About a week before this assignment, my friend told me about Free Rice.com. She is a Human Development major and one of her professors told her about this website. So I went to it when she told me and I ended up donating 5,000 grains of rice. After being assigned the extra credit, I went back to Free Rice and donated 2,320 grains of rice. I wrote down some words that I did not get the first time around…
disparity= inequality
bungle= botch
amok= berserk
commingle= blend
dolt= dullard
charlatan= fraud
girder= beam
I think that others should go to Free Rice because it not only increases your vocabulary but it also helps feed people around the world. Having a good vocabulary is essential as you get older and go out into the real world.
Extra Credit 2: Smith Mag
For the Smith Mag assignment, I wrote six words that do not only apply to me, but to the world. When I think of the way the world is today I think about how it takes many little steps in order to achieve one normal step. forward The six words I wrote were…
Local. Regional. National. International. Global. Progress.
People should do this exercise because it takes thought to come up with only six words and while thinking about those six words you can really focus on what you care about and what message you want to send out.
Extra Credit 3: NPR
I chose to read the story, "A History of Museums, 'The Memory of Mankind'." The title caught my attention because I love museums and I'm interested in history. It also caught my attention because I am interested in being an art director at a museum. That is a possible career. I don't plan to become one but I think it would be a cool job and I think I would enjoy it. According to this recording on NPR, there are 17,000 museums in the United States and the attendance for museums, per year, is over 800 million! That's more than 4 times the amount of people that attend sporting events in a year! Museums are large corporations that face many challenges. Museums face ethical situations in deciding or not deciding to show an exhibit. Museums also need to be "tech savvy." According to Ford Bell, the head of the American Association of Museums mentioned that museums are not just a pastime but that they are a "critical piece in our education infrastructure." I agree with him on that. I think that museums are very important in helping people learn about the past and future. Museums can bring awareness to many issues. Phillippe Demontebello, the former art director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, says that museums serve as a "memory of mankind as it preserves pieces of history."
Many people don't appreciate museums enough and think of them as "boring." To me, museums are far from boring. Many aspects of museums are covered in this short NPR recording and people should learn how much museums influence our culture and our history.
Extra Credit 4: The Web of Language
I chose to read "George Bush Hooked on Phonics at U.N. (That's YOO-en)" I chose to read this particular story because I am not a supporter of George Bush, but I do enjoy watching his speeches and browsing through numerous "Bushisms" books that have been published since he took office in 2000. I remember using Hooked on Phonics when I was a child. That's one way I learned how to read. I think that Bush should have started the Hooked on Phonics program much earlier in life. It's harder to absorb new information as an adult. The article said that phonics are used to aid Bush in pronouncing certain words. Apparently the speech transcript that Bush gave to the U.N. General Assembly on September 25th was "accidentally" released to the press. And this transcript had phonetic spellings in it. It surprises me to this day that Bush was elected President. His speeches are hilarious and his pronunciations are too but I do feel bad that his learning disabilities were not properly addressed at a younger stage in his life. When talking about his No Child Left Behind Act he said, "childrens do learn."
I think that The Web of Language is a good website that has a number of interesting stories. The story I read is not a story that would appeal to everyone but people should read a story or two on The Web of Language that interests them.
Extra Credit 5: YouTube Rhetoric Videos
The first rhetoric video with puppets was interesting. I enjoyed the choice of music. It is simple and it's a nice touch to use puppets. Ethos, Pathos and Logos were mentioned. But basically, this kid is teaching children to manipulate their parents into letting them stay up later, which probably deprives them of much needed sleep, and to talk their parents into buying candy. Children are already "high on life" and adding teaspoons upon teaspoons of sugar probably isn't the best idea.
I loved this approach! Using film is usually effective and using well-known, humorous films is especially effective.
Men In Black: Logos
The Breakfast Club: Pathos
Monty Python: Ethos/Logos
Monsters, Inc.: Logos/Pathos/Ethos
I think that the first video is clever and that the student should get an A on the assignment for his rhetoric class but I felt that the second clip was more effective for me. I think that you should show that clip in class when going over Ethos, Pathos and Logos.
Extra Credit 6: An Act of Random Kindness
Many acts of kindness are simple acts. They are small gestures that people appreciate. This past weekend I was in Vero Beach for Thanksgiving break. My cousin and I went shopping on Black Friday and as we were leaving the store and walking back to my car, I saw an old man with a cane trip over a block of concrete and fall to the ground in the parking lot. I went over and asked if he was alright. He was quite old and had been walking with a cane. He wasn't able to get up on his own. He had bumped his head and was bleeding a bit so I called an ambulance and stayed with him until the ambulance came. The EMTs said that he would be fine. He just had a few scrapes and bruises. People really do appreciate small things that you do for them. It's also rewarding to feel that you made a difference in someone's day.
Extra Credit 7: Three YouTube Videos
This video is of a debate where a woman who works at a Planned Parenthood in PA asks the candidates if they have talked to their children about sex and given medically accurate and age appropriate information.
Have you talked to your children about sex education?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBEtBwsOPU
This video is about the Bush proposal for pushing abstinence-only sex education as the only means of sex education and a senator's opposing views and why his views are important. Two teens from Sex, Etc. conduct the interview.
Comprehensive Sex Ed vs Abstinence Only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTGEOrZ3MCs
This video is about the book It's Perfectly Normal, the book that I chose to write about for my rhetorical analyses. However, this clip says that this book is, by definition, "pornography" and should not be distributed to children. I totally disagree and I think that this book is a good way to teach children about sex.
Sex Book for Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42fP58EcBuY
Extra Credit 8: Contact an Author
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Extra Credit 9: Halloween Costume and Relation to Vogler
I dressed up as a devil for Halloween this year. The devil is a shadow that commonly represents temptation. It represents the dark side. It also represents unexpressed, unrealized or rejected aspects of something.
Extra Credit 10: Vote
This was my first election to vote in. I registered to vote in Texas when I turned eighteen but I decided to not vote in my home state for this election. In my home state, my vote would not matter. I registered here in Pinellas County because Florida is a swing state and I wanted my vote to count... and it did! I even got a sticker that says, "I made freedom count. I voted." I did early voting and went downtown to turn in my ballot a week before the election.
Extra Credit 11: Submit Writing to The Eckerd Review
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Extra Credit 12: Get Out of Jail Free Card
I got one Get Out of Jail Free Card for being in class at 10:45am on the dot!
Extra Credit 13: Perfect Attendance
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