Operant Conditioning Argumentative Analysis

In arguing that anti-Confederate southerners played a central role in Confederate defeat, Freehling shifts historical debate to ground that is at once familiar and novel. Historians such as Drew Gilpin Faust and Paul Escott have identified internal disaffection as the primary cause of Confederate defeat while Gary Gallagher has suggested that whites in the Confederacy maintained their support for the government even as military losses ended the war.[1] The South vs. the South expands the scope of inquiry, looking beyond internal fissures within the Confederacy to the divisions in broader southern society. In Freehling's telling, anti-Confederate whites undermined the Confederacy by remaining outside the nation while slaves sapped Confederate

EJI argued in the United States Supreme Court that death-in-prison sentences imposed on children are unconstitutional, and the Court has now banned death-in-prison sentences for children convicted of non-homicide crimes and mandatory death-in-prison sentences for all children. Trial courts must conduct new sentencing hearings where judges will have to consider children's individual characters and life circumstances, including age, as well as the circumstances of the crime. The Supreme Court wrote that, because of "children's diminished culpability, and heightened capacity for change, we think appropriate occasions for sentencing juveniles to this harshest possible penalty will be

Through understanding the errors, I made in Writing Assignment #3 (WA #3) I was able to edit and better understand what corrections was needed for Writing Assignment #4 (WA #4) to become a well thought out paper. For WA #3 I received a B+ because of the lack of further development in my argument, which made the voice in the argument, the context behind sources and the thesis weaker.

Like Sanchez’s article, Atkin covers the starving and abandoned pets and zoo animals that are a result of the economic crisis. The video depicts starving dogs with the facts of the article floating over their heads. The article is essentially a transcript of the video.

Observational studies were done on school children in kindergarten through third grade. The article explains that the children’s BMIs (body mass index) were measured at the beginning of the school year, end of the school year, and then again at the beginning of the following school year. It was seen that the BMI increase of the children increased twice as much during the three summer months than during the nine-month school frame. This infers that children gain more weight and are more incline to become overweight in their own home environment than their school environment. Sloviter makes a point that this increase in BMI at such a young age will lead to an increased risk for adult obesity. She concludes the article by briefly reminding the reader to remember that there are other factors that contribute to childhood obesity and the largest factor may not be the school lunch environment after all.

     Nutrition is the most important source of living life.            B.  Thesis statement:     A child’s behavior can be linked to their everyday diet. II.  Background information about topic The development and long-term health of children are based upon nutritional habits from early life onward.

Innovation allows the world evolve. Evolving is an import aspect of life. Why is it important to evolve? Every day, we as a nation evolve to make our lives better. Technology is an example of an entity that is constantly evolving. For instance, a cellphone has transformed from a brick with only 30 minutes’ talk time, into a touchscreen device with a battery capacity of 24 hours. As we speak, the military is evolving the way we fight combat forever. It is the use of AWS (Autonomous Weapon Systems). Per snopes.com, the military defines them as “Sophisticated computerized devices which, as defined by the U.S. Department of Defense, “once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator.” Basically, robots that are armed with weapons with the

The morality of law and sentencing is questioned when one applies the free will problem. One may inquire how can someone be responsible for outcomes if their actions are determined? This idea is argued for clients by attorneys on various crimes committed ranging from murder to drug convictions. We can read sociological and crime statistics to gain insight on what type of individuals is more likely to commit certain unlawful acts. Those numerical calculations are derived from certain negative upbringing conditions like impoverishment, neglect, or mental disorders. Furthermore, this evidence and other forms like these are exercised in court cases as support for deterministic argument in favor of their client.

Since God exists in our minds then there are two options: either God only exists as an idea in our minds or God exists in both our mind and in reality. Even if God only exists in our minds we are still able to think of God as existing in reality as well. Anselm proposes that something that exists in reality and in the mind is greater than just existing in the mind: “…for it is one thing for an object to exist in someone’s understanding, and another thing for him to think that it exists”. This new idea of God existing is greater than the previous which is absurd since we defined God as that which nothing greater can be conceived. Therefore God must exist in the mind as well as in reality.

When people talk about exercise, there is one main workout that most people have done in their life. That exercise is running. For some, running isn’t just a way to go out and get healthy, running can be a way for people to escape the stressful lives they live in and go out and explore the world on the endless trail running has to offer. While most people think this, some have a different opinion on the topic. Some feel as though running is not healthy for you at all in the long run, and that it can cause some serious health effects to your body in the long run. However, after getting the facts from both sides of the argument, anyone will agree that running will benefit your health in the long run physically and mentally.

Technology has become an integral part of who humans are in this age. Clive Thompson initially uses the example of human relations with computers in the game of chess, whether working against each other or together, to express his opinion on this relationship. By informing himself of the history of how computers were integrated into the game of chess, and reviewing many studies on the matter, he was able to agree with the conclusion that, while a human’s ability to defeat a computer head-to-head was not considerable, there was a great potential for what could be achieved if the two battled together. Thompson, however, was not strictly concerned with computers and humans playing chess; he found this partnership to be a practical analogy to how humans and computers working together in everyday life increases the potential for both partners.

The way a story is perceived is determined by how it is told. A story is shared by an author with their own individual opinions and viewpoints. Recently there was an airstrike drawn out by the American forces toward Libya that killed two Serbian hostages. When looking at two news sources, one Serbia and the other United States, there was a noticeable difference in the tone throughout each article. The United States news source on this specific topic focused on the Americans goal of the airstrike and if they had accomplished it, whereas the Serbia news source focused on questioning the Americans and attacking their actions of the airstrike. There are multiple differences in the two news sources based on its language and views however, there are areas that are found to be similar.

Determining the best way to raise and teach children is a topic that has been discussed and debated for a long time. As psychology has developed, so has our understanding of how organisms learn and how we can apply that to our lives. One method of teaching is operant conditioning, giving either rewards or punishments after a certain behavior to promote or discourage it. This method could be used to teach children; for example, teaching children to say please when asking for items.

Contrary to what many people think, learning grammar is not as important as applying it when asked to do so for a writing piece, according to Michelle Navarre Cleary in “The Wrong way to Teach Writing Grammar,” Cleary argues that the old-fashion method of memorizing parts of speech and diagramming sentences is in fact deteriorating students from going ahead to express their thoughts. For instance, do you often feel pressured to find any grammatical error in your essay? Maybe, you ask yourself should I add the comma here or before this word. Much research, including 250 studies and reviews that date back as far as a century indicate that memorizing or diagramming parts of speech does not help make students better writers. Whether it be students

Watson and Hull define the Classical condition as “as a process of directly attaching a reflux response to a new stimulus.” (p.175). The operant conditioning is “a type of learning in which the future of a behavior is affected by consequences.” (p.228). In the following paragraphs, I use real world scenarios.