ENTRY 1 (MAGAZINE) - The 7 Steps of Highly Cool People

Submitted to : Airil Haimi Mohd Adnan, tutor

In partial requirement for BEL313 , Introduction to Critical Thinking.
Test #2, Semester 1 2013/2014.
Universiti Teknologi Mara, Seri Iskandar Campus, Perak Darul Ridzuan.

Submitted by : Nor Ilyana Binti Asgarali, UiTM# 2011663524

The 7 Steps of Highly Cool People

Firstly, I think this is an interesting article to be read. However, I was wondering was this really been written by The Guru of Cool? Just because the author thinks that his lifestyle was cool to him and he is an adult does not make him The Guru of Cool. Base on statement, there is begging the question and appeal to ignorance fallacies. How can he prove by following his step we can be cool kids which mean wise kids? He makes the references just base on his lifestyle. There are other fallacies that the author includes into this article.

The first fallacies that the author includes in the article are slippery slope. Base on the statement “smoking is really bad for health. It makes you teeth go yellow and gives pungent stench to your sweat. It is an expensive habit too.” I think the statement is basically more on man. How about the female? What is the effect of smoking towards them? Next, “Some of you are allowed to drink alcohol when you come of age’. Base on this statement, this is an appeal to tradition fallacies. For the non-Muslim teenagers, once they reach the age of maturity they are allowed to drink by their parents.

Overall this is an interesting article but the author wrote base on his experience and not all kids can accept his way. Kids nowadays are different with the 'old school' kids. They want something different from what past had tried to be cool.

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-yana-