American kids are immature

From where is stand I think lowering the drinking age in America would not work at all. In other places, with lower drinking limits teens are pretty mature and they don't really have a lot of restrictions, therefore, having to mature way faster than other individuals. In central America some teens at a very young age have to work and are pretty much put out into the real world at a very young age, some kids don't even go to school. So they mature at an exponential rate compared to American kids. Americans teens and I'm not saying all are, but a majority are very sheltered, they're kept safe in their suburbs and sheltered from a lot. Mentally they're very immature and mixing that with alcohol I think a lot of bad will come out of it. A lot of bad does come out of underage drinking despite having really strong alcohol laws, you hear about drinking and driving, and allegations of sexual assault. I really think that lowering the drinking age would not only be a really bad thing to do but it would further enable teens to develop bad drinking habits and would only lead towards more chaos.

Fire Arms

Growing up in a hometown where gun violence is the cause of most deaths in my city is disappointing. I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Honestly, I believe that we have the right to bear arms but to a certain extent. In my hometown innocent people are not losing their lives because the person being the trigger does not feel safe, they are losing their lives because these guns are being put in the wrong hands. From gang bangers, to drug dealers, etc. A mother should not have to lose her child because they are caught in a middle of a gang war on their way home from school. It's disappointing that I can sit here and write about this right now.

Two weeks ago it was a headline on the news that Chicago went a whole 24hrs without anybody getting shot. Everyone from my hometown were sharing it on their social medias as if it was a celebration. Really it was an indication on how bad gun violence really if out there.We need to put the gun down and keep the peace , Chicago is depending on it.

Importance of Rhetoric and the appeals

Using Rhetoric in everyday life is important in order to prove a point. Using appeals like logos, ethos,  and pathos helps prove the point trying to be made. People are more likely to listen to you if you have something that will back you up. For example, if you wanted to convince someone that they should go onto a vegan diet you might want to use the different appeals. You could use pathos and talk about animals and how they are mistreated, ethos could give an example from an important authority figure,  and logos could possibly give statistics about how people are healthier on this new diet. People would be more willing to listen to you and try your suggestion with these appeals rather than if you just simply stated your point. The appeals help rhetoric have a stronger argument and come off more credible in the long run.

Climate change

Some people don't want to believe it but its almost impossible not to believe that our climate is changing. I'm neutral when it comes to why it is changing weather or not its man made or natural causes cause that's more complex than I can handle but I do know one thing and that is the climate is changing. After doing research these causes that are happening can be very dangerous to us people. According to National Geographic the greenhouse effect is what helps are world keep the temp it does and without this effect our world would average -18 degrees. That's super cold so this is why we need to make a change. You already see many car companies making electric cars and this is a great step towards a healthier world. There's so much more us the people can do though like recycle and stop trashing our earth. This is our home we need to protect it.

Why we should have guns

We live in a world today that is violent and cruel and I think most people can agree with that. There are people that are out there that will say its the guns that kill people well they are wrong. The gun doesn't go off by itself its the people using them and that don't know how to use them. If we were to get rid of guns there would still be violence all over the world and I believe taking guns away from the people is just wrong. So why should we be able to have guns? The first main reason is easy, its a constitutional right and people fought for that right so we deserve it. Another reason is many of our ancestors used guns to find food and other things its a part of history and we cant change history we shouldn't be able to take guns away when it was a historical event. So with these reasons is why we should be aloud to have guns and never be scared that they will be taken from the people.

