chiczaira wrote:
Quote:I write damn good papers. So upon receiving a less than passing grade and 'naive and incomplete" written on the cover page, I went to the professor for an explanation.
Based on your attempts to engage others in debate here chic, I can see precisely why the professor stated such. Your arguments are not well thought out. You use personal experience as if it was applicable to the entire world. You bluster and resort to ad hominem attacks when questioned or refuted.
Quote:My experiences at the University of Chicago taught me that African-Americans do not committ crimes, or if they do, that fact is not to be mentioned in a Sociology or History class.
Poor argument. It assumes that your experience includes all sociology and history classes.
Quote:Mr. Blatham is obviously unaware that the left wing liberals in our Universities in the USA teach all kinds of twaddle which is designed for the purposes of Political Correctness but, in reality, is nothing but the perversion of History.
No facts in evidence. Merely opinion. Thinly veiled ad hominem in accusing you opponent of being unaware of a fact that you provide no evidence for.
Quote:This idiocy and violation of the First Amendment was struck down in Federal Court. The US District Judge Avern Cohn declared that "The Supreme Court has consistently held that states punishing speech or conduct on the grounds that they are unseemly or offensive are unconstitutionally overbroad.
Incomplete in its argument and conclusions. Failed to state that the ruling was from 1989 and the policy was only instituted in 1988 in response to threats of lawsuits for allowing fliers to be distributed on campus some of which "declared "open season" on blacks."
Quote:This is only the tip of the iceberg.
No evidence to support this conclusion.
Quote:I know the Pope claims to speak "ex Cathedra" I was unaware that Mr. Blathman did so also.
ad hominem
Quote:First of all, I mentioned that MY experiences at the University of Chicago were such that I did not hear that African-Americans did not committ crimes OR IF THEY DID, that fact was not to be mentioned in a HIstory or Sociology Class.
Repeat of earlier attempt to apply your limited experience to all classes. No mention of how many classed you actually took compared to how many there are.
Quote:Mr. Blatham does not, evidently, watch Television or go to the Movies
ad hominem
Quote:I will, of course, accept Mr. Blatham's claim about D"Sousa, if Mr. Blatham can document it.
Requires standard of opponent that the originator fails to meet by continually using "personal experience" as his basis.
Quote:Of course, if one relies on anecdotal evidence, as Mr. Blatham suggests some do, then that evidence could be called an experience one has read about. I suggest that the above are not experiences one has read about but are facts.
Strawman argument, misrepresents Blatham's position. A verifiable printed source is quite different from personal experience.
The list is getting rather long but I think I have presented several examples to support my conclusion that a paper that contains the same problems exhibited here should have been marked as "naive and incomplete."