Sam Dean Bully

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In the article “The Joy of Being a Jerk”, in which Sam Dean talks about-about the problem of bullies. He took a closer look to bullies and made a comparison with mice. He found out there is a feeling that a bully has when they are hurting others. The author who wrote this essay was Sam Dean who is a writer. In the essay what made it good was the way he used ethos. “A new study out of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that bullying is pleasurable and pinpointed the pathway followed by the neural rewards of bullying in the brain”(Dean). He made the essay reliable because he kept on referring to the study that was made by the mice and man. He also had the statement made by “Golden” who would talk about the experiment of bullies. …show more content…

Studies show that it can “feel good” or “pleasurable ” like a reward. The essay had a study made with mice, in the study they notice that men and mice are similar. The writer's purpose was to inform the reader that mice and the man are similar because the mice will attack the “virgin mice”, which is equivalent to a senior bulling a freshman. In the experiment, they notice that there is this protein “C-Fos” that activates the pleasurable in the mice. They believe that the man has the same feeling as well which leads to being a bully. I know that this is an informative essay because he would have quotes that would explain the study's result. “How did these neuroscientists even find these tiny Nelsons Muntz? And what does it mean to be a bully, as a mouse? Most importantly: Can they be stopped?”(Dean) This is an example of the loaded question fallacy because of the different questions it can be used to confuse or make the reader

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