Why Write Response to Arguments

This reading was very interesting in how it put many things into an analogy. The first read was about how you are to separate your paper and compares it to a sandwich that you put in your lunch pale. This was a unique way to put your paper even though this analogy has been used by teachers nation wide. One thing that stood out to me in the next section was when it was talking about emotion and it said that it was hard to control emotion. This is so true because so many writers put very intense words into a sentence that could go without any intense words and vise versa. This is very good advice when writing a paper because we try to use really big words and it could be so much better if we were to use simple words. Then at the end it says we have to find a balance and it just says that a balance of ethos, pathos, and logos can really transform a paper and make it even better. In the argument section it talks about choosing a good argument and know both sides of it. You really need to focus on this in an argument because if you are completely biased on one side, you will not know what the other side is going to throw at you. The rest of the reading focused a lot on arguing and bringing up a good point and in my paper about obesity it is going to be difficult in knowing what both sides present. 

My research topic: Pros and Cons

What i am going to write about for my arguments paper is about obesity. I find this a very interesting topic because it is talked about so much in our society. There are two sides to this topic and one of those sides is the side of that obesity is a disease that a lot of people struggle with. This side talks more about how obesity affects the brain as well as the body and people cannot help it. Research says that people who seem to be obese have certain tissue that produces certain molecules and increases the percentage of fat in the body. The other side of this topic is the side of obesity not being a disease to people and that is the side that i am supporting. This side seems to make so much more sense because it shows that obesity mainly comes from dietary decisions and shows that it can be controlled. I grew up in a house of big eaters and i was a very chunky kid when i was little. My mom seemed to let me eat whatever i want because according to my two older brothers i would grow up and be fit. But the problem to this was that i was A LOT bigger than my brothers were and so my mother changed the way i eat and i slimmed down and began to grow. This is just one example supporting that obesity mainly comes from the way we eat and our decisions. Obesity CAN be controlled and is not a disease.

Analysis of Rhetorical Paper

I feel like this assignment went really well for me. The fact is that i went to the writing center and that helped me a lot as well as the people who revised it. I also felt like i could relate to Martin Luther King. He is my homie and i have mad respect for the guy. He stood up for what he believed in and if i were black i would be right behind him.. word

"I have a dream" that i can write a good paper

Well my rhetorical analysis is on "I have a dream" given by Martin Luther King Jr.. I know that probably a couple other people in the class are doing this same one but i dont really care. I am coming along quite nicely and it is fairly easy because his speech is chalk full of good rhetorical stuff and i feel like i can knock this freakin paper out of the park... just sayin

"On Natural Death", My Rhetorical Source analytical snapshot

"On Natural Death" is a very interesting, informative essay written by Lewis Thomas which gives many perspectives on life and death. The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader of how death is to be looked at for humans against things such as a tree or a little mouse. He starts off by comparing to an elm tree about death and how it is to feel nothing when it dies and then people come and clean up the mess. He then moves on to the example of a mouse in the jaws of a house cat. He expresses how the mouse has a different way of dying than that of the tree. The central message of this essay is that death is looked at in many different ways and no matter how much to try to avoid death, Mother Nature will still get you no matter what you try to do. The world view of Lewis Thomas is simple and that is that life is a valuable thing and we should cherish it but no matter what we do we will have to face the facts and accept mother nature while she is to take our life. He also used many different tools and one of those tools was the examples of little things such as a mouse for us to realize that even little things might feel pain. Another one he uses is evidence from Montaigne, who was a famous writer and he uses some of his work. This is a great story on how you can look on life and pain and really caught my interest because i have had family members pass away and it really changed my views.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

At first i thought this was just going to be another boring story about Martin Luther King jr. rambling on about civil rights that you just had to read in middle school. About halfway through the first page it hooked me and he started using a lot of analogies relating to many different things. He began to use a lot of emotions from the beginning and it started when he talked about how if you were in a black person's position you wouldn't be able to tell your daughter why white people hate black people or why she could not even go outside. This really connects to the parents as well as the teenagers because they will soon have to raise kids of their own. The next huge factor to this letter was the logical and this was evident in the fact that he would basically admit that he was wrong but at the same time he would persecute the court for what they were doing. An example is when he admits that he does not like the "white moderner" at all and society has made them into devils. This is logic because he admits what he is thinking and also refers to the community and the judges. The last big contributor to this letter that makes it unique was the ethical appeal to the story. This was used very cleverly through the fact of describing what the black people had to go through as well as other people from different countries. It was amazing what the African Americans had to do just to get a little bit of freedom or even walk into a diner. This was an amazing outlook from an African American especially Martin Luther King and show us how he was feeling.

What Christians Believe Analytic Snapshot

This is an amazing perspective on the Christian faith written by C.S. Lewis. The outlook presented is amazing while he gives a genre of persuasive as well as personal experience. He begins by telling that he was raised an atheist but then converted to Christianity later in life which totally switched his perspective of God and his creations. The purpose of this was to show how the world looks at Christianity and to show what people are thinking about what Christians believe and what they look at. He gives an amazing message by putting the perspectives of good versus evil into play such as telling that if someone is only exposed to evil and can never really be revealed to good, he can never really tell the difference and only sees evil as good. He also talks about God and his creation of the earth and all that is in it and also gave everything and everyone free will which persuades the reader to think that even if something is bad, it had the choice to be that way. After reading this argument and persuasion, it seems that C.S. Lewis was leaning a lot towards how the world has so many views of Christianity and even if you are to bring up a subject that you think is not true, there is always someone to counter-attack that argument. According to this it seems his world view is shifted a lot towards everybody has their own ideas and should support it all the way and that God has given us agency. He then brings up the New Testament and the example of the evils and murmuring of evils in it to support his ideas of evil and good. I personally believe that this is true in many ways that the world has so many different views and some even have a lot of truth in them.