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Title of journal article: Do the visual Media Contribute to Violence Against Women?

-WATCO the raising violence in the media on women in modern times
-The consequences of the raising violence of the media increase the crimes being committed against women in modern times
-Because many shows on television now show women being portrayed as either helpless victims of suffering, or as tough and cunning, out to take revenge for their suffering, thereby dehumanizing women.

Audience: Is probably intended to be for women to show them what is happening, or the audience could be those who produce television shows to show them what is happening.

Ethos: I think this author has strong credibility because he is reasonable in his argument, he does not come on too strong. He also quotes from many different studies.

Pathos: He uses emotion by showing real examples of women in different cultures that have been portrayed very badly on television and shows how the crime rate has increased in those areas.

Logos: It is logical to believe in what the author is saying because it makes sense and he also shows the weaknesses of his argument.

Overall I think this is a well written article and the audience that it is intended for will likely read it with interest. It is not attacking any group in any way.

FW

Compromise of 1850

Right before this time Utah was trying to become a state and were denied during this compromise. They were known now as the territory of Utah. It was no longer called the State of Desert anymore. The Compromise of 1850 allowed California to become a state, which the government had to because it was growing so much because of the gold rush. With Utah only as a territory they did not have as much power in congress and were not allowed vote in congress either. They were only allowed to express their opinions if allowed to. President Fillmore fearing the Senate would not approve a all Mormon state he sent in some non Mormons to fill some federally appointed slots. Shortly after the non Mormon "Gentile" officials arrived, conflict began almost immediately. They were mad because Brigham Young started to take matters into his own hands as he was waiting for the officials to come out. It was almost a year before they made their way out to Utah. Brigham was not wrong in his decision to get things running and most people sided with Brigham even the President. After the officials were there for a period of only 3 months they took off. The saints called them the runaway officials. The President then tires to send someone to replace Brigham, but has a hard time finding someone because no one wanted to go out where the "crazy Mormons" were. He finally got a army general to go out, his name was Franklin Pierce. He quietly went out to Utah and spent time listening to the people there about how things were going with Brigham Young. He finds out that the people love him and everything is fine in Utah and he writes a letter back to the President saying that Brigham is doing a great job and I am not going to try and replace him. Brigham is then appointed again to be governor of Utah for another four years. But little did the saints know that it would be another 46 years after the compromise of 1805 before Utah would become a state.

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Journey: Don’t stop believing

Audience: Singing to people who just need to keep on believing. It relates to everyone.

-WATCO believing in your dreams
-believing in your dreams will lead you to become what you want to become.
-Because holding on to your dreams will help you to leave your comfort zone in your small town and help you to search for what you desire to be.

Ethos: The music is inspiring and triggers that emotion in humans to keep on believing and move on into the unknown.



The Killers: Mr. Bright Side

Audience: Everyone and maybe those who have had someone cheat on them.

-WATCO of infidelity on the significant other
-Seeing your partner cheating on you may cause jealously but seeing the bright side helps you to forget the wrong that was done to you
-Because having jealously destroys you but seeing the bright side of things helps you to move on.

Ethos: You can feel his emotion and get a vivid picture of what he is seeing and you can feel his anger and jealously, but you can also see how he moves on.

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Salt Lake City Under Brigham Young


The saints not only had it hard the first winter they were there but it was also hard during there second winter as well. It was hard mainly because of the crickets that came and ate everything. During that winter Heber C. Kimball at a conference promised the saints that in a short period of time they will be able to have everything they had before and they could buy anything that they had before for unbelievable prices. There were many who did not believe this prophecy because it seemed like they was nothing out where they were in SLC. Heber C. Kimball also wondered himself if he might have said too much. The saints soon realized that this promise came true. There were hundreds of people traveling to California for the gold rush and they would stop in SLC on the way. When they would stop they would dump all the stuff they had been carrying because they didn’t want to travel with it across the mountains so they would sell their furniture and other things to the saints for almost nothing. The saints during this time also try to make Utah a state. The government denies them so the saints decide to still run as if they were a state. They called it the State of Deseret. The governor was Brigham Young, Secretary of State was Willard Richards, and the Chief Justice was Heber C. Kimball. They made a militia, counties, and a University which is the University of Utah today. They also made it so the church could own property and have its own legal identity unlike before. This was the very beginings of a church owning property.

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Audience: Parents with children who pass the test with ease. They may not see a problem with it, but it is affecting their children in unseen ways. Their children are not being motivated to do their best, they are not being challenged. They are not the focus of the school. Their money is being wasted on these tests that their children do not need. Thier are less diverse classes to attend.

