college writing 101 blog

Let me start off by saying how much i despised writing before this class. My past teachers always taught me to write using a super specific formula and it left me feeling like i didn't have a voice in my writing. In this class, i feel like i started to "find my voice" in my writing. I think this came about from learning about rhetoricity. i remember when we first were introduced to the concept of rhetoricity we watched a weird video and soul stared. i vividly remember thinking to myself "what the hell is going on". but eventually i think i got what it was. to me, rhetoricity was about how we communicate, that everything we do from body language, words, even just presents, sends a message. I think my best example of how i understood this is in my rhetoricity paper i wrote, which is linked here  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBqKEzTFQKOV0DO7mkjgTVDm_XaYwYsZSaBZUlW-_K4/edit . Another good example that show my comprehension of rhetorical knowledge would prob

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb24RrHIbFk this is a pretty popular song going around recently. While i normally dislike rap/ whatever kind of music this is, i found the lyrics and the video to be very deep. the song is about the feeling we all get of wanting to kill ourselves and hating existing, but then the lyrics take a turn to the prospective of a suicide hot line worker. the lyrics then go on to say how you should be alive, and the next verse turns into the suicidal guy saying he wants to be alive. what i found particularly interesting about this song is the way it was able to reach people through music that normal advice and talking could not. what i mean by this is that while everyone always says don't kill your self, it clearly doesn't work. however after this songs release, calls to the suicide hot line went up significantly. is this just because people now know the number to the hot line, as the title of the song is that number, or because the song was able to con

Its that time of the year again. everything thing is back in full swing. school days have established their rhythm and work schedules are repetitious. Everyone is running like clockwork, waking up, going to class, studying, maybe hanging out with friends for a bit, working, homework, then bed. rinse and repeat till the weekend. In the monotony of it all, i often find myself think whats the point of doing all this, to get a degree so i can work a 9-5 job for the rest of my life? maybe its just to please my parents or perhaps i just feel inclined by society to get a degree or be a failure. whatever the reason may be, i hate it. However, despite my hatred of all this hollow humdrum, i recall a video i watched at the start of this year. the video was about the repetition of life, and how you can either get angry at it or learn to live with it. This video stuck with me, and while I'm displeased with the average everyday, I've learned to put up with it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-a0c4856e-1019-4937-96fd-8714d70a48f7 This is an article i had to read for my math class. in it it tell the tale of men who lived on/by the Aral sea, and what happened as the sea dried up. the sea was reduced to 5% of its original volume, leaving behind a desert of toxic dirt in its wake. the sea wasn't destroyed by normal processes, this was caused by people damming it up and diverting the in-flowing rivers away to water crops. this article just got me thinking how sad it is that people would do something like this. you can very visibly see that your destroying vast amount of land and yet they continued until there was nothing left. more than that, now that they've destroyed the sea, they cant even use the water to supply the crops that destroyed the sea. I find this article to be a great example of what happens if people aren't vigilant about calling out destructive policies/actions.

with 4 college girls having been attacked with acid in France, the prevalence of acid attacks, as well as their lack of details, have been on my mind. I think in this past year alone I've heard of more acid attacks than i have my whole life. this makes me wonder, why has acid become a popular weapon as of late? acid is not the most reliable of weapons, as to do serious damage you would need to either buy strong acids or leave the area untreated. since the common person can't buy strong acids, they must be distilling them from household items, like muriatic acid or batteries. this makes the attacker have to put in inordinary amounts of time, when frankly they could do more damage with a knife or gun. Personally, i think these attacks are more for statement than true damage. i think the people doing this are trying to stir up fear, as an acid attack sounds alot worse and a shooting etc, or gain public attention. Additionally, why are picture of the attack never shown? is it becau