Rhetorical Analysis: Framing Letter
Table of contents
Introduction
Framing Letter……………………………………………………4
Content Rhetorical Analysis…………………………………………….8
Profile………………………………………………………………15
Annotated Bibliography…………………………………….25
Appendix Rhetorical analysis..………………..…………………………33
Framing Letter
Dear whomever this may concern, Thank you for reading my final portfolio. To help you as the reader better understand me and who I am, I will give you a little bit of background information on myself. My name is Bailey Monson I a currently fishing up my second semester of my freshmen year at North Dakota state University (NDSU). Throughout this time I have had a lot of time to …show more content…
develop my writing skills. Here at NDSU I have had the chance to take two college English class, they are English 110 and English 120. During this first year of English I have learned a lot about myself as a writer. In high school we were asked to write papers most of these in the same genre, now that I have taken these English classes I have learned that there is a lot of different writing style. Some of these genres are rhetorical analysis, profile, annotated bibliography, commentaries, letters, and group papers. While developing my own writing style for each and every one of these genres, I have begun to learn my strengths and weaknesses within my writing. Some of my strengths are being able to come up with original/interesting topics to write about, keeping all of my papers clean and following the structural format to a “T”, and being able to cite needed material in American Language association (MLA) format. Some of my weaknesses are grammar, jumping around threw out a paper, and being able to use my citations well threw out the paper. Knowing my both my strengths and weaknesses with my writing, I am able to “wear them on my chest”. Being able to do this make me a better writer in it self. Another thing that has helped me understand my self a little better is finding out how I learn. In the everyday life I am very much so a kinetic learner this mean I am a visual person. This being said I used this knowledge to my benefit. I also use examples either given out by my teacher or found online to be very beneficial. When I combined all of my good traits together I end up with papers like my rhetorical analysis. I feel as if this piece is my best paper in this portfolio. Throughout this paper I am doing an analysis on an article about Tim Tebow. On this paper I had experience writing a rhetorical analysis in the past, it was for this reason that I was able to complete this paper to my satisfaction. The only flaws within the paper were strictly grammatical errors. Even though this paper has some flaws I feel that it best demonstrates my progression and understanding of writing papers. At the beginning of the school year I had never attempted to write anything more than a persuasive paper. By taking these classes I have come to a new understanding of the different genres that writing can take. Taking these classes have opened me up to better ways to approach and talk about different things instead of just telling a story. Being able to have teachers that know what they are talking about and teaching us these knew things helps a lot. To be able to have such extensive research materials and classmate help is very beneficial to the success of my papers throughout this class and in the future. Some of the main things that I learned form my English 120 class was how to manage time resources and put it together in an organized manner. Also as stated before I learned how to construct and write rhetorical analysis, profile, annotated bibliography, commentaries, letters, and group papers. This class was very helpful to my future and my career as a writer.
Sincerely,
Bailey Monson
Rhetorical Analysis
Bailey Monson
Ms. Junglas
English 120
13 February 2012
Rhetorical Analysis
Summary
The magazine article that was read is called “Poll: God helps Tim Tebow win football games. Does Tim Tebow agree?” (Sappenfield). This article was written by Sappenfield, Mark, and published in the Christian Science Monitor. This article was written on January twelfth of two-thousand-twelve. A recent poll was taken by the web Poll Position to answer the question; “Does God help Tim Tebow win football games?”(Sappenfield). The results of this poll were almost even. According to the poll by Poll Position forty-three percent of Americans said yes that Tim Tebow success is attributable to divine intervention, forty-two percent said that Tim Tebow success is not attributable to divine intervention. The other three percent resulted in an error in the application. The author in this article does not provide any information that makes him a creditable writer for this topic. The writer of this article only provides us with knowledge of the magazine that he is writing for. The author of this article regardless of his unknown background is trying to persuade the reader to think that Tim Tebow does get help form God to win games for the Denver Broncos. He also does this by giving examples such as “To be sure, Tebow would – and does credit God for all he accomplishes on the football field.” (Sappenfield) Also he gives examples of Tim Tebow’s prayers such as “Before the game, he prayed aloud: ‘Lord put a wall of protection around me and my teammates today, and we go out there and we can honor you with everything “Dear Jesus, I need you. Please come through for me. No matter what happens, win or lose, give me the strength to honor you.’ (Sappenfield) The author states, ‘The perception is that as Tebow is kneeling on the sidelines during a game, he is praying to win. One of Tebow’s pastors has only added to the perception, telling the celebrity gossip website TMZ that a recent Broncos six-game winning stream was “God’s favor’.(Sappenfield)”
Analysis
The topic on this article is based solely on the idea of: is there a divine power and if so how and why has this power chosen to help Tim Tebow? Since there is no physical proof of a God how can we assume that one exists? The majority of the general public believes in some sort of a divine power, but even if you do believe in a greater power, why does it seem like this power is only helping Tim Tebow? Is it because he kneels on the sideline during games to pray and ask for help or is it just because this higher power favors him? The angle of this article is persuasive; throughout this article, the author tries to convince the reader that Tim Tebow gets help from a divine power. As the author attempted to use his way of persuasion he still leaves the reader with unanswered questions, such as, why did the divine power choose Tim Tebow? Why is Tim Tebow so special to be granted help? Leaving us with these unanswered questions makes the persuasive parts of this article not be affective to convince the reader. The way that the author best used his pervasion technics is by using quotes by not only Tim Tebow but also from his pastors. By using these quotes it helps the reader slowly understand what Tim Tebow is attempting to get out of his prayers, as the writer presents these quotes it slowly starts to gain the readers approval for his side of the argument. The readers of this article are most likely football fans from the age that they can read. As the author states that people not just football fans have started to “Tebowing” before and after events of their own. The author states many quotes in his article to adjust and open his reader minds to the fact that “In Denver, fans call Tebow the “Mile High Messiah.” They have jerseys with Tim Tabows’s No. 15 but the name “Jesus” on the back, they hold up signs asking “WWTD” (What Would Tebow Do?)” By the author showing that people are comparing him to Jesus might make the reader mad or might make someone want to follow and do the same both situations can have and effect to the reader. It also opens the reader’s eyes up to how many people this involves and how serious it is becoming to some of the Denver fans. By the author helping us realize Tebow has so many fans makes it a very high possibility that the people reading this article are his fans. The purpose of this article is to open the reader’s up to the ideas of Tim Tebow and how a divine power helps him and the Denver Broncos. The author repeatedly gives examples of how Tim Tebow prays and how people worship him. Knowing this people start to believe that Tim Tebow has a divine power helping him to his success. The article also gives the reader some background information such as explaining what how Tim Tebow prays at each game. This information is vital to someone that is not familiar with football or Tim Tebow. The context that the author provides us in this article is quite specific to Christian people since this article is presented in the Christian Science Monitor. The author provides us with information that is needed to be persuaded to thinking that Tim Tebow has a divine power working in his favor. The purpose of this article is to inform the general social public and the Christian public that Tim Tebow has a divine power working in his favor. For the actual article it self it written with fact and quotes to persuade a reader quickly. The article consists of two pages that are filled with sort sentences of information to help the author in his overall goal.
