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I believe in funding cancer research. Although cancer is a disease that happens to relatively few people, it is remarkably frightening. The reason it is so frightening is because cancer is not only for the poor, the weak, or the ignorant. Washing your hands will not prevent cancer, and your immune system will almost never just eliminate it. In this way, the fear of cancer is similar to the fear of a shark attack, a jellyfish, or a sting ray's barb. It matters very little that there is a small chance of being eaten by the shark, and it matters very little that there is a very small chance of being barbed by the sting ray. The key issue is that while in the water, a human feels vulnerable. If a shark attack did happen, I would never see it coming... This is because murky water takes the power of eyesight away from a human, thus making him defenseless against a surprise attack. The only cure for this fear is to step out of the water. But just imagine if there were no land to step onto, if the cancer were always there to threaten even the happiest moments, with the gruesome possibility of death. Children left parent-less, and dreamless, and not just the distant poor African ones. Someone just like you will get cancer and die from it this year. Someone just like you will have to abandon their children... forever. This should not happen. People should not have to live in this fear. Medicine has consolidated life to such a degree that unexpected death almost never occurs; making it all the more devastating when it happens. 

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In this blog I would like to talk about pizza. Pizza comes in many flavors such as cheese, pepperoni, and sausage. The favorite pizza topping however, is far from absolute. On this topic, there has been an exceedingly large diversification in opinions among many tested subjects, including a large amount of individuals who responded that they were unable to determine their favorite flavor. As a direct result of this, the survey that was to determine the pizza flavor with the highest rated taste quotient returned results that contained little applicable value. One colleague took a stance on this dilemma. He queried, "Why do you not just throw out the unknown responses and continue your survey from there?" Never have a heard such a large breach of the scientific honor system. One cannot just alter the data to receive the desired result! How preposterous was he to think that I would commit such fraud as to skew the data to improve my perception in scientific society? My thought? Very preposterous. In conclusion, I like pizza. 

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I am about ready to be done with school because i am really tired of these AP exams. I have now taken one of them and I am ready to take the AP US History exam this Friday. I hope that I have studied enough United States History that I do well on this exam because without studying enough United States History there is almost no chance that I do well on the United States History AP exam. If I have studied enough then I will certainly do well on the AP exam because  I just defined enough studying to mean enough studying to get a decent grade on the AP exam. In the same respect, if I have not studied enough, I will not get a good grade on the AP exam, but now we, you and I, have a dire problem. I have not defined the word good, which still leaves the word enough undefined, which as a result of a chain reaction leaves the conditional statements which I have specified above to be entirely undefined. This however is an incorrect assumption, for while they lack definition as of now, when provided any one definition of the words that remains undefined, then the rest of the statements then become defined. 

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Look at that word. Such an interesting thing. How can a word so small and seemingly insignificant guide my life? How can a word so seemingly small and insignificant force me to spend all of my time studying? Why is it that a word seemingly so small and insignificant create such an intense impact on my life? The answer to all three of those questions comes in the form of an AP Test. I highly dislike AP tests. What is the point anyway? In a course you will experience one of two distinct outcomes. You can either succeed at the course, or you can fail at the course. A college will endeavor only to allow you to skip a course if you perform well enough on the AP exam that it demonstrates that you would have done exceptionally well in the course. But if you would have done exceptionally well in the course, then you should have taken the course in college because it would have increased your GPA, but if you did not succeed in the course in the AP class, then the college should not let you skip the course based on your exam score. That said, the classes you did skip were the ones that you should have taken to counteract the inevitable hit your GPA will take when you take the courses in which you failed your AP Exam in high school. 

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This essay is quite relavent to Johnny Got his Gun. D'Souza discusses the way that fighting a war that is based on something distant like Islamic fundamentalism, will result in a significant loss of willpower. In a similar sense, Joe is hidden from the public to censor the horrors of war to prevent the loss of willpower among other Americans. Joe is one outcome of War, but nobody advertises the gruesome outcomes (Except Driver's Ed and this book). If every candy bar contained a picture of a hobos rotting, cavity ridden teeth on it, then significantly fewer children would eat as much candy. The reality is that eating candy could result in that situation, but that is not presented. The part that is presented is a happy person enjoying the luxurious sugary candy bar, strumming his banjo, (or some other completely unrelated instrument), and making some remark about how awesome the taste of the item is. War is advertised the same way because the dead were shown America would have no army and would be virtually defenseless to its enemies. Johnny Got His Gun also argues that wars should only be fought for issues personally relavent to oneself, which I personally disagree with. Anyone who has read or heard the poem Martin Niemiller's poem on the holocaust memorial would understand that only fighting for oneself is a fatally flawed system. "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because i wasn't a communist... Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak up." One cannot just passively sit down and watch things that are valuable to others escape them because humans require unity to accomplish their goals. Although the army is not a perfect system, it combines the moral values of many and secures them. You cannot please everyone, but supporting only fighting for the wars you believe in pleases no one because you will lose them all. 

