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| Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 | | 11:29 am |
Dear students of next year, You can expect many different activities and types of papers. I would make sure your papers have a nice flow and read well. I defiantly recommend the writing center for all major papers. All major papers need hard good facts that really pull the reader’s attention and grammars not a big deal but helps out a lot for the flow. The class over is a lot of fun and laid back. I really must stress to you the importance of not procrastinating and doing things in a timely fashion and receiving help from her on your papers. Prof. Gay will tell you want she wants to see from you in your papers and will critique a paper before you hand it in if you set up a time to met before its due. | | Friday, April 7th, 2006 | | 11:13 am |
| | Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006 | | 11:03 am |
I’m not here to talk about the past. We should make a fundamental transformation in athletic drug testing. How can we change the leagues drug testing polices to be more successful. Drug testing athletes proposes many problematic subjects Drug testing is an invasion of privacy for a fair game or not really? | | Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 | | 12:00 pm |
Context 1) the room is a small box shape room with no windows, this will give the felling of entrapment and make them feel forced to be their but not listen. 2) 5 to 10 min. This time limit constrains me from giving lots of person stories or feels and more on facts. 3) The mid-day, for some they might be tired from morning classes or just waking up. Social context 1) Intimate space will change the context of emotion and give me an edge to appeal to the audience. 2) Social setting will give more relaxed feeling and allow for a place of authority or leadership. 3) The talking of facts as a teacher. The audience will understand the space by dress, actions and tone of voice. I should address intimate space to connect to the audience. Audience 1) A small room filled with chairs and with heads down at first till you grab their attention. 2) Ask a question or engage with them with a joke or a good morning. 3) Can make jokes in speech to see if they laugh and still listening Purpose 1) Yes 2) Agree with the facts with head jesters, after I am done with questions or stories Ethos The sense of knowledge and approachability A joke or funny jester Pathos A story or pain of someone going threw the situation A question they should ask themselves if they agree with. Logos Connection to audience with emotion Talking about the other side first and disproving their facts and numbers. A well balance of good grammar and simple word choice Not testing athletes only hurts themselves and the leagues. | | 11:36 am |
| | Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 | | 3:53 pm |
*Professional athletes are role models for kids today and should be tested for drugs. This is wrong if you didn’t test the athletes for drugs then nobody would know that they do drugs and then ignorance is bliss. *The people that watch sports have a right to know the competition is fair. People don’t watch sports to see if the game is fair they watch for entertainment and pleasure. So how is it fair to invade someone’s personal life just because they are in the spotlight. We don’t test Bill Gates for drugs. *Drug testing prevents the use of drugs in athletics. This is not true; many athletes have found ways around the system by using other pills/ drugs to flush out the system of testable substances. Athletes also use other people’s urine in test rather then their own. *Testing for drugs keeps the athletes safe. Testing for drugs keeps the athletes safe then why test for drugs that our not dangerous to humans. Some drug tests find substances that neither are illegal substances nor make the competition unequal *The drug police is strict to protect and punish athletes that use drugs. This is wrong because many substances that don’t affect performance are tested for and the reason for testing in the first place is competitions should be fair. The reason its not fair is because gold medalist in the Olympics have lost their metals because of drug testing for mind alternating drugs. The Olympics is about the best in the world and if your still the best in the world after a handicap of using those types of drugs then you should keep your metal. | | Friday, February 17th, 2006 | | 11:21 am |
Scott McElmurry Manifesto The opinions and feels I have towards issues are formed from my up bring, this includes family, friends, religion, and environment. I feel like I am a middle class white male with strong up bringing in many areas. I grew up in a suburban city called Farmington Hills, located outside of Detroit. I went to a great school system and that was the reason we moved out of Detroit where my father and mother use to live. The main reason we moved was because of a shooting in our backyard between a crook and the cops where a couple of our windows were shot out. So we moved into an abandoned city owned building that my parents bought and fixed up for many years while living inside it. I don’t think we had a back yard till I was about three that’s how long it took to cut the grass down on all the property. The house is on one acre of land that is a lot for the suburbs. The thing I think that shaped me living there is always working on the yard or house on the weekends. The fact that we had to put more work into living nice and safe then to be living the easy way and not be safe is a big factor. The next thing is that many people think that because I live in the suburbs in ignorant to what happens in the city or that I’m not tough or gangster and that everyone in the suburbs is want to be gangster. Well all I have to say to that is being gangster is not the shit. I rather live in the suburbs because I’ve seen gangster and I don’t want my friends dieing because of