Chapter 16

After reading chapter 16 of the Lunsford Book, there was a lot of information to learn about on how it mainly talks about evidence and the rhetorical situation. Evidence is something that which people try to tend to prove or disprove something, ground of their belief. The rhetorical situation is what is going on, the act of the situation on what happened, for an example a murder case and there are people trying to find out what happened by evidence.

There are many steps on going through trying to find out evidence and research, by trying to find out observations on what you think that could have happened, this step is one of the best that really helps solve many problems which are interviews from other people by listening to what they have to say, doing surveys and questions to people and expirements. There are many possible ways onto trying to find evidence to a certain situation. One of the biggest steps is person experience because it is useful for everything, but it must be appropriate situation or subject to use it. It also counts as part as making a academic argument. It doesn't have to be a murder case that you have to find the evidence for, it can relate to schooling by trying to find out stuff in a lab for science and or even for sports, pitchers trying to find out evidence on the opposing team on how they hit the baseball.

In chapter 16 it talks about going through things to try to find evidence to a rhetorical situation on what happened. It explains many steps on what to do, by going through a bunch of series to find evidence due to the situation. One of my examples that im going to use is CSI, the tv show crime scene investigation. Those people go through many steps of trying evidence to the situation on what happened, such as the murder by trying to find out who really killed the victem.

Evaluation (pans labyrinth)

After reading the key features of evaluations in the Lunsford book, made me think in my head that the movie Pans Labyrinth the 3 time award winner is great movie because it's really unique on what it shows in the movie, but the really wierd thing is its not really known at all. How everything changes so much, and there are a lot scenes that gives you hints on whats going to happen next. Such as the lighting, the disobedience and what the girl had to do for missions to help the family problems and she never had a problem doing so.

What I mean by there are a lot of things in the movie Pans Labyrinth that is really unique is by how they show the lighting going to dark, which you know something not so good or evil is going to happen and when the lights go on or gets lighter that shows that something good is going to happen. For an example whenever the captain was about to do something the coloring of the movie went to dark because something cruel was about to happen.

Del Toro, the director of the movie makes all his movies in really exciting ways, very adventurous with a lot of action. The cool thing that he does is, it seems that he grabs sceens from other movies and connects them into his movie. Such as the lord of the rings, batman where the man looked like the joker when the side of his mouth was cut open. Also alice in the wonderland connects a lot to this movie. In the movie Ofelia did a lot of exploring and things that are away from her mother, and I feel that she should have spent more time with her mother and listened to her more than she did. The reason why I say that is if you know your mother is dying and having a hard time because she is pregnant, you only have one mother in your life and you should spend a lot of time with her.

One of the things that I noticed when the movie came to an end, during the movie Ofelia had a lot of moods and they changed so much by going bad to good. She also was not very comfortable living around with the captain, but when she went to the underworld when she was killed by the captain everything about her changed, she died but her soul was still alive and the lights became really bright and she became happy which was really different to see. Part of the reason why she was happy again was because she accomplished all those missions that were set for and most of all she was able to see her father for the first time.

This family had a lot to go through such as, the mother trying to get Ofelia calm to live with her and the general. The general was a really mean person, by killing a lot of people for no reason and killing people in ways that are really harsh. It was really unfair for Ofelia because she really couldnt do anything with her mother because she was always sick and she didnt like the captain at all because he was being really fierce to Ofelias mother. The captain didnt want Ofelias mother, what he really wanted was the baby which is really sad, because he didnt want to have anything to do with Ofelias mother in the future after the baby was born.

Purdue OWL

In the Purdue OWL presentation where they showed all the formats of APA on how to write a paper, it was really interesting to see. Purdue really showed what you really needed to do onto write a paper because before I really didnt have that great of an idea of writing a APA format paper.

