1. The thesis is for "Searching for an Identity in a Society Full of Labels" by Laurie Hrydziuszko is, "Searching for an identity in a society that seeks to place a label on each individual is a difficult task, especially for people of multicultural ancestry." She makes this point her thesis because the whole text continuously comes back to the fact that Anna Raya had a difficult time fitting in due to the fact that she is an American with a Mexican and Puerto Rican background. She also eventually ties this thesis to her own life, as she is Polish and Mexican.
2. The majority of the source credibility belongs to Anna Raya's "It's Hard Enough Being Me." The reason I say this is because the whole text Lauriee makes references to Raya's situation. She uses her as a direct comparison and feels that the two of them have a lot in common in today's society. The other sources used in the text though are simply good quotes and information used to increase the level of credibility for this text. They are no where near as significant as the information used from Raya.
3. I would say that all three rhetorical appeals are used in this text. I found plenty of Ethos when noticing that the author herself was multicultural and faced the same problems as Anna Raya. If she was only one culture and had only written about Raya, then I would have just figured that she knew nothing of the issue. Logos can be found in this when looking through all of the sources used for the completion of the text. The uses of Raya's text especially makes it seem like Laurie knows what she is talking about. A lot of people could say that Pathos is used in this, but it is not as noticeable as the previous two. The author uses the tragedies faced by Raya and herself to, in an essence, make the reader feel bad for her. I would say that it worked on me, for the most part, so that it why I say that this text includes Pathos.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
5, 5 dollar, 5 dollar footblogs at Blog 5, eat fresh
1. In the article, "Politics and National Service: A Virus Attacks the Volunteer Section" by Bruce Chapman, there are a few logical fallacies. However, there is not really enough logical fallacies to get all worked up about them. Chapman is basically trying to argue through this article that more people should get involved in public service before the government starts making people do it. I have to say, he makes a valid point with this, but it still has not inspired to do any public service. Chapman presents his point through what looks like an inductive logical fallacy, as the reader steadily learns what Chapman is trying to get across. He really gets his point across though at the end when he says that the government could start suggesting we join public service. He then tells us that the government suggesting something and enforcing something can be viewed as pretty similar.
2. After viewing the biography of Bruce Chapman, I have to say that the guy is pretty credible. He is trying to constantly talking about public service, when he is a guy that has done nothing but political service through his life. He has worked in the Air Force, the RNC, and the White House. I would take this as he knows a thing or two about public service. However much his amount of public service helps Chapman, it also hurts him a great deal. When he is trying to persuade people to enlist in public service, they could just claim that the only reason he is trying to get people to join is because it is all he knows. Also when trying to get the government to not suggest public service as much, they could easily shrug him off by saying that he has gladly volunteered for his public service, so what does he know about being forced into anything. It is amazing how just a small piece of credibility can both help and hurt the writer.
2. After viewing the biography of Bruce Chapman, I have to say that the guy is pretty credible. He is trying to constantly talking about public service, when he is a guy that has done nothing but political service through his life. He has worked in the Air Force, the RNC, and the White House. I would take this as he knows a thing or two about public service. However much his amount of public service helps Chapman, it also hurts him a great deal. When he is trying to persuade people to enlist in public service, they could just claim that the only reason he is trying to get people to join is because it is all he knows. Also when trying to get the government to not suggest public service as much, they could easily shrug him off by saying that he has gladly volunteered for his public service, so what does he know about being forced into anything. It is amazing how just a small piece of credibility can both help and hurt the writer.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Bloggershop Quartet (Blog 4)
Ex. 5.2
Goochland High School is run by idiots
Deductive
Recent decisions by the staff of Goochland High School has led me to believe that GHS is run by idiots. It all started with the hire of Mrs. Ball. Since she became principal GHS has done stupid things that require a lot of money. For example, they paid a folk singer to come in and teach us old folk songs and he was terrible at it. Due to decisions like this, our school now has no budget left. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of paper. We students are the ones that have to pay the price for this now, as the school has to limit the amount of paper we can use. Also, the administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to get in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this nation wanted students to read more. Now they have this very strict procedure for getting in and it is almost guaranteed to fail.
