WWZ - Turning the Tide

The most interesting part in Turning the Tide is about a man named Paul Redeker. Paul is described as a dispassionate man as his belief is that human emotion is actually a flaw. He was then enlisted by the apartheid government to revise an ultra-secret doomsday scenario which was named "Plan Orange". With his revision finished the new code name was given as "Orange 84" (as in the year he finished revising). The plan was completely updated down to who the survivors woudl be. This is why he is either thought of as a savior or as a monster for his work. Once the plan was finished, Redeker went into hiding until "The Great Panic", at which time agents found him to see if he had a plan. Of course this unemotional mastermind did have a plan. His plan was very simple - you can't save everyone, so build a safe zone where geography helps (i.e. mountains, rivers, etc.) - evacuate the people until your left with enough to rebuild - finally, use the rest as bait to lure the infected away from the safe zone. Redekers plan was crazy, but it was eventually implemented.

Terryonna Samuels

My reaction to the 2 chapters in World War Z (Turning the Tide, and Home Front USA) Is that I noticed some order being restored. I believe that it started with that man in the hospital when we could hear the drops that sounded like water but it was the zombies and they couldn't reach him at that moment. That was the last story being told in Turning the Tide. The next section is when I noticed that people were being handed jobs and it didn't matter who had a degree or who was rich in their before life. They gave the jobs to the people who were the most useful. There was a story being told about a woman calling her teacher by her real name. nobody understood why until they figured out that the teacher use to be that lady's cleaning servant. The government was starting to get back in place with elections and political parties. Things are still not the same but at least the world isn't running around in an endless circle of uncertainty now.
One story that jumped out at me in this section was when they were talking about the people who were not infected but tuning into zombies. They acted like zombies, walked like zombies, they didn't feel pain so they would get eaten alive by zombies they even would bite and eat people like zombies. The alive zombies were more dangerous because they were getting more nutrition from the people that they were eating making them stronger. In the book it said that that was one good way people were getting infected was by they alive zombies because they wouldn't make a sound while being attacked. It was all mind over matter. To me that is creep

World War Z (Robben Island, Cape Town Province, United States of Southern Africa)

The interviewer meets with Xolelwa Azania. Azania is writing a book titled Rainbow Fist: South Africa at War. The book is about Paul Redeker, the very man the interviewer is here to discuss. Azania describes Redeker as not a very passionate man who says human biggest flaw is it's emotions. His papers dealing with "alternate solutions to historical, societal quandaries" brought Redeker to the attention of South African apartheid government back in the 1980's. They hired him to revise the "orange plan", a secret plan commissioned by white ruling class to deal with an uprising by the majority, but underprivileged, black population.  The interviewer asks about that last bit, and Azania points out that Redeker believed that saving everybody would be a complete waste resources and would everybody would be doomed. To ensure this wouldn't happen, he calculated to who to save and who should and who should not be saved. It was called Orange Eighty-Four and people hated him for it. Since the apartheid government fall, he went into hiding since he was not the most popular person. The when the Great Panic hit, some agents from the National Intelligence Agency found him and wanted if he was the one who wrote Orange Eighty-Four. First he thought they came to capture him for the Apartheid shenanigan but they wanted to know that how to deal with the zombie apocalypse. He had a simple plan that not everybody could be saved and they would have to create a safe zone, use mountains and rivers as obstacles. Evacuate the civilians but not all of them but only enough to supply with the labor force and to rebuild after the war. And everyone would thrown into the isolated zone to act as a bait. They would be resupplied when needed be, so that they could fight off the zombies and then safe zone people wouldn't have to deal with the zombies later. The NIA agents got offended with his plans but the former statesman Rolihlahla (Nelson Mandela) put the plan in motion and hugs Redeker telling everyone that his plan would save everyone. That was the last time everyone saw Redeker, nobody knows what happened to him. And days later, Azania was put in charge of the Redeker plan. After their talk, the interviewer goes to Robben Island Psychiatric Institution to meet with a patient. The name of the patient (GUESS WHO?), Paul Redeker. 

Relating to the context of the book, this chapter is very important to me because up til now, Paul Redeker was the only one who came up with an idea to save all of humanity (not all of humanity). Redeker viewed humanity with a very objective approach. He removed emotion from the scenario. This was easily done by him because he considered emotion to be humanity’s true flaw. So why would he care if a few people were sacrificed? They are just objects after all. To save the more valuable objects you have to sacrifice the ones that are unnecessary. 

Home Front USA Summary

Ben Smith

6/28/15

In the section Home Front USA, of the World War Z, brooks writes about an interview done in Taos, New Mexico with Arthur Sinclair, who is the head of Americas DeStRes (Department of Strategic Resources). In this part is discusses how they called everything West of the Rockies a "safe zone" and it talked about how Sinclair was put in charge of getting America back on its feet. He tried to do this by bringing back the main principles that lead to Americas victory in World War II, that being: the ability to manufacturer material, Natural Resources for that material, and Transportation for that material. They accomplished that by first utilizing California's great agriculture and then recycling anything that could be moderately used. One thing that I found interesting was how Sinclair brought up the point that they were having trouble because not everyone had the necessary skills and that is due to the fact of Americas Pre-war culture. This means that the people before the war were executives and analysts and not handyman or someone with manufacturing skills. This just shows for me that in dire situations it doesn't matter how much money you make or what car you drove it just matters on the skills you have and the time and if they are applicable to the situation.

Turning the Tide, World War Z Summary. Lucas Nichols

In world war z during the section of Turning the Tide. There is an interview with a man named Xolelwa Azania, it takes place in Robben Island, Cape town providence, United states of southern africa. Azania is writing a book titled “Rainbow Fist: South Africa at War”. The book is about the subject they were going to talk about which is a man named Paul Redeker. Paul was described as dispassionate, but his work on papers dealing with dealing with alternative solutions to historical, social quandaries was what brought him attention of the south african government. In the 1980’s Paul was hired to revise a government plan called “plan orange”, this plan was to the white people that ruled to keep order from the underprivileged blacks which were the majority of the population. In 1984 paul updated the plan and determined who the survivors would be it was even renamed to orange 84. Later during the interview it was said that the government had fallen and that paul had went into hiding because he wasn’t needed anymore. Later when the great panic had hit agents from the National Intelligence Agency were at Pauls house questioning him if he was the creator of orange eighty four. They also wanted to know if he had a plan to deal with the zombies and he did. Once he told the agents what the plan was, he was brought to the president and the plan was reported to the president as well.  The president was upset with the plan and everyone had assumed that the president himself put in the order. But it wasn’t the president it was a statesman named Rhlihlahla, this man claimed Paul's plan was the only plan to save them all. A few days later the plan was put into place and Paul was never seen again. A lot of people had assumed Paul was a heartless man. Later the interviewer goes to visit a Psychiatric Institution and he was going to visit Paul Redeker himself. One thing I thought was interesting of this interview was Paul’s plan on how to deal with the zombies. Yes while it was a strange idea to not save all of the civilians, nobody in the plan was ever sacrificed or killed directly. The people that weren’t brought to safe zones still have a fighting chance of survival. In a sense everybody has a fair shot of survival. It may be hard to accept his plan as good, but I sure think that his plan could be a great way to rid of the zombies.  

