PTSD Claims—FatJoe

Section 10

‘“I would be too sad.”’ This is an attributive claim. Since the author is quoting this claim from another person, or attributing a claim to them, it is a attributive claim.

‘“I am now more hypervigilant than my husband.”‘ This is also an attributive claim for the same reasons. But this is also a comparative since Kateri Peterson is comparing her hyper vigilantism to her husbands.

“If it does for 14 seconds, Brannan writes an email to help get whatever someone needs.” This is a quantitative claim and a causal claim. It is quantitative because it gives a numerical fact that after 14 seconds Brannan starts writing emails. This is also why it is a casual claim. If the phone stops ringing for 14 seconds, this causes Brannon to write an email to help whoever needs it.

“Whose veteran son was committed to a non-VA psychiatric.” This is a factual claim. Since it can be proved that the woman’s son was committed to a non-VA psychiatric facility, also because it is indisputable, it becomes a factual claim.

“He, a severe-PTSD sufferer, was already paranoid before one of the other resident loons threatened to kill him.” This is a evaluative claim because it involves the judgment of this psychiatric facility. This could also be a factual claim since it can be proved that he does have severe PTSD.

“He fought for his fucking country.” This is a factual claim because it is true and can be proved that he did fight for this country in some type of way.

“They promised they wouldn’t abandon him.” This is a attributive claim. What makes this a attributive claim is that the author uses the word “they”, indicating that it is not them making the claim, but somebody else instead.

“He swears to God he will have to kill himself if the VA doesn’t put him in with the other soldiers.” Since this quote says “he swears” it is a attributive claim. The author himself is not saying he will have to kill himself, he is repeating what the patient said. If the author didn’t say “swears”, it would not be a attributive claim.

“Where thousands of Family of a Vet users and nearly 500 FOV volunteers congregate and commiserate.” This is a quantitative claim because it gives a statistical fact.

“The general overwhelmingness of her distress, of that awful overstimulating hypervigilance, the sort of thing you develop sometimes when you live with someone who looks out the living room window for danger literally hundreds of times a day, or who goes from room to room, room to room, over and over to make sure everyone in each one is still alive.” This is a causal and categorical claim. It is causal because it gives the causes and the effects of Kateri’s overwhelming distress. This is also categorical because it gives specific examples of what someone can do if they suffer from PTSD.

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PTSD Claims – philsfan1133

  • Brannan has considered getting a divorce and acknowledges that others have as well. This is a casual claim since Brannan has considered getting a divorce which has consequences for other people.
  • Kateri’s eight-year-old son is afraid of war or fire breaking out and points out exits in new spaces to ensure their safety. This is a credibility claim because we do not actually know how many exits and if there are legitimate exits.
  • The divorce rate for veterans with PTSD is twice as high as those without. This is a numerical claim since it is a statistical claim.
  • Vietnam veterans with severe PTSD are 69 percent more likely to have their marriages fail than other veterans. Again, this is a numerical claim because it is another percentage being claimed about Vietnam veterans and their marriages.
  • 65 percent of active-duty suicides are precipitated by broken relationships. This is a numerical claim since he claims that 65% of active-duty suicides are caused by broken relationships.
  • Veterans account for 20 percent of suicides in the United States, despite making up only 7 percent of the population. This is also a numerical claim since it puts a percentage into the claim.
  • Children and teenagers of a parent who’s committed suicide are three times more likely to commit suicide themselves. This is another numerical claim since it talks about probabilities in children and teenagers of parents who commit suicide.
  • Brannan loves her husband and supports other wives who feel they or their children are in danger. This is an evaluative claim since we cannot prove that she loves her husband and that she supports others.
  • Caleb has never stopped fighting for their family and has always gone to therapy. This is a credibility claim since we do not actually know if Caleb has gone to therapy.
  • Caleb is Brannan’s friend, first love, rock, lifeline, daughter’s father, ally, and hero. This is what Brannan is claiming and I do not doubt she is lying.
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Purposeful Summary – SortableElms

1. Figure skating judges get a 10 for duplicity

It seems counterintuitive that judges in the Olympics would alternate scores based not on skill but on the country the athletes are from. The article Figure skating judges get a 10 for duplicity by Bruce Bower talks about the 2002 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In the article, economist Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth University says that judges “jack up scores for performers from their own countries.” Five of the judges in Sochi were allegedly accused of giving higher scores to a Russian figure-skating pair.

