Bandwagon Argument Analysis

A fallacy is defined as a kind of error in reasoning. They can be persuasive and be created both unintentionally and intentionally in order to deceive others from the truth. Fallacies often indicate a false belief or cause of a false belief (dowden, 2006). An argument or situation commits a fallacy when the reasons offered do not support the conclusion. This defeats the purpose of the argument since its point is to give reason to support the conclusion. Fallacies affect the outcome of our everyday decision making process. There are three types of logical fallacies discussed in this paper along with the importance of utilizing critical thinking skills.

Bandwagon fallacy is used for setting off the morality of European people who judge or be

The Cleveland Indians faced pressure in Canada to get rid of there name and mascot, including a court challenge. Douglas Cardinal has filed a complaint to the Ontario Superior court to prevent the Cleveland Indians from wearing their regular jerseys, using their team name and displaying their logo, while playing in Toronto. He is an architect and officer of the order of Canada. He also filled complaints with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and Canadian Human Rights Commission. His argument is that the Cleveland Indians' team name and mascot are offensive and discriminatory to native people. There mascot is a cartoon man with red skin and a feather in his head band. Many people refer to the mascot as Chief Wahoo.

Admittedly, there are other views about concussions in football. One argument is that players sign up to play football so why are they and the fans complaining. It is a good point, players do indeed play the sport they love, but those same players were promised better safety measures to keep them out of harm's way. It is easy to blame the players for choosing such a brutal sport, but the NFL in years past has made promises to make the game of football safer for all those who play. The NFL has come up with the program of Heads Up Football, which teaches kids proper tackling technique to make them avoid from heading head first into hits.

The Quinnipiac University poll was done during early September to test the waters before the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump. The sample size was roughly 960, supposedly voters from across the nation with a margin of error of +- 3.2 which isn’t horrible. The numbers look fine and because it was a nationwide poll, the possibility of getting a fair and accurate cross section of views is fairly high, that being said there are a few issues with this poll that cause me to be concerned with the accuracy of this poll for many reasons.

An argument can be made that because of these restrictions and a desire to keep things “pure”, meaning do not allow the allure of incentives like money or gifts to influence decisions by prospective student-athletes and their parents, this has created a black market for the type of corrupt behavior exhibited by students, their parents, coaches, school officials, advisors, and corporations. This prohibition has forced what could be seen as just compensation for the athletics performed or finder’s fees by representatives of school athletic programs to be viewed in a negative light.

In November 2016, Donald Trump was elected as president of the United States. This took a toll for many Americans and the potential changes coming our way. After a few months of his presidency, immigration became the spotlight of news discussions and social media. It started with a wall being built along the United States and Mexican border to the current travel ban. There has been pros and cons towards immigration, whether or not it would benefit or hurt our society. In the article, “The Pros and Cons of the Trump Immigration Ban Policy,” the author analyzes the pros and cons of the immigration ban policy presented by President Donald Trump. Saladan analyzes information on the growing refugee population from 1975 to 2017. The author begins their argument with the potential outcomes of restricting travel of foreigners and the different countries that are banned, which involved North Korea and 5 middle eastern countries. Saladan conveys important details regarding the refugee policy’s within this ban. He continues to state the influence with religious beliefs coming into play with this policy. Saladan states, “One of the most controversial parts of the order is under its section on refugee policy, namely its prioritization of religious minorities claiming religious persecution.” (Saladan 1) In the article, Saladan and I share the same view of the refugee policy and the effects of millions based on the implementations of

Have you realized that more and more immigrates came to recent years? Indeed, immigration rates in the United States has been among the highest since the peak in early twentieth century. Every year, people who immigrate to this country are count more than 1 million, without including unauthorized immigrants. Many Americans who believed too much immigration in America could become a problem. For the fact that if America’s immigration rate continues grow, like now, by 2050’s the minority groups collectively will constitute the majority of Americans now. Some interest groups believe that the white majority will no longer be the dominate culture, moreover, new immigrants may take jobs away from American workers and eventually alter the nature of American culture. However, some interest groups believes that people who view immigrants as a threat are less educated, and they believe immigration does not need to reform. Immigration has become a controversial topic, both interest groups was fighting to inform the public of their idea towards immigration.

Ever since President Carter, there have been disputes of how to reform the election process of electing the Democratic nominee for the general election. Both teams presented their arguments explicitly of why or why not the superdelegates should be abolished from the Presidential Nomination System. Both teams were only able to touch at least one main argument from the assigned reading and provided examples of present and past events to reinforce their position. However, the negative team seemed more compelling because of contradictory argument found within the affirmative team position paper, their strong use of the assigned readings main argument in contrast to the affirmative team, and their solid arguments validating the superdelegates representation

A Bandwagon Appeals is when the audience is believing to an argument that is accurate and the crowd is also agreeing to the argument. The image I chose was a Subway advertising and it demonstrates that going to subway will help a customer to lose weight. There will be more customers at Subway because they got inspired by the man who lost weight and wants to experience the same way as the man

I think you bring up some valid points. It is good to choose a resource that is reliable and creditable. From my experience I do think bias opinions can affect your wok but sometimes in a positive way. I’ve used a bias source to my advantage. I’ve used it as a tool to prove my point. It touches along the lines of your statement to choose your article wisely. I do also think if you’re going to use a source for information you should make sure the information is right. As your example shows fake or incorrect information can be very bad for your work. Thanks for sharing once again.

Within the pro-choice world there are many issues that are discussed like abortion, the instant where life begins and the use of contraceptives. This article will focus on not only the issue of using of contraceptives, but specifically the distribution of oral contraceptives (“the pill”) to teenage girls without their parent’s consent.

United Nations also states that Soccer is unique because it can transcend various cultures, it is the greatest contributor towards a peaceful world, this is because soccer cuts across cultures and it would provide safe environments and that it at the grass roots level, at the community levels. Participants in soccer are taught a lot of things such as tolerance, learn how to respect other people and their culture and religion as well as learn more about fair play. Soccer is a common denominator and the passion is shared by people across the globe, and because of that it can help to build bridges between warring nations and communities and they can have peace and understanding. Even in a war situation, soccer can be used to unify the warring

Hurley states that, “The fallacy of false cause occurs whenever the link between premises and conclusion depends on some imagined causal connection

Waite and Gallagher also discuss the benefits that marriage gives to couples. Including the financial benefits, in that through specialization and by sharing incomes getting married boosts standard of living by thirty percent and this benefit is not incurred by cohabitating, as those who cohabitate do not share as much and are less committed to the wellbeing of their partner. In addition to the financial benefits, they also discuss the emotional benefits of knowing you have someone who loves you and who would take care of you. Children similarly benefit from having married parents as there are more financial resources available to help take care of them and they get to spend more time with at least one parent.