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AP TESTS ARE BORING. Really, they are. You sit there, in a room. You look at a question. You answer the question, and you fill in a bubble. You repeat this for about an hour. Then comes the exciting part: the essays. The most entertaining way to write an essay is to make sure that you are writing something at all times. In this exercise, stopping to think is prohibited. When you are done. Read your essay and laugh at how bad it is. That's entertainment. It is odd to have the entire class lead up to a test because once you take it, it is like nothing matters anymore. Especially since the goal of the class is to not have to take it in college, which essentially means that if you take the test correctly, you are done with the class forever. The history AP exam which I will take soon will be quite interesting. I anticipate that there will be many questions about Indian culture. This elicits a problem because I know very little about Indian culture because a lot of it was generated before the United States existed, and it seems like there is no history of the US before the US was created. The AP thinks otherwise, but i think it is crazy.  

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This essay had tons to do with the book. In march of the flag a reference is made to patriotism. A reference to patriotism is also made in Johnny got his gun. In Johnny got his Gun the main character is hidden from the public in the attempt to maintain the primary role of patriotism in the joining of war. If people were to see the potential dangers of the war in a form as tangible as what has happened to Joe it is thought that the people would no longer adress patriotism as the primary aspect of war but would rather think of the death, pain, and permanent injuries that occur so commonly. Because the size of the army of a nation is a determining factor of it's success and intimidating enemies away from war. Because of these obvious benefits, it is necessary for the nation to limit the viewing of the broken man lest the nation's people choose not to koin the war, revolt, and cause death and destruction to befall the nation as other armies who have not been so tainted can ravage the earth where are families and livelihood once remained under the happy protection of the willing army.

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The AP tests are far too soon, I am perpetually tired, and my mother's cousin's son's girlfriend's sister's second cousin just contracted the swine flu. Things are looking bleak for the (one and only) JD Hoover. There are three AP tests that I have to take in just next week alone. That creates a problem for me when I am trying to not do anything that exerts any kind of physical or mental effort. Such a conflict can cause stress, which does not help my situation. Quite the contrary, as it often just makes things worse. Such stress decreases the quality and desire of falling asleep. The resulting lack of quality sleep then results in being tired, which then results in loss of mental function, which then results in loss of hearing, nausia, stomach pains, and drowsiness, which results in failure, which results in more stress, which results in more tiredness, which results in the facade of a longer day, which results in an increased exhaustion when i get home, which results in no desire to do anything. If you see me during the next week, just assume that I am tired, because you can rest assured, I will be. 

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For many years there has been a giant controversy of how the dinosaurs came to leave the earth through extinction. Such philosophies have included meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, and even ice ages which were speculated to have altered the living conditions of the dinosaurs enough that they underwent complete extinction rather than evolution. Today I will not discuss this conflict however. I would rather sit here and talk about something boring like the swine flu. The swine flu, is much like the bird flu, only instead of being carried by birds it is carried through swine. The swine flu was originally thought to be much like the bird flu in which the flu would not be able to spread to people easily enough to become a viable problem. This, however, has been disproven because it has illustrated the potential not only to travel from pigs to humans, but also to travel from humans to humans as well. This invalidates the conclusion that the swine flu is just as harmless as the bird flu because it has already shown greater potential than the bird flu ever did. 

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So continues my blog about nothing. I am very tired right now. The last time I slept, I did not sleep well. This establishes one potential reason for my tiredness because with a low quality of sleep the body is not allowed the opportunity to rest itself adequately in the time that you are sleeping and therefore cannot perform properly when you are awake. My tiredness could also have been a result of the lack of sleep that I have received; however, I did not look at the time when I fell asleep, so I am not sure of the exact amount of sleep that i received and therefore cannot prove nor disprove this particular theory. Given the evidence of my state of being tired it is most logical to believe that it is a mixture of those to causes rather than just either one alone. Neither can be proven though, so this argument is rather pointless. Regardless of the way in which I became tired, the fact that I remain tired remains a prevalent issue. A solution to the issue of me being tired would be to use the time that I spend blogging to sleep. This is not a viable option however because not blogging would result in bad things occurring. 

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I am working diligently on English and only English homework right now. You should be proud of me. If you do not believe that I am working only on english homework right now, you should note that there is no way to ever know whether or not I was doing more than just blogging for english at this particular moment in time. This whole focusing entirely on one assignment revelation is a great leap for me because often I would take massive breaks in the middle of blogs, suffer great lapses in thought, and more likely than not provide a less than stellar blogging result. Furthermore the gettysburg address is very annoying. Abraham Lincoln felt very inclined to use really large words like "consecrate," and he proceeded to use these excessively long words rather superfluously. He also highly enjoyed annoying me by going Yoda with the sentence structure. "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." ... Never with any semblance of sanity would I construct a sentence as convoluted as that one, which made it very difficult to memorize. In conclusion, the entire school should spontaneously move to florida. I hear it is nice there.

