Procatalepsis:
I read an article on the effectiveness of the three-point shot in basketball, and the author talked about Why are three-point shooting teams dominating basketball recently, isn’t it harder to shoot threes? Then he answered by simply saying that threes are greater than twos. Another example was when the author asked, who is immediately responsible for this boom in three-point shooting, and why hasn’t it worked before. Then he answered by saying that Steph Curry from the Golden State Warriors is responsible for this boom and that his team’s system is directly tied to him getting himself and his teammates open from three so that they have an easier time shooting. Lastly, he quoted NBA hall of Famer Charles Barkley when he said that “Three-Point shooting and jump shooting teams cannot win the championship”, then he talked about the 4 championships that the golden state warriors won while being the most prolific three-point shooting team in NBA history.
Exercise 2:
1. Many people say that we live in a diluted world today since everything is at the finger’s reach, but today we live in a world with the most understanding of everything around us.
2. Love isn’t real, Love is as real as one believes it to be.
3. The necessary changes to society won’t come because of the reluctance of man, but this claim has been said before, and then the necessary changes had been made.
4. History repeats itself and we are destined to fail, But we learn from our mistakes.
5. The waste left by man isn’t man’s problem, but it is as we put it there.
Exercise 3:
1. Opposition (A): Nuclear bombs are good deterrents from other nations threatening us.
Rebuttal (A): But the use of Nuclear bombs are deadly, and can cause great damage to our world.
Opposition (B): The Meer thought of this deters other nations from using them due to said damage.
Rebuttal (B): But the eventual necessary use of them will be very deadly.
2. Opposition (A): Religion should be taught as it is an important part of human history.
Rebuttal (A): The teaching of religion is harmful as biased educators can force their biases onto the students.
Opposition (B): The teaching of religion is the same as the teaching of science, and math. It should be a part of the curriculum.
Rebuttal (B): The difference is that science and math are based on fact, while religion is based on faith and belief. It should be the individual’s choice to follow religion or not.
3. Opposition (A): Music and art are non-required subjects so their funding should be cut.
Rebuttal (A): The creativity that these classes provide to the students is essential in their development as students and as people.
Opposition (B): The creativity that comes from these classes can be replicated in other classes, such as English or math.
Rebuttal (B): But then the student never gets to experience art or music, and may not find their passions which may lay in that class.
4: Opposition (A): Animal testing helps test the efficacy and safety of products.
Rebuttal (A): The testing that these animals go through is potentially life-threatening and inhumane.
Opposition (B): It’s much better than using Human testers.
Rebuttal (B): The use of Human testing may be more efficient and effective as they are mostly testing products made for humans.
5. Opposition (A): Violent movies don’t affect kids because it isn’t real.
Rebuttal (A): It may not be real but it does give kids a twisted and sick sense of what the “real” world is.
Opposition (B): Mostly the real world is depicted, and they should be getting prepared for the real world.
Rebuttal (B): This isn’t the real world that is being depicted, they are getting prepared for a dramatized fake reality.
Distinctio:
Exercise 1:
1. The sky was very colorful in the evening, by colorful I meant diverse and wide-spanning in range.
2. The hole was very deep, by deep I mean shallow and large.
3. My schoolwork is annoying, by schoolwork I mean papers.
4. The standard that is set is really high, by standard I mean expectations.
5. The stars are very bright tonight, by bright I mean blindingly bright.
6. The dog is crazy, crazy wild.
7. The kid was very smart but didn’t apply himself, street smart that is.
8. The book bag was very common, everyone had it.
9. The parent isn’t always right, often they can be wrong.
Exercise 2:
Effective:
1. Football, American football I mean.
It is effective because it makes the necessary distinction between American and regular football.
2. The food was the best, the best of the best.
It clarifies that the food is at the top of the top.
3. The kid was fast, and by fast I mean fast.
Another example of clarification is that It is at the top of the top.
4. The helpfulness of the attendant was absolutely necessary, it was required.
It defines necessary
5. My phone is almost dead, which means that I need to charge it.
Defines dead
6. My lottery winnings will provide me for years, generations maybe.
It put a timeline on the vagueness of the word “years”
Ineffective
1. The computer was new, which I mean expensive.
The two contrasting words do not affect each other.
2. The wind is strong and cold.
Again the two contrasting words do not affect each other.
3. Water is very blue like an ocean.
Comparing virtually the same thing to each other
4. My phone alarm is loud, not quiet but scary.
No need to contrast loud and scary.
5. His typing was fast, compared to my cat.
No need to compare the speeds of his cat and the typer.
6. Sleeping is required like blue is to the sky.
The sky isn’t always blue, and the two things are not connected at all.
