Group Members: Tyler, Henry, Raya

Activity 1: For a long time my stepson Jonathan has been unhappy to have me as part of his family, he resents that he doesn’t have both biological parents at home. I try to get to know him better, but he complains that I invade his privacy. As a newcomer, I understand that our relationship will require effort from both of us. It is not enough that I am friendly. Jonathan also has to want us to be friends. I’m not happy with the two of us being strangers, but I can wait for him to feel more comfortable around me.

Activity 2: Anne Marie collects antique bottles and loves to turn them into works of art. She will buy bottles if she likes them, but she prefers to find them in the ground. She finds bottles everywhere, but she picks them selectively. However, she has the best luck at construction sites, and on old farmland where she spends most of her time. Often, bottles appear on the surface after a good rain, but they disappear very soon. She will use special tools for excavating bottles, including a set of brushes. She did not want to break the bottles as she removed them from the ground. After finding a new bottle, Anne Marie will add it to her display case and hang it on the wall as an artistic piece. (Mangelsdorf, 2013, p. 411).

 

Speech Reflection

(Juliana Chang, “Heritage Language Loss in Second Generation East Asian Americans”)

Something in the very beginning of her speech that is incredibly effective is her use of a photograph of her mother and herself as well as explaining the emotionally charged anecdote that goes along with it. Using a personal story, connecting with her audience through humor, and providing statistics all work to establish a strong sense of ethos. Her visual aid is very organized and doesn’t overwhelm her ideas with too much content and text, but rather adds to her presentation and assists in her audience’s understanding. Her delivery is also incredibly effective. Her body language as well as her tone of voice are very engaging. In her conclusion, she does a great job of summarizing the main points and information that she covered throughout her speech to leave the audience with her biggest ideas. To conclude her speech she returns to her introduction and her own personal story, once again sharing a photograph of her family. She delivers a powerful poem she wrote about her experience with the subject, and very effectively uses pathos to leave an impression on her audience that she wouldn’t be able to do with solely facts and data.

Group Names: Raya, Alaa, and Jeric

From this natural disaster image, it shows a tsunami disaster that impacted Japan. This image could be used to support a claim about the severity of this natural disaster or to support a claim about how much devastation was caused. The image shows a huge amount of water quickly flooding the street and easily overturning large vehicles. This emphasizes how powerful it is and the amount of damage it has the potential to cause. From the tsunami, it devastated and destroyed homes, businesses, roads, and so much more which affected the people and communities. Many were also killed from this natural disaster that occurred. This image also evokes a sense of fear, anxiety, and intensity, further supporting the idea that it was a very severe and dangerous event. 

 

Group Names: Elisabeth, Tyler, Raya 

Activity 1:

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. “You look hot, my son,” said the minister, “Rest a moment, and let me give you a hand.”

“No thanks,” said 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 I can find him!”

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

Activity 2:

Please read the following passage carefully and improve the sentences by changing their verb tenses and appropriate subordinating conjunctions (joining words, such as who, whose, which, that, whereas, because, etc.). Also, remember FANBOYS to help you use correct punctuation. Please highlight the changes you make to these sentences. If you need further help, please review the examples and explanations of coordination and subordination here

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A wise old gentleman retired and bought a home near a middle school. He mostly 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 saw. The same thing happens the next day and the next, and the noise starts driving the wise old man crazy. Time for action.

The next afternoon, he stopped the drummers as they banged their way down the street. He says, “You kids are a lot of fun! I love hearing your drumming because it is so cheerful and reminds me of what I did 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. Every day 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 you’re drumming,” he said to the boy, “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 for only a lousy quarter! We quit!”

The wise old man smiled and enjoyed his peace and quiet.

An AI-generated image of salmon

Note. Image generated using Zoo from prompt watercolor of salmon in a river

 

An AI-generated image of a waterfall

Note. Image generated using Zoo from prompt watercolor of a waterfall in the Pacific Northwest

I think that all practices in factory farming are unethical and inhumane for everyone and everything involved. Not only does it foster the harm of animals but also, directly and indirectly, humans, as well as the environment. I was honestly shocked to hear how large of a contributor factory farming is to climate change, but it makes perfect sense after learning that it is the primary source of all of our animal products. The huge use of resources like water as well as the animal waste that is being openly sprayed is not only extremely detrimental to our environment but also the people who have to live in these areas. I think as a species, treating other living creatures in such an inhumane and cruel way is actually incredibly damaging to humanity. I think that the dominant appeals from the presentation were the ones that appealed to our pathos and logos. By showing the horrible conditions that these animals and people are living and working in it targeted our emotions. Also, by including shocking data such as the number of animals killed in the U.S. in one year alone and graphs highlighting the environmental implications of factory farming, this appealed to our logos by giving us concrete evidence to show the real effects of this issue.