What is fallacious about the following statements?

Answer ALL FOUR Essay questions and submit your take-home final exam through our class blackboard web-page by 11:59 pm EST on Wednesday, September 2. Honor the academic honesty code and do not ‘share’ ideas or information about this exam with others. Each essay question is worth a possible 25 points. Submit your final exam through Blackboard under the “Final Exam” link. [ If for some reason you are unable to submit it through blackboard, then send your take-home final by email as text only – do not send an attachment – with the following subject heading: “(Your Last Name) – Critical Thinking Final.” Please note that this email submission will be processed through turnitin.com. ] 1) On the following topic give (A) one argument for and (B) one argument against; label each pat 1A) and 1B): Should the United States legalize marijuana?2) The following passage below is taken from The Second Sex (first published in 1952), written by the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir. (A) Identify the main idea of the following passage. (B) List the reasons that support the main idea. Label each part 2A) and 2B).”According to French law, obedience is no longer included among the duties of a wife, and each woman citizen has the right to vote; but these civil liberties remain theoretical as long as they are unaccompanied by economic freedom. A woman supported by a man—wife or courtesan—is not emancipated from the male because she has a ballot in her hand; if custom imposes less constraint upon her than formerly, the negative freedom implied has not profoundly modified her situation; she remains bound in her condition of vassalage. It is through gainful employment that woman has traversed most of the distance that separated her from the male; and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice. Once she ceases to be a parasite, the system based on her dependence crumbles; between her and the universe there is no longer any need for a masculine mediator.”3) Discuss the problems, if any, with the arguments given below. If questions must be asked to ascertain the validity of the statements, what are those questions? If something is wrong with the arguments, what is it? If you think the statements are valid, explain why. Label each one 3A) – 3C). A) “The New York Times reported that the Secretary of the Army says we need more nuclear warheads, and who better to know than the Secretary of the Army?” B) “My boyfriend never shows any real concern for my feelings. Men are selfish, insensitive, and emotionally immature.” C) “Boxing is less dangerous than other sports. A survey of sports-related deaths in New York City over thirty years revealed that baseball, with 43 deaths, led both football (22 deaths) and boxing (21 deaths) in terms of mortality.”4) What is fallacious about the following statements? Explain your answer by using the language of the book to indicate what fallacy or fallacies are being employed. See Chapter 11 for help. Label each one 4A) – 4C). A) “America—love it or leave it!” B) “Every time I take an umbrella, it rains. I forgot my umbrella so it will rain tonight.” C) Make up one example of “slippery-slope” thinking.