Animal Testing in the Cosmetic World

When you hear animal testing, what do you think of? Pharmaceuticals and drug testing is what comes to my mind and usually many others. But what about cosmetic animal testing. Just like drug testing, cosmetic testing on animals can still harm our furry friends. They put the animals through a test called LD50 which stands for lethal dose 50%. They test the product or drug on the animals and wait for half of them to die to determine the safety of the product. In this time the animals can suffer from seizures, convulsions, and paralysis. Also, can we talk about how many cosmetic products are launched in a year and how many used animal testing. There can be more than 5 new products launched in a month. Now, there are multiple brands that test on animals, Estée Lauder, Avon, NARS,  Benefit and much more. Every time they put a product out you can bet they had to run everything through animal testing and we are only seeing the final product. Many times these companies go through trials of trying to find the right formula. This leads to wasting lots of money of animal testing when in all reality animals most likely will not respond the same way a human would to the makeup. I know from personal experience there are a few products that I cannot use because they itch or give me a rash and I am not just talking about me having an allergic reaction to an ingredient but friends and family who also cannot use those products. So, in those cases animal testing did them no good and they just wasted a lot of money for a product that doesn't even work. Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below.

Alcohol and Neglect

Many people try to argue all of the good sides to alcohol and even reasons why the drinking age should be lowered. There are many dangers to alcohol though, and they can affect many people negatively. Alcohol has become a huge factor to kids being neglected and taken away from their families. More and more kids are being taken from their families, put into foster care, and just overall living in absolute fear. These children are at greater risk for having emotional problems than children whose parents are not alcoholics. Alcoholism also runs in families, and children of alcoholics are  more likely than other children to become alcoholics themselves. Children should grow up in homes where they have strong role models to look up to. Kids from families that abuse alcohol see that behavior and may grow up to do that same thing and possibly even neglect their future family. Alcohol can create a cycle of bad habits and neglect and it is for sure something to look out for. 

Why 21?

Have you ever asked yourself the question "why is the legal drinking age in America 21?" When you look at it, it does really make much sense because in our country you are considered an adult at the age of 18. When a person turns 18 they are able to do the same things that all other adults are able to do except for one thing, which is purchase and posses alcohol legally in any state. An 18 year old citizen in our society is able to own a gun, house, car, enlist in the military, and many other things except for purchasing alcohol. If you have ever wondered why this is it is largely due to political reasons. In 1984 there was a National Minimum Drinking Age Act set at the age of 21 and each state was largely influenced to enforce this act by the federal government because if they failed to do so they would lose up to 10 percent of their federal highway funding. Do you think that it is right for citizens to be considered legal adults in our society at the age of 18 but not be legally allowed to purchase alcohol? Do you think that the federal drinking age should be lowered to 18 to match the legal age restriction of pretty much everything else in our society and the legal drinking age of many other developed countries around the world, or do you think that the age restrictions of everything else should also be raised to 21? In your opinion, are you for or against the national drinking age in our country being 21?       

Columbus Day?

When people think about Columbus day or Christopher Columbus they usually think about the European guy who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America. When he arrived he actually never landed in America, but he did land on islands in Central and Southern America. Most people are taught about Christopher Columbus in school when they are young and he usually is credited with discovering America and is thought to be a good guy and even a hero by some people.
What most people are not taught about in school are the horrific things that really happened when Columbus arrived and all of the horrible things that him and his men did to the native people. The Spanish conquistadors committed mass genocide on many different tribes of native people and on multiple different islands. They were able to take them as slaves and work them to death for their own selfish economic gains in order to try and please the king of Spain on the other side of the world. The main reason that they were able to take the native people by force with such ease was because they had the unfair advantage of gun powder and steel weapons. When you really look at what happened, do you think it is right that we celebrate this man the way that we do and recognize him as a national holiday? Do you think that Columbus gets more credit than he really deserves from the American people? Do you think that there is anything wrong with the way that the Story of Christopher Columbus is taught to young children in schools all across America?     

Is hunting good for the earth

All over the world hunting is done either for trophy hunting or for a source of food but to say if its beneficial or not is hard to say. There are many different variables that go into this question because theres so many different types of it. I think the best way to look at it is by areas in the world, for example in Texas there is a major wild pig population that is tearing the state apart. Hunting has been opened up to hunt these wild pigs and this helps the farmers in the state. Now this is only beneficial to humans but the pigs also takes food from other native animals in the area that are negatively affected from the pigs and by humans keeping the wild pig population under control its benefiting everything.


This picture shows what the pigs can do to a yard, imagine 3 to 5 million of these pigs around the state doing this to everything in their path.

