TED talk video link (not me though)

1. Gossip explained through celebrity drama and how it reflects the cultures values
2. marital conventions, fidelity, feminist regression or progression, social violence, sexual orientation
3. how cultures have their social norms, and is about being able to tell on an individual standpoint when looking at someone else
4. celebrity gossip is a reflection of a modern human behavior in culture. current standpoint of a current standard of morality
5. she is a sociologist, celebrity's actions and view points reflect on our culture by constantly changing the norms and social behavior of humans.
6.people of who overlook celebrity gossip as news that is irrelevant and pay no attention
7.individuals outlook on others as they view cultural views and individual views
8.pathos-swearing
             -showing pictures of rihanna
  logos-ashton kutcher cheating on his wife of 6 years, and he would go on to be on "Two and A Half Men" and became highest paid tv actor on television
  ethos-ideology would be used where she is stating her facts and she is reaching her goals and in the end by telling the audience enough to where they will begin to take the same stance as she did, and since she gossips for a living. Also, she compares cultural views with celebrity gossip drama, using philosophical tendencies.














pathos- swearing in the beginning

thesis:

workshop questions

-yes
-no, "Rough Draft" ---> "Traditional to Year Round Schooling"
-yes

-no, opens with questoins
-kind of, could be more developing of the problem
-yes, vouching for YRS
-no, asks a question but will be revised

-yes, 3 concepts in thesis
-close
-close
-yes
-no, more research needed
-yes
-close, convincing logic but could be more in depth
-no, need better transitions, don't really flow into each other

-no, need to include the opposition more
-no
-no, but with more opposing stances it will have this

-need revisions to not sound redundant
-yes, but could be made more clear with detail
-yes

-3 on the rough draft but will final will have 6
-MLA will be used
-yes
-most part yes, more research would be nice
-it will
-it will
-it will contain 5 sources

opposition arguement

Year Round School (Opposition, against YRS)

When thinkning about school, you mainly think of going for 9 months with small breaks here and there, and then looking at the Year Round Schooling system, you go for about 45 days, small break of about 15 days, then pick right back up on the 45 day class period schedule. Having year round school will tire out the students, be exspeneisve to the district and will have many scheduling conflicts with family and school. Having year round school may sound like a good idea, but when thinking about it, the time restrictions and event schedule conflicts play a big role and suggest maybe we shouldnt have YRS. In an article on Scholastic.com, it talks about the multi-schedule juggle. Patricia McCracken, who went to a YRS as a child says that she found the 2 week breaks disruptive and she felt that she couldnt get involved with school since she would have the next week off from school. When linking my thesis to the cited source, I can use Ms. McCracken as a thorough source due to the fact that she has attended this schooling and can vouch when she says that this isnt how school should be.

"The Pros and Cons of Year-Round Schools." Scholastic.com. Scholastic, n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2014

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/choosing-schools-programs/pros-and-cons-year-round-schools

Op ed piece of year round schooling

Writers stance: Not exactly for year round schooling, but schooling should be on a quarterly schedule.

Th writer states that our school shouldnt be yearly, but quartery. I question this becasue she goes on to state that the students would get a brain break and the teachers would bet professional development. I question this becasue what kind of DEvelopemnt would they get and what the cost would be on this "quarterly schedule. I beleive the writer also tries to state that we should pay whatever the price is to make the change.

Im not sure if i would use this source because its faily short and shes unclear on really what shes trying to say. First she starts off saying that there should be some sort of yearly schooling implemeneted becasue its not like the old days where the children need 3 months to help their family crops, but then she states she isnt proposing yearly schooling, she wants quarterl, whatever that means.

logical fallacies

Issue/Problem
-Iraq- Rice's involvement
-Who Almond voted for
-Qutting his job to protest

Fallacie
-Ad Hominem
-Appeal to Authority
-Red Herring
-Straw Man

One fallacie would be appeal to emotion. The interviewer was forcing the audience to believe that Prof. Almond was bad and who he voted for was wrong. The interview just assumed that he voted for Kerry and said it was a bad choice.

1st Draft Argumentative Esssssssssssssay

When thinking about going to school, you would regularly think of going for five days a week, nine months out of the year, from September to June, and then have your typical summer break which is typically just under 3 months. What if, instead of doing your schooling that way through K-12, you decide to enroll yourself into a year round schooling program and can learn more material and increase your test scores. Year round schooling consists of going to school for about 9 weeks, followed by a 2 week break and then the cycle would just continue year round. I think implementing year round round schooling would highly increase scores and possibly GPA's due to the fact that the students are learning more, and won't have the break

introduction:
when starting my paper, i think i want to find a study on a student that went to tradtional schooling, and what they rememebered after their 3 month break and slowly transition into my thesis and next my first paragraph.

Possible sub topics:
GPA's
Cost
Break in summer vs no break (faculty and students)
Student scores
Family issues
Scheduling conflicts
What year round school really is

Evidence: I have found sufficent information so far for my topic, but clearly more information is needed. When looking at the info, im feeling that I need to tweak my thesis a little so that it comes better together and I can find much more informatin to back me up.

Opposing: I have found a few sites, one of the sites I found was very nice in this field. It focuses a lot on the negatives and states why year round schooling is almost a bad thing. I do need to find more sources to back up my claim, but im slowly getting there.

college questionZ

purpose of going to college:
to get knowledge to help you make choices in life and to make money; money makes the world go around.

is a college education worth it?
-depends, it's not what you know its who you know.
"About a year ago, the nation’s cumulative student debt surpassed credit card debt for the first time, and it could grow to $1 trillion by the end of this year."
"time it takes to pay back the money laid out for a degree is growing, causing many to question the efficacy of attending college."
"some experts argue that attending college has become less about learning actual skills and more about simply paying to have a degree"
"Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, published earlier this year by the University of Chicago Press, found that 36-percent of college students “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning” during their college educations."

with these quotes, clearly I would say that college isnt worth it. We only go because thats what were expected to do, its the norm of our country for most. Then again, some people don't go and thats their choice. Saving time and lots and lots of dough.


http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-a-college-degree-still-worth-it