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There is a difference between aggression and offense. While aggressive arguments inspire revenge and hatred, offensive rhetoric utilizes methods of persuasion to win arguments. Strategic, offensive persuasion consists of many different tools to be effective. For instance, the primary step towards building an argument is setting goals. The persuader must form goals for themselves and the audience; “Argument’s Rule Number One: Never debate the undebatable. Instead, focus on your goals” (36). In…

Nicholas G. Carr was born in 1959, and is the author of, 2011 General Non-fiction Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brain’s. He is also the author of the highly debated article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in July of 2008. This article is about how he noticed that he had a shorter attention span and could not focus on long pieces of writing. He describes the neurological consequences of the internet, and how it is shaping how we read. When we…

The day I won the Lottery The day I won the lottery was where It all started. I was off to the shops to check my lotto ticket to see if I had won anything. When I got there I went to check but the blue lottery machine was loading very slowly. It felt like forever but then suddenly It said that I had won $100,000,000 and 50¢. It was amazing instantly I could go around the world 3 times and buy a massive mansion by the river. Instead I bought a small mansion and got Heaps of gadgets such as fold…

your answer. The idea of something, so full of facts, would be making us less intelligent, is absurd. However, Carr is not necessarily asking if Google, or the internet in general, is actually lowering our IQ 's. He is thinking more along the lines of concentration, and the ability to form deep, meditative thoughts from the material in which you have read. From my personal experience, in this version of stupidity, I have to say yes, Google is making me stupid. As Carr gathered evidence for…

Briefly, and in your own words, explain how the encoding-decoding model of communications works. The encoding-decoding model of communications takes place between a sender (the encoder) and a recipient (the decoder). To encode, the sender puts a message within a specific channel. The channel is typically writing or speaking but can be any form of media or communication. The recipient then decodes the sender’s message by receiving the media and deciphering the…

It is said that crime doesn’t pay, but it can punish. Society often comes to the false conclusion that if a criminal is not prosecuted under the law, then they do not receive any punishment. But this is not true. The inescapable suffering trapped inside a wrongdoer can cause more issues than is believed. “The Black Cat” is a tale of the woes which plague a man as he goes insane from paranoia of his wrongdoings. In addition he has an alcohol problem and undergoes a traumatic transformation as he…

time, however, information can be so dense that people do not want to tire themselves trying to decipher huge amounts of knowledge. Since the world is moving at a fast pace, people are satisfied just knowing the main idea. “We tend to become ‘ “mere decoders of information” ’ (113). People will not be truly understanding the…

The research paper is the arrival of a student with a topic and information after going through a lot of processes and stages to know more the particular topic. Or an academic paper that contains original research results or new inventions (Web). According to Ramage, Bean and Johnson in their book titled “Writing Arguments, a Rhetoric with Reading ”they explains that “ research paper should use information to support a contestable claim, by documentation we mean the in-text citations and…

This protocol is a variation of HTTP that provides the secure foundation for SSL transmission. S-HTTP performs what is known as a handshake when establishing a connection to exchange keys and creates an encrypted connection. Addresses to an SSL secure page use the prefix "https" instead of the common "http." Therefore, a secure page address would read https://www.hotmail.com The public-key system requires that each party have a public and a private key. These keys must be generated by a trusted…

Textual Analysis: Is Google Making Us Stupid? Carrie Snow once stated, “Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” Throughout history man has strived to improve the quality of life through the improvement of technology. Whether it was the invention of the wheel five-thousand years ago or the discovery of life-saving antibiotics, technology has always been considered a welcome improvement to society. Today the most…