“Chances are, the genius representing you in the legislature won’t score 50 percent on the above test” (Moore 132). In a deeper outlook his sarcastic tone shows that he is confident enough about his argument to make jokes about it. He almost makes the reader feel like an “idiot” themselves for not knowing about the predicament our nation is in before reading his argument. Moore’s sarcasm is another way of being bumptious and knowing his stand on the argument is the right one and to push his audience to agree as well. Moore’s excerpt is well-structured from beginning to end.
Thus, democracy and a fair voting group become tainted. I would definitely say that Comedy Central's Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report are part of the "media" that affects people’s opinion. These television shows are a way to provide comedic relief to the issues our economy faces; however, these shows still have an impact of how the viewer will understand an issue at hand. It is very difficult for anyone to be completely unbiased and with constantly hearing other people’s opinion through the media. We cannot make a decision of how “we” feel about the topic.
This is the issue that is at stake with both readings of “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift and Garret Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics.” Hardin’s essay that is serious in tone, while Swift’s offers similar views appears to be poking fun by starting at in a serious tone at first glance but in reality is far from it. One illustration of this similarity can be found in the objections each makes in their actual quite differing arguments. Hardin argues against the ideas of “kind-hearted” and “well-meaning” liberals, and Swift says, “let no man talk to me of other expedients…” Jonathan Swift’s essay, “A Modest Proposal,” describes a satirically “fair, cheap, and easy method” to address the great amount of starving children in Ireland by fattening up these undernourished children and feed them to Ireland’s rich land-owners, but Garrett Hardin‘s concept is moral obligation is not a one way sacrificing to others; however, it is built on a foundation of sharing and cooperating. Throughout the article, Swift makes a motion for the prevention of the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their
Carr does this to show just how big of an impact that the internet has not only on the literary society, but society as a whole. This essay is primarily a convincing essay, in that Carr is attempting to explain why Google is creating an attention-deficit society. He states that, “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy.”(603) Nicholas then goes on to mention how his concentration starts to wonder after reading two to three pages. The intimate relationship between the reader and the text is lost. Carr feels as though he has to constantly find his way back to the original text because of distractions.
Having Fun With Operational Definitions Adapted from teachpsychscience.org Directions: Identify and operationally define the independent and dependent variables in each of the following research ideas. Research Idea #1: A social psychologist was interested in whether people are more likely to exhibit conformity when they are in situations that make them feel nervous and unsure of themselves. What is the independent variable? How would you define it operationally? What is the dependent variable?
In this article, Carr explains to us the ways in which he believes that technology has affected our society. Although we think of pros when it comes to the advancement of technology, not many of us who use technology have considered that there are negative affects to this ongoing advancement of technology. There are several effects due to the advancement of the Internet; laziness, shorter attention span, and lack of patience. The primary claim that is made in this article is that the more we use the Internet, the weaker our ability to concentrate on long pieces of writing become. While some people might not agree with the idea that the Internet is diminishing our intelligence.
One of them is the domination by the authority of office, which showed a strong need for obedience from power (Allen, 2004). Weber thought more deeply about his legitimate authority and pointed out that there are three ideal types of it in history. None of these types exist in pure form in the real world, but they can be used as a tool to analyse political issues (Allen, 2004). Moreover, Weber classifies specific political concepts as ‘ideal types’ in order to solve the problem that political concepts are considered as things instead of the tool to understand things. Therefore, it is vital to notice that ideal types are only tools to analyse and should be regarded as how useful they are instead of
TOK Essay: Emotion vs. Reason Hamza Usmani- October 4, 2013 To what extent are intuition and emotion more effective than reasoning and logic in making/validating knowledge claims? Internationally acclaimed “TED Talks” speaker David Brooks stated in his lectures, “For centuries, we have inherited a view of human nature based on the notion that we are divided selves. Reason is separated from the emotions, and society progresses to the extent that reason can suppress the passions”. The notion that emotion and reason fight against each other amongst humans is a concept which has yet to be completely justified, however it is clearly demonstrable. It is commonly believed that human emotions, and gut-feelings/intuition, interfere with rational thinking, and so when making knowledge claims, these passions should be subdued.
This view claims that a person’s ideology or idea have the utmost claim to the truth and that it is ulterior ideology is coded “will to power”. This suggests that discourses for this view are more incommensurate due to the language games of power play being used. To explain simply, distinction between the image and reality have been blurred due to the struggle of power, thus making it hard for us to separate these two concepts. The Marxism view ideology as having relationship with power and domination. If you have more power, you will win the consent to exercise that power in dictating the dominant people’s views.
Nobel laureate Marie Sklodowska -Curie, argued that “nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” The relationship between fear and knowledge has been discussed since Classical Greece; philosophers like Plato and Socrates, later inventors like Einstein and even today’s writers like Jostein Gaarder have divergent views on this issue and the question of knowledge in general. In this essay, I want to argue that a broader knowledge and thus broader understanding of the outreach of the unknown, will contribute to the recognition of ignorance and therefore knowledge as well as ignorance will both create the notion of fear. This vicious circle is sustained by discourses and therefore statements, beliefs and practices that produce knowledge as well as fear, such as nurture and indoctrination. Ignorance regardless the cause of its presence, is able to create the notion of fear. An ignorant child will not understand that a darkened room contains the same dangers as an illuminated room: none.