Name that Text
"To facilitate the cleaning of the vehicle, an opening will be made in the floor to allow for drainage. It will be closed by a watertight cover about twenty to thirty centimetres in diameter, fitted with an elbow siphon that will allow for the thin liquids. The upper part of the elbow pipe will be fitted with a sieve to avoid obstruction. "
The ‘Rauff’ Letter - internal Nazi memo from the Holocaust
What is the second level of Stasis?
1: Fact
2: Definition
3: Quality
4: Policy
A pivotal 18th-19th century transition from agrarian, hand-crafted economies to machine-driven, urban factory systems, starting in Britain. It redefined production, society, and economics through technological innovations like steam power and mass production, shifting labor from homes to cities and accelerating global population growth
The Industrial Revolution
Mr. Stansell proposed we should pass this law in order to cut down on Teenage car accidents and make the roads safer.
Outlaw the use of seatbelts for anyone under 25 years of age.
Name Three US Presidents who have been shot and/or assassinated
Lincoln (1865), Garfield (1881), McKinley (1901), Kennedy (1963), Teddy Roosevelt (1912), Reagan (1981), Trump (2024)
I was out on the road when I received this surprising news, and it took me more than a few minutes to properly process it. I began to think about William Shakespeare, the great literary figure. I would reckon he thought of himself as a dramatist. The thought that he was writing literature couldn’t have entered his head. His words were written for the stage. Meant to be spoken not read. When he was writing Hamlet, I’m sure he was thinking about a lot of different things: “Who’re the right actors for these roles?” “How should this be staged?” “Do I really want to set this in Denmark?” His creative vision and ambitions were no doubt at the forefront of his mind, but there were also more mundane matters to consider and deal with. “Is the financing in place?” “Are there enough good seats for my patrons?” “Where am I going to get a human skull?” I would bet that the farthest thing from Shakespeare’s mind was the question “Is this literature?”
Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Of the three main rhetorical appeals we discussed, this one has to do with 'authority' and perceived 'character'
Ethos
To turn ‘Passive writing’ into ‘active writing’ Stansell recommends you avoid using these kind of verbs:
“To be” Verbs - is, was, were, are, etc.
Besides the citation at the top, Annotated Bibliography entries should do these two things:
1. Summarize the main ideas of the source
2. Describe how the source will could be used in your essay/argument
Stansell got his Master’s degree from this University
University of Colorado-Boulder (or: Colorado)
“If you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the
stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you
mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a
little while, life's great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of
which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for
our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm, to build highways
and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it"
“If-By-Whiskey” Speech by Noah ‘Soggy’ Sweat
The three sides of our Rhetorical Triangle
Speaker, Subject, Audience
The lesson on this topic taught Mr. Stansell the dangers of old social media posts and led to him scheduling an extra therapy session that week.
In this case, it involved creating a common enemy in order to influence a group of people
Definition: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propaganda
We read a satirical Onion article about THIS topic that made most students in the class uncomfortable (get over yourself)
Feminism!! and: patriarchal society and misogyny
what was the LAST state to join the U.S., and in what century did this happen?
Hawaii, in 20th century (1959)
NAME AUTHOR/BOOK OR THE FAMOUS HISTORICAL EVENT THIS READING LATER DESCRIBES (not here, later)
"In recent years, crime’s impresarios have diversified their activities and modernized their methods. Now they not only engage in extortion, murder, pimping, and smuggling, but also own distilleries, hotels, casinos, banks, and supermarkets. They use the latest-model machineguns and accounting machines. Engineers, economists, and publicity experts direct the teams of technicians that avoid waste of resources and ensure a constant rise in profits.
Al Capone chairs the board of the most lucrative company in the game. He earns a hundred million dollars a year."
Eduardo Galeano - Century of the Wind
(The Great Depression)
This term refers to the issue, problem, or situation that prompts someone to write or speak. It's the underlying reason, or the thing that causes a message to be created. Essentially, it's the "why" behind a piece of communication.
Exigence
an inclination towards understanding something in one way instead of another. Usually, BY the way you have been conditioned to see or think about something.
Bias
Stansell says your sentences should logically connect and flow into each other like the rectangular pieces of THIS classic game
Dominos! (The domino theory of writing cohesion)
There are five countries that end with the letter L... name THREE of them
Upon awakening he found himself surrounded by a group of indifferent natives who were
getting ready to sacrifice him in front of an altar, an altar that to Bartolome seemed to be the
place in which he would finally rest from his fears, his destiny, from himself.
Three years in the land had given him a fair knowledge of the native tongues. He tried
something. He said a few words which were understood. He then had an idea he considered
worthy of his talent, universal culture and steep knowledge of Aristotle.
“The Eclipse” by Augusto Monterroso
I check my watch, the one named after a Greek god. What time is it? Something important was supposed to happen now: not earlier, and not later. Right now.
(what concept am I referencing?)
Kairos
- a sense of timeliness and an awareness to deliver a particular message in a particular circumstance that should impact the audience in an optimal fashion.
Basically, the importance of time to a rhetorical situation
Anyone who has a 'Wooden Post' in a topic. These people are directly affected by the issues and outcomes of a certain topic.
Stakeholder
We read a scientific article about a famous painting this semester; name one of:
the painter
the the painting
Or the place where the painting is located
Name the song based only on the sheet music (on slide)
Jeopardy Theme Song