ARCS Pg. 364 1 & 4

1.) Tropes

From Sports Illustrated: The All New King Cobra L5V Driver. Cobra's longest, straightest driver ever, with no adjustable settings to optimize ball flight.
From Sports Illustrated: The King Cobra Baffler DWS Utility Metal. The club that does everything can now do more.
From Sports Illustrated: All New '09 F-150. Man, trailers are like Wild Animals. They're always trying to get away from you.

3.) Hi Mr Freemat my name is Michael Ast, I talked to you with Jessica
Kinley before class on Thursday. I was wondering if you could reopen
homework 7 for me. I have completed and submitted all of the other
ones including homework 8 to this point. I also have attended almost
every class excep 1 or 2 of them so far. You can check on any of the sign in
sheets you passed out after some people left following the mid class
breaks. My name should be on all of them. Thanks

ARCS Pg. 318 2 & 3

2.) I decided to review the most recent major speech given by a presidential candidate. This is the concession speech given by the Republican candidate John McCain. In his speech McCain displayed narratives, partitions, and perorations.

From the start he provides his narrative topic by saying that even after a long and hard fought campaign the American people have spoken and decided to elect Barak Obama. He states this in the lines "My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love."

After stating the point of his speech McCain moves onto to label the partitions. These are the arguments that him and Obama may have as well as the issues they still disagree on. He does this to speak to his followers that he is still loyal to them and will keep his beliefs. McCain wanted to make it clear he still feels he would have made a better president but that Obama won and there is nothing he can do about it. This summed up when McCain said "Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country, and I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face. I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited."

Finally McCain closes things out by concluding his speech. Doing this is an example of his peroration. The peroration is summing up all of the major points discussed through out the speech. McCain does this when stating "I would not be an American worthy of the name, should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone and I thank the people of Arizona for it.
Tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama, I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here."

3.) Shapiro may need to adjust her language depending on who her audience was. Knowing your audience is one of the most important things for any writer to be aware of. However most people want to actually learn the issues and discover the news so it may ruin the quality of her work to dumb down or simplify any of the information she would want to include in her work. I do not see a problem with her writing but there certainly could be more sensitive people would prefer a lighter less harsh approach.

Freewrite - Final Project

For my project I am focusing on the fact that my subjects career is one of a professional writer and editor. I will be examining his job to determine his writing process. My research is similar to that of Jack seltzers since we are both investigating a subject while learning more about a career in general. In my project I will include an explanation for what exact steps he goes through when writing. This is similar to when Seltzer explained his need to use a rough draft.

ARCS Pg. 283 2 & 4

2.) Using the senses is something very important in certain aspects of writing. Each of the sense can play a major role in providing descriptions. It is important to use sensory details when describing an object or person in a paper or essay. One of the senses that I feel is the most unique and complicated is the sense of smell. The sense of smell is interesting to me because it can differ depending on the person and situation. Most everything that has a taste has a smell. However not everything that tastes good smells good. Certain foods such as mushrooms or spinach do not have the best of smells but there are some people that enjoy the tastes. You can not just rely on the smell of something in order to determine if it will also have a positive taste. When a person is trying a new food they usually smell it first to attempt to picture if it will be worth it to try. It is even common for someone to to claim that they do not like a food because it smells bad when in reality they may have not ever have tasted that same food.

4.) I have found it that incorporating sources is one of the toughest parts of writing. Usually I know what I want to say quickly and how it will fit in my paper but until I relate the statement back to a source it is not credible. If the source is not reliable then my sentence could lose credibility. I tend to spend more time researching my ideas even when at times I already know them to be fact. For this paper sources are not as important, however, it is necessary for me to conduct an interview with the subject so that my information can be traced back to my report. I plan to use quotes from my interview portion and even comments made by my subject while I was observing him writing.

ARCS Pg. 186

Elvis has left the building

Elvis is no longer in the location

Elvis is gone

The end

Ancient Rhetorics Pg. 153 4 & 5

4.) Recently with our economy's struggles there has been the idea of a bailout plan. This plan is designed to help out the stock market and therefor save the economy from falling any further. I understand the main purpose of this and why it is being done but I am not clear on the inner workings and thoughts behind this. Why was this brought up from what seemed out of nowhere and why was this being pushed so hard without warning? A bill such as this one is something that usually is discussed and argued for a while before going through. It was not long after it was first talked about at least by the media that it was being voted on. How long was this plan in the works and underground before being brought to our attention. Could this have been done earlier in a lesser form to avoid even having a need for a bailout? Of course if the economy was not as bad as it is right now this idea would not even be considered but since it is why are there not other possibilities being offered?. A news story such as this is something that can affect everyone and is influential to our society as a whole. Going through this topic heuristically has allowed me to develop several more arguments that expand on my original thoughts about the subject. This type of topic is never ending.

5.) In the news media there are publications or stations that have there own agenda and lean one direction over the other. This fact affects how they report the news and what stories they may discuss or leave off. The presidential election is a perfect example of this. A conservative station such as FOX News would depict the Republican candidate John McCain in a positive light and the Democratic nominee Barak Obama in a negative one as often as possible. This is to try to persuade its viewers to agree with them and teach them about things that would direct them into that path. FOX compared to CNN which is considered more liberal will focus more on Obama's connection with Bill Ayers while CNN and Larry King may cover it but try to emphasise how that is not someone he still associates with and how long ago that was. FOX most likely would counter that by including numerous segments storying there connection to each other and why it is important for the American people to be aware of it especially now. It is important for each person to be informed and watch both stations with this knowledge and to be able to view them with an open mind. Both programs incorporate an intelligent way of covering the election but just like the candidates themselves have opinions that the viewer may not always agree with. Understanding this reality will help people better know all of the issues and then give them a chance to make a smart developed opinion on everything.

Specifying Analysis of Data

After reviewing all of the readings and people we have studied to this point I have been able to learn several different methods of how to analyze the materials for my research. I now can look over the materials and know exactly what documents would be better suited for persuasion and which ones would work well by just asking more questions. It seems that most of the materials for my project should be analyzed similar to how Pryor would. I am looking into the writing process of my subject and how his writing compares to my own. This means I will be interpreting what type of writing and how my subject went about composing the document. I May also be taking direct quotes from his work to explain his audience and why he wrote a certain way. It may help me to better develop a conclusion and to persuade my readers that my subject is indeed a professional writer. Going back and figuring out where he acquired the knowledge he needed to write the document and why he chose to include some language while excluding other terms and phrases.