DEATH PENALTY
In this video, a speaker spoke of the injustice that happens everyday and how we sit on the side lines and watch how innocent people are sentenced to death for a crime they never commited. The man in the video explained that there is no justice in this country anymore. Much like the economy, the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. This concept applies to the justice system due to the fact that if your a rich wealthy man you will face little to no punishment and if your a rich white person they will slap your wrists and send you out of the court house with a lollypop for just showing up to the court house. The man in the video also explained how we are triing kids as a adults so that they can face a harsher punishment. The sad part of this truth is a majority of the kids being tried as adults are black. Society today targets race and although the slave age is over, the black community is still slaved to the title of "criminal" and after 9/11, the Muslum population has surely joined the rankings with the black community. It's sad how the most peaceful religion in the world is being targeted as terrorists due to people who dont even know what they stand for. Our nation is lost in the masses and forgets that we are all people living in this beautiful nation and if the public watched the news, they would realize that it is near impossible to get into this nation. Everyone worked hard to live here including the muslum population, the least we can do is see them as equals.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Daily Show
DAILY SHOW
While watching the video I agreed with the guest on the show that our history is being white washed and the public is afraid to reveal that in the past that we treated the black community horribly by forcing them to be slaves. The "N" word is a term that has brought down that black community for years and to remove it from a book, although it is a bad word to the public eye, shouldn't be removed. I agree with the guest because its not the word that is truly bad, its the context of how its used. The book it is presented in is one of the greatest pieces of literature published. Mark Twain used the word to put in the minds of the public that they shouldn't judge by the contents of their skin but by the fact that they are humans just like us and deserve recognition. It's written in our constitution and always will be there because it is our history. The reason why we study history is so that we prevent the bad from happening again. It was a dark era in our history but it was 300 years ago and we as a nation now are stronger and are more accepting.
While watching the video I agreed with the guest on the show that our history is being white washed and the public is afraid to reveal that in the past that we treated the black community horribly by forcing them to be slaves. The "N" word is a term that has brought down that black community for years and to remove it from a book, although it is a bad word to the public eye, shouldn't be removed. I agree with the guest because its not the word that is truly bad, its the context of how its used. The book it is presented in is one of the greatest pieces of literature published. Mark Twain used the word to put in the minds of the public that they shouldn't judge by the contents of their skin but by the fact that they are humans just like us and deserve recognition. It's written in our constitution and always will be there because it is our history. The reason why we study history is so that we prevent the bad from happening again. It was a dark era in our history but it was 300 years ago and we as a nation now are stronger and are more accepting.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
PROJECT 2
Thesis: Mark Bittman criticizes in “The Domino Theory, Redux,” that the obesity rate in America is not only killing off the youth and adults of this great nation, but as well as costing us millions of dollars in medical bills and increasing the defficet. Through this article, it hopes to reveal to America that by increasing the tax rate on soda, the obesity rate will decrease, our enconomy will rise and as well as save lives.
Obesity is defined as when a person has a BMI that has progressed passed healthy standards and threatens the life of the person who is over weight. The obesity epidemic has been a major component in the political community because it has been a curse to the US due to the fact that the world views us as overweight slobs. This may seem as though a small problem because no one will attack us due to our weight but in a larger view, the most powerful nation should be showing the world powerful people and saying the obese part of our nation is powerful is much like telling the world that we'll bomb you if you take away our chocolate.
This article was proclaiming that the soda companies are slowly killing our population and refuse to pay extra in taxes that would go to programs that would teach young elementary students proper diets that would help contribute to better health in their bright futures. Mark quotes in his article that with $80,000, that money could be spent to teach every 3rd grader in Richmond and state wide how to swim. Mark also quotes that "$800,000 we can put a nutrition-gardening-cooking instructor in each of our 10 elementary schools” in Richmond. Mark is outraged much like most of the American public that although the soda companies make millions of dollars in profit, they refuse upon request to do anything to help save the lives of their customers and future americans. I believe that if the soda companies want to still gain profit and not have to pay such high tax rates, that they should pay for health programs to be installed in schools around the nation. By paying schools for a health program, they can consider the money they spent the be donations and get a tax break so that they can still manufacture and gain a high profit off their products and as well as start a trend in the soda community so that more companies will try this new way to make money. If just one company tried this then it will not only help our youth survive longer in life but as well as save the American public from being referred to as a obese nation.
Analysis of the Article:
Ethos, Pathos and Logos
Effective Argument or Not . . . this can be a paragraph or two . . . this should fit your thesis
Conclusion
Summary of YOUR argument
Restate your thesis
Re-mention the article title and the author
What further questions do you have? How can we think beyond this paper?
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
FAT SODA
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/the-domino-theory-redux/?ref=opinion
ETHOS
· endorsed by the United Nations, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, the Institute of Medicine and many others, and which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention commissioner.
· Dr. Jeff Ritterman, a retired cardiologist serving on the Richmond City Council,
PATHOS
· Richmond is the 6th most obese city in US.
