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Critical thinking of the text "The Stub Book"

  Examine the text, The Stub-Book, from the perspective of a critical thinker. Written by Spanish writer Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833-1891), the story “The stub-Book” deals with the dedicated and hardworking farmers of Rota. Though the story has a simple plot and theme but the subject it conveys is unpredictable. As the story falls under the category of critical and creative thinking we really need to think out of the box to properly analyze the whole story. The story beings with the description of Rota, the smallest town in the bay of Cadiz. Initially, writer has presented the historical and architectural significance of the place while later on the writer turns his focus to the main character of the story, Uncle Buscabeatas. Here the writers technique of writing has lost the track and completely defocused what’s important resulting in shrinking of description of the main essence of the story. The author here presents the descriptive method of writing in such a way that a pictur
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Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text 'The Stub-Book'

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  Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text ' The Stub-Book ' Claim: Truth is always victorious. Ground: Buscabeatas, an old farmer of Rota, gets justice after the theft of his pumpkin. The thief tried to hide the truth by claiming that he had bought these pumpkins from uncle Fulano. Uncle Fulano was scared in  front of the policeman. When Buscabeatas was asked to prove if they were his pumpkins, he set the  stubs to the pumpkin stem which fitted and he got his pumpkins back. Warrant: The truth about the ownership of the pumpkin was revealed and justice was granted to the old farmer. Backing: This story tries to show hardworking farmers of Rota Village. The farmers worked hard and earn livelihood. But the thief stole their product. Truth is a beacon of light that defies the darkness. It is inevitable. It cannot be ignored or avoided. When the farmer found out about the thief he got his pumpkins back. So the writer shows truth is truth. There is always victory of truth. Rebutt
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Keeping Errors At Bay

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  Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text ' Keeping Errors At Bay ' Bertrand Russell  (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) Claim: Errors can be avoided by following simple steps.   Ground: To avoid errors you should observe everything before doing any act, have knowledge and be aware of the other’s people perspective different from your own. You must be able to argue with your own imaginary character. You shouldn’t be too proud of yourself. You should try to be less dogmatic and cocksure through realizing the possible reasonableness of a hypothetical opponent. You should be very wary of your opinions that flatter over your self-esteem. Likewise, conquering the fear with wisdom and pursuit of the truth rather than following superstitious taboos can drastically improve your error making attempts.   Warrant: The rules provided in the ground can be followed as they are very simple and realistic. You don’t need to be an expert or genius to avoid errors. You just need to a
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Swan Song

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  Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text ' Swan Song '    Anton Chekhov  (1860 -1904)   Claim Svetlovidov loved his career of acting. Ground After his service in the military, Svetlovidov joined the theater in the early age. Now, he is a 68 years old man and still serving as the lead actor. During the course of his career, he fell in love with a woman. He decided to keep a marriage proposal in front of her. She rejected the proposal by saying she would marry Svetlovidov, only if he would leave his job on the theater. Svetlovidov didn’t accept the condition and left her for his career. He was always appreciated for his talent in acting of which he was very fond off. He spent his whole life in acting. Warrant Ground with the evidence regarding the love life of Svetlovidov proves our claim to be correct. The narrator gave his whole life in acting despite of all the critics that he received during the time period. Svetlovidov had number of chances to choose a diffe
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The Four Tusked Elephant

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  Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text 'The Four Tusked Elephant' Claim Coincidences play an important role in determining the success or failure of a mission.   Ground Denis had stopped his journey after he and his pygmies companions saw even a big elephant having only two tusks. But after few months, the first coincidence occurred when he revisited the pygmy’s country. There he again heard about the elephant in a talk of Belgian seuers. The next coincidence occurred when Denis was driving back to his camp where he found a skull of a fully grown elephant.   Warrant The first and second coincidences led Denis to find about the elephants as it fueled him with proof and positive energy to continue his abandoned mission.   Backing Due to the first coincidence, Denis was able to figure out that an African had sold four tusks to a Greek trader and insisted that he had taken it from a single dead elephant. Denis found the African and bribed him to bring the s
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Write a paragraph, showing your understanding of Toulmin's model of argument.    à Developed by English philosopher Stephen Toulmin, Toulmin’s Model is a format of constructing or analyzing a persuasive argument that breaks arguments down into six essential parts which all interact and depend on each other to form a complete argument. First the claim is the assertion or thesis of the statement. It is what you're trying to convince your audience to think or agree with. Second, the ground is the evidence or information that you use to support and explain your claim. The ground tells us why the claim is valid. Third is the warrant , which is one of the most important contributions of Toulmin’s scheme to our conception of argumentation. The warrant helps us draw connections between the claim and the evidence. The warrant identifies assumptions that not everyone may share and that often go unspoken in arguments. Similar to the evidence, the backing provides support for the war
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About Myself

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It took me ten minutes of stare just to start writing this. I went through few flashbacks to be able to answer a very philosophical question- What defines you? I think the flashbacks will give me some idea of what kind of person I am. Falgun 26, 2075 , the day when my first ever trek to Gosainkunda started. I had no idea how nostalgic this trip would be. The night talks with my small group of close friends, the humorous atmosphere everyone had. Waking up with a new destination everyday and surrounding yourself with only what nature has to offer made all the emotions flutter out. When I was lost there with no assignments and study pressure, nothing to do but just to explore the new destination everyday. I never knew isolation from the world outside would make me this light like I was naturally high. Now, I sometimes strive for isolated moments. Chaitra 6, 2076 , my 18th birthday. On this day, I was free of many governmental restrictions. So I decided to do something good about it- visit
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