When Logic Fails

1) Ad Hominem: to attack the person instead of the argument
                     Example: Donald trump uses this the most. He attack because he doesn't know how to accept criticism. On twitter he called Clinton a "bigot" and "crippled".

2) Ad Antiquitatem: "It's always been like that" argument
                     Example: Marriage has always been between a man and woman, therefore gay marriage shouldn't be allowed.

3) Red Herring: mentioning unimportant facts to avoid the actual question.
                     Example: In the debate, Clinton keeps mentioning about her book. (lol self promoting)

4) Tu quoque: pointing out that someone also made the same error
                     Example: We're both stupid for trying drugs and alcohol.

5) Straw Man: to ignores a person's actual position and replaces it with an exaggerated version of that position.
                     Example: If you say "I hate this school", people who uses the straw man fallacy can over exaggerate and say "Oh, since your parents paid you to go to school, does that mean you hate your parents too ?"

6) Naturalistic Fallacy: to derive conclusions about what is right or good from statements
                    Example: Nature gives people diseases and sickness, therefore, it is morally wrong to interfere with nature and treat sick people with medicine.

7) Dicto Simpliciter: making a statement and expecting it to be true of every specific case
                    Example: Women are on average not as strong as men and less able to carry a gun.

8) Circulus in demonstrado:

Mistakes for President

After watching the debate for about 30 min. here's what I caught:

1) Trump over exaggerates things, especially to Clinton's ideas

2) Trumps says "Secretary Clinton, does that make you happy ?" proves ad hominem fallacy attacking Hilton. 

3) Trump claims to be the most successful businessman, but then he got bankrupt. So that is an error in logic.

A News Story I Found Interesting

http://www.ksby.com/story/33186812/hot-weather-continues-through-monday-relief-from-the-heat-on-the-way

This news story caught my attention because I hate the heat! I hate hot weather. I can't stand it. So upon reading this, of course it got my attention because tomorrow is going to be almost friggen 100 degrees!

Big Question Discipline/s

So my big question was: "Is it too late do do anything."
To make it more in depth. the meaning of my big question is that say I have been majoring in nursing for 3 years, and just then realized how nursing sucks and wanted to change my major into a music major ? Is it too late ? What if I'm 65 years old, and I wanted to become a performer ? Is it too late ?

• People say "It's never too late." or "It's better late than never."
• Many people pursued their dream jobs at an old age

Fall Vocabulary 4

1) Adroit: clever or skillful in using the hands or mind
     -- She is very adroit when it comes to musical talents.

2) Averse: having s strong dislike or opposition to something
     -- Some people are averse on watching horror films.

3) Amicable: (relation between people) having a spirit of friendliness; without serious disagreement
     -- The relationship I have with my best friends is an amicable one.

4) Belligerent: hostile and aggressive
     -- Every mother is belligerent over their children.

5) Benevolent: well meaning ad kindly
    -- The old lady gave her grandchildren a benevolent smile.

6) Cursory: hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
     -- I took a quick cursory glance at the article my teacher assigned to the class.

7) Duplicity: deceitfulness, double-dealing
     -- You shouldn't be tricked into duplicity by sinful people.

8) Extol: praise enthusiastically
    -- The students extolled about the re-schedule of the quiz.

9) Feasible: possible to do easily or conveniently
     -- The group of girls found it feasible to run rather than play volleyball.

10) Grimace: an ugly twisted expression to a person's face; typically expressing disgust and pain
      -- She gave a grimace of pain when she stubbed her toe.

11) Holocaust: destruction o slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
      -- I learned about the holocaust in English 2.

12) Impervious: not allowing fluid to pass through
     -- An impervious layer of basaltic clay.

13) Impetus: the force of energy with which a body makes.
     -- After spinning my cousin on a rolling chair, she almost lost her impetus.

14) Jeopardy: danger of loss, harm, or failure
     -- Everyone fears for their education winding up in jeopardy.

15) Meticulous: showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise
      -- The dancer was very meticulous to the choreography.

16) Nostalgia: a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy associations.
      -- I was overcome with active nostalgia for my days in elementary.

17) Quintessence: the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.
     -- He was quintessence of political professionalism.

18) Retrogress: go back to an earlier state, typically a worse one
       -- She retrogressed to the starting point of her rehabilitation.

19) Scrutinize: examine or inspect closely and thoroughly
      -- Students were warned to scrutinize the review quiz.

20) Tepid: (especially of a fluid) only slightly warm
     -- The tepid saliva of my dog is on my pillow.

