What is a blog: a new look

A blog is a place where others can give their view on a certain subject and view others opinions and then comment on them to show other how others think on the subjects of the time. Some of the blogs that were the most interesting to me were the ones were you really had to think about the topic. Those were: if black English isn’t English then what is, middle schoolers get the pill, the fallacies, and the looking back on the two papers and seeing what we could have done better to make the paper an even better paper.
When responding to the different posts by the others in class, I had to keep an open mind about it. I know not every one in class has the same views on the different subjects as me. So I had to see how they presented their views and then I would say what I liked about the post then I would say what I did not like about the post. The blogs that were the most interesting for me to read were the ones belonging to Baeley, Cari, Elijah, and Ben. Those were the most insightful blogs and they really put their emotions and views into the post, which was fun for me to read. The responders that I liked were the ones listed and the teacher. They agreed and made me think about my view of the issue which most people cannot do or try to do.
Over the semester the blogs got more and more in-depth and more thought provoking and that was a way for me to share my views with others that are at the same intellectual stage as I am. Though some did not agree with me and some did, this has given me a new out-look on how I see the world. Though the blogs themselves were not that hard, they made you think and some of the topics were “eye openers”. The real eye openers were: the web site analysis, middle schoolers get the pill, and if black English isn’t English then tell me what is. Those were shocking to see how in today’s world that the young are getting more rebellious which in turn makes our country look like a place were we do not care what happens to our young. Also that we are so short sighted when it comes to the origins of others that we forget that they have their own language and we torn them away from it.
So this semester has come and gone with amazing speed, it feels like January when we first began the fun and now its April and we are closing in on finals and the summer. So what have I learned from posting blogs. I have learned that it may not be that every one thinks that I’m an odd person, it’s that what I say and post makes it seem like that. I have also learned to keep and open mind about the different topics and to think thoroughly through them to see what cannot be seen. So in the future I know that there is more the story then the headlines, there is the story that we need to find by searching and by thinking.

Democratic presidents race

In this years Democratic Presidents race we have two canidates running for the nomination to go up agianst republican hopeful John McCain, the two hopeing for the nomination are Barack Obama and Hiliary Clinton. Barack Obama is in a very huge position because not only his he an African American but he also muslim. So he has most if not all of the african voters voting for him in every state in the union. Not to mention that he is one very powerful speaker which also brings in the votes of the white voters. Hiliary Clinton is the second or third women to run for President, though, i think, she is the first women to have gotten down to the final two of the party. We all know her by her husband former President Bill Clintion. Hilary carries most of the women voters because if she beats Obama in the convention then she stands a very good chance to become the first women president of the United States. Both Obama and Clinton are both very string people and very big symbols for both of their groups because the african american and women groups have barely had came into the political sight in the american nation and which ever one goes up against McCain will show that any one from any back ground can become one of the most powerful people in the world today.

Prospectus

Very general, almost no spporting information.

Doesn't say what minor and major plagiarism is.

Author did not do much research for this paper.

If Black English Isn't A Language, What is?

James Baldwin brings to light the fact that most people may speak the same NATIONAL language but can mean different things because they are from different areas. The example that he uses to explain this is people from Paris, Marseilles, Quebec, Guadeloupe, Manique and Senegal, Mr. Baldwin show that even though they all speak the same language, french, they could all mean something completely different then what the others have said. Even here in America, white citizens have changed the meaning of black words to suit their own purposes such as changing "jazz me, baby" to the Jazz Age. Even blacks that were forced to come over as slaves could bearly speak to each other because different tribes have different ways of talking and their words mean something different. It was in this time that blacks started to learn how t talk to eachother so the black church was started and so did "black english".

Mr. Baldwin also says "A language come into exstence by means of brutal necessity, and the rules of the language are dictated by what the language must convey." Through out history many things have been created out necessity, but nothing is more inportant then a language for you and others like you can speak. Mr. Baldwin makes a very good point at the end of this piece "it may very well be that both the child, and his elder, have concluded that they have nothing whatever to learn from people of a counrty that has managed to learn so little." This comment strikes true becuase since America says that it is diverse, then why don't we know more and know how to communicate with others from a different background.

