Riddle: The Soccer Penalty Kick
What’s the smartest kick?
To the shooter’s strong side, which the goalie is more likely to guard?
Or to the shooter’s weak side, which the goalie is more likely to block if he guesses right?
The authors of Think Like a Freak give us some details to help us decide.
- The goal is 12 yards away.
- It’s 8 yards wide and 8 feet tall.
- You will kick the ball at 80 miles per hour.
- The kick will arrive at the net in 0.306818 seconds
- I know that because: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/speed-distance-time-calculator.php/
- The goalie can’t wait for you to kick. He has to guess and fling his body toward his choice before you make contact with the ball.
- Overall, at the elite level, 75% of penalty kicks are successful.
- If he chooses wrong, your odds of success are about 90%.
- You want him to choose wrong.
- Whether you’re left- or right-footed, 57% of goalies will guard your strong side. 41% of the time, they’ll guard your weak side.
Answer in the Reply field below and Post Comment:
- What’s the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t?
- Why do so few kickers make the most logical choice?
Sources Workshop 2
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Workshop: Ag-Gag Arguments
- Should Activists Be Targeted with Ag-Gag Laws?
- A Brief Video Debate over the Ethical Treatment of Animals turns to a Debate over the Ethical Treatment of Farmers and the Ethical Treatment of Activists.
- Farmers say: Activists bolster their false claims of animal cruelty inside animal farms with doctored and manipulated footage.
- Farmers say: Activists’ real agenda is to close all animal farms and force vegetarianism on the country.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: Undercover footage has led to criminal charges against meat producers and food safety recalls.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: We’re not green kooks. The Teamsters, the AFL-CIO, the American Civil Liberties Union and other legitimate organizations have joined us in opposition to Ag-Gag laws. .
- Farmers say: Releasing footage of presumably cruel treatment to the media instead of giving farms a chance to take corrective action demonstrates that activists want to harm farms more than help animals.
- Farmers say: Waiting “even a minute” to gather a body of evidence of abuse instead of “turning it over” immediately proves activists don’t sincerely seek change; they seek to harm the farms.
- Farmers say: Compiling months’ worth of tapes into provocative gross-out videos to release under a DONATE NOW button proves the disingenuousness of the activists’ motivation.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: What we gather is evidence of criminal behavior.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: Sadly, much of the abuse in meat-raising farms is institutionalized abuse against animals NOT PROTECTED by a single federal law.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: The government doesn’t protect animals, and farms are understandably secretive about their operations, so undercover video is the only chance Americans have to see how their food is produced.
- Farmers say: The last thing farmers need is to be policed by activists whose goal is to enforce a Vegan World.
- Farmers say: We police ourselves. Workers are required to report abuse to the managers. Quality assurance officers, or some sort of managers, review footage from cameras in the processing plants.
- Farmers say: 98% of US farms and ranches are “family-owned.”
- Farmers say: It’s not in the best interest of farms to have allegations of abuse made against them.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: Ten billion birds are slaughtered for food every year on farms that in many cases have 100,000,000 birds on one farm. The entire enterprise is massively industrialized, unsupervised, unrestrained by government regulation an oversight.
- Moderator says: McDonalds restaurant chain fired Fargo Farms after allegations of cruelty to chickens brought to light by undercover video. [shows video]. How will Ag-Gag laws stifle this activity?
- Animal Rights Advocates say: There is no other way to document and expose cruelty on farms that don’t invite scrutiny. The same day farm workers pled guilty to criminal animal abuse, the State legislature criminalized the kind of reporting that led to those convictions.
- Moderator says: Why shouldn’t investigators who film abuse be required to turn that evidence over within 24 hours?
- Animal Rights Advocates say: Evidence of a single case of abuse doesn’t provide evidence of a PATTERN OF ABUSE. Prosecutors will ignore single violations. But they have to address systemic abuse if it is documented.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: Low-level employees cannot be expected to risk losing their jobs by reporting abuse.