Turning the Tide, World War Z

In chapter four, Turning the Tide, Brooks writes about how the government and the military team up and fight against the zombie outbreaks. Brooks focused on a man named Paul Redeker, who developed the "Orange Plan". The "Orange Plan" consisted of sacrificing certain Afrikaner populations in order to save others. This plan made Redeker an extremely hated man, however, the military didn't have any other options but to listen to him. With this being the main story in the chapter, it wasn't my favorite. I found the story of the family moving up north to be the most interesting. The television and radios announced that people would only be able to make it through the apocalypse if they moved up north, that way the zombies would freeze during the winter. Little did they know, after the winter months had passed, the zombies would come right back to life after being frozen to death. Finding out that these zombies were practically indestructible really changed the thoughts of the government and the military, it made the circumstances far worse.

Parnell air national guard base, tennessee

This section is about a fighter jet piolet that turned into a supply drop piolet. As said in the book she went from a flying an x-wing to a u-haul. She flew alot of the routes and had seen it many times. They had no pick up if they went down. They would have to make their way to a safe zone and just hope they make it out with the servivors that were already there. So after awhile she tells us that she is in flight and how they gave them something to keep them up longer and how she would have to pee alot more. So she gave the co piolet the controls while she used the bathroom and then next thing you know they are crashing and they make it out. The co piolet was strungup on a tree and she is watching zombies eat them. She ends up getting someone on the radio asking about any one alive? The person ended up helping her get going and keeps her motivated. She eventually amkes it to this high way and sees this little black dot moving in and ends up being a routien flight between two places and she gets out of there and lets her flight people know she made it out and she was safe.then they started to talk about the person who helped her over the radio. They never found this person or any lodge or the user on that network. The qustions of was there someone there or was she just hearing her self. This was the best part i liked.

Colorado

This section i found to be the most interesting in the great panic. You have a mass military shoot out with the zombies. The guy in the interview said they had all the weapons. But mentioned the fact that they didn't get positioned in good fighting points. They where trying to fight in a human battle formation. They had tanks like dug in some and sand bags for cover for the people. They were geared up with heavy outfiting witch just waighted them down making the troops hot. The troops also had a special head gear to give sight on local maping , troops view, and even voice chat. The military didnt have ammo for sustained fire fighting. And eventulay they started to become uncalm.
      The part that makes this significant is the part that the united states military lost a fight with the zombies. I would have to blame this more on the gear and stratigy they were using. They even had a bunch of news people there was 1 reporter for every 3 troops. There was even helicopers above all this. I think it just shower that the united states wasn't ready for what was going on. Who sends a bunch of troops to fight without the proper gear to keep the fight going for alot longer then what they did. I mean the fact that they had tanks and didn't use them to drive into all the zombies and run them over. That would have eliminated alot more zombies.

The Great Panic Summary

The great panic consisted of the events that transpired around the globe during the first "real" outbreak. People were seeing the infected all at once and watching them animate in front of their eyes. The great panic talks to interviewees about this experience. It goes from a man in India trying to escape through ferrying passage by means of the sea, to a feral child and what her experience was like (not to mention how it affected her development), to a military solider who lost what was the biggest battle in restoring confidence to the people of the world.

My favorite part is the battle of Yonkers. Being from the military I very much appreciate the interviewees bluntness on the subject. Such a detailed battle with good examples of real world applications made it very exciting. The only part that I was surprised by was the loss. In a world where every guy pays video games, it is hard to believe that they weren't as strategic with their actions or with conserving ammunition. All in all, I believe the author needed the loss of this battle to further break the spirit of the people and have a learning point for the people and the military.

The Great Panic

In World War Z chapter 3, "The Great Panic",  I felt as if I read some disturbing stories/interviews. One interview that really stuck out to me was the one about the children at the church. It really stuck out to me on how selfish people are, and that people are willing to kill innocent little kids just to save their own lives. I did find it interesting however, to read the different ways in which people were coping with the situation. A big solution that most countries seemed to have was war. There were several war outbreaks such as in Denver, Colorado at the battle of Yonkers. This was the battle that stuck out the most to me because it was an army against zombies, no way around it. I found this chapter to be interesting because of the many tactics that different countries were approaching to solve the problem, and it was unique on how each country dealt with the problem.

World War Z "The Great Panic" Summary

Ben Smith

6/23/15

In the third chapter "The Great Panic" of World War Z written by Max Brooks it is a collection of interviews detailing how people around the world are dealing with the news of what is going on. This chapter had a couple interesting parts one being the interview done in Bridgetown, Barbados detailing how they had amassed a super defense of sorts with the construction of a bunker. They had the works, they had food, water, energy, and enough guns for an army. Yet the downfall of this plan was that the people inside the bunker decided to live stream what they were doing to the whole world and in doing so, a lot of people found of and decided to attack the house and take it for themselves. The other part of this chapter that I found interesting is that of the interview done in Denver, Colorado detailing the battle of Yonkers. The battle of Yonkers was supposed to be a turning point for America when it came to dealing with the zombies, yet it wasn't. The battle ended up showcasing how little we really knew about how to deal with the zombies. For example the masses of ammunition used, yet not a lot of results because of the lack of knowledge of how to kill them. One interesting part that I found when reading this section is how humanity is reacting following these circumstances, they are abandoning all sense of morality when it comes to making decisions. 

Terryonna Samuels

My reaction to this section that we read was surprising. People are still fighting each other instead of unighting, one thing the popped out at me is that money can't buy everything, the wealthy man with his friend in that bunker. They had everything food, shelter, guns, Internet, the works and because he wanted to show off he lost his life. Another crazy event that popped out at me was when people were taking boats and the men were only taking the cute young women. Even at a time of crisis a pretty face is more valuable than being a good person. All around the world the outbreak is happening. The civilians know about the zombies now and are trying to run and hide. The thing is if the nations would have worked together than many phase one would have turned into a phase two and the outbreak would be contained. Instead each nation wants to run around and not give a shit about anyone else even if they could benefit. The line was drawn for me when the church women was killing the children to save them from becoming zombies. I feel washy washy about this event because I can see that they were trying to save the children but they were going about tit the wrong way. I zombies wold be worse than grown zombies in my option because they are faster and have more energy but I couldn't see myself thinking that the only way out is death.

world war z summary chapter 3

      In the book World War Z the third chapter the Great Panic discussed 5 different places where the zombie were being seem. My favorite part of this chapter was the part where the army and the zombies were fighting at Yonkers. I found this interested since this section was focus mostly on fighting the zombies and trying to kill them but at the end it ended up back fire since they couldn’t kill off the zombies and made America more fearful and the thought that they still couldn’t kill off the zombies made the nation more worried. What I liked was that they started to use bombs and other stuff to kill the zombies but nothing actually worked and when the public and the army saw that they got more concerned that the outbreak had no cure and it brought more questions up. 

The Great Panic

The outbreak reaches mass proportions as common people become aware of the situation.  Reaction is brash for the masses while heroes and opportunists rise from the chaos.  As infection rates increase, more speculation is held and the situation is getting closer to the cohesive definition of an outbreak of  the undead.

The large range of emotion and reaction in this section of the book made it a great read.  People dealing with the outbreak vary from those becoming heroes, the cynical opportunists, and those that let their confusion lead to inaction.  That was my favorite part of the read.

