Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Looking for Logical Fallacies
The first fallacies I noticed was hasty generalization. The "expert" uses this when talking about illegal immigrants and says they all have disease's because a study has shown an increase of disease's we thought were gone.He is putting illegal immigrants in one group and making assumptions that they all must have disease's.His sample is also inadequate and doesn't really prove anything. The "expert" could also be considered using post hoc fallacies by saying that because immigrants come into the country we now have lots of disease's coming back. The "expert" is claiming that because the event of immigrants coming into the country and then disease's we thought were gone are coming back that it must be because we just had an increase of illegal immigrants.He is just relating two events that happened at the same time and don't really have any facts that connect them but coincidence. He uses slippery slope when explain what will happen if we keep letting immigrants come into our country. He says we will eventually have hoofs because this diagram shows a very dramatic sequence of events that we are losing fingers from the immigrants being here. He is claiming there is a chain reaction of what is happening and if the immigrants don't get out we will have dire consequence's.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Nevada Horse Round Up (Editorial)
Dear Editor,
I am writing regarding the Horse Round Up article and why I think it is very unrealistic and provides no facts, I believe the horses are being rounded up inhumanly and for no real purpose. Your article mentions that rounding up horses "isn't pretty" but I think its an excuse to make it look like there is no alternate ways to rounding up the horses and no possible solutions. I also find it to be sneaky in the fact there is very limited access to what is going on and hard to is to take pictures or videos of these horses because your afraid of a public outcry.
The treatment of removing the horses is completely inhumane because they are using helicopters to round them up. They have a trained horse run in the front of the herd while a helicopter flies low to the ground and forces them into small corals. According to USA Today's article, "This latest wild horse controversy started after a BLM contractor using a helicopter moved 250 horses on July 10, when the Tuscarora gather began. By the next day, seven horses had died from dehydration, according to the agency." They are having increasing deaths occurring to horses during the round ups, this proves we need a new method in rounding horses up. Our efforts to rounding horses up harming and killing them.
The horses were extremely effected by the heat since the BLM rounded them up this summer in the hottest month of the year. The BLM says that the horses needed to be removed because of a draught but they knew about the drought since march and could of done something before it got so hot. Another article from the USA Today says "Horse activist Laura Leigh, whose lawsuit put a temporary halt to the roundup July 14, blames the deaths on the BLM, which she says allowed the horses to become dehydrated and held the roundup during the hottest season of the year." We could have prevented the horses from being dehydrated and having to suffer from the heat in over one hundred degree weather in Nevada. It was inhumane to the horses to perform round ups in that hot of weather and should have been planned earlier or later in the year for the treatment of the animals.
A problem that needs to be considered is where will all the horses go when they are removed. They intend to remove 2,500 horses but don't say more than they will be put up for adoption or taken to a ranch. Although according to 8NewsNow "The local office spent almost nothing on adoptions of the horses it rounds up. Only eight were adopted this past year." We are clearly having problems when it comes to adoptions and not being able to put out the money we need for the horses to go to good homes. We need to think about the horses and if we take out another 2,500 horses will we be able to provide safe places for them to go.
These horses should be able to be humanly removed and be placed up for adoption rather than crowded on a ranch on some other land we can't afford. I think we need to explore our options on more humane ways to removing them and take the weather into account. It was very unnecessary to remove the horses in the hottest month when we saw this drought coming in spring. I just hope we can see that these animals are not just profit and in the way but can look at facts and see the toll this has taken on them then maybe we can look for a better solution.
I am writing regarding the Horse Round Up article and why I think it is very unrealistic and provides no facts, I believe the horses are being rounded up inhumanly and for no real purpose. Your article mentions that rounding up horses "isn't pretty" but I think its an excuse to make it look like there is no alternate ways to rounding up the horses and no possible solutions. I also find it to be sneaky in the fact there is very limited access to what is going on and hard to is to take pictures or videos of these horses because your afraid of a public outcry.