- Farmers say: The activists are shirking their real responsibility by running to the media to “expose” the employees engaging in “standard industry practices.” They just want to raise money by releasing shocking video images.
- Farmers say: Nobody has a right to videotape on private property without permission. Farmers need protection against clandestine investigations.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: If I were abusing animals in my home for their entire lives, I wouldn’t want anybody videotaping and documenting that behavior either.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: Corporate farmers write the Ag-Gag laws and have muscled legislatures to criminalize any news gathering organization that documents their hidden behaviors.
- Animal Rights Advocates say: Farms are closed to reporters. Employees are sworn to secrecy. Government doesn’t oversee the operations. And when farms hold conferences about denying access to oversight, they ban credentialed reporters from covering those events.
- A Brief Video Debate over the Ethical Treatment of Animals turns to a Debate over the Ethical Treatment of Farmers and the Ethical Treatment of Activists.
Extra Credit Task:
Review and Annotate an AgGag Source
- You may select any of the 9 sources below.
- Review its claims AND REFUTE THEM as you go.
- Publish your work in the Ag-Gag Sources category,
- and your Username category, of course.
- Title your work Ag-Gag—Username.
- Use whatever format seems best for your Notes.
- Law Declares Reporting Abuse to be Terrorism
- Laws Turn Activists into Terrorists
- Gross-Out Videos as an Activist Technique
- Raising Animals for Food
- Taping Cruelty is now the Crime
- Open the Slaughterhouses
- Warning, Graphic: The Meat Video (What Cody Saw)
- Foie Gras Is Not Unethical
- Two Videos on Gavage: Force-Feeding Geese
and Cormorant Swallowing Whole Fish
If the topic intrigues you, here’s another link I found during class:
How Big Agriculture Completely Controls 96% of Chicken Production
YouTube “Gotcha” video exposes chicken production practices.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
11/22/23 Class Notes:
A riddle about Fate: We go over the 4 declarations “everything happens for a reason,”.
Magical Dependency: Independent clauses emphasize claims while, Dependent Clauses Minimize Objections.
The Banned 2nd Person: This topic explains to us that we cant use “you” in sentences and ways to find them hiding in your writing.
Case Study: We found how in this study the main argument was great but quickly lost in the next sentence, and we go over way to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Annotated Bibliography: This section we learned to change our proposal argument name and to post under a new category, need between 10-15 sources.
Grammar Basics: Go over all different kinds of grammar mistakes and how to look out for them.
Classe notes:
-A Riddle About Fate: went over four quotes “Everything Happens for a Reason.”
-Syntax is Argument: Independent Clauses Emphasize Claims.
– ” Your Proposal+5 becomes your Annotated Bibliography!”
_ Grammar Basics
The Dreaded FFG (Fails For Grammar)
Contains an In-Class Exercise
– portfolio for today is Self-Reflective Statement
Class notes
-We did a quick five minute review of our class
-We did a workshop, and edited my first paragraph of the causal argument, I took a-lot of notes/pointers in fixing my work.
-I learned a lot about applying language to my writing and how much of an impact one word can change an entire sentences meaning.
11/22/2023
Happy Thanksgiving!
Rename Proposal +5 to Bibliography – Puffer
You don’t need to use the source to insert it in the bib, if you read it and it may have contributed, it goes in the bib.
Grammar Basics… don’t get confused
Less points were scored… no
Fewer points were scored… yes
Assignments will fail unless you fix your grammar.
Write to 5,000 words, then rewrite it down to 3,000 words
“Scenic views ahead”
use small paragraphs that will help you know what to look for ahead. Like Sign posts.
Try and schedule some time with Professor Hodges to go over some work.
Schedule Conference.
“Mandatory 3 Conference MINIMUM”
Class Notes 11/22:
– What makes an independent clause connected, is the language within the sentences. Sometimes this is just one word that forms the connection, which is able to be added or taken away. You must put your primary claim into your independent clause.
