¶ … speaker makes an appeal to emotion fallacy (because 'everyone' supports the idea, it must be right) while the second makes an irrelevant conclusion (caring about animals and homeless people are not mutually exclusive).
Appeal to pity -- the speaker asks the reader to support the politician, saying like the politician is a military soldier injured on the field of battle, without specifically explaining why this analogy is valid or why the politician is worthy of support.
Appeal to emotion -- Darrow is currying favor with his audience by praising them.
Appeal to force -- those who cancel their subscriptions are warned that they might fall afoul of the authorities.
Ad hominem -- the author dismisses a specific category of philosophers as unworthy of engaging in argument because their beliefs are so absurd.
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Q1. False cause -- the speaker generalizes from his personal experience (no pregnancies amongst his female classmates) to make a false conclusion about the cause of the spike in the pregnancy rate (education about sexuality).
Q3. Appeal to inappropriate authority -- a broad, sweeping statement about sexuality is made based upon the results of a single survey that was not attempting to prescribe dictate whether people should go to college or not.
Q5. Begging the question -- the speaker makes a tautological argument, stating that because he is the leader, he deserves more pearls and takes the pearls and says he is the leader because he has more pearls.
Q7. False cause -- the senator attributes his prosperity to not speaking to a certain newspaper.
Q9.False cause -- there are many other factors that could cause a decline in educational standards.
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Q1. Fallacy of composition -- it is assumed because the moon orbits around the earth, that all other heavenly objects do the same.
Q3. Fallacy of composition -- it is assumed that what is good for one industry is good for all industries.
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