My favorite pages were numbers two and three because it showed information on how you cite your references the right way. Before I had no clue how to cite my references the right way because in my highschool they didnt mainly focus on that point of the paper. They made sure you did the topic, thesis statement right, the body pages and the conclusion right. So really this Citation part of the paper is somewhat new to me which is a crazy thing to hear. I learned that when you site whatever you use for a reference, for an example citing an author. You have to write down authors full name, last and first, what their topic is, the title and the date that it was issued on what he or she did. There are many other ways on how to site your reference points, like auther, website, dictionary, book, article and etc.
My opinion on having a page on citation is one of the most important pages to have in your essay because it shows where you got the information from, that makes it easier for the teachers to check your work and how it will show if you did it in your own work. Teachers now a days look for plagiarism which means did you copy information off of someone elses work.

I really wish in highschool that I got taught more onto making a citation page because it would have made my life so much more easier here at college. The reason why is I would have known that it was one of the more important pages to have so it could prove that I didnt plagiarise and I used my own work throughout the essay. Thank you Purdue on making this anatomy on arguement because I learned a lot just by reading the information. Now I know what I need to put in for information on my essays, also how to use citation to show that my work is true.

Pans Labyrinth

Last week I saw one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, the name of the movie was called "Pans Labyrinth". It was made by Del Toro, and all his movies are actually really interesting to watch! He really thinks deeply into his plays and connects it to other movies that are made.

My opinion on this movie was that it was a really great show to watch, I thought that it was going to be a movie that was going to be boring and ohhh man I really have to watch this. But when it first started it made my eyes get locked to the screen and I was actually really interested in seeing it. It was a really interesting movie on how it was acted, it had a lot of slaughter, scary, sickness and really cool points in the movie. My least favorite parts of the movie was when the captain was acting in the show, it was almost like everytime he was part of the movie something aweful was going to happen to someone, for an example there was two people that got caught and it was a father and a son. They were both trying to kill rabits for someone that really needed food and that was sick, the captian didnt believe them because he thought they were part of the other group that was trying to kill them, so he beat his son up with a glass bottle to his face and shot his father with a gun multiple times for no reason. After they were both dead they figured that they were telling the truth because they found a dead rabit in their bag that they were hunting for. He is really way to strict on things and he was a sick man because he killed many people for no reason and the way killed people was painfull to watch. My favorite part of this movie was when the girl went on a lof of missions for this faun that ordered her to do, try to help her mother and become imortal. Her father died long time ago and it seemed throughout this movie that he wanted to see Ofelia again so he made here go on these missions to try to accomplish to see him again. I also liked the part on how she really believed in fairy's and a lot of others didn't and one day those little fairys like tinkerbell started flying around in the movie.

There was a lot of disobedience in this movie on how it showed, the fairys really ugly looking by how they looked like little demons and usually they are all good looking. How many sceens seemed to connect to other movies for me. Like when the captain got his lip cut, first thing I noticed was he looked just like the joker on batman which I thought that was really cool.
Overall this movie was a good movie to watch, in my opinion I would recommend people to watch this movie. I really like how its acted and how it connects to other movies. I really would like to watch this movie one more time and watch it more carefully on how it is played.

My Rhetorical Analysis

"Physical Therapy" for the body
By: Brent Dodge
Professional instructor/PT: Roger Gonzales Hibner



Professional instructor Roger Gonzales Hibner used to a be a former renowned dancer who is now a nationaly recognized Pilates master instructor. He is setting up a program called Pilates which is "a system of excercises that promote the strenghthening of the body, often using specialized equipment." He studied that its good for the human body maintain on a good excercise, so that the body will not get weak. Such as sitting down all day doing nothing you muscles, tendons and bones become not as strong as they should be if you excercise. He listed the pro's and con's on how doing physical therapy/pilates is good and bad for the body.


The good things about participating in these programs are that you will increase muscle strength, stability, the tendons will be much more stronger, less chances of getting injured while doing a activity and you will also stay healthy for a longer period of time. There is nothing bad about doing physical therapy because it is actually healthy for your body as time goes by. The things that can happen if you dont excercise or anything, muscles can become really weak, soft, bones can get brittle, more chances of tearing something because your body isn't used to the impact onto what you are doing for an activity. Today there are a lot of people that are doing therapy because they want to stay healthy for a longer period of time, instead of reaching the age 70+ and having a hard time walking. They will do all the excercise they can right now so they will not have that problem in the future.

