Food Fight…

2.  Throughout this cartoon humans are depicted as evil and a little crazy. In every picture the character’s faces are over exaggerated and every character is in an unreal situation.

4.  The commentary that the parallelism in frames 1 and 4 makes is that in both the pictures are generally the same. Although in frame 1 the evil scientists are operating on food, and in frame they are operating on a human being.

5.  I’d lean more towards ironic. It seems that by attempting to help ourselves we are actually causing more damage, which seems ironic.

6.  The tone of the cartoon is slightly sarcastic humor, over exaggerated, but still trying to get a point across. Without the pictures the text would seem confusing and boring. It would be more like a list of facts, and it would have a more serious tone.

**Anthropomorphized: attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

Assertive Journal: Angel in the House

In Virginia Woolf’s Professions for Women, Woolf talks about Killing the Angel in the House. In the times that Woolf describes there was an ideal woman, a standard. Those woman who had the Angel in their house were sure to succeed in their professional careers. The would lie and have on a constant act in order to please others. Woolf talks about killing her own personal angel that lived in her home and along side her. It is clear though that one must kill their own Angel. In order to have that freedom that allows you to express yourself, that is what must be done. Woolf wanted to express how it was and still is possible to be strong and independent with your thoughts by simply breaking down the barrier, or in this case Killing the Angel in the House. Then again Woolf tells how with killing the angel she was able to write the way she did, but why wasn’t she able to do it all on her own? Why did the Angel dominate so much?

This essay expresses how it’s important for a person to block out the unwanted. The constant hovering Angel in the house wasn’t needed. Without it a young woman would be able to sit down full of thoughts of her own, and write them down freely without feeling any guilt what so ever. People should also learn though that you should be able to just block it out and not let it control them. Woolf believed that people should be able to write their true feelings about something freely, and that by blocking out the one thing that was bothering her helped to accomplish it.

Fallacies…?

1. In 2006 New Jersey governor, Richard Codey, passed a law where all high school, in New Jersey, athletes needed to be randomly tested for steroid use. This was created after 28 coaches, athletes, and school administrators were interviewed in New Jersey to see how widespread the problem was. The steroid task force that was put together reported that steroid use was higher in suburban areas where the pressure to make varsity teams was greater. The kids who attend the schools in the suburban area had more money to buy the drug, and since those high schoolers in particular had a greater chance of getting into colleges they felt the pressure to take steroids more than students in other areas.
2. As a defense attorney Susan had to defend her client, Fred, for he was on trial for murder. When interviewed Susan stated, “I believe my client, Fred, is innocent. He would never hurt anyone to this extent. He is a loving family man, who had no real connection to the victim. In this case anyone could be guilty since there is no evidence that directly states that my client, the thoughtful, kind, and gentle Fred is the guilty man how will they convict?…” Fred will continue to maintain his innocence along with the support from his attorney Susan.
3. Every year in the United States around 1 million teenage girls become pregnant. This often comes as a shock to them. It will effect their entire lives, and the big question is, “what can we blame?” In today’s media sex sells everything from clothes to music. Does this cause more teens to feel the pressure to be sexually active? If this problem is going to be fixed, even if just a little, the denial of the situation needs to stop. Along with that an honest acknowledgment of the issue, and how we can help to solve.

The Bird and the Machine: Questions on rhetoric and style

1. When Eiseley presented imagery before exposition it helps the reader to understand what he saying better. It paints a visual in the reader’s mind that accompanies the ideas he states.  ARRANGEMENT
2. An example of “odd juxtapositions” in the essay is when is comparing animals to machines, and putting them side by side to show how they differ.
3. These statements help to create the tone in the essay by showing that Eiseley acknowledges that there are advances in technology and there is now such a thing as robots. It also tells that he almost has to admit it because it’s true, but he doesn’t have to like it.  TONE
4. Directly addressing the audience helps by connecting the audience to the issue at hand, meaning technology and robots over humans and living breathing things. It provides an opportunity for the reader to feel that this could eventually effect them also.
5. This pattern of development, I believe, is effective. He gives it to the readers straight forward and honest. It helps Eiseley in persuasion, he could have used a different pattern. This choice though was probably the best for his topic.
6. The effect of verbs is that they create action. It gives more energy to the situation and livens it up, and begins to draw in a reader’s attention one sentence at a time, almost as though something is building up.  DICTION
7. The statement made by Eiseley in this paragraph is ironic for the simple fact that he says that it was a good day to be alive and he had just taken the life of this hawk and captured it.
8. The effect of present to past is that helps to tell the whole story beginning to end. He tells the reader all the details which help to persuade and create emotion with the subject.
9. They all help to build a bridge between humanities and science because logos is the persuasion of either subject, ethos is the scientific part that deals with all the facts at hand, and the pathos are the emotional connection which deals with humanity. So logos, ethos, and pathos all can connect to each other and lead from humanity to science or science to humanity, either way they fit.

