Bias in Reporting and Making an Argument

As you read the articles that I asked you to read for this week, I'd like you to think about what the different political biases are that are being expressed and how you know this. You might quote directly from them to support your own argument. Also, since we'll be writing an argumentative essay for our last assignment, I'd like you to say if any of these articles are making an argument. Which one(s)?

For your convenience, here are the three articles:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/05/daughters-of-texas

http://www.the-broad-side.com/wendy-davis-conservative-men-of-america

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/say-what-texans-respond-to-wendy-davis-ludicrous-claim-to-be-pro-life

Sick of this bi-polar weather !

This weather has been very bi-polar lately. Yesterday there was snow, and now today there is sunshine. I just hope that we can get a string of days of great weather. I'm ready for the Summer. Winter has gone on way too long now to the point where I'm sick of the cold, and sick of the snow. Bring on the sun, beach, and 90 degree weather.

The Bosnia list

“Luka, the river port where I liked to play, had been turned into a concentration camp. So Muslim and Catholic prisoners were what Obren was guarding now. And Partizan Sports Hall became a slaughterhouse for Bosniak and Croat boys and men. On the wooden floor where I’d kicked and somersaulted, my people were being gunned down by Pero and his comrades their bodies left on the ground in pools of blood. In the gym’s bathroom, where I showered, Serbs were slashing necks and blowing heads apart. The dead were stored on the outdoor basketball courts where I shot hoops, until frozen meat trucks came to take the rotting flesh away. If we’d gone to the gym as usual, we would have been murdered and loaded onto a truck” (Trebincevic and Shapiro 117-118) that part is quite of a shock because the narrator's childhood place where he took karate classes and won his brown belt has turned into hell. His karate coach "Pero" has turn into an enemy because he's on the Serbian side. The consertration camp that the narrator describes, it kind of remind me of the holocaust when the nazis send the Jews to a consentration camp and tortured them deadly.

The Bosnia list

Does anybody know what ch. We are supposed to be reading ?

Assignment 3

I'm slightly confused about the whole concept of the assignment 3. I understand how we're supposed to be writing about a place we traveled to but how exactly do incorporate 2 secondary sources. From my understanding i'm guessing it's to provide additional details about the place & its geography. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong.

The Bosnia List Kenan ' s mother

Kenan and his dad went go red cross to get food for his mother to cook. The serb soldiers already seized control of the donated supplies and made him and his father stand in a separate line. When they were finally able to get food the notice the soldiers gave them old spoiled food. Kenan and his father began to express their anger. Kenan stated "I want all the serbs to die". His mother yelled at him saying don't wish that on nobody she didn't raise him that way. I notice that his mother is a kind women who sees the good in everyone. Even though they are treating her people the way they are she is still teaching her son the its not nice to wish anything like that on anybody. She always mention god alot because she has faith that he will save them. Even though everyone else lost faith in god. This shows how independent she is because she is caring hope for her family in a way. By not showing anger and rage towards the situation.

The Bosnia List

Trebincevic writes, "In the censured (sic--I think he means 'censored'), Serbian-created version of Balkan history I was taught at school in Brcko, the Serbs portrayed themselves as defenders of the peace or innocent victims. During the 1992 war, power-hungry politicians had played on the Old World distortion that we (Muslims) were aggressors like the ancient Turks or modern militant Islamicists, using that illusion to justify ethnocide" (66). Later, in the USA, a neighbor asks Kenan's mother what she thinks of Osama Bin Laden. If you're a non-Muslim, how is this book changing your view of modern-day Muslims, if at all. If you're a Muslim, what part(s) of Kenan's experience strike a familiar chord for you? Were you taught a "censored" view of history in school? If you went to school in the US, how much did you learn about slavery? About how the first American settlers from Europe treated the Native Americans? About how Americans put Japanese-American citizens in internment camps during WWII? What other stories do you feel were misrepresented to you as a child?

The Bosnia List

I got  "The Bosnia List" from Amazon this Wednesday  in cheap price. If anyone still need to buy this book, I would recommend Amazon. You can open your Amazon Prime account free for six months which is great deal, and free shipping within 2 days. So far I read this book it's heart touching history. I wondered by looking on his childhoods picture which is in the middle of the book! How he was able to collect and and save them until this book was published?.

Assignment #2

Prof. John.
For the rewrites i was wondering if i can rewrite assignment #2 and bring it to you on Monday.
 

The bosnia List

After reading chapter two, I honestly think that Kenan should take his father back to Bosnia. He's very ill and he just wants to go back to visit his fathers grave and visit some of his family back home. I think that Kenan should put his thoughts about Bosnia and the war behind him and just do one thing that his father wants to do before he passes away.

New Challenge!!! - Make a small poem.

I John McCabe Hereby challenge my peers, and professor to make a poem before next Wednesday.


Hear is my contribution:

   "This class is alright,
    All my peers are bright,
    Yet  the teacher gives topics I fight."