There are other cases in time where hunting has helped keep populations of animals in the correct balance like the deer and coyote population. The main thing you have to understand that the average hunter wants whats best for the animals and the environment. Because if they animal that they are hunting goes extinct, then they cant hunt them anymore. Depending on certain populations of animals they will open up a season for that animal longer or shorter and limit or expand how many people can hunt these animals.

There are also cases of hunting that are looked down upon like the hunting of elephants and lions and stuff like that. Majority of these people are doing it illegally and are pouching the animal. These people are not following the law and shouldn't be considered hunters as they are not following simple rules. Just like people who do illegal things such as someone selling illegal drugs, those drugs are bad but other drugs aren't, so why say all hunting is bad?

The Student Athlete life

I want to talk about the college experience of a student-athlete. I'm a student-athlete and I play field hockey. During our season, which goes from August 19 to November 9, we have practice every single morning, from 6:45-9:15 am and then lift from 9:30-10:30. This means I have to get up every morning at around 5:45 during season, but don't get me wrong, I love doing that! I don't eat breakfast before practice in the morning, because it is simply to early for that. After lift I eat a protein bar and I have a protein drink. Then I hurry to my dorm to shower, and to be in time for my 11:00 am class. By the time I arrive for my first class, I already finished an intire practice and lift. My classes usually end at around 3:00 pm, some days at 4:45 pm. After my classes I go to study tables in North Quad. As a student athlete I'm required to finish 6 hours of study tables every week. On a day I usually do around 1,5 hour of stuyding at tables. If my classes ended early, this is the time to go back to my dorm and call my parents and catch up with them. If my classes end late, I go straight to dinner after stuying. Then I go back to my dorm, by this time it is around 7:00 pm. I do a bit more homework, and often times I have to pack for a travel day. I also talk with my teammates, fellow freshman and upper classmen, about tactics in games, or we just discuss the morning practice. Sometimes I have an individual meeting in the evening with my assistant coach in Worthen Arena. I make notes and make sure I'm ready to go for the next morning. I go to bed around 10:00 pm, because I have to get up early again the next morning to do it all again.

I love doing all this day in day out. There is only one thing that botters me: the fact that Non-student-athletes keep finding the courage to complain to me about 'how early they got up that day (10:00 am)' and 'how they have NO free time at all and have so much to do'. This really annoys me, because I see how you can easily do so much more in a day in be so much more productive. 

To all the non student-athletes out there: take a look at the schedule of a student athlete, and learn from it! You can do so much more in a day. And last but not least: stop complaining about lack of time!!

Adulthood and drinking

The drinking age is something that is very different all around the world. The united states is one of the few countries that have the age set at 21 along with Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Iraq, Kiribati, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Oman, Palau, Samoa, Sri Lanka. In comparison to how many countries have the age set lower than 21 include, Iceland, Japan, Paraguay, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Austria, Belgium, Congo, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, Germany, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, Antigua and Barbuda, Central African Republic, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Kosovo, Laos, Mali, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Togo. 

Now you might think its over the top to show every single one but its necessary to show the amount of countries that have it lower than 21. These countries aren't having devastating affects because of the drinking age. Some of these countries even being more mentally advanced than the united states as problems with drinking are associated with the mind.

My main argument is that if someone wants to go in the military and serve at 18 then they can. But they say drinking can have major changes in brain development and that the mind isn't fully developed at 18 so they dont want to hurt it. If the brain isn't fully developed yet why are we letting 18 year old kids join the military with the chance of them getting killed. Now im not saying i want underage people to go around getting drunk all the time but if they want to ability to drink then they would be able to if the government finds that they are old enough to join the military and consider them an adult. The law of 21 is not going to change peoples mind on drinking, if a kids going to drink then they will against the law. 