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Today I ate a taco. It was a good taco. Such a good taco, in fact, that I believe that it is vital for me to sit here and comment on the intricacies of said taco for the entirety of the blog. Oh how sweet was that delicious, ambrosial, luscious, luxurious, mouthwatering, scrumptious, tempting, yummy, flavorful, delectable taco. Oh how a pine for an object of similar origin! That taco was so divine that it is almost certain that even the most burly, powerful, muscular, brawny, tough, rugged, dumbbell-lifting, mountain-climbing,  man would fall to his knees at such an enormous, momentous, marvelous, supreme, majestic, glorious, heavenly display of sublime quality. None should deny the greatness of the taco that I ate for I have truly discovered what it means to be reveling in  a state of utmost happiness. I wish to tell the world of what I have experienced in a more adequate fashion, but I am but restricted by the limiting, pathetic, pitiable, distressing, heartbreaking nature of words. So now that taco is gone, but it will live on in memory until I die, then it will be gone forever. 

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No offense to st valentine, but single soldiers definitely do fight better. In every action a person takes in life, some lesson or skill is learned, sometimes the increase in skill is very small, and at other times the increase in skill is very large. Relationships, fit right at the edge of the small end. This is because the main outcome of a relationship is enjoyment and the experience that you gain from one is mostly only applicable to future relationships. One cannot fly a plane with the knowledge gained from a relationship or do anything tangible for that matter, for in reality it means about nothing. Relationships are fun and they take a great deal of time, which makes them extremely addicting. WoW is the same way. People play for hours upon hours upon even more hours trying to get to a certain level or get the latest item, but at the end of the day, they have learned nothing but WoW strategy valuable learning time, wasted. When a person is heavily addicted to WoW, they do not even notice that they are wasting their lives away. They do not notice that other people are improving themselves and enhancing their skills. All that matters is WoW. As ridiculous as it seems, the only difference between a minute playing WoW and a minute in a relationship is that your body tells you that spending the minute in a relationship is acceptable. They have both been effectively wasted in respect to a man who spent that minute studying, practicing free throws, or throwing a baseball. The guy in the relationship will shout "nerd" at the kid who spent his minutes wisely just as the man who does drugs wishes to coerce the person who does not into being hooked because he is insecure about his habits. It is a shame that most nerds turn to videogames, because with productive imput with all the minutes that we are given on this earth, a man who is single will make groundbreaking leaps in whatever field he enters, while the man who is not will never think that the relationship he values so much is the very thing that is preventing him from doing the same. 

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Today I ate a hotdog. That hotdog had ketchup on it. That was a good hotdog. Yum. I also went to school today to enhance my education.  I went to history today and learned about some history. I went to Spanish today and learned about some spanish. I went to english today to learn about some english. I went to study hall today and studied in a hall. School was very exciting. I wish it were this exciting every day because then that would make school generally more exciting. Furthermore it would be nice if the school were bright orange all over. Then it would make an impression on every single car that passed by it. While this idea may seem insane, it would make a larger imprint on a passerby than the black college preparatory school message that was just recently added to the school sign. The whole argument comes down to this. The school should be painted orange. All people who do not believe that the school should be painted orange should refer to the previous statement. 

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There are many instances in which the media has affected Otiz's story. In one instance the media offers her a product that will help her succeed in her gym class and gain weight in order to look more like wonder woman. This was potentially a negative interaction with the media because it influenced her to change her body to fit certain characteristics that were not natural. Her mother recognized this and refused to buy this product for her. She is also affected by her encounter with Santa Clause because Christmas is an important holiday and this experience altered her view on the world. The media also affects the ideas of large groups of individuals as illustrated by the story of Tim, where it is unknown whether or not Tim's father knew the Puerto Rican army, but it is very likely that he did not and was rather acting upon a disposition placed within him by the media. This allowed for a large impact on the lives of the entire family. 

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My gender is that I am male. I have been male my whole life. When I was younger, however, my idea of being male was very tentative. I was unsure of what it meant to be male or why people did what they did to flaunt their gender. While part of me understood the fact that males would want to flaunt their superior strength, the flaunting of prepubescent strength seemed very strange to me. At that stage there was very little discernible difference in strength. Girls would generally be weaker, but often there were girls who would be stronger than most males in the class. Regardless of how abnormally strong the girl was, it was devastating to lose to a girl in a battle of strength. This illustrates that these children, and I, had already been conformed to certain ideas about gender. Men were supposed to be strong and women were supposed to be inferior in that field. When a child attempted to ignore the stereotype they would be ridiculed by their peers. At this age, children are not very intelligent and would rather accept another person's view of the world than to formulate a view of their own because it is easier. Thus, my view of gender is stereotypical. 

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I support gay marriage rights. All couples should be able to experience the same rights and benefits that go along with being married for both legal and intimate purposes. There is very little practical purpose to limiting the happiness or freedom of two people simply because they have chosen to love a person of the same gender; in fact, often same-sex couples have the strongest and longest lasting relationships because they have chosen to marry a person despite the radical peer pressure against it. In this manner, a homosexual individual will not settle for a person who is below their standards or whom they think are risky, but will choose a reliable companion who will help them withstand the hateful minority prejudices that are ever so common in today's world. Homosexual marriage has many controversial sub topics, but strangely one of the most prominent aspects that brings up the most controversy is the name of the actual action itself. I believe that having a different name just for the marriage of homosexuals is morally wrong because it promotes the subordination of them in some way, but it may be the most practical solution as many refuse to compromise at all unless the name is changed. 

