Review your chosen text and:
- Perform the free-write, according to the directions on the handout from class, polish the free-write, and post it here. See pgs. 30-31 for how to begin a free write in chapter 2 of the LBH. Remember, you are using your own personal experience and ideas in order to make a similar argument to that of your chosen author. If you have questions, please email me.
Due before class on February 20th.
Reply: Try to comment on a blog that has no other comments yet.
You finally have the chance to compliment your classmate on his/her success at capturing the essence of the original author's approach to the audience. Yay. Try to comment on a blog of someone whose article you have read.
If you cannot find a commentless blog that you agree with, then you may disagree with a classmate's conclusions. Please be specific as to why, and ask a question that will provoke thought in your classmate about audience, ethos or pathos.
Be academic and professional.
Due before class on February 25th.
I remember growing up living in Miami and going to a predominately Hispanic middle school I always felt awkward and out of place, from the time I walked to school until the time I got back home. I had always been shy and timid and wouldn't speak unless spoken to, especially at school. Being that my personality was so laid back, I was never called on in class and was looked over if I did have questions to ask. I felt as if no one cared because I was the only African American in class but also because of my own insecurity, I was afraid of asking something foolish. Experiencing this feeling was so discouraging and it troubled my mind for years but that's why your job as educators and professors are to provide an equal opportunity to each student no matter their background or situation. Everyone deserves a fair chance at receiving an education, because everyone knows education is the key to success.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading about Jenae's experience coming from a completely different background than what mine is like. I never knew or understood the way it was to go to school and live in a community with people of other ethnicity's outside of my own. I agree with what she said about everyone deserving a fair chance at an education because whether you know it or not, everyone needs one to be successful, it does not matter where you come from, what you look like, or what you believe in.
DeleteBeing 18 isn't easy. Forming your own perspective or choosing to follow someone else' isn't easy as they say. I grew up in a Jewish community and learning this different religion that I had no idea existed, may think twice about what there is out there for me. I had always questioned my friends about their religions because me being catholic and Polish was a different lifestyle than what my friends had. Learning about different perspectives and learning about different communities made me think of the question, why can't we all get along? Being from these different religions and communities and even having a different sexual orientation made us differ from each other but it could also bring us closer. Learning from what makes us different from each other can benefit many of us today by simply listening and conversing.
ReplyDeleteIt was great to hear someone else's thoughts and feelings from a different background and religion. Everyone has a story, whether they look like it or not. I liked the point she made when she said that maybe we could learn something from one another.Everyone's so quick to judge instead being quick to ask questions and learn from one another and how we differ. Because if we did we would learn to understand and except the things we don't comprehend the same way
DeleteGrowing up in a small town in Southern Idaho, where there was less than 500 people and my school (preschool-12th Grade) had a total less than 170 kids. This wasn’t exactly what you’d call high hopes for going to college. I grew up on a small dairy farm where I worked very hard. I played sports and did very well in school. During my senior year I began applying for colleges. I had 2 colleges I applied for, BSU and CSI. I was accepted to both, so I had to decide. I either go to a university and pay about $10,000 a semester or I go to a community college and pay less than $2,000 a semester. My parents may have owned a small dairy, but they didn’t have the money to send me to an expensive college. So out of money being my main decision I chose CSI (the community college and hour away). I paid my tuition and books with scholarships. I took 2 semesters there and even with it being a smaller college, I didn’t get any attention or interaction from the professors I was expecting. None of the classes I took did students interact with one another during class. The professors stayed behind their desks, speaking with their power points or handing out papers and telling us this is what you need to do. I only did 2 semesters because of how poorly the teachers interacted with students and didn’t help them out when they needed it. My grades were not the best, but they were passing. I’d ask a question in class and most of the time the teacher chose not to answer. I then waited 6 years to go back to college. Now I am attending PPCC and am very surprised at how the professors at this college are completely different then the professors I had at the last college I attended. Professors here have the class interact with one another. They answer questions and help their students. Having PPCC professors teach how they do, is more motiving than the CSI professors I had. By having professors who interact with their students and have their students interact with one another is not only helpful, but more motiving. With having more motivation there is a more success rate for graduating students. So therefore, having motivating teachers help the success rate for graduating students.
ReplyDeleteEven though your experience wasn't relatable considering i grew up in Jersey and my school was over crowded to say the least. But I like how even though college didn't seem possible you still strived for it. Not to mention seem to be successful so far in that life goal! I also agree with the fact of having motivating teachers helping the success rate for students. I couldn't agree more. Having a teacher that interacts I feel helps me greatly on a personal level. Lastly your motivation to attend school is admirable, you didn't give up even though your first college experience didn't go too well.
DeleteGrowing up in a religious household gave, what I believed, false evidence of what I really wanted out of life. As years went by there were a lot of faults and judgments past of how I perceived many different things. Most of this criticism and silent chit chat was from people more close to me than just acquaints. Is this because of them looking out for best interest or do they believe they know me more than I do? Going through much personal development in just the last five years or so, a lot of viewpoints have changed and communication has become much more far-fetched of what is based beyond even my own understandings. Seeing the world differently has attained optimism and thinking outside the box. Using ears to listen instead of thoughts convincing myself that I have input before this viewpoint of this equal person even becomes a memory. Love is what bonds us as human beings and breaching that can leave us on a forgotten path of inevitability. Why is there such distance in belief and viewpoints that make many of us think wrong of one another? Is there a bridge of equilibrium that could lead to a so called utopia?
ReplyDeleteYour blog leds me to suspect you are traveling a road to self realization. I like your questions & thought path. I wonder if your personal development is a natural change to a maturing male's perspective or if you are finding new philosophies to live by. Most people lack the self awareness to judge themselves. Our society can be so thoughtless and we take everything so very personal. Equality is an ideal stepping stone to cultivate a utopia but realistically Im not sure if equality is truly attainable or if it is just a pretty thought.
