"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. 

"Veil of Fears" Analytic snapshot

The “Veil of Fears” is set upon the middle-eastern countries and how the women there have to cover up and be controlled by the talaban. The Genre for this is more of a documentary explaining what the veil on a woman means and the customs of places such as Iraq or Afghanistan. I believe that the purpose of this is to show the reader what is going on and what the feminist movements are aimed towards in those countries. It tells a lot of the rights women have and what they have to do to stay alive. I thought it was interesting when it talked about how a woman is to do very certain things such as cover up and not even make sounds when walking in the city. So this leads to the central message which is, we should cherish what we have in the United States and remember that we have a lot more freedoms than those in other countries. Not to put the other countries down because they have many qualities that compare to the U.S. but there are many things that distinguish us as a country. The world view of this documentary is that those in middle-eastern countries right now are rising up because of the conditions that they have to live in and what the women have to do. The tools and evidence that were used very well were showing what a woman really has to do and what a day might look like in the eyes of a middle-eastern woman. Another tool used is imagery because it describes the woman to be dressed head to toe and having a veil which really puts a good image in your head. 

Reflection on the good ol' Personal Narrative

This personal narrative seemed like it went pretty well and I revised it pretty well too. I just am not sure about a couple things because I didn’t have time to really think about things and get the detail right. I also felt like I had a solid story and plenty of detail to describe what I was going through. There were some minor details that I left out that didn’t really belong in the first place but I guess that’s good. What I found really easy about this paper was the fact of finding a story that influenced my life because I have had so many. Many of these took place when I was about 13 and the years that I was a teen because that’s where I grew the most. What I found fairly easy about this paper was remembering what happened and who was with me because it was such a significant story in my life and I can remember most of it even when I was so young and I didn’t really think about these types of lessons. The hardest part was finding words and sentences to describe what happened and how I was feeling. I always find this hard to be able to make sentences that sound really good and describe how I was feeling. One last thing that I found kind of difficult for this paper was avoiding awkward sentences because I am usually always using these. I just decided to read my paper aloud a lot and find the problems by myself. 

My Personal Narrative update

The personal narrative is coming along great even though I haven’t started writing it. My idea for this narrative is an experience that I had when I was about thirteen years of age and that was when I went on a fifty mile canoe trip upstream at a lake in Arizona. The reason I am using this idea is because it really changed me as a person and it was also about one-hundred and twenty degrees while we were doing it. So far the ideas that I have for this paper are good because it includes many factors and lessons that are good to learn. One of those lessons is the lesson of endurance because I was kind of chubby during this time and it was hard for me to endure to the end. I really hope to be able to draw a picture for the reader and be able to describe the best I can how I felt and what I was going through. I always remember the good things about this trip such as my brother going with me but I never really thought about the bad things that happened such as the temperature that we were going through as well as the fact that my brother left early. I feel like this paper is going to be really good because there are so many aspects of it that are ironic as well as funny that kind of lighten the situation but there are also parts of it where you think, “Man I feel so bad for that little chubby kid.”