Inductive
The whole problem started with the hire of Mrs. Ball. Since she became principal GHS has done stupid things that require a lot of money. For example, they paid a folk singer to come in and teach us old folk songs and he was terrible at it. Due to decisions like this, our school now has no budget left. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of paper. We students are the ones that have to pay the price for this now, as the school has to limit the amount of paper we can use. Also, the administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to get in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this nation wanted students to read more. Now they have this very strict procedure for getting in and it is almost guaranteed to fail. It is due to things like this, that I am 100% certain that Goochland High School is run by idiots.
Ex. 5.3
As a senior at GHS, I must say that the recent decisions by the staff of Goochland High School has led me to believe that GHS is run by idiots. In my four years there, I have never seen such stupidity in day-to-day decisions. It all started with the hire of Mrs. Ball at the beginning of last year. The two years that I was there before then were no where near as bad. Since she became principal GHS has done stupid things that require a lot of money. For example, they paid a folk singer to come in and teach us old folk songs and he was terrible at it, if I say so myself. I remember thinking to myself, as I watched this show, "Why did they waste so much money on this man?" Due to decisions like this, our school now has no budget left. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of paper. We students are the ones that have to pay the price for this now, as the school has to limit the amount of paper we can use. Everyday I have to hear the teachers complain about how they could not give us a quiz because they had no paper to put it on. Also, the administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to get in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this nation wanted students to read more. Now they have this very strict procedure for getting in and it is almost guaranteed to fail. I have not once been able to get in there without being robbed of my dignity first. I remember a time when we students could walk in our own library, no questions asked. I have seen better times at my high school and I just wish these times would return.
Ex. 5.4
Recent devastating decisions by the lackluster staff of Goochland High School has led me to believe that our once great GHS is now being run by idiots. It all started with the shot-in-the-dark hire of Mrs. Ball. Since she became the tyrant, GHS has done incredibly stupid things that wastes tons of money. For example, they paid a way-past-his-time folk singer to come in and teach us old washed-up folk songs and he was terrible at it. Due to decisions like this, our school now has the thinnest of budgets. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of the necessity, paper. We misrepresented students are the ones that have to pay the punishment for this now, as the school has to ration the amount of paper we can use. Also, the diabolical administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to invade in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this great nation wanted students to read more books, rather than spend hours playing video games. Now they have this very strict unlawful procedure for getting in and the lovely entering attemptee is absolutely guaranteed to fail in a simple walk into the school's learning center.
Goochland High School is run by idiots
Deductive
Recent decisions by the staff of Goochland High School has led me to believe that GHS is run by idiots. It all started with the hire of Mrs. Ball. Since she became principal GHS has done stupid things that require a lot of money. For example, they paid a folk singer to come in and teach us old folk songs and he was terrible at it. Due to decisions like this, our school now has no budget left. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of paper. We students are the ones that have to pay the price for this now, as the school has to limit the amount of paper we can use. Also, the administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to get in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this nation wanted students to read more. Now they have this very strict procedure for getting in and it is almost guaranteed to fail.
Inductive
The whole problem started with the hire of Mrs. Ball. Since she became principal GHS has done stupid things that require a lot of money. For example, they paid a folk singer to come in and teach us old folk songs and he was terrible at it. Due to decisions like this, our school now has no budget left. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of paper. We students are the ones that have to pay the price for this now, as the school has to limit the amount of paper we can use. Also, the administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to get in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this nation wanted students to read more. Now they have this very strict procedure for getting in and it is almost guaranteed to fail. It is due to things like this, that I am 100% certain that Goochland High School is run by idiots.
Ex. 5.3
As a senior at GHS, I must say that the recent decisions by the staff of Goochland High School has led me to believe that GHS is run by idiots. In my four years there, I have never seen such stupidity in day-to-day decisions. It all started with the hire of Mrs. Ball at the beginning of last year. The two years that I was there before then were no where near as bad. Since she became principal GHS has done stupid things that require a lot of money. For example, they paid a folk singer to come in and teach us old folk songs and he was terrible at it, if I say so myself. I remember thinking to myself, as I watched this show, "Why did they waste so much money on this man?" Due to decisions like this, our school now has no budget left. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of paper. We students are the ones that have to pay the price for this now, as the school has to limit the amount of paper we can use. Everyday I have to hear the teachers complain about how they could not give us a quiz because they had no paper to put it on. Also, the administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to get in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this nation wanted students to read more. Now they have this very strict procedure for getting in and it is almost guaranteed to fail. I have not once been able to get in there without being robbed of my dignity first. I remember a time when we students could walk in our own library, no questions asked. I have seen better times at my high school and I just wish these times would return.