Ethos The credibility that is in this article is very slim. The author shows that he knows what he is talking about by using quotes that he heard himself. Just him being there at each game hearing the words from Tim Tebow gives him a sense of knowledge. The author shows that he has done his research and looked for information on this topic, an example of this is the quote from one of Tim Tebow’s pastors for the TMZ (a social publicity) website. The author displays knowledge of the game by giving facts on Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos.
Logos
The logical reasoning that the author gives is in this article are the statistic and quotes witch help give a logical reasoning on why you should believe this author. Some of the better examples of the author doing this is when the author tells us that “According to the poll by Poll Position forty-three percent of Americans said yes that Tim Tebow success is attributable to divine intervention, forty-two percent said that Tim Tebow success is not attributable to divine intervention. The other three percent resulted in an error in the application. Another is “when Tim Tebow’s pastor has only added to the perception, telling the celebrity gossip website TMZ that a recent Broncos six-game winning stream was “God’s favor”(Sappenfield).”
Pathos
The emotional appeal in this article is fairly obvious to the extent that God is helping Tim Tebow and the Broncos to win games. This will either make people happy if there on the Broncos side or very upset if they are against the Broncos. If they are not rutting for the Broncos they may get mad and wonder why does God choice to help out that team and not the team they want to win? These are the only emotional appeals that you might be able to take form this article this article is more of a logos article for it is a persuasion article.
Works cited
Sappenfield, Mark. "Poll: God Helps Tim Tebow Win Football Games. Does Tim Tebow agree?" Christian Science Monitor 12 Jan. 2012. 1. Print.
Profile
Bailey Monson
Ms. Junglas
English 120
March 19, 2012
The Genius Inventor One of the greatest inventors of all time lived in the 19th century where the country began to expand from coast to coast. The people of this time period manly stayed isolated. This made the travel of news difficult. The people began to become stressed with how long it took news to travel from place to place. News took weeks to reach certain parts of the country, this is because news could only travel as fast as a houses hooves. This all changed with what some people consider Alexander Graham Bells finest invention, the invention of the telephone. Although the telephone was a remarkable asset to the time and a wonderful invention, it was not the only invention Alexander made in his life time he also created the medal detector, the grain belt sifter, and had the first thoughts of the air plane. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Alexander Bell, was an expert of the voice, the art of public speaking and mechanics. He taught deaf people how to speak and invented “visible speech”. “Alexander’s mother, Eliza Bell 's was deaf, and he devoted his life to attempting to help the deaf (Alexander Graham Bell. conservapedia).” They had three sons, Edward (Ted), Alexander (Aleck), and Melville (Melly). He only attended school for five years; from the time he was ten until he was fourteen at the universities of Edinburgh and London but he did not stop his education there he continued to learn. He read the books in his grandfather 's library and studied tutorials. “His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father 's work on Visible Speech for the deaf (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” Even as a young child his passion was to shaping the future. He did this by learn and invent. As he grew up help his father used his to a demonstrate of his invention “visible speaking”. Bell soon became unhappy with doing this because he had his own dream and goals he wanted to achieve. Alexander begun to make is own footsteps were he branched of from his father and begun to start inventing. At a young age Alexander created his very first invention, the a grain belt shifter. He invented this shifter because this boss at the time asked him and his friends to come up with a solution to there problem of husking grain. In Alexander’s early twenties his two brothers died of tuberculosis. Alexander was the second of only three children. Both his parents became afraid of losing there last child, so in 1870 his parents decided to move to Brantford Ontario At the age of twenty-two he went to Boston there he opened a school for teachers of the deaf and then became a professor at Boston University. At this time he had begun to give private lessons to deaf children. This is were he had met Mabel Hubbard, one of his students who was ten years younger than he was. Mabel was deaf from the age of four due to scarlet fever. Five years pervious to their meeting they were married. They had four children, two daughters and two sons. Their sons both died at a young age of tuberculosis. Since the young age of eighteen, Bell had been fascinated and working on the idea of transmitting speech and said “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” It was with this mindset and in 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph; he discovered and developed the basic ideas for the telephone. “He conceived the theory of the telephone: that an electric current can be made to change its force just as the pressure of air varies during sound production (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” His experiments with Thomas Watson, his assistant, finally became successful on March 10, 1876. On March 10th 1876, Alexander transmitted the first sentence over the telephone, it was "Watson, come here; I want you (Fascinating facts).” On Feb. 14, 1876, Alexander applied for a patent on his telephone. He knew he would have to work quickly to get the patent. He knew that other people were also attempting to make an invention similar to the telephone that would transmit the human voice. Elisha Gray also claims he too invented the telephone, but Alexander got to the patent office before he did.
Since Alexander had received the patent for the telephone, he had the right to be the only one to produce telephones in the U.S. for the next nineteen years. The first demonstrations of his invention were in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania it is here that the telephone was introduced to the world. The design for the telephone transmitter was commercialized and became introduced in 1877. Alexander, Gardiner Hubard, and Thomas Sanders formed the Bell Telephone Company. This company joined with the Western Electric Company in 1882, this joining made it possible for the Bell Telephone Company to have a manufacturing unit. “By 1917, nearly all of the United State had telephone service which set a world speed record of over seventy miles per hour (Alexander Graham Bell, Conservapedia).” The company then joined with the Telegraph Company on March 3rd 1885 to create a long distance telephone network, using the telegraph wires. These two companies joining made alexander the winner of a France 's Volta Prize. To win this prize you had to find a better way of sending messages. With the winnings from France 's Volta Prize, he then moved to Washington D.C and founded Volta Laboratory in 1880. “His experiments there led to the invention of the photophone (which transmitted speech by light rays), the audiometer (which measured acuteness of hearing), the Graphophone (an early practical sound recorder), and working wax recording media, both flat and cylindrical, for the Graphophone. He was chiefly responsible for founding the journal Science, founded the American Association to Promote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1890), and continued his significant research on deafness throughout his life (Fascinating facts).” To some the telephone is still Alexander Graham Bells greatest invention, but these are not the only things he invented. Once he had created the telephone had just begun to shape the future. In 1881, As President James Garfield lay dieing of an assassin 's bullet, Alexander Graham Bell hurried to invent the first metal detector. He invented a crude metal detector in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the fatal bullet. Bell 's metal detector was an electromagnetic device he called the induction balance. Even thought President James Garfield’s life was not able to be saved the invention of the metal detector in the future saved many lives. Alexander was a well-rounded man and even though all of his accomplishments never built up and made him erodent as proved in this quote but alexander himself.