some stupid pride over my mom being called something. I rather live safe and not try living pay check to pay check poor as many gangsters do. I think one thing that really did shape my life is one of my own friends taking his life. I don’t know why but there are many thought to why. This made things very different in my senior year of high school. The reason I go to college is because of growing up in Detroit and Farmington hills. Detroit is where my father works; he works at Henry Ford Hospital as Physician Assistant (PA). People think because my Dad works with doctors that we are rich well I would say we well of but not rich. My father only makes the money he does by working. He put in many hours when I was young to move and fix up the house. I did see my dad much at a young age till my mom went back to college. Then the parental roles switched from mom being home when I got home from school to my father. The one thing I could always count on was the weekends where I see my parents and my other parents/ great family friends the Haas’s. The Haas family has always been their when I needed them. They also have 4 children which one of the boys is only 11 months younger then me. We are in the same grade. The thing I loved was no matter what happened you could call them for help. The other thing is that my father, mister Haas and I would all go for Saturday morning breakfast and go shopping for food and other things. Those car rides shaped my life by listening to the conversations and gaining advice from them on what to do in my own life. The best thing was the five min. rant and rave. That means if you’re angry about anything that happened that week you get five min. to bitch about it uninterrupted then they would ask you questions and tell you what to do next time so it doesn’t happen again. | | Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 | | 10:32 am |
Scott McElmurry The essay of “How to look at the periodic table” by James Elkins come from his book “How to use your eyes”. I think this essay is meant for a wide range of readers from middle school up to adults, mainly because of the easy reading and the word choice. What he’s try to convey to the audience is that there’re many views on the same matter, that people should look deeper, and that many people focus on the structure over the subject. James is trying to make us look at one thing stop and take a deeper look at see how it formed, it history, and to question what is really there. James first picture that he sends you is the one of the typical class room periodic table. He brakes down its structure into many parts and with that how the parts relay to certain people over others, such as the chemist and the physicist. Then after doing all this he bring in a picture one of the periodic tables many people know from high school but the words are in a different language. I think this was chosen to show how people look at the form and structure before they read or look deeper. I at first didn’t notice that it was in a different language. I think this iterates that simple role of don’t judge a book by it cover. In the essay James also goes over the several different types of periodic tables made by other scientist. Even though they are not as popular tables they still carry a lot of the same information and work. They just as widely as used because in one it only covers the affinity of an object. This swirl table is hard to read and understand at first glance along with another table that has three helixes one inside another. The complexity of the tables is also what James is trying to get across. I think since people look at something and see it to be complex they won’t try or look at the table, but rather just give up on trying to figure the table out. The Helix design works for both chemist and physicist, and is easy to learn and understand in a three-dimensional application but translated onto a two dimensional surface makes it really hard to follow and understand while also adding to its complexity. This shows that people rather follow simpler ways which is also conveyed in James word choice. James at the end of says something what I find different from what I thought he was conveying as his message, he brings in the fact that maybe something’s can’t be organized and things are not as simple as they appear. And in the last sentence he uses the word God. This I found a little odd for James because this sentence stands out the most at the end because it’s of topic to the rest in some sense. The reason being is that in the rest of the paper he seems more like a person that follows basic rules such as teachers, and television they don’t like to use the word God, and he does and even more he does it at the end to say maybe we got the wrong impression of him too. So it seems that the periodic table is a lot different and more complex then we thought that is that every table can not organize everything to everyone’s needs. The simple fact of the matter is that people need to take a different look at things notice the details and question why it is that way. Then after all that’s done not just follow the simplest way but take time to learn and understand the different ways, that things so simple as elements can be arranged. Then look at it and maybe say that this doesn’t fit everyone or that there is no real way to arrange things to a simpler form. | | Monday, January 30th, 2006 | | 10:49 am |