(*the poems don't need to be small)
(*you can make more then one if you want)


                                                                        Have Fun!

Feeling great

Assignment 3 coming along great this time.

Group Critics

      Group critics are pretty interesting and helpful because we get a chance to see some others writings and someone sees mine one too . we get feed back from others and some corrections too. I personally like this because it's give me chance to get different kind of idea from different writing; therefore, sometimes I feel to write like this way and sometimes I feel silly. Today i read one essay by picking up from the table, that was great essay and that's really helped me to think about my essay. Also, some one gave me feedback on my essay and corrected some errors, that helped me. When we do group critics with four or five, face to face that's also helpful but it's bad for my group because most them are lazy. after reading essay everybody say "Yeah, good, add more details" what is this? Is it should be group critics? but i heard from some other group they were discussing deeply and taking time to explain! so i feel my group should be more active and focus............    

The Bosnia List

As we start this memoir, there are several questions that I have:

• Why is it significant that the Serb flag has four S's which stand for "Only Unity Saves the Serbs" (28)?
• What does the word "nationalism" mean to you and have you ever seen it in action? 
• Why is it significant when the soldier asks Kenan if he's Bosnian, Yugoslavian, or Muslim?
• How is Kenan different from his Serb or Croat classmates and neighbors? 

What questions do you have as you read?

I want to give you all a heads up: The author of The Bosnia List, Kenan Trebincevic, will give a talk at the QCC Holocaust Resource Center on May 6th from 3-5. Anyone who goes and writes a one-page response will get extra credit, equal to a week's worth of the blog.

The bosnia list

After reading the prologue and chapter 1 of the bosnia list this book has already caught my attention. I happen to like this book better than the book by henry miller. This book has a plot compared to the book by henry miller that didn't have too much of a plot. So far so good with the Bosnia list, and I can't wait to read more and finds out what happens.

Henry & June

From watching the movie Henry and June and reading the book written by henry miller I feel that the henry miller I had envisoned in the book was similar to the henry in the movie. The henry miller In the book and the henry miller in the movie both had similar perspectives on how they viewed the world. However, I never envisoned henry miller as a very angry and violent person as he was in the movie.
In the movie henry and June my perspective changed of Anais throughout the movie. In the beginning of the movie I viewed her as a very innocent person. However, that quickly changed after she met henry miller. After Anais met henry miller she became very sexually involved. She didn't only become sexually involved with one person, but she had multiple partners. Almost in a way she used sex to manipulate people to get what she wanted and desired most.

Henry and June

from this movie we have so many things to learn, what is really important for a strong relation between a man and woman. when I was watching this movie I really was focused because it was interesting and also I knew Prof. J Talbird might ask any question. ON this movie i was shocked about Anais that she was cheating with Hugo. But in the beginning i was confused that is Anais  was trying to satisfy her self or was trying to make Henry happy so she can get help from Henry about her Writing. After that i found Anais took Hugo to the whores House and was showing Homosexual in many styles, that purpose was to show Hugo how she wants to get it from Hugo. I also felt bad for June, she was working hard and chose a dirty job just to make Henry famous but  Henry took her wrong way; on the other hand, Anais was taking Henry away from June. So i felt June was kind of victim on this movie because no one didn't value her and Anais was using her to get different kind of experience. what do guys think about June?

Homosexuality- Then, Now, and in the Ancient Past

I had been meaning to get peoples opinions on how the view of homosexuality has changed since ancient times. Back then It did not matter, weather you were strait, guy or bi. People just didn't make a big deal about what gender you slept with. Then at some point when the view of sex change to be only a method for procreation, you shunned, shamed, imprisoned, persecuted, beaten, tortured or even killed if you slept with someone of the same gender. It stayed that way up util relatively recently that the view of sex changed (and still is changing). My questions are what do you think caused these changes? Are the changes for better or for worse? And do you think the view of sex will change again in he future?

Essay report

Tomorrow our essays are due. writing this essay turned out to be harder than i thought. In this essay we were asked to do several things and it was more professional i would say. We had to do and interview which felt very professional and also had to do research. for a wile it felt like you worked for Daily Times or any other news system. It was harder, but it was a new experience to many of us. wish you the best for tomorrow just wanted to share the feeling.

Henry and June

Not sure about everyone else but with in the first 5 min of the movie I got a bad vibe from Anais. I was really annoyed when she lied to Hugo in the beginning about her and the man in the office "just kissing" . My dislike for her only grew more as the movie continued. However even though I believe Anais is out right wrong for her actions, I find Hugo to be very annoying in his own way as well. He seems VERY needy to be and more concerned about trying to be in control of the relationship (which he clearly is not) then making his wife happy.

