Dichotomies

good reason, the topic of addiction, its definition, and its causes are very personal and dear to his heart. Lewis’s biggest point he wanted to share during his talk was that addiction is not a disease, not a person with wrongful morals, and not a dichotomy. In the rest of his speech, Lewis shares his reasoning for his claim, comparing his work with the work and speeches of the other Nobel Conference speakers, in attempt to shed light on the many differences and similarities of their works.…

Stopping this correlation early is of the utmost importance as “for children of color, the absence of a high school diploma did more than relegate someone to the economic margins of society…By the time they reach their early thirties, 52 percent of young, male, African American high school dropouts have spent some time in jail or prison” (Pettit & Western, 2003). Another point of questioning comes from the thought that possibly black males just misbehave at a higher rate than other demographic…

everyone that gets a college degree will be guaranteed to have a successful life would be a non-sequitur fallacy. Either someone can graduate from college to be successful or not be successful because they could not graduate from a college (False Dichotomy). Not everyone that gets a degree will work in their field of degree; therefore, one will not be successful (Begging the Question). By taking classes in Accounting, Finance, and math subjects, you will be working on Wall Street. With this…

Doing Gender and Acting Woman: Thoughts on Butler’s Gender Performativity or Your Life as a Stage: Rome-who and Julie-what? Butler proposes, in Performative Acts and Gender Constitution, that gender does not precede the social expression of one’s gender identity, but that it is, rather, through those social performances and historic contexts that gender is constituted. Butler adopts de Beauvoir’s concept of the body as a historical situation, and rejects the idea of a precursory agent who…

They fall within this dichotomy because they are published daily, adhere to the traditional writing style and don’t carry sensational stories that are meant to excite people. However, some content within the newspapers can be described as sensational, especially their magazine…

more problematic. Not only is he guilty of committing equivocation by using border with two different ambiguous meanings (as in a boundary and as in strong border enforcement), but much of this argument is based on presumption, creating a false dichotomy. He claims that America must either impose strong border enforcement, or not be a country at all, while clearly there are more than these two alternatives. Surely America is still its own country even if there are illegal immigrants inhabiting…

The pain, suffering, oppression experienced in the world today is not new or unique, but it has been manifested in different ways throughout human history. This reality, in part, is what gives the message of the Bible a timeless quality and relevance in the lives of Christians today. Overtime, however, something has been lost. The power of the story of God and His people has been robbed of its promise and power. Brueggemann writes, “The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to…

habits. The way we respond to our expectations classifies which tendency we fall under. “Our Tendency colors the way we see the world and therefore has enormous consequences for our habits” (Rubin, “The Four Tendencies,” 18). In the reading of The Dichotomy of Control, “The Stoics argue that rather than striving after many things that will only lead to frustration, a better goal is to want only those things that one can be confident that he or she can obtain”…

I will admit, I have done the MBTI test a couple of times before, so am already somewhat familiar with it. This makes it a little more challenging to work through Professor Sarkee’s process; trying to work out what I believe my MBTI preferences are as I see them. So, I decided to work through the process with an unbiased view, especially because I was interested to see if my personality has slightly evolved after recent life changes and experiences. My result is ENFJ, although I was rather…

What is the “right” science to teach students, creationism or evolution? The teaching of creationism and evolution in classes has been a huge controversy over the past decades. The belief that God created the world in a few days or that humans evolved from organisms long ago is still a battle today. Many people believe the idea of evolution because there is evidence to support the arguments that earth slowly developed through natural selection to what we know it as today. Although, there is a…