WEB LINKS
"Neither
believe nor reject anything because any other persons . . .
rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle
given you by heaven."
--Thomas Jefferson
"No medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are." --Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death "Arguments are the processes of reasoning wherein the speaker puts together a series of statements and/or evidence in support of a conclusion. . . . The critic must recognize the main propositions in the speech and be able to discern the various proof used. --Robert Cathcart, Post Communication
"Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only what he is studying at the time." --John Dewey
"Come, Watson; the game is afoot!" --Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Below are links to web sites designed to influence you. Analyze them for the rhetorical effect. The first site links you to additional advocacy site lists:
- World Advocacy http://www.worldadvocacy.com
- Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org
- Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org
- Environmental Defense Action Fund http:/www.undoit.org
- Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.nrdcwildplaces.org
- Jane Goodall Institute http://www.janegoodall.org
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals http://www.peta.org/
- Environmental Defense Fund http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm
- Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
- Derechos Human Rights http://www.derechos.org
- ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union http://aclu.org/
- Freedom Forum http://www.freedomforum.org/
- MoveOn.Org http://www.moveon.org
- National Anti-Vivisection Society (opposed to animal testing) http://www.navs.org/
- National Association for Biomedical Research (favors animal testing) http://www.nabr.org
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.ncadp.org/
- National Rifle Association http://www.nra.org/
- Center for a New American Dream http://www.newdream.org/
- The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights http://www.nnirr.org/
- Endangered Species Coalition http://www.stopextinction.org/
- Vitamin Angel Alliance http://www.vitaminangel.org/
- National Association for Bilengual Education http://www.nabe.org/
- Action on Smoking and Health http://ash.org/
- Fight Ordinances and Restrictions to Control and Eliminate Smoking http://www.forces.org/
- American Smoker's Alliance http://www.smokers.com
- Common Cause http://www.commoncause.org/
- DRCNet: The Drug Reform Coordination Network http://drcnet.org/
- Security on Campus http://www.campussafety.org/
- Children's Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org/
- Stand for Children http://www.stand.org/
- Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization http://www.bastards.org/
- Minority Rights Group International http://www.minorityrights.org/
- National Organization of Women http://www.now.org/
- NAACP http://www.naacp.org/
- Japanese AmericanCitizens League http://www.jacl.org/
- League of Latin American Citizens http://www.lulac.org
- Bicycle Advocacy http://chainguard.org/
- Privacy International http://www.privacyinternational.org
- World Wildlife Fund http://www.panda.org
- The Wildlands Project http://www.twp.org
- Nature Conservancy http://nature.org
- Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc. http://www.dredf.org/
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