Finding ideas and knowledge on my masterpiece (AG business)

1) Successful farmers and successful business owners are goal-oriented. They don’t live just for the day, but think ahead and plan well to increase their chances of a bountiful harvest later. If you’re not a planner, you’ll never make it as a farmer or a business owner. Even the “fly by the seat of your pants” risk-taker and genius visionary has to plan ahead and set goals if he wants to create a sustainable enterprise.

2) Successful farmers and successful business owners know that “planting seeds” isn’t enough. After planting comes daily nurturing, taking care of what you’ve planted. Neglect this all-important part of your business, including caring for your customers in a proactive way, and all your hard work will likely be negated. Planting seeds is only the beginning. Now the real work begins — and continues.

3) Successful farmers and successful business owners know that cutting corners is risky. Do things right the first time and reap the rewards later. Business owners who cut corners inevitably regret doing so at some point down the road. How many businesses have failed because of an attitude of “good enough” instead of “only the best”? “Good enough” is never good enough. Get that out of your head right now.

4) Successful farmers and successful business owners consider the acquired wisdom of others. Business owners who insist on going it alone, refusing to consider and weigh the experiences and advice of those who have gone before them, do so at their own peril. With organizations like BNI, SCORE, and the professionals we network with face-to-face and in our social media communities and tribes, we have a wealth of wisdom to draw on if we want to be successful. Take advantage of what others want to teach you!

5) Successful farmers and successful business owners are risk-takers, but finance-conscious. They know that carrying too much debt, or spending profits carelessly, can destroy the financial health of an enterprise. But they also know it’s imperative to invest in themselves, and be willing to take measured financial risks. So successful business owners invest carefully, thinking about their goals and how their spending will get them there. The careless investor and wild spender will find himself crying over his folly eventually.

My modernist

I chose William Butler Yeats because I think I have heard of him before and his story is interesting. I also like the way he writes and the words he uses in his work. 

Brave new world ch. 1

The first chapter in the Brave New World was more or less confusing for me the way Aldous Huxley worded his words and there was a lot of words that I had never heard before. Also the way there baby's are made in the book is just so different from the world we have today makes the first chapter really different and some what hard to imagine. 

Fallacy examples

Appeal to tradition, "we do it like this because that’s how we’ve always done it.” Ex: 

Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, “with this because of this” – just because two things happen together doesn’t mean they’re related or one causes the other.  (e.g., just because a student attends RHS doesn’t mean she has two legs)

Ex:

Straw Man: Putting words into someone’s mouth (and that someone may or may not exist) for the purpose of exaggerating or distorting the opposing viewpoint.

Ad Hominem fallacy: responding to an argument attacking a person’s character rather than the content of their argument.

Ex:

Argument fallacies

1. Argumentum ad numerum, fallacy is the attempt to prove something by showing how many people think that it's true. 

2. Argumentum ad populum, the fallacy of trying to prove something by showing that the public agrees with you.   

3. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, fallacy of mistaking correlation for causation -- i.e., thinking that because two things occur simultaneously, one must be a cause of the other. 

4. Post hoc ergo propter hoc, the fallacy of assuming that A caused B simply because A happened prior to B. 

5. Slippery slope, fallacy is an argument that says adopting one policy or taking one action will lead to a series of other policies or actions also being taken, without showing a causal connection between the advocated policy and the consequent policies. 

My two sources

1. Texas self defense law http://law.onecle.com/texas/penal/9.31.00.html

2. When an officer has the right to shoot http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Deadly+Force

My five fallacies

1. Argumentum ad ignorantiam (argument to ignorance). 

2. Argumentum ad logicam (argument to logic). 

3. Argumentum ad nauseam (argument to the point of disgust; i.e., by repitition). 

4. Nature, appeal to.

5. Red herring. 

The reason I picked these was because they where the most interesting to me in a way and in the back of my mind I was think of which ones would apply to my master peice the best.