Scribe: 3.25.2009
Period 4
Mr. Eldridge,
Annie was absent today, so she and I switched blog days. If you’re sick..feel better!!! If you’re not, I hope you had a relaxing day off 
Here is the blog:
Today in class we had a sub, Mr. Godfrey’s son! He attended Los Al and played on the football team in 1999. We wrote the state writing essay; there were three possible prompts and each of us got random ones to write about. The prompts were about persuasion, and fairly simple, almost too simple? Tricia had a LOT to write about.
Once we started writing, Dylan Lee wouldn’t stop sharpening his pencilS, but eventually he finished. Sean started writing the essay much later than the rest of us–but he’s special because he had not 1, but 2 essay booklets to write in today. Then, while writing, Sean decided to migrate over to Ed Guo’s table, and while doing so, a certain Pencil Sharpener hid his infamous SIG bottle in the waste basket.
Don’t forget: our outside read research projects are due next Friday, April 3.
Also, passag
es 3 & 4 were due today; if you want to get a head start, I’m sure that 5 will be due in the next few days.
Dylan Lee: you NEED one of these.
Or one of these, but that would be a little creeeepy.
Have a nice day,
Olivia Kaminsky!
Period 5
Hello Fifth Period!!!!!!!!!!!
Today, Mr. Eldridge was not here and we had a substitute, who I think was our principal’s son. Maybe not, I don’t know. Anyway, today was exciting because we were privileged enough to get to write some sort of California State Sample, or something fun like that. Even better, all the prompts were interesting and easy to write about. I think there were three or four prompts but mine said something like: “Often it is difficult for those who have tattoos to get jobs. Assess the validity of this statement with experiences and literature.” Obviously Hester Prynne was not covered in tattoos, and body-art isn’t mentioned in Freakanomics, so I made up this nice story about a man who wasn’t hired for a job because of his tattoos. That’s about it.
-Carfi
Homework:
-Make sure to have #4 and #5 done by tomorrow from the green packet.
-Continue reading book.
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hahaha! olivia those pictures are amazing! anyways, my comment today is going to be about the essay we have to write. i thought i was absolutely terrible! I had the prompt about how boys should be given incentives because they are less intelligent than girls. I could not think of any examples to supply evidence! of course, i took the stance as to DISAGREE with the evidence by Mann. how stupid does she think guys are that they can’t do things for themselves!? if they are born lazy, let them be lazy, it’s their own choice. if you get where im going, you probably understand that i was very frustrated with this prompt. not only was it hard to write about because it was almost too simple, but what kind of evidence can i come up with at the top of my mind to support that! (that would actually be sufficient)
anyways…it was weird having mr. godfrey’s son as our sub. i was kind of terrified of him just because his father is the principal haha
-hayley!
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CCho Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
@hayley bjorklund,
i had this..first impression prompt and i kept going back and forth, agreeing then disagreeing so i think i failed. haha
and i didnt even know he was mr. godfrey’s son!
wow..where was i hahah
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haha OLIVIA!!!!!!!
that was soo funny
i really enjoyed those pictures…you’re such a creeper…my creeper. (that wasnt creepy at all)
and i too had the one about the boys being slackers and how they are kinda dumb
hehe
tricias essay
hahaha
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The picture of the Chucky pencil sharpener was incredibly hilarious. Really, it was, despite the lack of an exclamation point at the end of the last sentence. Here it is: (!). See? I am very enthusiastic about the joke. I am also scared very easily. For example, throughout middle school I was absolutely convinced after the 9/11 attacks that Osama Bin Laden lived in a corner of my room. Osama Bin Laden was really a coat stand, but in the dark, all the coats looked like one giant turban. So needless to say, the Chucky pencil sharpener perturbed me a little, hence, the initial lack of exclamatory punctuation. @Michelle & Hayley, I got the same prompt about how boys were dumber than girls. I disagreed with the statement and for my example, I used the fact that all of the stuff we read in English this year was written by males. Hawthorne, Shakespeare, Emerson, Thoreau, John Donne, St. Matthew, Thomas Browne, Jonathan Edwards, St. Paul, MLK, Churchill, JFK, are all examples of the male authors we read. I would say that this basically disproves her whole premise that males are inferior to girls academically. I also would disagree with the antithetical statement, that boys are inherently smarter than girls, because Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote that incredibly awesome letter that we had to analyze in an in class essay. So the achievements of women, when cultural barriers are taken into account, are as impressive as the achievements of men. There is little to suggest that achievement is a function of gender. I also called Mann’s proposal sexist and discriminatory. I also called her assertions ridiculous, disingenuous, and fallacious. What if she is the reader for the essays? Then I’d be kind of screwed.