The Bird and the Machine: Discussion Questions

1. In the morning if I were to read the paper if I read only good things. People doing acts of kindness, generosity, and communities working together. This would lead me to the thought that we were entering a “new world.”
2. This matter is reciprocal because he is doing something for the zoo and in return the zoo does something for him. So a favor being done is being flipped and returned. A reciprocal matter in today’s society would be that we are encouraged to recycle to in return help to save our planet for generations to come.
3. I don’t find the thought of this sight to be as beautiful as Eiseley pictured it. Birds taking over a city, as the last man runs away to the hills? I enjoy people a little more than birds, call me crazy, but if everyone were gone and only birds were left it may be a little depressing. Eiseley may agree with the nest being restored, but he may just want to birds to go on and continue living like birds. He seems to be very fond of them, and probably wouldn’t want to see them disrupted anymore.
4. In paragraph 27, Eiseley talks and creates visual art of what the bird may be thinking. He states. “I suppose I must have had an idea then of what I was going to do, but I never let it come up into consciousness.” Although this doesn’t really relate to science, Eiseley has many emotions and truly feels for those who suffer from scientific advances and things related to them.
5. His thesis sentence could have been, “The engineers have its basic principles worked out; it’s mechanical, you know; nothing to get superstitious about; and man can always improve on nature once he gets the idea.”
6. Eiseley’s essay reveals that science, technology, and humanity all work together with one another. Although some things, people, and animals may suffer from scientific and technological advances. In these ways, are how we are learning to grow. Not everything fails horribly, but soon this will be the only way we know how to live.

The Argument Against TV

Corbett Trubey’s essay is portraying how the “omnipresent box” also known as a television is beginning to have more control over our lives than we think. With about 98% of people in the U.S. owning one or more televisions, it’s become out of the ordinary to not have one in your home. It has come to the point where a large portion of the population have a favorite T.V. show, in which they cannot miss. The T.V. is something that has grown on us. Coming home and flipping on the T.V., not even to watch it, but just to have it on is probably natural to many people of all ages.

Trubey may watch T.V. because it is something that is almost seen as a necessity. On the other hand though, he seems to be a fan of limiting T.V. viewing. A couple shows okay, but a blaring T.V. on 24-7 isn’t necessary. People who become completely mesmerized when watching their favorite show to the point where they ignore you until commercial, I believe that is called addiction, and that is a problem. Trubey makes that point clear, and I understand where he is coming from fully.

I being a fan of T.V. though believe that you should be able to control yourself when faced with the choice of pushing power. People should be willing to turn the television off and change it up a little bit. It all comes down to self discipline. Are you going to realize that you are wasting away in front of a television and make a choice to join the outside world?

I agree with was Trubey says, but I wouldn’t make it into that big of deal. To each it’s own, if you are into being sucked into a T.V. daily that’s your choice. Trubey attempts to help people realize how tight of a grasp it is beginning to have on a large portion of the population. I honestly will continue to watch T.V., but I will now think about what else I could be doing, and try to switch things up a bit.

Types of support

It’s pretty clear that disposable diapers require more resources to manufacture than cloth diapers, even when you take into account the vast amounts of water and energy involved in cotton farming. A 1992 study from Franklin Associates estimated that producing a year’s supply of disposables, which are composed largely of plastic, consumes roughly 6,900 megajoules of energy, vs. around 1,400 megajoules for a year’s supply of cloth diapers. Yet the study concluded that cloth ended up being 39 percent more energy-intensive overall, given the electricity needed to wash load after load of dirty diapers. (This is an example of facts)

Should My Baby Wear Huggies? By Brendan I. Koerner, slate.com, March 25, 2008

In part, this view of medicine accounts for the success of Jerome Groopman’s book How Doctors Think, which explores how wrong diagnoses occur. In almost every educational venue—from morning teaching sessions for residents to the weekly case conference featured in the New England Journal of Medicine—medical trainees spend hours learning about how to diagnose rare ailments. And then, abruptly, discussion ends, as though treatment were an afterthought. (This is an example of expert testimony)

Training Daze. By Darshak Sanghavi, slate.com, March 12, 2008

Thinking about how I think…

So much to do, so little time. That is basically what I think about all the time. I can never just focus on what’s here and now, I constantly think about what’s going to happen or what could be happening. It’s almost as if sometimes I think myself into a panic, when really I know that there is nothing wrong. When I go to bed at night thoughts continually run through my head about what I have to remember to do in the morning. I am defiantly my mother’s daughter, I need to leave myself reminders everywhere, just in case.

