he attempts to define the idea of bullshit and explain the cultural use and context behind it. Using a variety of sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary as well as other older essays, Frankfurt examines the use of the term bullshit and how it simply cannot be replaced with another word, especially “lie”. Frankfurt begins by stating that, “…we have no theory,” or any other formal writing on…

Rhetorical Analysis In the book “The Achievement Habit” by Bernard Roth, he talks about how reasons are bullshit. How can they define that reasons are bullshit? Someone might say to their boss “sorry for being late, I was late due to doing something with my daughter.” There are many reasons that reasons can and are bullshit. Roth explains how reasons are bullshit with ethos, pathos, and logos. Roth has been teaching at the Stanford University for fifty years. “Many reasons are simply excuses…

supposeive reason is bullshit. This is what Bernard Roth argues in Chapter two of his book, The Achievement habit. Roth states a claim saying “Reasons exist because if people didn’t explain their behavior, they would seem unreasoniable (Roth 41).” Roth argues that all reasons are bullshit no matter what they might be, he believes reasons are excuses and another way for people to be lazy. In chapter two of Bernard Roth’s book called The Achievement Habit, he covers how reasons are bullshit and…

“Reasons are bullshit” (Roth 41), there are infinite reasons for anything and we choose the one reason that is the most socially acceptable. This quote is from The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth. Roth is the Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering and the academic director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) at Stanford University. He has created courses that allow students to directly gain understanding and experience about personal issues that matter to them. In this…

damaged, their disregard for the truth can be more detrimental. For example, social media constantly provides the general public with bullshit and misrepresents current events. This misrepresentation convinces the public to believe something that is skewed and altered to attract viewers. People still believe social media and believe it is reliable even though it is bullshit. Frankfurt would believe the disregard for the truth is more damaging than credibility, therefore bullshitting is worse…

In The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life, the title of chapter two is called “Reasons Are Bullshit.” Throughout this chapter, Roth mentions some stories and personal experiences to help back up his argument. Some people may argue that Bernard Roth’s claims are not very persuasive, but he clearly proves that reasons are bullshit by using rhetorical appeal, even though pathos is weaker than ethos and logos, To begin with, Roth is persuasive in chapter…