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I loved how most (If not all) prompts were like the “book never written” jokes in the Boy’s Life magazine (the boy scouts magazine that I used to get)
for example:
“Deep in Debt’ by Owen A. Lott
I too had the prompt about how boys are academically inferior to girls. And the author was I. M. Mann
(I am Man)
so I started to write my essay using he until i noted that the question said “her” in it. so I had to add an s to every he that I found x_x Epic fail….
oh and what animal is that Carfi?
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I had the passage about how people who have lots of tattoos are going to recieve lower wages for life because their tattoos will prevent them from getting good jobs. It made me really mad. First because i disagreed with it and didn’t think it was true, yet I couldn’t think of any real proof until after the essay when I was ranting about it to a friend. Also I’m pretty sure it contained at least one fallacy. And then I found proof to support the opposite side and then I think my essay wasn’t very well structured, and now I want to write it again and write about how it’s fallacious and wrong and you shouldn’t make such general statements.
@Andrew Lee- wow I just got what you said about how the authors’ names are “book never written jokes” my author was Pearce and the quote was on piercings and tattoos.
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I had passage about how it was wrong for advertisers to use celebrities in their ads and commercials. The passage claimed that this type of advertisement was misleading and an insult to our intellect. The passage even claimed that consumers should boycott these types of ads and even one day eventually legislate regulations against them. I found this statement to be absurd. I also actually found it very relevant to what we are currently learning in class these days (appeals). So in my essay I talked about the ethos appeal. I also said that if we were to ban these types of ads it would be taking away the free choice of consumers. As I see it is the consumer’s choice of how they respond to ads. Ethos is a very crucial appeal to have. Without it a person especially a company is nothing.
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nadir bilici Reply:
March 26th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@Keren Mahgerefteh,
WOWWWW
I just spent like 10 minutes writing up like 3 paragraphs to disprove your argument and then I didn’t enter the anti-spam word. UGH everything got erased.
Anyways this is going to be a lot worse than the first time, but oh well:
Everything in ads is false advertising and is insulting to a person’s intelligence. For example, everything has a name attached to it now for “ethical appeal” i.e. Tony Hawk’s pro skater, Madden NFL, Tom Clancey’s ghost recon, etc. etc.
You don’t really think these people make these games, right? Tony Hawk skates, he doesn’t sit at home writing computer code and designing graphics, and for God’s sake, John Madden probably doesn’t even know how to use a computer. Their name is just there…its…just there, there’s not really any reason, they didn’t design it, they didn’t contribute to it, their name is just there because they are famous people in those categories of work and people KNOW those names. They’re probably paid to have their names on the labels. EA Games and Activision and other companies make the games, not Hawk and Madden.
I don’t quite remember how it was, but I had thought that Wheaties tasted terrible. Sure it has Lance Armstrong and super buff guys on the box, but it tasted BAD. Lance Armstrong doesn’t eat Wheaties, and Jessica Simpson doesn’t use Proactiv.
Similarly, Tiger Woods only uses those Nike clubs because he’s sponsored-they pay him buckets of cash to use them. Something much cheaper is probably of the same quality, but Woods uses Nike clubs, so should you! Really…he doesn’t use them, he’s payed to use them. Do Ozzy Osbourne and Mr.T really and Lucy Taylor really play World of Warcraft? Hell no, they were just in those commercials to make money.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKAU18LUPZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bsOKH3_DNo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKLE6Jto6sU&feature=related)
All of the “$19.95 with credit card BUT WAIT CALL IN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES AND YOUR ORDER WILL BE DOUBLED” commercials are all gimmicks. Even with the testimonies of “not actors” all of the products are crap. If they were worth anything, they would be sold in stores, but they’re not–they use their “crucial appeal” to sell junk to their customers.
To be honest, companies don’t need lies to be successful.
Take a look at Microsoft, it spawned from the garage of Bill Gates because it was GOOD.
Same with the Apple products.
Neither of them really have that many “Use this, its really good” by celebrities (that I know of) because they actually are good.
You hear actual, normal, researchers testing the products and noting the performance, not actors and athletes.
You need a good idea to be something, not a good person.
—-unserious part—-
for example,
the SNUGGIE!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZp-GLMMJ0
most innovative invention since the beanie.
note that it doesn’t have anyone saying that its cool, but it says everything it can do and its machine washable too!
no need to go on and on about how good something is, it just has to be good.
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