Hasty generalization

For the past few decades, a majority of American parents have taken the approach to raise their children in a loving and protective environment. The philosophy behind this parenting method is that by nurturing the child through encouragement, he or she will develop confidence and will strive to do the best they can in the given area. However, not all American parents believe in this approach. Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, supports the “tiger mom” style of parenting, where the child…

An anthropologist professor herself, Doreen Lee, in her research paper, “Anybody Can Do It: Aesthetic Empowerment, Urban Citizenship, and the Naturalization of Indonesian Graffiti and Street Art”, exposes the supremacy of street art and graffiti to the political movement in Indonesia. Lee’s purpose is to depict the recent spread and creation of the street art through media during the post-New Order Indonesia. She has established a very professional tone in order to appeal and provoke the…

The YouTube video, The Big Fix: The 1985 Patrick Ewing NBA Lottery, indicated that the reason why the envelope was thrown in there like that was because Jack Wagner was purposely marking which envelope contained the Knicks logo. When Stern would see the marked envelope, he would go in there and pick up the envelope. After the globe was spun several times, the globe was opened and the commissioner visibly exhaled like he was deeply nervous. The video then suggested that Stern did that because he…

Guilty or not guilty is a life threatening question for an eighteen-year-old boy in the film 12 Angry Men who has been tried for a first-degree murder. The eighteen-year-old boy has been accused of stabbing his own father and the case has been left in the hands of a twelve-man jury in which a guilty verdict mean the automatic death of the boy. Throughout the film, we are able to recognize various communication skills that the twelve individuals display. Leadership There are two types of leaders…

Summary and Critique of Ricky Wells A prominent issue has came to rise with the recent presidential election, that issue being the healthcare our veterans are receiving. The New York Times asked students to write about what they thought was the most pressing matter for this election, and Ricky Wells provided with his stance on veteran healthcare. Although Ricky Wells is extremely passionate about the issue of veteran suicides and presents the reader with first-hand experience, he is unable to…

worker” stereotype, it also reflects on the current issue in the labor force. This issue is related to the initial argument that illegal immigrants are stealing jobs from Americans and legal immigrants and not paying taxes. However, this is a hasty generalization because according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, in 2013 undocumented immigrants paid $11.6 billion in taxes. Therefore, the government should be more attentive on this issue and make sure everyone who is in the…

which is a public high school that was on probation and had a great deal of violence and gang problems. Everyday instead of worrying about homework and exams, I was worried about my safety. Mainly all the teachers in that high school made a hasty generalization regarding the students because they believed that all of them were immature and didn’t care about school; however, the few students that did care, like me, were deprived of having a decent quality of education. I wish I had gone to a high…

related in any sort of way, which is an either/or fallacy. A fallacy like this can confuse the audience and create doubt towards Apple. The use of those statements is very ineffective. Windows plays their audience a different way by using a hasty generalization fallacy. There are endless amounts of outrageous photos placed irrationally over the advertisement. For example, there is a huge double helix representing DNA emerging out of a child with a…

In recent years, developments and innovations in technology and sciences have allowed for people to reach new depths into the Earth’s crust. In the Earth’s crust, there is an abundance of natural resources that civilization seeks in fueling in future with the use of natural gas, oil, etc. Therefore, people have taken the opportunity with new developments such as fracking to essentially extract those natural resources from the very depths of the earth. However, there are potential complications…

What is a Wife? Gordon B Hinckley once said “Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.” In Judy Brady’s “Why I Want A Wife” Brady complains about her current marriage and stereotypes that all men take advantage of their wives. In her essay, Brady makes many outlandish claims, uses many logical fallacies…