"World War Z" summary of 'The Great Panic' by Seth Comara

"The Great Panic" is a chapter in the novel "World War Z" by Max Brooks. It is a collection of interviews describing the condition around the world during the global zombie outbreak. One of the most interesting passages comes from the former Major Farahnakian of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corp Air Force. Throughout this chapter you come to notice that humanities greatest threat was not actually the zombies but themselves. I feel this passage exemplifies this theory as the political relations between three nations caused a nuclear skirmish in a time where humanity needed to bond together. Iran, unable to defend themselves with the number of incoming refugees, and without the assistance from India or Pakistan on controlling the output of their refugees, was forced to destroy the main route the refugees took to gain access to Iran. Unable to make contact with Pakistan or their political leaders, The military vessel destroying the bridge was taken as an act of war. To which Pakistan and Iran began a undesirable cycle of retaliation.Iran have proposed a solution in which the three nations work together to defend one central safe area but it was the political aspect that prevented the plan from being executed. In a true international great panic the major states that everything became "...such a mess, confusion turning to anger, anger turning on our neighbors. Every hour the conflict escalated. Border clashes, airstrikes. It happened so fast, just three days of conventional warfare, neither side having any clear objective, just panicked rage." I find it very interesting how in this "Great Panic" the humans do the most harm to themselves by isolating themselves, refusing to help others, and even killing each other.

Lucas Nichols World War Z Great Panic Summary

World War Z The Great Panic Summary

In the chapter the great panic in World War Z there is an interview done in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies Federation. The interview is done in bar with a man whose name is T. Sean Collins. This man had started off the conversation by saying there was no name for the work he use to do. Only that his skills of killing other people were marketable. He worked for a mercenary company and soon found himself protecting a wealthy man whose name he couldn’t give to the interviewer because of his fear of being “sued” even still in that moment of time. Basically this man he was protecting had a very nice house which was highly protected with security, resources, and weapons. The house itself had webcams in literally every room that streamed live 24/7. He did this because his house had people of influence living with him. He used his wealth and security to protect these people. He wanted to become a big shot after the war was over and this was a good way for him to do it. There is a point in the interview when Sean talks about how the celebrities were watching footage of people being killed by zombies, and the reactions of the celebrities themselves from the webcams. Suddenly in the middle of this the alarm goes off and suddenly he found himself running to his firing position. When he gets there he soon learns that the house wasn’t getting ready to be attacked by zombies but people instead. Quickly he runs for the beach not far from the house and grabs a surfboard to paddle to a boat. He said he could try to use the diamond earrings he had as means of bribery. I thought this section of the great panic to be the most interesting. Because it’s the only section of the great panic that didn’t involve a zombie attack but instead an attack with people. I also thought the part where celebrities reacted to footage of people fighting off zombies to be strange as well.  

World War Z (The Great Panic - Parnell Air National Guard Base: Memphis, Tennessee, USA)

The first interviewee is Gavin Blaire, blimp pilot extraordinaire. He remembers the great panic very well because he got a blimp's eye view of the situation. The highway was congested with cars, and  those vehicles were filled with all kinds passengers. There was all kind junk, Gavin even saw grand piano smashed on the floor. People walked along the side of the road hoping to get a ride even though they were moving faster than the cars. A few miles later, Gavin saw what the commotion was all about. Zombies were mixed with the crowd and doing what they do best. Some people were trapped in their cars, some shooting through the windows and giving zombies easy access to them. The walking dead ate their way through I-80. Gavin wondered about the people he saw down there that night. Did they think about what they were doing there? Did they just go through with the crowd? He relate the story with American journalist in Moscow in 1970's. The man performed an experiment and stood by the building's door. Others walked by and thought that he was standing in line for something and joined him. He got the line long enough to go around the block. I like the part when Gavin relates the incident with one of the experiment conducted in Moscow. It shows the nature of us human beings that how we will follow anyone or anything without proper information or without asking any questions.

world war z summary

      The firsts sections from the book World War Z is “Warnings”, this chapter is about witnesses that have seem the outbreak of zombies. The chapter is full of interviews from around the world people who talk about their reactions from a Chinese doctor to a spy in Israeli. They all give their inside of the outbreak and but never actually did anything about it. The part that caught my attention was the one of the boy who got infected, and how his arm got ripped out.  This was an example of how strong the virus was and no one really knew what to do and what really was going on to the people who got infected with the outbreak. A lot of people just brushed it off and didn’t pay much attention until it was way too late. 

The amazon rain forest, Brazil

We have an interview with a doctor who is getting paid for surgery's. He doesn't care what happens to the people that are getting the implants from an unidentified source. He knows nothing about the people that they came from nor anything about the health. Further into the interview there is a point in witch this other doctor is doing the procedure. He hears some noise Cumming from the operating room so then the guy goes out to his car to grab his gunand walks to the door and begins to call out the names of the doctor and person getting the surgery. He then sees blood buy the door and begins to peak in. What he sees next is his partner being eatin by this guy. So he shots the walking dead guy and then calls the police. Witch he has in his wallet. They clean it up and cover the event that happened. He speaks about it being good money and his house needing a hot tub. He didn't care if the people were to live nor die. In the end they came clawing at his door. I seen this kinda funny. He is in all for the money doesn't care for the people and in the end dies by something he helped get there.

Unit 2 reading

The writer of this short story was giving a proposal to fix over population in the 1700's. He shows valid points to further the question about something needing to be done about over population. The writer shows evidence for the amount of people that have kids and can't properly take care of themselves nor their kids. There is a large number of women in many ways having the kids work with them as beggers. This puts more weight on the citizens who are able to take care of themselves and their kids. He then bring a fair way to fix this issue. Eating the children of the people who can't take care of them selves. This would supply food for others and also put money in the pocket for the poor. It is a way to help the state as a whole. They are giving money to the poor and that would raise them out of having to beg for food or money for awhile. This would make the streets be more clear without a lot of beggers.
   
     I found the idea of eating the kids to be a little funny. The fact it was an idea is a very strange thing. The writer talks about babies weights if tolerably nursed, and how that could be made into food for multiple days. The writer puts in ways to have them served up as a dish. I understand it was a different time in history, but the fact that this was a solution proposal is funny. And at the end he says he doesn't have any kids. He gives a lot of argument's to the idea he thinks would be the solution.

Jonathan Swift Article, Kirsten Southerland

Jonathan Swift's article "A Modest Proposal" was a very interesting article about his solution to overpopulation and lack of food. Swift proposed that the best solution to these problems would be to eat newborn babies. I found this a bit disturbing, considering anyone that would voluntarily eat a newborn baby just to avoid overpopulation would be a sick person. Although, in this form of writing and knowing that it was a satire, this was very humorous and Swift provided great evidence on why this would be a good idea. I liked how he used statistics and backed his thoughts up with the use of important characters taking his side. I think what Swift was trying to do was make fun of the idea, he was very sarcastic, yet very believable.

World War Z sections 1-3

These first three sections highlight the accounts of varied individuals.  The come from different regions, and backgrounds, and while their reactions are all narrow, theses sections outline the frenzies that took place all over.  The range of emotions, from complacency to the feeling of impending doom struck me most.  The characters were really more defined for me by their emotions than their background and region.

World War Z: Blame, Kirsten Southerland

World War Z is a book over the oral history of the zombie war, written by Max Brooks. I'm not a big reader, but honestly Brooks had me not wanting to stop. His book, World War Z, has been a page turner and I love how it's set up. I like how it's kind of like an interview, but then again it's not. It's set up into short stories from different people's viewpoints from the experiences they've faced around the world. My favorite chapter out of the three has been "Blame". This chapter stuck out to me because I instantly noticed that a couple of the stories were based to happen in the USA, so that made it all the more interesting. I also liked how it talked about the CIA, and fear, and the ways that people tried to solve the problem but didn't do it the right way. When Brooks talked about the use of Phalanx, it made me really wonder about vaccines today and if they really work or if they're just being advertised to help people avoid their fears? When Brooks wrote " "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. That was my mantra. "Fear sells." ". This really interested me. It made me think about how commercials really sell their items today, and how fear really does sell. Now I know this book is primarily about the zombie war, but this part of the chapter just really stuck out to me. But with the zombie parts, I found them to be in great detail, and when they were happening I felt as if I was really there. Brooks is an awesome writer and I can't wait to read on in this book!

