MAY 4 2015

Portfolio check

Last class 😦

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APRIL 27 2015

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Rascal King

• Super Nostalgia- featured in childhood game ‘Rogue Trip’

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APRIL 22 2015

John Barleycorn Picnic? Picnic. The Rolling Stones

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APRIL 20 2015

The White Stripes Exercises One and Two

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APRIL 15 2015

Jay Hawkins – Put A Spell on You

Outside today? Exercises 1 and 3…

Unreliable Witnesses and Quoting a Dictionary

No outside 😦

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APRIL 13 2015

Speakers don’t work

Change is Gonna Come

Assertion and Denial

• Can neither confirm nor deny.
• Not telling truth nor lying.
• Can deny all accusations given just one is falsely accused.

The Walter Scott Case

• The shots didn’t have to be lethal, nor eight shots.
• Always other options.
• Scott tried making a violent escape, putting not only the officer but the community at risk.

/////////// APRIL 8 2015 Fiona Apple workshop stuff. eliminate if/thens ////////// APRIL 6 2015 Attended Class ////////// APRIL 1 2015 Lobi something something Add titles to essays Causal Arguments-

See A09

Focus more causal, what causes the collaboration. Oppressed slaves, driven/paid/competitive cosmonauts, compensated translators. *frightened? //////// MARCH 30 2015

• PTSD again
• Rough sex is a cure for PTSD?
• Violence towards women is leading cause of PTSD

‘Advertising Failure’ Evaluation due Tues Night ////////// MARCH 25 2015 -get to classic editing mode by WP Admin by homepage. Rebuttal – Being able to back an argument with solid, provable evidence. Evidence that is logical and follows reasoning. Power plants that failed in Fukishima were built on a fault line and right on the ocean, whereas power plants elsewhere may be, and are, more strategically planned for. So the argument that power plants are bad, because Fukushima’s plant was bad, is invalid and not a solid rebuttal. ////////// MARCH 23 2015 Pixies – Greens and Blues Fruit-loop baths Snow-Birth-Day Coffee Filter-

The coffee filter was wet when put under the water, which leads me to believe the preexisting water caused a barrier between the mesh and air outside, trapping the air under the mesh as a bowl would.

///////////// MARCH 11 2015 Elephants are tortured. Circus owners torture elephants. Elephants suffer torture. ////////////// MARCH 9 2015 considering conference paper change, had a rough time finding more sources. professor for life How to begin an essay:

write backwards. start with conclusion, write the intro towards the end

////////////// MARCH 4 2015 crazy piano music missed meeting – scheduled for the wrong Wednesday. some current tv drama -claims workshop ///////////// MARCH 2 2015 molecules have right-or-left handedness.

half spin left and half spin right.

life has chosen left-handed molecules, or vice-versa. All organic molecules spin left.

Hair-parting: Jimmy Carter. Make conference Cut’s self with miter saw, wins suit against table saws Types of Claims /////////// FEB 25 2015 -sum 41 and alien ant farm -definitions

• don’t write “according to”
• boring

MLA works-cited /////////// FEB 23 2015 -jazz music -magic words /////////// FEB 18 2015 -chronic nose-bleeding -types of claims -My feature in “Worth Sharing” scared me. You made me think I actually wrote a paragraph-sized sentence. -mechanical troubles //////////// FEB 16 2015 started class off with some string-quartet covers Chinese censorship choir -The Mind and Spirit of Cyberspace Security Mike Judge – ‘Silicon Valley’ topics —> hypothesis -ME! – Harvesting organs //////////// FEB 11 2015 right to die? 40 year old, 91 now, Margaret Bentley requests under mentally-disabling circumstances wishes to cease being fed and cared for, she’d rather die than live disabled. Nursing home refuses to honor wishes as when they feed her, she still opens her mouth. Stroke video White Paper – notes

-finding supporting opinions to strengthen argument

-finding agreeing and supportive sources is intuitive, need to be counterintuitive

–After reading sources, write about sources. don’t “think or organize”

-read white paper, leave feedback

Do 5 sources, due Sun ///////////////// FEB 9 2015 Mr. David has a good taste in music (Toxicity) 3 conferences, once before break, once after, once for final portfolio. plural- they’re/their/them. singular- his/ her/ jher Denzel was born in New York. //////////////// FEB 4 2015 3 Topic Summaries- Sun Night -predictions grab bag //////////////// WED JAN 28 Remember to open My Notes at the start of every class for attendance and to take notes. Look out for “mechanics page” Links in Posts -Copy -Post Link Button -Enter Link and details Post A02 Stone Money- Island in Micronesia Yap, currency is Fei. ~20 years in the 1900’s Yap was a colony of Germany. ~1904, anthropologist visited Yap, “The Island of Stone Money”. The Fei of Yap were large, huge limestone disks. ~5ft. Bigger, shinier, smoother Fei is more valuable. NO LIMESTONE ON YAP. 400 miles in canoe, to island with limestone, carve it there, bring it back. Huge expenditure of work, gave it its value. The Fei were presented in front of homes/huts. No one needed to move Fei, just changed possession. Wealthy Yap in 1904 sent others to limestone and carved an enormous Fei, which sank during a storm. “wow you should have seen this”. No proof needed, people of Yap honored the story. To this day, three generations later, the guy’s descendant is still wealthiest. The germans who owned the island wore shoes and used carts. The Yap were barefoot and walked on coral paths. “Confiscated” the Fei by painting them. The Yap, fixed roads, then Germans removed the black marks. FORT KNOX. Gold no one has ever seen. Brazil, ~1950. President wanted to build a new capital. Not enough money. Printed a lot of money (cruzeros). Lasted about 40yrs. Inflation was 80%/month. Four economists “tricked” 150 million Brazilians. URV (unit of real value). new currency. 1 URV = 80 Brazilian Currency. Inflation lowered. Changed currency to Reals (Re-ales). ////////////////////////// ////////////////////////// MON FEB 2 Guest Speaker for writing center rowan.mywconline.com “feedback please” “grade please” Don’t speak in the second person. No You, Your, Yours Throat clearing- over preparing, too much intro provide background exactly when it is needed Browse counterintuitive topics list ///////////// Cows and Chips physical objects to tie ideas and concepts ////////////