Hasty generalization

RAA Rough Draft The assurance of safety is always appreciated whether it’s at home, school, or public places. There are always uncertainties whether a specific place can be considered as safe. In an article written by Roxane Gay, she argues the difficulty of finding a space that can be confidently labeled as safe. To strengthen her argument, she uses examples of her personal experience in relation to safety, recent events in campuses, the feministic output of safe space within the LGBT…

Cops around the United States especially in major cities are unmotivated to do their jobs because of the hatred against them. The behavior is wrong of society to hate ALL cops because of a hasty generalization that all cops are bad. It almost is if an enormous bandwagon of people are starting to hate cops. Sure some of the cops are morally wrong, but most of society has a built up fear that ALL cops are bad. So they go against obeying cops even the good ones. The cops are underappreciated and…

Jarrett J. Krosoczka appeared on a Technology Education Design (TED) Talk in July of 2014 and explained “Why lunch ladies are heroes.” Krosoczka sends his message to high powered CEOs that are present for the TED Talk. He informs the audience that he was inspired by his old school lunch lady to write a series of graphic novels about lunch ladies. In the series, lunch ladies are viewed as superheros which sparked a reaction across the country. Krosoczka uses specific word choices to influence the…

Date rape remains a common problem in the United States. Although typically misunderstood and unreported, the crime of unwanted intercourse brought upon by a familiar individual has become a subject of national concern. Authors Camille Paglia and Susan Jacoby express their opposing views as to the cause of the crime in their articles “Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminists Know” and “Common Decency”. While Paglia and Jacoby have conflicting arguments, Jacoby's use of ethos, logos and pathos outdo…

several logical fallacies that weaken her argument. For example, she argues that “mothers are the people you need on your team” because mothers have a good work ethic and high motivation due to their already busy schedules. Zaleski commits hasty generalization here because she concludes that all mothers can balance the demands of raising a family, having a career, and taking care of themselves at the same time. She fails to consider that not all women can handle such a full schedule, making this…

A case where this rule of thumb is not applied is during hasty generalizations; a type of fallacy in which the speaker or writer has performed the mistake of jumping to a conclusion. (Rybacki & Rybacki 148). Although it has been deemed okay for an individual to make generalizations within an argument, said generalizations may only be approved when they are based on a hefty number of circumstances and credible information. (Rybacki & Rybacki…

While Ray’s argument is effectively focused on the benefits of home schooling benefitting the public good, his logic is tainted by logical fallacies. His claim hinges on the reason that “increasing the number of well-educated, socially stable, and civically active individuals advances the public good”, but this offers a very narrow focus on the only way to base the impact of home schooling for the public good. He then goes on to claim that “Americans agree that several things benefit society.”…

All rappers degrade black women and the people who support these corrupt rappers hate black women also. Jennifer Mclune’s “Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women” creates this biased inference within its readers after reading the text. Mclune is a writer, activist, and librarian that lives in Washington D.C. Her article, “Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women,” first appeared in an online magazine called Z Magazine in 2006. The story discusses how rappers feel that they have a privilege over women and…

For instance, hasty generalization is defined as coming to a conclusion without sufficient evidence that corroborates it. Gladwell makes many hasty generalizations within this novel, such as when he described the life of Joe Flom, a prominent Jewish attorney. He concludes that the way to be successful then was to be the child of Jewish immigrants…

zone as being worthwhile, because in the end her daughter did indeed master it. “The house was a war zone, and I lost my voice yelling…” (Page 308) Chua exaggerated. Your house cannot be a war zone and a piano lesson. One more fallacy used is hasty generalizations in her writing when she writes about western mothers caring too much about their child’s emotions. She believes that because Chinese parents assume strength rather than fragility, their kids behave differently than the Western parents’…