Fallacies

1. Ad Hominine: Responding to any argument attacking a person's character than the content of the argument

2. Circular Reasoning: When someone argues a certain point that they're trying to emphasize by trying to make by supporting it. Other reasons include that they are trying to support their original point.

3. Ad Nauseum: Making an argument by repetition, saying the same thing over and over again.

4. Appeal to Ignorance: Arguing that something is true just because it hasn't been proven false.

5. Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: "With this because of this", just because two things happened together doesn't mean that they're related.

6. Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: Just because something happens after another event doesn't mean that the first event caused the second event.

7. Slippery Slope: "If I do it for you, I'll have to do this fro everybody else." Assuming that if you give one person a point you must then have to give that point back in turn.

8. Straw Man: Putting mans words into someone else's mouth (that someone may or may not exist), for the purpose of exaggerating or distorting the opposing viewpoint.

9. Non-sequiter: Something that doesn't go in sequence, an illogical loop to an unrelated topic or idea.

Because I said so!

This should be more helpful towards Period 7, but your journal topic today really ties into everything that we are discussing today. The reply "because I said so" usually isn't something that we tend to use in an argument, usually we tend to cuss each other out and continue to keep doing that until eventually someone gives up and walks away. We also learn new terms that tie into what we watched when we saw Jiro's dream of sushi video.

Jiro

Jiro to me is probably one of the most hardworking yet dedicated person that I've ever seen in my life. To be working so hard and still wanting to perform at his very best at his age is something that you'll see once in a lifetime. I've met plenty of people over the years who take pride and accomplishment in what they do but I probably won't ever see anyone as committed to their work as Jiro is. Even at Jiro's age he could've retired nearly twenty years ago and lived a happy life but as we saw in the video this is something that he's worked to perfect for his entire life and yet he still feels like he can get better and better every single day. Jiro doesn't do this job for the money, he really couldn't care less about the high achievement that his restaurant has achieved. His passion is what keeps him going and that is something that usually fades away as we get older, we get to that certain point where we believe that as we get older are dreams become no longer relevant. For myself there isn't one thing other than the sport I play yet don't think that I could achieve feel the same way about tennis as Jiro does about making sushi as odd as that may sound. To end I'm using a quote from the brilliant mind or Mark Zuckerburg about passion "If you just want to work on stuff that you like and are passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan of how things will play out."

Learn Something

Today I learned that with the journal topic about how certain people tend to take a very long time to get certain places and how others are practically sprinting towards their next class or wherever they are going. Well what I've noticed is that usually in the morning many people tend to start out very slowly because they are all tired and just want to get through the day. Whereas as the day goes on and we head into lunch, it's like the 100 dash where people are literally sprinting to get to either the cafeteria or the lunch carts, some will stop at no reason whatsoever to get their stupid lunch. plus you also get the idiots who are walking in the hallway dragging their feet when all of the sudden, they suddenly decide to stop on the middle of the hallway and talk to their friends or some other person. That's what I notice whenever I walk through the halls.