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In this metaphor he compares the lifestyles of two families, one with both a mother and a father, the other, a broken relationship. With statistical backing he states that a child raised by a whole family has a greater chance of succeeding than the one raised by the broken relationship, recognizing the fact that failures are infrequent on both sides. He relates the metaphor therein by envisioning one plane that has a 90% of landing successfully to the whole family, and a plane that has an 80% chance of landing to the broken family. While both planes have a strong and fairly similar chance of landing safely, the analogy argues the fact that even a slight increase in effectivity is worth endeavoring to take the plane that has the greater odds of landing successfully. The metaphor also applies a second facet of raising a child. It takes the fear many people have of being on a plane that crashes and uses it to make the implication that the dangers of a plane are approximately the same as those of raising a child incorrectly, for crashing a plane, like the raising of a child, can only be done once. 

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The author waits to choose to tell the reader of the heterosexuality of the victims in the anecdote to alert the reader of the tuning out effect that they would likely employ toward a homosexual person. If he had told the reader right away, then he would have allowed the reader to grasp the concept that it was a straight victim immediately, and they would never have been able to understand the subtle subconscious prejudices that they have against homosexuals. As it stands now the average reader is led to believe that this story is just one of many acts out of antigay violence, but the fact that the intended audience and the victims of the story are both straight causes the straight audience to suddenly feel a short moment of panic and surprise upon the awareness that the victims were actually straight. Suddenly the issue is no longer distant like they think of most issues involving homosexuality. Many stubborn individuals will hold their view away from the argument when reading it, and in a sense, ignore all things that they do not agree or want to agree with. This sort of delayed information tricks that sort of person by merging the sympathy a straight audience feels for a straight victim with the frequent victimization of homosexuals. Such an interesting twist makes the text exceptionally difficult to monotonously toss aside. 

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In appearances the author uses fancy language to try to implicitly infect the reader with his point of view using complicated diction and specialized syntax that requires in depth thought and insight to understand. Wolfsan's structure, rather, is very organized and laid out. It is quite easy to determine from the reading the point of the passage and the idea being presented. He simply begins with a thesis that summarizes his thoughts and backs up his thesis and the rest of his argument with a wide variety of sources. he also chooses the focus of his argument quite well. He appeals to the audience with sources like a court case, which makes his point difficult to disagree with, and he avoids the more tentative issues which will encourage a reader to ignore the material being presented, regardless of its truth. As such, he does not bring up the controversial issue of gay marriage, choosing rather to present issues like all of the other issues that gay couples are being specifically denied. 

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Based on the criteria discussed, Eustace does appear to be a transcendentalist. Tired of the changes and rules inherent of the humanized world, Eustace decided to live out in the wild where there were no rules. He takes great appreciation in all of the animals and trees in the wild and he shows appreciation for the way in which the utilization of the nature allows him to live. Transcendentalists have an opinion very similar to this. They believe that the every animal contains a piece of divinity, and that in the instance that one world conflicts with their beliefs, they can use their influence to change that and create a new world. In moving out to the wild to rid himself of the classic human influence and trends, Eustace created a new world for himself. In this world the opinions of all of the other humans in the worlds are of miniscule importance. He maps his life the way that he wants to and he acknowledges the importance of the animals that he must kill in order to survive. In this way he is a transcendentalist. 

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There were many to chose from, but this one really stood out. "The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. I liked this quote because I could actually understand it. Those who have become corrupt will begin to use corrupt language and utilize the previous innocence of the language to accomplish corrupt tasks. Once been taken advantage of however, those who do not use corrupt language will lose faith in the sublime verity, which they had taken every word stated to hold.  They will begin to see faults in the language even if they are not there, and they will not blindly accept statements as they are. This can be seen in politics. Politicians stretch the truth and misrepresent information with such a frequency that those who hear them speaking, regardless of whether they are telling the truth, will begin to doubt the verity of their statements. Thus, the statements lose their value. This, however, would never had occurred if the language had never been abused in the first place.

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Elizabeth Gilbert wrote this book to exemplify the ideals and the lifestyle of Eustace Conway. Eustace recognized the atypical environment that humans live in and wished to rid himself of this aversion to nature by living off the land in the wilderness. Gilbert wished to convey this message through her book. One example of this occurred when Eustace mentioned that we live our lives in boxes and circles. This exemplifies his view in a metaphorical manor, as humans are restricted in his opinion by the many people that have placed down the foundation to modern civilization. Rules and regulations have restricted everything we do. Eustace hates this a great deal, and he is annoyed to such a degree that he says this statement in the way that he does. 

