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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.

RA for a song

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.

FW

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.

TW

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.

TW

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.

FW

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.