English 101
Mr. Bleck
August 11, 2008
Argument

Many Shades of Green with McCain

Chapter Six, The Great Crow Fallacy: Finding the Best Evidence. This chapter begins with three stories about crows dropping walnuts onto streets so that automobiles would crack the nuts by driving over them, and different people who observed the behavior in order to determine whether the crows were intentionally using the cars at nutcrackers. A final study concluded that after 400 separate incidents, crows are smart, but not smart enough to drop the nuts in front of cars on purpose.

English 101
Mr. Bleck
July 30, 2008
Website Analysis

Oh Yeah? Prove it!

Chapter 5 of Unspun begins with “Facts Can Save Your Life.” The first story of Daniel Bullock, a physician from California lost his medical license and served 8 months in federal prison after being suckered into a criminal tax evasion scam. He met someone who supposedly had inside information which would enable him to supposedly avoid a great deal of taxes legally. Mr. Bullock wanted so badly to believe in the legality of the tax evasion that he refused to see what “any 10-year-old would know,“ according to the judge who declared his sentence. Like Mr.

English 101
Mr. Bleck
July 18, 2008
Video Analysis

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Captain McCain!

Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson promise we “will not go unarmed into the political wars ahead of us” if we read their book UnSpun. Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation. In just under 200 pages, Jackson and Jamieson bring to light many of the scandals our lives are flooded with on a regular basis. Chapter Two on our path to becoming unspun presents us with several “warning signs of trickery.”

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