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According to your textbook, what kind of reasoning is used in the following statement?Last summer, a five-year-old boy in Seattle was killed by his brother when the two were playing with their father’s gun. Last month, four-year-old Dylan Jackson accidentally killed himself after finding a loaded gun at a friend’s home during a birthday party. In Tampa, Florida, a two-year-old shot himself in the chest with a pistol left in the family couch. Clearly, children in America are at risk from gun accidents.

What error in reasoning is exemplified by the following statement?French movies are all dull. I saw three of them last semester in my film class and couldn’t stay awake through a single one.

Because everyone knows that a persuasive speaker’s goal is to influence the audience’s beliefs or actions, questions of ethics are less important in persuasive speaking than in other kinds of speaking. 

“To persuade my audience that the sale and ownership of rapid-fire assault weapons should be prohibited” is a specific purpose statement for a persuasive speech on a question of

“To persuade my audience that the use of mobile communication devices by drivers—even when they are hands-free—is contributing to an increase in automobile accidents” is a specific purpose statement for a persuasive speech on a question of

Using vivid imagery to help listeners see the benefits of the plan you are advocating is crucial to the __________ step in Monroe’s motivated sequence.

According to your textbook, the following statement is an example of what type of fallacy?Instituting a national sales tax must be a bad idea. Polls show that 66 percent of Americans oppose it.

Which of the following is presented in your textbook as a guideline for online speaking?

Some have said that SPACs are a bit like venture capital for public investors.  While VC funds and SPACs both invest cash in early stage firms there are significant differences a) SPAC promoters get 20% of the stock of the SPAC if they make an acquisition, but VC firms get 20% of the profit (or the profit exceeding some benchmark level) on all investments in their VC fund b) VC firms line up investors to make a commitment to invest up to a certain dollar amount and call for that money as it is needed, whereas SPACs get the money at the time of the SPAC inception, but the money can be withdrawn by nvestors when it comes time to fund a deal if investors don’t like the deal. c) a) and b) d) none of the above

If franchise agreements have higher up front franchise fees and lower royalties as a percent of sales once the franchise is operating, it is more likely that a franchisor will not provide as much helpful assistance to the franchisee relative to the case of lower upfront fees and higher royalties on future sales.