"World War Z" chapter 1 'Warnings' summary by Seth Comara

The first chapter 'Warnings' written by Max Brooks in his novel "World War Z" which was published by Broadway paperbacks publishing in September 2006, is a series of interviews or oral accounts of recorded warnings of the impending world war Z. One account is taken from Dr. Kwang Jing-shu The chairman of the local security council who attempted to treat what seems to be early signs of the infection as well as encountered a zombie child that mutilated itself. This is followed by several more accounts. Nury Televaldi, A smuggler who had witnessed and assisted infected people across international borders. Stanley MacDonald, a veteran convinced he had PTSD and was told to forget about a violent outbreak incident in Kyrgyzstan by his own government. Dr. Fernando Oliveira, and illegal organ transplant surgeon who had unknowingly transplanted an infected Oregon into another man causing an outbreak incident that killed two people. Jacob Nyanthi, who lost his family and barely survived as zombie outbreak and awoke to a cover story about rabies. Jurgen Warmbrunn, an X spy who assisted in compiling the largest report on the Z epidemic, which was ultimately ignored. Finally, Saladin Kader; an era boy with extremist political views for spice father to seek shelter with the Israeli enemy. It was only when he saw juice killing Jews if you realize how dangerous the threat really was. The most interesting thing about these oral accounts is the fact that in each one the governmentis lying to the people, spewing false truths, spreading political cover ups, containing the outbreak, and yet not fighting the epidemic as a whole or even admitting its existence.

A modest proposal summary and evaluation by Seth Comara

"A modest proposal" is a mock essay written by Jonathan Swift published in 1729 in Dublin Ireland. Swift begins his essay by describing the poor economic and social state of the kingdom, mostly focused on orphans are children born in poor families. The author then begins explaining in detail the calculations he used to find the number of available burdensome or impoverished and fence. Swift then uses logic and reasoning to propose that the kingdom begin to industrialize the cannibalism of said infants.

One aspect that I find interesting is that swift rights as if the slaughter of thousands of human lives as if it were nothing. More importantly he writes as if the kingdom itself does not care. As if through logic and reasoning the people will simply allow these children to become livestock. Swift is clearly aware of the act or even the very talk of cannibalism is taboo in even the least polite of society. I believe Swift true purpose is to bring awareness of the impoverished people to bring attention to the way that they've been treated. The way they're being treated by the kingdom itself.

A Modest Proposal

“A Modest Proposal” is a short story by Jonathan Swift. In the story Swift talks about all the poor people who walk around town begging for sustenance for their children. He talked of it being a grievance and had a proposal for rectifying the issue. Swift proposes that parents who are unable to care for their children should sell them at around one year old. The children would then be used for food and clothing. He states that only a little over 100,000 children would be used of all the people in the Kingdom. Swift tells different ways the children can be cooked and how far they be stretched for dinner guests. He talks of his American acquaintance, who is experienced in the devouring of children, and the advice he gives about seasoning and tenderness of children in different age groups. He explains the costs will be great for the Kingdom and he has no personal interest since his youngest child and wife both surpassed the age to be a good candidate for this proposal. He just wanted to help his country.

I like how Swift used this wild story to get people’s attention on the overpopulation issue.  If you are going to treat the less fortunate people like they are less than human then this is kind of what it would be like. Instead of reproducing another mouth to feed you can just reproduce to feed the mouths of the wealthy and you can have a little change in your pocket too. It’s insane to me. The story is really out there but if you can get passed the crazy thought of cannibalism of infant then you can appreciate the good behind the words. 

World War Z 'Warnings' Summary

World War Z’s chapter two, Warnings, is a collection of interviews by several people all over the world. The interviewer talks with a doctor, a smuggler, and a spy among other people who had witnessed the outbreak first hand. Each person tells their stories of encounters with the “un-dead”. They give very good details as they recall the incidents. In the first section the interviewer talks to Dr. Kwang Jingshu. The doctor recalls his first encounter of the outbreak was on an emergency call to New Dachang where seven villagers were sick. In this section we are introduced to “Patient Zero”.  Dr. Kwang tells how he went to examine the patient, who was a twelve year old boy, and he was so wild and violent that he had to order a few men to help hold the boy down. He described how the boys arm snapped and eventually was ripped off during his struggles. Confused and scared, Dr. Kwang runs from the room and calls up his friend, Dr. Gu Wen Kuei. Dr. Gu worked for the Institute of Infectious Disease at Chongqing University, and he told him about the outbreak. After the conversation ended Dr. Kwang felt that there were more cases like the one he just witnessed. As help arrived he called his daughter to tell her to go overseas with her husband and stay as long as possible.

 Dr. Kwang left that room thinking the craziness he just witnessed was an isolated incident but his friend, Dr. Gu’s seemed to know different. Although he is the start of the outbreak for us as readers, we know that the outbreak was already out there and spreading before it got to “Patient Zero”. I like the details of Dr. Kwang’s story. It gives me a great visual of what was going on in the hospital. 

World War Z Summary

Ben Smith

6/17/15

In the section Blame it opens up discussing the ways the CIA has effected the United States and how it has received some undeserved praise and blame. It  states how many think of the CIA as some all seeing all knowing power, when in actuality it isn't. The CIA doesn't need the praise for every disaster stopped and it doesn't need the blame for everything that goes wrong. The book dives deeper into the issue of how the PRC faked the CIA out by lying about what they were sweeping for, and how they diverted the attention away from it. All in all he wraps it up by ten stating why he stayed in the agency and that was to serve his country. Also how he was getting suspicious of whats going on. One thing interesting in this section for me was the mention of the Warmbrunn-knight report because it sounds like it has something to do with the outbreak and maybe even something more.

World War Z (Introduction) Summary

The interviewer opens a with a discussion of what he refers to as "The Zombie War". The zombie war has passed and he was tasked to write the United Nation's Postwar commission report on the zombie war. The report was trashed because the chairperson thought it was too sentimental with too much feelings and opinions in it. After the disappointment, the interviewer decides write a book on it. Some people thought it was too early to write book on a very controversial topic with just china declaring victory over the zombies some ten years ago. But the interviewer thought it's his job to get these stories out from the people who witnessed these horrific incidents and lived through it. The interviewer wants to keep a low profile and wants the human factor of those he's interviewing to drive this book.

Modest Proposal: Reaction

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, is about a proposal to the people London. He is asking the lower class to give their children to the rich land owners. He wants to make the nation better and get rid of the bad economic shape they are in and the take away the burden of the parents. He found an easy method to do it; he will get the parents of the poor children to sell their children to the rich as a food source. He wants get the undernourished children to get fat so they can be sold to the rich land owners.

To be very honest, It's very disturbing that somebody would think that. No doubt he raises some very good points, but we should never forget our morals and ethics, after all we are "HUMAN BEINGS" not animals. Eating human flesh no matter cooked, boiled or fried is very fatal. You can get a very rare disease called "kuru". Kuru was first discovered in Papua New Guinea in the Fore tribe. They practiced ritual cannibalism in which they believed that a person's soul can never leave its body until the whole body is consumed. The disease spread tremendously in the 1950's but started to decline in early 1960's when were made aware of the situation. So, even though the passionate writer makes some valid but disturbing points, cannibalism can cause "Kuru" which is incurable. Although the suggested route will get the population under control but then we'll have another problem 'UNDER POPULATION'.

