1. Taxpayers wonder whether the amount spent on students makes a difference. Parents whose child goes to an expensive school says yes.
2. There are different types of injuries that occur in each sport. Some people may question whether performing surgery before an injury occurs could make an athletes stronger.
3. Imagine a person’s body being consumed by a drug. They would not care about any consequences, only about getting the drug.
4. More problems are being caused than solved with letting Syrians in.
5. Does the idea of not actually havingmoney on-hand sound trivial?
6. That little green piece of paper holds no inherent value beyond the cost of its production, and yet many people spend their entire lives chasing after more of these slips of paper, only to deposit them in a bank.
7. The next time we read a bank statement or look at a dollar bill, remember that there is no actual value attached to it, but instead a value someone decided to create. If this system was not created, society might still be trading goods with each other.
8. I now understand that a dollar is only worth what we can receive in exchange for it.
9. Being able to walk around with money without physically holding it recalls the concept of stone currency, which, like Bitcoins, is when wedidn’t need to be in physical possession of Bitcoins to own them.
10. The American Dream causes people to want more and more of these pieces of paper in order to be financially stable. Soon enough, these people will realize that they will base their whole life collecting these papers called money.
11. Money is a powerful concept, and the pursuit of it lasts a lifetime. The goal from the moment we start school is to join the game of earning enough of these pieces of paper in order to make our life more fun and acceptable.
Taxpayers wonder whether the amount spent on students makes a difference. If everyonereally thought about it, yes it does. Ask any parent whose child goes to an expensive school.
There are different types of injuries that happen in each sport. Would peopleobject if theyknew that a surgery performed before any injury occurs could make an athlete stronger?
Imagine a person’sbody being consumed by a drug. Theywould do anything to get this drug and theywouldn’t worry about the consequences that come with it.
By inviting Syrians in, the country is causing more problems than they’re solving.
Does the idea of not actually having money on-hand sound trivial?
That little green piece of paper holds no actual value other than the cost it took to produce it, and yet peoplewill work theirwhole life just to acquire more of those little green pieces of paper just so theycan take them and stick them in a bank.
So just remember, the next time weread a bank statement or look at a dollar bill, we’re holding a made up value that someone decided to make up. Without it, we allmight still be having to trade with goods like livestock and produce.
I now understand that a dollar is only worth what wecan receive in exchange for it.
Being able to walk around with money without holding the money in ourhands brings me back around to the idea of the stone because, just like stone currency, we don’t need to be in physical possession of these Bitcoins to own them.
We hear people talk about the American Dream, which requires that we allhave enough of these pieces of paper to be financially stable. If wethink about it deeply we’ll realize that wereceive these pieces of paper called money and base ourwhole life on them.
Money is an adroit concept and its pursuit lasts a lifetime. Ourgoal from the moment we allstart school is to join the game of making enough of these pieces of paper to make ourlives more fun and acceptable.
Taxpayers often question whether the amount of money spent on students truly makes a difference, but an analysis of the evidence directly proves so. Any parent whose child attends these expensive schools would agree.
Obviously, every sport has unique injuries, but couldn’t objections arise if there was greater clarification that surgery preformed before an injury could benefit an athletes strength?
After being consumed by a drug, there is no stopping a bodies automatic response to seek that high again, no matter the consequences or repercussion that may come along.
Inviting Syrians to a country will only increase problems unless there is clear plans for mitigation.
The idea of not having physical money on hand may seem trivial upon first glance.
That little green piece of paper that goes into pockets actually has no intrinsic value, except for the cost of production. Yet, we as a society will work ourselves to the bone to get more, all of that for a bank to be the recipient in the end.
So the next time a bank statement or dollar bill meets is in the hands of its holder, that person is now tied to the fabricated value the paper holds. However, without this currency, society might as well return to trading livestock.
It has dawned upon me that this dollar bill has no value until someone else decides their goods are worth exchanging in return.
