Thursday, March 27, 2008

RA

Gatorade commercial with Dwayne Wade and Derek Jeter

WATCO drinking Gatorade on becoming a hero
Drinking Gatorade will help you rise to the top to become a hero
Because those who drink Gatorade have the will power and energy to conquer all others and become a hero
Whatever causes others to have will power and energy to defeat their contenders becomes a hero.

Audience: Specifically made for people who have active life styles and enjoy playing sports.

Ethos: This commercial seems to give Gatorade good credibility because it has Dwayne Wade and Derek Jeeter in it who are great athletes that drink Gatorade.

Pathos: This commercial uses a lot of emotion with the music that is playing. You feel inspired and energized to go out and do the same things as

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

FW

Trans Continental Road and the Mormons

Brigham Young at this time sees the rail road as both a threat and a benefit, but he knows that the benefits far outweigh the problems. Because of the rail road the missionaries can get places faster. The immigrants do not need hand carts any more to cross the dangerous plains. It makes it easier to build the temple. We could also export raw and finished material and import raw material. What Brigham did not want was the importation of finished products. Brigham did not like merchants who would sell their material for high prices. Brigham wanted saints to be self-sufficient. The tickets to ride the train were also very expensive and the Mormons did not have the cash for it. The rail road would bring in the "gentiles" and their standards, like their fashions. The fashions would be bad for the women. The Mormons also get the rail road workers coming into Utah territory. We had the Chinese coming out from California and the Irish were coming from the east. The Irish were Catholic and were known to be drunk and violent. No one liked the Irish and no one understood the Chinese. These workers coming in would cause a lowering of morals among the saints. Brigham combated these threats in different ways. To combat the fashions he re created the Relief Society for the women. To combat all the new merchants coming in he boycotted the non-LDS merchants and told the saints they were not allowed to buy any coffee, tea, or tobacco from them. Brigham says lets start to live the word of wisdom. The boycott lasted a year until Brigham created ZCMI as a retail store to help the saints become self-sufficient. Many other Mormons start new businesses as well.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

RA

President Hinckley's Ensign article of March 2008

Audience: Mormons

WATCO having Christ as the central focus of our worship.
By having Christ as the central focus of our worship we know that he is the Son of God, Redeemer of the World, the rock of our salvation, our strength, our comfort and we know that he is the anchor of our immortal lives.
Because if the focus of our faith is on Christ we can be confident of who he is and that he is the son of the Almighty and he was a perfect man who walked the earth and he performed miracles and suffered death for us and conquered it for us as well.


Elder Jeffery R. Holland’s conference talk in September 2007

Audience: Mormons and those who do not believe that we are Christians

WATCO believing that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are three separate persons, three divine beings.
Believing that the Godhead consists of three separate beings causes others to believe that Mormons are not Christians.
Because Mormons do not hold a fourth century view of the Godhead, of them being one not three separate beings we are thought of as not being Christian.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

TA

WATCO funding public schools through property taxes.
Funding public schools with property taxes creates inequality in the school system.
Because rich neighborhoods create rich schools through their property taxes and parents also can put more money into the school as well. Poor neighborhoods have poor schools and not enough funding to create a good school for the students.
Whatever causes reduced funding for some schools and increased funding for others creates inequality in the school system.

Audience: Parents who live in rich neighborhoods and have children who go to rich schools.

Argument against me: These parents would most likely say, why should they pay for another school that their children do not go to? They will also say that it is not the money that will help the school it other factors such as the quality of the teachers and the students. The students will perform poorly no matter where they go.


My argument: Money does help poor schools. Most of these types of schools do not have the funds to pay for high quality teachers. The good teachers all go to the nice schools because they pay more. The poor schools also do not have enough funds to support more teachers. Because of the lack of teachers they have there is overcrowding and many of the students drop out because of this. Studies have shown that if funds are distributed equally among all of the schools it does not cause the kids in the rich nice schools to do worse, they do the same. And the kids in the poor schools do better. Vermont does it this way, it gathers all of the money from the state and disperses it to all of the schools in a fair way.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

FW

The United Order under Brigham Young

The united order was done to help the saints pool their money by investing it. It was a co-operative order, everyone worked together. The saints would put their money in something like a sugar mill for example and then go to work on it. The other work that they were doing before for a living like farming was done by someone else. The labor that was done was decided by the priesthood leadership. They would assign someone to go work on your farm while you go work on your investment. This would help the saints become more self-sufficient which is what Brigham wanted. Instead of buying all of their goods from merchants Brigham wanted them to make their own lumber, wool, iron, led, and many other things. Brigham left it up to the communities to work on this. Orderville Utah was an example of the extreme end of this. Families were assigned to barracks, the whole community gathered together each morning and prayed and ate breakfast together. They did everything together; they were like a big family. Although this seemed pretty strange it was effective, Orderville lasted the longest. Most of the orders die after Brigham dies but Orderville lasted.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

TW

1st paragraph

Students in the public school system are constantly tested and evaluated by their test scores. In a classroom setting, tests are important and can provide essential information on a student’s progress. However, there has been a recent push from the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) to use the scores obtained from a standardized test, as the single measure of a student’s performance. This has become the central purpose of NCLB; it requires students to take a test to determine whether they should go on to the next grade level, or whether a student qualifies for graduation. This is why the state of Arizona gives the Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards test (AIMS). There are several parents who probably do not have a problem with this program because their children have several chances to take the AIMS test and do not have any problems passing it. The majority of the students in Arizona pass the AIMS test (Arizona Department of Education, personal communication (ADE), February 21, 2008). Many parents have the assumption that this program is just a way to help failing schools and improve teacher quality. What you do not know is that your children may be affected by this program in ways that you have not seen.


New Paragraph revised

Students in the public school system are constantly tested and evaluated by their test scores. In a classroom setting, tests are important and can provide essential information on a student’s progress when used properly. Policy makers enjoy these tests because they can assess and compare students’ results on a national standard (The American Psychological Association, March 17, 2008). This is the reasoning behind why the State of Arizona under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) gives a test called the Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS). This test determines whether students should go on to the next grade level, or whether a student qualifies for graduation and the majority of the students in Arizona pass it. (Arizona Department of Education, February 21, 2008). Many parents have the understanding that this program has been implemented to help failing schools and improve teacher quality. But what has the AIMS program really accomplished in Arizona and has it had any unforeseen consequences?

Thursday, March 13, 2008

RA

Affirmative Action

WATCO of affirmative action as it applies to educational structures?
Affirmative action prohibits the amount of sports and scholarships that are given to the men.
Because affirmative action requires schools to have an equal number of male and female sports as well as an equal number of scholarships between males and females and when there are less women sports than men sports many of the men’s programs get dropped.
Whatever causes men sports to be equal to the same amount as women sports causes a reduction in the men’s sports programs

Audience: Men and women who believe in affirmative action.

Issues dealing with audience: They see affirmative action as an effective way to reduce discrimination based on sex, age, and race. They see this is a way to give the historically disadvantaged opportunities.


Argument for me: Affirmative action is not needed any more. Women’s sports are becoming more and more popular and are supported effectively by the school. So why do we need to cut the men’s sports programs just to make them the equal to the women’s programs? There is no reason or need to do that. The men are the ones being discriminated against.