Boom?

Who's chasing in on the 3-D boom? Boom? This is an article that I found from "fortune", a business magazine. This is an article mentioning about movie industry is shifting their 2-D movie to 3-D movie sooner or later.
The "boom" that they mentioned is referring to a trend that awaiting to be explore and to be triggered.
In this case, the witter is using "boom" as a metaphor to describe the matter. The are imagining that the trend will be like a bomb that suddenly just "boom" like that as a trend and everone is talking about it. (now i am using simile"

Warren Buffet

This is an article which talk about a person that i respect so much. This article talk about some intersting aspects in his life:

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspectsof his life:
1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
2. He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
3. He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha , that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
4. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
5. He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.
6. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis. He has given his CEO's only two rules.Rule number 1: do not lose any of your share holder's money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
7. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time afterhe gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch Television.
8. Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
9. Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.
His advice to young people: "Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself and
Remember:A. Money doesn't create man but it is the man who created money.B. Live your life as simple as you are.C. Don't do what others say, just listen them, but do what you feel good.D. Don't go on brand name; just wear those things in which u feel comfortable.E. Don't waste your money on unnecessary things; just spend on them who really in need rather.F. After all it's your life then why give chance to others to rule our life."

Somehow , I found that teh highlighted sentence is using "Fallacy of Petitio Principii" Don't waste money on unnecessary things already implied the meaning of spend those that need only.

Why?

I found this article from a Magazine called "Mobile World". This magazine basically talk about mobility gadgets like mobile phones, PDA( personal digital assistant), laptop and other mobile gadgets. As I read through the magazine, there is one letter which wrote to the editor of "Mobile World" to voice out his unsatisfy issues. Then Ifound that the writter is using "Loaded Question" as his title of the letter. The title gos in thi way, " why must pay to call customer service?

This arguer indirectly make us automatically think we need to pay to call the customer sevice, without giving us any supporting argument or reason to support the argument.

They are the best

"They're the best in the West at this point," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "Their rhythm is good, everybody knows their roles, they are playing confidently, defence looks very good. They're a heck of a team."

In this case, Gregg Popovich is using Petitio Principii. "they are the best in the West at this point " and the supporting statement that he was saying give the same value or same meaning .

NBA

Agence France-Presse - 4/13/2008 5:35 AM GMT

Basketball: Okur, Williams lift Jazz over Nuggets
Mehmet Okur had 20 points, 15 boards and five assists and Deron Williams added 19 and 11 assists to lead the Utah Jazz to a 124-97 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday.
Ronnie Brewer added 20 points, five boards and six assists to help give the club its 53rd win of the season - its most since going 53-29 in the 2000-01 campaign.
With just days remaining on the league's regular-season schedule, the two Northwest Division foes both still have work to do in order to secure themselves for the postseason.
With Saturday's win, the division champion Jazz pulled even with Phoenix (53-27) and within 1 1/2 games of Houston (54-25) - the two clubs vying .

This is sports news which I grabbed from http://www.msn.com/. This news is about NBA ( National Basketball Association) recent news and play off results. In somehow, I found some Fallacy of Ambiguity in the article. Readers lose track to who and what is "themselves" refers to.

"GOOD"?

As I am doing my critical thinking assignment II, I suddenly recall a conversation that I had with my friend in Starbucks Cafe this afternoon. We start our conversation when he saw a guy with funny looking hair style and here it goes.(myself: Ash , my friend: Nick)
Nick : hey Ash, you see, you see. You see that guy with funny hairstyle?
Ash : yes?
Nick : He really looks very 'good' with that hairstyle. I think he better makes it bald.

Nick was trying inappropriate use of Prejudicial Qualifiers. He was forming an argument that have the opposite meaning of what he said.

VAIO like.no.other

This is a catalogue that I gone through. This is a catalogue from Sony VAIO and Sony Inc. is promoting their year 2008 spring collection computers. As I flipped through the catalogue, I read a statement, saying " It implements an intelligent algorithm which judges whether or not a movement is risky....". In this case, Sony Inc. is trying to use Euphemism Fallacy. The 'intelligent algorithm' that Sony Inc. is mentioning is referring to a safety features which judges whether or not a movement is risky. Sony Inc. is making the sentence sounds better.