Questions
Score for McCain
Score for Obama
How well do the candidates answer the lead questions. 30
McCian 28
Obama 30

How well do the candidates respond to the other’s criticism. Rebuttal. 20
McCain 18
Obama 15

How they plan to fix the economy. 15
McCain 10
Obama 11

Persuasion. 10
McCain 8
Obama 10

“Burns” 10
McCain 7
Obama 9

Pathos ( Credibility) 5
McCain 5
Obama 3

Ethos (emotion) 5
McCain 0
Obama 5

Logos (logic) 5
McCain 5
Obama 4
TOTAL-----------------
McCain 81
Obama 87
Comments
McCain is very straight forward and serious.
Obama is more relaxed and calls McCain by his first name while he calls Obama by his last.

the first charter of VIRGINIA upgraded

The document in question is written by King James’s “royal document writers”(?) Since the king is too fat and lazy he has people do his work for him =]. The document is addressed to the lords of “Virginia”, and the people under their rule. The tone of the document is commanding and informational. All the document is doing is telling what the settlers can and can’t do with their goods/positions/land and other aspects of the Lords and their descendents pretty much for all time (purpose). The persuasion of the document is logic, or logos. It’s logical for the king to want to rule his subjects in the distant land to claim goods, land and gold to further the degree of his power. More land = more power.

the first charter of VIRGINIA

I’m not sure who the author of this document is but I think “Lukin” and I think he writes letters for King James. The document is written for the province of Virginia which is all the territories claimed my Great Britain. The tone of the document is informal to the colony of Virginia. The purpose of the document is to inform the colony what is going to happen or how the laws are going to work. I honestly don’t think the document is persuasive in any way, when I was reading it I couldn’t concentrate on it because its so humdrum I wanted to shoot myself in the foot.

Destruction of the Indies...

In recent discussions of New Spain and “Destruction of the Indies”, a controversial issue has been the brutal savagery and crudely of the Spanish militia. On the other hand the Spanish argue that the Indians deserve the destruction because they are simpleminded and do not worship the “true” God. From this perspective, it’s hard to see how the Spaniards justified their actions using the Lords name. In the words of one of this view’s main proponents, “...so qualified by the Almighty, as is premention’d.” My own view is that the Spaniards had no right to “barbarously butcher’d and harass’d with several kinds of torment…” I maintain that the Indians were king and gracious to the Spaniards and “reverenced them as persons descended from heaven…” how could they viciously kill hundreds of women and children for sport and betting on who could cut a man in two with one slice. It is utterly disgusting what the Spaniards did, it’s just horrible to try to imagine what the Indians went through. This issue is important because it shows the arrogance and cruelty of people when confronted with something new.

they say, i say prefix and intro

In the beginning of the book “They say. I say”, you go through a crash course of what the book is about and how it teaches you how to write better and be more professional in your academic career. The prefix is all about how they get the student how struggles with writing to “enter a conversation about their ideas” and how they need to do that when they write. It also states how conventional writing hinders them in the future and why the collective authors wrote this book and why they use templates. The book uses templates in order to teach that critical thinking is stifeled by rhetorical moves and how to compromise them.
The introduction is talking about when people master writing they don’t really need to think about all the complex moves they usually thought about when they were struggling with there writing in the beginning. The introduction goes on to tell you how they will eventually teach you how to state your own ideas in a way too respond to others. But when you do this you have to make your statement in such a way that makes sense and is not boring so people won’t ask, “Why the hell are you talking?”
Then the book goes on to talk about how Martian Luther King Jr’s letter to Brimingham. How he summarized and responded to the critics claims about the civil rights. How he wrote that was almost entirely summery and response.
The main goal of the book is to help the reader become a better writer, but at a deeper level it invites you to become a certain type of person that thinks critically and intellectually who participates in the debates instead of passively sitting on the sidelines.
i think that this book supports the "English Compsition" artical is the way that the book istrying to make the reader think in an non "normal ecduactional" way.

Writing philosophy

Writing assignment #3

My writing philosophy is hard to explain because I haven’t discovered it completely for my self, but I think the main thing I do is that I try different styles to best transform what I’m thinking onto the computer screen. I try to be extensively well educated about what I write and have all the facts. I like to know both sides of a story and research all the info to make sure what I write is the truth, or I word it so it sounds like I know what I’m taking about when in reality charmingly writing BS. The way I write now is probably more typical of most young adults my age. But I do try to be more imaginative and think about different ways to tell a story or write an essay and also use big “college” words as my dad likes to say. My writing philosophy is so inspire the reader into thinking the way I think about the subject.

assignment #2 english compostion as a happening

English Composition as a Happening
Summery by: Austin Gibbs

In the article “English Composition as a Happening” Charles Deemer is passionate about how teacher and students interact with each other. He constantly criticizes the interaction of the teacher and the students and how the “English Composition” is being used wrong or how it has suffered.
The main idea or point of this article is to create a catalyst of a “happening” in the class room, which is an experience inspired by a “teacher” that will get the student to participate in the realization of his own awareness of his inadequacy.
He wants teachers to stop shoveling information and boring lectures into the students. They are “yawning for food” or on the brink of despair as he portrays it. Deemer states, “…a teacher reveals and class digests. What does a teacher know? He is merely human.”
He supports his idea by claiming, “If fragmentation and lack of mutual participation by class and “teacher” (he doesn’t like that word*) in genuine educational experience constitute the disease, then a unified, joint experience should provide the remedy.” He is saying that the relationship between teacher and pupil is pointless because of the lack of participation on the teacher’s part. Deemer wants the teacher to excite the student and move the audience (students) and make said lecture cool. He goes on to say “spontaneity is essential. Each “teacher” must inspire his own happening.” The impulsiveness of the teacher should shock and surprise the students into participating in there own education with the subtle influence of the teacher. The whole purpose of this is to reduce the distance between actor (teacher) and audience (pupil). “If the object were to make pupils think, rather than to make them accept conclusions, education would be conducted quite differently.” This is a solid quote to end this summery, rather then to just accept what the teacher says to be true, Deemer’s experiment (to create “happenings”) would cause the students to be proactive in the learning process and too feel encouraged to express them selves with out the teacher saying that their opinions are wrong. At the end of the article it says that the “happening” is the first step toward a stimulating experience to better yourself.

Taking Charge

Austin Gibbs

7/18/08

TAKING CHARGE

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” What do these words mean to me?

This quote means that I have to take charge, change what needs to be changed in order to have a brighter tomorrow, not just for me but everyone around me. Ways that I have already been changing my community is my resent community service feeding the homeless, raising money for world vision, and volunteering for habitat for Humanity.

Being part of New Community Church we are dedicated to serving the community around us. As such our youth group went out and made sack lunches, bought propane tanks, and candles to give to the homeless. The people we gave the supplies to were really nice and grateful for our generosity. We talked to them, and I realized how big of an impact a few cans of propane and candles had on these people during the winter. At the same time, our group went without food for 30 hours and we were sponsored for a dollar an hour usually, and I raised $220 for World Vision to help feed the starving kids in third world countries.

Habitat for Humanity is a great program I volunteered for it because we help the community with our hard work. I played a major role in clearing out a huge lawn overrun by sticker bushes. I also removed moss from the elderly mans house and we went around the trailer park killing wasp nests. Most of the lawns we cleaned up and made look attractive were elderly people who couldn’t afford to hire people to do that for them.

In conclusion, I am being the change that I want to see in the world. I am trying to reshape my community for a brighter tomorrow. I am being the best I can be for the benefit of my community.