Kenan Trebincevic

Hi all:

This essay about a dog was recently in the NY Times. It's written by the author of The Bosnia List, our next reading. Check it out:

http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=InCMR7g4BCKC2wiZPkcVUqqSRVaiXk8Y&user_id=dcc23cfe42989a9a5434fa1be1568e32&email_type=eta&task_id=1425898773963713&regi_id=0

best,

jt

Henry & June

Today in class we watched Henry & June film that took place in 1931, Paris. The main character is Anais Nin, who later meets Henry Miller (who is also the writer of The Colossus of Maroussi, that we are reading in class) and his wife June. Anais fell in love with both of them and she begins to experience sexuality with Henry and many other people besides her husband, Hugo. Anais Writes all her experiences in her diary, which she only share certain things to her husband. When Anais wrote about Henry in her diary, I can sense that she was very interested in him right form the begining. She said "He is just like me, but he doesn't know it yet." They have a lot of common interest and since they are both writers, they can relate to one another. Also, they are both interest in writing a book that deals with sexual intercourse. This really brings up the question regarding "why is Anais doing this?" "Henry doesn't like when June cheats on him with Pop, so why is he going to a prostitute house ? and having sex with Anais?" "Is Anais doing this to expand her experience of sex?" Anais and Henry have been hanging out a lot with each other and they believed they belong to each other and they fit well together. I disagree with this, I think Anais is just having fun with this new experience of freedom and she isn't really thinking much about her husband. I think she should stop what she is doing and care more about her husband. He works really hard so she can be a writer and provide her with money. At least she should be more considerate.

What do you guys think?

Quick question

Assignment 2 due today or Wednesday ?

Brassai and Miller

Check out photos by the Hungarian-born photographer, Brassai, who appears as a character in Henry & June:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=brassai&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

Do you recognize any of these photos from the film? What is the purpose of recreating these still images for a film which is composed of moving images?

Also, how does Henry & June capture the voice of Henry Miller, the writer, the person we've been spending the last few weeks with in The Colossus of Maroussi? How does Fred Ward's depiction of Miller live up to or contradict your idea of Miller the author?

NEED HELP

with the work cited page i need help with everything.

Random Question

When you log into this blog, and you look at all of the posts as a list, some of them have a +1 next to it. Does anyone know what that means? Is that our grade?

help me out

hey guys I'm a little confused where do i put the interview ? with my essay or with the research?

Keeping Up

Hi everyone,

Just a short request, i was absent for class today and we had to bring our draft for the group critique. I would really appreciated if everyone of you guys could give me a quick sentence on What did i miss today? What was the class about? Is there anything new to bring in or something? anything you guys think i should know from todays class i would appreciated if you guys help me to keep up. Thanks

today's group critique

today's class was really helpful. Looking over other's essays gave me more ideas... I interviewed my Art prof. today, I  had a great time listening to her stories, her experiences and everything. We should do group critiques more often that way some of us will get better at writing papers.

Group Critiques

I like how for each assignment we have group critiques and in the beginning of the class we get to read another paper from a person in the class. The advice that has been given to me for these past two assignments have been really helpful. Although I don't think that the sheets that are given to us to fill out for the group critique is helpful, but being told verbally what needs to be improved or what I did good at is very helpful.

Occupational Website

Does anyone remember the website that the librarian gave us that shows us various information about our major such as the annual salary, what jobs you can get w/t that major etc. ?

Works Cited Page

In the citation style handbook it tell us how to do work cited on the wed, page nine. It is said we have to include the author name but an article i used does not have the name of the author. Is it ok to leave it out? Do i need to use another article?

Question about Assignment #2

Does anyone know how to get to that reference search page that we looked up in the computer class for assignment 2?

I am kind of lost (pp. 123-124) from the last paragraph. What does Miller mean and what he is trying to say  by "That's memo the meemer. She's little and low, short of built..........................................................Locomotive make choo choo."

Henry Miller and Katsimbalis

At the end of the previous reading, Henry Miller interacted with a Greek shop owner and his French wife (pp. 119-120). After the space break and the asterisk, Miller seems to be talking to that French woman (who hates Greece b/c it's not "civilized" in the way that Paris is). He says, Madame, since you were speaking of gardens..." (121) and the next several pages, he writes in this vein until the top of p. 127 where he writes, "This is positively the end. Bink-bink!" What's going on here? What is he trying to tell this woman and why?

He tells a story to her about Agamemnon (remember last class: Miller went to that tomb w/ Katsimbalis) who gave birth to two sons, Epaminondas and Louis the Armstrong (121). Agamemnon never existed; he was a king in Greek legend. Epaminondas did exist; he was a Greek general. So did Louis Armstrong, though he was not Greek, but American, an African American trumpet player who is considered one of the godfather's of jazz. Check him out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeKUNDDYs

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA

What does Louis Armstrong have to do w/ this Ancient Greek history and myth? How does Miller use the term "riff" (121) or "jam" (123)? What is "the golden torque"? What is the "Dipsy-Doodle"?