SPH 2241 – Fundamentals of Speech (Stiefel) CHAPTER 7 ASSIGNMENT Student Name: Below are arguments based on faulty reasoning. Identify the fallacy used (use a fallacy only ONCE): 1. Loaded Words It’s ridiculous to worry about protecting America’s national parks against pollution when innocent people are being attacked by terrorists. 2. Red Herring The proposal is likely to be resisted by the business-as-usual bureaucrats on Capitol Hill. 3. Celebrity Endorsement Queen Latifah promotes Cover
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1. What does "survival of the fittest" mean‚ and where does the phrase come from? Survival of the fittest means that individuals‚ species‚ or races with the best acquired characteristics would survive best. The phrase comes from Herbert Spencer when he used it in “The Principles of Biology.” 2. What is socialism? Why was London attracted to it? Socialism is the stage between the age of capitalism and communism‚ but many Americans saw it as the cure to economic‚ social‚ and political problems
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President Herbert Hoover‚ a Republican‚ had control of the United States from 1929 to 1933‚ the beginning of the economic downfall. Hoover created a laissez-faire government; the government was not involved in everyday business‚ instead it was a very hands off approach and daily life just took its path. When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933 the economy was now deep in a huge downward spiral‚ and he raised a new Democratic approach to run the government and United States. The United
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when the stock market completely crashed. The country was in shambles‚ people lost their jobs‚ businesses and banks went under‚ and poverty struck the nation. During the period of the great depression two men had control of the office‚ the first Herbert Hoover‚ a republican that believed heavily in people helping themselves and not relying on government‚ second there was FDR a democrat who believed that the government should be made to help the people‚ both men had completely different ways of trying
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biography‚ history and satire. Eleanor Farjeon was born in London‚ England on 13 February‚ 1881. The daughter of popular novelist Benjamin Farjeon and Maggie (Jefferson) Farjeon‚ Eleanor came from a literary family‚ her two younger brothers‚ Joseph and Herbert Farjeon‚ being writers‚ while the eldest‚ Harry Farjeon‚ was a composer. She won many literary awards and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award for children ’s literature is presented annually in her memory by the Children ’s Book Circle‚ a society
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Analysis of the Election of 1932 The Election of 1932 was a major turning point in the history and development of United States politics. Republican President‚ Herbert Hoover‚ led the nation with a hands-off approach. He believed in letting problems fix themselves. This method‚ while initially successful‚ led to his downfall when nothing was done about the regulation of the stock market‚ which in turn crashed‚ causing the Great Depression. This failure resulted in Hoover struggling to gain support
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Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt both served as President during the Great Depression. Hoover was a Republican and Roosevelt was a Democrat‚ which means they both had different ideas and plans to deal with the Great Depression. Both these Presidents had a similar approach with economic policies‚ by using the federal government to help recover the country. Roosevelt was more involved than Hoover to fight through the depression and Roosevelt was more supportive to the people and inform them that
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Before his nomination‚ Warren G. Harding declared‚ "America’s present need is not heroics‚ but healing; not nostrums‚ but normalcy; not revolution‚ but restoration; not agitation‚ but adjustment; not surgery‚ but serenity; not the dramatic‚ but the dispassionate; not experiment‚ but equipoise; not submergence in internationality‚ but sustainment in triumphant nationality...." A Democratic leader‚ William Gibbs McAdoo‚ called Harding’s speeches "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape
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During the 1930s‚ the United States went through the most tragic and terrifying economic downfalls in history known as the Great Depression‚ which lasted from 1929 to 1939. Americas 31st president‚ Herbert Hoover‚ allowed the country to fall into a complete state of depression with his very little concern of the major economic problems occurring at the time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ who took over as president after Hoover‚ was ready for action and attempted to bring America’s citizens and economy
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address was exactly what Americans of the 1930’s needed to hear. To begin‚ previous to Roosevelt’s inauguration Herbert Hoover was the president of the United States. Hoover was considered by many of the time to be the cause of the great depression and the worst president the United States had ever seen. This was largely due to the fact that his republican views‚ that the government should play a very small part in society and that the American people should be self
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