Maximiliano+C

1. A writer is anyone who has a thought in life. There are no specifics in what can or cannot be written. When the pencil hits the paper, only the writer can make the rules. Writing leaves an open door for any creativity that one has. If that specific person loves dinosaurs, then they could write about dinosaurs. The writer may talk about absolute nonsense that they normally wouldn’t be comfortable to say out loud. The pen and paper are some peoples passage out of the real world and into a world of imagination. Some of the best ideas come from people who simply just write without any real purpose -Max Cerrillo

2. In Pamela Paul’s article, she uses the form of Situated ethos in her debate of when to allow babies to sleep. In the article she states, “My program, developed by a women my husband and I call the Baby Nazi, instructs parents to schedule what baby and mommy should do at every given moment. Severe as it sounds, it seems to work.” At that portion of the text, she is letting the readers know that she found a way to have her baby sleep properly by following rules that another person has set for her. This other person is Dr. Richard Ferber. This Dr. writes books on how to get rid of a child’s sleeping problem. Dr. Ferber had a best-selling book, which shows that a lot of people listen to what he has to say. There is obviously a lot of credibility to his name which makes more people want to listen. Pamela Paul writes about the technique that Dr. Ferber suggests which tells parents to just simply leave their child alone when crying until they fall asleep themselves called, Ferberization. Paul also uses other quotes from Dr. Ferber in the article that suggests why he has made this program for babies. - Max Cerrillo

3. In the desert, immigrants are walking to try to get into America and are almost dieing from dehydration on the way. People are trying to put water to help out these immigrants, but are hurting the environment at the same time. In the editorial, “Water in the Desert” from the New York Times, it talks about a man who put out jugs for immigrants was convicted of littering. The article talks about how “plastic litter is a threat to the environment.” It uses honorific language while describing the effects of the environment. The editor uses words like “dire threat” when talking about how bad the plastic is to the desert. Instead of the man just leaving the plastic jugs out in the desert there were other ways he could have helped them. He could have left a tank full of water like other posts have so that there would not be littered jugs out in the ground. These tanks could really change the way the environment is treated in the desert. - Max Cerrillo