The theory that believes that "crime is the inevitable result of disorder".
What is the Broken Windows theory?
100
This logical fallacy is the claim that if something happens then some other event will inevitably follow.
What is slippery slope?
100
A question that is not meant to have an answer but is used to make a point.
What is a rhetorical question?
200
What some disabled people call able-bodied people.
What is Temporarily Abled Persons?
200
The purpose of "Dumpster Diving".
What is the attempt to have people reevaluate their stereotypes they have about scavengers?
200
Gladwell choosing to use the term "contagious" to describe crime, is an example of this rhetorical strategy.
What is diction?
200
"All feminists hate men" is an example of this type of logical fallacy
What is hasty generalization?
200
A sentence that does not make sense until the end of the sentence is reached
What is a periodic sentence?
300
"If you saw my blind niece ordering a Coke, would you be switched to Pepsi lest you be struck sightless?" Is an example of this type of irony.
What is verbal irony?
300
The special terms Eighner introduces.
What are scavenging and foraging?
300
This is the moment when Gladwell has a shift in tone.
What is the line "worrying about graffiti at a time when the entire system was close to collapse seems as pointless as scrubbing the decks of the Titanic as it headed toward the icebergs"?
300
"I know that my lucky shirt works because every time I wear it, I get an A" is an example of this type of fallacy.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
300
A sentence that makes sense before the ending is reached. It begins with the main clause.
What is a cumulative sentence?
400
A shocking diction choice Mairs uses to describe herself and other physically disabled.
What is cripple?
400
The stage where many Dumpster Divers get lost and never recover
What is the diver's realization that people throw away perfectly good stuff?
400
The criminologists that developed the Broken Windows theory.
What is Wilson and Kelling?
400
"That parking attendant who gave me a ticket is as bad as Hitler" is an example of this type of logical fallacy.
What is moral equivalence?
400
"Mary likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling." is an example of this type of structure
What is parallel structure?
500
The rhetorical strategy Mairs uses when she says "So when I tell you I haven't noticed any women like me on television, you can believe me"
What is ethos?
500
The reason Eighner feels sorry for the rat-race million.
What is the need to surround themselves with any objects that they can grasp?
500
Gladwell using statistics and examples to support his argument is an example of this part of the rhetorical triangle.
What is logos?
500
The attempt to oversimplify an opponents argument in order to attack it.
What is straw man?
500
"Attached is a copy of the file" is an example of this type of sentence.