“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself (Bruce, Robert).” Most people refer to Alexander Graham Bell as a great American inventor. They often forget that he was and mainly focused on being a teacher of the deaf. “His invention of the telephone was simply a byproduct of his devotion to helping the deaf communicate (Alexander Graham Bell. conservapedia).” His particular specialty, besides being an inventor, was to teach with those who were deaf to develop and be able to communicate with people that were not deaf. As Alexander grew old he continued to experiment with new things. He became fascinated and dabbled with the question of flight. He had experimented with kites, he made of many pyramid-like cells. The sight of a large structure flying in the wind made Alexander so impressed and gave him the idea that a kite could be used for the basis of heavier kites to carry people. Baffled by this idea Bell assembled a group of people and formed the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) in 1907. They decided that the AEA would have each of its members design an aircraft shell to hold and engine and have it
tested. They started out with Alexander’s kite idea and tested it on December 6th 1907, it was piloted by Selfridge, at this point Alexander was reaching near the age of sixty. His design failed for it was not able to hold that much weight. The next air craft that was tested was called red wing (for its bright red wing fabric) its was piloted by Baldwin and it was flown over frozen Keuka Lake on March 12, 1908 in front of an audience. The aircraft flew 320 feet at an altitude of twenty feet for about twenty seconds.
“The AEA next experimented with a design of Baldwin’s dubbed the White Wing. This aircraft used triangular wing-tip ailerons at the ends of both wings to control the aircraft, and performed excellently when flown on May 18 by Selfridge, and then by Curtiss. Selfridge’s report to the Associated Press made it clear that the AEA airplane had the ability to land and take off immediately on its wheeled undercarriage, dispensing with the Wrights’ derrick catapulting method and landing skids. The group believed that their problems with the Wright brothers’ patents were finally over with this, the first successful use of ailerons in the United States (Alexander Graham Bell).” Alexander was a magnificent inventor. His goal in life to invent things to shape that future came true with not only the invention of the telephone but all of his inventions. “Until a few days before his death, Bell continued to make entries in his journal. During his last dictation he was reassured with “Don 't hurry,” to which he replied, “I have too” (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” He became a U.S. citizen, but he died in Canada at the age of 75 on august 2nd 1922. “In all Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 shared with collaborators (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” History will always remember Alexander as the man who vision gave voice to millions. With all of his amazing inventions it is safe to call him a genius inventor.
Works cited
Bruce, Robert V. Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. N. pag. Print. “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.” “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh Scotland in 1847. He had two sons, David and Alexander Melville Bell. Alexanders parents were named Melville and Eliza Bell. They had three sons, Edward (Ted), Alexander (Aleck), and Melville (Melly). Both became afraid, so in 1870 his parents decided to move to Brantford Ontario. His particular specialty, besides being an inventor, was to teach with those who were deaf to develop and be able to communicate with people that were not deaf.
Alexander Graham Bell. conservapedia, 19 Jan. 2009. Web. 1 Mar. 2012. “Bell 's mother was deaf, and he devoted his life to attempting to help the deaf.” “His invention of the telephone was simply a byproduct of his devotion to helping the deaf communicate” Bell grew up with a deaf mother his main goal in life was to help out to make them be able to function in are modern day society. As he grew up he tried to find new ways to be able to communicate with his mother other than sign language. Bell started to invent things at the age of fourteen, from the beginning he continued to explore ideas and invent things to make the modern day better.
Fascinating facts about Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone in 1876. the great idea finder, May. Web. 9 Mar. 2006. "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds." "Watson, come here; I want you." Most people refer to alexander graham bell as a great American inventor. They often forget that he was and mainly focused on being a teacher of the deaf. Bell began to play with the idea of transferring sound at the young age of nineteen. He developed the telephone and its idea on March tenth 1876. The first sentence ever spoken into a telephone was “Watson, come here; I want you”. The definition is an instrument , which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice.
Alexander Graham Bell Biography. encyclopedia of world biography, 2012. Web. 1 Mar. 2012. “To help deaf children, Bell experimented in the summer of 1874 with a human ear and attached bones, magnets, smoked glass, and other things.” “He conceived the theory of the telephone: that an electric current can be made to change its force just as the pressure of air varies during sound production.” Alexander Graham Bells family life was a very unfortunate circumstance; he lost two siblings to tuberculosis. Once this happened his family fled to protect there last child. As he grew up help his father out with a demonstrations of his way of speaking for deaf people. He soon became unhappy with doing this because he had his own dream and goals he wanted to achieve. He begun to make is own foot steps were he branched of from his father and begun to start inventing.
Alexander Graham Bell Biography. bio. true history, 2012. Web. 1 Mar. 2012.
“His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father 's work on Visible Speech for the deaf.” “In all Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 shared with collaborators.” Alexander Graham Bell started out with his education form Edinburgh Royal High School, to further his education he attended Edinburgh University, University College in London. Every since a child alexander was fascinated by being able to improve the world to make it better for all people to communicate. When Bell died he held in his possession eighteen patents and 12 with collaborations. Alexander Graham Bell died on august second 1922. During his last dictation he was reassured with “Don 't hurry,” to which he replied, “I have to.”
Annotative Bibliography
Bailey Monson
Ms. Junglas
English 120
April 4, 2012
Annotated Bibliography ann, sarah. anti-slut defence(asd): hwo society drives women bat shit crazy about sex part 1. N.p., 31 Jan. 2012. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. This article is called anti-lut defense(ASD): How society drives women hatshit crazy about sex, part 1. The author is trying to explain to its reader that to be a woman in this society is very difficult, tying to prevent crossing the line for looking good and dressing slutty. Another things is when you take a girl back to your apartment and she does not want to have sex you, this just means she does not want to become the slut. The last point is how women have changed in private, and public levels. This article to me to a standpoint that I already believed in. this article gave me more incite and knowledge about the woman’s side of the topic I am working with. Some of the things I am glad were included in this article and will be very helpful for me writing my paper, is to have all of the woman’s stereotypes of each generation. This make this topic more real and seem like it has been happening for a long time we just didn’t seem to think it was a big deal.