Schools and morals

Richard is taught morality in black boy through the white person's lens. His whole view of the world is altered through the way in which white people and black people who have already accepted the viewpoint tell him. This relates to the article because the article describes the way in which a mandatory school system defines our world. It is a portal for the government to project its values onto society. Thus, the entire view of our youth is controlled by the government. Wright must cope with the grip of the white race on determining public view of society as participants of the mandatory public school system must accept the government's view of society. The grip of the government on the definition of morality is strong. The government controls the public school system which controls what the students see and hear for a great portion of their lives. This relates because they have now developed the government's view on how to see the world once they have endured this system. 

When Wright reaches the end of the novel he realizes that everyone is suffering in the way that he had been suffering throughout his life. He discovers that even the white race, which had abusively dominated the black race through racist ideals, was miserable. He realizes that this is the case because when he tries to no longer be a member of the communist party, the communist party continues to pester him and discredit him due to his unusual status as a writer. He was also denied a place in the March Day Parade, a politicly unbiased celebration of the based, simply because of the color of his skin. I believe in his philosophy to some extent, but it seems a bit like a complaint because he has been discriminated against for so long. While his opinion has some validity, it was spawned through great annoyance and hatred of the illogical racism that was rampant in society. Thusly, It is very unlikely that he would have come to this conclusion had he been white, which ethos finds very unappealing.  

Politicians vs Artists

Artists and politicians stand on opposing poles because they broadcast their information differently and for very different reasons. An artists goal is to broadcast himself just as he is. He wishes to convey to the world his feelings and emotions through his artwork, hoping that others will interpret his artwork in the same way. A politician on the other hand, will not present himself as he actually is, but rather, as the world wants him to be. Regardless of who he actually is and the qualifications that he actually has, a politician must skew information, and often, lie and deceive to be elected. So they have opposite castings of information. An artist conveys the truth, and a politician conveys whatever will get him elected. Because of the lies that already occur in politics, a fledgling politician has no choice but to adopt the policy of cheating and subtly telling lies to earn votes. A politician that conveys his views in the same manner that an artist paints a picture will certainly fail. 

One voice

The question, can one voice move a crowd to action is a debatable one, perceptively due to the fact that the givens of the question are not clearly defined. If "can" is interpreted to mean that it is valid to manipulate the givens to support the findings of at least one circumstance in which the statement holds true, then the answer to that question would be yes. Because the givens are not defined, I shall establish the conditions, which have not been set and evaluate the chances of success for the lone voice. One is crowd size. With a very small crowd one voice does make a difference.  If there are three people, it is quite easy to sway the opinion of the other two. One is how radical a change the voice advocates.A more radical change from the norm will require more time to sway the crowd into believing in swaying a change. Time can also be an important variable because when a person is given a large timeframe, they do not have to attack all the different viewpoints simultaneously. A voice can then attack one individual at a time, gradually building a general opinion. Finally another variable is the malleability, often inversely proportional to age, of the crowd you are trying to sway. A more malleable crowd might require less time and effort to change an existing opinion. With five variables and only one equation, I cannot solve this question, however, I can provide a useful, highly accurate equation based on how the aforementioned variables are set. 

then the plight of the individual will succeed. In all other circumstances, the plight of the individual will fail. 

For E=effort put forth

x=Charisma/ability of expression 

m=malleability of audience 

t=time

n=number of people

 Rn=Radiclicity of norm

Ri =Radiclicity of ideal

Where n is > 0 and Rn≠Ri  

Wright's opinion

One area in which Wright expresses his opinion through parentheses is when he is describing his job at the cafe. In this passage he depicts the cultural background of the black man to be a paradox because the negro makes up a large part of the nation, but is excluded from american culture. Wright explains here that the oppression that keeps an otherwise large and influential part of society from contributing was established through years of hate and developed habit. Wright indicates that this is an almost irreversible change. This change is not necessarily irreversible, but it cannot easily and peacefully be reversed in a short period of time. Such a radical action would appear to be a violation of white culture. Much like the blacks had accepted and conformed to their oppression, the whites have accepted and conformed to their domination. Such a change would require a will that few people possess. Even if all blacks were to think the same thing at the same time, few would be inclined to do anything, accepting and conforming to the culture had made them lazy. 

The change

The change that right sets forward seems to be a positive change. He says that he is fleeing from a terrorizing culture. He understands the intricate facets of racism and he understands the effect that a prolonged exposure to such a society will have on himself. He has seen this change happen all around him. He sees evidence that this change occurs in his uncle, mother, and nearing the end of part 1, shorty. Wright is completely abnormal in that he has not yet adapted to the racism in the way that almost every other black individual has. Throughout the novel Richard Wright is compelled by individuals, both white and black, to accept the world for what it is and make the best of the situation by allowing the white race to be dominant. Richard also begins seeing this change in himself when he is cheated when he goes to work for Mr. Crane and cannot say so without fearing that he is putting his life in jeopardy. Fearing that he might become just like shorty and be chronically manipulated by the white race and indifferent to racism, Wright feels he must leave to preserve his individual thought. 

