Vague Statement

I work for the UPD as a Police Service Assistant and one night we had a call saying someone stole a bicycle off one of the bike racks. I was in the area of the crime and asked dispatch what color the bike was and any description. All i got was "black bike and Hispanic male". Coincidentally, there was a bike party that night and maybe a hundred bicyclist of different ethnicity were riding around campus. So i called dispatch and told him that i wasn't able to find him since there was a bike party going on campus and there was no use stopping each and everyone of them and ask to search their property because it would take all night and it would just be a waste of time. We never caught the guy. All the dispatch said was i got a call from a anonymous person that was 100 meters away. For all we know, the person could have owned that bike.

Subjective and Objective Claims

Due to the reading, it sounds like Subjective claim is something said due to a person's opinion while a Objective claim has no opinion.

Ex. Subjective Claim: My friend and I were discussing the movie Expendables and how I thought it was a great action thriller. On the other hand, my friend insisted that Expendables is just another action film and it was boring. This is an subjective claim because I believe that it was great due to all the action stars in one movie. Also because the same action stars would always keep me on the edge of the seat.

Ex. Objective Claim: A group of my friends were having dinner at one of the local pizza parlors around the school, we were talking about how Sylvestor Stallone still has an edge to do another movie, but we were also surprised that he got all the action film stars such as: Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Jason Statham, etc. Then one of my friends stated that Stallone takes steroids and everyone just chimed in saying that he was built before the movie and another saying that a paparazzi caught him with a syringe. This is an Objective claim because Stallone could have taken steroids or he worked really hard for this movie. 

Introduction

Hi, my name is Kevin Lee, I'm a sophomore and trying to major in Sociology. My communication skills are in between mediocre and good since I work in an environment that requires a lot of talking/communication towards people. I hope that this course will help me talk confidently so that I don't start shaking from nervousness when I talk to people. This is my first online class and I hope that it will prove to other people that online classes aren't bad at all. My interests are hanging out with friends, going to the movies, meeting new people, and enjoying life.