"Anti Slut Defense or ASD." PUA FORUMS. 12 July 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called anti slut defense or ASD. ASD is the process that women follow to avoid the perception of being slutty or easy. lots of women are so afraid of being judge sluts that they will actually go out of there way to be perceived as nice girls or good girls. They will usually proclaim indifference to sex when actually they want it just as bas as the guy does. In this article the author is trying to tell us about what he/ she knows about anti slut defense. Threw out the authors speech he tells us what it means to be ASD how people become this way and why they are this way. I feel all of this information can help me in the future to write this paper with a lot of information that this cite provided me with.
Nancy Dausen "Anti Slut Defense or ASD." PUA FORUMS. 12 July 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article in it self is a huge resource. It is called anti-slut defense. This article gives background information. This article clearly states what ASD is; it is a reaction caused by society to say no to sex so you do not become a slut. It gives information on how to deal with (ASD) anti- slut defense. It also gives many different perspectives on the topic. A lot of the different perspectives are from the blog at the bottom of the article that also gives a lot of information. I feel this article was the most helpful so far as I look back at all of the other cites that I got information form none of them compare to the amount of information and expiation that is done in this article to make the reader understand what it is that there getting at. This article has a lot of information that will be very helpful for me to use in my paper. This information will come from the background info and also the blog.
clark-flory, tracy. she called ma a "manwhore". N.p., 5 Feb. 2011. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. This article is called Anti Slut Defense. In this article it is explained how being a slut is the worse social title you can receive. This title is at the bottom of the “totem pole” throughout this article there are many people that speak up on this topic. It is a blog for anyone to post their comments on. As people comment on this topic it gets even more intense and starts to go into different reason this is and how it happened. To me this article is very helpful it gives me a lot of background information, but it also provides me with information regarding how bad woman consider it to be called a slut. They avoid being called a slut because to them that is the lowest you can go. This article is very good for getting real peoples ideas and thoughts on paper. This blog is very helpful and a very good thing to use real quotes in my paper.
"How to Get Past Girlsâ Anti Slut Defense." How to Get Past Girlsâ Anti Slut Defense. 2009. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called how to get past girls anti slut defense. As this article tells us women are the own reason for why they are afraid to have sex and be called a slut. Women call each other sluts, for what ever reason this is why girls are so afraid to have sex they are afraid they will strep down to a new social standard and disappoint there friends and family by being a slut. This article tells me as a reader that women are the reason for something that that have created and are afraid to go to that level. I feel like this article has given me some great incite on were women stand on this issue and how they deal with other females calling each other sluts. As women continue to call each other sluts there will always ways be that standard that women hold up for them selves and try extremely hard not to fall beneath that standard. juan, don. anti slut defense. N.p., 6 Apr. 2005. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. This article is called She called me a “manwhore. Throughout this entire article they are trying to convince the reader that; when a man is called a slut or manwhore it does hurt them. Guys would much more life to be seen as a ladies man or stud. When men are called manwhores it has the same effect that it does on women. With this being said, the article tries to figure out why society does not portray it the way it actually is. My option on this article is that men can have an effect on being called a manwhore. I think that when a man is called a slut or man whore it is just something that as men we can push off and not worry about. This is because guys guys do not care if you are a manwhore or not. In this article they talk about the reasons why men are not as often called sluts or manwhores, this is because of the media.
"OPINION: The Anti-Slut Halloween Costume." The Anti-Slut Halloween Costume. 27 Oct. 2011. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article focuses on Halloween and women’s costumes. This article is called the anti- slut Halloween Costume. In this article the author explains to the reader how it has become socially acceptable to have women dress as slutty as they choose. To this extent it also has the other side, the women that feel this is the time for them to be able to dress slutty and not get judged for it. This had become the normal for many women all around the world. This article was vey useful and gave a different take on this issue. This issue is that Halloween has become a slut show. As women in are society like this tradition to be able to be a slut for one night and not be judged for it is something that women like. As these women dress like sluts they are not acting like sluts most of the time it is just there appearance.
"Powerful Connections." Anti-Slut Defense. 28 May 2009. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article in it self is a huge resource. It is called anti-slut defense. This article gives background information. This article clearly states what ASD is; it is a reaction caused by society to say no to sex so you do not become a slut. It gives information on how to deal with (ASD) anti- slut defense. It also gives many different perspectives on the topic. A lot of the different perspectives are from the blog at the bottom of the article that also gives a lot of information. I feel this article was the most helpful so far as I look back at all of the other cites that I got information form none of them compare to the amount of information and expiation that is done in this article to make the reader understand what it is that there getting at. This article has a lot of information that will be very helpful for me to use in my paper. This information will come from the background info and also the blog.
"PUA Express » Anti-Slut Defense (ASD): How Society Drives Women Batshit Crazy About Sex, Part 1." PUA Express » Anti-Slut Defense (ASD): How Society Drives Women Batshit Crazy About Sex, Part 1. Pua Express, 4 Feb. 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called how society drives women batshit crazy about sex. This author uses the media as his main point on why women have it so hard to dress sexy but not slutty. As the media portrays it women should be large chested, skinny, white, with long hair. These are the things that women have to live up to and the fashion that is available to women it is hard to find that line between slutty and sexy. As I read this article I feel like it is useful information. However it did not give me enough information that I was looking of to be able to make a actual argument of off what the author is trying to get across. In the media I feel like this is a very good way to look a society and how it portrays women and how there suppose to look.
"Solve My Girl Problems." The Anti-slut Defense. 15 May 2011. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called solve my girl problems. In this article the author is trying to explain to its audience that women have known of this from a very young age. That there is a fine line to being sexy and being a slut. As it state in this article women use sex to get relationships, men use relationships to get sex. Women take very necessary and carious steps to not be called a slut. I feel like this article is a very important piece to making my papers topic flow and have continuities information to be able to provide to my readers. This article gives a lot of answers to why society does things and treats people in the ways that it does. All of these things can be helpful things to make my paper even better. Over all I thought this was a very good article to find and be able to collect information off of.
"Slut-shaming the Anti-slut-shamers The Metropolis | Snipe." Snipe. 12 May 2012. This article is called slut-shaming the anti- slut shamers. In this article this author blames alcohol to be the main thing that makes girls release there slutty side. The author talks about how the person mush just not care because she is intoxicated and just does not care at all or they do not realize what they are doing. To the author this is a big problem and to the author the only way we could ever stop this is but not drinking alcohol. To me this topic seem very real but at the same time irrelevant to my topic I am not focusing mainly on the reason why girls make them self be sluts I am focusing on why society has the right to automatically dean someone a slut for sleeping with one person. Having alcohol in your system can obviously affect your state but society has noting to do with how much you consume and why you are allowing your self to be able to act slutty.
