Looking for a Cause???

In chapter 15 there is a section for how to look for the cause. When you think about it with out reading the section what do you think when you read "How to look for the cause"? Well i think that I have to think about every possible cause to the problem, and that is exaclty it!!!In the book they gave an example of a leaky waterfall and how the person had to explore every which way the water could be leaking. I think that this is a very important process.If there is a problem, it has to be a start to it rite. Figuring out a problem can be tricky at times,but if you stay patient it can be done. I found this section very important because when you have a cause there is always an effect, a lot like a problem and solution. Well I hope this helps everyone :)

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Cause and Effect

The casue and effect site was very detailed and pretty straight forward.It gave a very thorough example of of casue and effect. In an example like the bicicalist being hit it can be a bit confusing, but when you look at it in the cause and effect way it starts to make a lot more sense. THis example is actually something similar to what happened to me a few days ago, I had gotten into a accident where I had ended up rear-ending another car. The car infront of me had previously hit the car infornt of them before i hit them, so whos fault is it???Well the person who caused the accident,so in reality it was the person who I hit, and they ended up having full responsbility for the accident. Anyway I found the exercise page a little confusing, but it was a little helpfull because I know those are potential questions for a test and it can help me practice in studing for this class.

Mission Critical

The mission critical site was very helpfull.First and foremost it was very well organized. As you get into deep reasearch on the site you get very detailed explination of each specific subject and I think that that is the most helpfull of it all. Each of the point is clearly stated and seperated into its own catagory and that is helpful when studing or looking up information.and this will be a good refernce for studing rather than flipping through countless pages. I fing this site most usefull for studing, especially since i am a poor test taker I believe this is a good tool to use.When everything is nicley set out for you and easy for you to use it make it so much easier to clear your head and study thing that you know will be on the test rather than useless information.

This is why I found it usefull and hopefully this will help you to study as well for our comm tests and I look forward to hearing what others found useful in this site.

Have a good week!

Appealing to....

Pg.195 #4:Make up an appeal to some emotion for the next time a traffic officer stops you.

Im speeding down the street, it is a beautiful summer day and Im not even paying attention to the road. All of a sudden bewww bewww, crap Im being pulled over!!!!Okay stay calm stay clam......

Officer:excuse me mam but do you know why I pulled you over?

Me:No

Officer:You were speeding. The limit is 45 and you were going 60.

Me:Oh my gosh I had no idea!Im so sorry, im in such a rush.Im late to work.I have a lot on my mind.Oh my gosh please dont give me a ticket please,I really am sorry I didnt mean to do it.

Now I went over in beyond with Appeal To Fear, because I was scared. I even went so far as to make up exuses of having to go to work and telling the officer I have a lot on my mind, and even pleading. This is al in result of my fear and me not wanting a ticket.

So emotionl......

"Emotions do and should play a role in our reasoning:we cannot even begin to make good decisions if we don not consider the their significance in our emotional life."

Life the Epstein book says, we should use emotion when reasoning.This can be a little confusing though because if we always think with our emotion we may just make decisions bassed on instinced rather than a rationally thought out emotion. This is why emotions can be so tricky, and possibly the reason men believe that women are such a pain in the butt, but thats another story. Anyway your cant reason with out emotion, its just impossible.
Example:
I woke up sick today and I do not want to go to school today because I am in a bad mood because I wanted to go out tonight, I should just stay home and rest up for tonight.

This is not good reasoning, if you are sick going out at night would not help you get better any faster now would it.

the right thing to do=
I woke up sick today and even though I am mad because I want to go out tonight I will stay home and get my rest today so I can get better as soon as possible.

Appeal to Emotion

As talked about in the Epstein there are a few different parts to Appeal to emotion and they are
-appealing to fear, this is a a way that politicians and advertisers manipulate people
-appeal to spite, the hope and revenge, is invariably rejected as bad by some people on moral grounds.In some cultures though, it is not only acceptable but moral imperative to "get even", to preserve ones "honor"
-appeal to vanity,although i was unable to find a good definition in the book this one is pretty obvious. I believe this is the appeal to something that is good for you.

The one that strikes me the most is appeal to fear. This is the one that is most appealing because this seems to be the best way to get peoples attention.I don’t know if its just me but I tend to be more interested in something if it causes fear. For example, scary movies.Scary movies seem so interesting and that attracts a lot of people.I also think that serious consequences to not doing things such as homework is a good example because the fear stimulates me to get more motivated.

Hope this is helpful to all :)