Evidences, hard-core facts, to prove your audience what you are saying is true. Chapter sixteen in Lunsford is basely telling toy how to “juggle” everything and mix it in with evidence at the same time.  Also in Lunsford, its shows us different kinds of evidences.

Basely in Lunsford chapter 16 is about what kind of evidence you can use in your argument to prove something. There are two different evidence first hand and second hand evidence. First hand evidence is more direct from the source, from your own eyes.  For example observation is first hand evidence because you, yourself is observing it from your very own eyes. Another example of first hand evidence is Surveys and Questionnaires, but to really get your claim, the survey question must be short answer question not a yes and no question.  Experiments are also first hand evidence, science is mostly common to use this to support their claim, but experiment can support any argument. Of course what couldn’t be a better evidence if you went thought it yourself, personal experience.  However, all personal experience probably wont is the best way to prove something but it can draw in readers.

However not all evidence are first hand, there is secondhand evidence and research.  Library sources are all second hand because someone else wrote it. But the most important thing about second hand evidence is that we have to be careful and check if the source itself is reliable. Online sources and databases have a lot of argument sources available; the Internet is a super national highway.

Therefore, using all those different kind of evidence, you still have to know how to draw in the audience and keep them there with you in your writing.  You have to know how to connect with your audience. At the same time build critical mass, knowing how to back up your evidence. Also knowing how to arrange your evidence, which evidence goes with what point. To make sure you prove your side of the argument.

In my opinion, the part that would help me most to achieve the most prefect essay in my writing career I believe that the most important part of chapter sixteen that will help me is arrange evidence because base on what Dr.Wood told me, I have to work on weaving my essays. I believe this part can help me in that area to support what I need to say and proving it.

Lastly, Chapter sixteen in the everything’s an argument is just telling us that everything needs to be supported with some kind of evidence, wither if its first handed or second handed. If you can “juggle” everything in chapter sixteen in Lunsford, you can overcome any kind of essay.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth, the 3 winning movie awards but its not well known. Pan’s Labyrinth was written and directed by del Toro. The movie itself is nothing but full of relation to the real world or the film world: disobedience, religion parallel, light and color, the characters and fairy tale world story plot.

Throughout the movie disobedience was the main point of this movie.  Almost every scene had disobedience in it. For example between the Ofeila and her mother, Ofeila and the captain, Ofeila and the faun, Captain and the rebels and so on.   One part in the movie that disobedience happens between the captain and Ofeila is when Ofelia arrived at the captain’s home on the mountain. Ofeila met her new stepfather for the first time they met Captain told Ofeila to not go through the Pan’s Labyrinth but later Ofeila still disobeyed and was curious and went through the Pan’s Labyrinth. This is only one example of disobedience in the movie.

However disobedience wasn’t only in the characters, it was also in the film itself for example light and color. Light and color was base on the characters. But del Toro broke the film industry rule of light and color. Through the movie on some characters for example the captain, it was hard to see. This was because the light and color on the captain was dark, dull and murky. Light was another disobedience in this movie that del Toro did. In some scene the light would on something not important for example the dinner scene the brightest light was on the table filled with food. In that scene the food was not important, the people around the table were important but del Toro broke the rules of the film making industry.

            But that not all the disobedience that happen in the movie, del Toro also broke the rules of common fairy tale movies, for example Snow White, Cinderella and many more. Common Fairy Tale plot, girl suffers then prince charming saves them and they live happily ever after. But in Pan’s Labyrinth was opposite because the main character Ofeila died, Yes, she did become a princess of the underworld but she was not a moral. Another thing that is related to Fairly Tales but also light and color is during Fairy Tales movies the light and color tend to be bright and beautiful. In Pan’s Labyrinth the color was dark and ugly

Pan’s Labyrinth is one of the most jumbled movie ever with lot of analyzing involved. There is also so much to analyze like disobedience, religion parallel, light and color, the characters and fairy tale story plot. 