– The use of the second person is banned from academic writing, as it decreases the community which is formed within academic writing. By using “you” in writing, it singles out the reader, rather than creating a sense of friendship within the writing. Instead use; “we”, “our”, “ours”, etc..
– When one has an extremely strong first sentence, they must run with it rather than negating it in their next sentence.
– Proposal +5 turns into an annotated Bibliography and there should be 10-15 sources.
– In order to avoid gender, stick with plural writing.
– Be sure to do the self reflective statement prior to the last class on December 11th.
*workshop day*
One phrase can be indicated in many different ways.
Syntax is argument
Independent clauses are complete sentences, while dependent clauses are unfinished sentences with connecting words.
Class Notes 11/22
Riddle About Fate:
– “Everything happans for a Reason”
1) Jay causes a traffic accident that severely wounds another driver and her child but spares Jay any injury and barely even damages his car. He is however arrested on suspicion of recklessness following an investigation of the accident scene. After a night in jail, Jay has to face his father, Zed, who has come to bail him out. Before he agrees to pay, Zed asks his son for an explanation. “Everything happens for a reason, son,” he says to Jay.
2) Kay lies in her hospital bed clinging to life. She had been drinking heavily the night of the accident, while driving her daughter home. Deeply shamed by her behavior and buoyed by the outpouring of love and concern from her friends who visit her bedside, Kay reconnects with her life and family and resolves to quit her irresponsible behavior. Suffering intense pain from her injuries, she nevertheless tells her friend, “Everything happens for a reason.”
3) Jay has no contact with Kay during her hospitalization, but the death of Kay’s daughter fills him with guilt and remorse. He sees the accident as an indictment of his recklessness but senses the hand of God at work in sparing him. He doesn’t change his behavior in any way, but ever after believes that whatever occurs in his life is God’s will, over which he has no control and for which he has no responsibility. “Everything happens for a reason,” is how he describes the human condition.
4) Zed regrets having raised a son as irresponsible as Jay and resolves to do a better job with his daughter Dee. Together they form an organization called Teens at the Scene that promotes safe teenage driving, accident prevention, and emergency responsiveness. After years of labor, they take the group national, score big, and become very influential, as well as rich. Zed proposes a toast to their good fortune, but Dee replies, “This was no accident; everything happens for a reason, Dad.”
-Exercise:
o Regarding the four declarations that “everything happens for a reason,” in a Reply below,
+ Number your answers 1-4.
+ Identify which of the four declarations are expressions of a belief in fate.
+ For those that are not, describe what they do declare
1. The father knew that his son had cause the traffic accident for a reason.
2. Kay knew that that accident was fate sating not to drink ever again.
3. This declaration expressions a belief of Fate as Jay thinks that God was at work.
4. Fate has change them and turned theirs world around to them helping Teens.
Syntax is Argument: Magical Dependecy:
– Can you give a brief refresher of what an Independent and Dependent Clause is.
– Independent Clasuses Emphasize Claims
o Primarliy claim
+ Since the program lowers the crime rate by giving free heroin to the addicts, it won’t help them end their addiction.
+ While the program doesn’t help addicts end their addiction, it reduces the crime rates in the city by providing the addicts free heroin in the cleanest way possible.
– Dependent Clauses Minimize Objections
o While the addicts will unfortunately remain dependent on heroin, the city will have the opportunity to thrive.
o Although this program might save the city, the addicts will still be dependent on heroin.
The Bannded 2nd Person(You):
– Incorrect: You are far more likely to be pulled over for speeding if you are a teenager.
– Correct: Teenagers are far more likely to be pulled over for speeding.
o Fails for Grammar:
+ Using you, your, or your, in academic essays for this class is a “Fails For Grammer”(FFG) offense. Practice serveral techiques to eliminate the 2nd person from your work and always do a page search for “you” before posting.