Appendix
Introduction
Framing Letter……………………………………………………4
Content Rhetorical Analysis…………………………………………….8
Profile………………………………………………………………15
Annotated Bibliography…………………………………….25
Appendix Rhetorical analysis..………………..…………………………33
Framing Letter
Dear whomever this may concern, Thank you for reading my final portfolio. To help you as the reader better understand me and who I am, I will give you a little bit of background information on myself. My name is Bailey Monson I a currently fishing up my second semester of my freshmen year at North Dakota state University (NDSU). Throughout this time I have had a lot of time to …show more content…
develop my writing skills. Here at NDSU I have had the chance to take two college English class, they are English 110 and English 120. During this first year of English I have learned a lot about myself as a writer. In high school we were asked to write papers most of these in the same genre, now that I have taken these English classes I have learned that there is a lot of different writing style. Some of these genres are rhetorical analysis, profile, annotated bibliography, commentaries, letters, and group papers. While developing my own writing style for each and every one of these genres, I have begun to learn my strengths and weaknesses within my writing. Some of my strengths are being able to come up with original/interesting topics to write about, keeping all of my papers clean and following the structural format to a “T”, and being able to cite needed material in American Language association (MLA) format. Some of my weaknesses are grammar, jumping around threw out a paper, and being able to use my citations well threw out the paper. Knowing my both my strengths and weaknesses with my writing, I am able to “wear them on my chest”. Being able to do this make me a better writer in it self. Another thing that has helped me understand my self a little better is finding out how I learn. In the everyday life I am very much so a kinetic learner this mean I am a visual person. This being said I used this knowledge to my benefit. I also use examples either given out by my teacher or found online to be very beneficial. When I combined all of my good traits together I end up with papers like my rhetorical analysis. I feel as if this piece is my best paper in this portfolio. Throughout this paper I am doing an analysis on an article about Tim Tebow. On this paper I had experience writing a rhetorical analysis in the past, it was for this reason that I was able to complete this paper to my satisfaction. The only flaws within the paper were strictly grammatical errors. Even though this paper has some flaws I feel that it best demonstrates my progression and understanding of writing papers. At the beginning of the school year I had never attempted to write anything more than a persuasive paper. By taking these classes I have come to a new understanding of the different genres that writing can take. Taking these classes have opened me up to better ways to approach and talk about different things instead of just telling a story. Being able to have teachers that know what they are talking about and teaching us these knew things helps a lot. To be able to have such extensive research materials and classmate help is very beneficial to the success of my papers throughout this class and in the future. Some of the main things that I learned form my English 120 class was how to manage time resources and put it together in an organized manner. Also as stated before I learned how to construct and write rhetorical analysis, profile, annotated bibliography, commentaries, letters, and group papers. This class was very helpful to my future and my career as a writer.
Sincerely,
Bailey Monson
Rhetorical Analysis
Bailey Monson
Ms. Junglas
English 120
13 February 2012
Rhetorical Analysis
Summary
The magazine article that was read is called “Poll: God helps Tim Tebow win football games. Does Tim Tebow agree?” (Sappenfield). This article was written by Sappenfield, Mark, and published in the Christian Science Monitor. This article was written on January twelfth of two-thousand-twelve. A recent poll was taken by the web Poll Position to answer the question; “Does God help Tim Tebow win football games?”(Sappenfield). The results of this poll were almost even. According to the poll by Poll Position forty-three percent of Americans said yes that Tim Tebow success is attributable to divine intervention, forty-two percent said that Tim Tebow success is not attributable to divine intervention. The other three percent resulted in an error in the application. The author in this article does not provide any information that makes him a creditable writer for this topic. The writer of this article only provides us with knowledge of the magazine that he is writing for. The author of this article regardless of his unknown background is trying to persuade the reader to think that Tim Tebow does get help form God to win games for the Denver Broncos. He also does this by giving examples such as “To be sure, Tebow would – and does credit God for all he accomplishes on the football field.” (Sappenfield) Also he gives examples of Tim Tebow’s prayers such as “Before the game, he prayed aloud: ‘Lord put a wall of protection around me and my teammates today, and we go out there and we can honor you with everything “Dear Jesus, I need you. Please come through for me. No matter what happens, win or lose, give me the strength to honor you.’ (Sappenfield) The author states, ‘The perception is that as Tebow is kneeling on the sidelines during a game, he is praying to win. One of Tebow’s pastors has only added to the perception, telling the celebrity gossip website TMZ that a recent Broncos six-game winning stream was “God’s favor’.(Sappenfield)”
Analysis
The topic on this article is based solely on the idea of: is there a divine power and if so how and why has this power chosen to help Tim Tebow? Since there is no physical proof of a God how can we assume that one exists? The majority of the general public believes in some sort of a divine power, but even if you do believe in a greater power, why does it seem like this power is only helping Tim Tebow? Is it because he kneels on the sideline during games to pray and ask for help or is it just because this higher power favors him? The angle of this article is persuasive; throughout this article, the author tries to convince the reader that Tim Tebow gets help from a divine power. As the author attempted to use his way of persuasion he still leaves the reader with unanswered questions, such as, why did the divine power choose Tim Tebow? Why is Tim Tebow so special to be granted help? Leaving us with these unanswered questions makes the persuasive parts of this article not be affective to convince the reader. The way that the author best used his pervasion technics is by using quotes by not only Tim Tebow but also from his pastors. By using these quotes it helps the reader slowly understand what Tim Tebow is attempting to get out of his prayers, as the writer presents these quotes it slowly starts to gain the readers approval for his side of the argument. The readers of this article are most likely football fans from the age that they can read. As the author states that people not just football fans have started to “Tebowing” before and after events of their own. The author states many quotes in his article to adjust and open his reader minds to the fact that “In Denver, fans call Tebow the “Mile High Messiah.” They have jerseys with Tim Tabows’s No. 15 but the name “Jesus” on the back, they hold up signs asking “WWTD” (What Would Tebow Do?)” By the author showing that people are comparing him to Jesus might make the reader mad or might make someone want to follow and do the same both situations can have and effect to the reader. It also opens the reader’s eyes up to how many people this involves and how serious it is becoming to some of the Denver fans. By the author helping us realize Tebow has so many fans makes it a very high possibility that the people reading this article are his fans. The purpose of this article is to open the reader’s up to the ideas of Tim Tebow and how a divine power helps him and the Denver Broncos. The author repeatedly gives examples of how Tim Tebow prays and how people worship him. Knowing this people start to believe that Tim Tebow has a divine power helping him to his success. The article also gives the reader some background information such as explaining what how Tim Tebow prays at each game. This information is vital to someone that is not familiar with football or Tim Tebow. The context that the author provides us in this article is quite specific to Christian people since this article is presented in the Christian Science Monitor. The author provides us with information that is needed to be persuaded to thinking that Tim Tebow has a divine power working in his favor. The purpose of this article is to inform the general social public and the Christian public that Tim Tebow has a divine power working in his favor. For the actual article it self it written with fact and quotes to persuade a reader quickly. The article consists of two pages that are filled with sort sentences of information to help the author in his overall goal.
