IP REVIEW

I did not like doing the Issues Paper! I thought it was by far the hardest paper we've done so far! I liked having several rough drafts due before the final due date so that I did not wait to start it until the night before like some of my friends from other classes did.  I think that the most annoying thing about the Issues Paper was tying it back to globalization.. its so boring!

Made of Honor

Made of Honor follows the typical romantic comedy plot line.  You can pretty much figure out exactly what is going to happen by watching a one minute preview.  Tom and Hannah are best friends.  Tom is a ladies man.  Hannah gets called to work in Scotland, and while she is gone Tom realizes that he is in love with her.  Hannah comes back and surprise, surprise she is engaged.  She asks Tom to be her maid of honor, and he accepts in attempts to sabotage the wedding.  In the last scene, Tom and Hannah get in a fight, but of course Tom ends up bursting through the doors of the church right as the priest is asking if anyone objects to the marriage.  Hannah runs up and kisses him, calls off the wedding, and Tom and Hannah live happily ever after.  Most romantic comedies follow this sort of plot line.  Fall in love --> get in fight ---> make up ---> live happily ever after.  I feel like I am ragging on chick flicks, but the truth is that even though I know what is going to happen before the movies starts... I LOVE watching them! And I get very angry at endings to movies like the Break Up.. where they ACTUALLY break up in the end.

sources

ttp://www.icna.org/family/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=4

http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2004050700&type=hitlist&num=0

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010/09/29/US-marriage-rate-continues-to-decline/UPI-77271285810979/

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/17/us/rate-of-marriage-continues-decline.html

http://www.civitas.org.uk/hwu/cohabitation.php

Marriage and cohabitation By Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, Yu Xie

issues paper

poverty --- globalization allows more countries to become industrialized which reduces poverty --- poor countries are able to receive food because of improved transportation --- education in impoverished countries is improving because of more unified standards --- more unified standards of living --- world organizations that help impoverished countries

Peer Reviews & RA

I really enjoyed doing this peer review.  I thought it was a lot more helpful than the last one.  I liked having more than one person read it because it gave me a chance to hear the input of a few different people, and some people had different opinions than others.  I really enjoyed the whole process of writing the Rhetorical Analysis (as much as you can enjoy writing an English paper.)  I liked how we had the two previous rough drafts due again.  It helped me to work on my paper over a longer period of time.  I was also able to take my paper to writing lab again which I found super helpful.  They had a lot of good ideas for me to think about applying to my paper.  I also liked being able to go into the supplemental guide and read an example of a Rhetorical Analysis.  I have never written one before, and I  was not quite sure what was expected of me.  However, reading the RA example gave me an idea of where to start and how to go about writing and organizing my paper.  Overall, I thought the whole process went really well.

Figurate Language

In "Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are," the article I am analyzing for my Rhetorical Analysis, some different forms of figurative language are used.  He uses an allusion to the Christmas Carol in the following sentence: "Look, I feel like Scrooge when I speak out against bans on sweatshops on on child labor."  He also used alliteration in the phrase "high horses." He also has a negative tone towards people who are working to ban child labor which persuades the audience to also think poorly on them.  These are the examples of figurative language that I found in my paper.

Rhetorical Analysis Thesis

"Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are" uses starling statistics, anecdotes, and first hand experiences as an effective argument to convince over eager middle class citizens to put an end to the underlying issues of poverty and below par education in third world countries before outlawing the child labor that result from it.