RA Reflection

In my rhetorical analysis paper on Arab Image, I did as good as I had hoped to on it. I realize this is not an easy class, so for me to recieve what I did I was very proud of myself. A couple of things that worked on my paper was using the books quotes while helping get my point across, and using specific detail and points that helped to get the athors point across as well. These two things really helped to strengthen the paper in my opinion and they will definetly be something that I try to go back to in the future while writing.

When I say using the book for it quotes to help my point, I dont mean that I wrote my paper in first person. What I mean when I say this is that by using the authors context It helped me to express in my writing what my goal of doing this specific topic was. My goal in a nut shell, was to inform the readers out there not to ignorantly discriminate an entirety of another race, because of one major instance. . I feel like I did well on informing my readers about valid arguments and what reasons there were that made the discrimination and racism so ignorant. When someone tells another person not to do something. Unless in some cases it is their parent, elder, or just someone they look up to, then they have the tendency of just brushing it off, and doing as they please. But when you inform another person as to why they shouldnt do something for whatever reason and you put a certain sense of clairity and reasoning on it, then they might be more anept to remember what you say. If you are lucky enough to get your point across then they might even possibley even change their ways.

A couple of parts of my paper I really need to work on for next time is my organization skills, as well as my language use and mechanics. These are the two things I did not do as well in. I think my language use was off because a few of the words I chose did'nt fit very well into the sentecne, or my interpretation of the meaning was off. That is ok though, becaue it taught me now to better understand the true concept and meaning of some of those words that i may not have understood befor. As for my organization, I know I could have improved on this if I would have just spent extra time looking at my paper and trying to put peices of it in other places that would have made more sense. Or maybe even taking a couple of parts out. I also feel like it might not have help the readers attention very well at some points. But like I mentioned earlier, it betters me for next time.

Plato And Freir

When Plato and Freir express their ponts and views about ignorance and education, they do it in very different ways that are equally very affective. When plato writes his ideas in “llegory of the Cave” it is about a man who has lived in a cave his entire life and that is all that he knows how to comprehend. He has spent almost all of his education reading the writings on the wall. When Frier write in “The Banking Concept of Education” it is more about his views in an analasys setting and focuses on the learning between the teacher and the student. It also questions how much is actually getting through. In both writings the author make different points, but both create the same idea when they question what knowledge really is and the reality of what we know.

These authors have very powerful writing tacting and form their opinions very well. Plato has such strong imagery in his, i feel as though im watching what he's writing. He uses this to get the readers imagination moving and also in a sense help the reader to better understand and comprehend what he says. Frier though, does not use these same tactics. He is more about giving facts and factuals details in his synthasis that can also help him, because it makes his points more believable, and also gets the reader thinking.

Both authors have a smart sense of writing that is obvious to the readers, they both make very good points on why humans should question all knowledge. If it is not proven to be a fact, than who is to say its true. Both authors enhance ones mind and get them going on questioning everything. What is the actual difference between truth and fact? Why believe what a credible source says based on his word? Why believe our government? Especially when they have been proven to falsify facts they have told us before. Do people really want the truth? Or do they just want to feel content, and secure?

Synthesis

In the documentary Roger and Me Michael Moore trys to demonstrate a lot of loss and misfortune in the town of Flint, Michigan. He does this by showing what it is like when the people of Flint lose wat the town would call a prize posession. The town could see it that way because it was one of their main money making sources.

In the online journal it reads that the United States encountered a large misfortune as well dealing with money issue, only this time it affected millions more people. The author of this journal explained the losses, but also the recovery and made it sound a bit more optomistic to the reader.

Their perspectives put together lead the reader to believe that all it takes is one drastic change in a lifestyle or in the case location, for things to become surreal and abnormal. When putting these together the reader can start to grasp the idea and the theory that almost any place with out the right recources and money has a great chance of falling under. In both pieces it does mention the people and the administration of them both striving to mediate the situation, because it is all they know to do.

