Now the Talk Is About Bringin Back Torture

An eye for an eye right? Well, this article is about how bringing back torture will lessen some of the violence that is seen in terrorism threats and raids such as the attacks on September 11, 2009. Also, the talk not only about using violence for violence but also about how we have had a lack of being prepared. Ill-prepared is the issue and how similar frustrations surface like on the Wall Street Journal and other such things.

Time to Think About Torture

This was an interesting reading about how even a liberal can find his thoughts turning into torture. This was the different excerpt about physical torture and torture of the mind in which they additively says, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact." that the new law stops short of inhumane torture. Isrealis wrestling for years. Sodium pentothal the truth serum is considered as they interview some and other like Abu Didal who they tricked to figure out who was behind the world trade center bombs and that there was a plot to crash 11 U.S. airliners.

Let's Tell the Story of All America's Cultures

This is an article about a young Korean girl who grew up just being a little bit different and not noticing the pitfalls of segragation and favoritism because of each of the commitments of different races and sex contributing to their part in making society a place for them by building up their own rights that applied to them. She claims the history books were wrong because they never told the whole truth. The truth that America is a multicultural nation composed of many histories.

Free-Speech Follies

This article is about the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and how so many times people come close to limiting and infringing one another's rights. For instance, burning a cross on a black family's lawn or by contributing millions to a candidate or vilifying Jerry Falwell and his mother in a parody and yelling "First Amendment," to get away with it because of the freedom of speech. The case of rejection of text to articles in a tribune such as the Illini and the case of whether or not jews should be segregated to prevent another holocaust or even an instance in which self-sensoring becomes an issue or a Professor or first amendment hero of the Harvard
English department rescinding one of it's faculty because of personal opinion.

Ethos, Pathos & Logos and types of rhetoric

Logos is the appeal to reason that relies on logic or reason.

- It includes facts, statistics, examples, and authoratative examples.

Ethos- is the the credibility, character, reliability, and integrity of the writer and or speaker.

Pathos-emotional power of language

Post hoc fallacy-relationship
Adhominem argument-lost points and attack one another instead. -Attack people rather than ideas.

Questionable or faulty sources.

Begging the question-fails to establish proof for a database

Fals analogy-wrongly implies that because two thing sshare some characteristics they are therefore alike.

Either/or fallacy -when you assume that the possible outcome is either this or that.

Red Herring-deflects attention from the matter of what is being discussed.

Argumentation-Persuasion

The Longman Reader. Ninth Edition. Ed. Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Eliza A. Comodromos. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 3009. 472-507. Print.

"How Argumentation-Persuasion Fits Your Purpose and Audience."
logos, soundness, of your argument: the facts, statistics, examples, and authorative evidences gathered to support "your" viewpoint.
pathos, the emotional power of language appealing to readers' needs, values and attitudes.
ethos, credibility or integrity.

1. A supportive audience. Achieving having the audience agree with the position you take a stand on. Providing additional information (logos)., you can rely primarily on pathos -a strong emotional appeal.

Suggestions For Using Argumentation-Persuasion In An Essay (pg 477)

1. At the beginning of the paper,identify the controversy surrounding the issue and state your position in the thesis. -The thesus if ab argumentation-persuasion is often called assertion or proposition. Remember: Argumentation-persuasion assumes conflicting viewpoints.

2. Provide readers with strong support for the thesis. -Finding evidence that relates to the readers' needs, values, and experience is a crucial part of writing.

-Personal observation or experience
-Statistics from a report
-Examples from interviews
-Expert opinion cited in a documentary

3. Seek to create goodwill- avoiding alienating readers with views different from your own.

4. Organize the supporting evidence. The support for an argumentation-Persuasion paper can be organized in :
1) Description
2) Causal Analysis
3) Process Analysis

5. Use Rogerian strategy to acknowledge differing viewpoints.
-Psychologist Carl Rogers took the idea of acknowledging the contrary further. He believed that argumentation's goal should be to reduce conflict rather than find a "winner" or "loser"

6. Refute differing viewpoints

7. Use induction or deduction to think logically about your argument.
Induction- involves examination of specific cases, facts, or examples. As in all essays evidence should be specific, unified, adequate,and representative.
Is it recent and accurate? Does it use more than an inferance? Deduction or deductive reasoning begins with a general to specific three step form called a syllogism. This including a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Major premise- a general statement about an entire group.
Minor premise- a statement about an individual within that group.

