What kind of logical fallacy appears in this passage?
jalessa has been caught sneaking candy into a movie theater. is this the type of
person you want to be your senior class president?
a. post hoc ergo proter hoc
b. slippery slope
c. ad hominem
d. straw man

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

You've arrived at the cafeteria! there is a trap door in the pantry which has been covered up by an atlas. choose the square which shows greenland to open the door.

The black night was split open like the coconut