Positive/Negative

One concept that I found interesting is positive and negative correlation. This type of correlation is a simple tactic you can use to show your point. It shows how two or more variables increase or decrease in number together. There is a relationship between the variables that can help cause and effect arguments. An example of a positive coerraltion is the relationship between the number of hours worked and your paycheck. Obviously the more hourse you work, the higher amount of money you will earn in your paycheck. In an opposite and positive correlation, you would get a higher grade if you attend all class meetings. An example of a negative correlation would be the less days I go to school, the lower my final grade will be. These types of relationships can truly help you figure out the reasons for you situation or argument so I would recommend using this type of tactic.

Dr. Novello

Dr. Novello is a respected first Hispanic surgeon. She is against a lot of things that affect a person's health such as smoking and drinking. She was especially concerned with young children and teens choosing not to be above the influence. Being against smoking industries I can kind of see why she attacked their commercial ad compaigns. When statistics showed that young people smoke a lot more, I believe she used cause and effect reasoning to come to her conclusions. Novello believed that because after a smoking commercial first aired the youth smoker rate went up and that the producer for the advertisement was actually targeting young children, the number of children who smoke soared. She used the positive correlations of those premises. This is an inductive arguent because this whole situation is not based on facts but her assumptions. If I had the same beliefs I would attack the commercials as wekk because a majority of people just not kids watch television.

Inductive Argument

An inductive argument is when the premises support the conclusion. However, in an inductive argument, the conclusion sometimes won't always be true when you think about the premises. An example of an inductive argument I had experienced was a couple days ago when I couldn't find my favorite piece of clothing. I had came to the conclusion that my sister had stolen it. My premises are that one, she consistently uses my clothes without asking, and two she always, always lies when I ask if she's taken something and then I catch her putting it back the same day. However, after a couple of days I can now say that she didn't take it because she hasn't returned it. Also, I found the jacket in the trunk of my car a week later. Both of my premises were although true, my conclusion was definitely not true. So as you can see, an inductive argument was rather weak in my situation.

Leadership

Leadership is always needed in any group for whatever task. If there wasn't any at all, then the group will not perform their absolute best as a whole. Most of the time, the project will end up being a failure due the lack of communication and unity. If there was a presentation that the group had to have done, it would fall into pieces showing their audience that they didn't work together at all. There are four different kinds of leadership. The one that I feel that deserves more credit than others is participative leadership. This is when everyone is contributing their own ideas and helping to take their project to a whole new level to achieve the best grade or award they can earn. Without participation, a group won't be all be on the same page. In the end, all the participants of the group will feel that they have done their part and won't have any negativity towards each other since they know not one person lagged and received a good grade for doing nothing.

Penalty

Personally I am a Catholic who believes that God is the only one who can choose to have someone leave our world physicially. The statement in the bible is like that saying about how you should treat others how you want them to treat you. If you changed places, what would you want your sentence to be: imprisonment or death? I feel that most people would choose imprisonment. Sure the actions of the person accused may have been drastic and unbearable, but how can they feel the punishment if they're not alive to. They need the time in a locked cell to feel the guilt and sorrow of those who were the loved ones of the vistim or victims. I know that when I hear on the news of someone getting the death penalty I feel almost sad for both the victim and the person who killed him or her. It's not our choice whether someone should live or die because their accused actions may be false.

Holmes

Sherlock Holmes, in my opinion, is trying to tell Watson that solving a case requires your emotions to play a part when it comes to reasoning. You can't be always listening to other people's opinions until you can form your own opinion or accusation about something. Your conclusion can also be seen more right if it's not compiled of theories from different, irrelevant people. Also, he is trying to say that not only is it important to think for yourself with your own reasoning but also to be unbiased at the same time. This can be difficult. However, it's for the best when you come to resolution without anyone pointing out some of your sources are not correct.

A personal experience of mine that related to his explanation was when I found out that my high school friend was stabbing me in the back. I wasn't thinking with my own mindset and filling my head with other people's rumors. My mistake was that I came to solving the problem by never finding out for myself if it was true and just ignoring her. I should found my own evidence to see for myself if she was a true friend or not. Turns out, I find her years later and she never did any of the accusations said by all these different classmates.

Same Sex Marriage

I am all for equal rights and opportunities for every citizen. Most likely, even if I wasn't Catholic I'd stay with my opinion that everyone should have equal opportunity in everything including marriage. To Nava and Dawidoff, Obama would say that he is trying to do his job as a president and do the best he can for all citizens, trying not to choose just one side of the issue. Some people may say this is just plain hypocritical. I say he is trying to please all sides with no intention disregarding any opinions on same sex marriage. All in all, he is definitely consistent on his decisions considering he bases his acts on both sides of the issue 50/50.

Standing Ground

Working in retail, I had learned to be both professional and myself at the appropriate times. And I can describe myself as a very silly person. I have been working at shopping malls for over 3 years and have never once experienced a store manager who was inappropriate most of the time until my last job at Foreign Exchange. Standing my ground wasn't easy in this type of situation in which I had to choose between keeping the job that is benefitting me financially or leaving so I don't have to be apart of the corrupt store.

My ex-manager would make my co-workers, who have been my friends longer than we've been working together, feel uncomfortable. He would call or text them hours after our store closed, make inappropriate comments about the female customers, and would only talk to the employees to scold them and never once greeted or conversate with. The fact that he even had a sexual relationship with one of the employees shocked me. After hearing that I had to think about my morals and my environment. Did I really want to be around that just to keep the high-paying job?

I stood my ground and had enough with the company. Sure it the most earnings I have ever gotten and my position as assistant manager was as high of a position I will ever get, but to me this part of my life wasn't right and I just had to get out of it. I'm glad I had made a decision to leave because now I am working in a friendly children's where I am just there to help customers and not be bombarded with rumors, nasty comments, and everything else that's definitely not needed in a working environment.