Drug testing is right or an invasion of your rights. The last couple years drug testing has increased in the work place, schools and athletics. This waste tax payer’s money does deter the use of drugs. This act of is very invasion, and severely accounted for in athletics. Why does a high school athlete worry more after the game when he already feels enough pressure to perform in sports and school? Are the drug tests random, and deter teens from using drugs in school? These things come with random drug testing and need to be taken into account when weighing the facts of drug testing. The first thing we must ask ourselves is drug testing really random in high schools. The popular belief would be why yes of course they can just pick random kids out of a hat, but does that happen in all schools. Roger on a live post say “School officials picking out students exhibiting so called "drug-induced behaviors" is less constitutional than random drug tests, and opens the possibility of a whole slew of law-suits for the school. If you go by that rule, employees will peg kids who look the part, and they'll be right less then half the time. The kids that'll get picked are goths, rockers, blacks, hispanics. Mostly, it's the kid that you would never expect that gets into them. So it would be ineffective, and the school would have to deal with parents raving everyday about discrimination.”(.able2know.com/forums/a bout64906.html ) This is a problem if the principle or just one staff member choices the kids to be tested and not tested in the school. Who’s to keep track or what polices would be in order to stay way from the legal issues of drug testing for or against the issue. Drug testing in school voluntary or involuntary well the questions come from if all public schools make it mandatory to attend them till the age of 16 by state law and they also force drug testing, then how is it voluntary. Also if in many school polices if you decide to decline or fail to produce a sample if called upon then that counts as an automatic failure and goes on you record. Work environment have drug testing but these test or optional and so is your option not to work for a company that enforces drug test so at least at work environments you have a choice between getting test and not tested. Many Athletic teams test for drugs they use this to test for anabolic steroids which is performance enhancing drugs. These drugs they test for are not mind alternating drugs but they can tell if there are those drugs in the test sample. The reason they test for these drugs is to make sure that the competition is fail on all playing grounds and safe for all the athletes. Anabolic steroids are more serious. “The major side effects from abusing anabolic steroids can include liver tumors and cancer, jaundice (yellowish pigmentation of skin, tissues, and body fluids), fluid retention, high blood pressure, increases in LDL (bad cholesterol), and decreases in HDL (good cholesterol). Other side effects include kidney tumors, severe acne, and trembling. Scientific research also shows that aggression and other psychiatric side effects may result from abuse of anabolic steroids. Many users report feeling good about themselves while on anabolic steroids, but researchers report that extreme mood swings also can occur, including manic-like symptoms leading to violence.”( http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/Steroids.html) The random drug testing many say keep the athletes safe and less likely to do drugs because of the testing. This is many believe because of the fines associated with testing positive and the pay cut/loss because of missed games and contracts with professional leagues. One such league just now implementing a drug testing procedure is the NHL (Nation Hockey League) one of the last major professional sport to impose one. People get tested everyday for drugs and nobody thinks anything of it. Well what if a price was attached to drug testing on your taxes. Then I think people would say something. What if a little bit was taken out of your pay check every month for drug testing your fellow co-workers? Then would you think something of drug testing, and what if all this happens and the person still has a drug problem, or the person does a drug but has no affect on his performance to do his job.“A.J. McBay says ‘no evidence can be found that improvement in safety, health, or performance has resulted in millions of dollars spent on testing.’” Your child goes to school and in stead of buying new books for the kids your money goes toward testing your child for drugs. So let’s just throw away our school dollars and tax money on a problem that really doesn’t exist or makes a difference in other peoples life’s. Millions of your tax dollars are being spent on drug testing; do you think that’s a good place for your money to go? Countless teens are being tested for drugs everyday in high school and at random, but is it really random at all. What if it was your kid who just because he looked a certain way was tested, be it black pants, black skin, blue hair, chains, polo’s, or he drives a nice car to school. This is just not right for drug testing to be taking place when many people feel it doesn’t deter the problem of drugs. The help and harms of testing. Conclusion. | | Friday, January 27th, 2006 | | 10:38 am |
Pathos Drug testing is right or an invasion of your rights. The last couple years drug testing has increased in the work place, schools and athletics. This is a waste of money by the tax pays, does not deter the use of drugs and should be discontinued. This disgusting act of invasion should be band on all fronts, and severely limited in athletics. Did you see babe Ruth pissing in a cup after he hit career home runs. Why does a high school athlete worry about his piss after the game when he already feels enough pressure to perform in sports and school? These things are all wrong and should not be performed. Logos People get tested everyday for drugs and nobody thinks anything of it. Well what if it was you being tested? “A.J. McBay says ‘no evidence can be found that improvement in safety, health, or performance has resulted in millions of dollars spent on testing.’” So lets just throw away our school dollars and tax money on a problem that really doesn’t exist or makes a difference in other peoples life’s. Ethos Millions of your tax dollars are being spent on drug testing; do you think that’s a good place for your money to go? Countless teens are being tested for drugs everyday in high school and at random, but is it really