Sources

http://www.nraila.org/GunLaws/

This source shows the United States and when a state is clicked the states gun laws comes up so it is easy to naviagate. The site is very up to date because with newer laws coming in to play the cite has to up date. The owner of the cite is the NRA/ILA. It is a very good site for any looking for information about the NRA or the gun laws of a certain state. The site also has information on how to become a member of the NRA.

Right to Fail

Success and failure walk hand in hand with each other. Every one in the world has a right to see and feel what failure is like. Any one who says that they have not failed at anything is either very lucky or is lying, even some of the nations presidents have failed in way or another. If one fails then that person learns from their failures. One time in my life that I can remember that I felt like I failed was when my parents pulled me out of karate. I was 4 belts away from being able to test for my first degree black belt. I really wanted to say that I achieved something that I really wanted at that age. Since my parents were also taking karate lessons and did not like the fact that some things were changed with no warning, they decided that we did not belong and pulled out, with me with them. When I asked them why they did it, they said that they felt that I was not learning anything. The truth was far from that, I was learning more then they knew. They knew that I was very committed to it and that I would love nothing less then to receive the black belt. As the years have gone by, I often look back and think “I failed, I should have fought to stay in, I failed” though at the same time thinking “I want to go back, I want to get that belt”. Maybe a day will come that I will go back and get the one thing that I failed to get, or I may end up seeing that I am in a sense a black belt in my own way. All I know is that that is that I have never forgotten what happened all those years ago.

CRAAP Test

For the CRAAP test I choose DHMO.org/milk.html. For the C (currency) the website does not show any dates of any attetions to the site. Nor does it show when the site was first made. For the R (relevance) it brings to light the use of Dihydrogen Monoxide in the milk industry. The first A (authority) the site was created by the United States Enviromental Assessment Center, that all it says, thats the organizations. The Accuracy is dead on because some famers do add DHMO to the milk, but that does not help the people drinking the milk. The Purpose is very clear it is used to inform us to about the dangers of DHMO in the dairy industry.

Fallacies

The first fallacie I chose is Appeal to Emotion (Argumentum Ad Misericordiam) and the article I chose is how Ecuadorian Prsident Rafael Chavez calls Columbian raids as War Crimes. The article goes on to say how President Chavez asked for international help and the Organization of the United States called the raids an attack on Ecuadorian sovereignty.

The second fallacie is the Appeal to Force (Argumentum Ad Baculum) though it is not violent, but in the buissness and political world it is. The article is on how Lawmakers are threatening to kill a tanker deal with the US Air Force. The Pentagon did not explain clearly enough why it was trying to form a partnership between Northrop Grumman and the partent group or Airbus, instead of Boeing. I understand why the House Appropriations Committee is doing this, Boeing has been the number one heavy aircraft factory since WW2.

The third fallacie is the Appeal to Improper Authority (Argumentum Ad Verecundium) though he is not famous by our but in Northern Ireland he is. Peter Robinson is the favored to be the next prodistent leader in Northern Ireland, he lead a mob attack on boarder town. Some of the press in the area say he is the best to gather the power that Ian Paisley holds as the current but out going leader.

All these fallacies have some parts to play in world politics, relations, and in buissness. All of these could be argued and discussed for a long time, though some may not have an interest about these topics/articles.

google news

Middle-Schoolers Get the Pill

This article brings to light the fact that middle high school girls are being aloud with out parental consent. It’s a known fact that kids are maturing at a younger age and are becoming more sexually active then generations before them. This article, in a way, brings to light both sides of this issue. The sides are we should allow these girls to do so and the other side is more traditional and presents a more conservative view on the matter.

The first side is for these girls doing this BUT safely. It says that if these girls want to get the pill all they have to do is see the health center to get ONLY after an extensive questioning by the health center personal. Because most of these girls are immigrants or poor kids and are very sexually active. Most of which are 14 and 15 years old and in the eighth grade and the school district is trying to make it easier for lower ended girls to get the pill to have safer sex.