2. Was That Jump A 6? Subjectivity In Olympic Judging

It seems counterintuitive that judges have so much power that it has caused them to have to change the judging system. Was That Jump A 6? Subjectivity In Olympic Judging has a discussion between Sports correspondent Mike Pesca and NPR’s Rachel Martin about the issue of transparency and subjectivity in Olympics judging. Pesca describes the biggest change as anonymous judging. Pesca says “if it was anonymous what judges gave what marks, then no one could be sure if anyone followed through on vote trading schemes.”

3. Elephant Cruelty | The Cruelest Show on Earth

It seems counterintuitive to hurt animals that are used in the public eye. Deborah Nelson’s The Cruelest Show on Earth is an article following the elephant violence in the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus. Kenny, a three-year-old Asian elephant, was clearly sick at the Jacksonville Coliseum show. According to federal regulations, “sick elephants must get prompt medical care and a veterinarian’s okay before performing.” In Kenny’s case, neither happened.

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PTSD Claims – Senpai Pio

  1. “But here we’ve got lasagna, and salad with an array of dressing choices, and a store-bought frosted Bundt cake with chocolate chips in it!” There are multiple factual claims stated here. This is a factual claim because it can be proved whether or not there actually is lasagna.
  2. “There is no dining-room table—when they bought the house years ago, they thought they’d finish it up real nice like they did with another house, before the war, but nobody’s up for that now, so we all huddle around the coffee table in the living room.” This is a mix of factual claims and casual claims. The factual claims is that there is no dining room table, and that they are huddled around at the coffee table in the living room. They can prove whether or not that is true. The casual claim is that they though they would finish it up like they did with their old house, but due to the war they have not felt like it. This is a casual claim because casual claims deal with cause and effect. Since the war is going on, the effect is that they do not feel like finishing the house.
  3. “And it’s lovely.” I belie that this is an evaluation claim. This is because evaluation claims could be argued, like saying how the situation is lovely.
  4. “Dinner lasts for hours.” This is a factual claim because it can be proved whether or not this is truthful.
  5. “Brannan tries to calm Katie down despite the excitement of the visitor at dinner,” This is both a factual claim and a casual claim. Since Katie is excited, Brannan tries to calm her down. There is a cause and effect relationship. Another casual claim is since there is a visitor, Katie is excited. The factual claim here is that Brannan is trying to calm Katie down. They can see if that is actually truthful.
  6. “The plates have been cleared by then, everyone reclining, he laughs when he says this, and she laughs, and swats at him from where she’s curled herself into his armpit with his arm around her.” This sentence starts off by a factual claim. This is because it is whether or not the plates have truly been cleared. There is another factual claim by saying everyone reclining. When initially reading this sentence, I thought there was a attributive claim due to the “he says this…”, but I realized there was no claim that followed. Therefore, I believe this whole sentence is a bunch of factual claims put together.
  7. “At the front door, we all beam at each other in the warm way people do when they’re separating after a nice meal.” This sentence as an evaluative claim because it can be argued if that is truly what people do after having a meal.
  8. “Caleb is in such a good mood that Brannan asks if he’s up for putting Katie to bed so she can go lie down.” This is a recommendation claim because since Caleb is in a good mood, he should put Katie to bed.
  9. “Forty-five minutes later, he wakes her up screaming.” This sentence is a factual claim because it can be proved whether or not this is true.”
  10. Not two days after that, he tells her he’s leaving her. “I’m going to get it over with and do it so you don’t have to,” he says, because that’s just the way the scale goes that day, when he weighs the pain of being alone versus the pain of being a burden.” This starts off as a factual claim. It can be proved whether or not he told her he is leaving. Then, by his quote it is an attributive claim. This is because the author writes he says”…”. The actual quote itself is a comparative quote. That is because Caleb compares the pain of being a burden or just being alone.
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PTSD Claims – Gracchus Babeuf

