sarah haskins

the controlling idea of the video is that hot chicks like smells. she shows several commericals that satire marketting techniques used by some products here in America, Sex sells and companys realize that. people know damn well that if you by mini cheese burgers from BK your not going to have beautiful women flock to you. but sub concisously people see that commerical and go Wow! i want a Burger shot! she implys that the only way to attract hot women is through smells, and also buying them things

FML

life isnt so bad! all i want is a damn kitchen in my room! why the hell cant i use my george foreman grill, they should sell dip at the little convienct store in the bluu... well thats about it, i like everything about TCU except greek life sometimes, so there you go.


Control
time spent with eachother
caring
money
doing your part in the relationship
being protective
my own goals in life(Police officer/Marine Corps)


all of my life i have wanted to be a Marine, and all my life everyone around me has told me not to. i never understood why, all i ever wanted to do is serve my country and people are telling me not to! how come my girlfriend can have ridiculously un realistic dreams and i have to follow with her blindly but i cant do what i want? why should me parents stop me from doing one of the most honorable things a man can do with his life? the only reason i am in college is that i have a full ride for football, other wise i would be finishing boot camp about right now.

they would say that im gonna get killed and that they dont wanna lose me in a war. they would say i need to go to college and get a degree, i dont care if i die in combat, thats what marines do. first ones in, last ones out. i dont need a degree to be a cop after im done with the Corp.

RR #4

If our forefathers didn’t have firearms, how would we have over thrown the British government? A huge reason for the second amendment that people do not realize is for the citizens of the USA to have the ability to protect themselves from the government. Some might say that is extremist and crazy and unpatriotic. But being patriotic has nothing to do with liking your government; it has to do with liking your country. To me, having the right to bear arms is more important than freedom of speech. Because you can talk all you want but its never gonna get anything done. Not to mention having the right to effectively protect your family from home invaders and criminals. Plus if even if you some how did remove the second amendment entirely or illegalize non hunting weapons such as assault rifles and handguns, people would not be having that! I can tell you right now that if the obama administration attempts to place the 1994 weapon contraband in affect again I and millions of Americans will be literally up in arms. LITERALLY. So if the government has any sense at all, it will stay the hell out of the way Americans and their guns. COME AND TAKE IT! Not to mention it will do nothing to stop crime! Criminals will still use guns, and they will still buy them illiegally, if you want something you can get it! So why not give law abiding citizens the right to protect themselves effectively against crime? If you take away the second amendment I will no longer call myself an American, guns freed this country, and citizens owning them is what keeps our freedom. Otherwise our government would be able to walk all over us without consequence. Not to mention since 40% of people in this country own guns and 80% Texans own guns. So how are you gonna take them away? Come to everyones house and say hand em over? That will go over well…. Haha! To me this isn’t even something worth arguing about. I and millions of other Americans would literally rather die than give up our guns, the same way I would die for this country. A Japanese emperor once said “ I would never attempt to invade America, there would be a gun behind every blade of grass”

the man in the irony mask; stephen colbert

i thought it was an interesting portrayl of mr colbert. its funny because the person he portrays on tv is aboslutly opposite of him as a person. in real life he is a family man, on tv he is a the sarcastic "conservative" news reporter. His show is growing more and more popular everyday and nowadays more people watch the "fake news" than they watch the real news.

Rhetorical response for Home Girl

Texas monthly’s interview of Erykah Badu was a very well written and interesting essay that kept me involved and eager to read more. Prior to reading this I had no idea who Miss Badu was, reading this article was very different from most in that it did not focus on her credentials, but rather focused her as a person. It put very little mention into her 4 Grammy awards, or really any of her fame at all. The mood and feeling that is set by the author is a very good example of how to change the setting with your writing. When she was at home with her children, I got a totally different feel than when she was out and about with the interviewer. At home it showed her soft and sensitive side as a mother, along with her spiritual side. But when she goes into the real world and cruises around her “old hood “you feel a more worldly sense to her. Despite myself not really caring for her music genre as a whole, I really respect her seemingly genuine respect for the music world. Another thing that was well done in this essay was the smoothness and transitions into each paragraph. One reason for this is because the author of the article obviously did not include every last detail about the day he spent with Erykah. This is something I jotted down in my notes for things to do in Essay #3. I like that Miss Buda seems to have stayed true to her roots as a Texan. Not your typical Texan, but none the less the Dallas music scene is glad to have her aboard with her many contributions to the industry. The Author seemed to go from a very distant perspective, to a very close perspective very effectively. I can’t decide if in my essay I will keep it 3rd, 1st , or both perspectives. But reading essays like this give me the ideas and ground work to do either one. Descriptions of the surroundings in this essay come effortlessly and are not forced on the reader at all. I hope to capture the person the same way shown in this article. Its always very easy to write about some ones credentials and accomplishments, but it will be difficult to replicate the sense of personality and environment shown in this article

free write 10-15-09

i did not read the essay, i need to keep a better system for organizing my schedule! its my fault and i will read the essay and post my rhetorical response tommorow.

1.Hunting & Fishing my dad, uncle, my friend matt
2.Guns matt, mike sheitie
3.History susan istre ernie Garth
4.Music steven krause clay rusek blake sherman patrick moore luke bussey
5.Cars/Mechanical things my dad, casey fiesler chris slinkard
6.Politics my parents, chris slinkard
7.Working out don sommer, david petroff, pat fulbright
8. Halo matt slinkard
9. Movies lisa horn,
10. MMA david hill
11.Cooking/BBQ my dad, mom
12. USMC my own fighting spirit!!!
13. self motivation pat fulbright
14. King of the Hill haha
15. working on a Ranch my dad. scott cobb


alll these things are things that i consider myself an authority on, all the people i have listed are people that have guided me into these things.

Chris Slinkard is my best friends brother. he is a male nurse in college station Texas who works in the ICU. A huge reason for me picking him is he has shaped my extreme political views into something that has a name. he is one of the most intelliegent people i know and holds more knowlage about the world than anybody i have ever met