Ethos The credibility that is in this article is very slim. The author shows that he knows what he is talking about by using quotes that he heard himself. Just him being there at each game hearing the words from Tim Tebow gives him a sense of knowledge. The author shows that he has done his research and looked for information on this topic, an example of this is the quote from one of Tim Tebow’s pastors for the TMZ (a social publicity) website. The author displays knowledge of the game by giving facts on Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos.
Logos
The logical reasoning that the author gives is in this article are the statistic and quotes witch help give a logical reasoning on why you should believe this author. Some of the better examples of the author doing this is when the author tells us that “According to the poll by Poll Position forty-three percent of Americans said yes that Tim Tebow success is attributable to divine intervention, forty-two percent said that Tim Tebow success is not attributable to divine intervention. The other three percent resulted in an error in the application. Another is “when Tim Tebow’s pastor has only added to the perception, telling the celebrity gossip website TMZ that a recent Broncos six-game winning stream was “God’s favor”(Sappenfield).”
Pathos
The emotional appeal in this article is fairly obvious to the extent that God is helping Tim Tebow and the Broncos to win games. This will either make people happy if there on the Broncos side or very upset if they are against the Broncos. If they are not rutting for the Broncos they may get mad and wonder why does God choice to help out that team and not the team they want to win? These are the only emotional appeals that you might be able to take form this article this article is more of a logos article for it is a persuasion article.
Works cited
Sappenfield, Mark. "Poll: God Helps Tim Tebow Win Football Games. Does Tim Tebow agree?" Christian Science Monitor 12 Jan. 2012. 1. Print.
Profile
Bailey Monson
Ms. Junglas
English 120
March 19, 2012
The Genius Inventor One of the greatest inventors of all time lived in the 19th century where the country began to expand from coast to coast. The people of this time period manly stayed isolated. This made the travel of news difficult. The people began to become stressed with how long it took news to travel from place to place. News took weeks to reach certain parts of the country, this is because news could only travel as fast as a houses hooves. This all changed with what some people consider Alexander Graham Bells finest invention, the invention of the telephone. Although the telephone was a remarkable asset to the time and a wonderful invention, it was not the only invention Alexander made in his life time he also created the medal detector, the grain belt sifter, and had the first thoughts of the air plane. Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Alexander Bell, was an expert of the voice, the art of public speaking and mechanics. He taught deaf people how to speak and invented “visible speech”. “Alexander’s mother, Eliza Bell 's was deaf, and he devoted his life to attempting to help the deaf (Alexander Graham Bell. conservapedia).” They had three sons, Edward (Ted), Alexander (Aleck), and Melville (Melly). He only attended school for five years; from the time he was ten until he was fourteen at the universities of Edinburgh and London but he did not stop his education there he continued to learn. He read the books in his grandfather 's library and studied tutorials. “His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father 's work on Visible Speech for the deaf (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” Even as a young child his passion was to shaping the future. He did this by learn and invent. As he grew up help his father used his to a demonstrate of his invention “visible speaking”. Bell soon became unhappy with doing this because he had his own dream and goals he wanted to achieve. Alexander begun to make is own footsteps were he branched of from his father and begun to start inventing. At a young age Alexander created his very first invention, the a grain belt shifter. He invented this shifter because this boss at the time asked him and his friends to come up with a solution to there problem of husking grain. In Alexander’s early twenties his two brothers died of tuberculosis. Alexander was the second of only three children. Both his parents became afraid of losing there last child, so in 1870 his parents decided to move to Brantford Ontario At the age of twenty-two he went to Boston there he opened a school for teachers of the deaf and then became a professor at Boston University. At this time he had begun to give private lessons to deaf children. This is were he had met Mabel Hubbard, one of his students who was ten years younger than he was. Mabel was deaf from the age of four due to scarlet fever. Five years pervious to their meeting they were married. They had four children, two daughters and two sons. Their sons both died at a young age of tuberculosis. Since the young age of eighteen, Bell had been fascinated and working on the idea of transmitting speech and said “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” It was with this mindset and in 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph; he discovered and developed the basic ideas for the telephone. “He conceived the theory of the telephone: that an electric current can be made to change its force just as the pressure of air varies during sound production (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” His experiments with Thomas Watson, his assistant, finally became successful on March 10, 1876. On March 10th 1876, Alexander transmitted the first sentence over the telephone, it was "Watson, come here; I want you (Fascinating facts).” On Feb. 14, 1876, Alexander applied for a patent on his telephone. He knew he would have to work quickly to get the patent. He knew that other people were also attempting to make an invention similar to the telephone that would transmit the human voice. Elisha Gray also claims he too invented the telephone, but Alexander got to the patent office before he did.
Since Alexander had received the patent for the telephone, he had the right to be the only one to produce telephones in the U.S. for the next nineteen years. The first demonstrations of his invention were in 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania it is here that the telephone was introduced to the world. The design for the telephone transmitter was commercialized and became introduced in 1877. Alexander, Gardiner Hubard, and Thomas Sanders formed the Bell Telephone Company. This company joined with the Western Electric Company in 1882, this joining made it possible for the Bell Telephone Company to have a manufacturing unit. “By 1917, nearly all of the United State had telephone service which set a world speed record of over seventy miles per hour (Alexander Graham Bell, Conservapedia).” The company then joined with the Telegraph Company on March 3rd 1885 to create a long distance telephone network, using the telegraph wires. These two companies joining made alexander the winner of a France 's Volta Prize. To win this prize you had to find a better way of sending messages. With the winnings from France 's Volta Prize, he then moved to Washington D.C and founded Volta Laboratory in 1880. “His experiments there led to the invention of the photophone (which transmitted speech by light rays), the audiometer (which measured acuteness of hearing), the Graphophone (an early practical sound recorder), and working wax recording media, both flat and cylindrical, for the Graphophone. He was chiefly responsible for founding the journal Science, founded the American Association to Promote Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1890), and continued his significant research on deafness throughout his life (Fascinating facts).” To some the telephone is still Alexander Graham Bells greatest invention, but these are not the only things he invented. Once he had created the telephone had just begun to shape the future. In 1881, As President James Garfield lay dieing of an assassin 's bullet, Alexander Graham Bell hurried to invent the first metal detector. He invented a crude metal detector in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the fatal bullet. Bell 's metal detector was an electromagnetic device he called the induction balance. Even thought President James Garfield’s life was not able to be saved the invention of the metal detector in the future saved many lives. Alexander was a well-rounded man and even though all of his accomplishments never built up and made him erodent as proved in this quote but alexander himself.
