Monday's Assignment

This video had me laughing!!! I love the humor that the man played into making his point. Beyond all the jokes, I personally feel like its wrong to edit this book. Mark Twain book should be left alone because it’s a source of our history. Back when this book was written it was common to call black nigger. By editing this word out, we are erasing one of the obstacles that blacks had to overcome. In todays society we can compare how far the blacks have progress since that time of this era. We no long go around degrading blacks with such of an offensive word. History is meaningful in a manor that we can look back and see how things use to be, and what successful things we did to overcome obstacles. By editing the book we are taking about from knowledge.

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Definition paragraph:

            In this article, Blow speaks against banning or restricting our rights to bare arms. He writes about our past restrictions by introducing the assault weapons ban. The assault weapons ban is a law that prohibits anyone from owning any semiautomatic assault weapons.

Blow also state “We shouldn’t simply wait for the bodies to fall to separate the wheat from the chaff”, meaning that we shouldn’t need tragedies to happen in order for Americans to wake up and realize that we need restrictions, and laws.

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In a recent article by Charles Blow, he depicts the fear that American have on a right that may be dwindling. After the aurora shooting much controversy has been up for debate as to what the right and ethical way to go about settling this gun problem in America. Blow Suggest that Americans have no reason to be scared because Obama has no intentions of making gun laws more severe. Charles Blow actually leans more toward having the opportunity of owning a gun, and claims that he has been raised around them. Blow uses rhetorical strategy to enlighten his audience of his view on the gun policies in American, and shed light on a false rumor of Obama being against citizens having guns.

Mourning and Mulling in a nutshell

The Article “Mourning and Mulling” addresses the different opinions that have been heavy diverse, and controversial about the gun laws in America. Charles M. Blow asserts that many Americans are now more interested in buying a gun since the aurora shooting, instead of decreasing the rate of gun usage form civilians. Blow shares a glimpse of his child life but informing us how he has grown up with guns in Louisiana. He also believes that the scare of a ban applied to guns will affect Obama in this upcoming election.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Ethos-

·      Grew up in Louisiana, “where everyone seemed to won guns”

·      Brothers owned many guns

·      Oldest brother is a gun dealer

·      New York Times

Pathos-

·      Saying that guns are apart of American culture

·      Opening statement “There are some events that we never grow numb to, things that weigh heavily on our sense of humanity and national psyche.

·      Monster

·      Aurora shooting

Logos-

·      45 percent of Americans have a gun in their home

·      Holmes had a shotgun, two pistols and AR-15 assault rifle-legally

·      American homicide rates are far greater than any other wealthy nation

·      Effecting Obama’s 2 term election because people think that a stricter ban is going to be applied

Mourning and Mulling

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/blow-mourning-and-mulling.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Debate

As intriguing as Obama and Romney were in the presidential debate held in Denver, Romney was more successful at accomplishing victory within the debate.  The parts that were most interesting where those where Romney would successfully satisfy a question, where as Obama would go around the question by using strategies such as, explaining was the question entails or what would happen if we continue to go on using the same resources. In this debate, Obama failed to represent his plans by failing to back them up with explanations. People would argue that Romney was to forceful in getting his points across, and that he didn’t follow proper guidelines for a professional debate. However, I felt that Romney used this technique to show that he was the most qualified candidate. The strategy mad him seem like that candidate who was more familiar with society and one that is more positive that his plans would work if we elected him. I do agree that Romney should have considered the timing of his agreements more, however, I feel like this would of just contributed more time for Obama to not answer the questions he was asked. Also, Obama would continue trying to rebuttal Romney by brings up acquisitions about his plans. Once Romney refuted these arguments and said they were false, Obama continued trying to use them. Romney was outstanding during the debate, while Obama seemed a little uncomfortable to me.