Annotated Bibliography

Bacevich, A.J.  “Military Culture and Effectiveness.”  Society 31.1 (1993): 43-47.  Academic Search Complete. Ebsco. Web.  Apr. 14 2010.

Belkin, Aaron, and Melissa Sheridan Ebser-Herbert.  “A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rationale for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians  from the U.s. Military.”  Internal Security 27.2 (2002). 178-97  Academic Search Complete.  Ebsco. Web.  April. 14 2010.

                   The authors of this article highlight recent attempts to overturn the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy regarding the military and admissionof open homosexualality.  The article explains the policy as well as lists the contridictions that arise from policy.  Heterosexuals are said to have somewhat of a homophobia in the military where they have little privacy.  The people who condone the policy feel as if their rights will be violated because they will be exposed to the homosexuals who may view them as attractive.  The article also highlights some upcoming changes to avoid so much exposure in barracks, and the fact that more than likely these heterosexuals are already aware of the homosexuals and are conformed to their prefrence.

Carr, John A.  “The Difference Between Can and Should.  Able V. United States and the Continuing Debate About Homosexual Conduct in the Military.”  Air Force Law Review 46. (1999): N. PAG.   Academic Search Complete.  Ebsco.  Web.  14 Apr. 2010.

Davis, Charles L.  “Lifting the Gay Ban.”  Society 31, no.1  (November 1993): 24-28.  Academic Search Complete.  Evsco.  Apr. 14 2010.

Estrada, Armando x, and Janice H. Laurence.  “Examaning the Impact of Training on the Homosexual Conduct Policy for the Military Personel.”  Military Psychology 21.1 (2009): 62-80  Academic Search Complete.  Ebsco.  Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Harris, Stanley E.  “Military Male Rape and the Development of Male Homophobia in Judaeo-Christian Culture.”  Journal of Bisexuality.  6.4  (2006): 87-120.  Gender Studies Database.  Ebsco. Web. 14 Apr. 2010.

Should Plastic Surgury Be Legal? Alayna Morris

I dont think it is right for people to destroy their bodies just just because they dont like there bodies or the way they look. There are high medical risks from these procedures not to mention the high cost of perfection.

-What makes people want plastic surgury?

-Why would people pay so much money for those procedures?

-How do people accept themselves after the surgury?

-How do others percieve these people after surgury?

-What makes people want to get such a serious procedure done?

Assumptions of this issue is that its all bad and these people just want to change their looks and their bodies, but is one advantage to plastic surgury. When there are accidents that leave  a person disfigured it is a good benefit to society for that purpose alone.

Moment- When someone dies or gets hurt.

Complaint-Its unecessary unless medically needed.

Pitch-They tell you its safe and recoveryis fast and easy, But they dont tell you about infection is very common in with plastic surgury procedures.

Alayna Morris

Proposal

I am changing my proposal for my argument to the subject of pay to play sports.   The pitch for this topic will most likely be that pay to play sports are used within too many school districts where it could easily be avoided.  The complaint will include problems financially within families and the with the current economy.  The moment of this argument is written for parents who have children in school.

Proposal: La’Tiesha Graham

The potential proposal of my analytical argument is of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” code of the military.  This is a legal action upon gay members in the military who are dishonerably discharged when found out to be homosexual.  The homosexuals are of some what an issue to members of the military.  Throughout my research I intend to find out why.  The governement is in the process of making this action illegal. 

The typical assumptions as to why the governement is making this illegal is because it is a form of legal prejudice and it constitutes human rights.  The homosexual community is able to marry in most states, and this issue correlates with that same movement.  The pitch for the paper is the fact that these people are capable of fighting for our country just as any other.  The complaint is the issue circulating the media and the types of attention it receives; from who, why, and where.  It is also the question of why it is an issue for some people that this form of “abuse” toward the homosexual  community should continue.  The moment is the people who support humanity, and we are in the era of the 2000.  This issue was probably legalized in the 1900’s or earlier.  We are of a different generation and we see people in a different spectum than before.

Pitch, Complaint, Moment

Crawford’s assumptions are quite clear and obvious in the article “Shop Class as Soulcraft”. Within the content of this piece, Matthew Crawford implies that people who become craftsmen are far more motivated and master one skill which they will do their entire lives while the average college student learns abundant skills and never really master one particular thing. College graduates seem to be content with just fulfilling what is necessary in the work place and do not go above and beyond as craftsmen usually do.
The pitch is that Crawford believes trade jobs are becoming a thing of the past. Trade jobs are often seen as less intelligent, less gratifying jobs when in fact, craftsmen feel more achieved and are happier throughout their life time than someone just sitting in a cubicle day to day. Matthew Crawford’s complaint is that people today believe they will be happier with a college education with a wide knowledge base than with a trade job. He believes this view is completely mistaken since tradesmen feel more rewarded for their hard work and skill than a college student. Although young people today believe they want to go to work at an office then go home to their families and they will be completely happy, Crawford does not think they will actually be happy with their job and they will wonder why they paid for an education that trained them for a job they really do not like. The moment of this article is written with intelligence to persuade the targeted readers (college students and those who received a college education). If Crawford did not make this writing sound intelligent, then there is almost no chance he could have persuaded the headstrong college students or graduates to think any different about skilled trade jobs.