Owl at Purdue

APA formatting is a common use in college for citation for different subjects and classes. The Owl at Purdue is one of the best APA sources according to Gallaudet’s library staff.  As I read the website I realized all the APA formats from other websites I been doing it wrong.  If students follow the Owl at Purdue website our essays and Reaction/Reflection blogs will be supported better with the right citation.

Using the Owl at Purdue will set credibility in our papers because we use the right citation.  With the right citation, we will have the right information’s and facts to prove what we are trying to prove. APA citation can cite almost any kind of information from books to Internet to graphs.

However Owl at Purde doesn’t only teaches how to cite work at the end of the essay. It also teaches how to do footnotes and endnotes.  I myself never really done footnotes in my high school career so I don’t really know how. I have seen footnotes in books, etc but done it myself never.  After reading owl in Purdue I understand how to do and use footnotes.

Another thing that is nice about Purdue owl website they also included avoiding Bias. This part is what fantasized me the most. The use of pronoun base on gender should be avoided. You always want to be clear about the sex identity of the contributor involved in your paper.  For example owl at Purdue recommend to not use he, she, his or her in your writing. Its better to use like they, their. Owl doesn’t only explain bias for gender but also disabilities, Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity

Therefore using all the information on Owl at Purdue website will help set credibility with the audience using the right citation and the proper bias to get the reader to understand out point without feeling offended. Having the right citation and the proper information will help convince your reader to choose your side of the argument.

Lastly I would recommend that people who need to find how to do the proper citation to use Owl at Purdue. The reason is because this website is really resourceful and helpful. It is also very clear of how to do the proper citation for whatever kind of cited work you need. Books, Internet and many more, this website has it all. For future reference citation, I know I will use this website for help if needed.

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006  Spanish language film written and directed by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced by a Mexican film company Esperanto Films. This movie also won three awards  Academy Awards, the Ariel Award for the Best Picture and the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. In my opinion, I’m shocked that Pan Labyrinth won three awards after I saw the movie. The strange plot, characters, everything sure made me puzzled about how did del Toro come up with it. I do have some parts of the movie that I like and hate.

Lets start with what I like, there wasn’t lot of parts I liked but the one part I liked was Ofelia didn’t sacrifice her brother when the fawn told her to. At first I thought that Ofelia would give her brother to the fawn. When she said “No.” My fast beating heart slowed down back to normal. During the movie I just had a gut feeling that the fawn was a “bad guy” but I was wrong, he was suppose to do that, he had to play the part to see if Ofelia could pass the test.

However the antonym of like is hate, and I dislike a lot of parts in the movie. Since Pan Labyrinth wasn’t one of my favorite movies so I have a long list of what parts I hated in the movie, I’ll list a few. One of the parts that I hated most was when the caption killed two innocents because he thought they were lying when they said they had guns because they were hunting for rabbits. The way the Caption killed the first man was just plain awful. I think every scene with the caption in it was awful. So in simple terms all the scene with the caption in it, I didn’t like that part.

Through out the movie, there was a lot of disobedience, that was the movie Pan Labyrinth was mostly about to stand up for one-self. There was disobedience in almost every scene. Disobedience between the girl and the caption, the girl and her mother, the fawn and the girl, caption vs. sociality. Even the part I liked that I explained earlier in this passage was a sign of disobedience.

Aside from which parts I liked, hated and which part had disobedience in it. The movie overall was very strange. It made me think about a lot of thing. The discussion after the movie and in between really cleared things up and it was interesting to hear other people’s opinion about the movie and what they thought about it. I would suggest people who like to analyze, movies that have a double meaning to watch Pan’s Labyrinth.  

 

NEW Rhetorical Analysis

The passage written by Austin Cline “What’s the point of Marriage, Gay or Straight” has some positive and negative outlooks during the passage.  Cline’s purpose of this article, how it reaches to people.  Cline’s values, facts were wonderful.