Having the ability to carry money without physical possession is a reminder, that just like the stone currency, physical possession isn’t necessary to own Bitcoin.
The discussions people have of the American Dream, requires believers to possess a quantifiable sum of green paper that deem them “financially stable.” With deeper reflection, these individuals will eventually realize that their entire lives revolve around these green pieces of paper.
Money is a complex concept, and the pursuit will span a lifetime. The moment school starts, the goal is to join the game and earn as many of these pieces of paper, to make life more fun and acceptable.
You come into my shop, I greet you, you ask what smells good, I tell you it is a special winter drink, you ask if you can see, I ask if you want to try some, you say yes, I pour you an ounce, you drink it and say that my hot apple cider is good. I did not serve you hot apple cider.
[intro, hypothesis]
The world of wine has a lot in common with art or fashion. Truth mixed perceptions, advertising mixed with sales, and news headlines of outrageous gimmicks mixed with huge sales. I have seen the situation in the above paragraph so many times now, it has confounded me. I theorize that that the suggestion of a flavor, even if it doesn’t exist in someone’s drink, will make them taste it! You might think that it is crazy to taste something that doesn’t exist; but you aren’t safe from such craziness because its human psychology, and you are human.
[Definition clarity]
[Clarity on tasting]
Under normal circumstances, people taste with a combination of their nose and their tongue. The tongue gathers information on the taste of food & drink: Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.
Our tongue is covered in tastebuds which is a simple way to say that we have receptors that tell our brain what we are experiencing once certain molecules from food come in contact. Depending on the food we eat, our receptors can send signals of sweet, sour, salty, bitter, or umami to our brain.
Umami, for those unfamiliar, was discovered by Kikunae Ikeda and was the most recently acknowledged taste, now taught in textbooks. Umami roughly translates into English as “delicious” and refers to a “savory” “meaty” “brothy” experience such as in mushrooms, soy sauce, tomatoes, and tuna.
Also, that infamous “map of the tongue” from a decade or two ago is a misnomer, specific tastes are not limited to regions on the tongue. We have the ability to taste the big five all over our tongue.
[Definition on suggestion]
Before we go any further, I want to clarify the word suggestion. You may not think much about the word outside of “suggesting it was Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candle stick” while playing Clue, however suggestion I believe has a larger scope than most think. What is suggestion? To most people it is a proposal, or a way to imply a fact. In a psychological sense, suggestion is the action or process of calling up an idea or thought in someone’s mind by associating it with other things. This definition is key in understanding this taste phenomenon and comes from an entire field of study called the power of suggestion. Moreover, suggestion can come from not only spoken words, but it can also come from unspoken visual cues such as the art used on the packaging of a product.
[going deeper into suggestion]
We come into contact with an inordinate amount of suggestions every day. The red octagonal sign on the road up ahead, a suggestion to stop. The date circled on your calendar to meet a friend, a suggested time to meet. The way someone phrases a question “Which candidates if you were to rank them do you dislike more?”, suggests that even the candidate you like, you dislike to some degree by including them in your ranking in the first place.
Take for example, that you walk into a grocery store this time of year and see a depiction of a perfectly baked thanksgiving turkey on a dinner table surrounded by a happy family; easily visible in a corner of the image is the logo of the grocery store you are in. What is the suggestion? “A turkey from this grocery store will make your family happy!” would be a good answer. It is most likely not a coincidence that within a few steps of this displayed image, there are an abundance of festively wrapped turkeys in a large refrigerated display shelf. This example is one of the most obvious forms of suggestion that you can easily see.
[The situation revisited]
Let us revisit the situation, you enter the shop and the first thing you smell is cinnamon. It is cold outside, so I offer you this hot drink. The only hot drink you are familiar with is apple cider, due to its popularity at fall festivals. This sets expectations for what you are about to experience. The cinnamon aroma from the drink has associations in your mind with apples, this further reinforces your expectations. You have now been primed to taste apples via suggestion. I have not explicitly suggested it, but your senses and your experience have. This is what causes a large portion of people to think they are drinking hot apple cider when in fact they are drinking hot red wine: also known as Glühwein, Glögg, or Mulled Spice.