The other side is against these girls having sex until they are much older. This side is pushing abstinence until they are older and wiser about the dangers of having sex. This side is the old fashion conservative side of the political scale and is considered “Puritanical theocrats.”

Both sides show very similar sides and arguments that can be argued until we are all blue in the face. Middle school girls in this time are more concerned about being treated like adults then they are there age. This kid of thinking is very dangerous because this is how older men, which some times are predators, see and act upon. Girls of ANY age should consider that the risk is not worth it and wait until they know the dangers and can deal with the consequences of sex at a young age.

Rhetorical Analysis

The mistakes in my Analysis essay can be fixed very easily and with time. Basically all it is just grammer and structuring, also some punctuation errors. Just little things here and there and my paper would have been grader better. Some of it was putting in or leaving minor things out of the paper that should have or not have been in my paper. The main one was citing the page number, I put it in where it should not have been, and left it out where it was needed: (185) or not in at all. Another thing that I can fix is the connection of the writing with ethos, logos, pathos and the use of the rhetorical triangle in the paper. I also have to keep my personal opinons out of it and keep my mind on the assignment. I have to keep an eye out for sentence fragments so that i do not get points taken off from the final grade. So its just minor little things here and there and i will take the time to fix them and get a better grade.

Synthesis

The Banking Concept of Education by Paulo Freire and The Allegory of the Cave from The Republic, BookVII by Plato make very good points for being written hundreds to thousands of years apart. The way Plato taught was when ever one of his students made a comment or gave an answer, he would challenge it to make them think and to have the student suppost what they said with facts. Some teachers in today's society do not do this because they do not want to hurt the students feelings by challenging what they said. Paulo points out ten teaching ideals that were or are still in practice, these ideals shape an image that the student is a mindless robot that should do as told to do, nothing good can come from this way of teaching. Plato would have open disscusions to MAKE his students think, discuss, and present different ideas and methods. Yet despite their differences, poth pieces share some common themes. They both show how if a teacher is willing to be open to their students and if the students are willing to open their minds to different ways of thinking, then anything is possible.

PADI: Professional Association of Diving Instructors

This site to me is not just another scuba diving site, its a site that shows that any one can do it. The logos is well done in my opinon, when you open the site you see a person with a mask, fins, snorkel, and a "toy"(for us scuba divers) but it is a underwater hand held propeller. The women is surrounded by 3 dolphins. To the left of the screen there are the language selections so people of other nations may read it with ease. The pathos is one heck of a hit, the fact that three dolphins are playfully swimming around a person in their natural habitat. Also the water is extremely clear and clean which adds to the pathos. Ethos, well PADI is a world wide suba diving company. All scuba divers have PADI certification cards which is needed to do alot of the dives so that the dive master and others know that you have been trained and certified to a certain level of diver. So I feel that this site has some of the best visual and other factors that add to its beauty.

Mother Tongue

Amy Tan's piece called "Mother Tongue" focuses on what it was like writing and learning english when her mother only spoke Chinese. Some of you may know of Amy Tan by her book "The Joy Luck Club". I think that she is trying to reach out people that lived in one nation then moved to a completely new nation and had to learn the native language to assilate into the nation and to get around with no problems. Even though some people do learn and get around people do not treat them right just because they are from a different country. We need to treat those from another country as if they were from the the country that we live in so that they feel like the are at home. This piece may also be aimed at parents that are to entrenched with the lives they had and are unwilling to change to a new life. Some parents fear change and would fight like there is no tomorrow to keep their lives the same.

Blogs: What they could and should be

A blog should be a way to share information in a logical mannor. So when we respnd to each others blogs we should try to respond in a polite mannor. Blogs should also be a fun expiriance for all of us. Any how uses profanity or any other inpolite words should be banned from blogging and forced to miss the points that these blogs are. So I ask you to be nice when posting on my page, please be nice and I will be nice to your pages when I am posting on your pages. So thats what I think what a blog could and should be in the academic world and in the world out side the academic world. So bring on your posting and lets try to have a grown up discussions and tyr not to hurt feelings and or kill each other over these blogs and lets have a great year. I will be adding more to may page so you can get a better idea on who I am and where I come from.