Save The Sharks!

So, shark fin soup is considered a delicacy in some Asian cultures, and I completely understand that. No way would I want to give up turkey on Thanksgiving. But, shark finning is so wasteful. I get that shark meat is considered poor because it is bland, but what would people who are starving really care? It provides sustenance and can be sold at cheap prices. Also, there are so many sharks that are threatened and on the verge of being extinct. These animals have withstood so many natural obstacles that they should be allowed to survive us. Besides the fact that they are animals that deserve to remain as they are, killing sharks would devastate the entire marine ecosystem. Animals that would normally be the prey of sharks would suddenly overpopulate- leading to their prey to become diminished. Even if you don't want to agree with that, just imagine being in their place. Not only do sharks "accidentally" get caught, once aboard their fins are cut off before they are tossed into the water. Sometimes, the shark is still alive and can drown, be eaten alive, or bleed to death. Regardless of how you feel about this animal, it is inhumane to go about killing them this way. Sharks do not deserve the treatment they get. Yes, Jaws, Deep Blue Sea, and other movies depicting evil sharks can scare people. You just need to realize that first, you are encroaching on their "turf". Humans do not belong in the sea. If we were meant to be there we would be better swimmers and have a better lung capacity. Also, they are predators who are meant to eat meat. Besides that fact, only a small percentage of sharks actually pose a threat to humans. People get mauled by bears, but people fight to protect them more because beaches are a hot spot for vacations and there have been a lot of thriller movies about sharks. Sharks need to be protected from this method of fishing because it is inhumane, wasteful, and greatly impacts the marine ecosystem.

Journal Entry #10

Rhetoric and Composition: What affects performance in college? Why do some do exceedingly well while others do not? English Education: Using fake words to help teach nouns, adverbs, verbs, etc. How would using this, like the poem Jabberwocky, help students? Does it help? Cultural Studies: The sexuality of advertisements. Why does sex sell? Discourse Analysis: How do syntax and gestures affect verbal communication? Topics I'm interested in: 1. Using athletes to sell products and if the athlete's reputation truly affects sales. 2. Infomercials. How do they go about selling products and how does it work? 3. Writing on the internet: does it hurt student's ability to write professionally or verbalize what they need to say. 4. Romantic films with the "bad boy" turning good. Why do most women prefer that? 5. Americans general ignorance about the United States government and what is going on with the country.

Sources

STUDENT AND COURSE INFO : Student name : Ariel Tymeson Email Address : tymeson@nova.edu Instructor : Professor Mason Topic : Shark Finning : RESOURCE ONE : Database used : Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgmt Title of periodical or book: Sharks and tunas: Fisheries impacts on predators with contrasting life histories Title of article : Author : Schindler, DE; Essington, TE; Kitchell, JF; Boggs, C; Hilborn, R Full text available : yes Bibliography : yes Citation from bibliography: Alverson, D. L. , M. H. Freeberg , S. A. Murawski , and J. G. Pope . 1994. A global assessment of fisheries bycatch and discards. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Fisheries Technical Paper 339 : RESOURCE TWO : Database used : ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Title of periodical or book: Preliminary re-assessment of the validity of the 5% fin to carcass ratio for sharks Title of article : Author : Cortes, E; Neer, JA Full text available : no Bibliography : no Citation from bibliography : : RESOURCE THREE : Database used : Global Information Network Title of periodical or book: ENVIRONMENT: EU BODY PROPOSES PROTECTING SHARKS FROM HUMANS Title of article : Author : David Cronin Full text available : yes Bibliography : no Citation from bibliography : :

Journal Entry #9

1. Katrina Powell uses the activity theory to determine the goals within the college for the analysis. Also, she looks to examine identity through self-representation. Combining the activity theory with self-representation and performance, Powell examines how students negotiate tensions they encounter within the activity systems while genres liberate and constrain the student at the same time. 2. To collect the data, Powell looks how personal identity and motivation shapes the writing of students. She looks expressly to the resistance, conflicts, and contradictions in writing to help find this out. 3. Many times, students don't get to choose the genre in which we are writing because professors will require that students write from a certain perspective or on a specific subject. However, students can, and should, add their own style to whatever they are told to write about. With some teachers, students risk losing their sense of self to please, or displease, the professor. So, "self-representation" is just a mixture of pleasing the professor and tips or suggestions from peers and teachers. This is seen especially with those students who either admire or dislike the professor. If a student likes the teacher, he or she may mimic the teacher. If he or she dislikes the professor, he or she may purposely ignore all sorts of tips or not pay attention to any sort of advice given.

