varvaro+genre+4

example **Energy Systems and Resources, Winter 1999**

**//Homework Problem #1//**

Assume that you have a used car (use your own data on costs if you have a used car, or make estimates). From an economics standpoint, should you keep your car or should you purchase a new car. Assume the new car is the same make and model of your present car. (Below are some web sites with data on new car loans.)

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Counter-example homework Due Tuesday, July 1 st, 11am (please submit by email to crm281@nyu.edu)

Choose 10 of the below claims, and come up with a plausible counterexample. Try to keep things as simple as possible (avoid stories if you can), while being specific. Give a particular case that you think will be compelling to a general audience.

__Example:__ Everyone gets everything he wants. (//Apocalypse Now//) //John Kerry wanted the oval office, but he didn’t get it.//

1. There’s no accounting for taste.

2. Birds of a feather flock together.

3. Opposites attract.

4. Great minds think alike.

5. Everybody’s just looking out for themselves.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">6. Lying is always wrong.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">7. Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains. (//Rousseau//)

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">8. [You should] do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">9. You get what you deserve.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">10. Everything happens for a reason.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">11. You should always wash your hands before dinner.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">12. The customer is always right. (//attributed to Marshall Field or Harry Selfridge//)

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">13. The law doesn’t make mistakes. (//Judge Dredd//)

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">14. Everything works out in the end.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">15. Money is the root of all evil.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">16. You can’t buy happiness.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">17. Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">18. Out of sight, out of mind.

genre 4

<span style="display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> Homework Assignment <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"> You must destroy something that is keeping people controlled by the consumer lifestyle that they have been forced to yield to. Set some people free from the restraints of consumerism. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">List of possible targets <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Damaging or destruction of any of these places will mean completion of the Homework Assignment.
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Satellite dishes
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Electronic stores
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Video rental shops
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Expensive Car dealerships
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Coffee shops
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Home decor stores

<span style="font: normal normal normal 50px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">DESTROY AFTER READING!