I grew up watching my Mom organize everything that needs to be done on our huge family calendar. If I need her to do something for me her response is always, “Write it on the calendar.” I guess that kind of caught on with me. I learned that that’s a way that I will always remember what needs to be done, and nothing that’s important will ever be left undone.

The things that I have that truly keep me organized are my white boards, I have three! One is my white board calendar, and the other two are random things to remember and things currently to remember. I have no idea what I would do without them. They hang right to the side of my door so that right before I leave I can scan it and make sure I remember everything.

When it comes to thinking under pressure, it can defiantly come as a challenge. I like to take all the options and compare them to make sure I pick the best one. The worst thing for me is to make a decision too fast, and then come to realize that I chose the wrong one. I look at each possibility, and then choose using a process of elimination.

I also use the process of elimination for multiple choice tests. When it comes to a couple days before the test though, and I am preparing for it I get frustrated with myself. I always psych myself out. Thinking of what could go wrong or what might happen is not the best way to think before a big test.

The way a person thinks, reflects on their behavior or attitude. I know when I have a lot on my mind I get really frustrated. No matter what though how you think is who you are. Hopefully it’s what helps keep you sane. I think that if you have something that keeps you going, like I have my whiteboards, than go with it. Changing what comes natural to me wouldn’t get me any where and I doubt it would help anyone else either.

Thoughtful Response

I really don’t agree with this assertion. Many may say that education isn’t a competition, but after walking out of class today you begin to realize that it kind of is. After having the conversation on valedictorian (which involved class rankings) the first question on people’s minds is, “Where are you, are you ahead of me?” Although it maybe isn’t meant to be, but in the majority of student’s minds that competitive attitude is always going to be there no matter what they say. When it comes to being recognized or rewarded for academic achievements, I believe it matters a lot. Making the grade and getting the credit is what students do their best work for. Simply receiving your homework back every single day with a check mark symbolizing credit is just going to make you stop trying. On the other hand getting a really good grade on something you tried your best on and seeing that your teacher recognized that, and being given something that symbolizes achievement is much more effective. Education though may turn mirrors into windows. As I see it this means that when you look into a mirror whats there is there, you see it exactly how it is. With windows though there’s opportunity, endless options of what direction to go in. Education provides you with the privilege to open up that window.

Superman and Me

1. This quote is showing asyndeton, which is a form of rhetoric with omission of conjunctions. The effect of this quote is very effective it uses pathos and combines all the thoughts together to make it more powerful as a whole.
2. The description of Sherman Alexie’s father plays against the stereotype because Native Americans used to be portrayed as being uneducated. Alexie portrays his father as exactly the opposite. He filled his home with books, and had probably read them all. He went out of his way to learn all he could.
3. The effect of the analogy of a paragraph being seen as a fence is that the information or text in a paragraph is grouped into common thoughts. When you come to realize this is can help you to understand and comprehend what you are reading a lot better.
4. By talking in third person I believe that Alexie is covering up the fact that he wasn’t the stereotypical Indian boy when he was growing up. By using this tense he is shadowing the fact that he was extraordinary and he can talk about it and express his true feelings without coming off as being different.
5. Using short, simple sentences Alexie is trying to achieve is breaking up a larger idea into more clear thoughts. It helps the reader to paint a picture of what Alexie is attempting portray.
6. Sherman Alexie breaks up his essay into two main ideas. The first being about his father, and how he filled their home with book inspiring Alexie to read and educate himself. The second being about him and growing up on his reservation being on a different intelligence level than his peers. This arrangement helps to set the scene off Alexie’s background, and how he grow up maybe a little different than others on his reservation. It helps a reader to understand where the writer is coming from when they know where it all began.
7. The parallel structure used emphasizes one particular idea. This shows the importance of the thought, and then the reader starts to understand more of where Alexie began and how far he has come now. His accomplishments are some that he can really be proud of.
8. The audience Sherman Alexie was aiming for was possibly teens. He wants to get through to those who think that just because they are expected to be one way doesn’t mean that they should lower their standards and abilities to do so. Alexie states, “We were Indian children who are expected to be stupid.” This may have been thought by the people surrounding him growing up, but it didn’t stop him from achieving his goal.