[A similar situation] [Causal]
This is not unheard of. In fact Frédéric Brochet wrote a dissertation that was an embarrassment to wine snobs everywhere. A trick as simple as dying white wine red in color, had convinced judges that a white wine a bold red. The judges were completely fooled, and wine tasting as a legitimate institution was called into question.
Brochet came to the conclusion that vision for evolutionary reasons gets our priority as it could help us spot danger, while other senses such as smell, are processed much slower. He also points out that the illusion of perception is real. The judges appeared to be basing their appraisals of the wine off of color. Furthermore, Brochet points out that there is a disconnect between language and smell: “The fact that there are no specific terms to describe odors supports the idea of a defective association between odor and language. Odors take the name of the objects that have these odors.”
[Rebuttal]
There are a couple of other situations people might imagine.
[The peer pressure trap]
It could be argued that the people I have encountered were under pressure, such as a judge. However, for one, they are not judging anything, and for two many times it is in a nearly empty store. There is no one to impress. One could try to argue I am someone to impress, however this does not account for when I walk away after giving out a small sample of the mulled wine and leave the guest alone with the drink to come to their own conclusions. When I come back to chat, they ask me earnestly what it was they drank and if it was cider.
[The atrophying vocabulary] [The I don’t drink wine]
Some people just do not have the vocabulary to explain what they mean. They often confuse sour for bitter. They simply just need a refresher on tastes and perhaps an introduction to some lingo to express more complicated things in tasting.
[Perhaps they were confused]
You might say perhaps they were confused in a general sense. This is not the case. Every person I have met remarks in a similar way, that they can pick up flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg, but not the underlying taste. Everyone was in control of their senses. It is precisely because of this that they believed what their senses and intuition told them.
[Perhaps they saw you or a label with apples.]
You might think that perhaps they were confused, and maybe they saw a bottle label with apples. No, the bottle is not visible and the drink is served from crockpot. Further emphasizing the strange psychology that is associative then leading to suggesting expectations.
[close]
As you can see here, psychology can be a strange thing. We can be fooled by our senses and expectations much like how a magician messes with them. Our senses of sight and smell can be fooled by presentation. Our impressions of others by looking at how they present themselves can be just as deceiving. It is done not explicitly but subtlety via suggestions. The power is in its subtilty, as we are not able to put up our defenses for things we can not see coming.
Vancouver heroin addicts can get drugs for free, but they just can’t seem to stop stealing instead. Maintaining jobs, relationships, and friendships is nearly impossible for these addicts whose lives are perpetuated by this cycle of crime. Heroin has put blinders on its users, leading them to do anything to get their next dose. Addicts will steal and break and enter, even though a program called “free heroin for addicts” was initiated to end this needless crime. Although the program needs improvements to help addicts safely onto the road to recovery, it will put a hold on the cites skyrocketing crime rates. Medical grade heroin replacing sketchy and unsanitary means of getting a high will clean up the streets of crime and drug addicts.
1.0:00-0:03 :The opening scene of this baby in its chair and his father or caretaker picks up his pacifier that fell on the floor while this scene is only a few second it serves to empathize with viewers as it shows the realities of parenting and sometimes using shortcuts or not doing things the supposed right way.
2.0:03-0:06 The scene of this child’s mother rubbing their kid’s face shows the not so glamorous side of parenting which again is meant to connect to parents who are overwhelmed or do things their own way.
3.0:06-0:09 This scene paints a very clear picture of an everyday mom who seems ready to get the days tasks done.The mother in this scene seems to be attentive and put together from her curled hair and sunglasses to her keys in hand and coffee meant to start up her day.This mother showed is quite different compared to the two parents that have been shown previously as she seems more organized and efficient.
