Kwame Kilpatrick

Kwame's closing remarks tried to pull the city together and get the media and press to lay off of him. Kwame uses ethos in the unscripted part of his speech to get the city to feel like and come together as "brothers and sisters" and to move passed the scandals that he has created, but yet to take the blame for. Kwame tries to appeal to emotion by making himself an innocent person while everyone else is out to lynch him. He feels insulted by all the death threats he has received and does not believe that people should have any reason at all to hate him. He does not seem to remember the scandals he was involved in. So, he uses ethos to make the reader feel sorry for him and the position he is in. He appeals to the city by saying that his wife and children are in danger and the ethos in his speech lessens people anger because the people feel like they are doing something wrong to Kwame's family. The diction and description he uses in the statement "This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop" blames the people of Detroit for the current political problems Detroit currently has. The words unethical and illegal describe the type of mob mentality the city currently has, which make Kwame's speech accusatory and help shift the blame off him. Using lynch is diction , to tell the city that this has gone far enough and that it needs to stop. The word lynching makes the city feel they are to blame.

Larry Elder on Open Minded Liberals

Summary

Larry King compares liberals and conservatives to each other to find out if liberals are really more open minded than conservatives.

Main Point

The author's main point is that although liberals call themselves more open minded than conservatives, the reality is conservatives are really more open minded than liberals.

How Larry King Mocks Liberals by using a They Say Strategy

Larry King knows to support his point well he has to tell what the liberals say, so what better way to show liberals thoughts than to put a conversation with one in your article. Each time the liberal said something, Larry King would counter argue his "they say" with a better argument that disproved the liberal's "they say." Walter Cronkite said that liberal and open minded were the same. Then, through Larry King's article he goes against Walter's "they say" and makes Walter look like a fool for using the words interchangeably. King uses a survey to disprove his "they say" which showed conservatives were more open minded than liberals. When liberals described conservatives, they criticized the conservatives sharply and never supported their arguments. The liberals used a tone that wasn't open minded which allowed Larry King to mock them and rip the argument liberals were open minded to shreds.

Worst Movie Ever

Cloverfield must be the worst movie ever made! It was like watching someones bad home movies on a merry-go-round. Even though I hated the ending, I was just glad it was over.

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Mr. Brandt, I hope I do this assignment right because it was not on the A.P. Language Blog and I do not really know what the assignment is beyond finding a cartoon and talking about it.

Anyway, Kwame is in some deep trouble now, slightly more than the cartoon suggests. The stains from blackberries representing the text messages that were found between him and Christine Beatty, which could serve as evidence he lied in court under oath that he had not had relationships with her, when in fact the text messages made sexual references, are going to leave a permanent mark on his record. Those text messages and the lies he told could cost him time in prison. The guy saying the blackberries left a permanent stain, as Kwame tries frantically to get the out with sundry cleaners, speaks true to his word as the Mayor of Detroit may have made his final mistake.

Accumulating Columnists on Audience

My article is Drew Sharp's "Ideas to get Wings' fans back" published Thursday, January 17, 2008 in the Detroit Free Press. I could not find it on the Internet because it was taking to long.

The author's main point was that ticket sales for Wings games was down because of poor marketing, not because of economic factors and other money issues. Then he gave ways that Mr. Ilitch could turn around attendance numbers and boost ticket sales.

The author has some good views about the Wings, like, that ticket sales are down for other reasons than the economy, and that to sell out games you must lower ticket and concession prices. He also falsely stated that the Wings need to build a new stadium, perhaps on top of the old Tiger Stadium, which is a horrible idea.

To make this article's audience 8- 11 year old sports fans I would use simpler language that is easier to understand. In the article I would get rid of the use of statistics on how many fans go to games and I would just say that attendance is down. I would also make my points and then prove them using reasons that would make them want to go to the games. When the author says that the Wings must lower ticket prices, I would also include that if ticket prices were lowered they would be able to buy toys with the extra money.

Response to Christmas Cartoon

Mike Thompson's main point in this cartoon is that people have forgotten all about why Christmas began (to celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ) and what it is, they have also attempted to turn the holiday into a pagan holiday about giving and receiving gifts. To some degree, the author is correct. The holiday has shifted away from its original purpose and now has taken on a new meaning, but many people still know the real meaning of the holiday.

The cartoonist drew the shopper with many bags, because he wanted to show that the man was just shopping and had no care about what the quote meant, he just liked it and wanted to fill another gift. Also the shopper holding out his credit card is used to show that people just throw their money to stores during the Christmas season, just trying to spend, spend, spend. The sales man in the picture has a very interesting expression. He seems to be thinking about how goofy this shopper is, he also seems to be looking at the TV to pretend like he has interest in the customer, although personally it seems he is very bored, anxiously waiting to take the man's credit card, check him out, and walk away. Neither one of these two men seem too interested in the real meaning of Christmas.

6. Parallelism is recurrent syntactical similarity. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences are equal in importance. Parallelism also adds balance and rhythm and, most importantly, clarity to the sentence.

The article speaks about the Sean Taylor death and how his death is the result of the "Black KKK." The article says black people should be outraged and to stop this by teaching there kids the proper way to act. The author concludes by saying that the “Black KKK” is holding black people back and the "Black KKK" is trying to keep black men in their place — uneducated and outside the mainstream.

The author's main point in the article is that black culture needs to change from having the main aspects of their culture focused on murder, ignorance, and incarceration, and have better values as the main points of their culture. They should be outraged at these murders and stop living with, tolerating, and rationalizing them. The author bring up a valid point because they have poor values in their culture, but then, when the values start to occur in reality and not just in video games, music, movies, TV, etc., they “shift the attention away from the uniquely African-American crisis” and criticize the white media for what they said about Sean Taylor.

The author uses parallelism in this quote "Blame drugs, blame Ronald Reagan, blame George Bush, blame it on the rain or whatever" to strengthen his point that black people need to change black culture and that no matter whom is to blame parents are the ones who need to teach their kids the correct way to act. By listing common sources people use to pass the blame to all in a row, the author uses parallelism to show that these are not really good excuses for the characteristics of black culture. He also shows the need to change it because it has resulted in so many tragic deaths. By using parallelism the author helps add clarity to the sentence because if the author would have said blame anything you want, readers would not have know that you shouldn't really blame anything you want but you should instead teach your child proper morals and help them learn the proper way to act.