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Peer Causal Friday, October 14, 2005
Quoting TwOr
Causal Argument 2 from http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-10-11-life-death-edit_x.htm The argument talks about how obesity in Americans is causing safety hazards for public transportation. It talks about how the average weight of passengers has increased for boats and airplanes. The average weight increase was not taken into consideration during the engineering of the vehicles, so the vehicles are failing. The author cites the recent incident in New York that killed 20 people. This matters, because we all use public transportation, and we could all fall victim to these engineering flaws. There are no other noticeable causes for the out-dated engineering standards that cause danger to public safety.
Claim: American Obesity causes public transportation safety hazards.
Reasons: Average weight of passangers increased from time when the vehicles were built.
Counter-Arguments: New standards and specificaitons should be made?
Apple Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Just over a month after the release of the iPod Nano, today Apple announced their latest creation. It's what people were waiting for and said wouldn't happen for a while, it finally plays videos. Now all the iPod needs is a 10 megapixel video camera, 100g more of memory, and cellphone capabilities to be everyone's all-in-one gadget.
Causal Tuesday, October 11, 2005
I found this causal argument on violent videogames causing aggression. The author 's claim is that people who play violent videogames become aggressive/violent in real life. Examples and studies are cited on the site that seem to prove this. The audience of this is to be adults and parents. I think the main reason people think that violent videogames cause aggressiveness is because the already agressive kids like these games. This topic is important to people for reasons such as the events at Columbine.
Claim: Video games cause aggression.
Reasons: Statistics show a strong correlation.
Counter-arguments: Violent kids like violent video games. Other sources of violence. Is the source trustworthy?
Did we really go to the moon? Monday, October 10, 2005
I've read about this before, but only on the internet. I looked at a lot of the sites that have a bunch of pictures and their explanations of how the picture was staged. Then I found a site (which I'll try to post here) that had all this, but then counter-arguments stating what was happening in the photos. But, do I think we went to the moon? Umm... Probably..?
Here's a site similar to the one I was talking about: link
This is an interesting site too: link
>>Hey this is TwOr, I've gotten in about a hundred arguments with people over this topic haha. Those are good sites, and by the way we definitly went to the moon.
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