DeleteGrowing up, imagination was my only companion. I did not experience the hustle and bustle of the city, the rush hour traffic, or the packed hallways in between classrooms. Instead, I attended a small two classroom religious private school where I was one of twenty four students. I was placed in this environment in the hopes that I would absorb good values and morals on top of a good education. I was blessed enough to have parents who fought hard to make ends meet while also sending me to private school. I was one of the only students there who had trouble affording the tuition. As an elementary school student, I may not have understood class division in its entirety, but I did understand the concept of an empty wallet. I watched as my parents fought over money and the anxiety stricken face my dad wore when he had to write a check to pay for my school. I understood not being able to possess the same material objects other students had. I also understood that I was looked down on by the two teachers I had and the other twenty three students. I was clearly an outsider with my hand-me-down clothes and my less than materials. I spent eight years at this institution, and while I did get a good education and learn about God and goodness and faith, I rarely saw examples of his righteousness. Instead I was shown that if you come from a privileged background, you will be treated with the utmost kindness; whereas, if you were like me, you were an outsider left alone. Teachers and fellow students often forget that though we may not all share the same background, speak the same language or live the same lifestyle, we’re all striving for the same thing: to enrich our minds. Let’s not draw more invisible barriers in the classroom, instead let’s live in a world of knowledge and tolerance.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up as I have in this world of technology, science grows and improves everyday. It is amazing how far we have come and how much knowledge we now know. The problem with science these days is that politics now influence science. Science is supposed to be truth because with science you are able to prove whatever discovery has been discovered. But politics manage whether or not science can be shown to the public, or could be continued with further studies. Politics also influence what the public should believe when it comes to science. This is considered consensus science. The two should be separated because it causes many issues.
ReplyDelete(Instead of writing from the authors perspective I wrote from my own.)
I grew up in a small farm town, except my family didn't have their own farm. We gardened and worked on the plantation sized farm and fields my grandfather owned a few towns over. I loved going over to my grandparents house, not because they spoiled me but because of the knowledge I gained there. I came from a family that wasn't well educated academically speaking, but they were very environmentally smart. I was raised a farmer, fisher, hunter, gatherer, and naturalist. I was taught how to survive and live off of the land, something my generation doesn't really know much about. Naturally I didn't fit into the surroundings I grew up in. I was not from a family that was well off and had a lot of money to buy nice things, and my family wasn't one of the originals to the town so we were outsiders. I really didn't mind it being that way, I didn't really care for the people I went to school with and I was ands still am a loner. I do tend to play well with others but its not essential for my survival. I learned to like school and started to take college courses while still in high school and before I realized it I was finished with it all. I look back on it today and I realize that I was looked at differently and probably talked about and gossiped about too, but I stayed true to my morals and values that were given to me and I am proud of who I have become..
ReplyDeleteBased on the 2 most used interrogation techniques, does the science of these tactics produce false confessions? Yes, it does,but that is not the problem. The Reid Technique and the alternate technique Peace primarily capitalize on using the art of manipulation and persuasion. Now this is an adequate technique to use on the guilty but it is inadequate to use on the innocent. Guilty or innocent the 2 forms of interrogation can produce a confession, but there is no justice in condemning an innocent person while the guilty party roams free. This observation makes me question, is the true error in the science or does it lay within the lack of ethics from the interrogator and/or prosecutors? Use the Reid/Peace interrogation tactic on the guilty when factual evidence is pointing to a viable suspect. But when there is no factual evidence or it is clear the suspect could not have done it, to use the Reid/Peace technique is unreliable and our law enforcers are now just seeking to hold someone accountable for the crime instead of justice.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in Colorado I was taught from a very young age that you need to respect other if you want respect back, but I quickly learned that through the years that didn't really happen. My earliest school years I always remembered that I was that one kind of kid that didn't like to ask question even if I don't understand what we were learning and that I was the kid that everyone picked on. I would be called every hateful word in the book since I never talked to anyone except a small group of kids that I called my closest friends. Going on to middle school I seemed to blend in more, but still kids just didn't respect enough. Although in high school I came out as gay and people that had once taunted me during elementary and middle school, had soon excepted me and even befriended me. All i could see still is that they were still somewhat disrespectful, if one thing that I said changed their minds about me.
ReplyDeleteSince the day I was fully able to understand the hurtful natures of certain individuals, my outlook and mentality inevitably changed. Like the author in the essay I chose, I also faced discrimination growing up and knew that I would have to overcome others opinions. I can recall my friend’s parents complementing my mother on how respectful and well mannered I was as a young child. I still carry those values and morals till this day. When I started to experiment with drugs at 14, my family immediately began to pass judgment. Although I was always able to maintain decent grades, my wild and crazy lifestyle was not accepted by most. When I graduated from HS, I knew I needed to join the service. There was a war that I needed to be involved with and I also knew the military would instill discipline. The discipline I have today has helped me become the man I am. Life will often challenge us in ways we do not always understand, however, we have the ability to dig deep within ourselves and pull positives from negatives. Point being, do not ever let anyone tell you that your dreams are not obtainable. Respect those around you regardless if they respect you of not. Teach your kids what you know in your heart to be true and just. Last, do not become a victim to others judgments or opinions.
ReplyDeleteI can feel the emotional connection inside your writing. You have a way of forcing the reader to visual context. I can relate to the wild and crazy lifestyle with the voice of judgment behind the ear. Is there a war that we are all facing within ourselves? I agree that anything is attainable. There are many barriers in the way of dreams. Questions that arise are, how important is this dream? What are we willing to sacrifice to obtain this dream? And who are we going to bring with us to help and aid this dream?
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