English 5/211 develops the ability to analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas. Critical thinking looks at the relationship between language and logic, introduces rhetoric or persuasive writing and tools students can use to evaluate information based on facts, perceptions, assumptions, evidence, reasons, inferences, judgments, induction, deduction and conclusions.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Argument in Standard Form Cyber-Assignment
Homework due today was to identify ten (10) arguments and pull out premises or evidence for five (5). Post 2-3 arguments in standard form here. Indicate the page number from Wise's book.
Argument: "For instance, few people refuse to accept money or property from others who bequeath such things to them upon death, out of concern that wouldn't want to accept something they hadn't earned. We love to accept things we didn't earn, such as inheritance, but we have a problem taking responsibility for the things that have benefited us while harming others. Just as house or farm left to you upon the death of a parent is an asset that you get to use, so too is racial privilege. And if you get to use an asset, you have to also pay the debt accumulated, which is what allowed the asset to exist in the first place."
Premise 1 : People refuse to accept money or property they hadn't earned.
Premise 2: We love to accept things we didn't earn but we have problems taking responsibility for the things that have benefited us while harming others.
Premise 3: Racial privilege is also an asset we get to use that is inherited upon death.
Therefore : Though we love to benefit from racial privilege that we inherited, we refuse to accept that we own it because we don't want to take responsibilities for negative consequences it can bring to other people.
argument:white people have created a nation in which they have the upper hand in society whether in their own neighborhoods or outside of them. whites have created a constant home turf advantage no matter whose turf they are on from gangs turf to their own
Premise1.Cities are divided into white "suburbs" and poor black Neighborhoods(ghettos).
Premise2. persons of color in white suburbs could be stopped by police under suspicion of "being up to no good".
Premise3.White people in black neighborhoods could not be mistaken for a rival gang member and were mostly left alone because most whites in a black neighborhoods were policemen.
Therefor: White people are always privileged no matter where they are located.
Premise 1:Tim McVeigh, a white male American terrorist, bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City
Premise 2: 9/11 occurred, the biggest terrorist act committed by a non American
Premise 3: Tim Wise, a white male American was able to rent a truck from the same company Tim McVeigh used to bomb the building without being subject to racial profiling after the event
Premises 4: Arabs and Muslims were and are treated with suspicion and subject to racial profiling after 9/11
Therefor: Whites in America have the privilege of being treated as individuals. "..the murderous actions of one white person do not cause every other white person to be viewed in the same light.." page 53
“Because the knowledge of black children (and other kids of color, too) when it comes to race, and how they must learn to navigate the color line in their daily lives, is a substantial burden to bear. When black mothers have to teach their sons to keep both hands on the wheel if stopped by a police officer, so as to not get shot— something I have never heard a white mother speak of doing with her son— we know we're talking about more than a minor irritant.” (Wise, 24)
Premise 1: Black mothers have to teach their sons to keep both hands on the wheel if stopped by a police officer.
Premise 2: White mothers never have to teach their sons such things so as to not get shot.
Premise 3: The lesson to prevent one to not get shot is more than a minor irritant.
Therefore: The burden of the knowledge of black children have is substantial because they must learn to navigate the color line in their daily lives which is something white people do not have to do due to their privilege.
The number of police at concerts, it seems, is almost always inversely proportional to the number of whites in attendance.(Tim Wise p. 41)
Premise 1: In America, there are more uniformed officers where black people are crowded than where white people are crowded.
premise 2: During Woodstock 99, there were no uniformed officers, and an inadequate number of security guards, because most audiences in Wookstock 99 were white.
Premise 3: The U.S. police seems to think that black people are much more likely to commit crimes than white people.
Therefore :white people are always privileged wherever they are, and whatever they do.
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ReplyDeleteWhere is this argument located Sean?
ReplyDeleteW.Sabir
Argument: "For instance, few people refuse to accept money or property from others who bequeath such things to them upon death, out of concern that wouldn't want to accept something they hadn't earned. We love to accept things we didn't earn, such as inheritance, but we have a problem taking responsibility for the things that have benefited us while harming others. Just as house or farm left to you upon the death of a parent is an asset that you get to use, so too is racial privilege. And if you get to use an asset, you have to also pay the debt accumulated, which is what allowed the asset to exist in the first place."
ReplyDeletePremise 1 : People refuse to accept money or property they hadn't earned.
Premise 2: We love to accept things we didn't earn but we have problems taking responsibility for the things that have benefited us while harming others.
Premise 3: Racial privilege is also an asset we get to use that is inherited upon death.
Therefore : Though we love to benefit from racial privilege that we inherited, we refuse to accept that we own it because we don't want to take responsibilities for negative consequences it can bring to other people.
argument:white people have created a nation in which they have the upper hand in society whether in their own neighborhoods or outside of them. whites have created a constant home turf advantage no matter whose turf they are on from gangs turf to their own
ReplyDeletePremise1.Cities are divided into white "suburbs" and poor black Neighborhoods(ghettos).
Premise2. persons of color in white suburbs could be stopped by police under suspicion of "being up to no good".
Premise3.White people in black neighborhoods could not be mistaken for a rival gang member and were mostly left alone because most whites in a black neighborhoods were policemen.
Therefor: White people are always privileged no matter where they are located.
Great rewrite Sean. Rochelle, great work as well. Neither of you give page numbers where the arguments are located.
ReplyDeleteMine is on page 18.
ReplyDeletemine is a combination of page 47 and 51
ReplyDeletePremise 1:Tim McVeigh, a white male American terrorist, bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City
ReplyDeletePremise 2: 9/11 occurred, the biggest terrorist act committed by a non American
Premise 3: Tim Wise, a white male American was able to rent a truck from the same company Tim McVeigh used to bomb the building without being subject to racial profiling after the event
Premises 4: Arabs and Muslims were and are treated with suspicion and subject to racial profiling after 9/11
Therefor: Whites in America have the privilege of being treated as individuals. "..the murderous actions of one white person do not cause every other white person to be viewed in the same light.." page 53
“Because the knowledge of black children (and other kids of color, too) when it comes to race, and how they must learn to navigate the color line in their daily lives, is a substantial burden to bear. When black mothers have to teach their sons to keep both hands on the wheel if stopped by a police officer, so as to not get shot— something I have never heard a white mother speak of doing with her son— we know we're talking about more than a minor irritant.” (Wise, 24)
ReplyDeletePremise 1: Black mothers have to teach their sons to keep both hands on the wheel if stopped by a police officer.
Premise 2: White mothers never have to teach their sons such things so as to not get shot.
Premise 3: The lesson to prevent one to not get shot is more than a minor irritant.
Therefore: The burden of the knowledge of black children have is substantial because they must learn to navigate the color line in their daily lives which is something white people do not have to do due to their privilege.
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ReplyDeleteThe number of police at concerts, it seems, is almost always inversely proportional to the number of whites in attendance.(Tim Wise p. 41)
ReplyDeletePremise 1: In America, there are more uniformed officers where black people are crowded than where white people are crowded.
premise 2: During Woodstock 99, there were no uniformed officers, and an inadequate number of security guards, because most audiences in Wookstock 99 were white.
Premise 3: The U.S. police seems to think that black people are much more likely to commit crimes than white people.
Therefore :white people are always privileged wherever they are, and whatever they do.