The Interview

I just came from, of what I think, an incredible example of rhetoric and self appliance to it. Tonight I had the interview for the job I have been wanting, orientation leader. It took place in a group interview type setting where I had a lot of competition. If I would want this job I would need to stand out amongst the others. I need to persuade my interviewers that I was one of the top choices of the group.
The interviewers would have us do group activities where we needed to cooperate as a team, and then to be able to reflect with the answers to their questions. I would use ethos when I answered my questions. I would go into my past experience and how I handled it back then and how it helped me in the activity. When I did this the goal was to show the interviewers that my character matches with what they are looking for hopefully more so than the others. Another tool I used was pathos. The question on why I wanted this job came up. I responded with the hardship that I have seen my friends coming into college had as well as my own. I used emotion to show I wanted the job more than just a paycheck but to help and guide the incoming freshman from those hardships. Throughout the whole thing I kept Eng_103 in my mind and now all that I can do is to wait to see if I applied it well enough.

Thoughts on gun control

I've been thinking a lot about gun control lately due to school shootings being normalized and overlooked nowadays. there hasn't really been and real change in how things work regarding gun control and where pretty much still the same unsafe America, and I think people who are against it are the ones really holding us back. At this point, I think it just comes down to ignorance in a sense. Citizens who aren't for gun control hear some fake news and just run with it. For example, when people bring up gun control some take it as laws that abolish our second amendment and that to me is just silly because a complete ban on guns will probably never happen.  Republicans love their toys way too much to let anyone take them away. Gun controls are laws and policies put in place to protect people and regulate them. What a stronger gun control essentially wants to do is to make guns harder to reach to people who really shouldn’t have one, and when some hear that statement they go straight to "well people can get guns illegally". and yes that is true but it's way harder for them to obtain one. it's like if you're underage and you want alcohol, you have to go through another person to get some but with guns, it's most likely entirely harder. At the end of the day we need stronger gun control so that America’s children can be safe again, and to people who think that gun control is brought up in politics means they’re trying to take your toys away, “Kim, there’s people that are dying.”

In Your Face

There is a topic that is a major issue in 2019 that somehow ends up being overlooked. The topic being, global warming. There are so many different things that point to the concept and what is happening on this planet, but some still want to deny it. Most obviously the president. I have a severe issue with that view point as it is just ignorant, especially when the evidence it right in your face.

A lot of redneck supporters of the president tend to negate global warming just like the president. Not everyone, but a lot of them. I do not understand how it can be argued especially when you just go outside. I have been a fisherman my entire life. I have traveled North and South and I have caught many more species than I can count. My knowledge is still very thin, but it is enough. Most of my time spent fishing was or is in these two ponds in my neighborhood in Indianapolis. The ponds are fished quite often, but nothing is ever kept and the fish are reasonably left alone. The smaller pond out of two is only 8 feet at most and I managed to catch a 19 lbs and 14 ounce Channel Catfish. The size of the fish shows that the fish are healthy and untampered with, but I have noticed certain things not just here, but everywhere.

In the early Spring the spawning season begins in the Hoosier state and most of the county. The first fish to begin spawning are Largemouth Bass which typically get on their beds around early to mid April. The bass begin their spawning season right when the temperature begins to go up. This goes for most animals really such as Garter Snakes. It is normal for animals to begin breeding soon as the cold weather subsides. Typically after the bass are the Bluegill and other panfish species that spawn in the mid to late Spring from late April to May when the temperature begins to climb. Following them are the catfish of all kinds who spawn in the early Summer months.

Now that that is covered it is easy to explain why these people are ignorant. Over the years fishing in these exact same place as well as others I have noticed that the spawning seasons have shifted due to the changing climate. As it never tends to get as cold in December the fish are still reasonably active. I have managed to catch bass on topwater baits in the Winter months since the temperature is in the 50's to 60's. At this time they should be moving towards the bottom of lakes. In January the weather has been so cold and lasted so long that the fish have grown dormant for longer. Since it is taking so long to come out of the cold the fish have pushed their seasons back and run into conflict with other fish spawning. The change has lead to less survivors from each year.