“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself (Bruce, Robert).” Most people refer to Alexander Graham Bell as a great American inventor. They often forget that he was and mainly focused on being a teacher of the deaf. “His invention of the telephone was simply a byproduct of his devotion to helping the deaf communicate (Alexander Graham Bell. conservapedia).” His particular specialty, besides being an inventor, was to teach with those who were deaf to develop and be able to communicate with people that were not deaf. As Alexander grew old he continued to experiment with new things. He became fascinated and dabbled with the question of flight. He had experimented with kites, he made of many pyramid-like cells. The sight of a large structure flying in the wind made Alexander so impressed and gave him the idea that a kite could be used for the basis of heavier kites to carry people. Baffled by this idea Bell assembled a group of people and formed the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) in 1907. They decided that the AEA would have each of its members design an aircraft shell to hold and engine and have it
tested. They started out with Alexander’s kite idea and tested it on December 6th 1907, it was piloted by Selfridge, at this point Alexander was reaching near the age of sixty. His design failed for it was not able to hold that much weight. The next air craft that was tested was called red wing (for its bright red wing fabric) its was piloted by Baldwin and it was flown over frozen Keuka Lake on March 12, 1908 in front of an audience. The aircraft flew 320 feet at an altitude of twenty feet for about twenty seconds.
“The AEA next experimented with a design of Baldwin’s dubbed the White Wing. This aircraft used triangular wing-tip ailerons at the ends of both wings to control the aircraft, and performed excellently when flown on May 18 by Selfridge, and then by Curtiss. Selfridge’s report to the Associated Press made it clear that the AEA airplane had the ability to land and take off immediately on its wheeled undercarriage, dispensing with the Wrights’ derrick catapulting method and landing skids. The group believed that their problems with the Wright brothers’ patents were finally over with this, the first successful use of ailerons in the United States (Alexander Graham Bell).” Alexander was a magnificent inventor. His goal in life to invent things to shape that future came true with not only the invention of the telephone but all of his inventions. “Until a few days before his death, Bell continued to make entries in his journal. During his last dictation he was reassured with “Don 't hurry,” to which he replied, “I have too” (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” He became a U.S. citizen, but he died in Canada at the age of 75 on august 2nd 1922. “In all Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 shared with collaborators (Alexander Graham Bell Biography).” History will always remember Alexander as the man who vision gave voice to millions. With all of his amazing inventions it is safe to call him a genius inventor.
Works cited
Bruce, Robert V. Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. N. pag. Print. “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.” “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh Scotland in 1847. He had two sons, David and Alexander Melville Bell. Alexanders parents were named Melville and Eliza Bell. They had three sons, Edward (Ted), Alexander (Aleck), and Melville (Melly). Both became afraid, so in 1870 his parents decided to move to Brantford Ontario. His particular specialty, besides being an inventor, was to teach with those who were deaf to develop and be able to communicate with people that were not deaf.
Alexander Graham Bell. conservapedia, 19 Jan. 2009. Web. 1 Mar. 2012. “Bell 's mother was deaf, and he devoted his life to attempting to help the deaf.” “His invention of the telephone was simply a byproduct of his devotion to helping the deaf communicate” Bell grew up with a deaf mother his main goal in life was to help out to make them be able to function in are modern day society. As he grew up he tried to find new ways to be able to communicate with his mother other than sign language. Bell started to invent things at the age of fourteen, from the beginning he continued to explore ideas and invent things to make the modern day better.
Fascinating facts about Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone in 1876. the great idea finder, May. Web. 9 Mar. 2006. "Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds." "Watson, come here; I want you." Most people refer to alexander graham bell as a great American inventor. They often forget that he was and mainly focused on being a teacher of the deaf. Bell began to play with the idea of transferring sound at the young age of nineteen. He developed the telephone and its idea on March tenth 1876. The first sentence ever spoken into a telephone was “Watson, come here; I want you”. The definition is an instrument , which converts sound, specifically the human voice, to electrical impulses of various frequencies and then back to a tone that sounds like the original voice.
Alexander Graham Bell Biography. encyclopedia of world biography, 2012. Web. 1 Mar. 2012. “To help deaf children, Bell experimented in the summer of 1874 with a human ear and attached bones, magnets, smoked glass, and other things.” “He conceived the theory of the telephone: that an electric current can be made to change its force just as the pressure of air varies during sound production.” Alexander Graham Bells family life was a very unfortunate circumstance; he lost two siblings to tuberculosis. Once this happened his family fled to protect there last child. As he grew up help his father out with a demonstrations of his way of speaking for deaf people. He soon became unhappy with doing this because he had his own dream and goals he wanted to achieve. He begun to make is own foot steps were he branched of from his father and begun to start inventing.
Alexander Graham Bell Biography. bio. true history, 2012. Web. 1 Mar. 2012.
“His education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father 's work on Visible Speech for the deaf.” “In all Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 shared with collaborators.” Alexander Graham Bell started out with his education form Edinburgh Royal High School, to further his education he attended Edinburgh University, University College in London. Every since a child alexander was fascinated by being able to improve the world to make it better for all people to communicate. When Bell died he held in his possession eighteen patents and 12 with collaborations. Alexander Graham Bell died on august second 1922. During his last dictation he was reassured with “Don 't hurry,” to which he replied, “I have to.”
Annotative Bibliography
Bailey Monson
Ms. Junglas
English 120
April 4, 2012
Annotated Bibliography ann, sarah. anti-slut defence(asd): hwo society drives women bat shit crazy about sex part 1. N.p., 31 Jan. 2012. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. This article is called anti-lut defense(ASD): How society drives women hatshit crazy about sex, part 1. The author is trying to explain to its reader that to be a woman in this society is very difficult, tying to prevent crossing the line for looking good and dressing slutty. Another things is when you take a girl back to your apartment and she does not want to have sex you, this just means she does not want to become the slut. The last point is how women have changed in private, and public levels. This article to me to a standpoint that I already believed in. this article gave me more incite and knowledge about the woman’s side of the topic I am working with. Some of the things I am glad were included in this article and will be very helpful for me writing my paper, is to have all of the woman’s stereotypes of each generation. This make this topic more real and seem like it has been happening for a long time we just didn’t seem to think it was a big deal.
