Liberals

I agree with Larry on the fact that many extreme liberals are crazy and would come up with any theory just to make president Bush look like a bad guy and give people a reason to hate him. I do, however feel that Larry was streaching it by simply using the term "liberals" rather then extreme liberals...

Larry uses "they say" arguments to turn what "they say" against the liberals, rather than having the "they say" make himself sound foolish. He uses his barbers example of a 9/11 conspiracy that the barber said Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks to kill black people. Larry turned it against him by saying that the majority of the people murdered in the attack were white. The barber claimed that it was a sacrifice that Bush was willing to make. A second "They say" argument that Larry uses is a second conspiricy theory that the leeve that broke during hurricane Katrina was planned to destroy the city. These acusations, when put into their simpliest form as Larry puts them (without two-page long winded essays) soudnd absolutly ludicris. Yes, of course someone planned the hurricane so that the leevees would break...It makes the liberals sound absolutly stupid.

Penguin Comic

The underlying message of this comic strip is that when two people fall in love, they should stay together for the rest of their lives. The author is very subtly trying to point out the on-again-off-again ideas of romance in society, how people get married because they think they are in love but really don't know what love is. The author wants people who are in love to stay in love forever, like the penguins do.

The artist revels this by using logos, playing on logic. The first character recites knowledge that they have attained in order to drop a hint on the second character. The second character ponders this then uses the same knowledge to ask the first character out. The artist uses pathos here, because the reader has an automatic response of squealing because it is sweet enough to give them cavities. It's adorable and even the coldest heart would agree.

New Audience

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080110/COL03/801100354/1084

This article is about a white woman who has dedicated her life to teaching kids (and adults) about racism by using it on her own all-white classes of students, buy favoring blue eyes over brown. This technique opened many kid's eyes. The author claims that the teacher is living Martin Luther's dream.

I agree with the author's point that the teacher is teaching/preaching Martin Luther's life, but I do not agree with the way she is going about it. The teacher has no right to favor anyone, even if it is to teach them a lesson. If I were being discriminated against for having brown eyes, I would be furious. Yes, it gets the point across, but at the wrong expense.

If the audience for this were my co-workers at the Salvation Army, the author would have to put the article in the simplest form possible, for many of them are illiterate, but that is not the point. Many workers at the Salvation Army are recovering Alcoholics, many were former drug-users, and many were just getting out of jail, and they were given a new start by the managers at the Salvation Army.

The author would have had to spend more time explaining that the project done by the teacher was to benefit the students, because many at the SA wouldn't see it that way. After being persecuted and living in areas where racism was a factor, I don't think that many would see the teacher as a hero. They would probably see the teacher as the Anti-Luther. The author of this article also would have had to make it a stronger statement that it isn't just white people who are racist. The SA workers would have immediately have jumped the gun and assumed that they were once again being accused of things that they didn't necessarily do. The author should have explained this anyway.