Emilio, who is originally from uruguay, is a freshman at an american university. he is homesick and stressed about the cultural differences and language difficulties he is encountering and the academic demands he faces. he finds that drinking alcohol several times a week with his roommate gives him temporary relief from the stress. emilio's drinking can be attributed to socio-cultural and influences.

Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "we know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. there is no evidence that it is audrey. in fact, she's too clean, if you know what i mean. somebody should fire audrey; she's got to be the spy." by making this argument chris is actually engaging in (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy