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Eugene Ferguson's argument for visual thinking in engineering education

In Eugene Ferguson Engineering and the Mind's Eye, he makes the case that the existing privileging of science and math over the nonverbal and visual in engineering education is mutually a dangerous practice and a historical abnormality.

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Analysis of logical fallacies in Jack's math contest argument

The narrator provides a few different reasons why Jack "is silly to think he can win the math contest." The first issue of course is that "silly" is entirely subjective, and that nothing the narrator says has anything to do with silly.

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Capital punishment deterrence arguments in Muhlhausen's opposing views essay

The debate surrounding capital punishment is not as clear as one might think -- in fact, there is a great deal of gray within this debate. The actual definition is State controlled taking of a human life in response to some crime committed by a person who was legally convicted of that crime.

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Analyzing the logical structure of the problem of evil argument

The existence of evil in the world has long been used in arguments that God does not exist. This "Problem of Evil" argument can take many forms, but it is nearly always centered on the idea that God and evil are mutually exclusive.

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Evaluating Erik Luna's overcriminalization argument against animal cruelty laws

Some modern scholars make a strong argument that there has been an overcriminalization of immoral behavior in modern U.S. society. To support their arguments, these scholars point out that there has been an increasing trend to criminalize victimless immoral behavior.

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Woolf's exploration of gender and artistic capability in essay and novel form

Quite a significant amount of the literature written by Virginia Woolf pertains to issues of gender and explores the inherent differences and similarities between men and women.

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Evaluating Dean Foust's "identity theft: more hype than harm" argument

Identity theft is something that occurs in the United States on a daily basis. Identity theft occurs when someone's personal information is stolen and is used by the criminal to take on another person's identity.

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Weaknesses in H.J. McCloskey's argument against God's existence

In "On Being an Atheist," H.J. McCloskey discusses what it means to him to be an atheist. In doing so, he criticizes the classical argument in favor of God's existence.

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Sexuality and perversion in Freud's three essays on psychosexual development

Sexuality can be discussed and analyzed through concepts made in other works of the author. These essays revolve around the idea of sexual perversions and why they develop in the first place. In the second essay, Freud talks about the various psychosocial stages of development.

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Clifford's ethics of belief and the ship-owner argument

Clifford is trying to make in the story of the ship-Owner (Meister, 359)? Despite the contention that religious belief has no moral downsides, having the belief can result in a refusal to take practical actions and thus does have many negative consequences for humanity.

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