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Subservience is a necessary part of living occasionally for Wright. Sometimes one can live comfortably without subservience, illustrated by Wright's ability to survive in the world for the extended period of time that he could not grasp the idea of conforming to society. Other times however, the realities part, and subservience and conformity become an important part of surviving in the world. This is shown by Wright's job with the two men who falsely accuse him and result in his resignation. Wright must adapt to the situation and determine whether subservience is the most viable option, or if it is worth sacrificing his morals to take the path of subservience. Sometimes the subservience is accidental. When Wright fought with Harrison it was not intended to be a real fight, but it became one, and resulted in a subservient position that neither of the people in the fight wished to be in. This subservience was unavoidable, but once the fight started, there was no backing out. If the circumstances of Wright's life had been different, he might have not ever had to confront this issue of subservience, but his life was not different, so he had to confront that issue. 

Coping

When wright says that he had begun coping with the white world too late he means that he has lived in his own reality in which the races were equal because in a logical sense, to him they were. As he found out, however, he underestimated the malice that the white world would inflict upon him. He was tricked by the white society. He tried to play the game of life fairly and lost. Such an example can be found in one of the jobs that Wright occupies. While the owner is enthusiastic about hiring Wright, the two men that the owner hired to train Wright are not. Because they fear that Wright will do their jobs better than they can, instead of teaching Wright how to do the job, they think up false accusations like forgetting to address one of them as "Mr." Caught in a situation in which he cannot win, Wright is forced to leave the job he is in, and, fearing for his life, he does not tell the owner why he chose to resign. Unlike many other crises Wright faces, this one clearly illustrates that the concept of simply conforming to the white way of life, which he cannot grasp, cannot be ignored. He is mad at himself, but caught in a lose-lose situation, Wright cannot avoid this confrontation with reality any longer. 

Speech

Wright is justified in refusing to say the speech by the standards that we instill in children today, but to say that he is justified in refusing it in general assumes truths that may not have been accepted at the time of the speech. The White people in the audience would rather have the blacks completely subordinate, and anything that suggests that black people are like white people would threaten the White person's self justification of the discrimination towards blacks. Because in his society the white opinion is what matters, in his current situation, Wright may not have been justified in his rejection of the speech because it offended the white population and served as a rupture in the status quo. If one is to accept that the races are equal, Wright has perfect justification in his refusal to read the speech that would be less offensive to the white people, but in a world in which only the white are permitted to determine what is justifiable, he was certainly not justified in straying at all from the path in which the white people would prefer him to take. 

Uncle

Wright gets really angry at his uncle because he does not understand the concept that his uncle got so angry about. The argument was over a simple telling of the time. When the uncle asked for the time, Wright told him an approximation of the time and the uncle scolded him for it. Wright did not understand why it was important so he argued back. The main reason that Wright got angry is that the idea that the uncle is trying to instill in him is completely foreign to him and makes little logical sense. He does not understand the idea of conformity to the illogical situation that should benefit him in the long run. The uncle believes that thinking for oneself will only cause long term problems, and that Wright should just accept the dominance of others over him and continue life with the acceptance of this truth. Wright does not understand this sort of domination because his uncle is a figure that has no real influence in his life, but wishes to take a position of power over him. While the way the world is set up would benefit Wright to conform to society and concede to his uncle's seemingly pointless domination, Wright lacks the capability to understand this and becomes very angry at the entire concept. 

Wright in regards to his writing

Wright feels gratified by his writing because it is the one thing in his reality that, he feels, provides him with power. In other aspects of his life, he feels like he has no power over his situation. Even religion does not do this for him. He contemplates that most people can use religion as an outlet for their suffering because it provides hope of an eternal paradise that will make earthly suffering seem unimportant. Wright does not understand religion. He says that he will believe in religion if he has any evidence that it is there, but without evidence he has no reason to believe that there is anything in the world besides suffering. Writing, however, does relinquish some of the helpless suffering that Wright feels. When he sees the reaction of his neighbor to his writing, he realizes that this writing can have a substantial effect on the world and thus, empower him. Because Wright discovers that he can have some sort of control over the world through writing, he discovers that this would be a good thing to pursue, because with practice, he figures that he can craft his stories to benefit him greatly.

.ɹǝɥʇoɯ s,ʇɥbıɹʍ ɟo sısʎ1ɐɹɐd ǝɥʇ oʇ uoıʇɔɐǝɹ s,ʇɥbıɹʍ puɐ ɹǝɥʇoɯ s,ʇɥbıɹʍ ɟo sısʎ1ɐɹɐd ǝɥʇ

Wright is very unhappy about hearing about his mother's paralysis. Before his mother had a stroke, Wright says that he felt like he had some control over the world and how it worked, but when his mother had a stroke, it changed all that. The few truths that he had established in his mind about the world had been broken, and with nothing left that he felt like he had power over in the actual world, Wright felt compelled to create a different mental world because then he feels like he can have some control over the outcomes and his happiness. He had previously been interested in superstitions for a similar reason. Even though they have very little effect on the world as it runs, the fact that it seems like they do and that he can control them made it worthwhile for him to live in that reality. There is very little left, he realizes, in the current reality for him to stay and appreciate. Wright builds this new reality, and he wishes to remain there, for in this reality, the things closest to him will not suddenly disappear. 

