Now the Talk Is About Bringin Back Torture

An eye for an eye right? Well, this article is about how bringing back torture will lessen some of the violence that is seen in terrorism threats and raids such as the attacks on September 11, 2009. Also, the talk not only about using violence for violence but also about how we have had a lack of being prepared. Ill-prepared is the issue and how similar frustrations surface like on the Wall Street Journal and other such things.

Time to Think About Torture

This was an interesting reading about how even a liberal can find his thoughts turning into torture. This was the different excerpt about physical torture and torture of the mind in which they additively says, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact." that the new law stops short of inhumane torture. Isrealis wrestling for years. Sodium pentothal the truth serum is considered as they interview some and other like Abu Didal who they tricked to figure out who was behind the world trade center bombs and that there was a plot to crash 11 U.S. airliners.

Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures

This is an article about a young Korean girl who grew up just being a little bit different and not noticing the pitfalls of segragation and favoritism because of each of the commitments of different races and sex contributing to their part in making society a place for them by building up their own rights that applied to them. She claims the history books were wrong because they never told the whole truth. The truth that America is a multicultural nation composed of many histories.

Free-Speech Follies

This article is about the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and how so many times people come close to limiting and infringing one another's rights. For instance, burning a cross on a black family's lawn or by contributing millions to a candidate or vilifying Jerry Falwell and his mother in a parody and yelling "First Amendment," to get away with it because of the freedom of speech. The case of rejection of text to articles in a tribune such as the Illini and the case of whether or not jews should be segregated to prevent another holocaust or even an instance in which self-sensoring becomes an issue or a Professor or first amendment hero of the Harvard
English department rescinding one of it's faculty because of personal opinion.

Ethos, Pathos & Logos and types of rhetoric

Logos is the appeal to reason that relies on logic or reason.

- It includes facts, statistics, examples, and authoratative examples.

Ethos- is the the credibility, character, reliability, and integrity of the writer and or speaker.

Pathos-emotional power of language

Post hoc fallacy-relationship
Adhominem argument-lost points and attack one another instead. -Attack people rather than ideas.

Questionable or faulty sources.

Begging the question-fails to establish proof for a database

Fals analogy-wrongly implies that because two thing sshare some characteristics they are therefore alike.

Either/or fallacy -when you assume that the possible outcome is either this or that.

Red Herring-deflects attention from the matter of what is being discussed.

Argumentation-Persuasion

The Longman Reader. Ninth Edition. Ed. Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Eliza A. Comodromos. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 3009. 472-507. Print.

"How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience."
logos, soundness, of your argument: the facts, statistics, examples, and authorative evidences gathered to support "your" viewpoint.
pathos, the emotional power of language appealing to readers' needs, values and attitudes.
ethos, credibility or integrity.

1. A supportive audience. Achieving having the audience agree with the position you take a stand on. Providing additional information (logos)., you can rely primarily on pathos -a strong emotional appeal.

Suggestions For Using Argumentation-Persuasion In An Essay (pg 477)

1. At the beginning of the paper,identify the controversy surrounding the issue and state your position in the thesis. -The thesus if ab argumentation-persuasion is often called assertion or proposition. Remember: Argumentation-persuasion assumes conflicting viewpoints.

2. Provide readers with strong support for the thesis. -Finding evidence that relates to the readers' needs, values, and experience is a crucial part of writing.

-Personal observation or experience
-Statistics from a report
-Examples from interviews
-Expert opinion cited in a documentary

3. Seek to create goodwill- avoiding alienating readers with views different from your own.

4. Organize the supporting evidence. The support for an argumentation-Persuasion paper can be organized in :
1) Description
2) Causal Analysis
3) Process Analysis

5. Use Rogerian strategy to acknowledge differing viewpoints.
-Psychologist Carl Rogers took the idea of acknowledging the contrary further. He believed that argumentation's goal should be to reduce conflict rather than find a "winner" or "loser"

6. Refute differing viewpoints

7. Use induction or deduction to think logically about your argument.
Induction- involves examination of specific cases, facts, or examples. As in all essays evidence should be specific, unified, adequate,and representative.
Is it recent and accurate? Does it use more than an inferance? Deduction or deductive reasoning begins with a general to specific three step form called a syllogism. This including a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Major premise- a general statement about an entire group.
Minor premise- a statement about an individual within that group.

8. Use Toulmin logic to establish a strong connection between evidence and your thesis.
Have a :
Claim-the thesis, proposition, or conclusion.
Data-the evidence (facts, statistics, examples, observations, expert opinion used to convince readers validity.
Warrant-the underlying assumption that justifies moving from evidence to claim.
Toulmin an author of a book explains readers are more apt to consider your argument valid if they know what your warrant is.