Decide which of the following statements contain hasty…

Question Answered step-by-step Decide which of the following statements contain hasty… Decide which of the following statements contain hasty generalizations.China is preparing its children to rule the world. In 2011, The Economist reported that 300 million Chines were learning or had learned English. How many American school children are learning Chinese, or for that matter any other language?Northern California had unseasonable weather with cold winds and chilly temperatures from March through August over the last two years. The weather has permanently changed for the worse.Every postal employee in this town is Filipino. Filipinos must have some secret inside connection.Because Asian students are now becoming the majority ethnic group accepted for math and science into West Coast graduate schools, this suggests that Asians may be either genetically gifted in abstract thinking and/or culturally encouraged in it.Only two of my neighbors greeted me when I moved into this apartment. This is an unfriendly buildingDecide which of the following statements are false dilemmas and which seem to be true dilemmas.You are in Tibet on a bus that is halted by a landslide that covers the mountain road. Your tour guide tells you that you can either stay in the bus or join everyone else in hiking to the next town.Your physician says that you can choose to have cataract surgery or not, but your vision will only continue to get worse.We can either bomb this country with a pre-emptive strike, or we can wait until they develop a nuclear bomb to use on us.The President said that if any bill to raise taxes comes to his desk, he will veto it.Your son tells you that if you don’t buy him an iPad, he will not speak to you anymore. The following statements contain questionable statistics. Determine what questions you would ask about the statistics in each statement.After abortion was legalized in the 1970’s, the number of abortions increased dramatically. To cut down on abortions, they must be made illegal.Only 106 if an estimated 895 cases of rape that occurred in New England last year were reported.The average person will live to be 129 by the year 2100.It is a known fact that people use only ten percent of their actual potential.Statistics shows teen age pregnancy drops off at age 25.Explain the contradictions in the following statements.The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents. (Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago)I love mankind; it’s just that I can’t stand people.The meeting planned by the City Council for this evening to discuss threats was canceled because of threats.Today the mayor found a solution for the problems of the homeless camped on our city streets. He told them to go home.I’d like to order one Big Mac, large fries, twenty chicken nuggets, two apple pies, one chocolate sundae, and a diet Coke, please.Decide which of the following are loaded questions and which are not.Where did you hid the murder weapon?Are you going to be good and do what I say?What would you like for dinner tonight?When are you going to stop asking me so many silly questions?Why do Democrats hate America?What is a Weak Analogy? What makes the analogy weak? Rate the following examples as either good analogies or weak analogies.Courtship is like a football game. The only thing that matters is to win.If children cannot be executed for crimes, why should we execute retarded people with the minds of children?”Any activity creates waste. Making a dinner salad, baking a pie, burning coal, cleaning bedpans in a hospital, and handling nuclear materials. Nuclear wastes are no more dangerous than many other wastes.” (Spiro Agnew)Nature is cruel. It is our right to be cruel as well. (Adolf Hitler)If a ban on same-sex marriages violates their civil rights, then the refusal to issue a driver’s license to a blind man violates his civil rights as well. After all, gay couples cannot pro create any more than a blind man can safely drive a car in traffic. (Letter to the editor, San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2005) Arts & Humanities Writing Creative Writing READING 150 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)