ISU second book choice.

I (finally) chose my second ISU novel. Something off the list... (again). It was kind of funny when I told Mr. Murray that most of the book choices on the list where not very interesting; at least in my own opinion. Anyways, I chose Colours Of Magic by Terry Pratchett. It sounds quite interesting-- and I now just need to find a hard copy of it somewhere. Ottawa Library, I'm hoping!

Standardization Final

1. It appears that promoting the English language in the Eastern Districts in an offense.

2. Liberal candidate for this riding, Boudria,even insults Anglophones.
2.a. Puts his campaign ads only in French.

4. Majority of funding goes to the French.
4. a. New flag was put up to celebrate the French but not for English.

3. Anglophones are the minority
3. a. We deserve the same rights as the French do when they’re the minority.

5. English people are excluded from government jobs in this region.

Therefore

6. We deserve the same right of the Francophones.

Standardized Argument Numero 2

I don't know about this one... I think I may have my therefore statement wrong. Some insight, please?




1. It appears that promoting the English language in the Eastern Districts in an offense.

2. Even the Liberal candidate, Boudria insults Anglophones.
2.a. Puts his campaign ads only in French.

4. Majority of funding goes to the French.
4. a. New flag was put up to celebrate the French.

3. Anglophones are the minority
3. a. We deserve the same rights as the French do when they’re the minority.

5. English people are excluded from government jobs.

Therefore

6. We deserve the same right of the Francophones.

Week # I've already lost track.

Well I thought I should just do a general update on by blog, something other than just the assignments I've been working on. The rugby tournament on Friday was so much fun, but of course I accomplished no homework whatsoever that day, or Saturday even. You know where you have those days where... you just cannot get anything done? It was one of those days. So ha, I left myself a lot to do on Sunday. And most of that was taken up other work anyways. Hmm.

I'm glad my sports are slowing down now, and I can concentrate on just the schoolwork for a while!

Standardized Argument #1.

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STANDARDIZED ARGUMENT #1.

1. To face death with high spirits is tough to do.

2. Death physically surrounds us through lifeless landscape.

2. a. Follows us culturally.

2. a. i. Examples are the War Memorials we have, and the memories of those we keep by our hearts.

3. It’s one thing to accept that death happens, even to ourselves,

3. a. Another thing entirely to comprehend that simply put: after death, we will not exist in this world we call home.

4. Death diminishes this world.

4. a. Older we get, more our world shrinks.

4. a. i. More our level of sadness over those who die, grows.

4. b. Close or distant to us, all death lessens us, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

5. Professionals suggest what the “grieving process” should belike, dividing it mainly into “stages” using a vocabulary filled with “normal” and “healthy”

5. a. This is what could be considered one of the toughest times of a person’s life.

THEREFORE

6. Death it terrible. Period.

7. No matter how prettily we try to colour this picture, the loss of a life is instinctively sad.

7. a. Especially those who are so close to us.

Logical Fallacy - Special Pleading

Here we go...

Special Pleading.

Latin Name: Precipuus Oro

Definition: When standards or expectations are applied to people around a person, and yet they are exempt from those standards without any justified reasoning.

Syllogism:

1. Person A accepts standard(s) S and applies them to others in circumstance(s) C.

2. Person A is in C.

3. Therefore A is exempt from S.

Ex #1: Julie thinks for high marks in school, one must do their homework. Julie doesn’t do her homework all the time, yet she thinks that she should still get high marks in school. So therefore, she should not have to do her homework.

Ex #2: Person 1: If someone steals something, they should be punished for it.

Person 2: Wasn’t your best friend caught for theft, and you defended her?

Person 1: But she’s my best friend, so that’s a different story.

Why it’s fallacious: The standards and expectations that are set may not be agreed on or liked by everyone, but everyone does have to follow up with them. One specific person cannot fairly be removed from said standard simply because they personally do not like them.

So when used in an argument, one basically is saying that there is not equal consideration for everyone. They kind of use the argument that they themselves are “better” and therefore their argument should win against their opponent. Simply because they are not considered in the set of expectations or standards.

Personally, I wouldn’t really want to use this fallacy, because

Media Example: The actually article is 7 pages… so that might be a bit long. So I’m summing it up a lot!

After an Uruguayan model was told she could be world famous after loosing even more weight, she went on a strict eating diet and lost a lot of weight. Right after one of her shows, she admitted to not feeling well, and then dropped dead.

Many people began insisting that the preferred size of models was larger than a size zero, and while many people say that they agree with this, and fit auditions at an average of size 8, their magazine shoots won’t happen, because they’re regarded as too big in the photographs. Then the designers will be out of money, and they cannot have that. So they are “the exception.”

Links to info:

http://www.opifexphoenix.com/reasoning/fallacies/specialpleading.htm

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/special-pleading.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-405600/Are-size-zero-models-catwalk.html

(This is the link to the media example)