8. Use Toulmin logic to establish a strong connection between evidence and your thesis.
Have a :
Claim-the thesis, proposition, or conclusion.
Data-the evidence (facts, statistics, examples, observations, expert opinion used to convince readers validity.
Warrant-the underlying assumption that justifies moving from evidence to claim.
Toulmin an author of a book explains readers are more apt to consider your argument valid if they know what your warrant is.

"Bombs Bursting In Air"

Bombs bursting in air talks about the fragility of life and the tragic things that happen. For instance, the author a somewhat mothering tone has two kids, sick family relatives a best friend that died in her sleep and an old highschool clown that was in depression that shot himself. All varying realities of tragedies that happen that show the true fragility of life and how sacred and precious it is. Especially from a patriotic sense symbolically in the end.

"End of the Line"

End of the line talks about factory work and the lives of the people in Janesville and what it is like just scraping by in America with a sudden downturn in the economy. They consider the Janesville plant everything and then the GM plant closes down and moves to Mexico.

Two Examples of Citation

1) LeDuff, Charlie. "End of the line." Mother Jones. Mother Jones, 1Sept. 2009. Web. 28 Oct. 2009

2)Johnson, Beth. "Bombs Bursting in Air." The Longman Reader. Ninth Edition. Ed. Judith Nadell, John Langan, and Eliza A. Comodromos. New York. Pearson Education, Inc., 2009. 215-218. Print.

Process Analysis

"Process Analysis" is simply carrying out instructions such as reading the back of a box for a recipe and following through with a process step by step. According to the book, "The Longman Reader," the Ninth Edition, "A process analysis is a technique that explains the steps or sequence inivolved in doing something." "Instructions on a federal tax form or a recipe in a cookbook are all good examples." When you complete a process and break it down into step by step it then becomes a Process Analysis and in writing this is a very important aspect to understand when completing a paper on it.

Propaganda and Bandwagon Approach in Commercials

We just recently received our assignment for picking out a commercial. Mine has propaganda and the bandwagon approch. That is publicity to promote something with influence and that if you don't join the bandwagon with everyone else your not smart, cool or elsewise the same.

No Class Wednesday..

Today I remembered that there is no class and that I need to wait for my conference on Friday at 12:00. There is no class this Wednesday or Friday giving me time to work on my draft. My paper is on the Hardees commercial/video I saw at Hardees with Three Doors Down "Let me by myself," and Geico and the Caveman.

How Comparison-Contrast Fits Your Purpose and Audience-Note taking

Suggestions: Using Comparison and Contrast in an essay.
1) Be sure your subjects are at least somewhat alike
2) Stay focuse on your purpose
3) Formulate a strong thesis
4) Select the points to be discussed
5) Organize the points to be discussed
6)Supply the reader with clear transitions

Commentary
*Purpose and thesis
*Points of support and overall organization
*Sequence of points, organicational cues, and paragraph development
*Combining patterns of development
*A problem with unity
*Conclusion
*Revising the first draft

Comparison & Contrast

Today is September 26, 2009. We didn't have any class today so our second papers on narration could be graded. We're going to get to see them Monday. I'm excited and hope my paper receives a good grade although I'm not quite as confident about this last paper. Okay here is the different ways comparison and contrast essays are written:
*One-side-at-a-time method of organization where you discuss everything relevant of one side first before moving on to the next side or similarities.
*Point-by-point method of organization is organization where you alternate back and forth

Salvation

Salvation is another narrative essay that focuses on the church's way of saving lives through a series of steps towards salvation or being saved from sin. This article is by Langston Hughes encouraged by an aunt I believe as a young african american who became scared out of his wits and experienced that not every saved person was truely wise but sinful indeed in lying and eventually he approaches Jesus or God and is saved.