Rhetorical Analysis

This is what I have so far, I know I need more I just have to put it back into word, but I have a different version. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i22/22a03201.htm In this article, author Joseph Storch brings up a new idea of using digital “textbooks” rather than requiring students to purchase hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks that some do not even read. Throughout the article, he uses logos and gives possible scenarios for using these new textbooks. As a college student who knows the hassle buying books is, his idea seems to be a good one. Storch mentions that students find a way to get books or the materials from these books illegally. Although I have never experienced the more extreme ways of getting this material, I do know that some choose not to purchase books and will then depend on friends or other students to get by in the class. I don’t believe this is necessarily illegal, but it is a way for students to find a way around buying expensive books. This would also help the declining revenue that publishing companies depend on. Using logos, he makes logical reasons for a person to want these new textbooks. He notices that college students tend to be completely broke (something that many companies do not understand or care about) and asking us to buy six hundred plus dollars on a book we will read (maybe) for a semester at most. To have the colleges pay for unlimited access within the school year will make everything more cost efficient and may make it possible for more people to obtain a college degree.

Journal Entry #8

The writer, David Pattie, is trying to research the topic of authenticity in rock music. This started with Pattie getting into a disagreement with Ritchey. Towards the end of the argument, Ritchey took a razor blade and cut "4 Real" into his arm. Although many rock bands show off self-mutilation, Ritchey took it a step further than most, maybe to prove that he was authentic. Pattie uses his personal experience with Ritchey to start off his research. To back up his case, he uses an essay written by Richard Dyer about constructed authenticity and what Bono said about embracing irony. Also, Bono believes that musicians look towards their music for validation on authenticity. This would mean that music is the truth that everyone in the business is looking for. Pattie also uses what has happened in rock history to help support the discussion on authenticity. He notes that authenticity is not "fixed," which means it can change. This has been seen to be true, by me at least, with a lot of underground bands that became mainstream. Fans of the bands previously get angered when they change to please the masses and sometimes stop being fans. Many have argued that the bands are no longer authentic. I can understand what they are saying, especially if they change their music. But, people change throughout life, so that may not necessarily mean that all of a sudden the artist is no longer "authentic." Many people try to establish authenticity by proving creativity. Also, most people like being reassured by others validity. This could also be correlated with honesty. It all depends on how a person defines authentic. Some may say it means being unique, and then would try to be their own person with no outside influence. This, of course, is close to impossible. To be truly unique with no outside help is hard, people tend to be impressionable. But, if you were to define authentic as real, people would want outside input to help verify that they are, in fact, authentic. This could come in the form of compliments or how people generally think of you. It isn't too difficult to find out how people think, as long as you look.

Journal Entry #7

1. The hypothesis that the author tries to explore is to be able to understand the revision process. This means they used six editors to analyze how they go about revising papers. It was found that they rate author's levels by knowledge, and the strategies used by editors to detect problems in works. This brought Bisaillon a way to develop more research on the topic of professional editing. 2. To collect their information, they first put the six editors into two groups: one for experts and one for less experienced professional editors. They did this to see if experience changed how the behavior of the editors. They were also split into two different categories about how they believed revision should go. These were the "normative" and "communicational" groups. Normative means that the editor looks for grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors while communicational means that the editor attends to how the work sounds if it were spoken. Then they create artificial texts with planned errors. Once the participants (editors) revise the work the researchers study what they chose to fix. They used "retrospective verbalization" with the editors to understand why they fixed what they did. They used this method because it does not interfere with what they revised because it was already done. During the entire experiment, the editors were filmed and this was used to help see how they acted while revising. Also, the researchers used an unedited and the edited copies to compare them. Finally, they analyzed the retrospective verbalization the editors gave in the end. By using the work of other researchers, they could clarify the parts of the revision process. 3. Professional editing differs from student revision in that editors minimally look back and mostly work forward, like the text was meant to be read. Also, professional editors put more time and effort into their work than students do. One big difference is that the editor is paid by the writer and the editor can get to know the writer and his/her tendencies. In the classroom, students may not know how other students write or the meaning the writer is trying to get across. Also, students should know basically what the others are writing about in most situations, while the editor needs to be let known the meaning of the work.

Student's Virginity

Group 3: Ariel Tymeson and Molly Sigerich -yo gurl, i saw you on tyra.. wtf? is this a joke? -y would u do this? this isn't u and u know it. y would u throw it away? im jus tryin to help u out cuz im ur friend.. -theres no amount of $ tht shuld make u do this. ur embarrassing ur fam n urself. ur not a prostitute. -i rly care bout u, plzzzz think this over.. ull regret it.. i mean wht kinda guy buys a v-card? -u culd get a disease nd have to live w. it ur entire life. hlp urself out boo. ur so much better thn this

