AJ Gilpin Blog #9

How would legalizing steroids change professional sports? For better or for worse?

AJ Gilpin Blog #8

Suheir Hammad does a great job of using ethos, pathos and logos in her poetry. Ethos is used throughout the whole poem. She states things that have been said to her that are very unethical. Like when someone asks her “what navy is your brother in?” (Hammad 2:16). It is very unethical to blame someone for the sole fact of the color of their skin. She says that she cried when the towers fall. She was born in America and so were her brothers so she does not want to hear that her brothers could be blamed. She was also asked if she knew the attackers. This is another very unethical thing to ask again because the asker was saying that based on the color of her skin and did not know who she really was. Hammad uses logical appeal when she asks the audience why we never have persecuted white people for their terrorist actions. She gives many examples. One being the KKK. This really resonated with me because I have never really thought about that either. Her logos even influenced me through this.  I believe that Hammad uses pathos the most. Almost everything she says in her poem has to do with some type of emotion. One element of pathos is when she is talking about the big white woman that gives her a hug when she sees Hammad crying. All she can say is that she is arab and her brother is in the navy. The woman can only say that she’s in double trouble. The emotion used in her poem is so overwhelming. As the camera shows the audience you see people of all colors either crying or cheering about what Hammad has to say.

AJ Gilpin Blog #7

In chapters 3 and 5 in the Pearson text book there were many hotspots that caught my eye. The first one was in the section entitled Thought Exercise on Angle of Vision.   This section talked about how one experience can turn into multiple different stories depending on who you tell the story to. The example they used was going to a party and the next day two people ask you about it. One is your best friend and the other is a parent. I found this very interesting because it is obvious I would tell a different story to my parents than my best friend. It was exciting for me to think about what kind of story would come out with other people asking me about it and I came to the conclusion that the story could have gone and infinite amount of ways depending on the situation as I am telling it.

Another are I found interesting was in the beginning of chapter 5 when the author attempts to define an exploratory essay. “An exploratory essay narrates a writer’s thinking process while doing research. The essay recounts your attempt to examine your question’s complexity, explore alternatives, and arrive at a solution or answer,” (Pearson 105).  I found this interesting because I have never had to write and exploratory essay and never really knew what one is. In high school we were forced to write research papers each year. I feel if the paper was structured like an exploratory essay it would have been a lot easier to do and also a lot more fun. It sounds like an exploratory essay is a lot less structured that a research paper.

AJ Gilpin Blog #5

The first video I watched was the Doofy Husbands one. I find Haskins to be incredibly insensitive and she acts like the title of the other video....Bitch. She tears men apart because of commercials that do not represent men in real life. She says men are only good for three things. And looking back in my life my dad did a hell of a lot more than three things for my family. He worked 60 hours a week outside in the sun and came home and still did things around the house, successfully. Haskins is basing everything she says on commercials that are obviously fiction. She also talks about when single men are in commercials they are cool and can do anything. So if we want to believe that the commercials are true than the women are the one that make us doofy. Men do perfectly fine before they are married. Women just ruin our happiness.
In the BITCH video they talk about how in movies women are there for the soul purpose of helping out a wounded man and getting him back on his feet again so he can go out and save the world. The woman in the video is again basing everything she thinks off of a fictional movie. The only true part about this video is when she talks about how the inspiration for many famous artists is a woman. And this offends her too. I think most women would be flattered to be an inspiration for a famous work of art. But for some I guess that is just not good enough.

AJ Gilpin Blog #4

In August’s essay “Real Men Don’t” he speaks about inequalities between men and women. A hotspot in this essay for me is when August is talking about how things are always about male for example mankind. Which also in tales the women but is “man”kind. Many women radicalists find this as a controversial thing. But as said by August “Our first tongue is called out “mother tongue” in English and in many other languages,” (August 129). When women talk about how fair “man”kind is I will just ask them about our “mother”tongues or even “mother”nature which are both obviously feminine. Another hotspot from August’s essay that really resonated with me is when he is talking about divorce and how very often women receive custody of the children.  August says: "The law has been particularly obtuse in recognizing fathers as parents, as evidenced by the awarding of child custody to mothers in 90% of court cases" (August 136). This was a hotspot for me because my parents are divorced and my mother has custody of me. Hearing that ninety percent of the time that this is the case is very shocking to me if women are treated as “inferior” as said in this essay.

In Tannen’s Essay “There is no Unmarked Woman” she explores how no matter what women do, say, or wear they are always marked.  Tannen explains that if women dress up she is marked as someone who tries to look good and someone with messy hair is someone who does not care how she looks. While men on the other hand are rarely noticed for what they wear. Men pass through life being “unmarked” Even Tannen does not notice the men. Tannen explains, “I suddenly wondered why I was scrutinizing only the women. I scanned the eight men at the table. And then I knew why I was not study them.  The men’s styles were unmarked” (Tannen 141). As told here men are not judged as much as women because all women’s styles are marked while only controversial things men would wear would be known as a marked.