13. Among this list, newspapers and magazines are the most credible because they strive for objectivity and accuracy, at the same time as they possess the most amount of content. Television news programs are second only because they lack the same level of depth. The other sources should be highly questioned before using as a legitimate source. The internet possesses the best information among all of the rest, but must be evaluated on a site-by-site basis.
14. I have found two sources that indicate that controversial television ads negatively influence the behavior of children. However, there are also a handful of other resources arguing that the influence of ads upon individuals is relatively minute.
15. Rhetoric tends to vastly influence people's opinions and attitudes. However, statements of rhetoric must be analyzed based upon the factual claims they make.
16. The advertising campaigns that are most successful upon me are those that utilize humor in combination with appealing argument. The humor grabs your attention, while the sound reasoning makes intuitive sense.
17. The rhetorical devices required to make this argument include a repeated stressing of the scientific results of various studies. Scientific evidence indicates that television ads that are often deemed controversial often influence the audience to a significant degree. Children may be most affected by the supposed controversial television ads. The second version may be more powerful because it evokes the audience's concern for children.
18. It is undeniable that reasoning fallacies are numerous and abundant in argumentation; yet, they are commonly overlooked by individuals asserting their positions or are not critically inspected for what they truly are. One fallacy, which has exhibited substantial historical influence, is often used to justify specific positions based upon mankind's relationship to the natural world; I shall refer to this particular fallacy as the "appeal to nature." Essentially, the appeal to nature is employed by insisting that since human beings are products of the natural world, we must, therefore, conduct ourselves in accordance with the rules of nature -- to do otherwise would be in some way immoral. This particular device fails, ultimately, due to its violation of Damer's "relevance criterion" for good arguments. In other words, making...
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