The Price We Pay

The price we pay was an excellent Narrative by Adam Mayblum who states that although they tried to tear us apart we remain united they tried to cause us fear and we overcome it and stand together. Famous words indeed throughout writing his narrative from a viewpoint of the twin towers collapsing and losing co-workers he'd known impacting his life. He wrote so as to say to "NEVER FORGET." The Price We Pay is a narrative on a real life story of the collapse of twin towers. A one by one expression of making it slowly down stair wells and having to leave cherished ones behind and finally seeing the second tower collapse once outside of the first tower themselves. A heart-stopping memory, the narrative proved to be very interesting.

Shooting An Elephant

"Shooting an Elephant" was an excellent Narration by George Orwell. In whom a larger number of people hated a police official(the main character) in Moulmein in Lower Burma.(hence the point of view from Orwell's perspective) The former British colony of India is where Orwell is best known for his novels. He served with the Indian imperial police and worked at various jobs in London and Paris. Caught in an internal conflict with himself in a group of people in India he has the choice to shoot an elephant which is worse because he knows is tons worth of work loading animal verses not shooting the large animal at all risking more deaths and another must or elephant hormonal rampage during the same season. The story works from very interesting points and leaves Orwell narrating from the main character he debates to kill the elephant finally shooting it, slowly by the ear and neck down, dying in the end. Giving him a sense to redeem his self worth as well in front of the group of people whose lives or livelihood were being destroyed.

Narration

Narration is the centuries worth of lifetime stories told by our ancestors. The Longman Reader Ninth Edition mentions that in ancient times warriors gathered in halls to listen to bards praise in song the exploit of epic heroes. Narration according to our book means the telling a single story or several related stories. Narration according to www.dictionary.com is a noun that means: 1) something narrated; an account, story or narrative. 2)the act or process of narrating 3)a recital of events in, esp. in chronological order as a story narrated in the poem or the exposition of a drama. 4)Rhetoric (in classical speech) the third part, the exposition of a question. Narration is powerful. Each public speaker no matter whom, makes an impression.

My Final Draft

Today I wrote my final draft! I'm so glad to finally be done. I might take it to the learning center to a different person one more time. I have my title as my thesis and I think I find that there is some unity towards the end of the paper. It's supposed to be a descriptive essay that is 2 1/4 pages long that talks about a particular experience as one of my favorites living on a farm in the country. It was when Kim and Erin came over with their kids. I'm really hoping that it is good enough and that they'll really like it.

Review of "Flavio's Home" & "The Storm This Time"

1)Flavio's Home is a description based story of a poor home that was documented in order to publish it as a public wariness and provide aid to the family of the da Silva home. With pure poverty the book describes it as the "most savage of all afflictions." The poverty is described of claiming victims who can't mobilize their efforts. Often survivors lacking the effort to digest the little food they scrounged the faminous times kept growing like the spreading of cancer. Catacumba was the name of the place where they found the first victim named Flavio. They offered furniture to the journalists who interviewed their family which were old worn out boxes. They would scrape by with beans and small amounts of food they would worry about sparingly supplying throughout the family.

2)The Storm This Time that covered the Urban Floodplain and deaths during and after Hurricane Katrina. The author remembers arriving at Baton rouge and seeing them label the doors in houses in certain ways to keep track of the statistics of death rates, living and homes with no people or no survivors. Around New Orleans, getting instruction from a carpet store giving out samples the writer gets a call from New Orleans Aquarium. With FBI agents and firefighters, the french quarters still intact and the National Guard to work together in cleaning up much of the mess with volunteers a perspective is given on Life After Katrina. Also on what afterward occurred to be a disappeared town.

