In Class: Freewrite

So, I am sitting in class today and I cant help but think about how close the semester is to being over. The semester seemed to blow by so fast. I am happy because I am supposed to graduate in May and thats exciting. But other than that, I am tired as always. It seems that I cant ever get any good sleep, because either Im up late doing a paper or project or presentation, or either im reading four or five chapters for a class for the next day. And then its right back up at 8am. I am so ready for the mini-mester because I get a 3 week break from football, and from school. All I really have to do is NOTHING! That looks terrific just typing it. I dont know what I am going to do on my extended break! Good times....

Unit 3 Proposal

The topic we chose was the issue of childhood obesity in America. We would like to argue that having a healthy diet and exercising more will help this obesity issue, in the sense that if the parents create these habits, then their children will be akin to them and improve their quality of life. We decided that a newspaper article would be a good medium to reach most obese adults that could channel the information to children and overall help the issue in our nation. The newspaper article would run in a newspaper in a known obese city. The second argument will come in the form of a comic strip that discusses improving a child's life using emotional appeals, and cartoons are something everyone can grasp, especially younger people. The third argument is a bumper sticker using humor to get the point across. This argument is one that we normally do not think about, but it is a pertinent and continually persuasive element in our "driven" society. As a group we will hope that we can put together these arguments effectively, along the lines of the issue at hand. Other than that, we are ready to rock out.

In Class Free Write:

Within Unit 3, there are a few questions that I feel like must be answered. The main thing that pops out to me is about the content and purpose. I feel like this is one of the most important aspects of the entire unit. It speaks on the purpose of the visual text and what kind of argument it is creating and whit it is supposed to convey. This is what the viewer will probably be thinking about when first looking at the visual and it will essentially play upon ethos, pathos, and logos appeals. I think this is what the purpose of most visual texts are intended for. To draw the viewer in and make them start to make assumptions, and be able to tie those assumptions into their own character and values.

Title in my group

I think I amlabled as the researcher in my group. Well Tripp and I are like co-head researchers if you will. But yea, this should be interesting to see how it plays out. We have narrowed our topic down to child obesity and feel that it would be a good topic to look into. So hopefully it will be good. Enjoy!!!

In class: Free write

The different roles that I think people will play in this group could vary. I believe their will be designated members for different things. Such as recorders, time keepers, techy people, maybe a group leader. I think that as a group we should all know what type of role we will be playing for the betterment of the group project. By this we can all work in conjunction to make things run smoothly.


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In Class: Freewrite

All of my 3 texts fit together because they all speak about Oscar Pistorious. They talk about the situation that he was faced with and they all offered their seperate opinions on what they thought the outcome should be. They are all the same because they state a side of the situation that say why he should or shouldnt be able to compete in the olympic games. These texts are vital because they show how people feel about this controversial situation and also how handicapped people are viewed in some sense. The texts are different in some ways because they offer reasons behind why he should be able to run and reasons why he shouldnt be able to run. Also I had a video clip that was a humorous side to the entire situation but still portrayed and chose a side to why he should be able to run. This video clip kind of played on the emotinal appeal of the situation. Though it was humorous, it still made you think about how a man with no legs was disqualified before he was even qualifed to run... If that makes sense. The unstated arguments that are informing these articles are those of handicap people are suppose to be able to be apart of anything they choose. They should be givin a fair chance at any able bodied competition if they are in a position to be able to do so. What i mean is if they are capable and good enough to compete with normal bodied people, then they should be given the opportunity to do so. Other unstated assumptions are that only the greatest athletes in the world should be able to compete in the olympic games. With these 3 arguments together i think the world has a state of assertion that seperates what an athlete should look like. I know we have the paraolympics and the special olympics. But what if those olypics are just not competitive enough for particualr athletes? there is no higher level than competing with able bodied humans. This world tryies to put everyone in a certain category just by the outter layer of a person. I believe we live in a world of assertion by the count of these texts. But I also believe that we have a strong holding of people to stand up for someone when we see something is not being handled correctly.

In Class: Freewrite Unit 2 HELLLLPPPP

Well im sitting in class on Tuesday March 3rd at 9:37 am and we have a free write. Well I think I want to write about how confused I am over Unit 2. I don't know whats going on, I don't know what we have to do for the unit, and I really don't know how to pick a topic and think rhetorically. I am just lost and confused. Somebody HELLLLPPPPP!!! No but really, I think I have somewhat of an idea of how to think and write rhetorically, I think my problem is the way and the kind of topic we supposed to choose, and where to look for it. I don't know what the difference between primary and secondary (if thats what they are called). Really I just don't know. So if anyone happens to read this blog and have any advice to offer. Just post and help me out. This is going to be an interesting unit. Lol, its always interesting when you are going in head first and don't know what you are doing....