Katherine’s Say

This is what I believe. How can I cram all that those 5 small words are asking for into such a short essay? And yet I find myself believing that sometimes more can be said by the small words. Though I have studied the works of the great and gasped unbelieving at their command of language I notice that the power that is in just a simple sentence is no less lacking.

Since when has the grade of writing been established by how many words one knows or how long they are. It is sad that often such an effort is taken to create a forest in which the reader readily gets lost in. The writer needs to learn to be simple.

I am not saying that the writer has to dull down his work or take away from a masterfully created image but to realize that like humans, language is sometimes best left simply how they are. Would the sentence “I love you” have any more meaning if christened with sweet adjectives? Is not one of Shakespeare’s most remembered lines “to be or not to be”? There are no words longer than 3 letters in that sentence and yet it has captured the imagination of so many. How many lives have been changed by the words “I do”? Those words that have been for centuries are as plain and extraordinary as they were when someone first said them. They do not need to be enhanced.

Or maybe it is the part that they must play, to be used when they will strike at the heart, only in the last scene. Being thus they must rely upon the decorative words before them to set the stage so that when it is time the small significant words can bring forth the emotion that the longer ones set. After all don’t all stories no matter how great or small close with the same two words: the end.

I believe that people underestimate the power of words especially words that are in common vernacular. It is almost as if since anyone can use those words then they are not as powerful. I believe that because everyone can use them they are the most powerful. Most of us are not among the great, but what we say is no less impacting. We cry, we love, we laugh, we dance, we die, we live, we promise, we leave, and we stay.

This is what I believe: that when it is time to write that at some point we throw away the words that we don’t need, because there is a lot to say that can be said with strong little words.

PS: I do not know how to submit this to “This I Believe”

1) Aunt Jenny sent that present because no one else has bunny elvis wraping paper.

2) If playing video games is bad for you than watching TV isn’t.

3) My classmates and I agree that Fife is the best so Fife is the best.

Quote #1 -George Eliot

If as some believe women where not able to count to higher than three than there would be basis in arguments against women.

That this quote takes the first step into Gould’s arrgument which is needed because he follows the oppisit theme for the beginning half of his essay.

Quote #2 -L. Manouvrier

Women have done much to be recognized for and Broc’s numbers have come crashing them down bringing comments and even if they had souls or intelligence up to be a debate topic ( for the oh so high male)

Quote # 3 -Broca

Even though some say that the size of the brain depends on the size of the body and

Discussion

#1 Gould has respect for the scientific method but not for the interpertation that some scientists have given it and also that if logic and sencibility is not applied to the study than the results are without foundation.

Retoric and Style

#3 in paragraph 11 when Gould said that he found that “Broca’s numbers were sound but his interpretation ill founded” and stated the reasons why he believed so using what is unrefutable logic. In this area he is not challenging the science but rather the method that broca used. By weaving these sources together he is making his point by making an opposite opinion be understood as rediculus.

#6 In paragraphs 9-12 Gould points out all the flaws in Broca’s expariments which brings forth a single point that though Broca had the numbers he did not go about the expariment in a scientific manner and can not be called proof of women’s infuriority.

#7 Gould brings forth the findings of Broca and his group about other groups because this will greater influence the argument against Broca and strengthen his own position.

#9 Gould brings together both arguments in the last couple of paragraphs by saying that they both relie on eachother and since both are so far from respectible theory and practice that the only fact remainining is that Broca did not have any facts to back up the belief of female infuriority.

1) The begining makes the reader visualise a scean so different than the title that it calls for a back cheack. The author might have done this to gain attention, but it also serves to bring out her main point in this work.

2)Her purpose could have been to draw the attention away from Harry Potter but not so much that it dulls his importance but enough so the audience can see her point and compare the to obvious opposits.

3)She uses the qoute from the Gwendolyn Books to move the attention to her point that terrible things happen and people grow in them and people live.

4)When she says that “Harry Potter is just a boy who lived” she is not quoting the book which said Harry was THE boy who lived. Giovanni is saying that Harry is just one of all of us who lives and has lived through the terrors of life.

