Purpose

Outside: To tell how Silence can make a difference

Inside: People are not alone in believing in a world free of war, and many stand together in silence, and do so year after year.

Persona

Outside: Christian Lady Wanting Peace

Inside: She joined “Women in Black” through Church, and is with women who want to rid the world of violence

Audience

Outside: Those who believe in War, and also thouse who are against it

Inside Trying to get a point across about how violence is bad; uses quote from bumper sticker: “When Jesus said ‘Love your enemy,’ I think he probably meant don’t kill them”.

Argument

Outside: Silence is as goos as speaking

Inside: Not everyone is capable or interested in the mental and conversational gymnastics necessary to justify an anti-war stance

Purpose

Outside: To Speak about Prayer

Inside: He believes in Prayer and talks about how it helps him.

Persona

Outside: Christian Man

Inside: He believes on God, he Prays to God, and went to Church

Audience

Outside: People who believe in God, or want to

Inside: It’s in the Christianity section

Argument

Outside: Must return to Childhood

Inside: The simple truths of his childhood help him find cures for his personal woes now

For the Presidential debates, I think that the format both helped and hurt McCain and Obama. There were times when they obviously wanted to talk longer about their current subjects, and were unable to get their points across because of the time limit. But also, with so much time, it was entirely to easy for them to steer away from the question they had been asked and instead talk about what THEY wanted to talk about. In the vice-presidential debates, Palin did a superb job of going off subject almost immedietaly and seeming to have no idea what she was talking aobut or being asked, whereas Biden was able to use his old age to help understand the questions and come up with appropriate (more or less) answers in the small time allowed. He can think a bit better on his feet than Palin, but he also has many more years than she.

1. It talks about animals - like using the Discovery channel, what you would see on therewith animal families - in this case, elephants, and how reality showed how the Harry Potter story went.

2. To explain how it could have started bigger, and how what happened with the baby elephant was what happened to Harry.

3. It flows off the previous sentence, and prepares uf for the next section.

4. She’s pointing out that, though he went through a lot of horrible things, he managed to live, and how it’s something that, in reality, we all do also.

5. I think it’s a stream-of-consiousness commentary, and that she used it to show how alike everything is; the elephant and Harry, Harry and people in a general sense. It shows confusion, which is what we face everyday, and makes it easier to follow along.

6. I hadn’t looked at it like that before, but it does make complete sense. The books and movies can be interpreted as humanity’s struggle against the evil that we all face, always having to fight.

He Doesn’t Like To Watch

1. Yes, it does. iT talks about how he turned TVs off in a bank, and people began talking to each other, which shoes that without the distractions, people will interact.

2. She doesn’t think it’s right to turn off others people’s TVs, and asks him if he thinks it’s appropriate.

3. The tone is questioning, with a bit of serious-ness about it. I think the interviewee is drecible, as is the interviewer, because it all seems true enough.

4.

TV Turn Off Week Poster

1. The purpose is to show people how used to the TV they are and that they should go outside for once. The illustrations show a mobe-by-move of how to do what you needto do to get outside.

2. It gets excitement going. Yes, the words are necessary.

3. Yes, this is, in a way, a safety card, to get you safely away from the TV and stuffy indoors.

1. The assumptions he makes is that they are obsessed with their TVs.

2. The reader might be annoyed with the thought of having to turn his/her TV off.

3. It makes me think that TV may have more control that it. I partially agree with his answer.

4. He shows hw much we do what isn’t good for us.

5. It does, because we don’t know if it’s all true.

6. I think so, because you can see how much of a differene there is with numbers.

1. It legitimizes it (the reference) and shows that what it explains, what it’s associated with, can be legitimized.

2. They can’t on their own. You would want to know a general idea of a show, but not necissarily everything about it. They show how much time certain segmetns get, and how much it jumps around, forcinf your mind to follow along.

3. They don’t really match up at all. What TV and reading do have in comman is that you are usually sitting and not moving much. TV melts your brain though, and makes it harder to think; reading let’s you remember stuff and makes you smarter.

The general argument made by Susan Jacoby in her work How Dumb Can We Get? is that America is growing more ignorant, and reveling in it. She writes “Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard won cultural capitol to a virulent mixture of anti-intellesctualsim, anti-rationalsim, and low expectations.” In this passage, Jacoby is suggesting that Americans are losing their stauts of intellectual superiority in the world. In conclusoion, Jacoby’s beliefe is that we are slowly becoming dumber.

In my view, Jacoby is right, because several hundred people have tested and been tested in situations of intellect and rationalism, ant it comes out saying we are becoming dumber. More specifically, I believe that the modern technological entertainment is the biggest reason that people don’t want to learn anything anymore. Although Jacoby might object that technology is the main reason, I maintain that it is. Therefore, I conclude that people (American’s in particular) need ro turn off their TVs and computers and do some reading, or go play some sports, or have family time, not sit-my-butt-in-front-of-the-TV-time.

I think that both the dialetic model and Frontline are correct in their claim that Society and Self just contintue to change each other, and that it isn’t always for good. I think that, if everyone, and I mean, quite literally, EVERYONE was to stop, see what was happening, and notice that is isn’t exactly good, that we could change this relationship to be a better one, but since so many people won’t see the problem, there isn’t a way to take control of it. Our fate literally lies in the ands of what society does, and there is no way to change it.

~Jennifer

   I agree with William Saleton that we need to stop using our sell phones and driving, allowing ourselves to get drawn into another world during an inoppertune moment. The amount of people who this is overwhelmingly large, and the horrible outcomes aren’t worth it. We have enough time in our lives, that we can wait untill we get to our destination before being drawn into the world of our cell phones. The multitasking aspect of using our phones and driving at the same time is not only dangerous to others one the road and ourselves, it is literally melting our brains in such a way that we can’t remember as much. My mother, who commoutes to and from work, has admitted that, while driving and talking on the phone, she’ll realize she’s traveled several miles, and hasn’t the slightest clue as to how she got there - her mind was completely in the world of her phone conversation. No one, no matter what they think, is good enough at driving to be talking on the phone or texting, and allowing their body to do on autopilot in order to drive. If something happens, and they have to hit the brakes, they won’t be pulled out of that other world in time to do so before something bad happening. In a Dr. Phil episode that was on on Wednesday or Thursday (I don’t remember exactly which day), he was talking about how texing while driving takes away someting like 92% of your ability to react to something happening on the road. (There was another statistic, but I can’t remember what it was about - I was multi-tasking, trying to some homework while watching TV). With our minds not having the ability to do all this stuff; watching our speed, the cars and drivers around us, AND what we’re talking or texting about on our cell phones, it truly is a wonder we haven’t all died while driving.