October 30

Apologies, investigations and restitution all play a role in how a group of people view the government. If there is nothing done to solve a problem and the people are left to take care of themselves, then the people aren’t going to trust or respect the government making two distinct groups of people. The groups would be the group of people that was hurt in some way and the other would be the government. It would not be very successful if the country were split into two groups because of one incident involving two groups of people. This process is important because it shows that everyone has equal rights. By investigating, the Government is acknowledging that something happened and that they are going to take the steps necessary to fix the problem. It also shows that they care enough to continue to work with the people and help to keep them safe.  

October 22

Cora Tucker and Willy Loman are complete opposites. They have the same idea of being successful, but the way they approach and accept it are totally different. Cora is a hardworking lady that works to benefit other people that won’t stand up for themselves. She is successful in a different way than Willy. Willy is just working to help himself and his kids when all he is doing is living a lie and putting pressure on his kids. Cora succeeds because she is selfless and works to better the lives of others while benefiting from it. Willy goes wrong because he only thinks about himself and his family and not how others succeed. He believes that because he made money for his family, that his sons will be even more successful than him, not to mention more successful than every other kid in the area. Willy has unrealistic dreams because of his position while Cora has dreams that can be achieved that not only benefit herself. 

October 21

Willy Loman thinks that everyone can be successful because he was successful. He believed that his kids had more opportunity than others because he was so influential in the New England area. Willy Loman thought that some people had more opportunity than others, which is why he believed that his sons would be so successful and that Bernard wouldn’t be. There is one part in the book where Bif is throwing a football around and Bernard comes into the room and says that Bif is going to fail because he is not studying. Willy goes on to say that Bernard is never going to accomplish anything because he is not as successful as Bif. In the end, Bernard is very successful in his career and Bif doesn’t even have a steady job.

Arthur Miller thinks that individual opportunity comes from hard work. He shows this by making Bernard successful because he was always working hard and studying when Bif was showing off and not working. 

October 21

Why did Willy believe that Bif and Happy had more potential to be successful than any other kid, when Willy was not around to see them?

October 14

The speeches again today were very interesting and influential. It was hard not to feel obligated to donate to each organization because they all seemed so worthwhile. The appeal to pathos today was amazing. I felt like each organization was a great cause and that I should do something to help after I heard about all of the great things they had already done. Maddie’s speech was very well thought out and I liked that she used so many interesting facts. I liked that Daniel didn’t use the podium; it was a nice change during the speeches to have someone walking around the room. Elise was very powerful with her story and the presentation of the story. It grabbed my attention right away. Overall, the entire project was very interesting. I didn’t realize that there were so many influential organizations in our community that did such a wide variety of things. 

October 13

Today’s presentations were very interesting and very persuasive. I found myself being drawn to all of the organizations. The appeal to pathos was amazing, Amy especially appealed to pathos. Her stories were very emotional and I could tell that they really impacted her. Andrew’s speech was the most persuasive of all of them and my favorite! He had obviously thought about what he was going to say and he gave just the right amount of information for it to be persuasive but not overwhelming. I also liked how he made his speech focused around a story; it made for a good introduction and conclusion. All of the people that gave their presentations today did a great job and it opened my eyes to all of the organizations that are in Indianapolis that I didn’t know about. I am really looking forward to the presentations tomorrow because I know that there will be many other great speeches and organizations to learn about. 

October 7

Dress for Success is turning out to be a great organization for me to represent. Their website has stories of people that have been successful because of the work that the people at Dress for Success have done. It is great information to use for my grounds because it really appeals to pathos. I also found a website that had a study showing that the way a woman dresses influences the job she will get especially when applying for a management position. This as well is great information to back up my claim. I am a little bit worried about my qualifier because I feel that it may go too far in going against my original argument. I think that I am on the right track to having a successful argument because I truly believe that nice attire influences the confidence of a person and can help make women more successful in life. 

October 6

When choosing an organization, I wanted to choose one that I was interested in and passionate about. I decided on promoting Dress for Success. It is a very good organization that helps women get jobs and help them dress the part needed to have a successful job. I want to promote this organization because I feel that it is very important that people have good jobs and are dressed appropriately to help influence their confidence in a job meeting or interview. It helps people get jobs, but it also makes them feel better and more confident about themselves. I want to support an organization that can do that for people. I am planning on appealing to pathos with the idea that we have nice clothes and we take them for granted. The audience should know how it feels to go to a job interview wearing normal clothes instead of suits or nice clothes.  

October 3

Emerson is saying that it takes honesty, virtue and the ability to not conform to something that makes someone successful. A person that is honest with their thoughts and ideas and is considered to be a good person has a very high chance of being successful. The ability to not conform to something makes that person unique making their life different from the lives of everyone else in the world. It is an advantage for them because they may get opportunities that others are not lucky enough to get. I don’t think that this is everything that it takes to be successful. These three ideas play a role in somebody’s ability to be successful. I feel that hard work, determination and luck also play a major role. I don’t think that it is as easy as Emerson says. There is more to a person than honesty and the ability to be an individual. 

October 1

The article does not specifically say that the rich are benefiting from the poor, it just implies that this is happening. It states that the people born into wealth are more likely to be wealthy than those born into poverty. From this, I take that the rich benefit from the poor because they are taking all of the available jobs that the lower class would need to become part of the middle class. The information could also be interpreted that being in the upper class is bad. It could be said that people would be much better off if they were all closer to middle class than having extremes. The idea of bad health care for the lower classes could be eliminated to some degree if there was not an elite upper class that can afford advanced medical care. The elite upper class ruins most of the chances that the lower class has to succeed, so eliminating them, the lower class would be able to become part of the middle class with less of a challenge.