"Anti Slut Defense or ASD." PUA FORUMS. 12 July 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called anti slut defense or ASD. ASD is the process that women follow to avoid the perception of being slutty or easy. lots of women are so afraid of being judge sluts that they will actually go out of there way to be perceived as nice girls or good girls. They will usually proclaim indifference to sex when actually they want it just as bas as the guy does. In this article the author is trying to tell us about what he/ she knows about anti slut defense. Threw out the authors speech he tells us what it means to be ASD how people become this way and why they are this way. I feel all of this information can help me in the future to write this paper with a lot of information that this cite provided me with.
Nancy Dausen "Anti Slut Defense or ASD." PUA FORUMS. 12 July 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article in it self is a huge resource. It is called anti-slut defense. This article gives background information. This article clearly states what ASD is; it is a reaction caused by society to say no to sex so you do not become a slut. It gives information on how to deal with (ASD) anti- slut defense. It also gives many different perspectives on the topic. A lot of the different perspectives are from the blog at the bottom of the article that also gives a lot of information. I feel this article was the most helpful so far as I look back at all of the other cites that I got information form none of them compare to the amount of information and expiation that is done in this article to make the reader understand what it is that there getting at. This article has a lot of information that will be very helpful for me to use in my paper. This information will come from the background info and also the blog.
clark-flory, tracy. she called ma a "manwhore". N.p., 5 Feb. 2011. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. This article is called Anti Slut Defense. In this article it is explained how being a slut is the worse social title you can receive. This title is at the bottom of the “totem pole” throughout this article there are many people that speak up on this topic. It is a blog for anyone to post their comments on. As people comment on this topic it gets even more intense and starts to go into different reason this is and how it happened. To me this article is very helpful it gives me a lot of background information, but it also provides me with information regarding how bad woman consider it to be called a slut. They avoid being called a slut because to them that is the lowest you can go. This article is very good for getting real peoples ideas and thoughts on paper. This blog is very helpful and a very good thing to use real quotes in my paper.
"How to Get Past Girlsâ Anti Slut Defense." How to Get Past Girlsâ Anti Slut Defense. 2009. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called how to get past girls anti slut defense. As this article tells us women are the own reason for why they are afraid to have sex and be called a slut. Women call each other sluts, for what ever reason this is why girls are so afraid to have sex they are afraid they will strep down to a new social standard and disappoint there friends and family by being a slut. This article tells me as a reader that women are the reason for something that that have created and are afraid to go to that level. I feel like this article has given me some great incite on were women stand on this issue and how they deal with other females calling each other sluts. As women continue to call each other sluts there will always ways be that standard that women hold up for them selves and try extremely hard not to fall beneath that standard. juan, don. anti slut defense. N.p., 6 Apr. 2005. Web. 4 Apr. 2012. This article is called She called me a “manwhore. Throughout this entire article they are trying to convince the reader that; when a man is called a slut or manwhore it does hurt them. Guys would much more life to be seen as a ladies man or stud. When men are called manwhores it has the same effect that it does on women. With this being said, the article tries to figure out why society does not portray it the way it actually is. My option on this article is that men can have an effect on being called a manwhore. I think that when a man is called a slut or man whore it is just something that as men we can push off and not worry about. This is because guys guys do not care if you are a manwhore or not. In this article they talk about the reasons why men are not as often called sluts or manwhores, this is because of the media.
"OPINION: The Anti-Slut Halloween Costume." The Anti-Slut Halloween Costume. 27 Oct. 2011. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article focuses on Halloween and women’s costumes. This article is called the anti- slut Halloween Costume. In this article the author explains to the reader how it has become socially acceptable to have women dress as slutty as they choose. To this extent it also has the other side, the women that feel this is the time for them to be able to dress slutty and not get judged for it. This had become the normal for many women all around the world. This article was vey useful and gave a different take on this issue. This issue is that Halloween has become a slut show. As women in are society like this tradition to be able to be a slut for one night and not be judged for it is something that women like. As these women dress like sluts they are not acting like sluts most of the time it is just there appearance.
"Powerful Connections." Anti-Slut Defense. 28 May 2009. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article in it self is a huge resource. It is called anti-slut defense. This article gives background information. This article clearly states what ASD is; it is a reaction caused by society to say no to sex so you do not become a slut. It gives information on how to deal with (ASD) anti- slut defense. It also gives many different perspectives on the topic. A lot of the different perspectives are from the blog at the bottom of the article that also gives a lot of information. I feel this article was the most helpful so far as I look back at all of the other cites that I got information form none of them compare to the amount of information and expiation that is done in this article to make the reader understand what it is that there getting at. This article has a lot of information that will be very helpful for me to use in my paper. This information will come from the background info and also the blog.
"PUA Express » Anti-Slut Defense (ASD): How Society Drives Women Batshit Crazy About Sex, Part 1." PUA Express » Anti-Slut Defense (ASD): How Society Drives Women Batshit Crazy About Sex, Part 1. Pua Express, 4 Feb. 2012. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called how society drives women batshit crazy about sex. This author uses the media as his main point on why women have it so hard to dress sexy but not slutty. As the media portrays it women should be large chested, skinny, white, with long hair. These are the things that women have to live up to and the fashion that is available to women it is hard to find that line between slutty and sexy. As I read this article I feel like it is useful information. However it did not give me enough information that I was looking of to be able to make a actual argument of off what the author is trying to get across. In the media I feel like this is a very good way to look a society and how it portrays women and how there suppose to look.
"Solve My Girl Problems." The Anti-slut Defense. 15 May 2011. Web. 04 Apr. 2012. This article is called solve my girl problems. In this article the author is trying to explain to its audience that women have known of this from a very young age. That there is a fine line to being sexy and being a slut. As it state in this article women use sex to get relationships, men use relationships to get sex. Women take very necessary and carious steps to not be called a slut. I feel like this article is a very important piece to making my papers topic flow and have continuities information to be able to provide to my readers. This article gives a lot of answers to why society does things and treats people in the ways that it does. All of these things can be helpful things to make my paper even better. Over all I thought this was a very good article to find and be able to collect information off of.
"Slut-shaming the Anti-slut-shamers The Metropolis | Snipe." Snipe. 12 May 2012. This article is called slut-shaming the anti- slut shamers. In this article this author blames alcohol to be the main thing that makes girls release there slutty side. The author talks about how the person mush just not care because she is intoxicated and just does not care at all or they do not realize what they are doing. To the author this is a big problem and to the author the only way we could ever stop this is but not drinking alcohol. To me this topic seem very real but at the same time irrelevant to my topic I am not focusing mainly on the reason why girls make them self be sluts I am focusing on why society has the right to automatically dean someone a slut for sleeping with one person. Having alcohol in your system can obviously affect your state but society has noting to do with how much you consume and why you are allowing your self to be able to act slutty.
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