A Modest Proposal - Reaction

This short story was very intriguing and captivating to read due to the way that the author wrote it. He wrote it with such a noble sound, large words, and a very serious tone, that you are forced to believe everything he says, and to believe that he really means every word he speaks. The main theme is this is that it is perfectly okay to eat a child around the age of 1 years old, and that it will become a delicacy to all. The author of this story has a good way of going about writing it. First he states what the issue is, being that there are too many poor children sitting around in the streets being no benefit at all. Then he gives some statistics to back his proposal, then lists his reasons out, one through six.
I like the section that he lists and explains his six reasons, because when you read them, they all make sense, but then you think that you would never eat a baby! He has very logical reasons, that he obviously thought of very well. He uses such sophisticated language that you would think that this proposal is a real thing. Eating babies is such a horrible, unimaginable idea, yet you read this short story and realize that if we did do it, it would hard at first, but it would help the overpopulation of poor children sitting around on the streets, just being in the way.
What I liked about this short story, was the tone. This is a ridiculous idea, that is made seem possible and real. The author is writing as if he really does have a solution that could possibly be used. He doesn't make a joke of it all in his writing, if he did, the story would lose its focus, causing people to not believe in it as much. The idea of eating one year old children, saying that they would be delicious, and that cooks would learn to make it a delicacy, is a ridiculous idea, that has people thinking about how successful it would be if we tried it.

World War Z - Reaction

This book is about a doctor who has been trying to get his information about Zombie's published to the world, but the United Nations Postwar Commissions Report thought his information was too intimate, had too many feelings in it. This book is made up of people's personal recollections that they had with Zombie's. Throughout the book there is an obvious, expected bias to the Zombies. It is story after story about people getting hurt, or by people trying to go the West to get healed from the infection, and how this infected is highly contagious. The doctor is successful, and proud of it. He is going around to different countries, patient after patient, trying to figure out what is happening. At one point, he is able to witness a heart surgeon, that he helped perform a heart transplant, bent over another man eating part of his body. The doctor thinks that the infection is being spread from all the organs donated from China to all around the world. A major theme in the book, is how everyone that has encountered this infection, tries to deny it and call it something else, like rabies, or the flu, or just an illness. What they don't know, is that soon it will become a global issue.

Pages: 6-7 (Description of the patient's wound).

In this section, the doctor is looking at the first patient he sees that has been bitten by a Zombie, but he doesn't know that yet. He describes how the patient's wound is peculiar, different that anything he's ever seen, and how it didn't really make sense. How the injury was so clean, for having a chunk ripped out of the arm; and how the wound was bleeding. He also noticed how the wound, from being bitten by a human which has bacteria, wasn't infected either. The patients were also "writhing like an animal", which doesn't happen with other wounds. He knew that something had, in a way, possessed these people. This section is important in the whole of the story because of how it describes the wound, not having to describe it every time, and how it gives us evidence of how these kinds of wounds are different from any other kind of injury. It is important for us to know how these wounds looked, and how the people were reacting to them, so that we get a sense of how dangerous and serious this was. I didn't like how the doctor automatically knows that the bite was from another human being, how he doesn't even give it a change to have possibly been from something else. He very quickly jumps into the fact that it is a Zombie bight.

"A Modest Approach" summary

Ben Smith

6/16/15

"A Modest Approach" is written by Jonathan Swift and it proposes a solution to the hardships of his homeland. His homeland was going through over-population which intern caused them to have a lot of poverty. His solution was to sell the newborns and infants to landlords, which would allow the birthers to gain wealth intern for their children which would stimulate the economy because it would give people who would other wise have no money a fair amount of it. Also it would provide ample nutrition for the landlords and purchasers, and maybe the biggest positive out of the situation of all it would allow the population to get back to a normal level. One aspect of his writing that I found interesting is how he took something as bad as "eating babies" and made it into something that if you were desperate enough could actually sound like a well-though-out idea. He provides excellent stipulations and reasons for why it would work, this by no means I think it is a good idea, I just feel that he makes it sound believable.

World War Z - Warnings

"Warnings" from World War Z, is exactly what it sounds like. It is a compilation of testimonies from individuals about their account of the outbreak. These interviews include; a Chinese doctor, a Canadian veteran, a drug addicted surgeon, a ship captain, a smuggler, and a "spy" working for an unknown Israeli intelligence agency. These interviews recant the events just before and during the "outbreak" many thought to be either propaganda from other events in the local media or rabies. They each give their insight to how they somewhat saw the outbreak for what it was but only just after it was too late. The China-man, Dr. Kwang Jing-shu, gives the most detailed report of an actual incident involving the infected host. He speaks of a boy who had been infected. He commands his "staff" to hold the boy down in order to take a blood sample. The "staff" members were very uneasy about the situation but did so anyway. The Dr. talks of something other then blood filling the syringe. A brown matter. He then describes in detail, the boy breaking his own arm and his radius and ulna protruding from his arm as if he didn't even notice. This scared the "staff" members into running away as they were completely horrified of a boy chasing after them with his broken arm still restrained to his other. Most of these individuals describe talking about the potential outbreak and how it was brushed off considering lack of knowledge until something later sparked in the back of their mind to make them reevaluate the "coincidental" nature.

A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal is Jonathan Swift's satirical solution to the overwhelming population problem. His ingenious idea is to ultimately, consume infants. Swift explains the problem of over population along with the decline in resources caused by it. He then shows the reader(s) the upside of cannibalism by stabilizing the economy and helping it to prosper. He explains that parents cannot afford to raise their children and would be better off selling them in their first year. He claims that once children are too old that they not only expire in taste, but are another set of hands to help out the parents.Swift goes so far as today, if children do get purchased that they should be awarded a plentiful "last meal" (aka breast milk). Swift attempts to hilariously convince the audience that this is indeed their last hope.

I thought it was a great read. Aside from the cannibalism part, it seems Swift is the only one trying to come up with a solution and at the very least, he's pointing out the problem. It does make you wonder just how far humanity would go if we faced such a crisis. (I'm sure we'd just kill people and not eat them depending on the circumstances though.)

World War Z Summary Lucas Nichols

Lucas Nichols

6/16/15

World War Z Summary

In the section blame in the book world war z there is an interview  in an outpost in Antarctica. The interviewer interviews a man mister scott. During this interview he talks about things like economics and how it works. He talks about how “fear” is the greatest thing to use against a consumer. He discusses how he used fear to get people to buy a vaccine. Because of the fear of what was known at the time as “rabies”. The vaccine was literally only able to cure rabies and the plague that the real disease was, was not rabies so in it all the vaccine didn’t really work. The name of this vaccine was phalanx . I feel as though this antidote “phalanx”, will have a larger role later on in the text. In other sections of the book it was already discussed that this very vaccine was used to calm the people of america down and not totally freak out about the “outbreak” that was going on. Phalanx was a false cure for the disease that is still going on, however at the time it helped maintain order and civilization which will affect the book later on in many ways.   

"A Modest Proposal" reaction

In, "A Modest Proposal", Jonathan Swift's observes the ills that come from overpopulation, and opines his plan of action to combat and eventually remedy the problems.  Swift suggests that rather than allow children of parents who cannot provide for them to grow in a system strapped for opportunity or resources, they should be harvested at one year for food.  Swift explains that at one year, children have incurred little expense, and beyond that age they lose value, and only serve to deplete resources.  Swift comments that harvesting the children is their last chance, as their future holds little hope, and fewer resources to survive on.

