Blog #1: PBS’ View on Child Prostitution 11/04/09

Blog #1

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Hello! This is my blog, and  my topic is child prostitution and the ignorance of America on facing this issue. People think, “Oh child prostitution, since I don’t know anyone that this has happened to it’s obviously not as common as people think it is.” When in reality, child prostitution is on the rise and it being ignored now, more than ever. People who do the child sex trading are receiving less and less of a punishment today, than they were years ago. This makes no sense whatsoever. Ignorant people sometimes think, well if the girls are letting people trade them for sex, then they are complying to this and agreeing. NO! that is not the case, sometimes girls sold into sex slavery have been kidnapped, brainwashed, and are much too afraid to rebel.

“It’s one of those issues that doesn’t get discussed and therefore there’s an assumption that perhaps either it doesn’t exist at all or the young women and girls who are prostitutes are there by their own free will,” Atlanta’s Mayor Shirley Franklin

• http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/422/index.html

Sex trade is much different than women who are willing to prostitute themselves. Below is a story of a willing prostitute and her hardships.

“At the age of 18, Kasey McClure began working as a stripper in Atlanta. After five years in the industry she quit, and since then has set up 4Sarah, a non-profit aimed at helping women who want to leave the sex trade and adult entertainment industries. My average customer was a local businessman, usually married with children.I made anywhere from $500 to a $1,000 a night. What really drove me to start dancing was the money, so I quit school. I didn’t have any support from my mother or my father. The only thing I could do was use my looks, and I thought, “you know, why not make a lot of money?”What happens is when children get involved in prostitution, they eventually grow up and they become 18. And they’re like, “Okay, well, I won’t have to do it on the streets anymore. I can go work at a club and get my customers.” That way, if a guy’s bothering them or if they don’t feel safe with a guy, they can walk away. Child prostitution is happening everywhere within our schools. I mean we have teenaged girls that are having sex and getting raped in school, and that’s where it’s starting. We even have younger kids who are “pimping” the girls out. They’re like: “Hey, I know somebody that’ll pay you’ $5?” And to girls that are 13, $5 is a lot of money. It might not be to you or me, but to a young girl, she can start adding it up and get a pair of jeans that she wants.”

Kasey’s story goes to show one view point of child prostitution. This is very interesting in a sense that she was a prostitute and now that she has quit she has a nonprofit organization. This doesn’t really talk about the points of the sex trade on the streets and the girls getting kidnapped, but it does focus on an important aspect of willingness for girls to prostitute themselves.

• http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/422/prostitute-story.html

Blog Instructions for Paper 11/04/09

PART A

1. 5 days worth of blogs each week // Information pertaining to your topic. From now until Nov. 23. Copy link to blog at very end for each day from where you obtained your information.

1st blog…. Hi this is my blog i think child prostitution should have much stricter punishment than it does today. (include picture) tell your topic and tell your view on the topic.

For the rest of the blogs obtain information. When you make your last post hopefully you have learned something. Wrap it up with opinion. If it has changed, or if it has been confirmed.

• Each post should be a decent paragraph.
• Lots of the blogged paragraph can be copy and pasted. NOT ALL // Essentially, we are doing research.
• Posting ten times about the topic between now and Nov. 23

Part B

• Paper is not more information. For paper you have to find other blogs that talk about the same thing that you are talking about. Compare the ways the info is presented. The way its presented. Does the information make sense. Is it biased.
• Compare and contrast blogs of different people. You can compare presented information with opinions on the blogs of others.
• In the end, convince Greta, that our view point is the best. Favor yourself.

If you’re using pictures, you could use creative commons because there free to the general public.

Pretend Miami Protest

Our protest is going to be that fall break should be longer then a 3  day weekend. One day is not a sufficient fall break, it’s just a day off. The ethos of this that there are plenty of other prominent schools that have much longer breaks (University of Michigan). In addition to ethos, the pathos of this protest is that students that live farther away will not be able to get home and enjoy the break. Our current fall break is to short to allow for people to take a flight back to their hometown. Lastly, the logos is similar to ethos, because other universities have longer fall breaks that continue on past a day.