random at all. What if it was your kid who just because he looked a certain way was tested, be it black pants, black skin, blue hair, chains, polo’s, or he drives a nice car to school. This is just not right for drug testing to be taking place when many people feel it doesn’t deter the problem of drugs. *Logos http://ideas.repec.org/a/cpp/issued/v17y1991i2p183-196.htmlhttp://economics.ca/cgi/jab?journal=cpp&view=v17n2/CPPv17n2p183.pdf*Pathos http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1047-7039%28199405%295%3A2%3C259%3AACAWDT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9&size=LARGE*Ethos http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LnbZygyqdsEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&sig=hO9Cfo-NnmIB6sEC1Spq9hxVGdw&dq=drug+testing+wrong&prev=http://www.google.com/scholar%3Fq%3Ddrug%2Btesting%2Bwrong%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D | | Monday, January 23rd, 2006 | | 10:45 am |
Design plan 1. Intro- Connect with the audience with what if it happened to them how would they feel? 2. The fact about drug testing 3. Pro’s of drug test how they keep young kids away longer 3. A story of how it helped some person 4. The con’s of drug test 5. A story of how it hurt some person 6. A story of how it was false test and hurt some person 7. Conclusion | | Friday, January 20th, 2006 | | 7:29 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 | | 10:23 am |
Why should drug testing be allowed in sports? Why should we have to drug test for all drugs? How accurate are the test and can they be cheated? Is their moral wrong being done with drug testing? Why is it mandated for some place to pass drug test? Drug test our bad, good, clean, right or wrong. Why test? Rose Mark Scott Jen bob Tim all have no time to take a test for drugs. Why chose drug test well drug test our wrong to pry in lives. Why test some lives and not all lives. Why some jobs and not all jobs. I chose drug test not for drug nor for drugs but the test we have to take to get jobs or play sports. Fair or not fair that drug test can make or break your team or job in move on with a good life. I feel that drug test should not have that power. So that why I chose to write a report on drug test in both school and work. Athletics I will cover some on but not my main source. Some issues will be the fact that test can be wrong the results that is, and have a bad result for your life. | | Thursday, January 12th, 2006 | | 8:40 pm |
Hey bro, How’s it going around down state? I got some shitty news to tell you. I just got kicked out of the artic north man. I think ill just go to another school like MSU where they have schools. I don’t know how to tell my parents but man I know they are going to be pissed. It’s all because I was stupid one night, well okay two nights but really I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. I just wish they would give me another chance to do things right or just loosen up the ties on me. Just because I drink and our under age and took one of those stupid 50’ inch monitors in the library that nobody watch’s that hangs upstairs over an opening doesn’t mean I should be kicked out of school. I think they should really just give me a degree from the school for being so fucking smart on coming up with a quick easy way to get it down and also walk out with it and not be stopped. I mean it took them a week to find out it was me and that show’s you how pointless this T.V. is that they didn’t even notice it gone till some time, but I bet if the dean’s vibro was missing they would know in 2 min of it being gone and have the whole school search for little sarg. Dear Mom and Dad, This letter is just to tell you that I won’t be attending Michigan tech anymore because of campus issues. I made a couple of mistakes of drinking on the campus and when that happened I did something I’m not proud of. I stole a t.v. from the school and they won’t let me just pay for the damage they are kicking me out. They our not pressing charges though. So I plan on getting a job for the rest of the year and applying my studies to a different organization. The context was of me getting kicked out of the university and why. The audience for the two letters my parents on of more serious action and my friend one of less care of seriousness. The purpose of the friend letter was to inform and make fun of the problem while the purpose of the parents one was to tell the truth of what happened seriously and brake the news. | | Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 | | 10:08 pm |
assignment 1
The back to back exercise in class was fun and thought some things about communication that I really didn’t consider before. The fact that I think some stuff is so simple to picture in ones mind was hard for my partner. Also I didn’t even consider the different shades of blue that we had in our kit. I think we where pretty good in communicating because we came out with the same shape and pieces placement. The way it happened that way was because I did all the direction giving and he just listened to them while checking in occasionally with yep’s, got it, and okay next piece. The most challenging thing to do was to have the small details explained confidently to my partner so he could understand what my piece looked like and what it looked like. I think for a long time he kind of had a picture in his mind of it that was different from mine till we came back and found out what we did wrong with me telling him pieces are on the edge meaning outside edge to outside edge not hanging over with the two by six pieces. I would have changed my pace of the build to one of a slower pace. That would have made things easier to understand and build. This change could help in allowing others to understand the visual concepts in my mind. Mainly communication of ideas is key for allowing others to follow you and have a general concept of what you want or what your vision might be. |
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