Super Bowl Exploited: Sexism and Logic Fallacies within Commercials By Mollie Ray Associate Professor Heck English 1010-124 9 October 2012 Outline Thesis statement: While Super Bowl commercials are often very entertaining, blatant sexism and logic fallacies can cause an unappealing effect on the audience. I. Toyota Camry “It’s Reinvented” A. Sexism B. Logic fallacies 1. Hasty generalization 2. Non sequitur 3.
The main similarity that both articles highlight is the topic of morals. “What is morally correct?” I can imagine if they could sit down to talk about their work they would come to a common ground in their beliefs. Steve Buist’s article highlights the unethical behavior between researchers and companies that fund researches, and how these behaviors can be improved. “Improving the transparency around the financial relationships between researchers and companies is one way to deal with the potential conflicts of interest that can arise” (Buist, S., 2012). One such example is the “most reputable scientific journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, now require the authors of scientific papers to make detailed disclosure of their commercial financial relationships as a prerequisite for publication” (Buist, S., 2012).
'The Story of Tom Brennan' follows the lives of the Brennan family after the events of a fatal car accident, which shows how Tom the protagonist struggles to cope with his past. Similarly the song 'Father and Son' is a representation of an escape, as a man seeking to flee a life he finds suffocating, and the film 'Dead Poets Society' also explores two protagonists faced by challenges of moving into the world and dealing with issues of fear, growing up and following their dreams. All these texts reflect the experiences, ideas, knowledge and beliefs that are evident in society,and reflected throughout these texts. J.C Burke emphases many themes through out 'The Story of Tom Brennan' such as fear, relationships and growing up. These thematic concerns are echoed in the related texts therefore linking the texts and reflecting how texts may represent society.
This includes his description of his job as a school teacher (paragraph one), the big mystery he encounters as he travels overseas (paragraph two), and the life-altering change he goes through after killing hundreds of men. The boring parallelism used when talking about his job describes that he just has a normal life and that it drags on like your average, American worker. But in reality, it’s anything but ordinary. Once he comes overseas, it’s a completely different story. In paragraph two, when Hanks talks about the change that he goes through and wondering if his wife will even recognize him, he uses a much more depressed state of parallelism.
From Statistics To Best Believed Rumors Joe Best’s “Damned Lies And Statistics” is a well written book about, as I understood it, the different ways in which a statistic is made into a “rumor.” In other words, the book goes on and on about the different series of pathways in which a statistic goes threw that eventually force it to evolve into being interpreted into something greater than what it really is. Best provides a series of examples that support the thesis. In which he forces the reader to expand his or hers ideas about the statistics they know, and to really analyze each detail and to use commonsense to make it a fact or a trashy rumor. Although I considered this book to be “boring” at first, it actually turned out to be the best book I have ever read. It actually taught me something, the importance of words.
Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, is a book based on how an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and then begins to spread like wildfire. More Damned Lies and Statistics, by Joel Best, is based on statistics; it is based on statistics of missing numbers, confusing numbers, scary numbers, authoritative numbers, magical numbers, and contentious numbers. Freakonomics, by Steve D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, is composed of a series of essays in which a journalist and an economist demonstrate how, by applying basic principles of economics, data often reveal fascinating truths about how the world works.These books talk about completely different subjects, but they are intertwined when thinking about the overall points of the book. They show us what is not included when looking at an epidemic and how an epidemic can be miscalculated if some factors are not looked at. In the introduction of the Tipping Point, Hush Puppies, a brushed suede shoe, became stylish when a group of children wore them one day to try and look different.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is not a simple, shallow novel, despite the simple, shallow lives of its characters. In different hands it would read as a quick romance you'd buy in a grocery store. It talks about hypocrisy, dishonesty, and carelessness, but those themes are displayed mostly in secondary characters. Yes, the characters that are hypocritical, dishonest, and careless are integral to the plot, but the main character (not the narrator, Nick) is Jay Gatsby, and what he and his failures exemplify is how nearly unachievable the American dream is. The American dream is to make something from nothing, to break new ground, to build on nothing that was there before.
More importantly however, are auxiliary sources that further extended the arguments that Pinker makes throughout the rhetoric. To start with, Pinker makes a point on humans having what he calls a “moralization switch,” that turns on and off when moral recognition is necessary. In a Ted Talk by Jonathon Haidt, continues on the idea that this mindset allows humans to determine when something is morally just or morally unjust. Later in his piece, Pinker digs into the subject of how humans use reasoning and rationalization to make moral decisions with the help Josh Greene, a successful student from
law describes, theory explains * What is the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific hypothesis? theory is well tested, hypothesis is an educated guess * How are scientific theories, laws, and hypotheses similar? they all start with a hypothesis, kind of a step by step analysis * Why is evidence important in science? to support or refute a hypothesis * What happens if scientists discover new evidence that contradicts an accepted scientific hypothesis, theory, or law? it leads to modification of scientific
Essentially all advertising as we now know it is emotionally manipulative, but whether this is harmful or not is highly questionable. For the sake of analysis, that advertising creates a market, new needs, and generally encourages consumerism will be assumed to be true. These facts on their own could be debated until the end of time, but to focus only on analyzing the ethics of manipulative advertising, some assumptions must be made. If this is true, then it is also true that advertising and production are necessary for prosperity. If advertising has a direct effect on consumerism and production, then advertising is essentially creating jobs and markets and helping people make a living.