Blog # 5

In order to achieve what you want in life you have to work hard for it. In his book " The Omnivore's Dilemma", Pollan maintains that " man have become the tools of their tools." (55-56) In order to achieve one thing you have to take it step by step and day by day. If you want a new home, you have to work towards it . I will like to be a nurse one day but I just can't wake up one day and said that am a nurse. I have to go to school and get a education first. Pollan also maintains that "In a shed across the way I noticed the shiny chrome prow of a tractor trailer poking out and asked Billy about it, He explained he'd had to take on long-distance hauling work to keep the farm afloat. " Have to drive the big rig to pay for all my farm toys," he chuckled." (55).In the book Naylor told Pollan that "" He's (Billy) got all the latest toys: the twelve-row planter, Roundup Ready seed, the John Deere combine."" (55), You can't judge a book by its cover. Will I was reading the farm, I ave relate a lot of it to my life in Jamaica. Will in living in Jamaica, we have our own farm and we have acres of land and our neighbors will think that we are rich but they don't know how hard we have to work for what we have. And my family is just like Billy in the book.
Some of the pressures men face about the body image are that their belly getting too big or their are embrace to walk with their wife. But often we think that men don't face pressures concerning their diet and body image. WE think only face it.

Everyone learn in a different, some are quick to learn new language than others. some learn by visual or audio. " understanding doesn't mean that you suddenly speak the language. Far from it. It's a small step,nothing more, yet it's rewards are intoxicating and deceptive."(Sedaris, 295). For example:m when I was in high school and i joined the softball team, i did know how to throw in a far distance. Yea you might find if funny but then I was the catcher of the team and yes i now i can throw from a far distance. everything takes time, you just have to put your mind to it.And don't give up. When I was reading the article by Asimov, he said that he have taking a aptitude test and scored 160 and the normal scored is 100. But when it come to is car he don't know nothing but the auto-repair man know how to do it and the auto-repair man would scored like a 80 on the aptitude test. "yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncement as though they were divine oracles and he always fixed my car." (Asimov,1). Asimov and Sedaris are similar because the shows that everyone understand and learn different.

Gender

Their is nothing like a feminine touch. According to Goffman "women, more than man,are pictured using their fingers and hands to trace the outlines of an object or to cradle it or to caress its surface ( the latter sometime under the guise of guiding it), or to a " just barely touching" of the kind that might be significant bodies. This ritualistic touching is to be distinguished from the utilitarian kind that grasps, manipulates, or holds:" Even in the 80's and today, the touch of a women is like the symbol of beauty. Most ads use female to advertise the male product.

From The Vocabulary Of Comics

Reading the article about "From The Vocabulary Of Comics" by Scott McCloud. I have come a cross a lot of thing that I have done and thought about in my everyday life. When we think of a human face, we think of a circle with two dots and line for the mouth. In the article McCloud Incredible!"(5) In other words, McCloud believes that why when we think of a face we didn't think of a square maintains that " The fact that your mind is capable of taking a circle, two dots and a and line and turning then into a face is nothing short ofwith two triangles and a rectangle.Why a circle?.
On page 6 McCloud said that " ask a friend to draw you some shapes on a piece of paper. They should be closed Curves, but Otherwise can be as Weird and Irregular as he or she Wants." While i was reading this and I look on the next beside it and i saw the shapes a smell came to my face. when am bored I would do the same shapes. So I went back into my old high school books and I put in the dots as McCloud and I notice the same result.
Fallacy
Ever chair have four legs. I think this is a fallacy because when we think of a chair the first image that come to mind is a four legged chair. But not all chairs are four legged.some chairs have three or two legs. But we mostly see the once that have four legs. According to fallacyfiles.org "Before Kepler, astronomers believed that planets moved in circular orbits. However, observations of planetary positions did not fit with this theory. The theory was saved from refutation by adopting the ad hoc hypothesis of epicycles. Of course, the theory should have been rejected because planets do not move in circular orbits." This is why I think my statement is a fallacy.
IF ever there was an idea custom-made for a Jay Leno monologue, this was it: Someone stole Madea's chin. Isn't that like its real? Whatever happened to all the make-up artists that she have, can't they make a new one? I happen to sympathize with her because I lost my too and I found one,though, perhaps because its hers.

Foss

Foss define rhetoric as a symbol. But it depends on how u use it in a sentence. For example Foss wrote '' A symbol, by contrast, is a human construction connected only indirectly to its referent. The word cup, for example, has no natural relationship to an open container for beverages. It is a symbol invented by someone who wanted to refer to this kind of object. A cup could have been labeled a fish, for example, and the selection of the world cup to refer to a particular kind of container is arbitrary.'' (page 4.)
A rhetoric describe object but we humans often use it in different ways. Sometime we use rhetoric and its used as a signs not a symbol. '' A tree standing in a forest is not a symbol. It does not stand for something else; it simply is a tree. The tree could become a symbol, however if it is use by someone to communicate an idea. It could be use in environmental advocacy efforts as a symbol of Jesus's birth when it is cut for use as a Christmas tree. Humans use all sorts of non rhetorical ways, turning them into symbols in the process.''(Foss, page 5.)
'' Reality is not fixed but changes according to the symbols we use to talk about it. What we choose to label and talk about things.... Is someone an alcoholic or morally depraved? Is a child misbehaved or suffering from ADD? Is a unexpected situation a struggle or a adventure? Is a coworker's behavior irritating or eccentric? The choices we make in terms of how to approach these situations are critical in determining the nature and outcome of the experiences we have regarding them.''(Foss,page 6.). when we use the word bird we don't think of a penguin because they cannot fly.
Rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing effectively: as a : the study of principles and rules of composition formulated by critics of ancient times b : the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion
2 a : skill in the effective use of speech b : a type or mode of language or speech; also : insincere or grandiloquent language .