In America you can go to war and take some's life away at the age of 18. You can vote on the next president of the United States for the next four years at the age of 18. At the age of 18 you are technically considered an 'adult'. You can smoke cigarettes, view/buy porn, buy lottery tickets, all at the age of 18. The drinking age used to be 18 years old, I believe it changed some time in the late 80's. I strongly believe that the drinking age should be 18 still. Not because I don't want to wait for another year and a half, but because compared to the other things you can do at the age of 18 it seems reasonable that you can drink too. You can enlist into the military, which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but you can be trained to kill another human being. You can go over sea's learn how to use a rifle and how to strategically kill another human or numerous humans. At the age of 18 to be able to physically take someone's life is pretty intense, and you can't even go home and have a beer after that. At the age of 18 you can learn about politics, or pay more attention at least, and you can vote on who the next person is to run our country for the next four years. That's a pretty heavy burden on your shoulder's to be able to kill someone and to be able to vote for your president, but you still can't drink. Some of the other things aren't as important; buying cigarettes, buying porn, buying a lottery ticket. But still, those are some of the freedom's and rights associety with turning 18, being an adult and being able to make and choose your own choices.
Some people fight that the drinking age shouldn't be 18 because it makes young adults more irresponsible and more reckless. When the drinking at is 18 people think that there will be more drunk driving and more accidents that are fatal. I think those are some of the risks, but honestly adding four years isn't really going to make someone more mature. If you want to wait for people to be mature and not dumb when it comes to drinking and driving, you shouldn't let anyone drink until they're like 50 years old! Judging maturity is a hard to do because everyone matures at a different age and time. And some people are more mature about different things.
To hold people back from drinking because there have been a handful of fatal accidents seems a little strange because at the age of 18 you can go to war and you can still kill people, just with a machine in your hand this time. I think the drinking age should be 18 because compared to the other freedom's and right's we get when we turn 18, it just seems to make sense to me to be able to drink.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Hey yo Amanda
Is you rollin'? You be headin to skool in your big-ass Chrysler 300... I be walkin' to class, thinkin' 'bout the next insult I can lay down on you's. I get to class, seen our amazin' prof (Dr. Souder, dur) and any insults I had layed up in my head be flutterin' out. We sit in class, listenin' to a non-boring lecture for once and be learnin' some good shiz on Rhetoric. I be sittin', thinkin' to meself about dis class and all the awesomness we be learnin' all semeter. I is really happy I took this class, and what's best is that you's in it! And C-dawg (Chris...) helps rock this class, ooh ooh and Kellizzle. I be lookin' forward to this pedagogy project we got happenin'. I think it's be a good class and we'll be learnin' them kids good. Well I gotsa bounce cuz I be thinkin' I have like 2 more blogs to be gettin' to!
Deuces!
Luv and hugs,
Sammizzle
Deuces!
Luv and hugs,
Sammizzle
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sammie heard it was Talk in Third Person Today...
Sammie was sitting in her RA staff meeting today, bored, like usual. One of the announcements on the itinerary was that today was "Talk in Third Person Day". Sammie thought to herself, "Damn, I wish I would've known this all day, this would've been fun!" Sammie (still not paying attention in the meeting) continued to think about the great possibilities that could've happened today if she would've known it was "Speak in Third Person Day" today...
While sitting at her desk tonight reading Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, Sammie thought of a great idea to write on her blog about "Voice and Rhetorical Distance". Voice is the relation that author has when talking to someone else in a rhetorical situation, whether it is written or electronic media. There are many different kinds of voice, with many different emotions and meaning behind them. Voices can range from angry, happy, content, blissful, gloomily, sincere, sad-- the list goes on. Sammie uses her voices often and people can usually tell what kind of mood she is in depending on her voice. Distance is a metaphor for the physical and social distance between people when they speak. There are two forms of Distance: Intimate and Formal. Intimate is closer identification, more persuasive and potential. Formal is less identification, less persuasive potential. Underneath Intimate Distance is more attitude, and under More Formal Distance is less attitude. Sammie thinks all of this is very interesting, and very obvious and true. Sammie thinks she is a combination though because she talks more formally, but has attitude and can get intimate when she talks. It all depends on the situation though and who she is talking to. Sammie realizes she is kinda just rambling on this post... but to get to the point of why she thought to write about this is because the book discusses Third-Person Discourse. Third person discourse creates almost no intimacy between the writer and the reader. Third person is usually used to present an issue as objectively as possible.
Third person is pretty cool way to talk if you ever get bored, definitely give it a try! Third person is an interesting way to write, also. Sammie thinks it'd be a different and exciting way to write a novel if it was completely in Third person. Sammie also thinks that'd be an interesting way to view certain issues. For example if a young girl had to have an abortion for whatever reason and she was defending herself, she could phrase the whole argument/essay with a lot of pathos. She could talk in Third person the whole time and at the end be like: "Oh, surprise, by the way, this whole article was about me and my life story". Sammie think that'd just have a whole lot more emotions than just hearing a story verbatim for someone else or without knowing that the author was talking about themselves. In some way it is also more personal if you were to talk that way Sammie thinks. Because at first you may believe that whoever you're talking to is referring to someone else, but then when you realize they're talking about themselves it Sammie believes that it just adds another level emotions and intimacy.
Sammie thinks it's late and that she's rambled on for long enough, probably not making any sense. Oh well, since Sammie is learning rhetoric she could probably have an awesome argument to defend herself (hopefully....).
While sitting at her desk tonight reading Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, Sammie thought of a great idea to write on her blog about "Voice and Rhetorical Distance". Voice is the relation that author has when talking to someone else in a rhetorical situation, whether it is written or electronic media. There are many different kinds of voice, with many different emotions and meaning behind them. Voices can range from angry, happy, content, blissful, gloomily, sincere, sad-- the list goes on. Sammie uses her voices often and people can usually tell what kind of mood she is in depending on her voice. Distance is a metaphor for the physical and social distance between people when they speak. There are two forms of Distance: Intimate and Formal. Intimate is closer identification, more persuasive and potential. Formal is less identification, less persuasive potential. Underneath Intimate Distance is more attitude, and under More Formal Distance is less attitude. Sammie thinks all of this is very interesting, and very obvious and true. Sammie thinks she is a combination though because she talks more formally, but has attitude and can get intimate when she talks. It all depends on the situation though and who she is talking to. Sammie realizes she is kinda just rambling on this post... but to get to the point of why she thought to write about this is because the book discusses Third-Person Discourse. Third person discourse creates almost no intimacy between the writer and the reader. Third person is usually used to present an issue as objectively as possible.
Third person is pretty cool way to talk if you ever get bored, definitely give it a try! Third person is an interesting way to write, also. Sammie thinks it'd be a different and exciting way to write a novel if it was completely in Third person. Sammie also thinks that'd be an interesting way to view certain issues. For example if a young girl had to have an abortion for whatever reason and she was defending herself, she could phrase the whole argument/essay with a lot of pathos. She could talk in Third person the whole time and at the end be like: "Oh, surprise, by the way, this whole article was about me and my life story". Sammie think that'd just have a whole lot more emotions than just hearing a story verbatim for someone else or without knowing that the author was talking about themselves. In some way it is also more personal if you were to talk that way Sammie thinks. Because at first you may believe that whoever you're talking to is referring to someone else, but then when you realize they're talking about themselves it Sammie believes that it just adds another level emotions and intimacy.
Sammie thinks it's late and that she's rambled on for long enough, probably not making any sense. Oh well, since Sammie is learning rhetoric she could probably have an awesome argument to defend herself (hopefully....).
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