I have had a lot of experiences on doing physical therapy, but only due to injuries. If you play a sport it would be fine because your doing all the excercise in the games and mostly practices. I have noticed many things about my body after doing therapy doing therapy. For my knee, I have to do therapy because I dislocated my knee cap and stretched out the ACL. Doing therapy it will make the muscles around the patella a lot stronger, make the ACL back to its normal width and most of all it will prevent it from happening again in the future. My opinion about this is people should do some therapy/pilates for the body because it will be much more easier for you in life for doing things, also you will stay healthy for a much longer period of time.

I think that Roger Gonzales Hibner is trying to do is, trying to convince people to join his program so that you can maintain on having a healthy body. Having less chances of getting injured and even staying a lot more healthy than possible when you reach an older age in life, I really think that people should follow onto what he is saying because it's worth doing. For your life what would you want, be healthy, less chances on getting injured, and staying healthy when you get old or not be healthy, get injured very easily, when get older in life have many problems such as back problems and not being able to walk. You should think about it because you only have one life you should make the best of it.

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List of this I believe

• I believe in empathy
• I believe that all people are the same no matter what
• I believe that words, pictures and sounds can arouse emotions
• Deaf people and hearing people are the same
• I believe in God
• I believe in me/myself
• I believe no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you once in a while, and you must forgive them for that.
• I believe that you should give loved ones loving words, it may be the last time you see them.
• I believe we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
• I believe you can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life.

"Nafsi in Lunsford"

After reading Mysterious Connections That Link Us Together by Azar Nafisi. I realize that Azar really believes in empathy, which means like as a feeling. The capability to share and understand another's emotions and feelings. It is characterized as the ability to "put put oneself into anothers shoes." Azar has been through many things in his life time that he wants to have other people realize how it feels.

Another saying I think Azar is saying how some people really need to see how it is in other peoples shoes. How much pain he has gone through in his country, as far as seeing "children left or phaned in Darfur, or a women taken to a football stadium in Kabul and shot to death because she is improperly dressed". They talk about those certian people about whats wrong with them and they dont realize what they have to go through in life. So thats why that person needs to see how it feels and get into their shoes for a week. Just like me, in the past I have had some kids make fun of me because I wasn't able to hear good at all. With my hearing aids on, yeah I can hear really good, but with them off I cant hear a single thing. I wish they could become deaf and go for a day to see what I go through because it is not easy. I believe that deaf people have to work ten times harder than hearing people especially for the ones that went to hearing schools all through their life like me. This is talking all about the emotions that people have to go through, I can connect this to chapters 2-4 in lunsford. When they talk about how emotional arguments work. By explaining how words, images, and sounds can all arouse emotions to people. They are always effecting mental part of your body. All these stories that we have been reading have been building upon these chapters.

Thats what my thought is about this story, how whenever someone makes fun or talks about another person about their life. He wants that person to see how life is for them by walking in their shoes. People really need to stop doing that because it is really none of their business, I actually feel bad about the people that this happens to. By getting mocked on everyday on how, they look, dress and etc.

Lunsford (blog #2)

I read the article about "If Only We All Spoke Two Languages" by Ariel Dorfman. When I read this I really got a little sad about this because of what he had to go through in life by how he moved to New York not knowing any English language. Only knew Spanish by then and he was only 2 1/2 years old when he had to go to the hospital in New York. He had to go through this all his life by needing to know two languages by going to a lot of schooling to learn it. I would imagine that he wants this bilingual method to happen so he can talk to people from america and whenever his family or people like him come to visit america he can still talk to them. Most importantly is to learn english because america is all enlish. Now at an older age he has been moving back and forth moving to America and back out, such as going to Chile for schooling. He needed to go to school again to learn Spanish because when he was in America he forgot everything in his own language, now that he has gone for school for this, he is now bilingual. Which means he can speak two different languages, he wants America to turn into a bilingual country. I really agree with this man because it would be really cool, first off to be able to speak to other people that know Spanish and also to learn about their culture. I totally agree that this should happen, for America to turn into a bilingual country. Some people wouldn't want it to happen because they may not want to learn another language, dont like other people from a different culter or to lazy to learn the language. But if you think of it we are kind of, by us know American Sign Language and English. For americans this would really be a good idea because you would get to learn about other different cultures around the world. What they have to go through, what and how the other languages sound like. How it sounds really unique from english by how other languages sound like just making noises and sounds to us. I would like to hear how many other people would react to this and see what they think of. This arguement was really effective and I didn't appreciate it because I really feel bad for the fact that other people from other countries visiting a beutiful country called america, and not knowing any enlish. Also that americans dont know what they are talking about whenever they need help or anything like that. This reading connected to chapters 2,3,4 and mostly talking about chapter 2 by saying what peoples emotions are like. What they are trying to do different and trying to figure something out from themselves.