-WATCO strictly focusing on test scores for the students under the NCLB Act
- Focusing strictly on the test scores of the students may cause the school to focus their energy on the students who are on the bubble and also cause the teachers place their focus on passing the test instead of on what they want to teach. And for the students who pass the test may be wasting their time in class.
-Because relying to heavily on standardized tests to show progress places the school under pressure to make their school look good each year and to do this they need to focus their efforts on the test and on the students who are on the bubble of passing.

Benefits of NCLB: Makes sure students are learning the basic skills in school. Makes teachers and schools accountable. May provide better teacher quality.

Negative aspects of NCLB: Teach to the test, narrower curriculum, wasted time, unwanted stress, waste of money, less advanced programs, the focus is on the kids who are on the bubble not the advanced or the disadvantage kids. Advanced kids may not be achieving all that they can.

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Audience: The audience for my paper could either be parents or the school boards or both. I am writing about public school funding and I would want to try and convince the parents and the schools to change the way public schools are funded. The way they are funded is very unequal. The students that live in the inner cities have poor schools to go to because they are not funded well enough. The property tax that is used on the schools for funding should be divided out equally among the state in the public schools. Parents of wealthy neighborhoods would need to know that this would not harm their schools in any way. The state would just be giving the poorer schools some more funding to keep it up, to provide a good education for everyone. I would have to try and convince wealthy parents and schools that their children’s education would not be harmed if they helped to fund some other poorer schools as well.

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Establishing Salt Lake Valley

After Brigham and the first group reached the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847 Brigham went back to meet up with the saints that were being led by Parley P. Pratt and John Taylor. Brigham ran into them in Wyoming at Ft. Bridger. He sees that they had brought way too many people with them. They were only supposed to have 100 wagons that consisted of the poor and the Mormon battalion families, instead there were 600 wagons and none of them consisted of the poor and the families of the battalion members. Brigham was furious and chewed out Parley P. Pratt.
There were now 1600 people in Salt Lake Valley because of Pratt. The first winter there was really hard on the saints, they had no food to feed their families. People would go up into the mountains to find dead animals to bring back to cook and eat. They were basically eating road kill. It was amazing that only 12 out of the 1600 people died that winter. If this was their only challenge in establishing the valley they would have moved along just great, but they had several other things to worry about like establishing relations with the Indians that occupied the area.
At the time there were four tribes that occupied Utah: the Gashiute, Paiute, Shoshoni, and the Utes. The Utes gave us the most problems out of the four and its ironic that they still do today. (LOL). The problem was that the Utes were stealing women and children from the other tribes around there and selling them to the Mexicans and also trying to sell them to us when we arrived. Brigham drives out the Mexican slave traders and the Utes get mad at this and say that the saints then need to buy the slaves. Brigham agreed to buy them, he thought it was a better idea to try and be friends with the Indians than try to argue with them. The Utes want to trade slaves with guns and ammo, but Brigham will only trade food and provisions. The Utes get angry over this and start a war, called the Walker War named after chief Wakara of the Utes.

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Source:
Social Science Research. The effects of affirmative action in higher education. June 2007. Vol. 36, no. 2 Mary J. Fischer and Douglas S. Massey


WATCO affimitative action on students who are placed into competitive schools without the required skills and abilities and also those who have lower academic scores than the average student.
Mary J. Fischer and Douglas S. Massey in their study found that minority students thrive at selective institutions, whatever their background.
The reason for this is because the instruction at elite colleges is usually better, the students are better academic role models, and the learning environment is more positive.

The audience: I believe these authors are speaking against those who believe affirmative is unfair to white people and is harming minorities. The authors do a pretty good job persuading the audience because they make logical sense and they also cite many other sources to back their information. The research is also pretty relevant. It is a big topic that is discussed today and it affects many people.

Ethos: Their research is pretty credible, it is peer reviewed and it is published in a nice journal. They also cite other sources and not just their own to prove their point.

Pathos: Their is not much use of emotion involved

Logos: It is a very logical argument that they make. It makes sense that minorities will do well at nice schools that are challenging but that are also very helpful.

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WATCO enlisting in the army.

Enlisting in the army will bring peace back to our country, bring liberty.

Because enlisting in the army will help us to save our liberty that is being threatened by the enemy.

This poster is targeting men to enlist in the army. It pinpoints the destructive looking enemy that is threatening lady liberty (our liberty). It is showing the need and the urgency to join the army to protect our liberty. The stressed and worried look of lady liberty shows the urgency for the men to join.

Ethos: The source is a very credible one. It comes from the U.S. Army, which has a very long history and experience.
Pathos: This poster relies on emotion the more than anything else. It gives the men the sense of urgency to join because our freedom is being threatened by a foreign enemy. The ape is given the traditional German helm and a club labeled kulture. It makes the Germans seem mean and ferocious.
Logos: This poster does have logic to it. It would be very logical to join the army to protect our liberty that is being threatened.
The poster has sufficient evidence and does an effective job persuading the intended audience. It is also pretty typical; you see a lot of propaganda just like this during war time.

