Elizabeth Kolbert's Argument Of Polarization

In this paper, I will focus on Bonnie Steinbock’s claim on whether or not we should give equal moral consideration to species outside our own species group. I will first determine what moral concern means, according to Peter singer, and explain how he views the human treatment of animals. I will then outline Steinbock’s argument against Singer’s position and explain how her criticism is part of a much broader issue: that is moral concern. I will finally make my argument against Steinbock as well as address any issues she could possibly raise against my argument.

The article Marcia Angell wrote discusses the ethics of running clinical trials in areas of poverty such as third world countries. It is largely stressed that the well-being of participants should be the main priority of the study, above research goals and quick results. She explains that participants in clinical trials must receive the best-known treatment available when part of the control group; otherwise, researchers would knowingly be giving participants sub-par treatment compared to the drug being studied. To enact justice, even those living in third world countries should be receiving the same treatment that a participant in a first world country would receive. A placebo must be strictly avoided unless there is no known

The blue eyed – brown eyed experiment in my opinion is indeed ethical. The issue at hand with this experiment is will it cause permeant future psychological damage. Jane Elliott conducted this experiment with her third-grade students which some would say it is too harsh of an exercise for a group that young; She wanted to teach her student that discrimination is wrong which have been a topic they discussed from the first day of school but felt the student would become confused with the fact she just honored Dr. king in the month of February and now she had to explain to them that he was assassinated because of discrimination. Jane Elliott agreed that this exercise can do Psychological damage if not conducted correctly but the benefits are remarkable.

Many forms of media have emerged over the decades. Some die while others stay and thrive. Over the past few, a sensational digitalized type of media has loomed into the modern world; it is called the new media. This phenomenon has drastically changed the public-from feeling more informed and ‘united’ with their peers to perceptions of fear and even ignorance inductions. Media commentator Sherry Turkle gives an example of the damages new media can cause through her book excerpt “Connectivity and its Discontents” and author Dallas Spires, who also gives an exemplar of this case through her essay “Will Text Messaging Destroy the English Language?”. With all the popularity and misuse society has given new media, it is assent to say that new media

The tone that was used by the author proved most evident when examining this article. The author combines a serious nature with a sarcastic tone to both prove her argument and demean the underlying story. The serious tone is most noticeable whenever she discusses group polarization. It is easily understood that she believes the internet is causing problems by creating a new form of group polarization known as cyber polarization. However, when the author addresses the story of President Obama, she brings back a sarcastic tone indicating her support of our leader. She intended this sarcasm to subtly say that those who believed the stories about President Obama were uniformed extremist. These contrasting tones help to prove

Once Carr noticed a change in the way his brain worked, he claims, “It was then I began worrying about my inability to pay attention to one thing for more than a couple of minutes…my brain, I realized, wasn’t drifting, it was hungry. It demanded to be fed the was the Net fed it—and the more it was fed, the hungrier it became.”(Carr 16) Because of the endless amount of things available on the Internet, the brain wants to keep searching for more and more. There is no limit, but it seems to be a slippery slope. Once you start, you can’t stop. With this new platform of endless info, Carr feels surrounded, in a way, “I don’t remember feeling the anxiety of what we today call ‘information overload’” (Carr 12) With books, the information you take in is in depth, and fed to you slowly. But with the Internet, the information is given to you, cite after cite, page after page. This makes more time to fill your brain with “on the surface” facts.

In Reason, Truth and History, Hilary Putnam offers an argument against the skeptical hypothesis that we are brains in a vat. He believes that whether or not such a scenario obtains, when I utter the words “I am a brain in a vat” I am saying something false.

Over the years, the loss of credibility in the once widely propagated benefits of a higher education degree has become heavily criticized by avid education reform advocates. Political writer, social critic, and essayist, Barbara Ehrenreich, in her satirical essay, "College Students, Welcome to a Lifetime of Debt!", ironically exposes the consequences of the ever-increasing cost of education on post-secondary students ' societal role as debtors. Ehrenreich’s purpose to provoke her audience, mainly comprised of college students and their parents, into questioning the condescendence and despicable practices of post-secondary institutions is achieved through the employment of a sarcastic and humorous tone. By means of an appeal to pathos, the author clearly communicates all of her points and intentions, as well as brings out the eye-opening absurdity in this ever so trivialized situation. Nevertheless, the lack of supporting statistical evidence, alongside the overuse of commonsense and fallacious arguments, undercuts the essay 's effectiveness and the credibility of Ehrenreich 's arguments.

Quotation: “It was the modern word’s signature to etch economic dominance and political supremacy into a radical cultural design. It was also its signature to hide the social relations that were brewing supremacy and conflict behind a semblance of “race things.” (Silverblatt, 3)

Misinformation; it is spread day by day when one person talks to another. A slight error in telling facts might end up with another person having a completely different stance in a situation or issue. Stories traveling from people to people end up like a game of telephone, where the final person to hear information might be told something completely different than the initial person telling the story stated. With the invention of the internet, the thoughts of people are able to travel quicker than ever. People are able to find other people with similar viewpoints on politics, religion, and ideology more easily than ever. Guns represent one of the most divided topics in the United States, with the country seemingly divided on whether they should be banned or allowed to be owned. Misinformation causes controversy on gun laws and the decisions regarding policy.

Representation plays a pivotal role in comprehending and interpreting the complex world around us. According to Stuart Hall, “representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture (Hall The Work of Representation 1997). How adequately one represents one’s own self or the world around them is a matter of prime concern for everyone ranging from critics to common man. However, no representation is neutral and it involves issues of power and control. Much postcolonial scholarships revolve around this issues of power and politics of representation with the deployment of what Foucault has popularly termed as “discourse”. Employing the Foucaultian discursive approach, Edward Said’s

Throughout this article, Papacharissi raises the question of what impact the internet is having on politics. I believe that it is too soon to tell the effects of the internet on politics. The advances in technology and the internet is changing politics and is having various effects on national political parties. This modern ‘public sphere’ will evolve over time, and the internet will have an even greater role in

There are multiple critical thinking issues that must be taken into account when it comes to socio-political events. Issues such as variables being measured correctly, representativeness and regression, and assuming a single explanation. Politically these affect our society because they ultimately can change the outcome of a situation. They also are used to help alter a person’s opinion and perspective.

Misinformation; it is spread day by day when one person talks to another. A slight error in facts might end up with another person having a completely different meaning on a situation or issue. Stories traveling from people to people end up like a game of telephone, where the final person to hear information might be told something completely different than the initial person telling the story stated. With the invention of the internet, the thoughts of people are able to travel quicker than ever. People are able to find other people with similar viewpoints on politics, religion, and ideology more easily than ever. Guns are one of the greatest examples of misinformation in the United States with the country seemingly divided on whether they

From sustaining a regime to destroying the same, propaganda has always served as an important tool in governing people and manipulating their opinions and in manufacturing consent. Cold-war came to an end after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the period from the fall of the iron curtain till now is termed as the post-cold war era. Propaganda was at its peak and is explicit during the cold-war era, while the communists (USSR) focussed mainly on making their citizens believe in the communist ideology and in the concept of a ‘world-revolution’ the capitalists (USA) focussed mainly on making people afraid of the communists, or as they called it, the red scare. One of the major inventions that was made public after the cold-war is the internet which has reduced the effectiveness of propaganda by enabling and promoting individual networking in unprecedented levels, another important propaganda tool that has