Crawfords assumptions, pitch, complaint and moment.

In the article written by Matthew Crawford there is a distinct “basic ground of belief” that is generalized to; manual labor is under appreciated, and cubical working has least drive.  He believed that a “craftsman” did his job with intrinsic motivation, hence the the average worker bee in the office fulfill their duties for extrinsic motives.  The manual laborer had a trade right out of high school then spent the rest of their time getting better at their trade, hence the graduating college student is taught a variety of things without really mastering one solid trade.  The statement “college is a ticket to an open future” speaks volumes when comparing the the craftsman to “issue from logic of things rather than the art of persuasion.”

Crawford’s pitch was the fact that most people think that manual laborer’s are less than smart when in fact they’ve used  the knowledge of “volume, pressure, and temperature at a time when theoretical scientists were tied to the theory of heat.”  He then pointed out the fact that their findings weren’t so hot:)  He used the example of the “Vernier scale used on machinists” used in 1631 by handymen that measures in “discrete digital approximation to four decimal places.”  The skilled workers are painted to people who are under paid and over worked when in fact they have an overall life fulfilling satisfaction.  Their children may have more of a pride in them when looking at their father build something rather than knowing they have a picture up of them in their cubical.

The complaint in this article is the fact that younger generations are believing the so called American dream where they attend college for 4 years with or without a major decision on what they will do for the rest of their life.  They think that having some kind of desk job where they could wear a suite and tie, come home to their families and be happily ever after is what they will be satisfied with.  When in fact, they are forgetting that the “Soaring Technology Revolution” needs the handy man no matter how much the new millennium upgrades the lifestyles of people with a little money.  The comment made about the millionaire living next door is the “typical guy driving a pickup, with his own business in trades.”  He wants the teenagers and young adults to look at the manual laborer and learn his path and skill before settling to the painted picture made by society.

The moment in which this article is written is more of a college student context.  He uses language and dialect that even I as a 30 year old had to look up in a dictionary.  He assumed while writing to a bunch of college students or middle class young people that he would need to be persuasive to un-paint that picture that has been put in front of them their whole life.  The audience has more than likely been already influenced by their parents which may not steer them wrong.  He could not sound like a lesser educated person, persuading and audience to a sought lesser lifestyle without sounding as if he is intelligent and knows what he is talking about.

La’Tiesha Graham

CounterProductive Habits?? Alayna Morris

 I believe that Nicholas Carr experiencces counterproductive habits. He Believes in the internet yet he also believes that it has caused him to not be able to read the same as he use to be able too. He also believes he is no longer able to focus on one topic for a long period of time.

Our society has become a lazy generation, the internet is a fast and easy way to find anything we need. If that was taken away from us as a population nothing would get done anymore and it would take much more time for our generation today because most people today dont know how to do anything without the internet.

Alayna Morris

Is Carr a believer or a doubter? Alayna Morris

I think Carr is a doubter. Carr uses the internet and likes it, but even he states that people tend to just look for what they specifically need and it reduces our ability to learn, concentrate and obtain new knowledge.

I believe that google is a big help to us and our society. I really like using google, but i do believe google is making us not use our brains as much as we should be. I like using google, but i do believe it may cause our generation to start depending on it too much which is not good for the future of our society.

Alayna Morris

counterproductive habits

I do believe Nicholas Carr avoids counterproductive habits of mind. Although it may come off as though he has a lot of supportive evidence, he jumps to conclusions. He states that he cannot read the same way he use to be able to and he cannot focus as intently as in the past. He believes nearly everyone has these changes in their lives due to the internet. If we did not have the internet, a lot of people, in my opinion, would not know what was occuring throughout the world. The fact that he thinks the internet is making everyone stupid is a huge generalization.

Does Carr avoid counterproductive habits?

My name is La’Tiesha Graham.  In my opinion Carr is experiencing some counterproductive habits.  He must judge in order to come to an ultimate conclusion.  How he judged is done in a way that is appropiate for analytical writing.  He is supposed to “understand the issue rather than ruling the worth of the issue.”  Some examples of these methods are the different point of views gathered from some friends/people he knew, and stating case studies correlating the use of internet and cognition.

In contrast, the reason I believe he has developed counterproductive habits is because has fear of uncertainty.  For example, he states “my mind isn’t going, but it’s changing.”  This statement implicates that he is affraid of the fact that he is not thinking or reading the same way he was before the use of the internet.  Feeling this way may have started the question “is google making us stupid.”  Just because he feels stupid, does not make everyone else.  In addition to that, he is passing judgement on research done on-line.

He states “research that once required days in the stacks of periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minuetes.”  That fact may be true to Carr, but not for others.  I am not computer savey, so I would rather be able to look through an old newspaper, or a book rather than surfing the web.  Furthermore, a researcher must check the writer of the information for crudentials in order to see if they were valid in posting this information. 

Finally, Carr is blinded by habit; which would further explain his fear of the uncertain.  He is use to the long days of research, his “literary” friends are in the state of disfuction because they are not use to using the web.  These facts point out his obvious state of discomfort for him as well as the people he associates with.  The bottom line is, Carr is being very human in the article.  He does not like this sence of change, and is having a hard time conforming.  He gathered enough information to prove his thesis, he has a counterproductive sate of mind.