WHAT I LIKE
Sports
- Basketball
- Football
- Soccer
- Ultimate
- Snowboarding
- Wakeboarding
Outdoors
- Camping
o In the mountains
§ Need roads
§ Need camping spots
§ Need laws to protect forest and people that use it
o Campfires
§ Harmful to environment?
o Camping gear
§ Tents
§ Sleeping bags
§ Lanterns
§ Flashlights…
- Hiking
o Hiking gear
o Trails
- Fishing
o BLACK RIVER
§ Permits (fishing and camping)
§ Gear
· Poles, bait, jigs, lures, line
§ Roads to rivers
§ Camping equip (see camping)
§ Permit to go on reservation
§ Food
§ Lots of bears
§ Trash cans
- Boating
o Lake Powell
o Wakeboarding
o Gas
o Boating equip
- Four-wheeling
o Four wheelers
o Gas
o Trails
o
Music
- All-American Rejects
- Fall Out Boy
- Cake
- The Format
- Dashboard Confessional
- Jack Johnson
- The Starting Line
- Concerts
Food
- Mexican food
- Brazilian Food
Brazil
- People
- Culture
- Language
FACT
- What are Indian reservations and the restrictions that white people have to go on them and fish or hunt or camp?
- What are the injustices that both parties have?
- How did the reservations begin?
- What was the cause of reservations?
- Can these restrictions and injustices be changed?
DEFINITION
- What is an Indian reservation?
- What are the restrictions on fishing and camping on these reservations?
- What kind of injustices exist?
QUALITY
- How serious are the restrictions?
- How important are the restrictions?
- Are the restrictions just?
- Are the restrictions bad, right, wrong, and have they changed over time?
PROCEDURE
- Should restrictions be more severe or more lenient?
- How should they be carried out and enforced?
- Should the National or State governments be involved?
- What are some possible solutions that would benefit both parties, Indians and whites?
Right now I will be writing about a place where my friend and I go every year to fish. It is called Black River. It is located on an Indian reservation. Every year we have to get special camping and fishing permits that are expensive, more expensive than normal permits because they are within the Apache Indian Reservation. I want to see the cause and the effect of these reservations and how we can improve the Indian reservations. How did they turn out the way they are and why. Why can’t the non-Indians use the land also for our benefit? I will look into these questions and see if there is a solution that would improve things for both sides. Mainly I will be looking at the fishing and camping aspect of the reservations and a bit of hunting also. All should be able to use the resources and beauty of the land. I will research and see how it came to be that way and how we can use the land and share it so everyone can see the beauty that exists there.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Nov 3 Assignment - My thoughts
Coming into this year I had always heard of rhetoric but truly didn’t understand the word or the concept. Through this class and the assignments I have come to understand better the meaning and the use of rhetoric not only in advertising but in our daily lives. The rhetorical analysis was not the easiest thing I have done. It is difficult to critically analyze another person’s writing and see how their style and techniques worked or didn’t work.
This assignment was not the most joyful thing I have ever done. It took lots of thinking and just wasn’t very fun. It was boring as I went through the paper and listed the ethos, pathos, logos, audience, message, and speaker. Then writing the paper was difficult as I always like to put my own personal spin on things, but in a rhetorical analysis, this is very difficult. It just seemed like a really boring paper to me.
Although the work of writing this paper was tedious and not entertaining, I did learn a lot. I have learned how to recognize rhetoric and how commercials, articles, and everything that tries to persuade always focuses on a few major things. I can now identify those things as they relate to Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. I can see what things can work and what things don’t work at all. It has changed the way I look at life as I see what people do to try to persuade me to do what they want.
While I was writing the paper I remember thinking “How am I supposed to write 4 to 6 pages on this?” But as I began writing and really breaking down the article it seemed to come easier. I wrote my paper on imagery and how he used that to his advantage. The most difficult thing was saying that imagery either worked or didn’t work without using those exact words. I didn’t want to just say “using imagery in this way worked and persuaded the audience.” Or “Using this imagery didn’t work.” I need to still improve my paper and practice my critical analyzing skills.
I have also learned that I personally use rhetoric in my daily life. Any time I want anything I use rhetoric. I use different types of rhetoric on different people, depending on their personality. This shows that the audience plays a big role in the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos that the speaker uses to try to persuade the audience. I have seen the rhetoric triangle in my life and in all things. I can hardly watch a commercial now without thinking, “What is the message, speaker, and audience? What does he want me to do and what is he doing to persuade me to do it? Does it work?” This could get a little annoying as I am trying to relax and enjoy some college football on Saturday.
Rhetoric is a great tool that I will use for the rest of my life. Knowing how people try to persuade will help me in all aspects of my life. It was difficult to write 4 pages on somebody else’s article, but I learned a lot from doing it.
This assignment was not the most joyful thing I have ever done. It took lots of thinking and just wasn’t very fun. It was boring as I went through the paper and listed the ethos, pathos, logos, audience, message, and speaker. Then writing the paper was difficult as I always like to put my own personal spin on things, but in a rhetorical analysis, this is very difficult. It just seemed like a really boring paper to me.
Although the work of writing this paper was tedious and not entertaining, I did learn a lot. I have learned how to recognize rhetoric and how commercials, articles, and everything that tries to persuade always focuses on a few major things. I can now identify those things as they relate to Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. I can see what things can work and what things don’t work at all. It has changed the way I look at life as I see what people do to try to persuade me to do what they want.
While I was writing the paper I remember thinking “How am I supposed to write 4 to 6 pages on this?” But as I began writing and really breaking down the article it seemed to come easier. I wrote my paper on imagery and how he used that to his advantage. The most difficult thing was saying that imagery either worked or didn’t work without using those exact words. I didn’t want to just say “using imagery in this way worked and persuaded the audience.” Or “Using this imagery didn’t work.” I need to still improve my paper and practice my critical analyzing skills.
I have also learned that I personally use rhetoric in my daily life. Any time I want anything I use rhetoric. I use different types of rhetoric on different people, depending on their personality. This shows that the audience plays a big role in the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos that the speaker uses to try to persuade the audience. I have seen the rhetoric triangle in my life and in all things. I can hardly watch a commercial now without thinking, “What is the message, speaker, and audience? What does he want me to do and what is he doing to persuade me to do it? Does it work?” This could get a little annoying as I am trying to relax and enjoy some college football on Saturday.
Rhetoric is a great tool that I will use for the rest of my life. Knowing how people try to persuade will help me in all aspects of my life. It was difficult to write 4 pages on somebody else’s article, but I learned a lot from doing it.
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