EN1420 Toulmins Paper
This article is about the kids video Baby Einstein. Disney came out with this video claiming if you had your child watch this video; your child will become smarter on their own. While it all sounded amazing to any parent, it just simply was not true. It was actually proven that early television exposure ended up causing later problems with a child's attention span. People really wanted to believe in this Baby Einstein concept, and you can't blame them. In their minds it was a possible easy way out. To be able to have more time for yourself and get things done, while your child is getting smarter watching a video. Anybody would want that and try to believe it. Moving into Toulmin’s Law, The claim of this article is that Disney’s Baby Einstein does not work. The warrant in this case would be that Disney agrees that the video does not guarantee to make your children smarter, and will refund whoever’s money that purchased the video. They support these by a study that was done by public health lawyers that found that exposure to television at an early age caused problems later on with attention span of children. The qualifiers provided in this article were the New York Times, and also public health lawyers. They rebuttal slightly in this article by saying that parents wanted to believe in this right away. That they simply wanted the easy way out, and wanted to believe that the advancement in technology has been so great, that this was all true. Identifying Toulmin’s Law throughout reading this, did not really help me. While reading this, I found it easy to understand, and to determine all the sides of what was going on. To fill out the questions needed for Toulmin’s Law worksheet while reading this Just seemed to take up time, with no benefits.