I think Swift's satirical proposal was meant to spark a social commentary.  It begs the question of what is truly ridiculous, the proposal, or the plight and circumstance of the youth in question.

Unit 1 Post Write

My essay is in the dialogue style, and it describes an interview/discussion between: Quentin Tarantino a violent movie director, Mike LaSalle a movie critic, and Harvey Weinstein a movie producer who has produced violent films, but lately has took a stance against them. I act as the moderator/interviewer. During this discussion we go over issues relating violence in media and violence in the real world. The real question is, does violence in the media have an effect on violence in the real world?

Writing dialogue essays differ from writing traditional essays in the since that the speech is more informal than the traditional essay. For example you want complication in a dialogue essay with interruptions and a lot of emotions, whereas with a traditional essay you don't want a lot of that, you want more of a informative style of writing with more emphasis on grammar. I found writing a dialogue essay a little more difficult than writing a traditional essay, based on the fact that for me it was hard to really capture the voice of the characters and what they would truly say when responding to questions and statements. Also because I have never wrote a dialogue essay before and it took me a while to get used to the style and how to write it.

I used agree, disagree, and complicate in my essay by when I as the moderator would pose a question to the speakers they would respond with their respective opinions and based off their responses other speakers would say if the agreed with the persons statement or if the disagreed with it. Also I incorporated complication whenever two speakers would get into a argument based on who's right, they would become frustrated and act out on those frustrations.

The best piece of constructive feedback I got was from my instructor and my peers. The piece of feedback I got from my instructor was that I should take out one of my original speakers who was Marilyn Manson, at first I didn't see why I needed to do so, but then I realized that it made no sense to incorporate him, when he is music based and all the other characters were movie based. Subsequently I replaced him with Harvey Weinstein. The piece of feedback I got from my peer was that I needed more emotion, I found that to be very helpful because when I added the emotion I founded that not only did it add more length to my essay, it made my essay have a better flow.

One strength of my essay I feel is my representation of Quentin Tarantino. The reason I feel this is I read all the articles and watched the previous interviews of him and tried my best to accurately voice his opinion and what his responses would be to the statements of others.

One area of my essay that I feel could have been improved is I could have used more emotion in my essay. I used some emotion, but I feel if I had used just a bit more it would have pushed my essay over the top.

My instructor could help me most by specifically stating the areas that need to be improved. Also I would like for your opinion on my conclusion, I had a little trouble because I don't  really know how to end a dialogue essay without making it sound a little abrupt.

Modest proposal summary Lucas Nichols

Lucas Nichols

6/16/15

A modest proposal summary

This essay was written by a man named Jonathan swift. In this essay he discusses the hardships of the kingdom he lives in. But through it all he talks about a very strange idea he has that could literally benefit everyone, even the victims involved in what he is calling his scheme. It would involve parents selling their year old babies to landlords so that they could be served as meals. It would not only be a tasty snack for the landlords, it would be great money for the parents as well and solve many economic problems and even population problems. One very disturbing thing I thought of this essay, was why the author choose the idea of eating babies. I understand the essay was satirical, but I came to the conclusion he wanted to use dark humor to try and “solve” the population problem and what's funnier than a dead baby joke right? I think he wanted the reader to see almost how bad London was at the time and this was the only way to do it.

"Modest Proposal" summary by Alejandra H.

 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, is about a proposal to the people of Ireland. He is asking the lower class (the poor) to give their children to the rich land owners. He wants to make the nation better and get rid of the bad economic shape they are in and the take away the burden of the parents. He found an easy method to do it; he will get the parents of the poor children to sell their children to the rich as a food source. He wants get the undernourished children to get fat so they can be sold to the rich land owners. He says the children can be sold by their weight as meat and this can also make their parents profit and fix their economic statues. He argues that the children can be sold as early as the age of one year old, and it can solve a lot of problems to the overpopulated and nonworking families of Ireland  who keeps having children. He gives some very good statistical facts about the requirements of the children and until what age is good to sell them.  I found very interesting that Swift would think of cannibalism as the solution to the overpopulated problems.I think he just wanted to create something where it can be a cycle and help both economic classes and help the nation recover. The most interesting part about his proposal is the steps he wants to take with his plan and the requirements it has, the number of children that should be sold and price, and recipes for the “new meat”, and lastly he is positive that this new selling of children will get respectable effects with in the families and the people of Ireland. I really enjoyed this story and  I think it’s great proposal, I know its bad to sell children as food to the rich, but Swift has some great points and it works out perfectly he is helping both economic classes, they are both benefiting from this.

Unit 1 - Post Write

My essay talks about violence in movies, and how that potentially transfers over to real world violence. It also talks about possibly changing the movie rating system, and how that could have implications, as well as the important role parent's have in monitoring what their children are watching, and limiting how much they watch. The primary questions I ask in this essay are whether movie violence does affect real world violence, and whether or not there is something we can do about it if it does affect real world violence.
Writing a dialogue essay differs from writing a traditional essay in a way that we, as the writers, have to put ourselves in the position of the ones writing the articles that would traditionally give us our evidence and research. I do find a dialogue essay to be easier than a traditional essay in the way that we don't have to write a thesis statement, something that I myself am not strong at, and that a dialogue essay is more enjoyable to write. It is more enjoyable to write because we can create conflict, and really have our source's opinion's stand out and give them an opportunity to defend their opinions.
I used agree, disagree, and complicate in my essay through the sources that I used: Weinstein, Tarantino, and LaSalle. There were points made that some agreed on, like Weinstein and Tarantino, but LaSalle was quick to disagree. I also used myself, the interviewer to ask questions that would cause further thought that complicated the conversation. One example would be possibly changing the film rating system we have now, to just a PG and R rating. LaSalle was all for it, but Weinstein and Tarantino, the ones that actually make the movies, did not like it at all because of the category that it would put their movies in.
A piece of constructive feedback that really, and that both piers brought up, was that my paper needed a strong direction and more evidence. They said my paper, had a good base, but was dry, and so I needed to add some strong evidence to create more conversation and complication.
I think one of the strengths my paper had was the evidence that was presented, it was in good in the way that it directed the essay, and that it provided back up for the sources statement. I do think that talking about the shooting in Aurora, Colorado and in Newtown, Connecticut was a good way for people to think about whether the violent movies caused such a terrible thing as a shooting.
One area that could be improved in my paper, was to make the sources, especially Tarantino, seem more like himself. I didn't make him sound like his strongly opinionated, rude self. That could be something that allows the reader to really know who each of these sources are, and how they interact with others.
Something that you could help with when reading/grading my paper, is to really show me where I should be adding more evidence, and how the people who disagree would respond to it, backing their statements also. When talking about the Aurora shooting, there wasn't anything I could say with evidence about how a violent movie didn't cause someone to lash out and shoot innocent people.

Unit 1 Post-Write

In my essay I chose to have a radio show where they discuss violent lyrics and how they can affect people. The discussion takes place with people who see lyrics in very different views. There is an artist known for violent lyrics, a professor who is an expert witness in court cases involving violent lyrics, and a mother who believes violent music contributed to her son's suicide. My essay deals with several questions involving violent lyrics, the main one being, does it [violent lyrics] really contribute to violent behavior or is it simply entertainment?

Writing a dialogue has been more difficult than a traditional essay for me. With a traditional essay, I can just state the facts and maybe a few of my own opinions and then I'm done. With this dialogue I had to put other people's emotions and thoughts into words as if they were saying them. It's easy to know and express how you feel about something but to have to create someone else's reaction to something takes more creativity and time.

