From basement to University, San Jose State University has history. This history can be investigated and traced around the bay area. With the 150th Anniversity special report by The San Jose Mercury News, it makes it even easier to do the research.
This Topic interested me first of all because it has the San Jose State written all over it and know nothing, let me say that again, NOTHING about the history of San Jose State University. With this I could do the research that I would have done, if I wasn’t so lazy in High school, and learn the reaches of San Jose State University. I could also add my personal experiences of a student life in state. Half of the research is done for me and I could go on campus to further my research opportunity also since I live in the same area that the school is located I could get even more information then if I was across the world.
Of course I could follow multiple leads and end up in different places, which allow the flexibility I love the most. Plus the topic is narrow yet wide enough to start and finish. It is also on going with, every graduating student. There is also lots of places to place my opinions and ideas as well. I could follow the steps on how a university is made and how it grows, wit the problems and tribulations that it goes threw. I could interview the president and look up places and historical land marks to take pictures my self.
http://www.mercurynews.com/sjsu150/
February 22, 2009
Sob Stories
To find out the differences between Beck’s advocacy from that of the AVODAH alumni, we must first look at how AVODAH runs. First of all AVODAH is a Jewish organization, that targets Jewish individuals in their 20s. This filter’s out potential volunteers to the organization, from people of different religions to Jews that are not in their 20s. This shows that the main focus of this organization is not the good will of people but the good will of young Jews. I am not demining the AVODAH cause, I state that I am impartial to this subject and only attacking it because of class. Also the length of the term, one year as a full-time employees in local non-profit organizations, could deter volunteers who just want to volunteer some of their time or volunteers who can’t stay the whole year. The year stay will form “a community of people making a connection between social activism and Jewish life.” is plausible in the situation where a group of people live together, just like college, and create friendships. Also the same goal in helping other will only strengthen and accelerate the bonding.
Beck’s advocacy is a call for justice. Her no holds style of promoting Public Citizen to stop the Clinton Administration trade agreement is more aggressive than AVODAH. The story first and info embedded style is strikingly professional, and more effective in delivering ethos to the reader. My only vice to this is that it is very long and it takes awhile to find all the information and basics unlike AVODAH were it is all on the first page.
Beck’s advocacy is a call for justice. Her no holds style of promoting Public Citizen to stop the Clinton Administration trade agreement is more aggressive than AVODAH. The story first and info embedded style is strikingly professional, and more effective in delivering ethos to the reader. My only vice to this is that it is very long and it takes awhile to find all the information and basics unlike AVODAH were it is all on the first page.
February 15, 2009
Cash Rules Every Thing Around Me
The federal government wants to give California “tax breaks, college grants, unemployment help, even money to weatherize your house.” But California is planning to cut benefits and increase taxes.
Bad timing and bad luck at the same time, talk about a raining day. From when I was young a dollar was worth a million in my mind and now days families are having to pinching a pretty penny to keep up the lifestyles that their use too. This article interests me because it’s an ongoing process that will be continually covered in the days to come. Unlike most articles which end with that one story this one can branch out into multiple ones as well.
Seeing how lifestyles change or withier the sate will compensate their bill to match the federal governments. This will also help me see the inner workings of politics. Plus it will show how miscommunications are handled in a politically correct manner. Speaking on the term politically correct, to find out what the basis of politically correct is.
White lies and false promises are what the media gives the public to believe in what politicians truly are. Expanding in this article will reveal the techniques and style that politicians use to gain the favor of the public masses and what way of analyzing opinion then analyzing the opinion of a person who reflects millions of people. Paper coverage, television, and digital media are all susceptible to the long arm reach of political media. Even personal stories could be brought into this research, like how an average family of four is dealing with the cuts and the breaks.
http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_11706920
Bad timing and bad luck at the same time, talk about a raining day. From when I was young a dollar was worth a million in my mind and now days families are having to pinching a pretty penny to keep up the lifestyles that their use too. This article interests me because it’s an ongoing process that will be continually covered in the days to come. Unlike most articles which end with that one story this one can branch out into multiple ones as well.
