Kara+G

1. A writer is a person who allows their thoughts to be known to the world. A person who expresses through writing everything they want you to know and feel or what they want you to understand. A writer is someone who is a free thinker and one who possibly thinks differently than other people do. To be a writer you have to be able to show your words in a way that your reader will, not necessarily like, but understand. You can have a reader think that you have no idea what you are talking about and who totally disagrees with you but that doesn’t make you a bad writer. This actually makes you a good writer and as long as you back up your opinions no one can justify that you’re completely incorrect. I believe that writing is just free thought and it’s interesting to see what the writer’s opinion is on certain topics. Writing can also be a world of make believe where you can create anything you wish and your not held back by reality. The world is your to take on when you are a writer, whether you make a world or you justify your opinions on the world around you.

- Kara Grubb

2. Pamela Paul uses invented ethos to get her points across about babies, parenting and how the combined two result in minimal sleep. She states, “Since the age of three months, our little Beatrice has slept from seven to seven.” She uses her little daughter as an example of how well her methods of parents suffice. Making parents who’s babies nor them sleep through the night wonder what she’s doing right that their not. Shocking them into disbelief making them ask if possibly something is wrong with Pamela’s baby. However she doesn’t fail to keep her opinions firm. I think she also used situated ethos because she talks about pediatricians in the community. She uses the advice of doctors who are well respected and trusted to help back up her point. Pamela’s article was well written and fair because she gave many different sides to the debate as well as making which side she was on clear. It’s not a surprise that babies long for attention deep into the night but hopefully people such as Pamela can make parent’s lives a little easier & a little quieter through the night.

-Kara Grubb

3. The Battle for D.C.’s High Schools Fifteen schools in the D.C. area have been suffering greatly to meet the no child left behind act. “But lawmakers and school leaders need to take bold, even radical steps to remake a high school system that has consistently failed the city’s children.” ,states Michelle Rhee. The author uses pejorative language in the editorial when talking about the schools because she says how the schools have been failing for “decades on end” and how “The climb will be especially steep” to fix the schools. This implies that she does not seem very hopeful, supportive or respectful that these schools will make it out of this state by themselves. She’s uses honorific language only when referring to the organization that plans to help the schools. She says “Green Dot seems a good fit for Washington’s difficult environment.” This editorial has good pathos because it makes you feel bad for the child who attend this school because they know their school is falling far behind others. The author uses pejorative and honorific language which allows you to feel two emotions, sympathetic for the failing school system but relieved and hopeful that “green Dot” can save the schools curriculum.

-Kara Grubb