domestic policy proposal: immigration

Illegal aliens crossing the border of the United States have been a source to much of the controversy relating to job advancement, economic welfare, religion, and several more elements in which America runs. "According to the Census Bureau, there were an estimated 8.7 million illegal aliens living in the United States in 2000" (fairus.org). One could only assume in today's day in age that that number has only sky-rocketed. Because these immigrants are living under undocumented conditions in the United States, they don't have the residential duties of paying taxes, which is a large basis in which our country runs. With these millions of immigrants living in our country illegally, not only is the government losing money, but we as legal American citizens are as well. They tend to work for less money, therefore making them a cheap benefit to employers. Legal citizens demand more money per say, consequently putting them at the end of the list of the call-backs for employment. In a sense, these illegal aliens have been a justification for much of the unemployed America.

Public Writing definition

To me, the definition of public writing is what it sounds like; writing for the public. So that could be anything from an advertisement to a public speech. A speech that the President delivers could be public writing. An advertisement for Colgate could be public writing. Public writing is a message that someone expresses through writing and is revealed publicly. It's writing that the author wants the public to see or hear so it's done on purpose. It's writing that's done for a reason. In order to gain a large public audience (which is probably ideal for the public writing author), the message may have to appeal to large amount races, religions, ethnic groups, and both genders. Public writing must be clear, concise, and simple to a certain degree.

Log: October 20th and 22nd

Tuesday October, 20

We began class with Danielle King's and Alyssa Kizer's logs. After they were done, we promptly began the intensive reviews. Since this was a different kind of assignment, we had to go about reviewing it in a different manner. Professor McArdle pulled the author's project up on the projector screen as the author went up in front of the class to briefly explain the overview of their website or video. After they explained their projects, the intensive review began as we went around the classroom offering our critique. Taylor Adams was the first to go through this process. Then Shalaei Benjamin was next. To finish off, Casey Roehm was last. However, we ran out of time to finish Casey's critique so Professor McArdle asked us to sit in the same seats next time so we could finish at the beginning of class on Thursday.

Thursday October, 22

Thursday was another intensive review day. Because we ran out of time to finish Casey's review the class before, we were going to begin class by completing his critique. So Professor McArdle asked us to sit in the same seats we sat in last class. Casey didn't show up to class, so we continued on with the original Thursday schedule of intensively reviewing three more student's multimodal projects. The process was the same as the class before. The first to be reviewed was Alyssa Kizer; she went to the front of class and briefly explained her website. When she was through, the evaluation of her website began around the classroom. The same was for Kaylee Willis and Ryan Mantel. Professor McArdle ended class by telling us that our blog postings are getting weak. Therefore, he assigned that we post the definition of public writing in our blog.

I less than three my family! :]

I went home today to celebrate my nephew's second birthday! He's getting so big, but this is where the terrible two's begin. He's adorable, but he also has his moments when he can be a little jerk. I almost left home today without a hug goodbye.

My mom was making his cake and she decided to let him put on the candles. My mom put on the candle"2" and he put on some stick candles; some upside down and some right side up. According to the cake, he turned 10. They grow up so fast. But it was so cute! He put them all in a nice little row.

We sang "Happy Birthday" to him and then it was time to blow out the candles. I lost my appetite for my favorite Funfetti cake. He spit ALL over the cake when he was blowing each candle out, one by one. Five minutes later, he finally blew out all the candles. Now it was time to take all the candles off. He started to take off the candles and some of the icing happened to come off the cake as well. Before you knew it, half of the icing was off the cake because he had scraped it off with his 10 candles. Good thing he had slobbered all over it so he didn't have to save any for me.

All and all, it was a good trip home to see my whole family together!

SCARY!

I saw THE scariest movie of my life this weekend! ahhhhh Paranormal Activity. I didn't really want to see it but I was drug there by friends.

I was freaking out before the movie even started because I had heard it was really scary from some friends that had already seen it. The movie finally started and my friend, who was sitting on the right side of me, and I were squeezing each other's hands. We both weren't fans of scary movies. And I was clutching my other friend's wrist, who was sitting to the left of me. I'm surprised his hand didn't fall off from me cutting off the circulation to his hand.

Anyways the movie had no music, no special effects, or anything; it was really low budget. I think that made it even scarier. It was also filmed like a documentary, which made it really realistic. I definitely think by making it more realistic added more of a in-your-face scariness.

So yea I'm not going to say too much else about the movie because I want you to see it for yourself. I'll just leave you with that me and my friend didn't sleep at all that night.

multimodal argument

I really don't know what my argument is going to be, but I think I might either present it via video or website. Those seem to be the simplest ways to construct my ideas. I'm more a visual person so I think I will enjoy this "paper-ish" thing more than an actual paper. I feel I can generate and communicate my ideas more sufficiently.

According to my understanding, we are basically creating a more persuasive version of our "This I Believe Essays." We are being more argumentative.