Sunday, September 13, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Thoughts on Obama's speech to the schools
quote:
[i]Originally posted by KelseyA[/i][br]Before I watched the speech, one of the news channels were interviewing some parents about their thoughts on the President talking to students. One woman said ''I send my children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated.''
Um... unneccessary?"
thank you so much! haha I read up on the controversy before hand and talked it over with a few people and when I read your thoughts on it I quite literally "laughed out loud".Just as those screaming for soviet-esq socialist reforms give liberals a bad name, those who heckle a president for encouraging thier kids to "stay in school" make conservatives look just as mentally off.It was, as was stated by my fellow classmates, an inspirational speech. I really did enjoy watching it because for a second I felt as if I wasn't being lied to, or manipulated, I felt like I could believe it. However much we agree or disagree with Obama's political points or even his belief in education inasmuch as he's probably not a huge fan of homeschoolers, I think we can agree that he was using his incredible influence to inspire students to work hard.The most compelling moments in the speech were when Obama spoke of his own childhood, the first lady's childhood and three other studends from all over the country. Obama's use of pathos was made truely effective when he cut through the usual "try hard" stuff and got to the heart of the issue- which is, of course, the heart of the student.most unaffected students who would detach themselves from his words simply because he's "the president" would have to reconsider when he began to reveal that he struggled in school and felt alone because his dad left him when he was 2. I think in Obama's speech he was sensitve to the fact that kids aren't won by statistics, they're won by something they can believe in, something they can relate to.I wouldn't say I'm Obama's #1 fan, but I was proud of him today.
[i]Originally posted by KelseyA[/i][br]Before I watched the speech, one of the news channels were interviewing some parents about their thoughts on the President talking to students. One woman said ''I send my children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated.''
Um... unneccessary?"
thank you so much! haha I read up on the controversy before hand and talked it over with a few people and when I read your thoughts on it I quite literally "laughed out loud".Just as those screaming for soviet-esq socialist reforms give liberals a bad name, those who heckle a president for encouraging thier kids to "stay in school" make conservatives look just as mentally off.It was, as was stated by my fellow classmates, an inspirational speech. I really did enjoy watching it because for a second I felt as if I wasn't being lied to, or manipulated, I felt like I could believe it. However much we agree or disagree with Obama's political points or even his belief in education inasmuch as he's probably not a huge fan of homeschoolers, I think we can agree that he was using his incredible influence to inspire students to work hard.The most compelling moments in the speech were when Obama spoke of his own childhood, the first lady's childhood and three other studends from all over the country. Obama's use of pathos was made truely effective when he cut through the usual "try hard" stuff and got to the heart of the issue- which is, of course, the heart of the student.most unaffected students who would detach themselves from his words simply because he's "the president" would have to reconsider when he began to reveal that he struggled in school and felt alone because his dad left him when he was 2. I think in Obama's speech he was sensitve to the fact that kids aren't won by statistics, they're won by something they can believe in, something they can relate to.I wouldn't say I'm Obama's #1 fan, but I was proud of him today.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
bumper sticker argument assignment
This bumper sticker blames former President Bush for the War on Terror and more specifically American soldiers going to fight. It uses pathos- the pain and fear of a child or loved one leaving home to war. By using these very real fears and feelings it creates an emotional apeal to blame President Bush. I disagree with it because i believe President Bush is not single handedly responsible for American Soldiers going to war, and that it is a losely based emotional apeal.
Monday, August 31, 2009
If Everything's An Arugment...
It's a movie review my family found around a year ago. We read it to each other every once in a while for the pure joy of it. Certainly the kind of argument I'm interested in.:)
After watching this movie, I just couldn't stop talking about it. Mind you, not in the since that someone can't stop talking about a great book or show, but more along the line of how someone can't stop talking about their colonoscopy during a diner conversation. In other words, after seeing this you can't help but try and remove the stain it left on your very soul by vomiting out the experience onto others.This movie entered with the tag line of being "written by two of the six writers of 'Scary Movie'!" What they forgot to mention is that the two who wrote it were only responsible for writing the credits and all the jokes deleted for the sake of not causing mass suicide. Put more delicately, this movie almost makes Pootie Tang look Oscar worthy, which ironically enough was made fun of in the last Scary Movie for being horrid. Coincidence? Yeah, not even some sort of Karma dealing fiend would wish this movie upon the world."So," you ask, "What makes it so bad?" I bet your thinking that all of the funny stuff was in the previews, right? No, actually there was no funny content in the previews at all, it just seemed that way when taken out of the context of the movie. Much the same way "Hogan's Heroes" was funny to people who weren't in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the previews are funny to those who haven't seen the movie. When you actually see the movie, you start to ask, "Why was that funny in the preview?" The answer: You can see pretty flowers if you ignore the fact that they are growing from the corpse of a man who died during a freak green house accident.Do yourself a favor, rent a History channel documentary on the history of documentaries and hit yourself in the head with a hammer. It'll be twice as funny, make three times more sense, and be only a fifth as painful.