4.0:09-0:11 – The next scene shows her answering a call as her eyes reflect through the rear view mirror. The shot of the rear view mirror then transitions to the back seat which reveals a car seat still in the scene. The seemingly well put together mom is doing everything by answering the call and simply overlooks one important factor, her child .
5.0:11-0:13 The camera pans over to the baby still in the car seat with the mother in the background walking away which can be seen through the front windshield.While a hot car is uncomfortable the baby in this scene is calm and unaware of his conditions.This scene shows how easy it is to forget when the child is so calm and a simple detail escapes your mind.
6.0:13-0:18 The camera zooms into her coffee cup which earlier was used as a visual sign that this mom was ready to start her day of errands with her child. However the most interesting part of this cup is the condensation around it and the ice slowly begin to melt which shows just how hot it really is in the car.At this point in the video the mother has only been gone a few second so the coffee symbolizes just how quickly the conditions can change for a baby in the car.
7.0:18-:0:20 We see a reflection on the outside of the car next to the window.The reflection is of the child’s mother running back to the car in panic realizing what she forgot in the previous scene.In the background we see shots of a plaza and dry cleaners which reinforced the idea of her running errands in the beginning.
8.0:20-0:23 The mother has a look of relief as she unlocks the car and picks up her child safely.What i think is important to note in this scene is how unbothered the baby is while the mom is very grateful and crying. The baby is still calm which I think is very indicative of just how long the baby was left in the car and while the tragedy in this video was seemingly prevented it shows how easy it is for a second of forgetfulness can turn quickly into a tragedy.
9:0:23-0:27 The scene once again shows the reflection in the cars outside windows but this time it shows the mother and son walking away from the car and the situation. They walk into what seems to be a grocery store.This part shows just how fast it can all happen but how pivotal that moment between parking and getting out the car can be and can quickly change everyone’s life.
“In 2009, it was Hovda who delivered the Pentagon the recommendation that because multiple concussions could cause serious long-term injury, concussions need time to heal.”
Claim Type:Casual Claim- this is a causal claim because of the assertion that multiple concussions can cause “serious long term injury” and as a result of the concussions time is needed to heal
2.”A fight ensued. Hovda says some of the Army’s best doctors implied that if soldiers were told they needed rest after concussions, it was going to usher in an epidemic of fakers, or retired guys claiming disability way after the fact.”
Claim type: Attributive- He is just relying on army doctors instead of making an independent claim on the situation.
3.”Although, the NFL was given the same memo in the 1990s, and brain damage in boxers is even older news, so it doesn’t seem like it would take a neuroscientist—or the top medical brass of an Army that builds laser cannons—to figure out that if 25 mph punches to the head cause brain damage, IED blasts that hit at 330 mph probably do too.”
Claim type:Analogy claim- The author is drawing comparisons from the damage done by IED blasts to brain damage caused by aggressive contact sports.It is comparing knowledge that has been gained through other means.
4.”Eventually, Hovda’s cause prevailed. These days, there are MRIs in theater, assessments after blasts, mandatory rest periods after a concussion.”
Claim type:Factual Claim- This is a factual claim because he is trying to describe the process soldiers have to go through now with the use of MRI’s
5. “There’s good rehabilitation strategies: learn what your deficits are, learn that you’re not going crazy, that you just can’t do what you used to do.”
Claim type: Evaluative claim- This is an evaluative claim because it is expressing how current practices can be refined to offer a better quality of care for veterans.
6. “The human brain has an enormous amount of plasticity. New cells are born every day. New connections can be made.”
Claim type: Factual Claim- This statement is scientifically based and is relevant to the rehabilitation process.
7. “The good news is, teleologically speaking, if we didn’t have the ability to recover from brain injury, we’d have ended up as somebody’s breakfast.”