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Wright says it is his cultural heritage to dislike jews because he has realized that he is inheriting the attitudes held by his parents to such an active degree that even his mother convinces him that it is a bad idea to resist conformity. At first Wright does not understand the difference between races, and when he refuses to sell a white woman a dog at a lower price than he wishes to do so, he later finds the dog dead. Rather than displaying active anger toward the white community, the mother, having already completely reformed, blames the boy for not selling the dog when he had the chance. In a sense the mother advises the boy to conform to resist the tension and problems that arise when they try to establish equality with another race. Wright does not know why he is being told to be inferior to whites, but as most young children do, he is blindly listening to what his mother says to better develop his image of the world. As such, when he is informed that he is supposed to dislike jews, he takes it as truth and does not question itto the degree that an individual of more advanced years might. 

African American Macbook

The boy is hungry because he is looking for affection and is suffering from the abandonment of his father. Because his father is usually the one making money, he has linked his father with food. In a primitive effect, he has related his father with a physical need. Thus, when his father leaves, he is left feeling abandoned, lonely, and a sense of hunger that cannot be cured through the ingestion of food. The boy did not particularly love his father, but he hungers for the sense of security that he had once his father abandons him. This is illustrated when the father gives the boy a nickel and he refuses it. He even states that he wants the nickel, but he does not want it from his father. He understands that while the nickel has monetary value, voluntarily receiving it from his father portrays a sense of dependency that he is looking to avoid. His mother agrees with his decision to decline the money despite the value of what was being offered. The boy therein chooses to sacrifice the real satisfaction of hunger in the hopes that his emotional hunger created by the relation of food to his father will diminish.

Schooling

The question of whether I agree with schooling is a difficult one, for while some schooling is clearly necessary,  schooling placed at too high of a degree has the potential to induce apathy and lack of motivation to learn when pursuing an education. I believe, however, that even apathetic school can be beneficial to society. Gatto says that school induces a great deal of consumerism. Consumerism, however, is a good thing. It keeps a flow of money moving through society and stimulates the economy. Seeing as we are in the middle of a recession, I have to say that Gatto's forced school performing poorly, and assuming he is correct, why not pack in a few extra years of forced schooling? Maybe then the economy will get the boost it needs. This is not the only point he makes, but society has created school for a reason. Sometimes it prepares a person for his job and sometimes it does not. The fact that information is at the tips of our fingers is important. We are genetically designed to live without an education, so if nothing influences a person to pursue an education, that person will likely not pursue an education. (insert anecdote here) When I was a young lad, I wanted to learn how to hack into computers partially because i wanted to protect myself and partially because I was a devious fellow. After spending hours on the internet, however, I could find very little, (probably for a reason). That whole time I just wished that I could take a class that taught me that information quickly and easily. After manifesting more effort than any logical person could ever be expected to exert in one field, I came out with only a very basic knowledge of what I wanted to know. Some might argue that it was a lack of schooling that established such a curiosity, others might say that I do not fall under Gatto's argument. Now that I have rambled for long enough I will express my opinion in a few sentences. I believe that it is important to have schooling to teach basic skills and to serve as a form of advertising or, in a sense, to stimulate the interests of students, but I think that more advanced schooling should be performed out of one's own inspiration, which is already in effect, it is called college.  

Nonacademic education

I love my nonacademic education. University High School more than any other schooling location has taught me the more subtle aspects of school life. More than just Science and English, University High School has taught me how to talk to people, discuss problems with teachers, and develop valuable relationships with my peers. One of the more valuable aspects of University High School with regard to nonacademic education is the mentoring system. The mentoring system helps me deal with my problems in a rational way, but most of the time, I do not have problems that I need to discuss with my mentor. J-term is also very non-academicly valuable. J-term develops a lighter side to school, students, and teachers, by reducing stress, focusing on one subject, and through choice, allows students to focus on areas they are most interested in. With school established as a lesser problem, students can focus on nonacademic enrichment with each other and with their teachers. Extracurricular activities have also been a vital part of my nonacademic development. They allow me to get to know teachers and students in a nonacademic setting. That allows me to develop  myself non-academically. 

Blawg

The presentations were  great. I completely understood the rhetoric found in almost all of the objects in the pictures. I was so proud. I also found a nickel under my seat during one of the presentations. So as to not disturb the presenter, I decided that I would attentively listen to the remainder of his presentation before reaching down to retrieve the nickel under my chair. While one might think that it would be nearly impossible to ignore a perfectly good nickel under my chair simply to preserve the dignity of the presenter, as it came to be the presentation was genuinely interesting enough that I completely forgot about the nickel under my chair until the termination of the presentation.

The presentations were interesting because it surprised me how many objects that I merely pass by in everyday life have significant rhetorical purpose and are deviously trying to manipulate my subconscious mind into buying things that I don't need or telling my mind that I am having a better time than I am. 