A Case Study: Main
– This paragraph has a brilliant opening. A brilliant opening of which anyone should be proud. A brilliant opening that goes wrong almost immediately and surrenders the ground it firmly established.
o Women have to work harder in every aspect of life. Thankfully in today’s world, the fight for gender equality has progressed greatly. Despite this progression, there are still some kinks to work out, even in something that unites the world like sports. Throughout the years sports organizations and media have been under fire about the unfair treatment of genders and lack of female representation in televised sports. Women in sports have constantly fought to be represented and respected by not only their male counterparts but the world as a whole.
Orion’s Best Does Not Exist:
– Stars of a hunter that don’t exist
– The Blue Sky vs The Night Sky
– The blue is just a part of our atmosphere that covers the night with the sun.
– The light reflections back on earth an makes it blue but the night is covered.
– The sky shelthers us.
– Two places in space that Orion is seen.
Annotated Bibliography:
– Proposal+5 becomes your Annotated Bibliography.
o As you gather your final sources together, add them to your Proposal+5 post using the same format you used for the first 5 sources. When you have 10, or 15, whichever works for your particular area of research, CHANGE THE NAME of the post to Bibliography—Username and add it to your Portfolio Username category. It’s that simple.
Grammar Basics:
– The Dreaded FFG (Fails For Grammar)
– Contains an In-Class Exercise
– When possible, I’ll refer you back to this post for advice on how to correct mistakes. I’m starting slowly, with just a few essentials, but the list of basics will grow in response to errors I find as the semester continues.
o Exercise:
+ If a primary caretaker has a negative attitude toward their child it increases the risk that there child will grow up hostile towards others and its not just aggression toward others that results from child abuse. A large amount of children raised by abusive parents also harm themselves. The reason for this negative behavior is because the children doesn’t learn appropriate techniques for handling lives disappointments. If you aren’t raised with a coping skills, you’re much to likely to act ‘inappropriately’ then if you’re developed more reasonable approaches. The affect of poor parenting as reported by Dr. Geoffrey Dahmer in “The Bully Papers”, is that everyone gets the child their deserve.
Portfolio Task:
-Self-Reflective Statments
o Last Task
+ The final piece of work for your Portfolio is the Self-Reflective Statement required of all students in Composition II. It is a one-draft assignment that you will post directly into your Portfolio without feedback and without a rewrite.
+ Your Guide to the First-Year Writing Program devotes a very large section to a full description of the Self-Reflective Statement, its purpose, its goals, and methods for completing a successful Statement.
– Core Values of the FYWP
+ The first week of class, we read and discussed the Core Values of the First-Year Writing Program, which form the basis for the Self-Reflective Statement. As you craft your Statements, refer to the following descriptions of the Core Values.
o CORE VALUE 1 = Writing is a practice that involves a multi-stage, recursive and social process.
o CORE VALUE 2 = Close and critical reading/analysis is necessary for listening to and questioning texts, arriving at a thoughtful understanding of those texts, and joining the academic and/or public conversations represented by those texts.
o CORE VALUE 3 = Writing is shaped by audience, purpose, and context.
o CORE VALUE 4 = Information literacy is essential to the practice of writing.
o CORE VALUE 5 = Writing has power and comes with ethical responsibilities.
11.22.23 notes
– “Everything happens for a reason” can be used differently in the same situation
– An independent cause and dependent cause in a sentence should work together, not against each other
– Don’t use the work “you” or the second person POV in arguments. Use words like “we” and “our” so it makes readers know you are on the same page
– If talking about another country, you can use they/them words because we cannot relate to them on a communal level (we don’t relate to their problems)
– Maintain control in your arguments, do not contradict your own arguments
– Your annotated bibliography is just an expanded version of your proposal+5 (at least 10-15 sources)
– You should change the wording from “how I intend to use…” to “how I used it…” in your bibliography
– Do not FFG (fail for grammar), make sure you check the rules linked on the agenda 11/22 before submitting your writing into portfolio.
