the big reveal

1. narration
2. comparison
3. example
4. argument
5. cause/effect-I could see how definition would work as well
6. description

patience-rhetorical modes

1. I wake up at 4 am and chomp at the bit to take a peak downstairs. Christmas morning is here and I have to make sure Santa came. After the clock strikes 6, snow, reindeer, candy canes and elves drive my brain crazy and I race in to share my excitement with my sleeping family. I find my brother wide-awake, calmly reading a book. He’s been up since 4 but didn't want to bother anyone despite his excitement. We obviously know who was given the patience gene in the family

2. Patience is similar, but not completely synonymous to endurance. Patience and endurance both mean to continue or persevere despite strain, suffering, or hardship. However patience is persevering through trials without negativity or anger, about how long you can go without complaining. One can have endurance but still be negative about things, since one can have endurance until they give up. Also, endurance can be both a mental and physical thing, but when speaking of patience, it is more mental

3. A person that displayed a great deal of patience was Ghandi. He had quiet and steady perseverance, and didn't have a bad attitude about his trial, which was to liberate the Indian people from the British. He didn't want the Indian people to fight and instead of giving into the pressures of using force, which would have made the trial end quicker, he had the quality of waiting and went about fighting in a peaceful way, which was fasting and being a great leader. This is patience for what he knew was right-peace.

4. You get more of what you want with patience than with anger. Although this may seem ironic, that by waiting you get more but the impulsivity that comes with anger causes you to get less in the same amount of time. If one shows patience, they will be calmer when it comes to rational thinking and decision-making. They will also seem more mature and have others want to work with them because they can think of the bigger picture and not explode at any point in time.

5. Patience is caused by the ability to see the bigger picture. If one can put themselves in an omniscient view of the situation, and see the past, present and future, they will realize that the present is only a small moment in the scheme of things. Seeing this will allow people to not get angry or irrational and lose their temper and become negative, but rather know that everything will work out. As Jesus said, “my trials will be but a small moment”, pointing out that if he is patient, good times will come again after persecution

6. The toddler looks up at his mother, a dark green permanent marker tight in his hand. The strong chemical smell permeates from what were newly washed white walls, now adorned with swirls, scribbles and circles. She kneels down on the soft, tan carpet, right above the imprints of her son’s feet, and looks into his bright blue eyes. He gazes right at her and softly bows his head as he hands her his weapon, then puts his stubby arms around her neck and gives her a big wet kiss on the lips. 

I'm sorry I bit you

My mom was showing us her journal not too long ago and we came across this gem of a story.

"steve stayed home today and heard commotion in the basement. when he approached and litened, the commotin stopped and he could hear Briana say, "Brenan, I am sorry I bit you." There was a pause, and Brenan (my brother) responded, "Briana, I am sorry I bit you too." Briana said, "are we still friends?" Brenan said, " yeah, we are still friends."

Another one my family loves to bring up is when I was 2 and we flew in to visit my aunt. My mom and aunt were making dinner one night and I came in to ask for something. When my mom said no I layed down on the kitchen floor and turned myself around and around with my heels. My mom and aunt stared at me for a while, then my aunt turned to my mom and said, "when did that happen?" My mom loves to remind me how early my temper tantrums started and that I shouldn't be having them at 16 (I of course don't...she just thinks I do)

Finally, another funny story is during easter (around the same time as above story, I was 2). I had all my easter candy but my mom told me throughout the day, "No chocolate until after dinner!" When dinner was ready everyone sat down at the table, but I was missing. They called and called my name until they opened the bathroom door. They found me sitting on the tile floor, my legs straddling my cauldron of candy, and chocolate wrappers spewed all over the place. My face, hands and body were covered in chocolate. But when they walked in, the first thing I said was, "I'm not eating chocolate!"
I'm such a good liar