After watching this movie, I just couldn't stop talking about it. Mind you, not in the since that someone can't stop talking about a great book or show, but more along the line of how someone can't stop talking about their colonoscopy during a diner conversation. In other words, after seeing this you can't help but try and remove the stain it left on your very soul by vomiting out the experience onto others.This movie entered with the tag line of being "written by two of the six writers of 'Scary Movie'!" What they forgot to mention is that the two who wrote it were only responsible for writing the credits and all the jokes deleted for the sake of not causing mass suicide. Put more delicately, this movie almost makes Pootie Tang look Oscar worthy, which ironically enough was made fun of in the last Scary Movie for being horrid. Coincidence? Yeah, not even some sort of Karma dealing fiend would wish this movie upon the world."So," you ask, "What makes it so bad?" I bet your thinking that all of the funny stuff was in the previews, right? No, actually there was no funny content in the previews at all, it just seemed that way when taken out of the context of the movie. Much the same way "Hogan's Heroes" was funny to people who weren't in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the previews are funny to those who haven't seen the movie. When you actually see the movie, you start to ask, "Why was that funny in the preview?" The answer: You can see pretty flowers if you ignore the fact that they are growing from the corpse of a man who died during a freak green house accident.Do yourself a favor, rent a History channel documentary on the history of documentaries and hit yourself in the head with a hammer. It'll be twice as funny, make three times more sense, and be only a fifth as painful.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
status stalking.
I've discoverd that despite my efforts to make my twitter page something that everyone i know follows, my facebook status updates have done just that. it's reaching scarry preportions. random mom's of my brother's friends will mention in conversation that they knew about "suchandsuch" because they faithfully read my status on facebook. my mom's voice student who i don't know who's in the 7th grade- let's call her Mary. Mary said she reads my status and commented to my mom during a lesson that "mallory knows everyone!" .. creeper!!!
this is good. really. but it's.. weird.
now, a word of explaination- my statuses are NEVER "Mallory is tired" or "mallory just got home" they're more along the lines of "saw a sunrise and started thinking about materialism, maybe it's just cause i wen't to LA for vacation, maybe it's worth thinking about." or sometimes movie quotes "now about this hotdog to hotdog bun ratio. why for the love of mustard are there never enough buns?"
see, it's worth reading. the idea was to make it interesting.
being known around the community and keeping a clean rep on the web has givin me tons of jobs and singing opportunites. it's a super good thing.
but lately it's realy given me the urge to write things just to see what people do, because i know they read this so much. things like
"Mallory is home with the swine flu"*
or
"Mallory is moving to arkansas"**
*not true
**really not true
but how funny would it be if i did that? i mean AT MINIMUM over a hundred people read my status. people would FREAK. haha.
but i can't do that. i have to be very professional and never say anything stuipid on facebook.
but luckily no one reads my blog:):)
...yet
this is good. really. but it's.. weird.
now, a word of explaination- my statuses are NEVER "Mallory is tired" or "mallory just got home" they're more along the lines of "saw a sunrise and started thinking about materialism, maybe it's just cause i wen't to LA for vacation, maybe it's worth thinking about." or sometimes movie quotes "now about this hotdog to hotdog bun ratio. why for the love of mustard are there never enough buns?"
see, it's worth reading. the idea was to make it interesting.
being known around the community and keeping a clean rep on the web has givin me tons of jobs and singing opportunites. it's a super good thing.
but lately it's realy given me the urge to write things just to see what people do, because i know they read this so much. things like
"Mallory is home with the swine flu"*
or
"Mallory is moving to arkansas"**
*not true
**really not true
but how funny would it be if i did that? i mean AT MINIMUM over a hundred people read my status. people would FREAK. haha.
but i can't do that. i have to be very professional and never say anything stuipid on facebook.
but luckily no one reads my blog:):)
...yet
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