Informal logic

Artifice In the excerpt “Empire of Illusion” by Chris Hedges argues that “ the most essential skill … is artifice.” After reading the passage, I agree with Chris Hedges because in Political Theater and Consumer culture that is the most popular skill. Artifice is important because people use this skill to confuse others that do not know what is going on. People with this skill cause problem because they are tricking people into believing stuff that is not true. Others can say that Artifice is…

Hi Elvin, I had an interesting experience at MBSTP yesterday—I recapped it in my nightly survey, but I just wanted to send an email out to you about this as well: Overall, the General Manager (Chad) and the Executive Housekeeper (Terry) expressed great discontent in the evaluation process as a whole. Both Chad, and Terry exhibited unprofessional behaviors, swore, and were rude in the interactions we shared. In the first guest room, Chad verbally stated: "this makes me so mad, guests' don't…

As Vice President of Recruitment, my goal is to shape the process in a way that promotes class bonding while maintaining their GPA, or even seeing an increase in their GPA. I’ve created this case for a 6 week process to show how that is possible within 6 weeks rather than an unnecessary 7 week process. With these new changes that I plan on bringing to the process it will guarantee that new members have the time to study and not fall behind in classes because they are not worrying about trivial…

Summary In this article, Delcourt and associates (1998) outline the implications of the carbonized plant remains to better grasp the effects Prehistoric Native Americans had on the Eastern Kentucky landscape through paleoecological sequence. Specially addressing how Prehistoric Native American populations bred and selected for plant-food resources in Eastern Kentucky during the Pleistocene and early Holocene (Delcourt, 1998). 36 radiocarbon-dated, botanical assemblages, mostly charcoal, obtained…

The first judgement is analytical (a priori knowledge) which is proven by pure reason and definitions instead of gathering facts. For example, a salmon is a fish; therefore, since salmon is a type of fish the example is known to be analytical. The second judgement is synthetic (a posteriori knowledge)--presuppositions of science by going out and gathering facts. An example of synthetic is “it often rains in Vancouver” while yes, it does rain in Vancouver, it is not always raining or found in the…

Elizabeth Rodriguez Professor Marcelo CAS 113A 19 September, 2015 Transnationalism Identity is who you are. Who you identify yourself as. They are many different ways on defining identity and it all has to do within the situation. In this case I define it as, knowing who you are or what something is. Another word that also should be defined is Transnationalism. Transnationalism is going beyond national boundaries and interests. In two class readings that we covered, “Central American…

and evil demon argument Descartes’ presents two sceptical arguments as part of his hopes of laying a solid Epistemology based foundation on which the sciences can be built. While the arguments themselves are valid there are issues with Descartes’ logic both in the finer detail of what he writes and in the bigger picture of his arguments. The dreaming argument consists of a line of reasoning based on our lack of ability to firmly know whether or not we are asleep or awake. The formulation for…

Anna Quindlen uses many styles to successfully address the problem of hunger in America. The essay itself is more informative and eye-opening than it is persuasive. However, she uses rhetoric appeals to ultimately and effectively persuade us to her call to action. Anna is an experienced writer, having received many awards for her works, but that is not what makes her credible in this essay. She carefully uses ethos to show that she should be and the essay should be taken seriously, besides her…

Hume argues that miracles are based purely on experience and that we essentially can’t trust anyone’s judgement because of that. He claims that people are untrustworthy, and because it is impossible to tell whether or not they are making something up or not, we should just assume that they are and we therefore cannot take their word for their experience into consideration when it comes to miracles. A flaw in this argument, however, is that we would have to apply this philosophy to the ideas of…

Essay Template (3 Paragraphs) Directions: You are to write a three-paragraph argument essay which addresses the debatable issue: Mass Incarceration is the moral equivalent of slavery. Use the argument writing template below as a guide, but you will write your essay on separate paper or by creating a Google Doc using the template. The template itself is on the back side and you may refer to it while you write your essay. In your first paragraph you will: 1) Introduce the issue and…