It is argued that since it's been colder it can't be global warming. Well it isn't global warming anymore, it's climate change. The Artic is getting warmer, but everywhere else is changing in drastic different ways. With things like theses fish it is right in the face of sceptics. It is just easier for people to agree with someone for being 'the president' rather than to make a decision for themselves.

Why Guns should be legal in all nations

I understand this is an unpopular opinion amongst many people today but I would like to present my case for why more nations should have a second amendment like here in America. Across the Western World freedoms are being quashed left and right In Germany Prime Minister Angela Merkel says that "Freedom of expression has its limits" she then continued "Those limits begin where hatred is spread. They begin where the dignity of other people is been violated. The house will and must oppose extreme speech. Otherwise our society will no longer be the free society that it once was". Our neighbors to the north have already enacted hate speech laws like Section 319(2) of the criminal code of Canada states: Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, willfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of

(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or

(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.

In Britain the police are openly telling people that offensive speech should be reported to the police so they can open criminal investigation into these people. This has resulted in 2 people given fines for what the British legal system calls "grossly offensive" speech. In one case it was a 19 year old girl who was repeating rap lyrics that included the n-word and a Scottish man who was making fun of Nazi's by making his pug make the heil Hitler salute. In more recent cases some people have actually been arrested and imprisoned for making racist comments and cracking tasteless jokes. The nation that gave us the Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, Edmund Burke, and John Locke has turned into a 1984 style state where the police monitor your social media and will arrest you for your hateful speech. These are the reasons why other nations need a second amendment, to protect their individual rights of freedom of speech and rights to privacy and property. Think about it in America no one has entertained the ideas of federal hate speech laws because in America the people have the right to protect their rights with a gun behind their words and in other nations they don't have anything to back up their words. That's why in France they had riots and not just simple protest over there new gas taxes because the French people did not have weapons to back up their words. With a second amendment in other nations people will be able to protect their rights from tyranny and oppression and I believe if these other nations have any stones then they should push for that right.     

Should animals be used for research?

Animal testing is a very debatable topic, but I think in our class we have only had the mindset that animal testing is bad and I just want to explain the positives and the need for animal testing. Although many people probably come to the conclusion that animal testing is only for humans and our benefit, thats just false. The research done from animal testing helps both animals and humans. Let me explain, if your family pet gets sick and needs a vaccine for something then how are we going to give them one if theres been no testing on it?  The foundation for Biomedical research said this. "But without it, the prognosis for millions of animals would be simple—they would develop diseases or contract viruses that would be untreatable, they would suffer, and eventually they would die."  it also said that animals and humans share around 50 of the same diseases and 100 medications. Of course this testing isn't going to be the most fun thing but its necessary and there are ways to lessen the suffering. In another website called your genome.org explains the stuff they try to do to prevent the suffering.

"To help minimise the harm animals may experience while being studied in the laboratory, researchers are required to follow a set of principles, the ‘three Rs’. These are:

• Replace: Replacing, where possible, experiments using animals with alternative techniques such as cell culture, computer modelling or human volunteers instead of animals.
• Reduce: Reducing the number of animals used, by improving experimental techniques and sharing information with other researchers so that the same experiments aren’t being done by many people.
• Refine: Refining the way the animals are cared for to help minimise any stress or pain, by using less invasive techniques where possible and improving medical care and living conditions."

In these labs they are not just torturing animals they are doing the least amount of harm they can to get the most benefits. In these labs and from these testings they are finding helpful cures to actual problems that affect people and animals. This might sound bad to some people but i would rather do testing on a mouse than a human if that testing could result in a cure for a potentially deadly disease. Some examples of cures that have been found from animal testing are antibiotics, insulin, vaccines, organ transplantation, and HIV. without these many people would of died. Now it doesn't matter to me as much as if you agree with me as long as i explained the other side of the story.