FW

Mormon Battalion

While the saints are in Iowa a man from the army comes to their camp next to the Missouri river. He is there to find recruits for the army against Mexico. The saints are hesitant at first because of all of the neglect and trouble the government has caused them. Brigham says this is the only way that we can get some of the funds we need to make it across to the west. 400 saints join after listening to Brigham Young, for joining they received supplies and money. Most of the men gave the money to their families for the travel they will have to the west. They head off leaving their families. Brigham did promise them that there will be fighting on there left and on their right but they will not fight during their journey. Although they did not fight during their journey to the west they had some very hard times during their trek. The Mormon battalion makes it to San Diego and some find work and help build a town. Some of the saints move northward to San Francisco where the saints from Brooklyn landed from the boat that they traveled from Brooklyn. Most of the men went back to try and find Brigham and their families that they left behind hoping they would find them on the way. As they travel they meet up with some of the saints that left from Mississippi in Pueblo Colorado, who are also trying to meet up with Brigham on the trail that he is on to the west to Utah. Some of the saints move up to Ft. Laramie Wyoming to wait for Brigham and the saints to come through. They eventually see Brigham and the saints he is with; they were set back because of the hard journey. Some of the saints leave Ft. Laramie and go back to Pueblo Colorado to tell the saints in Pueblo that Brigham has arrived and to meet up with him on the trail to Utah. Sam Brannan who was in the Battalion in San Francisco went west to also find Brigham to try and convince him to have the saints’ move to California. Brigham says "no" and tells Sam to go back and tell the saints in San Francisco and gather the saints there to come up the following year, not this year. They did not have enough supplies for everyone to come there right away.

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1st paragraph

As I reflect back on my home growing up I remember how it was very comfortable to come back to. It was a place where I was accepted and could always go there if I was ever in need. I always had my needs meet and was never lacking of any needs. It was a very clean environment to be in which helped to bring the spirit into the home. I really enjoyed the all the pictures we had up of our family and past relatives. They help us to remember the past and who they were. I was able to learn a lot from both of my parents. They were really outgoing in helping us to achieve our goals. They were very supportive of developing our talents. If we wanted to try something then they would let us do it. They would not push us too hard to do something, but they wanted us to be involved in some extracurricular activities. They were very supportive of my decision to swim and really fostered that talent by giving me opportunities for putting me on good teams and providing many private lessons. They wanted us to excel at what ever we did. They also wanted us to do well in school, and they gave us standards to follow.



2nd paragraph revised
As I reflect back on my home growing up I remember it being a very warm and comforting place to be in. Feeling loved and accepted I could always go home to receive guidance and direction in my life. I always had my needs meet in every way possible. Having a home with such a clean and wholesome environment allowed the spirit to dwell within it. What really made my home enjoyable were all of the pictures we had up of our family and past relatives which helped us to remember the past and where we came from. Both of my parents loved and taught me strong gospel principles to live by. They taught through example and precept. My parents are very supportive and they helped us achieve out goals and develope our talents. They allowed us to experiment with our talents, they wanted us to be involved extracurricular activities and develop whatever talents we had. My parents fully supported my decision to swim and they helped to develop my talent by providing me with the best teams and coaches. They wanted their children to excel in everything they did.

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Tone, stance, and Style

My sociology paper on divorce

Divorce causes many problems in our society and is becoming ever more popular. There are several reasons for divorce today and the reasons to divorce are becoming much easier. Demographic factors such as the sex ratio and the economy have an effect on the divorce rate. Parents are affected by divorce in various ways, most couples experience more stress, lower levels of income, worse health, and do not live as long as married couples. The divorce of parents also affects children in various ways depending upon such factors as the age of the child at the time of divorce, and how the child viewed the home before he or she learned the possibility of a divorce.

The tone in this paragraph is formal and the audience is probably more of a professional audience. The tone remains pretty constant throughout this paragraph.

My style in this paragraph is the format my sociology teacher gave to me, which was to follow certain guidelines and procedures. The intended audience was to be written for an academic audience.

My stance is pretty forward in this introduction. The reader pretty much knows what the rest of my paper will be on.


The First Presidency message in the February Ensign 2008.

President Iring's stance in his first paragraph is at first straight forward. He starts out with a story or an example from the scriptures to grad our attention. Once he has our interest he begins to speak more of his purpose in the message he his giving.

President Iring's tone in his message seems to be informal but is still written a formal professional way. It seems informal because he writes and speaks to us like he is our friend and his audience contains members of the church who are seeking guidance. It is written in a formal way because it is still professional, organized, and has his sources cited. His tone is the same throughout the whole article.

President Iring's style in his article seems to show love and care. He writes for us in our day. He knows of the challenges we face. His style also seems to be also serious and powerfull as well. Every time he speaks it is full of feeling.