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!

 

Nafisi in Lunsford

Empathy is something that connects us to others that are different from us. In “Mysterious Connections That Links Us Together” written by Azar Nafisi. When Nafisi thinks about empathy at the same time she thinks about Huckleberry Finn and the runaway slave, Jim. Huckleberry Finn knew if he helped Jim, he would burn in the “everlasting fire.” Because Huckleberry had empathy he decided to help Jim. Nafisi’s story “Mysterious Connection that Links us Together” has reason and facts, emotions, character and values.

Nafisi connect with the audience by using her experience about herself being expelled from the school she was teaching at. But people had empathy and helped defend Nafisi. From there Nafisi understood how empathy can really impact people to help other people of different culture, race, etc

Nafisi also supported her argument with Cultural assumptions and Values and at the same time she is establishing credibility. The facts were from culture and history. For example, she used her culture about how women dressed. She also explained what would happen if Iran women didn’t dress improperly.  Nafisi never experienced it for herself but she put herself in their shoes.  Everything Nafisi said in her argument is honest and true.

Also Nafisi supported her thought about empathy with the well-known story Huckleberry Finn.  Using Huckleberry Finn, a story that everyone knows and read once in their lifetime. Nafisi helped us people who don’t analyze movies or books very well, that Huckleberry Finn does tell us that empathy does impact people. In the story it teaches us a lesson that empathy impact us even when we don’t know it.

In this short argument, Nafisi made a lot of points about empathy. Now as I look back, all those time I see a homeless person or a person who needed help I always felt bad for those people. Sometimes I would help. That is empathy. But the sad part is not everyone has empathy. Some people have the heart to just walk on by and not even help at all or do something awful to the person in need. If just somehow everyone had empathy. Would the world be a better place? Or would it be the same? This is a kind of question that no one will know.

“Mysterious Connection that Links us Together” by Nafisi. Imagination can lead you to learn empathy. Empathy is something can save the world. We just have to pass it on through words, pictures or sign.

 

 

Can We Talk

“Can we talk” is all about the great bond between mother and daughters. But sadly that bond we don’t realize that we have a strong bond with our mothers. To most of us our mothers are the reason why we pull out hairs out of our scalps, and we are the same to our mothers. But behind all that daughters do really depend on their mothers for support or tiny little things like how to make grilled cheese sandwich. 

In the story “Can we talk” really applies to my mother and me. The Author Deborah Tannen really evoked the emotions in me and realized how much I really  need my mother to help with things even thought I already know how to do it. Or how much my mother bothers me over little things. This story is really an argument from the heart. Tannen herself is a woman so she probably went through the same experience growing up in her life.

This story also applies to chapter four- Argument based on facts and reasons. Since many daughters and mother feels the same way. Some even expressed how they felt to Tannen. So Tanen story has facts base on reach and percentage of how mothers and daughter feel. Even thought this story does not have hard-core facts and statistic. It’s more likely that mothers and daughters feel that way because no relationship between a mother and daughter is perfect. Mothers always have that feeling inside of them that it’s their job to protect their daughter no matter what age their daughter is.  Same with my mother, Even though I’m eighteen and in college, my mother still calls me her little baby and checks up on everyday.  And of course sometime that gets annoying just as I annoy my mother about money and going out with my friends.

This story “Can we talk” by Deborah Tannen applies to every mother and daughter relationship in the world but at the same time it has good argument points and facts.

Learning Concept and Language

Learning concept started way back in the 1967 by the work of cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner. Learning concept is basically how we classify objects, ideas, and events.  The reason behind why we do this to “interpret the world by putting objects into categories or concepts, each of which highlights some set of similarities or differences. We then link the things with other concepts in the process validating a certain of inferences.” Adcoring to Paul and Elder. We take everything in our mind once we learn something new about an object, idea or event. The next time we see it we will know the concept of that, and expect what will happen next. For example, we see a bird, we know the concept of that bird because we seen it before. So therefore we will know it could fly away or sing a song.  Rather than bark like a dog.

         Learning Concept connects with language. We learn the concept of language so we know how to use the right words and the right concept at the right time.  “ The process of learning the concepts implicit in a natural language such as English is a process of creating facsimiles of the concepts implicit in the language usage to which we are exposed” quoted by Paul and Elder. Everyday we learn something new, a new concept.  Everyone learns a concept in different ways even thought it’s the same idea, object or event. From Concepts we learn language. We can learn words through a dictionary but our mind will change and interpret the words of we will understand and it will “stick in out mind,” Language can also confuse us and create conflicts in our mind.

         Learning concept comes from language. “ To take command of our thinking critically, and creatively, requires that we take command of language we use” quoted by Paul and Elder. Our thinking comes from speaking. Our ideas and concepts come from language.

         Each word we learn has its own meaning. To learn another word that means almost the same, we have to learn how to weave it in with other meaning. From there, we must create a new concept. In simple terms learning concept and language is not an easy thing to understand.

About ME!

Hello fellow students, since I have to explain who I’m without saying my name. So I guess, I’ll start with the basic stuff.  I’m just a laid back girl who was born and raise in the capital of Ohio. You all should know the capital of Ohio, right?  Both of my parents are deaf. I also have one younger brother who considers himself kind of hard-of hearing (long story). From there I grew up going to a hearing school all my life till my freshman year in high school I chose to attend to Ohio school for the Deaf.  I admit it was the best decision I ever made in my entire life other than deciding to go to Gallaudet University.  Describing my looks would make it obvious who I am so I’m going to keep it simple; I have brown hair and blue eyes. I’m about 5’9”. 

 However, looks don’t mean anything. As what people say, I have a very bubbly and happy personality. I swear you almost never see me with a hot head and smoke coming out of my ears.  But the one trait I kind of learn about myself, I can talk on and on, but it only depends on who I’m talking to but other than that I’m kind of shy. I’m the girl who is known to get very embarrassed very easily when it comes to heads turning my way. What else could I say about myself, I love to play sports mostly basketball.  I also love to shop, it kind of a bad habit when I get money in my hands I’m known to go straight to the mall and spent to the very last cent.  Enough about what I love, let move on to what I hate. I hate sushi even though I never tried it before. Sushi just looks unpleasant. Before I go on, I’m very picky when it comes with food.  I’m sorry to all those cat lovers out there but I hate cats, I’m a dog lover! 

Now you know few things about me, Ask me if you want to know  more!