Cline’s purpose was to tell people that you don’t need a marriage certificate to proclaim your love for someone. Cline purpose was clear as a crystal; it was there in plain sight. You could see what his point was.  Cline was trying to spread the word about marriage and why do gays and straight people must get marriage and must own a marriage certificate to really show that you are in love with someone. Cline also pointed out his purpose about gay couples making a commitment to one another, they live under the same roof, Cline point was what can’t gay couples do that straight married couple can do? Nothing.

However, if you look at the title of the passage, your first thought about the passage would be that Cline would talk about marriage of both gay and straight. But throughout the article it feels like Cline was shooting bullets about gay marriage more than straight marriage. Cline should have been more balance about what he wrote. He also should have tried to reason with his audience. I’m sure if a gay person read this passage, he would probably feel offended.  Authors have to connect with every reader base on race, gender, sexuality, etc.

To really connect with your readers, the author must have a voice of the argument. Cline had his voice and tone throughout the passage.  Cline did claim authority. He made his points about gay and straight couples getting married. He also asked question throughout the passage that made me wonder then later Cline answered the question later in the passage.

Lastly the most negative part about the passage, there was no facts or real evidence. Cline used most of his opinion. Cline didn’t even use any personal experience or anything. The closest evidence in the passage was a gay couple flocking to San Francisco to get a real marriage certificate. But that not real hard- core evidence.  To really convince people, you must add some facts to a passage like gay marriage or a huge debate topic and you want to convince people to be on your side of the debate.

Cline wrote a wonderful passage filled with his opinion and they were wonderful opinion but sometime you have to add the hard-core facts to really attract people to your topic and purpose of the passage.

Analyze from Lunsford

Gay Marriage, Straight marriage is it the same? That is the question everyone is asking.  Should they have rights to marry someone of the same gender and officially have a marriage certificate?

According the this passage, the point is why must gay/lesbian must have a marriage certificate to prove that they are married to one another. Marriage isn’t the point; the whole point should be about love. As I read this passage, it did convince me, that it is true you don’t need a marriage certificate to exactly proclaim your love for someone.  It’s the same thing with straight people, I know a couple that been together for 23 years, they have rings on their left hand but they never got officially married. They never saw the point of it.  As the article said why do gay/lesbian couples dash off to San Francisco to be able to have an official marriage certificate.  Burgwald, the guy who wrote this article, believe that there is nothing wrong with gay marriage because there is nothing that heterosexual couple can do that a unmarried gay couple cannot do.  And I do agree with that, its like that quote “Anything you can do, I can do better.” But is the author, Burgwlad; being negative about gay marriage?

In this passage, Burgwlad does make his point about gay marriage without being so negative. He just made his point about why do gay/lesbian must have proof that they are married to someone else. It’s all about love. The author did connect with us readers because he did make his point throughout the passage.  Being straight myself, the passage did make its point to me. But my question I’m thinking right at this moment would a gay/lesbian person agree with article?   I guess I will never know the answer for that question.

This passage did make me think that you don’t need to piece of paper to show people your love for someone. As I think of it the cost of a wedding is very expensive. What the point to have a marriage certificate when almost no one see its unless if someone keeps it in their purse or wallet, or go walking around waving it in the air, shouting “I’m married and this is an official marriage certificate” Why can’t people just walk around and when a person ask who are you in love with, you can reply him/her (pointing to the person you love) without a marriage certificate

Gay marriage is a topic that is a endless debate. Only gays/lesbians will suffer thought of that debate. But on the other hand they don’t have to if they just don’t get married and stay with someone they love for the rest of their life without a marriage certificate.

List of this I Believe

1-    There is value in simplicity- Complicate your life too much, and then it will be impossible to prioritize.

2-    Gain means nothing without gratitude- you have to be grateful for what you had to begin with.

3-    People matter- people suffer when we forget that.

4-    Never, ever underestimate the power of words- they can begin battle, and  cause wounds. We need to be careful how we use them.

5-    Everything happens for a reason.

6-    Common sense is not so common.

7-    Dreams can come true!

8-    Equality!

9-    Believe in what YOU believe in- don’t follow other people’s beliefs.

10- LOVE yourself!