Examining Different Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career

My next argument to evaluate for truth and validity will be exercise r, “If the Social Security system is further weakened, the elderly will have to fear poverty. Therefore, if the Social Security system is not further weakened, the elderly will not have to fear poverty.” After checking the argument for any hidden premises and making sure that it was stated fully and in a clear way and finding that it passed, I will move on to the next step, checking for errors affecting truth. Since all elderly are not dependent on Social Security, the statement that all (all is inferred) elderly will fear poverty if the Social Security system is further weakened, becomes untrue. Also, the second part of the statement is still not true because it assumes the only cause of poverty is a reduction or loss of income, when in fact; there are many different reasons for poverty, such as mismanagement of funds caused by anything from addiction to poor financial decisions. The statement becomes more defensible if it is changed to read, “If the Social Security system is further weakened, the elderly who depend on it will have to fear poverty. Therefore, if the Social Security system is not further weakened, those same elderly may not have to fear poverty.” Again, the final step will be checking the argument for validity errors and determining if a legitimate assumption can be derived from the premise. The revised statement now has more validity and the assumption that those elderly that depend

| Demonstrates some understanding of descriptive and value assumptions and value conflicts, identifies some and provides satisfactory explanation of their effect on the argument. May have some confusion over definitions, but generally demonstrates understanding of the concepts.

5). What are some of the conditions that may cause argument to fail? The following are a list of reasons why Arguments fail:

The policy that requires educational institutions to dissuade students from pursuing the fields that they are unlikely to succeed is, at first glance, rather plausible. Certainly a prompt forestalling action may bring the student back from the detouring path effectively. However, the consequences of this policy are not immutable. Instead, they vary dramatically with the characteristics of students, and the time during which the policy is enacted, before or in college. Such complexity of the possible results of this policy requires careful circumspection. While the author declares such dissuasion is obligatory, I remain doubtful of this.

Choosing a career is not an easy task. As a child, I never knew what I eventually wanted to grow up to be, but in the back of my mind I would always say a teacher because I come from a long history of teachers in my family. One of my grandpas was a high school math teacher along with coaching the football team. My aunt is an elementary school substitute teacher specializing in special needs students, while my uncle is a high school history teacher. While, my father is a physical education teacher who has taught at both the elementary and high school level. Growing up around so many teachers made me think I was destined to be a teacher, although at the time, I was not passionate about it, until my senior year of high school. Senior year I decided to take a child development course where I had the opportunity to volunteer daily at an elementary school. I quickly fell in love with the students and decided that inspiring young children to succeed was my calling. It was this opportunity that made me decide that becoming a teacher was my destiny. Last year I declared as a Child and Adolescent Studies (CHAD) to peruse my dreams of becoming a teacher

The answer I chose was b, rewards. At first, I chose c, alternative partners but for some reason I second guessed myself. I felt that c was too straight forward so I went with an answer that didn’t make too much sense. Overall, there were two reasons why I got this question wrong, I second guessed myself and 11/7/17 I wasn’t feeling 100%. I overall felt that I did not do my best on quiz 10 and have realized that honestly, we all do have bad days.

For me a Career is a livelihood profession carried out for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress. A career is often composed of the jobs held, titles earned and work accomplished over a long period of time, rather than just referring to one position. It’s difficult to find a good career in which you can excel and move up for example, becoming a principal from a teacher, air force officer from a pilot ant etc.

Directors of the 36 Vet Centers will be contacted by phone and email to participate in the study. Vet Center Directors will then contact support staff and brief them regarding the intervention and protocol for distributing consent forms to veterans. Support staff will distribute and collect consent forms from participants. Participants will be recruited based on time spent transitioning to civilian life, and willingness to participate in workshop over the course of five days. Incentives will be provided on completion of the workshop.

What Holland suggests in his theory is that persons and environments can be framed within six types

Students can spend their whole lives lusting after a college degree, and saving up vast sums of money in order to accomplish this dream. Once they finally reach the college campus they must merely select the major they want to spend a grueling four years learning everything about. Graduates then enter the job market confident that they’ll spend the rest of their live working in that field; however, this is not always the case. While all majors may seem equal on a university level, some majors are better than others when faced with the inconvenient truth of job availability. There should be more focus on helping students decide on a major that will prove fruitful in the labor market, rather than just getting them to college.

Social Work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. I chose to seek a degree in this field because I find this to be a very rewarding career choice. To obtain a degree in a career that essentially makes a difference in people’s lives is extremely important to me. I have worked as a medical assistant for over 10 years, and although I love my job I would like to work closer with the people that I serve. I realize from working with people with intellectual disabilities that my passion lies with helping and assisting individuals. It takes a special person to work in social services because this is a field where advocating and assisting are a forte. I would like to obtain my Bachelors of Art in Social Work and work with children. After, I have worked in the field for at least a year I would like to continue postgraduate studies in lure of earning my master’s in social work. My ultimate goal is to obtain both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work and specialize in case management assisting both children and veterans.

My whole life I have always wanted to do something where people will remember me. I went threw millions of career choices before I came to the conclusion of a nurse. It’s not something that will get me into History books, but its something where all the people I help will remember what I did to care for them or their loved ones. My mom went to school to become and RN, but dropped out when she became pregnant with me. After that story was told to me, I didn’t want to be anything related to nursing. It wasn’t until my step mom went to school to be LPN that I realized it would be possible for me to do. I saw how much happiness it gave her, and I want the same thing. She loved helping the patients by treating them, and helping their families

c. Errors in logic, or fallacies, can make an argument appear weak and unconvincing. Read about good arguments versus fallacies, and complete the five exercises. Then write two syllogisms of your own that are based on fallacies, and explain their logical errors. You might choose from these fallacies: validity problem, post hoc, slippery slope, straw man, inconsistency, begging the question, false dilemma, non sequitur, and ad hominem.

The following argument concludes that Prunty County should "undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago" because they attempt to improve highway safety failed. This conclusion may true, but several flaws in the argument make it sounds unconvincing. The unwarranted assumption that argument is based on such as changing Prunty County project will improve highway safety, decrease accident in Butler County just because of their project and employ Butler County's project will improve highway safety in Prunty County, rendering the Argument logically flawed.

Choosing a right career path can be tough. Especially, when the parents are involved. Parents want their children to have a better life in the future so they want their children to be educated. When they are successfully graduate from the college they can get a high paying job and earn much more than their parents. However, does everyone listen and follow their parents’ decisions about the career? What happen if kids didn’t want what their parents told them to do? Is there a compromise and or one side needs to give in? It was a tough decision for me too. There was a lot of pressure on me. I was hesitated and somehow worried when my parents were involved, but I knew what I want for my career.