– Monday December 11th is the absolute final deadline for portfolio along with the self-reflective statement and the annotated bibliography
– For plural words use the rule, “make it plural, add ‘s, and take away the S if it’s not needed.”
Class notes
We first looked at the fate riddle and number 1 was a fate as his father assured him it was fate. Number 2 is the same instance. They rest are as well. Next we talked about the syntax argument and the banned 2nd person. Then we reviewed how our proposals become our +5 annotated bibliography. We then did an exercise on grammar basics. Then we looked at the Reflective Assignment which will also get put in our portfolios.
Class notes 11/22
Workshop day
“everything happens for a reason”
Proposal +5 = Annotated Bibliography 5 sources –> 10-15 sources
Provided feedback/revise suggestions for volunteers
Be blunt. Don’t beat around the bush in your writing
Brief look at grammatical basics
Avoid Gender use plurals
Reflective statement dec 11.
Class Notes – 11/20/24
Class Notes: 11/20/24
Hodges talks about a title of a song as well as the lyrics. My take from this is that our titles matter for our essays. We should use titles to help grab our audience’s attention; we shouldn’t just state the obvious we are arguing.
Soccer Riddle:
I think the best side to kick the ball is to kick it on the weak side of my foot, since the goalie is probably less likely to go there.
According to Hodges, the best place to kick the ball is right down the middle because the goalie is constantly in motion. The goalie would only block this 2% of the time; this is significantly less than the other two percentages.
2. Why do so few kickers make the most logical choice?
They don’t make the most logical choice because they are stressed and under pressure by the fans, the teams, and by the coaches. This causes them to overthink and not use logic.
Sources Workshop 2:
-To help find sources that are academic, we can look at a few sources and find common words/signal phrases. With these signal phrases, we can then search that up on google scholar and possible get a good academic source.
-Don’t just focus on our main argumentative idea to find sources. Use the above to get different types of academic sources that we can use in our essays.
-In other words, taking looks at broader grounds can help generate more academic sources.
-Jumping source to source by looking at an authors source is very useful.
Workshop: Ag-Gag Arguments
-If we would like extra credit, review and annotate an AgGag source. Pick one of the nine sources provided, review its claims, and refute them.
-If we can argue against a side that we are actually on, it shows that we are diverse and able to argue so many things.
11/20/24
What Happened:
What I Got:
What I still have Questions about:
Class Notes-phoenixxxx23
-Kicking in the middle is not one’s best effort. It is about ego!
– To back up your rebuttal argument with solid evidence, it’s important to find credible and relevant sources.
-Use google scholar
-Something that might initially appear cruel and obvious, like overfeeding geese (which can seem like torture), can be viewed from a different perspective. Ethical and unethical treatment of animals becomes a key issue in the broader conversation about “ag-gag” laws, especially when instances of animal cruelty are covertly exposed. But is it that transparent as it seems?
-a rebuttal doesn’t necessarily require you to present a stronger argument than your opponent; rather, it is about identifying flaws in their argument or claim
-It is more valuable to identify a flaw in the argument of someone who shares your viewpoint than in the argument of someone who opposes it.
–critically examining arguments that align with your own perspective can lead to deeper insight
-valuable rebbutal POV: If you truly cared about animal abuse, why wait to make a case? Why not go directly to the abuser?
11/20 Notes
Riddle: The Soccer Penalty kick
Workshop Ag-Gag Arguments
Class Notes 11.20.24
Annotated Bibliography
Ag-gag Workshop
Rebuttal
Riddle
2% of time the goal blocks the middle so. If you have the chance shoot down the barrel.
Phoeinexxxx
Looking over the work I the original piece moved with this sort of hyper narrative writing using symbolism to carry the piece. While the rewrite had to do some movement from the the base of the original and moved now talking in realism.