Paul and Elder (publish blog #1)

I read all the Paul and Elder prompts from pages 22 to 36 in the book called Criticle & Creative Thinking. The prompt that I agree mostly on is the first prompt from pages 22 to 25 called elements of thought, the reason why is all the explanations in the prompt I think are all correct and really good to follow because if you follow these rules will succeed a lot of things in your schooling life. When your going to be an effective thinker, there are a lot of things to do, such as you really have to go beyond your thinking, really need to apply many different standards in your writing to asses your thinking. There is another name for these rules, it is called the Intelluctual Standards. "The Intelluctual Standars of precision derives from the fact that we can often need details and specifics to accomplish on our purpose". (paul and elder 23)

When you write a paper you have to think about using the elements, such as what is the purpose, goal, or end in a view, have questions along the way about the issues that you have confronted with, point of view or frame of reference about what you are really trying to talk about, all the implications that you will use so it will show others where you reasonings are taking you. There are many more to follow, also when I read this prompt it really made me think about the fact that I could use these points for all my writings. When I read this I had a moment of joy in my head, because I am really glad that I read this book because the information about intellectual standars is really going to help me on all my writings. It will get me a good grade if I follow these points because this sais almost everything you need for an essay. "Intellectual Standards are also based on following, clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance and fairness."(paul and elder 24) You will also being needing to follow these points, not just in schooling, but also out in life in what you are trying to do. To try to get the teacher to like your writing not yourself, because your not the one grading the paper. To go beyond the point of your topic, get a lot of explainations, by breaking down a lot of facts and ideas about your topic. I have one question about this prompt and it is, what is breadth? All through high school I never heard a teacher once say that till now.

300 word essay

Hi my name is MJordan23, so far at Gallaudet University has been really a blast for me. Getting to meet new people that I have never seen or talked to before, starting to learn american sign language to be able to communicate to the people that are deaf and heard of hearing is really fun. I dont know a lot of sign right now, but everyday I have been improving by learning a bunch of new signs everyday by either the teachers helping me or my friends. I wanted to come here because since im heard of hearing, I wanted to learn about the deaf culture. My home is in Maine where it is a lovely place, a lot of nature and things to see. The fall is my favorite season in Maine when it turns beautiful, where all the leafs turn brown, orange, yellow and more also thats when it gets a little cooler in temperature. The things that I loved doing while I was at home was to go hunting and fishing with my Dad, brothers and friends. I loved going four-wheeling, snomobiling, jet-skiing. When it came to winter I loved to go skiing to Sugarloaft Mountain, the biggest skiing resort in the entire north and east coast. In high school I played three different sports for all 4 years. I played football, basketball and baseball. Now in college I only play 1 sport which is baseball because I think ill go furthest in this sport, another reason is I just had surgery on my knee so it would be hard for me to play basketball or football with the injury. Now at Gallaudet I cant do much of those things anymore, like what I did in Maine because I have never been to this place before and I am now just starting to pick up the things that I can do here. Cant really do much because its not like Maine where here its a huge city and Maine is all woods, lakes and mountains.
I really am starting to like Gallaudet because the people here are really nice to meet with and there are a lot of things to see here especially for me because I have never really left down to the south.