Definition Proposal: Windows

The word I will be defining is windows. Windows could be an opening in a house, but for this paper I will be defining it as an ancient operating system that is faulty and needs to be replaced. The reason for be defining windows is to start a discussion in order to find a way to replace it. It is important to me because it has been a faulty operating system that has troubled my friends who want to be computer science. I will be writing this paper to try and poke a little fun at how they treat windows as the anti-christ. The audience of my paper will be my nerdy friends who get very mad at windows.

Geeks and Cabbage

Oswalt defines the term nerd as someone who is an outcast of society, is alone with no friends, and therefore has makes up a culture that is different from the nerd next to him or her. He then defines otaku as a person who lives in their own tight knit separate world who has changing interest that are radically different from the rest of society. Then Oswalt defines geek as someone who is an American otaku and who has certain interests that helps them identify with certain people. The reason for him to define these terms were to identify the difference between a nerd and a geek, so he could argue his reason that in order for geek culture to have real substance and to survive, as it once was, is to break away from popular culture and to destroy current geek culture all together. The main reason for Mr. Oswalt having a problem with popular culture adopting parts of geek culture is because popular culture is that it is exploiting the things that feel scared to him and he does not want to accept that other people could like the same things that he does. I do not agree with Mr. Oswalt’s argument about geek culture being taken over by popular culture because geek culture is evolving and growing too fast for popular culture to catch up to it. Also, it will take a long time for popular culture to find and try to exploit geek culture, and geeks will vote with their wallets if they believe that something they feel scared is being taken in the wrong direction by popular culture. In conclusion it may to easier to pose as a geek, but with the infinite space of the internet it will be even harder for geekiness to be normal.

Supermarket Pastoral is when supermarkets use advertisements to promote organic produce and animal products by saying that these products came from fresh and open fields and farms. Pollan is talking about it because he finds it strange that supermarkets need to advertise their products this way instead of letting the best tasting food to be the decider of what people will buy. He is also trying to expose how the culture organic agriculture only exists because the super markets tend to find that is what the customer wants. This says about the culture of organic agriculture is mostly filled with sell outs who are only trying to make the customer feel like they are getting a good product that has been grown or raised in the best possible conditions. Instead of promoting the practice of creating a real way for food to be produced and raised in a way that is a true natural process.

Topic Proposal - Personal Narrative : The Nerd's Speech

            The instance that I will writing about will be about how I ran for student council representative and class treasurer. The exigence for this story is that I have not broke out of my comfort space while I have been at Penn State. The purposes of this narrative is to inform how I broke out of my personal shell in high school by running for class offices, to prove the point that I can break out of my shyness when I am ready, and to set the mood that surrounded me during my race for class representative and class treasurer. The audience my personal narrative tailors to are my family and friends back home that might be worried about me.

Entry 1: German and Game Rhetoric

       
            Burke looks at Mein Kampf from a rhetorical perspective by presenting the state of Germany that Hitler was living in and the relationship between Hitler's vision Germany and the Jews. The author looks at Mein Kampf from a rhetorical perspective so the audience living in America would be prepared to watch and make sure no one as evil as Adolf Hitler could rise to power in America to pursue a similar vision. Hitler response to the exigency of a Germany in turmoil with a destroyed economy and a worthless currency, was to point the blame at that Jews due to the fact they own a lot of banks and businesses throughout the world. The ethical appeal of Hitler’s argument is that the German people should not deal with the traitorous Jews who are bad for Germans and bad for Germany. The logical appeal Hitler’s argument is that the Jews control the world economy and caused the crash, so in order to repair the economy the Jews must be over thrown. While the emotional appeal of Hitler’s argument is to make the German’s feel superior over all races but to do that they must remove the Jews from their religion.
            The Far Side cartoon below is a piece of rhetoric that I do not find favorable. Although this is an old cartoon it is has been used as support in anti-video game arguments. This cartoon's exigency was from the rise in video game popularity that started in 1985 which caused a lot of kids to play video games instead of reading or playing outside. The cartoon shows jobs that can only come from playing video games your whole life trying to make a point that no real world skills can come from playing video games. The audience of this cartoon is most people born before the 1980's, parents who think video games are a waste of time, and people who are not video gamers. This cartoon appeals to those people because they believe that playing video games are a waste of time and can never be a respectable form of entertainment like television, movies, music, and books.