-Andrew, Kyle, Nora, Alyssa, Laura, Charlotte

It Takes a Rhetorical Village: 11/02/09

Page 325

Reconstructing the Penn Sate Student Protest

Rhetorical Ecology and Ritualized Behavior

Phase 1: Black and Blue-white

• Ethos- Black Caucus // African American Studies Program // National News covered this story.
• Pathos- when they protested they went onto the football field and they layed on the ground and all got arrested. Death threat written to African Americans. The guy who wrote it said he killed a black person. This takes the situation to a whole new level since a dead body was found.
• Kairos- The timing of the dead body was perfect because the death threat was building terror in people and then the body was found.
• Logos- A death threat letter written anonymously about this situation. It was sent to the Student Newspaper at Penn State. The threat was a LaKeisha (president of Penn State’s Black Caucus group) There was student protests for the next 11 days.

- Alyssa, Nora, Andrew, Kyle, Laura, Charlotte

Writing Better Papers 11/2/09

MLA HEADER

(Insert header also. Last name and Pg. #)

 

Alyssa Croley

Greta Smith

English 111

2 November 2009

 

• Never safe to assume that you know the opinion of the entire universe Ex. “Every woman in the world is intrigued by Chanel fragrance”
• Unless your 100% positive that the whole world thinks this. Ex. People need food to live

Living Life in the Fifth World 10/28/09

Approaching the Real and the Fake:

Living Life in the Fifth World

 

–>Do you agree with Ada Louise Huxtable that as a society we have lost our sense of reality?

• We need to experience fake to develop (Ex. little kids and santa clause, imagination, cartoons, disneyland)
• Kids need to be exposed to something out of the norm but not necessarily something life threatening.
• Fake realities can be very disappointing — Kid seeing pictures of a place or something then going there and being very disappointed.
• Talk about Las Vegas and how it tries to look like NYC and they give you the feeling your there but your not there. That is what they are calling the 5th world.
• Art schools, malls, US suburbs, universities, are these places real or like he says, in the 5th world category.

1. EXPERIENCING THE FAKE

• Ghost writing – Even God had a ghostwriter on the book of Genesis
• Primary Colors the book
• Museums that focus on the fake like Boston’s who has fake fish, but says they are better than real fish because they are programmable.
• The exhibit called “fake” the art of deception
• Mall of America — distinguish between fake at rainforest cafe
• Disneyland’s illusion

2. THE PREDISPOSITION TO FAKE

• Ada Louise Huxtable = distinctions between the real and fake are diminishing
• ^ says we trust the fake as an improvement on reality.
• Listerv conservations
• Tension between real and fake.
• Schwartz = replication makes us human Ex. Going to new orleans has to be replicated by people in order to be real. “We hear taste and smell something and we attempt to recreate it.” He says don’t abandon authenticity in our lives. Basically it’s only real if it can be replicated? Authenticity can no longer be rooted in singularity.
• Dawkins = replicate within a developing evolutionary theory of the transmission of culture called “memetics.”

 

Ex. Thomas Kinkade “painter of light”; he is very famous within some generations like 50-60 year olds.  He has a team of artists and he will do the sketch but his team will fill in the blanks; are all of those paintings real Thomas Kinkades? Example of people buying into something that is not as authentic.

–> Another point of essay talks about what is public and what is not.

Miami University Rhetoric Article — 10/12/09

Living Learning Communities at Miami University

& The Misconceptions……

http://www.units.muohio.edu/saf/reslife/reslife/livingatmiami/llcoverview.php

• Ethos – The ad starts out with a quote from the former Miami President, James Garland. He says this about the LLC’s at Miami, “the value of that experience is immeasurable to me.” They use the quote from the former president because this gives the article a level of credibility that it would not have other wise. The article ends with this quote, “This program’s successes lies in the collabortations between Academic and Student Affairs. U.S. News & World Report, in the 2005 edition of “America’s Best Colleges” remarked that our Living Learning Community model is a “stellar” academic example.