Source WorkShop 2
When trying to build you rebuttal argument & can’t figure out a source. Try to a find something that is intertwined with your topic doing so allows form more expansion in finding sources to counter.
11/20/24
Kick that Ball
Rebuttal Sources
Housekeeping and Notes to Self
Class Notes 11/20
11/20/24 Class Notes
Notes 11-20-24
College Comp Notes
Riddle: Soccer Penalty Kick
KICK RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE! 2% guard the middle
Because the goalie is already there so they’re aiming away from the goalie, they should aim for the goalie while the goalie tries to guess where the ball will be. They would have a hard time defending their choice.
Phoenixxxx23 Work
Sources Workshops
Ag-Gag Arguments
Research Position Paper
Class notes 11/20
Riddle: The Soccer Penalty Kick –
Subscribe to phoenix to see successful feedback process.
Sources Workshop 2 – going after credible opponents, academic sources, use phrases from sources to find more sources
Workshop: Ag-Gag Arguments – analyze source for extra, pick apart the side you agree with,
Assignments:
Rebuttal Argument DUE SUN NOV 24
Extra Credit Task: Review and Annotate an AgGag Source
Banned 2nd person – 11/21
Research Position Paper before class on MON DEC 02
Class Notes 11/20/24
Some choices are not about the numbers. They are about the optics. The consequences are not always immediate. The secondary consequences may be worse and more important than the immediate benefits.
Dumping a bad theme can completely revitalize a paper. It may seem like a complete overhaul but the core is the same. Maintain the true argument and use a different strategy to implement it.
Remember to ask parallel questions if you can’t find sources. Look at the broader issue and find a more established debate under the same broad umbrella.
Framing arguments is always done to favor the speaker. Make sure to frame your argument favorably and take note of how the other side frames theirs. You can reframe and even attack their framing if it doesn’t accurately represent the issue.
11/20
Class Notes
I am not exactly sold on this synopsis of soccer (It’s football really, let’s be honest. And it is disingenuous to call American rugby, football). penalty kicks. So, I decided to watch real footage of it to see for myself. It is not about the statics I am interested in. I wish to verify if goalies are doing cold reads to the ball instead of reactions. I also want to see if there are any patterns, any insight into the RPS (rock-paper-scissors) meta of kicking left right or center, and anything not mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDNH2b3QZQ
Using this as reference, all directions are relative to offence and played at 0.25 speed.
1.) Right foot, kicks to far right. Goalie reacts on windup, dives left. Goal
2.) Right foot, kicks to far left. Goalie reacts on windup, dives left, not enough jump power. Goal
3.) Right foot, kicks to center right. Goalie jump stance on windup, dives right. Blocked.
4.) Right foot, kicks high center. Goalie jump stance on windup, dives right. Goal.
5.) Right foot, kicks far left. Goalie jump stance on windup, dives left. Ball misses goal too far left
6.) Right foot, kicks left. Goalie reacts slightly slower than others diving left at the time of impact, dives left.
Ok, lets pause here. This goalie waited a fraction longer to dive left when the ball when right, this show that the goal had this pre planned, a hard read or a hard commit. Some other patterns we can see here, are that the goalies are waiting relaxed till the offence plants their foot on windup for the kick. Upon the offense planting their foot down and their back leg lagging far behind with potential kinetic energy about to rubber-band, the goalies will get low into a jumping stance, and try to time is so their leap will coincide with the impact of the foot against ball. One thing I see is that the goalies are having hard times getting past the center in their leaps and all the way to the far side of the net, and an even harder time tying to get air in their leaps. I wonder if hitting the top part of net is more difficult to do, as it just seems like a free score every time. Also, I wonder where misses factor in the statics above, we were told the goal is big you can’t miss but clearly it happens for whatever reason. As I skip though this video, I see another guy who kicks over the net, where does that fit in?