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Kendall believes that the media takes an existant problem in society and exacerbates it. I believe that this is true and has been true for about as long as the media has existed. The media's expansion of issues has been getting even worse recently as the media has depicted a more in depth image of the upper class as something that every person should aspire to. It is not depicted as something that coexists with the lower class, but something that every lower class man should aspire to become. This has created too many positive expectations. If the point of living is to be happy, it is bad to paint the idea of happiness as only one thing. This causes the lower classes to feel as if they have failed, often creating the need to disguise such feelings through the use of alcohol, worsening their condition. Kendall believes that the media needs to stop painting the lower classes as bad and the upper classes ideal, because in her opinion, this creates the idea that, in denial, a lower class person will purchase things above their means to experience that feeling of success that the media tells them they should desire. 

I found several photos that represent visual rhetoric. I found a photo a statue of a man helping a statue of what appears to be a small girl ride a statue of a bicycle. I also found a picture of a mildly large structure in carmel that has a sign atop it that says Carmel Arts and Design District. I also found a picture painted on entire side of a large old-looking building. These pictures have very rhetorical underlying purposes. The picture of the building with the painting on the side of a wall was clearly attempting to portray the artistic nature of the district. With my keen eye for rhetoric, I heroically spotted this and took a picture of the building so that I may wrote about it later in a project that I will have to do. I also took another picture. That picture is the picture previously described above about the carmel structure. This carmel structure wishes to send the message that Arts and Design is important. I spotted this clever ruse and now my blog is done. 

Gitlin

Gitlin makes the argument that almost all of the media present in the world can fit the definition of American. I agree with Gitlin. It seems that American media has become a standard in the world which other nations attempt to follow. Gitlin brings up the point that America now somewhat represents a marketplace of the world. Because other countries have so emulated the American environment, testing a product's success in America has become a great indicator for how the product will perform in the rest of the world, but this is not a fault in any sense, for if america is successful, it seems only logical that other nations will try to follow in its footsteps to emulate it. New technology is formed from standing on the shoulders of giants and business and media have simply utilized the same strategy. This makes sense to me and a completely agree with his point. America has become something of a role model for the rest of the world in regards to the media, and it will be interesting to see how the countries of the world will intertwine further in the future. 

Jean Kilbourne

Jean Kilbourne believes that it is dangerous to illustrate men and women as sex objects because it provides men with the image that they are dominant is extremely degrading to women. She believes that once they have been objectified to that level, it is then much easier to treat them with disrespect and disregard their opinions. This was historically illustrated in the holocaust in Nazi Germany. When the persecution of the Jews began, Hitler ensured that the view of a Jew was significantly lesser. Once they had been dehumanized and disrespected by the general public, he then had the power to do all that he wanted to do to them without inciting a strong enough rebellion to knock him out of power. In reality, the Jews were not subhuman; however, to admit this would be to sacrifice all dictatorial power and concede his religious conquest, for without such opinions the public would never have allowed the slaughter to occur. While Kilbourne does not suspect a gender holocaust, she wishes to admonish the public of the desensitivity that may arise if such media manipulation continues. 

Superbowl ads

I noticed that the ads on the Superbowl were more focused on making you remember them than convincing you to purchase the product. Furthermore, the ads utilized classic male interests as a method of inciting memory, through the use of woman pursuit, male actors, and interesting events like explosions. This is exemplified by the Budweiser commercials which featured a horse and a dog going through various mini-adventures. While this had absolutely nothing to do with beer, the fact that it had nothing to do with what it was advertising was enough to make remember the commercial. Throughout all of the commercials, I also never saw a woman star as the mail role of one of the commercial, illustrating the ad creators' compliance to the target audience. Finally there were no commercials for products that were designed mainly for women. Products regarding the skin or hair were not advertised during the Super Bowl. They were instead replaced by ads representing more manly interests like beer consumption, or soda.

Manny Freebus

This article connects with what we have previously studied through the mention of the necessary meeting halfway that must occur with any story telling or transfer of knowledge of an event; however, this point takes a new perspective when applied to the media. The article mentions that people will never look at the same situation in the same way and will therefore relay their experience in a different way than the listener might in an identical situation. This means that when a media source relays its stories, it will put emphasis on different specific parts of an events than the viewer might have had they been the one experiencing it. When the event is then perceived by the viewer, they will likely have painted a slightly different picture than was intended. They will, however, believe that they have learned the absolute truth of the occurrences of the scenario. Another way that media can be skewed is through the use of inferences rather than the use of description to relay events. The passage provides the example of an overweight individual named Manny Freebus. One statement provides his weight and height. Another indicates the common assumption of eating too much that would be made from that description of his height and weight. Instead, however, it indicates that the assumption that he ate too much was incorrect, and that he is overweight due an unrelated gland issue. This displays the way that the media can skew ideas through only relaying facts. In this circumstance, given only the description of his height and weight and not informed of his gland problem, many viewers would falsely condemn poor Manny Freebus for eating too much. Much like a white lie, the news may also carefully choose the information that they provide, so that although the information that they provide is true, the most common inferences from that information are not true.