Dana Stevens summarizes Johnson’s essay by stating his claim that shows are becoming more complex and more complicated over the last two decades and watching it makes you smarter. Stevens disagrees with Johnson and believes that most shows assist in rotting the brain and also claims that not watching TV will not make you dumber. Stevens then criticizes Johnson for not mentioning the recent controversies and terrorism in 24, and that he fails to account the commercials that interrupt the show. Common sense seems to dictate that watching too much TV is bad for you and that it doesn’t make you smarter. In my own view, I agree with Stevens that watching TV does not make you any smarter.
He thinks that Aquinas had made an error in linking cause and effect – as have any other humans that have done the same. Cause and effect are two completely different things, linked incorrectly in the mind by induction. Hume argues that because of this error, there is no cause and effect chain and therefore, no first cause. He argues that we have no direct experience of the creation of the universe and so we cannot speak meaningfully about it. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) agrees with the idea that we cannot try to comprehend something outside of our reach – we can
Very religious people that are my friends have told me they are forced to go to church every Sunday which they don’t want to. I think that’s wrong, I want people to believe in what religion they want. Parent might tell them no, you have to come every Sunday or else your grounded. Also to make choices. Like Joseph storm made a choice to believe in what he wanted to believe in.
Use the word “because” to connect your judgment to your reasons. Example: The films of Kevin Smith, from Clerks through Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, should be avoided because the humor is sophomoric, the language offensive, and the dialogue crowded with unintelligible pop-culture references. Body of Argument Reason One • First Criteria. State, as a topic sentence, your judgment on the first evaluative criteria, and use appropriate transition words/phrases to move from thesis to first reason. Also, restate the wording of the first reason so it doesn’t simply copy the reason as you stated it in the complete thesis.
Against Feldman’s Argument Kevin Dong Word Count: 1400 In Feldman’s Epicurus and the Evil of Death, the author rejects Epicurus’ argument that one should not fear death. He claimed that a painful sensation was not the only requirement for something to be considered bad. Not being better off than one could have can also be considered bad. The purpose of my paper is to show that Feldman’s definition of what is bad fails. I will first present Epicurus’ argument and Feldman’s counter argument and explain the latter.
Celina Mae Medina Formal Theme no. 2 9-Neon October 16, 2012 Curiosity of a Child, Mind of a Yoda Objective: To write about a descriptive essay about a chance encounter with a “higher being” using prepositional phrases, adjective and adverb clauses. According to my birth certificate, I am a roman catholic. As a child I was taught how to pray and go to church every Sunday with my family. Whenever I question my parents or my grandparents why should I go to church, they would say that I should give thanks to our blessings as well as pray for those who are in need and less fortunate.
A dystopia is defined as a seemingly utopian society with at least one fatal flaw; in Vonnegut’s "Harrison Bergeron", the setting is "a ruthlessly egalitarian society, in which ability and accomplishment, or even competence, are suppressed or stigmatized as forms of inequality" ("Dystopia," online). Vonnegut’s choice of "equalities" is essential to the story’s meaning: by focusing on the subjective types of equality and understating the objective ones, he satirizes not the ideal of equality itself but rather the American society’s flawed idea of equality. Karen and Charles Wood have said of Vonnegut’s many short stories: “Vonnegut proves repeatedly … that men and women remain fundamentally the same, no matter what technology surrounds them." While "Harrison Bergeron" is at least partly about the use and misuse of technology, Vonnegut doesn’t seem to give much focus to gender issues or the differences between men and women. Not giving attention to one of the most controversial equality issues of our time in a literary work that is specifically about the notion of equality is questionable; the women’s rights movement was very active in the early 1960’s when Vonnegut wrote his short story.
McKinzey Scroggs AP Language/Composition 2nd period – Ross 14 February 2014 “The Indispensable Question” Rhetorical Precis Walter Lippmann's article, “The Indispensable Opposition (1939)” which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, asserts that the freedoms the people obtained are not seen as a right to their freedom but something to be tolerated. Lippmann backs up his claims by describing the injustices of today's world of the toleration of human rights. Lippmann's purpose is to point out the faulty lines of or freedoms, in order to awaken the numb-minded people experiencing this freedom to show them that their freedom is a necessity to life. Given the sophisticated vocabulary of this passage, Lippmann's audience is well-versed and very educated people. In paragraph one, Walter Lippmann uses the rhetorical strategy of personification to give the statement a extra punch of vitality.
In a world of absolute equality, each human being would never be looked upon as anything more or less than the person beside him or her. Unfortunately, this advantage may only go so far. For example, how can an intelligent person be given as much credit as mentally handicap individual? This is the case with Harrison Bergeron, in his maximizing complete equality is to have the intelligent people wear earphones (which give off horrible sounds) to distract one's trail of thoughts. This way society loses its chances to excel and will remain oppressed.
They achieve this equality by using handicaps to set everyone to the same level of abilities, such as beauty, strength, and special abilities. Vonnegut uses “Harrison Bergeron” to teach the lesson that all people are not equal, but rather, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses to contribute. Vonnegut uses tone, symbolism, and imagery to show the reader how full equality is not only impossible but also that it is an idea that is not worth striving for as it is unnecessary and possibly even harmful to society. In the year 2081, Vonnegut’s story reveals a futuristic dystopia where society has been forced into full “equality” by the government. The citizens are forced to use government assigned handicaps, so that they do not have any special gifts that are beyond the “average person,” which happens to be an absurdly low standard.