Journal Entry #6

I don't know if I was supposed to put it in the dropbox, but I couldn't find a link for the sixth journal. 1. Lloyd Bitzer states that rhetorical situation is not context (which is simply a condition of communication). Although certain situations demand a rhetoric discourse, the discourse cannot always demand the situation. Bitzer also believes that rhetoric is not synonymous to persuasion. 2. Bitzer believes that “rhetorical situation” has three parts: exigences: the audience needs to be limited in decision and action, and this limitation needs to influence the person speaking to the audience. Basically, these three parts make up a complex situation with people, relations, objects and events that creates a problem. This problem should be solved when discourse can change people’s actions to modify or fix the problem. 3. “Exigence” is defined as a defect or something that needs to be fixed.Exigences can only be considered rhetorical if they can be changed.Bitzer gives the examples of weather, death, and natural disasters that would be considered exigences, but not rhetorical because they cannot be fixed.Also, exigences that can be fixed by other means than discourses would not be considered rhetorical as well.An example of a rhetorical exigence would be the Go Green campaigns.They encourage citizens to use less gas and recycle to better our environment and many Americans have tried to fix the current predicament.

Journal Entry #5

In English Studies, one debate I found interesting is "The Problem of Specialization." It was not only an academic debate, but a cultural one as well. Joe Moran states that the division of labor has many negative consequences while David Easton looks at the problem at a more academic level. He uses the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" to help illustrate how academics are becoming specialized and "fragmented" but nobody can deal with everyday problems, like nobody could put Humpty Dumpty back together. In the text, it says that the new divisions in academics makes people only focus on their personal specializations rather than understanding or being an expert in the entire discipline. However, John Dewey argues that school's did not create this problem. Our culture and the world we live in shaped the need to have specialized programs. I disagree with a lot of this, because I simply do not think academic specialization is a bad thing. In school, students are required to take some General Education (or "GenEd") courses that helps give them a basic understanding of other disciplines. But, why should I have to learn copious amounts of material that I know I won't use once I start a career? With specialization, it helps prepare people for jobs in the future rather than have to learn how to perform once they obtain the job. The academics want to argue this case, however, because they believe it needs to be fixed before it gets out of hand, and this is where I disagree.

Journal Entry #3

When David Bartholomae says a student needs to "invent the university" in college writing, he simply means that he or she must write from the perspective of a person in that particular field. The student has to know the language a person from that department would use and use it appropriately throughout the piece. To make a student feel like an "insider," he or she needs to go around to the commonplaces to understand how people in different departments speak and act. With the two writings about creativity, the one about the football team's socks was very uninteresting and seemingly uncreative. However, he answered the prompt in a clean-cut way and completed the assignment. Bartholomae notes that although it isn't a long and engaging piece, it is tidy and does the work. The writer looks at creativity as doing something that others aren't; as being original. However, the one about the girl who wrote about her creativity with music says that her creative songs were actually "inspired" by popular songs on the radio. She didn't choose to make her music similar to the songs, but it was what she knew and using her experiences with her tastes makes her music creative. Also, the way she wrote her paper was as if she was telling us the story herself, and this made it a lot easier and worthwhile to read. Bartholomae states that her piece is highly qualified and sees that she doesn't necessarily like the word "creative," but she goes on further describing her experience than the football player did.

Journal Entry #2

In Caleb's article from http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/hist1.html the author makes a claim that hating soccer is American. The data to support this claim are the articles from the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe that comments on the "mindlessness" of the sport. Also, the writer's grounds to support the claim further by American sports were created by rougher sports in the Ivy League. His claim is warranted by the belief that the American populace prefers rough sports to participate in and watch. However, he does say that Ivy League started off with soccer, so that fact would be considered a qualifier because it leaves how people feel about the sport up to debate. For many people who play the sport or have some background in it would easily be able to debate the claim. Since many Americans play soccer and there is a professional league, it shows that obviously Americans do not hate it so they can easily rebut the claim.

Journal Entry #1

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123169653091671629.html The article "Obama Says Economic Recovery Will Take Time" claims that there is no economic plan that could quickly eradicate the current situation, as we are in what is considered to be the worst recession in American history since the Great Depression. Some think that Obama is going to let the tax cuts expire, but Dick Durbin believes that the Obama Administration disagrees with raising taxes for anyone and will go another route. Barack Obama says he will be flexible with any recovery plan for the economy. The main thing that needs to be done is to help create jobs and unite together to resuscitate the economy. Obama also predicts that four million jobs will be lost this year, and combined with the 2.5 million jobs lost last year, America needs to find a new policy as soon as possible so that the recession can be stopped as soon as possible. The claims being made is a mixture of fact and policy because the facts are that we are currently in a recession like that of the Great Depression. The claim is also one of policy because Barack Obama is trying to figure out what should be done to help the economy and this article discusses some possible options. This text appeals to logos because it seems objective and it is obviously something that the majority of the country agrees with. As everyone realizes we are in a recession, it is not suprising when the article states that we are in the worst recession since the Great Depression. Also, it uses facts that even people who doubt Obama have to believe regardless of emotional feelings towards him.