Seeing how lifestyles change or withier the sate will compensate their bill to match the federal governments. This will also help me see the inner workings of politics. Plus it will show how miscommunications are handled in a politically correct manner. Speaking on the term politically correct, to find out what the basis of politically correct is.
White lies and false promises are what the media gives the public to believe in what politicians truly are. Expanding in this article will reveal the techniques and style that politicians use to gain the favor of the public masses and what way of analyzing opinion then analyzing the opinion of a person who reflects millions of people. Paper coverage, television, and digital media are all susceptible to the long arm reach of political media. Even personal stories could be brought into this research, like how an average family of four is dealing with the cuts and the breaks.
http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_11706920
Voices
Voices
People have a natural curiously about news and gossip. Before written language became popular most news if not all news were passed down by word of mouth. This method had its flaws because the story could be misheard or delivered poorly with each person. This effect is popularized these days in a game called Telephone. The premise of Telephone is to give a message to a student in a classroom and that student will tell the same message to another student, and this process keeps on going until all the students had a chance to hear the message and at the end the last student tells the teacher what he or she heard.
This style of news giving would last for a while, with street annunciation in the medieval ages, where the servants of the King would get the latest news from the kingdom. During this time is were written language evolved into a major player. Only a few people knew how to read and write during this age, this ability is titled being literate. So if people wanted to write to one another they had to go to these scholars to get their message written and read.
Literacy grew the most during the Renascence, were arts and science grew as well. During this era a majority of people, from peasants to aristocrats, had a moderate literacy levels according to their civil status. Messages were know inscribed by hand more often, but not in large scales. Posters and bulletin boards were the media of choice.
The printing press is a land mark in the mass distribution of news. These could turn out 10,000 copies of a newspaper in one hour. With the Internet a dream is met, only writing once and allowing millions of people access it in no time flat. With this type of power, people can read other peoples opinions ideas in an easy and fast way.
Here are some ways that writers use in their opinion pieces.
Ethos
In California, navigating your taxes could be tricky
The author here uses the word could strategically. This persuades the reader to read closer to find and follow the suggestions the author gives, and that there is no trick at all and was just a red haring.
Pathos
Life in a year: At the third-grade play, growing into role as independent boys, girls
“During the first few years of their lives, children know they can count on a doting parent to kiss their boo-boos, to dry their tears, and too make all their problems go away. But by age 8, life intrudes. And one day you are standing on a stage, waiting for somebody to tell you what to say next.”
This excerpt shows how the author is playing with the emotion of the reader, taking them back to their former self’s with “kiss their boo-boos, to dry their tears, and too make all their problems go away..” and then throwing the reader in scared shoes “And one day you are standing on a stage, waiting for somebody to tell you what to say next.” These give little to no information and focuses on emotions.
Logos
'Shopaholic' actor says she's only acting
The author proceeds to prove this point by giving the personality traits of the actress and how she went from rags to riches and how she is nothing like her character in a logical form of way.
Communities
http://www.oprah.com/entity/oprahsbookclub
Oprah’s book club is a great example of how communities are build by writers work.
People have a natural curiously about news and gossip. Before written language became popular most news if not all news were passed down by word of mouth. This method had its flaws because the story could be misheard or delivered poorly with each person. This effect is popularized these days in a game called Telephone. The premise of Telephone is to give a message to a student in a classroom and that student will tell the same message to another student, and this process keeps on going until all the students had a chance to hear the message and at the end the last student tells the teacher what he or she heard.
This style of news giving would last for a while, with street annunciation in the medieval ages, where the servants of the King would get the latest news from the kingdom. During this time is were written language evolved into a major player. Only a few people knew how to read and write during this age, this ability is titled being literate. So if people wanted to write to one another they had to go to these scholars to get their message written and read.
Literacy grew the most during the Renascence, were arts and science grew as well. During this era a majority of people, from peasants to aristocrats, had a moderate literacy levels according to their civil status. Messages were know inscribed by hand more often, but not in large scales. Posters and bulletin boards were the media of choice.
The printing press is a land mark in the mass distribution of news. These could turn out 10,000 copies of a newspaper in one hour. With the Internet a dream is met, only writing once and allowing millions of people access it in no time flat. With this type of power, people can read other peoples opinions ideas in an easy and fast way.
Here are some ways that writers use in their opinion pieces.