Conclusion, yes overall it does look like a lot of these guys are cold reading/ hard committing. The only thing that seems reaction is their arm-flailing up or sideways to get a ball above them or beside them. All peripheral kicks were successes: far left, far left up in the corner, center up high, etc. It is still hard for me to buy that the players are conspiring to perform a charade out of embarrassment, instead of this just being the most effective strategy we have invented to date, and kicking the ball precisely where you want it like a pool-table trick is difficult.
This in contrast to the class answer that A.) the best place to kick is center, and B.) The players don’t want to kick center afraid they will look foolish.
Moving on we went onto the problem that plagues everyone hopefully (so I don’t feel so alone) and that getting lots of sources for our thesis is hard. We need sources to find data to prove our thesis right, and then we need to find more data to use as opponents to rebuttal. I find that science is science, and unless you are on the cutting edge of it, you usually won’t find too much to debate, you were either right or wrong about gravity. I should probably connect that academic papers use the scientific method do make charts and write their papers in technical gibberish dry enough to make an insomniac become a narcoleptic due to boredom. Not on the cutting edge of new discoveries is where it’s easy to find studies that do not match; for example, do online classes encourage more students to cheat than cheating in person classes? We actually have mixed results on this! This is cool! This is convenient, if that was what my thesis was about…
It is really cool this student was able to find a way forward regarding finding sources to use to bolster her argument and sources to use as a punching bag! I think I am going to reread this Sherlock Holm adventure to see if anything clicks for me and I get a lightbulb moment.
Lastly, we got the opportunity to analyze the agriculture gag argument or another video and look at the interaction between debating sides. This is mildly infuriating for me, because these TV debates are often all over the place and the “contestants” are often having completely separate conversations that are incompatible with each other. Not always, rarely someone comes in with wisdom that turns the argument inside out, but that is usually reserved for movie moments rather than real life moments. Not to mention my pessimism looking at people being bought on behalf of some big money or sudo-monopoly organization. Despite my eye rolling at the usual shouting matches that make for “good TV”, I might take a look at this for extra credit and see how much of my prejudiced notions of what this assignment might entail actually hold true. Who knows, perhaps on the contrary I will remark how incredibly intelligent and wise and respectful they are, and certainly not making a strawman argument or using other fallacies or just putting slop on the table for an argument because they plan to derail the conversation or just put soundbytes on social media later.
Class notes:
Riddle: The Soccer Penalty Kick
What’s the best way to improve your odds of kicking the ball where the goalie isn’t?
The percentage doesn’t add up to 100% because both of them are added up to 98% from either right or left side, whereas, the 2% is right down the middle. In order to score a point is to shoot right down the middle where the odds are so low that the guard won’t block the ball.
Why do so few kickers make the most logical choice?
Most kickers want the best speed, and force when it is applied to the soccer. Not only that, but the guard is already standing at the middle of the soccer net where most kickers would want to avoid them from blocking their kicks.
Can’t find Rebuttal Source?
Popular opinion from articles such as New York Times can give some insight of what their claim is. Same process as before is source within the source. Google Scholar can be your friend when searching for sources. Scholar autofill certain words when you put the first few words into the search bar.
11/20
Class Notes 11/20
-In a penalty kick there is a 75% chance the kicker will score as the goalie will choose the wrong side of the net to block. There is the smallest chance that the goalie will stay in the middle but we most often never do that because we instinctively want to kick away from the goalie. If the goalie doesn’t move and we kick it down the middle we have no excuse for missing because we kicked it right at the goalie.
-Previous students can use the strategy when they weren’t able to find academic sources of going on google scholar
-Ag-Gag Arguments: Ethical and unethical treatment of animals can be looked at towards farmers and activists. The activists filmed animal cruelty for 6 months to show the public the issues but in turn they waited 6 months to say anything about the cruelty and didn’t come up with any solution. Many can argue that they are unethical in their field as well.
-References that are used for small arguments are limited to sources used in your paper. The overall paper might not cite 10 other sources used in arguments.