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8 March

I really like the music video we watch today. Matisyahu’s “Sunshine” is such a good song that both the rhythm and content are great. I notice that there are coherent changes in this song. At the beginning, Matisyahu was tired and confused in the dessert. The darkness, the scorpion, the strain and the fire represent the loss of identity. But an angel appeared and started the journey with Matisyahu. In the in-class conversation, most of my classmates think it a song about drug addiction but I think it may have something to do religion because professor said Matisyahu is a Jew. I am catholic and know a few history about Jewish. I thinks I need to put more efforts on the research after this class. What I learned in this class is not only the importance of critical thinking but the importance of research. Any good understanding needs referential resources.

10 March

Language register is the level of formality with which you speak. Different situations and people call for different registers.

- Formal academic: Academic writing typically requires a formal, professional tone. This style is impersonal and often follows a prescriptive format. The speaker uses complete sentences, avoids slang and may use technical or academic vocabulary. It is likely that the speaker will use fewer contractions, but opt instead for complete words.

- Email/Text/ Tweet: This register is conversational in tone. It is the language used among and between friends. Words are general, rather than technical. This register may include more slang and colloquialisms.

15 March

There should be at least 8 sentences in a paragraph. Every paragraph is a mini paper. What does mini paper mean? Mini Paper is similar to a real paper. The elements of introduction, thesis statement, body (explaining, quotations and interpretation) and conclusion. We should conclude those in a paragraph.

17 March

Starting reading “The Latehomecomer” and get hang of the Hmong history. Professor has introduced this book so many time and I want to figure out the real history behind what I heard and get on the internet. What I know about Hmong is a nation lost his homeland but I have no idea about the true reasons. Hope I can find my answer through this Hmong culture book. I’m ready to start this journey.

5 April

- Emissary: a person sent on a special mission, usually as a diplomatic representative.

- Craic: Irish word for fun/enjoyment that has been brought into the English language.

- Ad hominem: (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

- Newspaper and final paper are own opinion, express opinion and detail solution.

Books online-half research

Person in real-face to face

- Rhetorical term→words/music/lyrics/video→Thesis(unique):statement/framework

29 March

Today we learned the concept of framework. The framework is thesis statements which can be organizational or principle.

- Ethos: represent credibility or ethical of appeal to persuade people

- Enthymeme: official: an argument in which one premise is not explicitly state

In-our-word: a point in a writing or speech that is not explicitly state. It’s a implied important or unimportant statement.

- Exigence: official: 1. Exigent state or character urgency. 2. Usually exigencies the need demand or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance condition when a situation urges immediate response.

- Kairos: official: timeliness, decorum, appropriateness, symmetry balance, rhetorical situation, love opportunities, proper time to order something related to your professor.

Kairos refer to the appropriate time for something to happen in the future in order to the further argument. Depending on your audience

31March

Logos:

- Official definition: Arguments or lines of reasoning that draw upon or attempt to shape and audience's beliefs, values, and assumptions. Logos is social, relational, and contextual. Logos does not require or strive for certainty or formal validity. It is every day or informal reasoning that draws common sense and ideology

- Definition in our words: Logos is an appeal to logic. Logos is a way of convincing audience logically by reasons.

- Examples:

Aristotle: All men are mortal.

Socrates is a man.

Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

Aristotle is using syllogistic arguments here, where some of the arguments or assertions remain unstated. Since, Socrates is a man therefore, he is mortal; all men are mortal so eventually they will die. This is the logic presented here.

"You don’t need to jump off a bridge to know that it’s a bad idea. Why then would you need to try drugs to know if they’re damaging? That’s plain nonsense."

Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry

5 April

This series has the history, culture of Hmong as well as scene from the Thai camps and lots on refugee immigration and the situations Hmong refugees face.

According to the Wikipedia, “The Vietnam War was a war in which two major power country, US and Soviet Union, who were the power holders of what events were to take place in Vietnam and the other neighboring countries around Vietnam. The battle between the two was mainly over political because of the split of Vietnam and the rise of power on the communist side as North Vietnam tried to form a communist country by forcefully reuniting South Vietnam with the help of the