This week, you will choose a children’s book, movie, or television series to analyze. The main focus of this discussion will be based on an underlying theme or representation of a celebration of diversity and the relation to one theory from the course.Begin by providing a thorough but brief summary of the book/movie/tv show. (Pretend you're describing it to someone who isn't familiar with it, but in a condensed way.) For example:Disney Junior’s Puppy Dog Pals. Puppy Dog Pals is a show that follows two pug puppy brothers, Bingo and Rolly, on adventures. They live with their human, Bob, an inventor for puppy products, their kitty sister, Hissy, their robot brother, A.R.F., and fish sister, Oliva. Bob and his girlfriend, and co-owner of Puppy PlayCare, got married recently. Bob’s wife, Bonnie, has a puppy named Lollie. Together, with the help of their furry family and friends, Bingo and Rolly go on missions to avert crisis and save the day!Then, discuss the underlying theme(s) present in your chosen media as they relate to diversity/bias. This may be easier than you think! How did the book/movie/tv show celebrate diversity? What lesson can a child learn from being exposed to this specific media? What surprised you about what you found? Was more than one type of diversity being explored? How can you relate one of the theories to your chosen media? For example:“The Dreidel Dilemma” was an excellent episode that showed and celebrated Hanukkah. During this episode, Bingo and Rolly help their furry neighbor friend Keia get her human’s unique dreidel to her at her grandparent’s house. At this point, you would go into more detail about the diversity and how it is portrayed. Your response should be thorough and provide examples.

Once you learn the names of the major logical fallacies, you will probably start noticing them all over the place, including in advertisements, movies, TV shows, and everyday conversations. This can be both fascinating and frustrating, but it can certainly help you to avoid certain pitfalls in reasoning that are unfortunately very common. This exercise gives you a chance to practice identifying fallacies as they occur in daily life. Prepare: To prepare to address this prompt, carefully read through Chapter 7 of our book, paying special attention to learning the names of common fallacies, biases, and rhetorical tricks. Take a look as well at the required resources from this week. Reflect: Search through common media sources looking for examples of fallacies. Some common places to find fallacies include advertisements, opinion pieces in news media, and arguments about politics, religion, and other controversial issues. You may also notice fallacies in your daily life. Write: Present three distinct informal logical fallacies you have discovered in these types of sources or in your life. Make sure to identify the specific fallacy committed by each example. Explain how the fallacies were used and the context in which they occurred. Then, explain how the person should have presented the argument to have avoided committing this logical error.