 

https://www.yourgenome.org/debates/should-animals-be-used-in-research

https://fbresearch.org/why-we-must-use-animals-in-research/

Persuading vs. Arguing

What does it mean to persuade someone rather than to simply argue with them, the difference simply put is the is that when you are persuading someone you are trying to get them to believe that whatever you are trying to say while arguing with them you are primarily trying to prove them wrong. A few example of this could be if you are trying to persuade  someone to like a certain football team you would tell someone all the achievements of that given team and tell them how this team is giving back to charity and giving points to boost your side. On the other side if you are having an argument on why a team is better you will most likely will be talking about the team the other person likes in a degrading way and talking about how there team "sucks" or talking about how their quarterback is old and can not play football anymore or stuff along those lines. The other main difference is the effectiveness of each, when you are trying to persuade someone your goal is to get them to come to your side of the argument and if done correctly it can be quite effective at convincing the person of one thing or another. On the other hand people who are having an argument with someone will usually not be successful at convincing them of their argument but end up just getting mad or having the other person get mad. With all this being said I am wondering if it is possible to have a certain time or place where an argument with someone would be better than trying to persuade them?

Should you eat processed food?

Processed food is defined as when food has been altered from its original state to either make it edible, shelf stable, improve taste, or create a "new" food from multiple ingredients. This means that there are many types of processed foods and different levels to which food is processed. The first group is minimally processed which usually consist of fruits and vegetables, these food have not been altered too much from their original state and are usually high in nutritional quality. The second group is processed ingredients which are extracted from whole foods and usually contain additives to preserve freshness. The third group is processed foods which usually contain two or three ingredients that are processed from whole foods. The fourth group is ultra-processed foods which include artificial colors, dyes and additives, non-sugar sweeteners, and processing aids such as caking and glazing agents, and emulsifiers. The FDA does not require food companies to label all the chemicals and ingredients that are put into all ultra-processed foods. The same chemicals that are used to help keep cement sticking together are also commonly used to help preserve potato chips and keep them tasting better longer.
So what do you think about processed foods? Does the FDA need to do a better job on putting more restrictions on what chemicals food processing companies can and can not add into their foods? Do you think its okay to eat some processed foods or all processed foods, and do you think processed foods can have negative or positive effects on your own personal health. 

Animal Rights and Testing

`For my class presentation, my topic was animal rights. There are many different options about animal rights and rhetoric is used in many ways to persuade the audience. The three types of rhetoric are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is based on an argument of character. Pathos is an argument based on emotions and Logos is based on an argument of logic and evidence. The logos of animal rights is using statistics and evidence for animal testing. The California Veterinary Medical Association says that almost all medical breakthroughs were because of animal testing. They had a list of vaccines that were made available because of animal testing. The pathos of animal testing and animal rights is the appealing to the death of animals and the torture. The pathos is stronger because most people have issues with torturing innocent animals and killing them for the possibility of a product that may or may not work. Using rhetoric is a smart choice in persuading the audience for or against animal rights.

Fallacies You Should Know

The author of Thank You for talks the 7 deadly logical sins.
The false comparison: is comparing two things together when there is no correlation between them
The Bad example: is saying that since a bus crashed, you should never allow your kid on the school bus
Ignorance as proof: an example is saying what we cannot prove does not exist
The tautology: is repeating the same idea with different words. an example is saying that someone is honest, so that means you can trust them
The false choice: is giving only two options when there is clearly many others
The Red Herring: is switching the topic to throw off the audience. It allows the audience to forget the main issue.
The wrong ending: says if you allow one thing, you will have to allow all the others. It fails to lead to the conclusion
These proofs can all be formed together by bad proof, bad conclusion, and disconnect between proof and conclusion. Fallacies trick the reader or audience into thinking what they want them to think. In order to get around a fallacy, you have to see past the lie and to what is the truth.

