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    recounting the story. Morrison's short story tries to demonstrate a point that race is regularly characterized by properties that can be seen in both high contrast individuals, and therefore, requests that us as perusers understand the significance of generalizations on an impression of a man. The short story is part…

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    making it an inductive argument. I don’t believe that it is a fair statement to say that every single person is never aware of their surroundings. This is a form of an enumerative induction. Enumerative Induction is the process of deriving a generalization about an entire group of things based on observing some of the members of that group. Similar to a stereotype; it is never right to assume the same thing for a group of…

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    chemicals and artificial flavors. The Bad Example is introduced to us with two ways it's represented with the first being misinterpreting the evidence and the second being hasty generalization, sometimes people use examples to support their own desires or preferences when they both don’t go together, and the hasty generalization refers to the lack of examples to…

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    Miller’s play The Crucible. Under these conditions, it seemed that a witchhunt could occur. After these things happen people are accused and sentenced and the ones you’ve delegated to maintain order and purity are now thinking irrationally and making hasty decisions. Most of the evidence against those accused was known as spectral evidence. Miller explains what spectral evidence at the time really meant in his essay of “Why I Wrote “The Crucible,”” “Spectral evidence, so aptly named, meant…

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    One of the most prominent objections in this article is the hasty generalization Alibhai-Brown uses in drawing conclusions without validating the fact of them. As an example, she claims that white refugees are habitually seen by people as a source of benefit, whereas refugees with darker skin are usually perceived as a…

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    Question 1: How would you define Cognitive Dissonance and when have you experienced it in your own life? According to chapter 23 of the “Public Speaking Handbook”, cognitive dissonance is when you are presented with information inconsistent with your current attitudes, beliefs, values, or behavior, you become aware that you have a problem; you experience a kind of discomfort (Pg. 221). In another way to explain it, cognitive dissonance means that you are experiencing a way of thinking that is…

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    very relevant, for when it comes to the parable of the Prodigal Sons, Brooks defends the father within the story and compares the two sons to modern American social policy-making of today. The ideas Brooks provides, however, are flawed with hasty generalizations and black-and-white reasoning. To begin with, while providing comparisons to the sons within…

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    would believe that we have free will even being a soft determinist. Schopenhauer made an argument or more so a joke towards free will, but in his own argument he commits numerous flaws, comparing a product of nature to a conscious living being, hasty generalization fallacy, and creating the argument based on his own free will. He did not create a strong argument against free…

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    provide students with a career and role in society after graduation. Although evidence is provided to support the claim, the argument is weak based on generalizations, irrelevancies,…

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    claim universal affirmative categorical claim (A). Fallacy: ¶ 1 – “In fact, many couples who initially chose to discard their “excess” embryos have later changed their minds and let them survive.” Here author is committing the fallacy of hasty generalization and is trying to convince the reader that many people have done this, however the author is reaching a wide conclusion from small sample that he might have observed or heard…

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