Claim of Fact "Elaine Scarry in her book The Body in Pain. Do you agree or disagree

To make a claim of fact means to state one’s opinion about something, an issue or a fact or even a definition that is arguable. It is also an opinion built upon “they say” which you can agree or disagree with (“I say”). In his article, “When Is a Cross a Cross?”, Stanley Fish disapproves of Justice Kennedy’s reasoning behind the definition of a cross from a religious one to a cross that honors the fallen soldiers. You can see how Fish responds to “they say” at the beginning of his argument (citing Congress’s response to “Lynch v. Donnelly” and Justice Kennedy’s response to “Salazar v. Buono” by demanding the district court reconsider the ruling that Congress promoted religion, etc. 145) with “I say” by taking Kennedy’s ruling apart and entering the conversation with Kennedy’s opinion to show how the justices “produce opinions that are as unedifying as they are disingenuous” (ER 10th ed. 147). Option 1: In John Levs’ article, “Loaded Language Poisons Gun Debate,” Levs makes a claim of fact that the different languages spoken in the national debate on the future of gun laws make it “tougher to find common ground” (ER 152). Richard J. Davis finds that “logic goes out the window in the gun control debate” (ER 11). Do you agree or disagree with their claims about the problems with the current gun laws debate? Option 2: Elaine Scarry in her book The Body in Pain (1985) makes many claims about the unsharability or the inexpressibility of physical pain (3-11): “Thus pain comes unsharably into our midst as at once that which cannot be denied and that which cannot be confirmed” (4). Do you agree or disagree that it is difficult to express physical pain and that we have no language for the body in pain (other than pre-language)? Does physical pain indeed have no voice? Option 3: On “War is Injuring” (63), Scarry claims that “[War] requires both the reciprocal infliction of massive injury and the eventual disowning of the injury so that its attributes can be transferred elsewhere, as they cannot if they are permitted to cling to the original site of the wound, the human body” (64). Do you agree with her claim that “war is injuring” and the real goal of war is “to out-injure the opponent” (12, 63)? According to Scarry, the fact of war that attributes injury and bodily pain to “convention, agreement, and participation” (62) ends in disowning the body; therefore, we don’t think of war as “injuring.” write a claim of fact in response to “they say.” In a 3-4 page essay, support or refute one of the given claims above.    

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