Thesis statements

1 Same sex schools do not allow for the social needs of developing children and teens, and do not prepare them for the world after high school -Closed. This prompt is concise in its wording and asks for a specific side to be taken.

2. Forster's position on standing for one's country is a fair outlook because of how absurd it can seem -Open. A longer prompt, there are multiple positions you could take, each one requiring more than one or two points to create a solid argument.

3. Despite the fact that religious texts seem to shun the idea of homosexuality, the basic human right of a lifelong companion is more than enough to justify the constitutionalization of gay marriage -counterargument. This statement asks you to consider multiple viewpoints, in this case you would want to bring up opposing positions in order to strengthen your own.

4.Advertising is almost brainwashing, using subliminal messaging, deceptive marketing, and misdirecting consumers -closed. This quotation doesn't leave much room for interpretation or points to argue. Rather, it is a "agree or disagree" decision.

5.A teacher who has received plagiarized paper would likely find disappointment in a student and would affect their grade accordingly -open. This prompt does not allow for a side to be taken, but rather it asks for a specific response from a teacher, which would be open for many different possible answers.



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Fast Food

By talking about how fast food is a way of life and wont go away any time soon, Domini is showing that "slow food" isn't exactly sustainable. She explains that there are no perfect companies, and while fast food isn't ideal, it can be changed to become more environmentally friendly and more healthy. She continuously comes back to how fast food can change, as a way to explain to "slow Food" supporters that no, She don't think fast food is great, but it's a way of modern life and can't be stopped. She shows that there is currently progressiveness in the fast food industry that can promote a healthier lifestyle. Through this, she reaches both audiences, as if there is common ground that can be reached.

I Believe

If there's anything that's stuck with me over the last few years, it's Stephen M.R. Covey's quote "We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior." This single sentence has caused me to spend hours contemplating it's meaning, wondering about how I have personally judged others because of simple mistakes or dumb things they've said, and how I have gotten frustrated at others for being angry at me without truly knowing what i'm going through, or what I mean to say or do. Through this I have pondered how people change over time, and how we don't really know what any given person has gone through in their life when we encounter them.

There have been many times in my own life where the people I get to know are not at all what I initially believe them to be. I have come to know people who have struggled to do as best as they can, and it pains me to see others dismiss them with a passing swear, because of what they heard through the grapevine. I know people who have done nothing but try their very best, yet face daily challenges in their own home, a place that should be of comfort and warmth. I truly do believe that I have no right to judge a person unless I know exactly what they have combated in life. When I put myself in their shoes, I can empathize with them in a way I never could before. It is because of this that I harbor ill feelings towards very few people.

I also believe that there is a negative side to this as well. I face my own personal demons, ones that I would not reveal to even those closest to me, for fear that they would think differently of me in a way that would do more harm than good in any relationship I have or have had. Despite this, I feel as though my philosophy has come to make me a better person, because having a better understanding of human nature has caused me to think more positively about people I previously would have avoided, simply because they once said something regrettable months ago. Sometimes I'll snap back into the real world, and think about something: in our 70+ years on this earth, we will only ever see the world through our own eyes. And really, It becomes easy to loathe people we've spoken to only a few times in our existence. But once we open our eyes and see that every single person we've ever met, even if for a single moment when you pass them on the street, has faced years of challenges, we might decided their life is worth treating in the same way as our own.

Education questions

Questions for Discussion

1. An education should be catered to the student. Teachers should work with each student individually. Teachers should give thought provoking questions to students.

3. They should learn it because they require exact and correct performance. This will teach a child how and why they learn, and it will teach them performance over knowledge. 

5. Emerson says that schools force you to learn and believe certain things, and they make you lose sight of what’s important. They don’t inspire their students to become any better than they already are.

Rhetoric and Style

1. Nature loves similarities with distinct differences, but not the same thing over and over again.

2.A student wants to learn more and wants to expand their previous unheard of idea on to the world but must first understand it. To do so they try to learn from someone such as a master that can inspire their learning and help.

3.Emerson tries to make a point of how to learn and what it means to be educated and so to do this he makes an example of his friend Sir Charles Fellow. Charles' tale tells the readers of what he accomplished, how he accomplished it, and what he achieved.

5. The natural method Emerson refers to is the method of learning from peers and through learning from others.

Superman and Me

1. He uses the figure of speech to show that his living conditions were not very good growing up.

2. He went to Catholic school on purpose, and he actually loved to read books, something that is not usually seen from Men of his background.

3. The effect is that the reader sees how paragraphs work in a different way than they usually see it. Alexie gives an explanation that makes more sense than one would think about.

4. He means that he wants to distance himself from his childhood by referring to his child self as someone else completely.

6. In the first part, Alexie sets up the background, as shows that he was by all means an oddity in his environment. In part two. he explains how reading saved himself. It is divided this way so that the reader can make the connection that Alexie considers his child-life separate from his adult life. His purpose is to show that he became a reader despite what others felt about it.

7. In both paragraphs he talks about his desire to save lives. In both final sentences he refers to himself.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read Questions

1. Prose uses her position of being a mother, and a book reader To help establish ethos. Along with this, she also gives credibility by showing how she got her information for the essay.

3. Prose believes that high school literature will only turn students off to reading as a whole. She also believes that high school is where "literary taste" is born.

5. She assumes that the audience is familiar with these works,  because they were usually assigned for reading sometime during high school. The way that Prose presents the info, using key moments and characters from the books, makes it important that the reader be familiar with them.

6. I honestly have not read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. However, Prose makes it seem that Angelou butchered her book completely, when later in the essay she describes the work as mediocre. Because of this I'd have to say that it's a bit too extreme. She also compares getting her data to getting FBI files.

7. Her purpose in piling the rhetorical questions is to show the audience the problems with High School reading all in one go. It gets the message across very quickly, in a way that the reader is going to follow.

8. Prose would most likely not strengthen her arguments with interviews. Students wouldn't be experienced enough in reading to make educated statements about high school reading, and teachers would likely defend this novels in a way that goes against what she believes.

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10.  She gives a few suggestions for how to improve the situation. However, she doesn't fully give a comprehensive way to fix it. Because of this, her argument is weakened in that she is just as helpful as someone who is supportive of the current works. Neither are really giving a way to improve it.

Advertisement analysis

This jurassic World poster is successful in it's approach because it is able to lure the audience into wanting to watch the movie without revealing too much. The viewer is immediately drawn to the divider in the middle- it shows that there are two different perspectives, and by using prior knowledge of the Jurassic Park series, they know that the barrier is going to break. The viewer is able to make the connection that this movie is part of the Jurassic Park series because the remastered logo made by the designers of the poster. It gives a nostalgic feeling that emotionally connects to the audience. Also, by not showing the entire head of the dinosaur, the audience is curious as to what kind of dinosaur they are looking at. They've never seen one like it before- and they can see that the woman on the poster is fearful of the dinosaur. Since we know that the dino is going to get out, we want to see how she is going to survive.