Message to Mothership

Part 1: Rhetorical Analysis on "Armchair Warlords and Robot Hordes" by Paul Marks

Part 2:

Jackson's points on the context of Barbara Jordan

1.) Jordan was a member of a political party opposite Nixon and had to prove she had no bias

2.) Jordan was also from Texas and fairly new to congress so she had to earn their trust which is why she had to present herself as fair, knowledgeable, and intellectually mature

3.) Jordan is also an African American which influences how she, the rhetor, views the constitution
       

Jackson's points on the text of Barbara Jordan

1.) She was not just addressing the House Judiciary Committee but made sure that she gave a more open and public speech to appeal to a larger audience

2.) After gaining the audience's trust by using ethos she reminds the audience of the fact that they are potential victims and uses powerful words that demonize Nixon as a tyrannical president swollen with power

3.) Jordan used statements found in the constitution, uses evidence from state Constitutional Conventions, and quotes a supreme court Justice to give her more credit and create a definition of impeachment for her audience

Contextual and Textual Observations of Barbara Jordan's Speech not Addressed by Jackson

         
Contextual-Jordan mentions all congress has to do such as tax reform, health insurance, housing, environmental protection, and mass transportation, all of which remind the audience of the hardships in the U.S. during this time and invoking in them both emotion and the logical reasoning that they should impeach Nixon
       
Textual-Jordan does not only quote Madison and others but name drops and tells stories to build her credibility(ethos)

Tyler Roth first writing prompt

Was anybody else as excited as I was to see Josh walk in the classroom? I was fearful that we might have had a putrid, old, monotonous, and uptight teacher. I don’t feel very good about my writing but I don’t feel bad about it either. My favorite kind of writing is the writing where you have no limitations because then you are able to actually say what you are thinking. When you write like this on a blog or for a friend I feel like more people can relate and you have more fun while you are writing it yourself. In writing classes before, I kind of just coasted by because I knew all of my teachers which in turn made it easier to get away with turning papers in late and fooling around in class. It was ok with me though because we always focused on spelling and grammar and those two things just aren’t very important to me. In English 15 I’m looking forward to learning about different writing styles because I have always wanted to learn how to make my writing more persuasive to the audience I’m trying to appeal to.