Kara says to Sunny, "Did you hear Antonio's speech? I thought it was really good." Sunny replies, "How could you think he gave a good speech? He's such a dork! All he does is play video games. What a loser." Sunny's response is an example of _______
A) a hasty generalization
B) the false cause fallacy
C) an ad hominem fallacy
D) the straw person fallacy
C
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Renaissance artists
a. painted and sculpted only religious subjects. b. never painted or sculpted religious subjects. c. imitated nature. d. turned their back on nature, following instead their inner subjective emotions. e. never worked for the Church.
Why did Constantine seek to establish a new capital city in the east, which he dubbed "New Rome"?
a. The original capital of Rome had been sacked. b. The first Rome was facing a strong financial crisis. c. The new capital provided a strategic defensive location for the empire. d. The creation of a second capital could provide much-needed revenues for the empire. e. The new city provided a place to send Rome's paupers and criminals.
The Free Soil party of 1848 harbored many northerners who stood squarely against slavery in the territories primarily on the grounds that
a. further expansion of slavery might break up the union. b. it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise up from wage-earning dependence. c. slavery was a moral evil contrary to American principles. d. slave labor would be unproductive in the West. e. the southern fire-eaters were already planning further expansion into Central America.
Margaret Thatcher represents
A) Britain as Prime Minister in the 1980s. B) a shining example of what could result in equal pay and equal rights if the women's movement continued. C) the Labor Party in Britain. D) women achieving supreme political authority. E) All of these