Ex. 5.4
Recent devastating decisions by the lackluster staff of Goochland High School has led me to believe that our once great GHS is now being run by idiots. It all started with the shot-in-the-dark hire of Mrs. Ball. Since she became the tyrant, GHS has done incredibly stupid things that wastes tons of money. For example, they paid a way-past-his-time folk singer to come in and teach us old washed-up folk songs and he was terrible at it. Due to decisions like this, our school now has the thinnest of budgets. Since the school has no money, this has led to a shortage of the necessity, paper. We misrepresented students are the ones that have to pay the punishment for this now, as the school has to ration the amount of paper we can use. Also, the diabolical administration has made it so that it is easier for a terrorist to invade in the White House than for a student to enter the school's library. I thought that this great nation wanted students to read more books, rather than spend hours playing video games. Now they have this very strict unlawful procedure for getting in and the lovely entering attemptee is absolutely guaranteed to fail in a simple walk into the school's learning center.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
I don't even know what to call this thing, but its from the Fun with Punc. thing
Punctuation is a very mysterious thing sometimes. It is the only thing other than tone that can completely change the meaning of a sentence. It is just crazy how that works. A person could just spell a word wrong and have completely different meaning to their sentence. For example, if a friend were to type to me, "What's that under there?," then I should respond, "Under where?," if I do not understand the area that he is describing. However, if I were to respond with "Underwear?," then I would be ridiculed for talking about under garments. So the spelling of just one measly little word can completely alter the outcome of a conversation. The exact same thing can be done with punctuation. If I were to mess up the comma placing, the period, or even the spacing, then the sentence could be taken in a completely different meaning. I really liked the example used in "Fun with Punctuation." You know what I am talking about, the quote, "Let's eat Grandpa," and "Let's eat, Grandpa." One can be taken that you want to become a cannibal and the other suggests that you are ready to eat with grandpa. 197 Another classic comes from the movie "The Love Guru." This one is, "If your Uncle Jack helped you off an elephant, would you help your Uncle Jack off an elephant." The reason this is funny in the movie is if you forget to capitalize "Jack" in the second part of the sentence then it can be taken pervertedly. It is amazing how just a slight change in punctuation can make something so funny.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Blogger 3: Revenge of the blog
"The Stanford Prison Experiment"
1. Zimbardo's primary goal through this experiment was to better understand the process of people becoming prisoners and losing all of their rights. He also sought to get a better understanding of the social power that prison guards have.
2. The profiles of those selected for the experiment were "normal-average." They consisted of twenty Caucasians and one oriental that were middle-class college-aged males. They were all "emotionally stable, physically healthy, mature," as well as avid law abiders. This certain profile is significant because their was no noticeable difference between the prisoners and the guards, so the experiment could really speak for itself.
3. The "process" for becoming a prisoner that Zimbardo speaks of is the phases that it takes for a person to become a prisoner. A person does not automatically become a prisoner just because they are handcuffed. They have to first have a number of demeaning things done to them until they accept the fact that they are prisoners and are ready to follow the prison rules.
4. The two have a approach by the guards has the inverse effect on the prisoners. For example, the more strict that the guards became, the more obedient the prisoners were.
5. As a result of the prison "riot" that occurred the guards became a lot more powerful. They put the leaders in solitary confinement and then put them with the good prisoners so that this would not happen again. They also began to harass and intimidate prisoners more effectively.
6. The prisoners did not respect themselves because they were always being put down by the guards and no one was their to pick them back up. They did not respect other prisoners because the other prisoners just watched as the guards humiliated them. They also did not have any personal conversations where they got to know each other better, so they probably did not know how to pick each other back up.
7. The journal of Guard A shows that Zimbardo was completely right by referring to this experiment as the "gradual Kafkaesque metamorphosis of good into evil. I say this because Guard A started off as a nonaggressive pacifist that could never see himself as a violent man with power. However, as the experiment advanced, this man went into a power-hungry abusive guard. He went from struggling to not smile at the prisoners to beating them and trying to force food down their mouths.