Why are Firearms Important

Do you or your family own a gun for safety? Does having this gun make you feel more comfortable in your own home? Firearms are important because they keep innocent people protected in their home and in public. Most of the time a person who is shooting mass amounts of people they get killed by a goodly with a gun. this is just one example of good things that can happen with a gun. A lot of people also use their guns for hunting so they can feed their family. If we take away gun rights many people would be unable to feed their family because they can not afford food so they hunt for it. This is very important because it put a lot of people would struggle to kill food with bow and arrow or other form of hunting.

firearm topic

 Recently in the American social world a big topic going around is if we as Americans deserve the right to own and carry a firearm. This topic has been brought up many times in political debates and other government conversations but recently it has been a main topic due to all of the mass shooting taking place in our country because some people think that the people are not the ones committing the acts of crime but it is the gun. The democratic party is fighting for gun buy backs which will essentially restrict American from owning the guns they choose to own, and it is going against our constitution. The reason this is so controversial is because the second amendment states that the American people have the right to bear arms and citizens get angry when the government interferes with their rights. Many people don’t understand the reason behind owning a gun and why it is so important and as a whole we should learn more about guns and the positive benefit they can have on society.

Climate Change Rhetoric

It's pretty messed up how much rhetoric influences the big issues of today, especially because it often seems that those employing the most harmful rhetoric are those with the most power. When it comes to climate change, some of the most prevalent rhetors on the subject in recent days have been members of the younger generation, yet actual change is slow to be enacted because they don't hold enough political influence.

We give so much importance to the value of money that those with more capital can influence politics and the discussion of issues, which leads to a cycle of those creating the issues paying off those in positions of power who are capable of shutting it down. We don't give any credit to young adults who have less experience than corrupt politicians, so their voices, despite touting good ethics, usually go unheard. Even after Greta Thunberg was granted a national audience to speak, not much changed regarding our nation's policy towards climate change.

It seems the only hope we have of mitigating climate change are non-governmental organizations because our government is currently failing us in that regard.

Ugh Religion

So - this is a pretty hot topic I should say but i don't care. I'm going to talk about it anyways since people think religion has to be in every argumentative topic (Obviously not everyone but you get what I mean) and because I don't follow any religion and I REALLY want to understand why people must incorporate it into everything even though that isn't the subject of the argument. I don't understand why people think It's necessary and appropriate to do so. It completely twists what the argument is about usually. After the school shootings - I've heard many people say that "We need kids to be taught more about Jesus in schools - that will fix the problem" Like umm - No Karen I don't think it will. Put the bible down and check on your child's mental health and make sure he's doing okay. 

Is it maybe just some strategy that people like to use? I've heard that people like to use bible verses and such to backup their arguments and opinions but - Is that even fair if the other person doesn't believe in what they do? I just don't get it. In my opinion I think religion brainwashes people to do this sort of thing - making people think they've got some sort of superior opinion because they believe in some invisible man and only read little snippets of the rule book. I really don't know what to say here - I guess I just find it extremely annoying when people want to shove religion in my face during an argument. I'm not saying this is the case every time- but it just happens so much. I just feel like religion makes people really biased and turns people into complete monsters sometimes and makes people narcissistic about their opinions and beliefs. 

School vs Gun

       When you think of firearms, what is the first thing you think of? The first thing I think of is school shooting and I think that is awful that, that is even an option for something to think about in the topic of firearms. School shootings have become such a common thing today that children have started to fear that they may not return home after school. There have been 24 school shooting just in Indiana alone since the Columbine incident. That does not even include all the other states in the United States. It took a couple teenagers dying from vapes for them to start getting banned. Hundreds of children and teens have died from school shooting yet gun laws still have not been changed. How many lives is it going to take for the laws to change?

Rhetoric in Everyday Life

Rhetoric can be seen in many places, and can be about many topics. You can hear and see examples of it everyday. You can see it when it comes to topics such as climate change, food, animal rights, firearms, and so many others. The different ways that people talk about these different issues will shape your ideas and what you think of different problems.
For instance, when you are watching TV and see all of the sad dog commercials it makes you want to help all of those animals. That is part of pathos because it appeals to your emotions. Rhetoric can also appear in different ways such as when Rick Berman talks about his ideas on the food industry. He tries to persuade you that the fast food isn't the problem and that people know what they are doing when they are eating the food. He is on the side of the food industry because he is in it for the money, not necessarily for the well-being of the people.
Rhetoric can be used in good or bad ways, it just depends on the topics and how the rhetor is talking about different issues.