5)I can’t quite tell why she chose this style or what exactly it is. There are so many arguements one can make for many of the different forms.

6)I don’t quite know because it has been so long since I haven’t read since the 5th book or beyond. Also my veiw of the Harry Potter books is interesting because I’ve litterally grown up with the books, to me they are almost old friends, a place I can disapear to (allong with books like Lord of the Rings; Redwall; Squire, or Count of Monte Cristo. She is coming from a very anilising position. 

7)There are many differerent meanings of the word sanctuary but when I think of it I think mostly of my home or another place where I feel safe, a protected place. 

Pro: multiple sourses; stays on topic; good writing skills; understanding of topic; responds to promt; cites sources.

Con: didn’t write a synthesis paper; strayed off topic; poor writing skills; didn’t use/cite sources; poor thought process-didn’t get thought across well.

PS I like easy homework

1) Pobert Putnam establishes credibility through not only his own merit as aa Harvard professor but also dy siting relieable sources thoughout this section of Bowling Alone; The Collapse and Tevival of American Community.

2)Putnam mentions Robinson, Godbey, Needham, and Kustler but not Cornstock. He used Robinson and Godbey together because they worked together they made a time diary which determined the amount of time people spend on the TV. Needham presented a graph from survays that expresed the social and communitty involvement from 1975 to 1999. Kustler is a social critic who wrote/ said a polemic which is related to but stronger than Putnam’s own beliefs.

3)The additional information gives backing to his information and the ideas of his own.

4)The 14th footnote may seem obvious to the reader when they can see it but if they did not see foonote 14 the reader would have had no idea where that information was gathered from or even if they did have an incling, then it would not be obvious.

5)He uses the conection between time spent watching TV and the time spend doing other activitys to show how much time people spend at home and or indoors because when they are watching TV they are at home. This source would also likely have information on the amount of TV watched.

6)A more extream view is more impacting if Putnam can make his audience look at Kustler’s ideas, than his own less radicle thoughts are more easily concidered.

7)Putnam’s notes and sources state that he did do extencive research on his topic and that he did not just peice together an article and call it researched because he looked at a web site(made by a fifth grade class), he put time and effert into his research.

He doesn’t want to watch

1) Yes it does address that threat (infact according to them it has happend) but the article also comments on the world that occurs when TV is shut off and the educational program TV turn-off week.

2)The interviewer may be a little biased against the TV-B-Gone devise, I say this because she asked three or more times in different ways if Kalle Lasn believes that it is right to turn off someone elses TV.

3)The tone of the interview continusly reminds the audience of the fact that Kalle Lasn is deeply involved with the TV turn off week and the TVbgone device but the fact that by the end of the interview she comes across as abit abnoxius does effect her credibility in my view.

4)The question of the political nature of TV-turn-off week was mostly mentioned after the first question and even in the paragraph before. These two sections addressed how TVTOW had died down in the past few years and was now greatly forgotten.

TV Turn Off Week

1)DiVivo’s purpose is to get his audience out of the TV and into the real world. He explains this step by step like directions on how to put up a cupboard or something like this.

2) The posters tone is dareing the reader to go outside and also it talks as one would talk to a beginner of something they didn’t quite understand yet.

3)The conecction between the two is definantly evident and it dose add to the poster’s effectiveness so that it is as plain and simple that the most foolish person could understand.

Is Media Violence Free Speach

1)They agree that the problem goes beyond violence on tv.

2) Gitlin uses Japan as an example because there is more violence available to be seen on TV in Japan and staistics show that less violence acctually happens in Japan. Gerbner responds that that is the view of someone who believes that it is the main cause that contributes to real world violence.

3) Gitlin is not against the V-chip as a tool but Gerbner believes hit is “a slideshow and a diversion”.

4)The results of excessive TV violence is that real violence is thought of as less important.

1) Twain’s purpose in Corn Pone Opinions is tio state that society as a whole follows and rarely ever come to a conclusion by their own power the dicition is already given to them gift wraped and all.