8. The reasons that anyone would volunteer to be prisoners are that they either needed the money or always wanted to see what it would be like to be a prisoner in a jail.
9. The mind can keep people in jail by having everything around it seem like jail. The loss of freedoms and constant abuse by guards can make the mind think it is in jail. Also, after the prisoner gets out, the mental scarring from that situation can make them believe that they are still prisoners.
"Uncivil Disobedience: Violating the Rules for Breaking the Law"
1. The organizations today are different from those of the past because they do not handle situations with the same care. Those that showed civil disobedience in the past were peaceful about it and went along with whatever punishment they deserved. They showed a respect for authority that is commonly ignored today.
2. The "four essential components for civil disobedience" are to "identify an unjust law," to "refuse to obey it," to "accept the consequences," and most importantly, but often forgotten, to self-purify.
3. The teaching of civil disobedience, according to the authors has been slightly defective. The teachers have taught students to not only do things like stand for what they think is right, but also think of those from the past that showed civil disobedience. However, they do not tell them to accept the consequences or self-purify afterward. Because of this, kids just go out and show full disobedience and fight the consequences to follow. This gets them into worse trouble and makes their image look bad.
1. Zimbardo's primary goal through this experiment was to better understand the process of people becoming prisoners and losing all of their rights. He also sought to get a better understanding of the social power that prison guards have.
2. The profiles of those selected for the experiment were "normal-average." They consisted of twenty Caucasians and one oriental that were middle-class college-aged males. They were all "emotionally stable, physically healthy, mature," as well as avid law abiders. This certain profile is significant because their was no noticeable difference between the prisoners and the guards, so the experiment could really speak for itself.
3. The "process" for becoming a prisoner that Zimbardo speaks of is the phases that it takes for a person to become a prisoner. A person does not automatically become a prisoner just because they are handcuffed. They have to first have a number of demeaning things done to them until they accept the fact that they are prisoners and are ready to follow the prison rules.
4. The two have a approach by the guards has the inverse effect on the prisoners. For example, the more strict that the guards became, the more obedient the prisoners were.
5. As a result of the prison "riot" that occurred the guards became a lot more powerful. They put the leaders in solitary confinement and then put them with the good prisoners so that this would not happen again. They also began to harass and intimidate prisoners more effectively.
6. The prisoners did not respect themselves because they were always being put down by the guards and no one was their to pick them back up. They did not respect other prisoners because the other prisoners just watched as the guards humiliated them. They also did not have any personal conversations where they got to know each other better, so they probably did not know how to pick each other back up.
7. The journal of Guard A shows that Zimbardo was completely right by referring to this experiment as the "gradual Kafkaesque metamorphosis of good into evil. I say this because Guard A started off as a nonaggressive pacifist that could never see himself as a violent man with power. However, as the experiment advanced, this man went into a power-hungry abusive guard. He went from struggling to not smile at the prisoners to beating them and trying to force food down their mouths.
8. The reasons that anyone would volunteer to be prisoners are that they either needed the money or always wanted to see what it would be like to be a prisoner in a jail.
9. The mind can keep people in jail by having everything around it seem like jail. The loss of freedoms and constant abuse by guards can make the mind think it is in jail. Also, after the prisoner gets out, the mental scarring from that situation can make them believe that they are still prisoners.
"Uncivil Disobedience: Violating the Rules for Breaking the Law"
1. The organizations today are different from those of the past because they do not handle situations with the same care. Those that showed civil disobedience in the past were peaceful about it and went along with whatever punishment they deserved. They showed a respect for authority that is commonly ignored today.
2. The "four essential components for civil disobedience" are to "identify an unjust law," to "refuse to obey it," to "accept the consequences," and most importantly, but often forgotten, to self-purify.
3. The teaching of civil disobedience, according to the authors has been slightly defective. The teachers have taught students to not only do things like stand for what they think is right, but also think of those from the past that showed civil disobedience. However, they do not tell them to accept the consequences or self-purify afterward. Because of this, kids just go out and show full disobedience and fight the consequences to follow. This gets them into worse trouble and makes their image look bad.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
They call me W, HW (as in homework)
Activity 1
1. The existing problems in our currently lacking public school system must be stopped as soon as possible by means of cutting poor-performing administrators and teachers, hiring well-educated people to fill those roles, and reducing spending.