September 4, 2009

Today is September 6, 2009. Two days ago we had our review for our first drafts in English Composition I. I took my draft to the learning center and had it reviewed a third time. I'm starting to re-write my second draft into my final draft for Wednesday. Two people from class revised my paper and a third from the learning center. Here is Review for Sister Flowers article we read:

1)Sister Flowers- Sister Bertha Flowers is a character described by Maya Angelou or otherwise known as Marguerite who is easily embarassed by her unformal English speaking mother, Mrs. Henderson. Marguerite looks up to Sister Flowers the aristocrat of Black Stamps. Marguerite never actually has first connected Sister flowers to the sweet smell of food until she invites her into her home and acquaints herself with her more. Marguerite is practically a poor slave girl when she first meets Sister Flowers except she has her freedom but a low self esteem after moping around for months after being raped. Sister Flowers was the first to throw her a life line and make things better for Marguerite. The book quotes, "For nearly a year[after I was raped] I sopped around the house, the store the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible."

Description Essay

Today we received a paper for our first description essay. Webster's New World Dictionary 2003 describes description as the technique of describing. It also says it is a statement or passage that describes. Our MLA format includes looking like this:

Jessica Gerlemann

Leigh Kolb

Comp I

26 August 2009

TITLE

INTRODUCTION

BODY PARAGRAPH 1

BODY PARAGRAPH 2

BODY PARAGRAPH 3

CLINCHER/ZINGER: CONCLUSION :TIE OF UNITY

Sensory Language

Just as a quick overview. Sensory language is part of the best of all description language. Without it we learn that regular sentences and paragraphs are choppy and boring. Sensory language has to do with the most close senses we feel towards particular experiences we are having due to the five senses. According to Webster's New Dictionary 2003 hearing, taste or feeling, smell or even generalized sense of awareness. It especially describes it as perception through the senses.

8-19-09 Powerpoint Presentation Today

Class was nice today! I read Chapter 1 & 2 surprisingly for the next day. I think it's nice we can take notes. I think they will help me very much.

1.Prewrite
2.Identify the thesis
3.Support the thesis with evidence
4.Organize the evidence
5.Write the first draft
6.Revise the essay
7.Edit and proofread

3 point thesis statement
Introduction
Body Paragraph 1: pt 1 examples, evidence
Body Paragraph 2: pt 2 examples, evidence
Body Paragraph 3: pt 3 examples, evidence
Conclusion: adding unity

This is basically what I have learned from today's powerpoint and yesterdays reading:
*Prewriting can be thinking, jotting down ideas, basically anything is a start.
*Confidence with any of it will help.
*Understanding the assignment is important
*Audience and Purpose is important
*Brainstorm! Brainstorm!
*Gather and organize raw information:facts, anecdotes, quotes, statistics, articles
*Make sure thesis is a controlling narrowed point of view that is effective not broad and not announcing a statement
Recognize limited subject and attitude
Mini outlines are great!
Vivid language is best to make the essay like colors to your reader. Sensory details
Make defensible arguments
Be clear, concise, credible ,correct

The Writing Process

Stage 1: Prewrite
*Keep a journal
*Understand boudaries of assignment
*Determine your purpose audience and tone
*Discover the limited subject
*Generate raw material about your limited subject
*Organize the raw material

Stage 2: Identify the thesis
*Writing an effective thesis
*Avoiding thesis pitfalls-
Don't make announcements, Don't make broad statements
*Support the thesis with evidence
*Evidence being supporting paragraphs

Stage 3: Support the thesis with evidence
*Supporting paragraphs

Stage 4: Organize the evidence
*Thesis
*Introduction
*3 supporting paragraphs
*Conclusion
*Using transitions
*Use chronological, spatial area, emphatic approaches
*Prepare outlines
Stage 5: Write the first draft
*Connect ideas to thesis, introduction & conclusion
* Tie it all together with "unity"
Stage 6: Revise the essay
Peer review(wkshts)
Stage 7:Edit & proofread
* Correct grammer
* The four C's Concise, Credible, Clear, Correct

The Reading Process

Stage 1: Get an overview of the selection
*Use first reading checklist

Stage 2: Deepen your sense of the selection
*Try to grasp your understanding

Stage 3:Evaluate the Selection
*Preview Images
*Analyze and Interpret Images
*Integrate Image Evaluation