Ethos
In California, navigating your taxes could be tricky
The author here uses the word could strategically. This persuades the reader to read closer to find and follow the suggestions the author gives, and that there is no trick at all and was just a red haring.
Pathos
Life in a year: At the third-grade play, growing into role as independent boys, girls
“During the first few years of their lives, children know they can count on a doting parent to kiss their boo-boos, to dry their tears, and too make all their problems go away. But by age 8, life intrudes. And one day you are standing on a stage, waiting for somebody to tell you what to say next.”
This excerpt shows how the author is playing with the emotion of the reader, taking them back to their former self’s with “kiss their boo-boos, to dry their tears, and too make all their problems go away..” and then throwing the reader in scared shoes “And one day you are standing on a stage, waiting for somebody to tell you what to say next.” These give little to no information and focuses on emotions.
Logos
'Shopaholic' actor says she's only acting
The author proceeds to prove this point by giving the personality traits of the actress and how she went from rags to riches and how she is nothing like her character in a logical form of way.
Communities
http://www.oprah.com/entity/oprahsbookclub
Oprah’s book club is a great example of how communities are build by writers work.
February 12, 2009
February 11, 2009
Blogging for Teachers
"Blogging for teachers"
Using a play off of a famous quote that Rene Descartes is known for attracted my attention like a whaling siren. "I Blog, Therefore I am". Oh Angelina Karpovich, you are so witty, I like. The slightly humorous writing is shown in small antidotes throughout her piece, in the capsules of parenthesis. This style reminds me much of my style of writing and some how brings a little smile to me. I also was impressed by her usage of "big" words that were sprinkled everywhere. Even though her style was similar to mine it was clear that the level of her English usage was at the Ph.D Candidate level. Words such as "methodologies" and "Flippancy" throw my mind into an English spin cycle. I also enjoyed how she started the piece off with a little joke "A blog?...What is that, some kind of a disease?" This small direct quotation is a great way to start an article about blogging.
My second favorite title is a total blast on the idea of Blogging, appropriately entitled "Aboard the Ideological Hot air Balloon" by Nicole Converse Livengood. His beginning statements are one I would make, if I was assigned to write on something that I didn't like. His unimpressed feeling of the blogging community and calling it "the latest techno-pedagogy bandwagon" summarizes my feelings completely as well. Blogging is a trend just like the dot com businesses and such. Livengood shows this fact as well in the example of MOOing. I never even heard of MOOing. But as the article goes on, he slowly sees some value in blogging. In his own education, and his students with "Early discussions helped students to get to know one another and helped construct strong in-class bonds; many discussions gave me a sense of what had resonated in the classroom and what had not."
Like a public diary for those to afraid to use their voices.
Using a play off of a famous quote that Rene Descartes is known for attracted my attention like a whaling siren. "I Blog, Therefore I am". Oh Angelina Karpovich, you are so witty, I like. The slightly humorous writing is shown in small antidotes throughout her piece, in the capsules of parenthesis. This style reminds me much of my style of writing and some how brings a little smile to me. I also was impressed by her usage of "big" words that were sprinkled everywhere. Even though her style was similar to mine it was clear that the level of her English usage was at the Ph.D Candidate level. Words such as "methodologies" and "Flippancy" throw my mind into an English spin cycle. I also enjoyed how she started the piece off with a little joke "A blog?...What is that, some kind of a disease?" This small direct quotation is a great way to start an article about blogging.
My second favorite title is a total blast on the idea of Blogging, appropriately entitled "Aboard the Ideological Hot air Balloon" by Nicole Converse Livengood. His beginning statements are one I would make, if I was assigned to write on something that I didn't like. His unimpressed feeling of the blogging community and calling it "the latest techno-pedagogy bandwagon" summarizes my feelings completely as well. Blogging is a trend just like the dot com businesses and such. Livengood shows this fact as well in the example of MOOing. I never even heard of MOOing. But as the article goes on, he slowly sees some value in blogging. In his own education, and his students with "Early discussions helped students to get to know one another and helped construct strong in-class bonds; many discussions gave me a sense of what had resonated in the classroom and what had not."
Like a public diary for those to afraid to use their voices.
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