AJ Gilpin Blog #15

Blog 1

            The first blog I found regarding the topic of the NBA Lockout is a blog by Sekou Smith called ‘Stale Contracts’ Offer Lockout Insight. The article talks about players who used to be superstars get older and are not as good as they used to be. This makes the team not want to pay as much as the contract said because the player is no longer worth that much money. I do not believe the author uses the rhetorical appeals very often. There may be some logos in the article from the multiple facts in it but that is about it. The article is different from others because Smith talked about a specific issue that could have caused the lockout.

Blog 2

            The author of this blog post is Ben Golliver. This article is about Carmelo Anthony and the things he’s done since the lockout. They talk about boxing tennis and he even jokes about soccer. Again I did not feel a lot of rhetorical appeals in this article. This article is different because it focuses on what the players are doing during the lockout.

Blog 3

            The author of this blog post is Ben Golliver. He posted an interview with Dwayne Wade a player from the Miami Heat. He spoke to David Stern, the NBA Commisioner, during labor talks and Wade raised his voice to someone because he felt he was not respected by Stern.  In this article there was some Pathos as Wade showed a lot of emotion when he felt he was not respected.

Blog 4

            The last blog post comes from Matt Moore and is called EOB Roundtable: Lockout Winners and Losers. The article talks about who the winners and the losers are in the lockout. Some of the names are Lebron James and Dwayne Wade who have been having exhibition games while others have done nothing. This gives the Miami Heat an edge once the season does start because there will be no “rust to get off”. The losers are players who will not be ready to play. Another winner is Kyrie Irving a rookie who is going back to Duke and playing basketball and furthering his education.  There was not very much rhetorical appeals in this. And it is different from other articles because it looks at what is really happening to the players during this lockout.

Rhetorical piece by AJ Gilpin

Martin Luther King Jr's "I Had a Dream" speech.

• What made this speech rhetoric was a lot of pathos.
• There was so much emotion in the way MLK gave the speech and the content would also appeal to the listeners emotions.
• He also used some logos while he talked about Abraham Lincoln by using dates and stating facts.
• Ethos was the hardest for me to find but I think he had some near the end talking about what the children will be doing.

AJ Gilpin Blog #10

October 2

DE VANY, ARTHUR. "STEROIDS AND HOME RUNS." Economic Inquiry 49.2 (2011): 489-511. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.

Online Article

Reading Notes	Strong response Notes
“What was homerun hitting like before there were steroids? What is it like now that there is some evidence of steroid use? In a nutshell, the answer is that there are no differences”	Strong quote
“Steroids do not come into the picture, nor is there any need to invoke explanations that go beyond the natural variation of home run hitting, at bats, chance, and the laws of extreme human accomplishment.”	Good quote
The maximum homeruns in a season has only gone up a few homeruns since the 1960s	Good information of why steroids have little change in baseball.

Strong Response Summary

I really liked this article. My original research question delt with the positive or negative effects steroids would have on professional sports. This article gave me a different perspective. With all the charts and data on homeruns per year, it is possible that steroids have shown little to no effect on performance in professional baseball. I need to research into this more and maybe find some articles that show some kind of effect on performance. Overall I can use this article and enjoyed it.