Section 20

“Charles Marmar, a New York University professor who was on the team of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study, the most comprehensive study of combat stress ever conducted, points out that you really have to spend the money to treat PTSD, since the costs of not treating it are so much higher. ‘Personal tragedy, suicide, depression, alcohol and drug use, reliving terror … The treatment and compensation disability programs have cost billions. And the costs of the untreated are probably in the tens of billions. They’re enormous.'”

This passage has two main claims:

  • The author opens section 20 with a credibility claim about Charles Marmar. His authority is, according to the author, grounded in his work on a National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Survey and his position as a professor. Essentially, he is claimed to be knowledgeable and trustworthy, at least as pertains to Veteran PTSD.
  • The author borrows Marmar’s credibility to present his argument about the cost of veteran PTSD, both treated and untreated. This attributive claim asserts that PTSD is a costly affliction (“you really have to spend. money to treat PTSD”) but the cost of not treating it is even higher.
  • A smaller claim made is that the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study is the “most comprehensive study of combat stress ever conducted.” Says who? The author presents a small but not unremarkable qualitative claim.

“Experts say it’s nearly impossible to calculate what treating PTSD from Vietnam has and will cost American taxpayers, so vast are its impacts. There were 2.4 million soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and while no one is sure what PTSD among them will ultimately cost us, either, everyone agrees on one thing: If it’s not effectively treated, it won’t go away. When Caleb checked into his VA inpatient therapy in 2010, more than two-thirds of his fellow patients were veterans of Vietnam.”

  • The author begins again with another credibility claim. Just one word this time: “experts.” I could not find a specific citation for where this comes from. The next sentence has a VA source, but it does not make a specifc claim about treatment costs for PTSD.
  • The next claim is that “it’s nearly impossible to calculate what treating PTSD from Vietnam has and will cost American taxpayers”. I suppose I can’t contest this factual claim. The nature of PTSD makes it impossible to know all the cases and their effects and so on. This claim is unsourced.
  • Next, a simple quantitative claim, this time accompanied by a VA administration source. “There were 2.4 million soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan” this is correct.
  • “no one is sure what PTSD among them will ultimately cost us, either, everyone agrees on one thing: If it’s not effectively treated, it won’t go away”. This is a factual claim, but it is once again lacks citation. Truly, does no one know what PTSD will cost. Does everyone really agree on one thing? What if I believe that PTSD will go away without treatment?
  • Finally another quantitative claim. 2/3rds of Caleb’s fellow patients in VA inpatient therapy in 2010 were Vietnam veterans.

“Vietnam vets still make up the bulk of Danna’s clients—though she is assisting traumatized men who served in World War II, in the early years of which half the medical disability discharges were psychiatric, and some of those men still show up at Danna’s office and cry, and cry, and cry. Many people at her fundraiser are saying that she saved their lives, kept them from killing themselves, kept them off the streets—or out of the woods, as it were, where she sometimes found vets living on earth floors under cardboard boxes.”

  • “Vietnam vets still make up the bulk of Danna’s clients” is another factual claim. It is essentially indisputable — I don’t have Danna’s client list and she has no reason to lie here.
  • “Many people… are saying that she saved their lives” is a causal claim. Essentially, because Danna intervened in their life, they did not commit suicide. This is a cause-and-effect claim.

“‘I don’t just get to see the bad stuff,’ Danna says. ‘I get to see the good stuff too.’
By way of example, she introduces me to Steve Holt and Charlene Payton Holt. Steve served in Vietnam, fought in the Tet Offensive. The chaplain assured him that he shouldn’t feel bad about killing gooks, but the chaplain was paid by the Army, and who took moral advice from a chaplain carrying a .38? Back at home, Steve drank wildly. He waged war with his wife, attempted to work odd jobs where he had as little contact with humans as possible. But then he got divorced, and then he got with Charlene in 2001, and then he got in a big fight with Charlene and pulled the rifles out and sent her fleeing into the night, through the woods to the closest neighbor’s house a mile away. But then he got inpatient psychiatric treatment in Seattle, several times, and found Jesus, and only ever has a beer or two, and now you have never seen two people so in love in any double-wide in the United States.”

