Logic gate

The author of, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” does state a central point of the essay, but it’s not as clearly presented as I presume it could be. The central point in this essay is laid out in a group of paragraphs instead of a clear cut thesis sentence. The hypothesis appears to be that the internet may chip away at someone’s capacity for concentration and contemplation. As a result, the author follows that train of thought with a potential thesis sentence; which states something along the…

Rhetorical Situation: Merging Social Construction Theory and Aristotle’s Rhetoric While my official title is English teacher, I believe my role is to facilitate students maturing as communicators. A poster hanging in my room says “Facilitator’s Goal: Students will improve as readers, writers, speakers, viewers, listeners, critical thinkers, reflectors, self-learners.” The rhetorical situation is central to each of these communication opportunities, and whether students encounter the…

Bradley Hammer writes an argument focused on the question of what writing medium should be used nowadays to teach effectively composition classes. His aim is to prove that classes of composition should use the mediums available today, rather than maintaining the same old format that does not favor students’ expression. Hammer supports that with our world that is constantly evolving, it is imperative for composition classes to embrace the new ways of communication that technology brought to our…

In William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” Mark Antony unleashes a powerful speech during Caesar’s funeral, aiming to persuade the people of Rome that Brutus was fallacious to kill Caesar and that they should avenge his death. In Antony’s oration, he argues his case against Brutus by using the rhetorical strategies of Ethos, Pathos and Logos to manipulate his audience to be on his side, rather than Brutus’s side. These three persuasion tools allow his audience to connect with him and he is…

Aristotle further lengthens his study of syllogism in On Interpretation to study modal logic. Modal logic is phrases that use possibly or necessarily. On Interpretation does bring up a problem about a fixed future. The problem is that what happened in the past either happened or it didn’t, therefor what happens in the future will either happen or it will not. So that brings up the idea of a fixed future. Aristotle rejects this idea of a fixed future and says that what is said about the future…

Socrates explains that logic will help Kreeft decide his own thoughts. After questioning Protagoras, Kreeft came to the conclusion that to have subjective truth there has to be objective truth. Socrates helps Kreeft understand the flaw in Protagoras’ philosophy by pointing out…

All of these terms are used to obtain their targeted audience’s attention, as well as persuade them to think or act a certain way. Logos is most technical and informative out of all of the Aristotelian appeals and it refers to the data, statistics, logic, and numerical values that are used within the literary work (“Introduction to Rhetorical Strategies”). For most arguments or essay’s, authors typically incorporate statistics or data into their literary works to strengthen their argument.…

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…

When one thinks of a scholar, the first people that come to mind are mathematicians, scientists, literary analysts, and other traditionally “academic” professionalists. However, these professions are not the only scholarly careers that exist. “The Case for Working with Your Hands” by Matthew Crawford is an essay which argues against the wrong perception of mechanics and other “hands-on” professions. In his essay, Crawford describes the intellectual challenges of working in a “hands-on” field and…

CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES THROUGH PLATO “Understand, then, that as we said, there are these two things, one sovereign of the intelligible kind and place, the other of the visible…. In any case, you have two kinds of things, visible and intelligible.” - Plato (Republic, 509d: page 183) In his allegory of the ‘line’ and “cave Plato defines various types of knowledge and how each is acquired. Per the allegory of the ‘line’ his forms of knowledge are broken into two major categories, each with two…