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.