Select one of these topics, and imagine a conversation in which someone tries to make a point using a form of fallacious reasoning. Write the conversation as you imagine it, focusing on the error in logic. It will be on the The value of reading vs. Watching television

Bandwagon fallacy

Explanation:

Bill: Today, the reading culture that makes people smart is being eroded and I believe that this is caused by so many distractions in the world today.

John: I do not totally agree with you, Bill. The advent of social media, telephones, televisions might have reduced the number of people reading books, but these other sources can serve the purpose of books.

Bill: How do you mean?

John: Well, books are sources of information and so are televisions, social media, and phones. Besides, professors, scientists, and other learned people watch televisions most of the time and that has not reduced their intelligence or smartness.

Bandwagon fallacy appeals to the fact that many people do a particular thing in order to validate such act. In the conversation above, John appeals to the fact that learned people also watch televisions and that has not affected their smartness.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)