Month: March 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QXif2Ojeo

Group member: Zushan Liu, Abhiraj Gill

The video makes the argument that people should be kind to each other. Pathos is dominant in this video because it appeals to emotion and that is also shown in the visuals. The video started with the main character being reluctant to be kind to strangers. He grew more open to being kind to others and that change created a change in his life. He is shown to have a more positive attitude towards everything after helping the old lady cross the road. There is also a cycle of life in the video. The old lady helped him feel better by helping someone, and the character is seen doing the same at the end of the video, acting like a blind person so another man can experience the joy of helping others the same way he did. A visual change also occurs after the man has a change in his character, everywhere he goes seems to be brighter, and more colorful than the first half of the video, which asserts his happiness and change of heart. The main character is also seen wearing colorful clothes, instead of the black ones he always wears. 

 

A wise old gentleman retired and bought a home near a middle school. He mainly spent his summers in his cottage. Then the school year began, and his peace and quiet came to a sudden halt.

On the first day of school three boys came down. The alley beating merrily on every trash can they see, and the same thing happens the next day and the next, and the noise started driving the wise old man crazy. Time for action.

On the first day of school, three boys came down the alley. They merrily beat on every trash can they saw and the same thing happened the following days. The noise started driving the wise old man crazy and he decided it was time for action. 

The next afternoon, he stopped the drummers as they banged their way down the street. He said, “You kids are a lot of fun! I love hearing your drumming because it is so cheerful and it reminds me of what I used to do at your age. Will you do me a favor?”

The boys looked at him suspiciously. “What?” they asked, “I’ll give you a dollar if you promise to come around every single day and keep beating on those trash cans,” said the man.

The boys were thrilled. Everyday they pounded on trash cans and collected a dollar.

After about a week, the wise old man stopped the boys again and this time he looked a little bit sad. “I still love your drumming,” he said to the boys, “however, I’m afraid

spending a dollar a day is hard on me because I’m on a fixed income. From now on, I’m only going to be able to pay you 50 cents to beat on the cans.”

 

The boys weren’t too happy, but they decided to accept 50 cents a day, and they continued beating on all the trash cans. After another week, the clever old man stopped the boys again. “I’ve got more bad news,” he said. “My Social Security check hasn’t come yet, so I’m not going to be able to give you more than 25 cents a day. Is that all right?”

“Are you kidding?” said one of the boys. “We’re not going to waste our time beating on those trash cans only for a lousy quarter! We quit!”

The wise old man smiled, enjoying his peace and quiet.

 

 

Abhiraj Gill, Briana Do

Please review the sentences in the following paragraph for fragments, and quotation marks errors. Then correct all of them. There may also be other errors, so please review the sentences more carefully once you complete fragment and quotation errors. 

A minister walking down a country lane sees a young farmer struggling to load hay back onto a cart. The minister says to him, “You look hot, my son, rest a moment and let me give you a hand.”

“No thanks,” says the young man. “My father wouldn’t like it.”

“I’m sure he wouldn’t mind,” the minister said. “Everyone is entitled to a break. Come and have a drink of water.” Again, the young man said that his father would be upset.

Losing his patience, the minister said, “Your father must be a real slave driver. I’d like to give him a piece of my mind! Tell me, where can I find him?”

“Well,” replied the young farmer, “look down. He’s under a load of hay.”

 

 

Is this plagiarism or not?

No, this is common knowledge. 1. Kyoko needs to write a report on American politics.  

She looks up Barack Obama on Wikipedia and discovers he is the 44th president of the United States.  

She includes this information in her report but doesn’t mention Wikipedia.

____Y_2. Tam is writing a paper on a novel for his English class.  Since the whole class is reading

the same book, he doesn’t need to use a citation.

It does not matter how many people use a resource, you need to cite.

___Y__3. Sugi wrote a paper for his European history class last semester and got an A on the

paper. This semester, his Political Science class is addressing some of the same issues that are in

his History paper.  He checks with his professor first who agrees with Sugi, so he uses the

material from his History paper.

Answer: He still does need to cite the paper, even though He is copying from his own 

essay , he still needs to cite the source since, one document was created before the other 

And the second one copies the first one, which falls under plagiarism.

 

_Yes. They took information from the internet, and did not site their sources. 4. Ramiro,

 Stephan, April, and Chris are working on a group project. Chris submits his work and

 the others suspect that some of it came from the Internet, but it sounds good, so 

they submit it.

_No, paraphrasing is not plagiarism if done correctly_5. Maria finds a lot of good 

information for her paper on the Internet.  She carefully changes the wording and 

prepares a good paraphrase. She doesn’t copy anything verbatim.

 

B.

Directions:  Decide whether the information described in each scenario will require citation

 of the source (Y or N) and explain why.

___Y__1. You clearly identify the source at the beginning of a paragraph that summarizes the

author’s ideas about teenage drinking.  Since readers will naturally assume all of the ideas 

In the paragraph are from the source, no additional citation is necessary.

Make sure that this resource is cited in the reference list/works cited, also should reinstate where the information was from. 

___N__2. In your paper on the history of aviation you state the date of the Wright brothers’

First successful flight at Kitty Hawk.

Answer: Since this is very commonly well-known fact, citation here is not necessary 

N, common knowledge doesn’t need to be cited 3. In a paper on the civil rights

movement you find some general, well-known background information in an encyclopedia.  It is obviously common knowledge, so you copy the

and include it in your paper.

___N__4. You ask your mother about the steps she went through in obtaining a bank loan for a new car. You include this information in your paper.

_Y_ since her story and information about her personal experienced was mentioned to

 shed light on something, she becomes a source of primary research and information and 

It must be cited.

__Y___5. You skim a 325-page book entitled Using the Internet

. A major theme throughout the book is that the Internet is an important technological

achievement.  You include this in your paper.

_Y_ the book should be cited since its information was included in the paper.

 

 

 

 

Brainstorming through ideas for the analysis, a topic that is on the radar of every reader is the war in Ukraine. All the articles have different agendas, naturally so is everyone’a politics. Some use facts while some use pathos to make people feel for the people of Ukraine, so there is a lot of articles to be analyzed on that topic. Some topics do with, and the logos is undercut by contradictory emotional argument.

Another is climate, for years people have had different opinions about it, and while some companies use logos to tell the reader about the irreversible change happening on the planet, some have different agendas and write claiming it to be a hoax.

Outline-

With the Russian invasion- articles write about whether the US made a appropriate response to the Russians.

-Give a brief summary of the editorial

• Analyze the arguments made by the author
• See how his/her structure is similar of different to the topics talked about in the 6th chapter.
• See if two different appeals are used, if so, do they help each others points or undercut one another.