In my essay I chose to have two people who would have a huge disagreement on the topic. I felt a mother debating with the artist whose song lyrics were directly related to her son's death would be a great way to add disagree. When someone would agree I made sure that they didn't just agree but they added their opinion and feelings on the topic. If someone were to disagree I tried to add in questions between characters to have them try to understand why they feel that way. At one point the artist complicates things when he turns the blame onto the mother.

I didn't get a chance to get any feedback. I did sit in with three other people who had feedback given to them. I made sure to listen carefully and take all of their advice and incorporate it into my final draft. I thought about all the things that made their essays great and what they needed to work on and put that into my work to make it better.

I think one strength of my essay was that it had a lot of emotion. I believe I picked a great panel to have that discussion. I would love to hear a radio show with a similar set up.

I think my essay lacked facts and evidence. I feel I could have put some stats in there somewhere. I could have used more "real" info and less emotions and opinions.

I feel the help I need from the instructor's response would be to show how I could have had more balance on my essay. I tried not to fill it with just a bunch of stats and ended up filling it with too much emotion. I feel any help and feedback will be useful for my future writing assignments.

Unit I - Post Write

1. My essay is essentially a debate between Marilyn Manson, Mick LaSalle, and Quentin Tarantino. The ongoing debate within the essay is about violence in the media and where the responsibility of children viewing in light of recent tragedies lies. The primary questions I ask the guests is why they think they're being targeted as the responsible parties and who they think is ultimately responsible; the parent or the individual.

2. In my opinion, writing a dialogue was easier in some aspects but harder in others when comparing it to a traditional essay. It felt that speaking for them was and easier thing to do, however it became increasingly difficult to ask more questions as the essay went on and think of good responses for the individuals. The hard part in my case during traditional essays, is finding the right ways to tie things in. With dialogue, it was much easier to make transitions.

3. I used agree in my essay between Manson and Tarantino a lot because they are both artists and understand how their freedom of expression is always coming into question. I used disagree, somewhat easily with LaSalle. This too was easy because he speaks poorly of movies that aren't even necessarily violent. For bringing complication to the table, I basically put LaSalle vs. the world in my essay. He definitely was the only one having to fight in this essay. For his complication I had him ask the question of why it would fall to the parent/guardian in a society where it's harder and harder to monitor children's media influence.

4. The best advice for peer influence was to open up and have more fun with it. I definitely didn't look at this from an "excited" stand point at first, but after the feedback I definitely reproached this essay feeling more confident and just playing with it.

5. One strength of this essay would definitely be my ability to relate with the characters and have them give their own unique sound. As I progressed in this assignment, I felt my own personal bias change to almost the middle of the spectrum. It seems I would have no trouble actually arguing both sides of this topic.

6. An area that could be improved would definitely be my questioning. I felt as though it was increasingly difficult as I went on to not only come up with questions, but finding an appropriate answer. Another improvement would be my evidence. It's hard to think of what evidence these people would actually have and not just use their personal opinion.

7. Help me take a step back from an assignment so I know what questions I should ask (in this type of essay). I feel like I have so many great ideas floating around in my head, but when the words get put on the screen it's not the case. I like what I've written I just need tips on refining the craft I guess. As for comments I'd like to know if you think I should have left the "church/state" reference out in Manson's dialogue. It's just a question that's always bugged me. We say it's separated and you can practice any religion....but we have "in god we trust" on all our currency.

Unit I: Post-Write, Kirsten Southerland

Kirsten Southerland

1. My essay included the following characters: Jimmy Kimmel (Interviewer), Quentin Tarantino (Movie Director), Harvey Weinstein (Movie Producer), and Mick LaSalle (Movie Critic). My essay primarily focused on violence in the media and how it can be related to violence in today's society. My main question that I asked in my essay was "What are your opinions on violence in the media and how it affects society today?". I then flowed the conversations from there according to how I thought each character would respond, and it led to other questions such as "Can shootings such as the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting be related to violent films?" and "What are the statistics on people becoming more violent after watching violent films?". 
2. Writing a dialogue essay differs from writing a traditional essay in several aspects. I found that when writing in dialogue, it's way easier to get off topic, just like when people actually have normal conversations they can tend to quickly get off topic. But, when writing in dialogue I felt like I didn't have to focus so much on making sure I was using correct grammar, because we all know that in today's world there aren't very many people that use correct grammar when they speak. I have never written a dialogue essay until this assignment, so I personally found it more difficult than writing a traditional essay, but just because I had never written one before now. 
3. In my essay I tried to have one character that agreed, one that clearly disagreed, and one that caused complications. I thought that I successfully did that in my essay. I had Mick LaSalle that clearly agreed that violence in the media affects the way people in today's society act. I had Quentin Tarantino that disagreed with LaSalle and the statement that violence affects people. And lastly, I had Harvey Weinstein that used to produce violent films until he decided he no longer wanted to be a part of them, but he would point out some of the reasons as to why Quentin Tarantino does what he does. 
4. The best piece of constructive feedback was from my teacher because I then knew exactly what he wanted me to do to improve my paper. I like peer review, but I like getting feedback from my teacher more since he's the one that's going to be grading my paper. The feedback I received was to use more evidence in my paper, and that was helpful to know because I wasn't aware that I hadn't used very much evidence. 
5. I think one strength in my paper was that I used a lot of motions. I did this so that when the reader was reading my paper he/she could picture what each character was doing along with how they were responding. I felt like if I didn't use a lot of emotions the characters would seem very bland in their responses. 
6. One area that could be improved, even though I tried to improve it, was the amount of evidence that I used. I felt like after I went back and added more evidence that it was better, but still not to the point I would like to be at. I also felt like my paper might have been a little rushed, so I could work more on making the discussion more specific instead of so open ended. 
7. I liked how the instructor responded to my paper with the paper that he wrote his comments on. One thing I would like for future papers where grammar will matter more would just to be to add grammatical errors that should be fixed or changed to a better word. However, for this type of paper I liked the way the feedback was done. 

unit 1 post-write

My essay asks whether media with themes of violence and drug consumption perpetuates such behavior, specifically in the sub-genre of narco-corridos in Mexico.  One side argues that the music continues a cycle of violence as drug dealers are glorified in the music, and eventually emulated by the youth who listen to the music.  The other side counters, the music is more of a social commentary and artistic expression, depicting the reality of life; tragedy and poverty dotted with the excess of the narco-traficantes, or drug dealers.  The question begs an answer more complex than the argument brings, and the author arguing against the music holds strong in his stance.  The interviewer comes to the conclusion that the state of Mexico is a multi-pronged problem, with narco-corridos,serving as a symptom of a larger issue.

Writing a dialogue essay requires the author to write and argue from several viewpoints.  In this respect, it is certainly more intensive compared to a traditional essay that is typically written from a single persons viewpoint.

In my essay, the staunch opposition disagrees with the other guest as a whole holding strong to his position.  The other guests are marked by a brash artist vehemently opposed to the oppositions statements.  He counters him at every turn.  The other two guests also disagree with the opposition, but with more calculated arguments citing the historical nature and business side of the narco-corridos. 

The best advice I received was the addition of more evidence substantiating the claims by both sides.  It made for a more credible argument for both sides.

I think the emotion and varied argument were the strongest part of my essay.

I think the cohesiveness of the conclusion lacked.  The conversation was perhaps too general, and should have been narrower.

