Time is clicking. . .

           Ezzell’s topic was intriguing especially since one would have never thought of such an idea. How she stated facts about how time has different meanings for many cultures and how they value time. For example, when Ezzell wrote at the beginning that in Brazil one can be late and not be punished for it, but if it were someone that lives in New York and one was late for five minutes or ten one needed to have a great explanation to the lateness. I believe I was drawn about the topic choice because after reading the passage I knew more about the meaning of time to other cultures than in the beginning I had little knowledge about it. In contrast, the one thing I found least interesting is when Ezzell mentioned Birth doing a survey for rural residents who work in the farms if they knew the terms “Time is Money” or “Budget your time.” Because it is obviously they would not be aware of it due to their way of separating their life from the city.

            The main idea of Ezzell’s article is explaining the ways have cultures perceive time, uses it that reflects their society’s priorities and own worldview. The author includes how she is going to back up her details in her topic sentence and she successfully did throughout the essay. Ezzell demonstrated it in her essay by stating examples of countries and how they value time. Another way, Ezzell supported her ideas was by mentioning the paragraphs of the past, present and future  and how she states quotes that are very valiant to time. I believe this is how Ezzell’s article was effective since her examples of quotes she mentions are by different cultures like Saudi Arabia, Islam, and Australia. Overall, the essay was organized like how she structured in her topic sentence and made sure to keep the reader’s attention of how time is really different to other cultures and how they value it than the ones we are aware of.

Tasty yet so risky

           In my point of view Lawrence essay was a great evaluation. She was able to mention who her audience is and gave the purpose of why she picked the topic. Lawrence also put in her essay charts to support her initial argument of who has the healthiest burger between McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s. By her doing the research proved she has reliable knowledge and is not just stating opinions. There are a few things I did have a misconception about she was talking about who has the healthiest burger but why did she not mentioned McDonald’s big mac., which McDonald's is known for.  Another thing is she contradicts herself in her conclusion. Lawrence states how fast food eaters are better off eating the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder meal but then goes into how one should not eat fast food. As has been mentioned, Lawrence essay was effective except for her conclusion could have been stronger.

         Granted, Lawrence whole evaluation was about which out of McDonald’s, Burger King or Wendy’s had the healthiest burger. By putting the statistics of the total fat, calories and cholesterol each burger carries made it sufficient. If her readers were to choose between were to eat among those three choices obviously they would choose McDonald’s Quarter Pound meal. She was well- organize throughout her whole essay and her credibility just made it that effective by backing up her opinion. Since Lawrence listed her citation one can simply link to it if they want to see the rest of the menu item and how much amount of fats, cholesterol and calories has. Altogether, Lawrence did an outstanding evaluation by giving reliable credibility to where she seemed reasonable. So before one goes to Burger King or Wendy's, think about the amount of calories and cholestrol when biting into that Burger.

A Trekkie fan or not?

            I approach a great site where it listed the opinions of critics and audiences who watched the movie, The Star Trek. The web site I found was useful and was written from the rotten tomatoes by the Flixster. It came to my amaze that many of reviews I read mainly agreed with Burr and Bradshaw but the other halves dislike it but had no supporting details.

The Reviewers of the audience I have read proclaimed that J.J Abrams did an astonishing job in capturing the whole theme of the series of Star Trek. Some of the people even mentioned they had doubts about the movie but where surprised how the director nailed it. One of the viewers, Kase V., stated that it left him confuse in certain parts like Burr specified in his article but that it was still easily enjoyable. Many and I mean many of the critics highly spoke of the movie and how successful it was. For example Joe, a writer for Wall Street Journal said “Star Trek goes back to the legend's roots with a boldness that brings a fatigued franchise back to life.” J.J Abrams even made those who have not once seen of Star Trek become fans after watching the movie.

On the contrary, there were the reviewers who did not agree with what Burr and Bradshaw said. The audience who criticized the movie though saying how bad the movie was had no supporting evidence to why. The ones who opposed of the movie just stated how original it was or just straight forward said they were not a fan of the movie. All in all by reviewing many of the audiences and critics opinions it has shown that the majority of the fans were mind blow of how great of a turn out the movie was.

Reflection

If I had one more day to change my essay what I would I do is go to the writing center because my ideas are there just my sentence structure was not written well. I have a habit when I am typing to edit it right away then writing my ideas all down and later come back to it and fix it. Another is using better word choice that would have made my paper more academic. I feel I was so broad and used ineffectively words that could have made my paper strong.

The hardest part for me about writing the essay is writing down my ideas clearly. I had plenty ideas in my mind but once I it came to type it, it seemed like a whole big mess.  I think the cause of it was because I kept editing as I was writing.

The easiest thing is analyzing the appeals and showing evidence in how effective the author was.  As I cited the article I wrote on the sidelines which appeal each paragraph talked about which was very helpful.  

I formally mentioned the author, purpose and audience in the introduction (Salazar 1).  I wanted the readers to know what I was going to talk about before leading them into confusion if I mentioned it later.

I consider one of my effective rhetorical appeals is pathos (3). Since the article dealt with education I felt like it reflected me in many ways. Benjamin Barber did a great way for me to feel alarm with how education is being process and since I related to it, pathos was easier for me to let my readers to capture the same feeling I did. My understanding of the anaylze was  clearly in my conclusion when I did an overall of what I talked about in my essay by presenting where I originate all three rhetorical appeals(4).