The treatment of removing the horses is completely inhumane because they are using helicopters to round them up. They have a trained horse run in the front of the herd while a helicopter flies low to the ground and forces them into small corals. According to USA Today's article, "This latest wild horse controversy started after a BLM contractor using a helicopter moved 250 horses on July 10, when the Tuscarora gather began. By the next day, seven horses had died from dehydration, according to the agency." They are having increasing deaths occurring to horses during the round ups, this proves we need a new method in rounding horses up. Our efforts to rounding horses up harming and killing them.
The horses were extremely effected by the heat since the BLM rounded them up this summer in the hottest month of the year. The BLM says that the horses needed to be removed because of a draught but they knew about the drought since march and could of done something before it got so hot. Another article from the USA Today says "Horse activist Laura Leigh, whose lawsuit put a temporary halt to the roundup July 14, blames the deaths on the BLM, which she says allowed the horses to become dehydrated and held the roundup during the hottest season of the year." We could have prevented the horses from being dehydrated and having to suffer from the heat in over one hundred degree weather in Nevada. It was inhumane to the horses to perform round ups in that hot of weather and should have been planned earlier or later in the year for the treatment of the animals.
A problem that needs to be considered is where will all the horses go when they are removed. They intend to remove 2,500 horses but don't say more than they will be put up for adoption or taken to a ranch. Although according to 8NewsNow "The local office spent almost nothing on adoptions of the horses it rounds up. Only eight were adopted this past year." We are clearly having problems when it comes to adoptions and not being able to put out the money we need for the horses to go to good homes. We need to think about the horses and if we take out another 2,500 horses will we be able to provide safe places for them to go.
These horses should be able to be humanly removed and be placed up for adoption rather than crowded on a ranch on some other land we can't afford. I think we need to explore our options on more humane ways to removing them and take the weather into account. It was very unnecessary to remove the horses in the hottest month when we saw this drought coming in spring. I just hope we can see that these animals are not just profit and in the way but can look at facts and see the toll this has taken on them then maybe we can look for a better solution.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Wild Horse Roundup
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34578945/ns/us_news-life/
This first article is really good on talking about both sides. The side that's against it brings up good points about weather its right or not to use helicopters to round up horses and weather its humane considering many could be injured or killed during the process. It also talks about us not having enough money to euthanize the horses or place them in long term corals so we would be in a tight spot once we moved them. For the side that's for it they make great points that the horses are overpopulating and making it hard on the rest of the wild life that live around them. They also mention that it will be much easier on the horses them selves because there will be more food and land space for them.
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/80570272.html
This article makes some good points that so far we have no studies that have proven that the wild horses are skinny, malnourished or that the land is being eaten away. They also feel that a few horses might be OK to take but 2,500 is way to much to be taking away.They explain the process better about how these horses are being captured, which is a helicopter that chases them into a pin of some sort and a trained horse that follows. It mentions that many horses are injured and one was just reported trying to escape and was caught in barb wire.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-07-22-wild-horses_N.htm
After reading this article I learned that many deaths occurred because they did some of the round up during the hottest months of the year instead of doing them during the spring or fall so many horses died of dehydration. They had horses running in 100 degree weather and hotter without being able to get water. The BLM says that there is a drought and to many horses so will die of dehydration but they predicted the drought and march and could have done something sooner before it got so hot. Animal rights activist say that they just want to use the land for cattle grazing and energy. The BLM is making it very hard to see the method on the horses being rounded up because they say rounding up wild horses isn't pretty but animal activist say they feel more people would be against if they saw it happening and all the horses that were being injured or killed.
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5699743/controversial-wild-horse-roundup-in-cold-creek-nevada?redirected=true
This article really interested me since it talked about a specific place which is Cold Creek and how the residents there feel about it. Many people said they moved to that area because of the wild horses and coming from people who visit and observe these horses think they look fine. They think the government is exaggerating about dehydration because they feel there is plenty of water around there for the horses. The BLM came to talk to the residents but never gave them a chance to speak just said they could put their comments in writing. Also it talks about the lack of money the government has for all these adoptions they talk about and how there was only 8 adoptions in the past year.