visually visual argument

agent: this is created by a person who is opposed to pat downs in the airport. He/she is opposed because it takes away their privacy when so many hands are touching private places. It was probably done by a woman because women are probably more sensitive to pat downs as they have more "private places" on their body and thus feel violated very quickly. Plus it is usually women that are sexually assaulted so this may remind them of feeling like they are having a similar experience.
act: The argument is that airport pat downs are too invasive and they take away peoples freedom of privacy. also, this could argue that women are more helpless than men because the photographer didn't use a man for this depiction. This is because society sees women as being more helpless than men and it would be more visually stirring if there was a woman being inapropriately handled rather than a man who usually is more masculine and strong.
agency: The agent is simply a picture, without words or sounds or other graphics. This is because the reader can confidently assume, without the use of words, that this woman feels helpless and violated, and that words would just detract from the power of the picture.
scene: the picture was taken for those anyone that goes through security at an airport (anybody that flies). it is probably more specifically for those people that have had an experience with pat downs or have to be pat down every time they pass through security because they have something like a metal knee that sets off the alarms every time. It is probably also more for women because even though some may never have had a sexual assault encounter they can sympathize with the women in the picture better than men could.
purpose: the purpose is to show that pat downs are too invasive and inapropriate and take away your freedom of privacy and should not be used anymore. It also shows how devalued women are in society and that they probably feel the most violated in said pat downs.
This picture is powerful because it shows how helpless people, especially women can feel when they are being patted down. she is being pulled apart in all directions which puts her in a more helpless position, as she a person could touch any part of her body. Also, the black background adds a feeling of despair and hoplessness, like you are being thrust into a black hole and don't have the ability to get out, or stop the pat down process. The use of mulitple hands shows in one image that there is no "private place" anymore, that they can feel free to touch the breasts, underneath the clothes and in the genital area. also, the hands are shown in a claw-like position, adding to the fact that the person doesn't matter because they are not handling her kindly but rather clawing and pinching and pulling. The smeared mascara on her face shows that she has been crying because she feels so helpless and like there the pat down is a violation of her body. The fact that she is looking up toward some light is depicts her disgust because she can't even look at the security people when they pat her down and there is no point in arguing with them because they are the ones in control. this brings up the social norm that women are not dominate and they have no power. It is usually in a relationship that this is the case but it shows that they have a very degraded role in society if they are even a minority to the security at the airport. Also, the fact that she is looking to a light indicates that she wants to have this end as quick as possible and she is looking to brighter and happier times to get her through this experience. The bluntness of the image reminds the audience of sexual assault and forces the person to believe that these pat downs are basically legal sexual assault.

words I commmonnnlllyyy misssspellll

some words that I misspell frequently are:

-words that have back to back letters like commit or embarrass
-definitely (the i's and e's could be interchangable throughout the entire word)
-words with au or ei/ie such as restaurant (just typing that word right now I misspelled it 3 times)
-words that could start like pre or per like perservere
-I just learned how to spell parallel correctly
-words that could be spelled with a c or an s like exercise
-basically those words that could be spelt with multiple different letters to still have the same sound (like replacing c with s or c with k, etc)

I actually think spell check does a pretty good job at checking misspelled words and poor phrases. I know a lot of times I will leave out commas or maybe forget to add a semicolon, but I much of the time when I check what spellcheck has to say, they are usually correct. It gets frustrating when they say I spelt my own name wrong however. And I don't know about anybody elses computer but mine does tell me when I use the wrong "there or their". Now, I'm not saying that I blindly just click change when I am reviewing my work with spell check, because some of the time they do get it wrong, but most of the time they correct the little mistakes that I forget. The computer will make guesses based on what the word that you wrote sounds like and if you have the beginning letters basically the same

Uniform spelling is necessary for accurate communication because some people in different areas pronounce things differently, so if we all just made up how we felt it should sound, what may sound accurate to one person in Minnesota may not sound accurate in England or even Mississippi. for example, if we say pass the malk (milk) in minnesota, someone in Mississippi may do what spell check does and make a guess of what your saying based on words that it actually knows, so it may think you are saying malt instead of milk.

misspellings in company names like in froot loops or kleenex make the company more memorable because we have the normal way to spell things so engraved in our minds. We are going to remember businesses like Toys R Us because of the R rather than if they said are. Because if they just said are then we would file it into the part of the brain the blindly reads signs and ads, but its not until something is odd or different that we move from the subconcious brain to the concious (I just spelt both of those words wrong...wow).

School is corrupting my mind

school is corrupting my mind. I guess this can be a good thing, or it may not. it also may or may not be a bad thing that this particular class is making me crazy. Here are a few examples how...

-I probably checked skyward 15 times this weekend to see if the multiple choice grades were up...
-My mind is only thinking in terms of analysis, proposals and logical fallacies
-My brother spent what should have been his homework time writing a proposal of how homework should not continue because it is a total waste of time and doesn't allow you to get enough sleep. He's in third grade. All I could think about was if he included all aspects of a proposal and how ironic that he was writing one just like I had to do the other day.
-Whenever I am watching a show or listening to an ad, I always think, "what rhetorical device are they using and how is it persuading me?" I have to continually test my mind to make sure I still remember how to analyze correctly
-I have been accusing everyone about how their reasoning is a logical fallacy. I have told my brothers multiple times, told my parents, and even accused a doctor of fallicious reasoning. Needless to say that the last two weren't necessarily happy at my newfound knowledge (especially the doctor who stopped the argument right there because she couldn't think of anything else to say)
-I have been noticing logical fallacies in ads as well

all i can think about is analyzing analyzing analyzing. It's driving me crazy. It's like that really annoying song that gets stuck in your head the entire day... oh ya, I have also been seeing how many times people say "really" and if it adds or detracts to their sentence.


Oh ya... this is totally off topic to my blog theme but the other day I heard a radio add from trader joes saying that we should give out frozen spaghetti and meatballs for a halloween treat, instead of candy. He was actually serious about it! What has this world come to.