Christopher Morley achieves his purpose in the essay On Laziness by acting as though he himself is being lazy, and he also explains how laziness could enhance everyday life. Throughout this essay, he references two different people who somehow benefitted from laziness. He occasionally fails to explain his points though, which may be due to his facade of being lazy. The author seems to act lazy in this essay, frequently stopping before he fully expresses his reasoning behind his examples and leaving out some much needed detail.
Many people run into a problem they don’t want to deal with like finishing essays or doing taxes, but this job has to be done. In the book Nothing But the Truth by AVI, the main character Phillip Malloy is put in this situation where he has to increase his English grade to join his track team. To avoid this he tries to get out of his English teacher’s class by humming during the national anthem and creating a disturbance, leading him to be sent to the office where he talked with his admins later being suspended. Afterwards telling a fake story that would anger the public and threaten the school’s budget vote. Phillip Malloy's refusal to admit he was in the wrong consequently put his school in a bad light.
Everyone wants to fit in either in school or at work and in the short essay “White Lies”, Erin Murphy discusses how a little girl is being bullied at school and what she does to prevent it. In the fourth paragraph it states, “ All of this changed in mid-October when Connie’s father got a job at a candy factory, news Connie announced tentatively one rainy day during indoor recess” (Paragraph four). Because Connie was an albino she was viewed differently in everyone’s eyes. She decided to announce to everyone that her father worked in a candy factory, therefore everyone would like her. When the news came out everyone started to like Connie because she bought everyone free candy.
On Laziness Through generalization, hyperbolic anecdotes, and a sarcastic, snooty, and ironic tone, Christopher Morley’s “On Laziness” clearly acknowledges the shortcoming of laziness. The writing persuades the readers to elude from indolence and lethargy by conveying the strategy of reverse psychology. Rather than Morley bluntly telling the readers his purpose, he discretely drops many hints, until the reader's registered that his supposed purpose couldn’t possibly be correct. Particularly, the author used ironical tone to further verify his explanation and to convince people of his argument that laziness is a deficient habit that individuals must stop over-identifying with.
The essay, On Laziness, by Christopher Morley, portrays his argument of why laziness is often the key to being successful. In his opening sentence, he starts by explaining how he intended to write an essay but was simply too lazy to do do. The purpose is already being expressed through his use of satire. This helps the audience apprehend how he’s portraying his meaning through his own writing style, which includes theoretical irony, satire, and use of persuasion. The use of actual laziness used to write this essay made the readers ponder and question what he was trying to say.
Sister Aloysius uses a non sequitur and black and white fallacy to show that school is a place that needs authority. Aloysius does not like ballpoint pens and continues to enforce their ban. Scavenging through sister James' classroom, Aloysius found a ballpoint pen and informed James that it is "the easy was out. " Not only this but, she the concludes that because ballpoint pens lead to laziness it "will have its consequences tomorrow.
Her stubborn demeanor is demonstrated when criticizing Sister James’ classroom;
Innocent Until Proven Guilty Innocence is a very tricky subject to cover through the course of a paper. In the play Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley there is one fundamental question. Throughout the story a woman named Sister Aloysius is the principal of St. Nicholas School, and she is suspecting the pastor, Father Flynn, of having inappropriate relations with one of their students, Donald Muller, and wants to have Father Flynn kicked out the church. I am arguing that Father Flynn is an innocent man through the way that he treats and cares about the boys and that Sister Aloysius is a crazed, hell bent woman willing to do anything to get him out of the church.
In the play Doubt, Sister Aloysius uses a slippery slope fallacy to prove that William London will not graduate from high school because of a certain events that occur. She says that because “Puberty has got a hold of him. He will be imagining the wrong things... he will not graduate high school.” Just because a young boy is going through puberty will not necessarily lead up to him imagining wrong things.
One particularly oxygen-deprived pupil stood just by the passageway in front of a spell bound audience as he described his own plan to release two oiled pigs in the school, numbered one and three in order to trick the staff. Trite such as this was about as original as a hipster in a vinyl (record) store and was unlikely to ever reach fruition, yet to my dismay was the topic of conversation throughout the groups which gathered. Do not, however, be fooled by my apparent contempt for those around me. I too was roused by the principal’s announcement and intended to make a mark on the school in my final week. For years I had been what one would consider to be a model of student conformity, arriving each morning without failure, completing my work without question and then buggering off at the end of the day without anyone knowing my name; a perfect “cog in the machine” to use the words of my cliqued peers.
“Oh a pen.” (Gregg 225). Sometimes when I am trying study or do something important I will get a song stuck in my head and won’t be able to get anything done until it’s gone. People in Alan’s class are also constantly asking the teacher things like the time, or for another bluebook. Alan gets annoyed and says, “Would you stop that!
He said,”I can 't draw”. The vice principal, Mrs. English, advises,”drawing is something you can learn”. This quote shows how Zebra thinks he cannot draw, and his vice principal thinks he can learn how to. Mr. Wilson and the vice principal convinced him to join, and a couple of his friends joined too. John Wilson informed everyone that he would be leaving the class.
According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a fallacy is defined as a wrong belief; a false or mistaken idea; the quality of being false or wrong. Fallacies are apart of everyday life. We witness them when we read our newspapers, watch our televisions, and listen to our radios. There are over one hundred and twenty named fallacies. Aristotle even wrote about fallacies.
Logical fallacy means an error of reasoning. The ability to identify logical fallacies in the arguments of others and to avoid them in one’s own argument, is both valuable and increasingly rare. Fallacious reasoning keeps us from knowing the truth, and the inability to think critically makes us vulnerable to manipulation by those skilled in the art of rhetoric. Fallacies are categorized as: formal, informal, logical and factual. Each group of fallacies contain sub-categories of the different forms of that type of fallacy.
Subject number 1(Angela Norwood) strongly dislikes procrastination and feels like procrastinators are not dumb, they are just simply lazy. Subject number 1 stated “procrastination is irresponsible and everyone says they do not have time but you make time for things that are important.” Therefore she feels if you are procrastinating on an assignment then it’s not that important to you.” She feels that people who procrastinate are not dumb they just have a bad habit they need to get rid of. She has procrastinated before but very rarely.
