Week five assignments

Thesis for a slolution
Although some residents fear over development of the area, Navarre beach should be opened up to the Gulf of Mexico because it will bring more bussiness opertunities to the area, the city has been is almost finished preparing the infrastuction, and to make more money of course. (last one will be refined later once the brain fart has passed.)

Reading responses for the Big foot article.

* What is Specter's thesis? What does he argue? Where is it in the essay?
* What differentiates this essay from what a newspaper account of the honeybee situation would say?
* In magazine articles, writers don't cite sources, but the magazines do have fact checkers who check the facts for every article. Be a fact checker, and find 3 facts that Specter presents and check them for us (provide your sources).

Figuring out a thesis from this article has been very difficult for me. The first part of this article focuses on the food indrestry and the second part brings up power plants, trade markets and the planets resources to deal with the problem. I an effort to name a thesis I will guess at "How do we alter human behavior significantly enough to limit global warming? Personal choices, no matter ho virtuous, cannot do enough. It will also take laws and money" Just look at the part that starts with the big H.
I am not sure if I missed having to read an articale or essay on honey bees? What honeybee situation? Off the top of my head the differentiates would be global warming and bees. of course they could be tied and say due to global warming there will be a shortage of honey due to the bees moving or dieing.

Just the facts man! I realy need to get that class book in.

Looking into Finding were some of the facts for this articale I looked up Wikipedia.org and found... not what I was looking for. I was looking for the “I am not a scientist," speach in the Big foot article. So went the three other links and still found nothing on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Leahy

So moving on to where I found some information on where Tesco is and the clam that it is the largest retailer in England, and holding a quarter of the UK market share.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco#UK_market_share

Found the carbon foot print info for the Walkers crisps potato chips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint#Other_activities
and also from there site as well
http://www.brittrips.co.uk/green/

And the bit about the “Green my Apple” campaign was found here,
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/we-love-our-macs26092006





Logical Fallacy exercise

Circulus in demonstrando (circular argument). Circular argumentation occurs when someone uses what they are trying to prove as part of the proof of that thing.

An Example I like to use often is " Sex is evil, evil is sin, sin is forgiven, so lets begin." I like to use this at times when people make a comment about sex being a bad thing, more or less a joke.

I am human, and to error is human, so I am sure I have made a few logical fallacys in my time. Otherwise I would not be human. That one may be a Cum hoc ergo propter hoc (with this, therefore because of this). This is the familiar fallacy of mistaking correlation for causation.

Some of the things on the site I understood but did not know the terms for.

Hit this TEXT LINK to see what I am talking about.