Wednesday, April 21, 2010

vocab poem

Some people in this world tend to be so strident
Then they want to come to my shoulder and vent
That's funny 'cause they must think I'm ludicrous
groveling on my door step, hope they know I'm going to diss.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Logical Fallacies in Oral Addresses

logical facilities: a missconsumption resulting from incorrect reasoning.
ad hominem: an argument towards a person
false causality: not having a direct connection
red herring: changing the subject of an argument
overgeneralization: over speculating
bandwagon effect: people believing what others believe

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Sunday, January 24, 2010

satire

The Onion has a lot of satire within its stories.
-They have a picture of Shaq eating a pork sandwich during the game. They say he was doing good, but after he ate, he wasn't.
- The final season of Lost said it would make fans annoyed.
- worlds physicists complete study of physics
- how bad throwing away one bottle can be for the environment
-CSI performing at super bowl halftime

The Yellow Wallpaper

In the Yellow Wallpaper, the woman thought she saw things within the wall. She believed that there were people inside the wall. She was insane.
concrete details:
1. She hides her writing from her husband
2. husband doesn't want to believe she's sick
3. anxious
4. watched people
5. tries to catch the ghost in the walls
6. ignores her husband
7. determined
8. hated the wallpaper
9. losing her mind
10. stays in the room a lot