  • Danna claims that she doesn’t just see “bad stuff” but also “good stuff”, which is another factual claim based on her experience with patients.
  • An ethical claim is made by the author when he adds the rhetorical question, “who [takes] moral advice from a chaplain carrying a .38?”. The author claims that a chaplain who is paid by the army and is armed is untrustworthy is questions of morality.
  • The author makes an evaluative claim about Steve: he “waged war” on his wife. This implies that Steve consciously prosecuted a campaign of aggression against his ex-wife. To “wage war” even as a metaphor, implies purposeful, premeditated actions over a long period of time. The comparison of domestic strife to war is also an illustrative claim.
  • “He got inpatient psychiatric treatment in Seattle, several times, and found Jesus, and only ever has a beer or two and now you have never seen two people so in love in any double-wide in the United States.”Four back to back factual claims with some extra ones sprinkled in. It is claimed that he got inpatient treatment several times in Seattle. No sources other than a his testimony, we do not hear from this treatment facility. Next, he “found Jesus”. This is both a factual and moral claim. “Finding Jesus” is contrasted by the author with drunkenness and domestic violence, which implies that finding Jesus is a desirable outcome. Further, his beer consumption is a simple factual claim, but it similarly is contrasted positive compared to his old behavior. Finally, the last claim is that “you have never seen two people so in love in any double-wide in the United States”. This is primarily intended to be an illustrative example of a successful treatment of a veteran with PTSD, but it’s also an unverifiable factual claim. I think that I have seen two people more in love. Just because I am a contrarian.

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PTSD Claims – music0392

I was assigned to read section 16 of the article “Is PSTD Contagious?”. 

“In 2009, it was Hovda who delivered the Pentagon the recommendation that because multiple concussions could cause serious long-term injury, concussions need time to heal.” – This is a factual claim. This claim is telling you the fact that exists beyond doubt that Hovda delivered the Pentagon this recommendation. The author writes this fact without evaluating the morality or quality of the recommendation. 

“Hovda says some of the Army’s best doctors implied that if soldiers were told they needed rest after concussions, it was going to usher in an epidemic of fakers, or retired guys claiming disability way after the fact.” – This is an attributive claim. The author states that Hovda “says” this, not passing it off as a fact but a statement about what Hovda said.

“it doesn’t seem like it would take a neuroscientist—or the top medical brass of an Army that builds laser cannons—to figure out that if 25 mph punches to the head cause brain damage, IED blasts that hit at 330 mph probably do too.” – This is an evaluative claim. The author states it wouldn’t “take a neuroscientist” to figure out the stated fact, claiming that this fact should be obvious. This is a judgment of how we should be able to figure this out easily because it’s very obvious. 

“Eventually, Hovda’s cause prevailed. These days, there are MRIs in theater, assessments after blasts, mandatory rest periods after a concussion.” – This is a causal claim. The author states the effect of Hovda’s cause and how things have changed. This claim is a simple cause and effect of the previous information stated. 

“When people ask Hovda if they’re gonna get better, he encourages them that they’re gonna get different.” – This is an attributive claim. Once again; the author states that Hovda “encourages” those who ask the question, which doesn’t mean that it is a fact, but just what Hovda “said”. 

“that they should not panic” – This is a recommendation claim, as it states that they “should not” panic despite the claim presented before. The statement that they “should not panic” is a recommendation of what they should do.

“There’s good rehabilitation strategies: learn what your deficits are, learn that you’re not going crazy, that you just can’t do what you used to do” – The first few words (“There’s good rehabilitation strategies”) is a evaluative claim, as it states the quality of the rehabilitation strategies there. The rest of the quote is a recommendation claim, as it tells those to “learn what your deficits are” as a recommendation or proposal.

