FUN WITH FALLACIES

FUN with FALLACIES Assignment

This is a Short Assignment

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1) Choose 1 of the 2 Articles Below

Barbie – Article Fallacies.pdfDownload Barbie – Article Fallacies.pdf

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NFL Conspiracy Theorists Now Say the League Was Fixed for the Eagles All AlongDownload NFL Conspiracy Theorists Now Say the League Was Fixed for the Eagles All Along

2) Now, highlight logical issues in the article. NOTE: Both articles contain serious fallacies/gaps in logic.

Remember that a logical argument moves from one focused point to the next. Each point contains proof/evidence. Examine the article and find flaws in the logic.

3) Then click submit and complete a text entry – Yes, include name, course and word count. Then write the flaws you see. You can use bullet points if you like. Find at least 2 flaws. Approximately 50-100 words.

Hint: A Barbie doll is an object. An object does not have a brain. A plastic doll cannot express intention.

Hint: The Super Bowl fact – regardless of outcome, the NFL spends in excess of $15 billion – yes, that is billion – on all facets of a super bowl (cnbc.comLinks to an external site.). Fact – regardless of outcome, the ultimate Super Bowl profits including all streams of revenue, exceed $5 billion and are so vast that profits cannot be exactly totaled (verdict.co.ukLinks to an external site.)

Barbie

Dumb Blonde – or Diehard Feminist?

Barbie

Barbie turns 50 next year. Should women be celebrating this anniversary – or turning their backs in disgust on one of the world’s most popular dolls?
In pictures: Barbie’s many guises through the yearsLinks to an external site.

Thu 18 Dec 2008 19.01 ESTFirst published on Thu 18 Dec 2008 19.01 EST

Barbie: a fabulous toy for independent-minded girls? Photograph: Linda Nylind

For
Moira Redmond

What’s the one thing you know about Barbie dolls? If a real woman had that shape she’d fall over. Right? Well, wrong actually. She has impressive proportions, but they are by no means outside the normal range. How do I know this? Because as Barbie’s loyal defender, I once sat with pieces of thread, measuring her and sizing up the results, before debating the outcome with some fellow journalists. And while there is no definitive answer as to exactly what Barbie’s real-life dimensions would be (the dolls themselves vary) yes, she could stand up, and yes, she would not look outrageous. She would look – are you ready for this? – like a feminist icon.

Barbie is a fabulous toy for independent-minded girls for all sorts of reasons. One is that she’s the only toy that girls have that their brothers don’t share, but do envy – why else would boys get so worked up about Barbies, threatening and attacking their sisters’ toys? Another is that she is cheap. Nobody says that you have to buy the expensive accessories, and there is always one loss-leader Princess Barbie that comes in at under £10 if you look carefully.

Then there’s the fact that Barbie lets the imagination run free – you can make your Barbies do anything, be anything, and you can even beat her up (which research suggests is a favourite activity for young girls). As one friend of mine says, playing with “a Barbie is like being in control of the coolest, hottest, most desired and admired girl in school or in the celebrity world, deciding what she wears, giving her a new hairdo, flinging her across the room or hiding her in a cupboard when you don’t feel like being outshone”. She lets girls live out their fantasies in a safe context: a great psychological tool.

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When it comes to careers, Barbie is also a brilliant role model. She’s been a doctor, a vet, a palaeontologist, an astronaut, a firefighter, a pop singer, a teacher and a film star. She has even been a presidential candidate. Here are some things I defy you to imagine Barbie doing: housework; sucking up to men; cowering; being bullied or intimidated; being sexually harassed.

Of course, Barbie is pretty interested in her appearance, but she is also interested in animals, food, a career and the world around her. You can style her hair, but you can also buy her horse’s head (Godfather Barbie?) and style its mane if you prefer.

The Barbies from around the world are neat and charming: most nationalities are either authentic (a resident of Kenya told me Masai Barbie was amazingly accurate) or glamorous and respectful – Princess of Ireland Barbie. And think what the world would lose without Barbie as a metaphor. Within days of Sarah Palin being picked as vice-presidential candidate, the term Caribou Barbie had been coined online, which was appropriate, and not particularly offensive or insulting – just funny.