Claim type: Ethical/Moral claim- The metaphor at the end of this sentence serves to give value toward the recovery process of veterans.
revised paragraph: Heroin addiction in Vancouver is causing a crime wave as addicts commit crimes to fund their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program attempts to lessen these crimes, but it fails to address the root of the problem. Driven by their addiction, they will go to any lengths to obtain heroin, including stealing, breaking into houses and cars, selling their bodies, mugging tourists to score. While the program may reduce street crime by keeping addicts off the streets, it does little to fight the underlying addiction. Instead of helping addicts get clean off heroin it offers heroin as a temporary solution however it also enables their dependency. Meanwhile, hospitals continue to bear the burden of treating addicts many of which cannot afford medical care.This program may lower the crime rates and reduce hospital visits, but it fails to address the addiction that keeps addicts trapped and dependent.
Original: There is a huge problem in Vancouver with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. The problem is that there is a large crime rate due to the addicts. It is obvious that addicts have a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain because of the fact that they are using. By heroin users being addicted, they will do whatever they have to do to get their hands on the drug. The types of crimes committed are those of breaking and entering as well as stealing. There are no limits to where they will go to retrieve this drug so that they can feed their addiction. The problem with this program is that it won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin. It is only trying to save the city from rising crime rates that they’re up to. By providing the drug, these addicts will be off the streets, which in turn will prevent them from committing minor street crimes. This will also keep the heroin users out of the hospital. It is pointless that the hospitals have to deal with people that want to use bad drugs or unsanitary needles and find themselves being unable to afford hospital bills and hard to cope without the drug. This program gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible. This will in turn fix the city but not the addiction that these people face.
Rewrite: Heroin addiction in Vancouver fuels crime, as addicts resort to theft and burglary to fund their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program attempts to address this by providing clean supplies in an effort to keep users off the streets and out of hospitals. However, this approach does little to curb the addiction itself. Addicts often struggle with daily life and are unable to maintain jobs or relationships while using. Their desperation drives them to commit crimes without hesitation. By enabling their addiction rather than addressing it, the program prevents minor crimes but fails to reduce overall dependency. It also ignores the root problem: the cycle of addiction that no free supply can break. Though it may ease immediate social costs, it offers no solution to the deeper issue, leaving addicts trapped in a never-ending cycle of reliance.
There is a huge problem in Vancouver with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. The problem is that there is a large crime rate due to the addicts. It is obvious that addicts have a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain because of the fact that they are using. By heroin users being addicted, they will do whatever they have to do to get their hands on the drug. The types of crimes committed are those of breaking and entering as well as stealing. There are no limits to where they will go to retrieve this drug so that they can feed their addiction. The problem with this program is that it won’t help to ween these addicts off using heroin. It is only trying to save the city from rising crime rates that they’re up to. By providing the drug, these addicts will be off the streets, which in turn will prevent them from committing minor street crimes. This will also keep the heroin users out of the hospital. It is pointless that the hospitals have to deal with people that want to use bad drugs or unsanitary needles and find themselves being unable to afford hospital bills and hard to cope without the drug. This program gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible. This will in turn fix the city but not the addiction that these people face.
Rewritten:
In Vancouver, heroin addicts are committing crimes in order to fund their addictions, and in turn, increasing the crime rate in the area. To counteract this, the “free heroin for addicts” program arose to stop addicts from committing crimes. Heroin addicts struggle through most day to day activities as a result of their habit– jobs, interactions, and relationships become more challenging for them. Stealing and breaking and entering are among various crimes that heroin addicts commit in order to fuel their habit; the line is often crossed to feed their addiction. However, despite the seemingly considerate nature of the program, the primary goal is to decrease the crime rate that drug related crimes have caused. The program seeks to provide drugs to addicts, thereby preventing them from committing crimes in order to acquire the drugs. The intended result is, aside from preventing crimes, to keep addicts out of hospitals. By wasting hospital beds on addicts that are choosing to put themselves in potential danger, it is taking away from individuals that genuinely need them. While the city’s crime rate will benefit from the program, the drug use rate will not.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
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