I'd like my instructor to comment on how to make the conversation more narrow and specific, while not losing out on the overall conclusion.  That is, i'd like to make it more specific, while transitioning well to a broad multi-perspective outlook on the issues surrounding my essay.

post-writing

Post-writing to dialogue essay: 

In my  essay I asked if our society it seems like we are blaming the film producers and music producers for the violence we have today. Throughout the essay I asked questions relating to the main question to get more information about the characters and their thoughts about violence. I try to give the characters personality alive throughout. At the end we conclude that the producers are not to blame for violence in the media, but they are one small percent of the problem. This dialogue essay is different sine it is not like the traditional essay we are used to such as the body of it, it still has an intro and conclusion but the body of it doesn’t have paragraphs its just the dialogue and more informal style of writing. For me I found this a little more difficult than a regular essay. I am not use to having such much liberty with my writing. I think I used agree, disagree and complicate with the “student” asking more question and trying to get more points brought up. Also with the Manson by bringing up his thought about violence and humans and contradicting the others.  My strength in my paper could be the style of it. I think the one area I could improve in my essay is maybe going more in depth on the evidence and the characters thoughts. In general in my entire essay, mostly in my dialogue and how I did transitioning to one of the authors to the next. As well if I did good in agree, disagree and complicate. I am not too sure about this essay it was my first time doing this type of essay and I don’t feel confident. 

Andrew's post write

My essay was on video game violence. The main points of my essay where:
Are they bad for us?
Can they be good for us?
What would be next?
Violent video game should be an adult game not for kids.

How does dialoue differ from the more standard writing?
I think that dialogue writing is harder to write. It requires more imagination than the regular writing.

I used agree disagree ancocomplicate In my essay by having two different views While two agree a third disagree. There was an agreement. At the end where it was decided violent video games should only be played by people of age.
 Best feedback  I got was that it had a good flow.

I think my strength in the essay was that it laid out some good ideas.
My paper I think lacked in emotion.
I think my instructor could comment on better ways to show emotion. I feel that I do not see emotion.

Post write

 Terryonna Samules


1. in my essay i took the musical part of the issue. We discussed the look on rap music and if it has/had an influence on criminal activity on today's life. Amal took the scientific route about the conversation and decided to lean towards that rap music is the cause of the violence. Then on the opposite was side there was Willie, Willie took the historical route and said that rap music inst all bad. music came from the slaves when their native tongue was lost due to slavery. The person riding the fence was Erik, Erik was making valid points on why and why not rap is causing violence. He also bring the paper to its conclusion that if rap music is causing violence then blame all the other music genera that have sexual conduct, drugs, and profane language.

2. writing a essay like this using dialogue is harder than people think. The writer have to think about how each person would react to the person before or after them speaking. Also making motions that would make since but not take away from the big picture is a very important key. Another thing that is different about writing a dialogue essay instead of a normal/ formal essay is that the writer can have fun and bring the characters to life.

3. In my essay i used agree when i would speak with Erik mostly. The character Erik didn't  lean to one side more than another. Erik and Amal agreed that not all rap music is good for their children to listen to. Willie and Amal disagreed when i asked if parents should be responsible for what their children listen to Amal said that parents should be responsible and Willie said that there is no way parents could know what their kid is doing 100 percent of the time. Complicate came in  my essay when Willie said that rap music said that rap music is for the black community risking the fact that they might bring racism into the picture.

4.The best part of constitutive feed back i got was from home. I had a friend from home read my essay without telling them what it was about or the background then after reading i asked questions like "what were they talking about" and " who was leaning towards one side to see if anything was unclear that i could fix it.

5.I believe that the strength of my paper was the characters themselves and showing how they felt according to the issue

6. Something that could be improved in my paper was adding true facts. I wish i would have put more facts into the paper to make it flow right and still sound professional.

7. How could the instructor help me. If i would have turned my ruff draft in then he could have told me what all i need to fix and what to improve.

Unit 1 Post Write Lucas Nichols

Post write

Lucas Nichols

1.  My essay was about whether or not violence in video games causes aggression in children. It was a debate among three people Alice, Brian, and Douglas. Each of them had their own opinion and stuck with arguments that they had come up with in their articles. One of the main primary questions was, does violence in video games cause children to act out? Another one was should we regulate the material viewed by children? The last but more serious question asked was, should we ban violent video games? All of these questions were answered in a way that the author most likely would have responded. It even included some fun arguments and them agreeing on points made.  

2. Writing a dialogue differs very much from writing a traditional essay. It requires much more creativity and can become hard if you aren’t able to keep going with the flow you originally started. Traditional essays require you to stick to facts more and are a lot less fun to write. But overall I would say writing a dialogue essay may be more fun than a traditional essay, however it’s much harder but it requires more thought than a traditional essay.

3.  I used agree,disagree, and complicate in many different ways in my essay. At the end of my essay I had all of the authors agree with a statement Brian had made about parents using a rating system. Throughout my essay I had many places where on author would disagree or almost make fun of a point made by another author. But almost every last point made by an author did cause a complication which caused the interviewer to ask more questions.

4. Best feedback I got was to add an intro and conclusion because I did not orginally have either of those.

5. One strength of my paper was giving the essay emotion, I tried my best to  make it feel like the script read was something you could see happening on TV in an actual interview.

6.  One thing I could improve was my flow and maybe try making the actual debate a bit more interesting.

7. I believe your response you gave to me the first time was good enough. The only thing I would like next time is maybe tell me what I could do to get an A.

Article Summaries - Madeleine Peebler

Article 1:

Parents may be trying to keep their children from seeing violence that happens on the street or at school, but they have been lacking in also protecting their children from the violence they see on the media. Multiple studies have been done to show that when children are exposed to the violence on the media, it leads to an increase in the chance of them being more angry and hostile. Violent video games are still here to this day, due to the fact that games had a higher selling rate depending on the level of violence they had. When video games became "first person shooter", having the player see the game as if they were actually in it, made these violent games even more addicting, allowing the player to have a closer look at what it was to shoot someone or be shot. This is when the government began to look and see whether or not these games were taking it a little bit too far; these meetings are what led to the creation of The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB). While this rating system has helped buyers know how violent the video games they are purchasing are, it has not slowed down the production of violent video games at all. There were three studies done, to see how children were impacted by the violent video games. The studies showed that the violent video games do impact children, but also that other video games have proven to help children with their achievement. It all comes down to having the children have the right education about how they can be effected when exposed to media violence. Just because there are ratings that tell how much violence in each game, does not mean that there is less exposure to those games. There needs to be some decisions made on if and how children are to be limited to how much violence they are allowed to see.

Article 2:

Weinstein is a movie director who said he wouldn't made any more excessively violent movies, but in the end does because of how passionate he gets about the movies he makes. Although he has been questioned on whether he made violence "trendy", it is safe to say that if he wasn't the man to do that, someone else would have. Weinstein has realized that he can't make movies and love them, but then say that is it what he wants for his children. Other people do not understand the relationship of media violence, when the only answer is: "We really don't know." We do know that violent movies, TV shows, and video games wouldn't be made if there wasn't always a positive reaction to it, people loving it. Most of us think that as long as we get the media violence in small doses, we'll be fine. People are either totally against media violence, or they realize that violence has been around for so long.

 

Article 3:

This article starts out by talking about how we take the criminals, and make them out be the good guys. He also talks about how some people do not have the right reasons for their actions, being murders. He also talks about how when songs are written, often the lyrics are taken in the wrong way, like the song was written about the lunchbox. Movies and music are what can help us get through things, and they often talk about the emotions that we are going through. And when artists make a song that gets people, usually critics, riled up, they don't want to go on interviews and defend themselves because they know it's not worth it.