Right now Toys R Us is selling something called the Barbie Party Plane/Ship (with no implication that Barbie needs a man to sail the boat or pilot the plane) and all for a bargain £19.56. “This fantastic 2-in-1 playset …
features a fold-down table, laptop computer, galley kitchen, pool, disco room and more!” says the description.

So there you have it – every aspect of a woman’s empowered, independent life covered, in a form that folds away when not in use. I’m disappointed in any feminist who doesn’t want one.

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John McDermott

Staff Writer at MEL | [email protected] | @mcdermott

Feb 7, 2018

Eagles Champions

NFL Conspiracy Theorists Now Say the League

Was Fixed for the Eagles All Along

For a while now, the NFL season has been accused of fixing its gamesLinks to an external site., specifically in favor of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, the league’s marquee player and franchise. Suspicions hit a fever pitch after this year’s AFC Championship gameLinks to an external site., when the Patriots had a number of controversial calls go their way and referees were supposedly openly celebrating the Patriots victory.

Those sentiments would seemingly have been put to rest by the Philadelphia Eagles beating the Patriots on Sunday in the Super Bowl, but alas, the NFL truther mill has found a way to explain how the Eagles championship was orchestrated by the league, too.

Amateur NFL conspiracy theorist Larry Blong wrote in his email newsletter that the game was scripted, and everyone was in on it, from the owners down to the players [all sic]:

The game was obviously scripted for PHL. People were sick of NE always winning. One pass to Gronk in first half for 9 yards!

Why wait until you are down ten points to start passing to Gronkowski?

MALCOLM BUTLER PLAYED 98.5% OF THE PLAYS IN REGULAR SEASON AND DOESN’T PLAY WHILE HIS SUB GETS BURNED.

NE has 4th and 1 from Eagle 8 in first half and goes for FG which is no good? Early on in the game you have to take a chance. Didn’t Pederson go for it on 4th several times? This was !@#$@# with the FG [field goal] try. Gostkowski also misses extra point? Foles not sacked once? Helmet to helmet puts Cooks out yet no PHL penalty? Even Michaels and Collingsworth said it was helmet to helmet. All week they showed Brady screaming and urging his teammates on with “let’s go guys.” Yet last night Brady looked like he was in a mummified trance. Not a bit of emotion. Kraft left his young babe girlfriend home as he told her they were going down.

Super Bowls are all scripted today as there is just too much money involved in the business. Fairytale believers like you keep the charade going.

That the Super Bowl was fixed for the Eagles doesn’t necessarily contradict the pre-existing theory that the league elevated the Patriots throughout the season to maximize ratings and profit. Once the Patriots made the Super Bowl, the last and most important game of the season, the NFL had no incentive to ensure yet another Patriots victory. Rather, it was much more interesting (and beneficial to the league) to have the underdog Eagles win in convincing fashion. NFL owners rotate which team wins the Super Bowl each year to keep the league’s various fanbases interested, according to Blong.

An alternate theory is that the league did try to rig the game for the Patriots, but the Eagles simply overcame it. As proof, NFL truthers point to referee Gene Steratore laughing to himselfLinks to an external site. after calling a false start on Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski at the end of the first quarter. Truthers say he was laughing because Gronk’s false start was so egregious that he had to call it, despite trying to help the Patriots win.

That said, if the refs really were in the bag for the Patriots, they probably would’ve overturned the touchdown caught by Eagles tight end Zach Ertz in the fourth quarter. It would’ve been easy enough considering the NFL’s inscrutable rule about what constitutes a catch. (Then again, overturning that call would’ve likely caused a multi-day riot in Philadelphia.) Similarly, the refs could’ve easily called defensive pass interference against the EaglesLinks to an external site. on the final play of the game, a Brady hail mary attempt, but they decided against it.

Overall, the refs called a very loose game. There was just one sack but zero holding penaltiesLinks to an external site., two things that are in direct conflict with each other. If the pass protection was so good, surely the offensive lineman were holding at least a little. Brian TuohyLinks to an external site., the internet’s leading NFL truther, takes this as proof that the NFL was trying to produce as high-scoring and entertaining a game as possible.

If that’s the case, the NFL certainly accomplished its goal. Super Bowl LII had the most yards of any NFL game ever. The problem is that all of those yards (and the touchdowns they resulted in) didn’t lead to ratings. In fact, this year’s game was the lowest-rated Super Bowl in almost a decadeLinks to an external site..

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