“The human brain has an enormous amount of plasticity. New cells are born every day” – This is a factual claim. The author states that the “human brain has an enormous amount of plasticity” as a fact beyond doubt.

“New connections can be made” – This is a casual claim, as it states a prediction about what new connections can be made. 

“The good news is, teleologically speaking, if we didn’t have the ability to recover from brain injury, we’d have ended up as somebody’s breakfast.” – This is also a casual claim (and maybe an evaluative claim because it states that it is “good news” rather than bad) because it states the effect of not having the ability to recover from a brain injury. 

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Claims- Doglover846

Section 18:

“But here we’ve got lasagna, and salad with an array of dressing choices, and a store-bought frosted Bundt cake with chocolate chips in it!”

This sentence would be Factual Claim, since they are stating the different foods that they got. If they ate the food they would find that there is chocolate chips in the Bundt cake, or they would find a variety of dressings.

“they thought they’d finish it up real nice like they did with another house”

This would be an Analogy Claim. Analogy claims are when you compare two things. In the sentence above they are comparing how nice the house they fixed up to another house.

“Brannan and I make fun of Caleb for being three years older than us, so old, and Caleb makes jokes that it does indeed feel like he and Brannan have been married for-ever.”

The sentence above would be a Quantitative or Numerical Claim. Since they are claiming that he is three years older, as well has Caleb stating that he feels like he’s been married for-ever.

“Caleb is in such a good mood that Brannan asks if he’s up for putting Katie to bed so she can go lie down”

This sentence would be an Evaluative Claim because it involve a judgement between characters. Brennan noticed that Caleb was in a good mood so that’s why she asked him to put Katie down.

“he tells her he’s leaving her.”

This would be a Factual Claim because Caleb is stating a fact saying that he is leaving her.

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PTSD Claims – Cleveland Brown

Brannan has never been to war, is a Factual claim, because it states the fact that she has not been to war there is no arguing that.

Brannan has warrior skills is an Analogy claim because they are comparing her spirit to a warrior.

Celeb one of 103,200, or 228,875, or 336,000 Americans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and came back with PTSD. This is a Quantitative or Numerical Claim because they are using numbers to support their claim.

This PTSD picture is worse than some, but much better, Brannan knows, than those that have devolved into drug addiction and rehab stints and relapses. This is a Comparative Claim because they are saying that his PTSD is bad but compared to others its not as bad.

 I don’t understand how to turn the washing machine on.’ I am looking at a washing machine and a pile of laundry and my brain is literally overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to reconcile them. This is a Causal Claim. because he talks about how PTSD has effected his way of life and how it comes up because he is overwhelmed

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Stone Money- Doglover846

The Value of Money

In today’s society, money is what the world revolves around. We use money for payment, to exchange for an item with the same value in cost. However, what is the true value of money and what if all of a sudden it just disappears? Physical money has become less frequent over the past years. Money has been transferred over to online banking and cards. That makes me wonder if money is truly real. Ira Glass from The NPR broadcast “The Invention of Money”, states that “money is fiction.” Yes, we are given a number to show the amount of money we have, but is that money all there? 

The NPR broadcast “The Invention of Money” explains how money is not necessarily real. It’s more of something to believe in. They stated that if you were asked to count all the money in the world, you wouldn’t be able to. Since money is liquefied it’s impossible to count. If some random person was wanting to buy a store, he would have to take money out of the bank to pay a deposit. However, the bank wouldn’t have all of the physical money to give to them. So they would have to transfer some of your own money to him. The banking system is all about transferring and borrowing money, so that everyone is satisfied without having wads of paper in storage. There is a book called, “Yap in the South Pacific”, and during that time their currency worked kind of like how ours work today. These pre-industrial people would use big stone coin shaped structures for currency. They’ve decided instead of physically trading coins or some sort of money, they would have ownership of these stone sculptures. They used this type of currency for bigger purchases. For example, if their warrior was killed in another village they would exchange ownership of the stone for their soldier. It has now evolved into how currency works today. Money has become more of an idea, numbers in the bank. Instead of being paid hundreds of dollars in cash, you’re paid online with numbers transferring from computer to another. Similar to the Yaps, we acknowledge the fact that we have money in our bank account due to the number we see. But, if you think about it, the money isn’t really there, it’s an idea. 