• Logos – Currently Miami offers 35 theme-based Living Learning Communities. 63% of first year students are in a them LLC. 75% of first year students selected a theme LLC as first choice. There are a total of 43 sections of 11 theme related courses, most of which are discussion based and held in the residence hall. Each community with the exception of student created programming is built around a specific field of study or area of interest and is structured so students have a high degree of involvement in its formation. Over 100 faculty, staff, grad students, and undergrad students serve on LLC Advisory Councils.

• Pathos –  The article opens with an emotional quote to in a sense, draw people into the ad.”The mission of the living learning communities at Miami is to create and extend student learning opportunities outside of the classroom that heighten student intellectual and personal growth.” The article also says that, “Students and faculty find that courses taught in the residence halls offer something that traditional classes in academic buildings can’t-cohorts of students who debate and discuss content in their own home (over meals and late at night in the corridors and common areas), sometimes leading to informal mentoring and tutoring.” This quote uses pathos and ethos to describe a type of use for the LLCs. Saying and describing how and why the LLCs might make dorm life more “homey” would really appeal to anyone living in the residential buildings.

The AD uses a ton of valuable of pathos and ethos to persuade one to believe that Living Learning Communities are a big part of residential life at Miami, and in fact, they are not. I have been living in the dorms for about a month and a half and have not even heard a word spoken about the LLCs that we were put in. At orientation we received the name of the LLC we would be living in, and I was put into the LLC called Explore Miami. I was under the impression that we would be taking field trips around campus such as hiking, canoeing, walking etc, but we have not done anything of the sort, in fact, I have not heard one word spoken about my LLC.

“At Miami University we have put a lot of thought and resources into the development of our Living Learning Communities. We have researches many different types of communities and realize the benefit of offering a variety of choices for students as they enter the University and continue their residential experience at Miami.” The authors of this article attempted to use pathos to really make the reader believe that LLCs are a large part of dorm life. If they really did put a lot of thought and resources into the development of the LLCs wouldn’t you think that they would want to have activities that tie into our LLCs or discussions or SOMETHING! We have not done one activity, discussion, or class that has anything to do with our Living Learning Community and that is how this ad falsifies.

Jamaica Kincaid “On Seeing England for the First Time”

10/7/09

• Essay on England
• She lives in a Caribbean Island (or did live there.) St. John/Antigua
• If she hated England so much, why did she move there. She doesn’t necessarily hate it, it’s just not what she thought it would be perhaps.
• People take pride in where they come from… They can diss it but if others do, its offensive.

More Rhetoric* 9/30/09

IN CLASS NOTES 9/30/09

Inductive Reasoning // Deductive Reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning: ex. Many people are wearing long sleeves, therefore it must be cold outside
• Deductive Reasoning: Use many assumptions to make a bigger assumption at the end// Start with broad assumption then work your way down to something specific. ex. apples are red, the fruit I am holding is red, therefore my fruit is an apple. (nonuseful example but still..) Man are immortal, Socrates is a man, Therefore Socrates is immortal.

WHEN YOU SEE THESE IN ADVERTISEMENTS, companies will not usually obviously do this reasoning fully through… they will do a part and expect you to make some sort of conclusion… ex. See kids in a magazine driving in a Hundai, therefore kids must be safe in a Hundai, and I too have a Hundai.

Logical Fallacy — something that is not necessarily true. Look for these in ads because companies put these in their ads trying to trick you thinking you won’t notice. Skinny Girl chewing gum that is supposed to be less calories.

What Is Rhetoric? 9/28/09 (In Class Notes)

IN CLASS NOTES

((us having control over words or speech))

triangle of ethos, logos, pathos– top is ethos// bottom right is pathos (emotion scenarios)// bottom left is logos (logic facts statistics)

logos: logic facts and statistics (use towards adults, commercials towards safe children’s toys) subject– ex. selling a car to a family of 4  use safety ratings about the back seat

pathos: emotion (ex. commercial for children in Africa) using scenarios— my knee hurts i really need a new bike. audience

ethos: speaker –> credibility. Hundai says they have the best warranty in the industry trying to establish better ethos.

“claim support warrant”

claim- proactive clears up your skin

support- jessica simpson’s skin is clear, doctors say it will clear your skin up.

warrant- underlying, what the advertiser assumes you want to know.

KAIROS