This first article is really good on talking about both sides. The side that's against it brings up good points about weather its right or not to use helicopters to round up horses and weather its humane considering many could be injured or killed during the process. It also talks about us not having enough money to euthanize the horses or place them in long term corals so we would be in a tight spot once we moved them. For the side that's for it they make great points that the horses are overpopulating and making it hard on the rest of the wild life that live around them. They also mention that it will be much easier on the horses them selves because there will be more food and land space for them.
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/80570272.html
This article makes some good points that so far we have no studies that have proven that the wild horses are skinny, malnourished or that the land is being eaten away. They also feel that a few horses might be OK to take but 2,500 is way to much to be taking away.They explain the process better about how these horses are being captured, which is a helicopter that chases them into a pin of some sort and a trained horse that follows. It mentions that many horses are injured and one was just reported trying to escape and was caught in barb wire.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-07-22-wild-horses_N.htm
After reading this article I learned that many deaths occurred because they did some of the round up during the hottest months of the year instead of doing them during the spring or fall so many horses died of dehydration. They had horses running in 100 degree weather and hotter without being able to get water. The BLM says that there is a drought and to many horses so will die of dehydration but they predicted the drought and march and could have done something sooner before it got so hot. Animal rights activist say that they just want to use the land for cattle grazing and energy. The BLM is making it very hard to see the method on the horses being rounded up because they say rounding up wild horses isn't pretty but animal activist say they feel more people would be against if they saw it happening and all the horses that were being injured or killed.
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5699743/controversial-wild-horse-roundup-in-cold-creek-nevada?redirected=true
This article really interested me since it talked about a specific place which is Cold Creek and how the residents there feel about it. Many people said they moved to that area because of the wild horses and coming from people who visit and observe these horses think they look fine. They think the government is exaggerating about dehydration because they feel there is plenty of water around there for the horses. The BLM came to talk to the residents but never gave them a chance to speak just said they could put their comments in writing. Also it talks about the lack of money the government has for all these adoptions they talk about and how there was only 8 adoptions in the past year.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Wolf Hunt Debate
Against wolf Hunt http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/14/wolf-hunts-idaho-montana_n_926465.html
The wolf hunt is strongly debated by two very different sides. Many environmental groups feel it’s wrong to hunt wolves because it would kill off way more wolves than necessary and put them back at risk. They tried a petition to put wolves back on the endangered species list but it had failed. They feel skeptical because they think wolves have only barley recovered and are still at risk for going back into being endangered. They also argue that there has not been a wolf attack on a human since the 1990's. They think that wolves still need protection and this wolf hunt will be very hard the future of wolves and open the doors for many things that will harm them. Many people against it think it is unconstitutional to take them off the endangered list and separated powers. They think wolves should still have protection and that people are exaggerating the problems of wolves so they can have something else to hunt.
For Wolf Hunt http://www.subletteexaminer.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=1831
On the other hand people are complaining their livestock is being eaten by wolves and the big game like deer and elk herds getting much smaller. Hunters are the majority of the group and farmers. They claim that wolves are taking out their livestock and causing them lots of money, they feel the wolves are overpopulated and many would like to get rid of them all together. Hunters also feel that wolves have made a huge comeback, now there is so many of them that they are taking out the big game making it harder for them to hunt and get food during hunting season. Many people believe it should be up to the state to handle wolf management because they are the ones dealing with it. They think wolves have caused nothing but problems and want the number of wolves to decline heavily.
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien felt that good stories about war shouldn't have a moral because then they wouldn't be true. I like how he put in that if a story has a moral you shouldn't believe it. So when you read a story about war and you feel uplifted or that you really got something from it, that its not true. He also says that truth in a story doesn't always have to be true in the sense that it actually happened because sometimes you need to add stuff and you can't always remember exactly what happened. For his story about war he felt that to get the truth and what mattered he need some time to organize the truth and whats important. A good war story is one that you don't see the point until twenty years later and sounds pretty unbelievable. Anything in a war story that sounds believable probably isn't true. The reality in story telling he says doesn't need to be true but could still be what happened, he says a true story that never happened. War stories are not supposed to be about war but the friendship and love in it. Stories don't always have to have a point or a moral to be a good story with the truth. The way he wrote in the "The Things They Carried" I didn't care for the story at all but could picture it being very true and with reality in war.
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