Post 21- Exercise

I'm sure most of the class is either working up a sweat trying to burn off Thanksgiving dinner, just thinking about it, or working up a sweat about your grades and schoolwork. We all know how important exercise is, but why we don't do it is a lot of times out of busyness, tiredness, laziness, or we just don't want to or feel we need to. It doesn't have to be tough, just a walk for 20 to 30 minutes a day. Though I know I should be more active, I'll jump myself into the busy/tired boat, anyone else?

Post 20- Our Rights

Everyday we watch TV, whether its the news or some TV show, we see courtrooms, victims, officers, attorney's, and so on, and a lot of times we take away valuable information from these shows. Though, the thing about just watching TV shows is that it only shows you so much and doesn't always go into depth. It's important for us as people living in America to know the rights given to us by the government so that we are no taken advantage of by those in system. Today my daughter picked up a law handbook from the library and my first question to her was "Are you going to do criminal justice?" (she likes the medical field) and she replied "No, got to know your rights right mommy". It's not just important to know your rights for yourself, but also that we teach it to our kids so they know what's right from wrong in the eyes of the law and judicial system.

Post 19- Thanksgiving

Wow thanksgiving is going to break everyone's diets AGAIN this year. It's the feast of the year. The nest feast is coming up on December 25, and I can't wait for that one either. Hit the gym and enjoy your thanksgiving and family guys!!!!

Post 18- Logos

Logos is basically the meat of what is said. It is the evidence that backs up a theory; it's what proves your point... Logos is your facts and logic that you share with others. There's not really much else to say about it.

Post 17-Ethos

In speech class the teacher would require you to to state your credibility in your speech; this doesn't mean to state your references. You basically state what makes you a credible person to speak about the topic. That's basically what ethos is; providing credibility so that your audience will know that they can trust what your saying. Another example would be the news, everyone watches the news and they believe that all the stories are true because, well, its the news and it tells you what's going on, you trust their credibility from their reporters who go to the scenes and investigate and report back with the area right behind them; they have a lot of evidence displaying their credibility.

Post 16- Pathos

I'm sure that no one will EVER forget the UNICEF commercials asking for donations to save the lives of children who are in need in other countries, pets as well. Seeing these commercials grab at your heart and make you want to pull out your wallet immediately, it's the cousin to the shopping channel. The effect that these commercials have on us demonstrates Pathos in all the emotion that we feel toward it. Someone who is apathetic cannot feel the same strong, heart-wrenching emotions that stream through us, thus the name Pathos makes sense to me (because sometimes words just don't make sense with their meaning esp. when there is a better name that better correlates).

Post 15- How Does it Know to Stop?

Do you ever notice that your fingernails never grow past a certain point? No matter how long you may give it, it just does not pass that very point. It's very annoying when you actually do want to grow your nails longer. Also there's your hair too, your leg hair, forearm hair, and just average skin hair, if you notice, if you don't shave these areas you'll see they don't grow past a point, sure I am grateful for this when it comes to body hair but I can't help but wonder why this happens.

Post 14- Cupcake vs. Muffin

For the last few days there was a pressing question in my mind. What is the difference between a muffin and a cupcake? This is very thought-provoking because they're made in the same way, they look almost the same, and they use the same cupcake cups when baking. Who's to say that if I bake a muffin in a little cupcake cup and put frosting on it that it's not a cupcake? At first I thought it was just that one has frosting and the other doesn't but then again, if i took the frosting off a cupcake is it now a muffin, or if i put frosting on a muffin is it now a cupcake? I asked one friend of mine and she said "One is for breakfast and the other is for dessert" but this is just a societal norm, as how society has deemed a doughnut a breakfast meal and desert.

I searched Google and found a bunch of technical answers about density and batter type, but finally I asked a friend of mine who is a chef and he told me squarely that the difference is just the frosting, and also apparently if I put frosting on my muffin it is now officially a cupcake!! My mind was blown!!! It's as simple as that.

Post 13- Doc 2

A lot of times when we're signed up in a course online, most teachers decide that they want to engage their students in the textbook to better help them learn, but sometimes other teachers don't. They'll give you a question and expect you to find the answer but when you look in the textbook you can't find a trace of the correct answer, so you then send yourself on a wild goose chase through Google to find an adequate explanation. Or after reading the chapter you discover that most of the quiz questions are foreign to you. This is complete and utter unpredictability and I for one am a victim of this act. This Doc will voice my concerns about this.

Post 12- Research papers

Who else thinks that research papers are the worst creations for students of all time? I know I do. I remember when I first began writing them I always got confused when it came to citations because I didn't understand how I could write a long paper on a topic that I know nothing about without citing everything that I read about the topic on scholarly websites... In conclusion, my first paper had probably somewhere around 20 in-text citations in it. Even though I got better that doesn't change the fact that it's one of the worst things in student history.

Post 11- Logical Fallacies

A lot of people find that they prefer a certain news station not because of how interesting the anchor is but how much information is given about the subject or something along those lines. Sometimes I may be in conversation with someone and they point out something about the topic that I never knew and I'm thinking "Wait, I saw this on the news, they didn't mention that part". This stands to point out that you must research for yourself so you can get all there is to know, yourself. There are a few logical fallacies used in politics they include ad hominem which is kind of like slander campaigns, argument from authority where celebrities or influential individuals endorse something, and the disregarded middle when the focus is placed only on big events rather than all the other smaller things that occurred (I think this one relates most to media).

Post 10- What Can I Say? First Impressions are Everything

Ways you may illogically think of other people? We are all judgmental in our own right and what I am about to write, I'm sure many of us can relate to it....
How many times have you come across a random stranger and just because of how they talk/dress/act, you begin to jump to conclusions about their backgrounds and history?
A lot of times we can chalk our views to stereotypes such as a blonde being not so intelligent or a black person and being ghetto (I know this one pertains to me and a lot of ghetto-looking/sounding individuals I've come into contact with).
Many times I've thought of strangers badly because of how they seem as I'm from the outside looking in, and then I get a big slap in the face (figuratively) when after some conversation/small talk I realize that my initial perception was completely wrong!!!!
I've learned and I know it is not my place to make assumptions about people without speaking to them at least a little and I hate when this happens because sometimes I JUST CAN'T TURN IT OFF!!!