3rd Essay Prompt

   For my essay, I am going to be defining what makes a Hall of Famer a Hall of Famer. This is because I enjoy watching sports and everyone has their own opinion about what makes an athlete meet that criteria. For example, in basketball should someone who has averaged 25 points a game be inducted over someone who had 15 points and 10 assists per game. It is tough for those individuals who have to induct players over other players that to some people might have been better than the ones inducted. That is why I think they should have a set goal so nobody is cheated. In baseball, it takes years after players have retired before they are ever inducted. A set goal would allow for the players who met the goal to be inducted. There is no way to please everyone all of the time so I think that every manager in the sport should discuss and vote on the goal.

2nd Essay Rhetorical Comparison Blog

     For my essay, I am going to compare the TV ad of Doritos and the Food Network show "Hell's Kitchen". I want to compare and contrast these two medias because they both talk about food but use two different concepts. For example the commercial uses humor to attract the audience while "Hell's Kitchen" uses anger and frustration to appeal to the audience. The commercial gets its point across in thirty seconds but the TV series makes the audience want to tune in every week to see what is going to happen next. They both use logical facts (logos) to inform the audience what the purpose is. For example, the commercial's purpose is to get the audience to want and buy Doritos. For the TV series, it is about who will make it through the tough challenges to receive the grand prize of there own show on the Food Network. They both use emotion (pathos) to attract the audiences attention. 

Blog on Rhetorical Analysis

     The essay I am going to write about is the argument that Asian women have a higher suicide rate than women with other ethnical backgrounds. I would like to analysis this piece because it made me curious why these people think this statistic is true. The researchers of this claim say that several health factors such as stress cause a major rise in suicide for Asian women. The pressure to perform at a very high academic level causes major stress for the women. Along with school, they do not have a good relationship with there family because of the cultural difference between their parents. The push from Asian parents on the women causes major stress that sometimes may lead to suicide. After reading these statistics, the piece convinced me that Asian women do face more obstacles than other women of different backgrounds. So hopefully I will be able to analysis this piece so others can understand why these facts seem true.

Rhetorical Analysis essay

     The blog that I read about was stating the fact that the FOX network should not worry about the ratings of the Super Bowl game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. The analyst stated that even though both teams derive from smaller cities than the New York Jets or Chicago Bears the network will still have millions of people watching the game. The blog used logical statistics about how many people will be watching the game which is estimated over 90 million. The style of the blog was for the reader to understand that FOX will have no trouble promoting this game because both teams have two of the largest followings of fans. Even over the past five years, both teams have been aired just as much and more than other nfl teams. The audience of this blog was for the average reader and the producers at the FOX network to let them know that the ratings of the game will be a huge success.The blog even had a NBC editors quote on there about how he was envious of FOX which makes the argument of the blog even more solid by having the authority of that comment posted.

Discussion of Last Essay

     I have decided to write a short fiction story like "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" by Sherman Alexie. This is because I like the story plus I liked the way it was written with short sentences and punctuation. The way the story flows makes it real simple and easy to read. I looked up other stories that Sherman wrote and they also seemed to be written in the same format. I like stories that are different from the everyday where the story ends up being good. I am going to have a random ending to my story so the reader will not see it coming. Sherman wrote "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" in an interesting way that captivated me. I am not much of a reader and for a story to catch my interest is pretty cool. I want to write like Sherman so whoever reads the story would tell others about it. Some of Sherman's works are fanciful and that is how I will probably write my story. I like fiction because it allows for your imagination to wonder and grow with the story. In the story that we read that he wrote was all done in twenty four hours so it also has a realistic time to it. Sherman's "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" is also a pretty short short fiction story so it does not drag out even though a lot of different activities take place in the story. That is why I feel like I will be able to write a short fiction story using his style because I like his style and hopefully will be able to create a piece like it.

Antigone Comparison to contemporary violence

      After reading this play, I think that the plays should stay the way they are on how they tell the story. In today's society, television has a cruel way of showing violence which does not entice the audience like a play does. A play allows for ones imagination to work and makes the scenes more interesting to watch. The special effects are what make plays so unique. In movies, if there is a killing of some sort it is shown like it happens all the time and usually there is not much emphasis put on it. As for plays, the violence not being shown makes it more allusive and enticing to the audience. Even though the violence is not always shown, the audience knows it is there. Violence in today's society is all around us and it is as though the media wants to expound on it all the time. In plays such as Antigone, the violence is usually subtle and straight to the point. If plays did act out their violence they would be a lot longer and would not be as creative as they are now. Plays also allow the audience to engage in what they are actually watching. They show too much violence on television for younger kids. With plays younger generations can watch too with their parents and enjoy the shows. Greek tragedies are a lot different from today's violence and should stay that way. Dramas and plays allow for the past way of literature to be expressed for today’s generations.

The Lottery Comparison

     After reading "The Lottery",  it made me realize how blindly people follow certain rules or traditions. In today's society, one comparison would be the way we follow the ideas of the media. It is like everybody wants to know what is going on and what is cool and whatever is on television, or what people say in Hollywood  that is cool and in style and we as a society follow it blindly. It is as if people want to be accepted so bad they will do whatever the cool people tell them to do. And by doing this we form to a "tradition" that we just keep on doing and we do not even realize it. I am familiar with this "tradition" because I see it happening all around such as school and work. School is the biggest example because everybody is trying to look cool and to do that they follow the other "cool" people like the football players and cheerleaders by copying whatever they do. This tradition is not needed just like the tradition of stoning a citizen in "The Lottery". But the sad thing is I am familiar with this "tradition" because I also follow it. I like to be cool and not get picked on so I blindly follow what is cool and what is not to be accepted by by peers. People follow traditions such as these because sometimes like in "The Lottery", people are afraid of change. The media has a huge impact on the way we live and how we act yet we still follow what it tells us to do.