Similar to what the NPR broadcast talked about in the previous paragraphs, Milton Friedman, author of “The Island of Stone Money” shares the currency throughout time. His main point was about the Yap and the unique currency. How they pay forward a giant coin shaped stone sculpture in return for something treasurable.  Another point that he made was the French were frightened that the U.S would leave the gold wage currency. This led to the Federal Reserve Bank to trade dollars for gold, which caused the US to be able to exchange with other countries who have different currencies. 

In 1990, Brazil was in desperate need of help due to the extreme inflation rates with it increasing 80% per month. Sunglasses that were ten dollars in the beginning of the year would end up being 10,000 dollars by the end of the year. Brazilians didn’t realize that the value of cruizeros could change so much in such little time. Money was being printed so fast that the value of money became less and less everyday, causing inflation. However, Brazilians were so obsessed with money that they let the inflation rise to an extreme. Four economic friends were hired to assist the economy’s inflation. They created a currency called URV, a unit of real value. This currency was virtual which meant that no money existed. People can still have their standard local currency in their pockets, but they started to get paid in URVs, as well as taxes and other groceries items. I think that it is bizarre that fake money can reverse a country’s inflation and help people’s concept of money change. 

Now that the world’s currency is mostly online, we have expanded to different ways of exchanging it. One of the more common ways is cryptocurrency. In the article “The Bubble Burst on E-currency Bitcoin ” by Anne Renaut, explained how Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, dropped from 266 dollars to 54 dollars in three days. This is because it is so fluid that it is easy to fluctuate. With money being so diverse nowadays, the value of it always changes. It might decrease or increase due to the stock market, inflation and how we as people value our own money. There is never going to be one value or currency because money is being made and changed everyday. So from what I’ve learned from reading these articles and listening to the broadcast was that money doesn’t have a set value nor does it exist, it’s just an idea.

References

“The Invention of Stone Money” 423: The Inventionn of Stone Money. This is American Life, WBEZ. Chicago. 7 Jan 2011 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/423/the-invention-of-money

Friedman, Milton, “The Island of Stone Money” Diss. Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1991https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/internal/media/dispatcher/215061/full

Renaut, Anne “The bubble burst on e-currency Bitcoin”,13 Apr. 2013 https://phys.org/news/2013-04-e-currency-bitcoin.html

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Claims- gobirds115

Section 1:

“Brannan Vines has never been to war”

The above claim is a factual claim due to the fact that they make a statement about a clear action the someone has or hasn’t done. This can’t be counter argued or debated because either you have or haven’t been to war. This is a fact which is why it’s a factual claim.

” she’s got a warrior’s skills”

The above claim is an analogy claim. An analogy claim is when you make a claim comparing something to something else using analogies like metaphors, similes, etc. An analogy claim is used here by comparing Brannan’s skillset to that of a warriors.

 “crazy-person behavior”

The above claim could potentially be considered as an evaluative claim. Reasons this could be considered as an evaluative claim are because she is being characterized or evaluated as a crazy person based on her actions/behaviors. And an evaluative claim is when someone/something is judged based upon a particular situation and a claim is made. This certainly fits the mold for an evaluative claim.

“Being too cognizant of every sound”

The above claim could potentially be a comparative claim. Reasons this could be a comparative claim is because we can assume the description of being “too cognizant” is opposed to a normal expectancy of how cognizant someone should be. Therefore she is being compared to the rest of people based on how cognizant she is to sounds and claimed “too cognizant”.

“Her nose starts running she’s so pissed”

The above claim could be classified as a casual claim. Is her nose actually running because she’s so pissed? Maybe, but it could be running for a multitude of factors. But the author is claims its because she’s pissed. A casual claim is when someone makes a claim without applying too much context and uses basic judgement to make their claim. That’s what we’re seeing in this claim.

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