I'M READING BIG BROTHER

• Orwell believes that modern English is full of bad manners
• Orwell believes that the English language becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts our foolish
• Political language lack diction and staleness of imagery
• Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful
• gives an appearance of solidity to pure wind
• language used our vague and meaningless 
• Pretentious diction- scientific impartiality to biased judgements
• meaningless words- words that lack on getting to the point

BAD WORDS!

How did bad words become bad words ? I've always been curious on how they ended up being bad. Were bad words purposely written bad or did someone start saying they were bad. This topic frustrates and confuses me. This hurts my brain just thinking about it and not knowing the actual answer to this. For example, the word "bitch" originally means a female dog. But I'm so curious about, how did someone turn this word into a bad word. So does that mean I can change a good word to a bad word ? For me, bad words are okay but it depends. If you're going to use it to hurt or offend someone, that's when it crosses the line. But using bad words as in if you stubbed your toe and blurted out "F*ck!!" then that's okay. If you hear someone full out cussing with their friends just to be cool, of course you're going to think bad about them. So yes, bad words does change the understanding between people but it all just depends on how you use them and say them.

Literature Analysis Questions #1 (The Red Pyramid)

1) The Red Pyramid is about 2 siblings who are in quest to find their dad who disappeared by the Rosetta stone. This book aims at Egyptian Gods and that's one of the reasons why I chose this book because I've always been interested in any kind of mythology. There are 2 gods inside the 2 siblings guiding them to face trials and helping them control their powers to find their dad.

2) For me, there isn't a specific theme in this story. This book talks about family, friendship, and sacrifice. This story talks about the 2 siblings who only gets to see each other once or twice a year because the separation of the mom and dad, working together in order to get dad back. Their  goal is to try and get their family back together, but in order for that to happen, the trials they face and the battles requires sacrifice. And on this journey together, the 2 siblings gets to know each other and click.

3) I absolutely  love how this author writes. It makes me want to read more and more. This author knows how to catch my attention and not bore me. His ideas of this story is well made. The actions, the characters, the problems are just so good. This author has good imagination and I feel like this author writes his stories outdoors. It's like he's getting inspiration of the details because of the outdoors. This book shows a lot of description of the surroundings. I could tell this author worked really hard on it and wasn't lazy.

4) How I knew that the theme leaned towards into family is because of this quote, "When you only see each other twice a year, it's like your distant cousins rather than siblings. We had absolutely nothing in common except for our parents." This quote was at the beginning of the story when they haven't connected or care about one another.

Recycling (Satire Project)

We live in a world where everywhere we go there are bottles and cans. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people throw their trash anywhere they want, when there is a trash bin so close to them. I mean c'mon! It's only a 15 second walk to get to the trash bin. Waste has such a huge negative impact on the environment. There are animals who are hungry, that they'll eat the waste clueless on knowing that it could kill them. Recycling is so important because of it reducing pollution and making the  environment so much better. People say, one must start recycling in order for others to start recycling.We keep saying that but it's not making a difference. With that being said, let's start recycling people. First off, lets start on getting rid of the organs. Start by cleaning the brain. Make sure to scrub the end of the brain cleaning all those dirty thoughts. Next, you should rinse the heart and the lungs, If you have kids, and they're afraid of the dark, that's no problem! All you have to do is take the heart you rinsed, dry it, cut a hole at the bottom of the heart, and then stick a light bulb inside of it and there you have it! A homemade red night light for your kids! Next up, we have the tongue, the livers, and the kidneys. Make sure to cut and rinse them so that you can cook them to feed to the homeless and the starving children. Now that we have the organs out of the way, lets now focus on the body parts. Start by chopping off the arms and legs. If you got an arm with long nails, keep it. It can be used as a back scratcher. Now if you have an itch on your back that you can't reach, just take your handy dandy cheap back scratcher and let that handle it for you. If you ended up with a strong and muscled arm, you could use that as a baseball bat. Why buy a $100 baseball bat, if you can just recycle a muscled man's arm and own one for free. Legs can be used as a baseball bat also, but I prefer using it as a golf puck since you'll have more chances on hitting the golf ball with the side of the feet. Skin with tattoos on them can be used as children band aids. If one of your children has a cut, just take the tattooed skin, and just duct tape it to the injured area. And there you go! See how recycling people can make a huge difference to the world now that it'll be cleaner since no one can throw their trash anywhere because they're dead and recycled. Recycling people leads to more food, better health, and a decrease in the human population.