2. There is only one way of solving the constant problems of the homeless, and that of coarse is money.
3. The average American would probably say that homelessness is caused by alcoholism, laziness, and drug-related problems. However, the most common reason that one finds himself/herself as homeless is that they have a mental illness that restrains them from living the American Dream.
4. When trying to do anything of mass importance, I find that there is nothing more distracting than a cell phone due to the texting, the ringing, and the conversations.
5. There is no greater choice in this world than for an expecting mother choosing to have an abortion because they are choosing whether or not they could parent a child, as well as if they want to take the life of an unborn fetus.
6. One of the biggest ways that people get injured these days is by a motorized scooter because 2,250 injuries have been reported by emergency rooms around the country.
7. There is no higher problem in the elementary schools than that of ADD because it is distracting to the child, his/her classmates, and the teacher.
8. There is no greater problem for a computer user than a computer monitor because they cannot always research what they have the need to research.
Activity 2
1. It was very interesting, but it was just one big run-on sentence. A conclusion should be several sentences that summarize the paper. They do not use any of the techniques that well in this conclusion. They could provide more information and tell a little more about their point they are trying to make.
2. This kept me interested only because I was trying to figure out what the heck they were talking about the whole time. This conclusion clearly did not restate anything from the paper. It was like it was the resolution of a story, but you would have had to completely stick with the story the whole time to understand it. This was very poorly written and had some bad grammar at parts. I suggest that they completely redo this conclusion and try to just tell what the paper was about and restate some previous points.
3. This one was a complete mystery to me. The mystery I was trying to solve is if this person dropped out of school after the 3rd or 4th grade. The grammar was terrible and their were sentences that had a subject, but no predicate. It did however, give me a good idea of what the paper was about. It also had an inspiring message to it that made me wiser. It probably could have used a little more detail though.
4. This one was very interesting and it gives a real idea for what happened in the story. It could have concluded with a little more detail, as well as restate some previous points a little better. It had a few grammatical errors, but for the most part was pretty good. It got the point across and that is all that one could really ask for.
1. The existing problems in our currently lacking public school system must be stopped as soon as possible by means of cutting poor-performing administrators and teachers, hiring well-educated people to fill those roles, and reducing spending.
2. There is only one way of solving the constant problems of the homeless, and that of coarse is money.
3. The average American would probably say that homelessness is caused by alcoholism, laziness, and drug-related problems. However, the most common reason that one finds himself/herself as homeless is that they have a mental illness that restrains them from living the American Dream.
4. When trying to do anything of mass importance, I find that there is nothing more distracting than a cell phone due to the texting, the ringing, and the conversations.
5. There is no greater choice in this world than for an expecting mother choosing to have an abortion because they are choosing whether or not they could parent a child, as well as if they want to take the life of an unborn fetus.
6. One of the biggest ways that people get injured these days is by a motorized scooter because 2,250 injuries have been reported by emergency rooms around the country.
7. There is no higher problem in the elementary schools than that of ADD because it is distracting to the child, his/her classmates, and the teacher.
8. There is no greater problem for a computer user than a computer monitor because they cannot always research what they have the need to research.
Activity 2
1. It was very interesting, but it was just one big run-on sentence. A conclusion should be several sentences that summarize the paper. They do not use any of the techniques that well in this conclusion. They could provide more information and tell a little more about their point they are trying to make.
2. This kept me interested only because I was trying to figure out what the heck they were talking about the whole time. This conclusion clearly did not restate anything from the paper. It was like it was the resolution of a story, but you would have had to completely stick with the story the whole time to understand it. This was very poorly written and had some bad grammar at parts. I suggest that they completely redo this conclusion and try to just tell what the paper was about and restate some previous points.
3. This one was a complete mystery to me. The mystery I was trying to solve is if this person dropped out of school after the 3rd or 4th grade. The grammar was terrible and their were sentences that had a subject, but no predicate. It did however, give me a good idea of what the paper was about. It also had an inspiring message to it that made me wiser. It probably could have used a little more detail though.
4. This one was very interesting and it gives a real idea for what happened in the story. It could have concluded with a little more detail, as well as restate some previous points a little better. It had a few grammatical errors, but for the most part was pretty good. It got the point across and that is all that one could really ask for.
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