2)By changing the personal pronaoun to we he changes the subject from people in general to all humans, all of us.

3)The anecdote about the slave does not detract from the story purely from the sence that the slave himself was differant and even though Twain does get the idea from that sorce he modifies it into his own opinion therfore not following blindly as he says society does.

4)Twain expands the slave,Jerry’s, defination of corn pone opinions by first qualifieing the statement that generalizes to say that all of us believe and act in a surtain way to say that many but not everyone do this. Secondly he said that if there was ever an unbiased origional opinion than it must have existed for but a portion of a second before it desolved into thin air. Also by numbering these two points he has brought greater attention onto their messages and seperated them from the article so that they may be noticed and from the other so that they may not be combinded.

5)The appeals to fashion do streangthen his argument because the audience he wrote for would definately pay notice to fashionable trends, this also is especialy noticed because fashion changes so rapidly (even then) an by also mentioning wine glasses he calls attention to trends created over time.

6)The ironicy of Twains second qualification is stated in what they would do if they ever did find an origional idea, that they would stuff it in a meuseam as if it was a rare artifact and should have a “delicate don’t touch” sign posted on it.

7)He could have broken up paragraph 13 at “[b]roadly speaking..” but the reason that the paragraph is so long is so that it can fully state the meaning without pausing to lose the audience or confuse purposes. Also by puting the suboridinate clauses in the middle he has added dramatic effect.

8)The effect of paralism in paragraph in 14 is to compare the differances between the public ideals and reallity.

9)By Capitalising both Public Opinion and Voice of God he has paired them together as if to moack public opinion more and to enfacise his comparison between them both.

1) Denby discribes the female villian by using rhetorical stratagies to create the perfect cold-blooded menace. Her beauty is a hyperbole as well as how bad her fasion sence is, he mentions her friends who are exactly like her, and her power are all exagerated though of course in the world of movies not by much. He calls upon her beauty shadeing it with her evil. They are the wicked princesses. Likend to princesses (evil ones of course) and Joan Crawford, the use of these literary devices is put toward discribing her as a villian with a prety face and cold heart.

2)The male villian is a intellectually challenged, infuriatingly shallow football player. He is not to be blamed for anything, and never conciderate of anything someone else might feel as long as it gives him a laugh. In contrast he is the chess peice for the female player. He is mean she is devious. 

3)Denby often changes his tone where he seperates two sections with a blank line inbetween them. These changes are often between one point of view and another. 

4) In paragraph 4 Denby changes from examining the Highschool movie to the analysis of where ideas, characters and plots for these movies came from by comparing it to why we wanted so many Westerns in the 1960s. 

5) The answer almost seems to be that the films reflect the reality that the audience believes they are part of.

6) When Denby uses ethos to support his argument he is adding other people, possibly better known then he is or has higher credentials then he does, that see things his way or at least in a way that he can use to convince the reader that his article is credible. It is also to say that these people other than himself who support his opinion.

7) His central arugument is that the highschool movie is what people have almost believed was real. He branches off of this to show how the people “at the bottom of the totem pole” win in the silverscrean and how since this does not always happen in real life. 

9)Denby ties the wound and the bow theory to Highschool movies by pointing out that those who would become Holywoods future writers and directors would be amoung the ridiculed. In their movies they get their inspiration from what has happend in the past to create a world that they feared where people like them acctually won.

10)Denby says if the Columbine shooters had only waited until they were in the real world where who was voted prom queen is a nice picture in a photobook locked away in the attic and has no actual benifit to life or getting on in the world then they would have eventually won.

11)It brings the focus back on the fact that even though we sometimes thinkthe movies are the molds for our lives they aren’t and that we really don’t live in Hollywood High and that the horrors of the silver scren are nothing more than that: stuck on the silver screan. 

12)The likely audience for this essay is teenagers and/or veiwers of teen movies. He keeps his audience in mind when he makes refrences with many movies that others wouldn’t know the importance of.