LOGOS
· $86,000 can teach every 3rd grader how to swim in one of their municiple pools.(Richmond)
· $800,000 we can put a nutrition-gardening-cooking instructor in each of our 10 elementary schools.”(Richmond)
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MEN FAIL
MEN FAIL
In the article “Why Men Fail,” it examines why men today aren’t as successful as woman are when it comes to business, the economy and as well as why men don’t succeed in life. This author has good ethos due to the fact that she has written a book and also has her work published in a popular magazine. With her cleaver insight on the matters at hand in regards to women being far more superior in the business community, she proclaims that men fail at being successful because they believe that they have everything handed to them which lowers work ethic which in the end results in the men not progressing as fast as the hard working woman that has devoted time and effort in the office to reach a higher more powerful point in their career which in the long run ends with the men stuck behind a desk while woman live it up with their high paying jobs. I agree with the point that men are getting lazy in the work community and should rise up because even though I want to say that everything is equal in the working community, in the end women always have to work harder to achieve more than what men have handed to them on a platter. One point I do disagree on is that we all do work hard together as a team and that in the end boosts moral and ultimately ends with everyone winning. Men and women are equal human beings but when it comes to todays society, women must work in order to achieve greatness much like us all.
In the article “Why Men Fail,” it examines why men today aren’t as successful as woman are when it comes to business, the economy and as well as why men don’t succeed in life. This author has good ethos due to the fact that she has written a book and also has her work published in a popular magazine. With her cleaver insight on the matters at hand in regards to women being far more superior in the business community, she proclaims that men fail at being successful because they believe that they have everything handed to them which lowers work ethic which in the end results in the men not progressing as fast as the hard working woman that has devoted time and effort in the office to reach a higher more powerful point in their career which in the long run ends with the men stuck behind a desk while woman live it up with their high paying jobs. I agree with the point that men are getting lazy in the work community and should rise up because even though I want to say that everything is equal in the working community, in the end women always have to work harder to achieve more than what men have handed to them on a platter. One point I do disagree on is that we all do work hard together as a team and that in the end boosts moral and ultimately ends with everyone winning. Men and women are equal human beings but when it comes to todays society, women must work in order to achieve greatness much like us all.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
DEBATE
DEBATE
While watching the debates, I believe that the true winner is Obama. Although I am Democratic, I believe that Obama won because he reached out to current problems and what he’s done to help and disproved the Ads that are against him as well as brought up points about how Romney cant keep his word and forced Romney to go against his word that stated his 5 trillion tax break that would cost the US a lot of money. Obama used many words that much like Romney stuck in the audience’s head such as lying and tax raising. No matter the intelligence level of any of the US citizen, if there is one word that sticks in the minds of the public it’s the powerful word tax. Romney lost this debate not only with his rude interruptions but also the fact that when faced with a statement that regards his current campaign Ads he reacted with denial and frustration. I believe that if a person cant stay true to their word then they aren’t a man and they aren’t good to run this country. The president should be a man of truth and should be respectful because he is representing the most powerful nation in the world. Romney lost because for the past 7 months, Romney has been campaigning that he is going to be giving tax breaks to the rich and raising taxes on middle class to make them pay $4000. Romney also was quoted with his policy on china and quote said that they are “Cheaters” and blamed Obama for the current crisis. The US is giving China all our business and as well as the President has no control over where business send their jobs. Although both Candidates had contradicting ideas, they both agreed on one point that would help the US. The US needs lower the corporate tax rate to 25% or even lower and allow the businesses over seas to come either back to the US or allow foreign countries to come to the US.
While watching the debates, I believe that the true winner is Obama. Although I am Democratic, I believe that Obama won because he reached out to current problems and what he’s done to help and disproved the Ads that are against him as well as brought up points about how Romney cant keep his word and forced Romney to go against his word that stated his 5 trillion tax break that would cost the US a lot of money. Obama used many words that much like Romney stuck in the audience’s head such as lying and tax raising. No matter the intelligence level of any of the US citizen, if there is one word that sticks in the minds of the public it’s the powerful word tax. Romney lost this debate not only with his rude interruptions but also the fact that when faced with a statement that regards his current campaign Ads he reacted with denial and frustration. I believe that if a person cant stay true to their word then they aren’t a man and they aren’t good to run this country. The president should be a man of truth and should be respectful because he is representing the most powerful nation in the world. Romney lost because for the past 7 months, Romney has been campaigning that he is going to be giving tax breaks to the rich and raising taxes on middle class to make them pay $4000. Romney also was quoted with his policy on china and quote said that they are “Cheaters” and blamed Obama for the current crisis. The US is giving China all our business and as well as the President has no control over where business send their jobs. Although both Candidates had contradicting ideas, they both agreed on one point that would help the US. The US needs lower the corporate tax rate to 25% or even lower and allow the businesses over seas to come either back to the US or allow foreign countries to come to the US.
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