Weak U.S. Recovery

In the journal titled Weak U.S. Recovery, it begins by talking about the Cold War and how when the troops arrived back home there was a dramatic loss of jobs and money. The defence and reasoning was put on spending for the Cold War. Because of this, unemployment had increased to 7.8 percent and had then recieved the reputation of "jobless recover". A passage from the journals says, "The news, however, was not all bad. By mid-1993 almost two million new jobs had been added to the U.S. economy, and by August unemployment had fallen to 6.7%." Although the workers were offered many more jobs there were still flaws in the system. With the millions of jobs being offered, there were millions of dissipointed U.S. citizens. "Fewer laid-off workers were being called back to their old jobs because those jobs had disappeared for good. In addition, the kinds of positions workers had to choose from were in many ways less attractive than those offered in the past." For someone to come across a well paid job, was simply said as difficult. Because of the troubles the U.S. was suffering the Clinton administration had proposed a few new ideas to help fill the pot holes that the war had pounded into the U.S. Economy. One way was with the national apprentice program that the administration had made. This program helped train the United states youth with a variety of skills such as, computer programming. Activities like this were promising to the U.S.' future because it was told to be making one of its first huge break throughs for its time.

This article reminded me of 'Roger and Me' because in both pieces there was an unexpected flaw in the system that winded up putting enormous dampers on large amounts of people in a very quick amount of time. In the documentary Roger and Me, the town of Flint encounters an unexpected but very crucial loss of jobs formed by a closing of their General Motors Factory closing, and in the article Weak U.S. Recovery the entire United States felt the same type of unemployment wrath, but this time created by the war. In both instances their was a main event from a specific dependance that the area focused and depended on. Meaning, the town of Flint relied on GM Factories as one of its major money suppliers and just as much of a money loser. That same concepts goes along with the United states and the war.



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Roger and Me

In the documentary Roger and Me, By Michael Moore, the General Motor's factories closed and layed off thousands of Flint Residents. The city of Flint then built a multi-million dollar mall with an indoor ferris wheel, in which they also added a Luxury Hyatt hotel that was meant to pull in more tourists. They thought that adding these attractions would help the city of Flint's cashflow. The Flint residents made very large commitments to help their hometown, by trying to think up all kinds of ideas and events to make themselves and their town money.

When over 30,000 auto workers lost their jobs it put a large damper on the community because that not only minimizes the towns wages, but minimizes its economy as a whole.Just one example of this would be like when a lot of people in a major community go under it sucks the town down with them, because its not only jobs going under and the workers finances, but it then starts affecting things like the schooling around that area and when the schooling gets worse the childrens learning environment starts to take a plunge as well. This can then affect the childrens interest in school and can sometimes lead them to be more prone to violence and other illegal activities.

The main reason Flint is in such a bad condition all goes back to the GM factory. When a city like flint takes such a huge hit by all the job losses it did it is hard to recooperate and fix the damage that has been done. Like stated in the first paragraph they have done a lot of different things to try and rebuild Flint and make it into a better place. Sadly, but true for a city to work and be successful it needs money for fuel. This day in age that same statement applies to almost everything.

Passing Before Life's Very Eyes

The very first part of pathos I noticed in Wolfgangs comic was visual with the guy throwing up in the casket. It reached my emotions because I felt like that was so crazy that someone would be so disrespectful as to throw up not only at a dead mans funeral, but in his casket! The next part of visual pathos I saw was when the man was going back through his life in alternate forms and seeing things like his child first learning how to walk, and then when he was playing catch with his son. Those are some very heart felt moments in a persons life.

In the next section there was a good part that shows more of a linguistic side of pathos. That is when he is flying with himself as a child going through memory lane and his younger self and he explains how people view heaven and he says, "Some folks choose the "Light at the end of the tunnel/dead relatives" package, others ride and albino tiget into the sky with Elvis. We've opted for good ol' "Life for before your very eyes! Memory lane special!" And after I read that I was like "wow" thinking death would be the same for everyone, but the author makes it out like you actually have a choice.

Then towards the end of the comic there was a part where he speaks about death and after he dies, saying 'everyone turns merely into worm food.' Then he starts to say "But i've been good my whole life.. where is my pay off?" And his younger self lets him know that, "living a life of dignity is its own reward." Overall he shows the reader a unique view about life after death by using open minded visuals and descriptive language in his pathos.

The Southland

The Southland was written by Henry miller. The Southland is rich in history and culture. The south is a great place to visit and live. But since the south suffered a great loss in the civil war it had to be rebuilt and is now a "new south" with all the old charm. The pathos that Miller uses is the devistation that the south suffered during the civil war. With Ethos Miller mentions how he is from the south and sees the old battle feils and monuments daily. And as for Logos Miller uses the facts from the war and even before to help his audience understand the southern atittude.