King Donko's Blog City http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer Just another Blog.lsc.edu weblog Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:25:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en final Topic http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/24/final-topic/ http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/24/final-topic/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:25:24 +0000 dustinpeer http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/24/final-topic/ I am almost positive that i am going to write my fianl paper on aparthied diamonds.  Many if not most of our diamonds come from countries which enslave their population in order to mine them. 

Questions:

1) Why would someone want to wear a diamond mined by slaves?

2) Does it really concern the person who decides to?

3) What can be done about the problem?

]]> http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/24/final-topic/feed/ Rogerian Arguments http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/17/rogerian-arguments/ http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/17/rogerian-arguments/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:02:51 +0000 dustinpeer http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/17/rogerian-arguments/     The Rogerian approach to arguments is fairly interesting.  To find a common ground between two arguments the people involved will first have to put their differneces aside.  This would make for a far less stressful argument.  It may also make it a little more civilized.  It seems to me that this type of argument isn’t necessrily used for persuasion, though.  Rogerian style is more suitible for an area that must be resolved.  If it is necessary for two sides to come to an agreement Rogerian style would be the best to use.  However, when it comes to persuasion I feel that it is important to stand behind your ideals and be defensive when they are attacked.  You need to protect your convictions in order to let other people know the seriousness of what you are saying.  If you fold then your argument lacks validity.  Rogerian style is good to keep the civility in an argument, but all in all it seems to me that it would ultimately take away from the spirit of it.

]]> http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/04/17/rogerian-arguments/feed/ Blog 3 http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/03/29/blog-3/ http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/03/29/blog-3/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:56:58 +0000 dustinpeer http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/03/29/blog-3/ Who would I choose if I could interview anyone I wanted to from beyond the grave.  I suppose I suppose I would have to choose Bradley Nowell of Sublime.  I passed away in the 1990’s and left one of the greatest music projects behind ever.  When he died so did his politically charged and powerful lyrics that were years ahead of their time.

Here are three questions I would ask him:

1) Where did you get your motivation?

2) Did drugs positively or negatively affect your music?

3) Was it hard being white and tackling the racial problems affecting the African Americans and Hispanic?

]]> http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/03/29/blog-3/feed/ Blog 2 (local issues) http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/02/26/blog-2-local-issues/ http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/02/26/blog-2-local-issues/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:47:43 +0000 dustinpeer http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/02/26/blog-2-local-issues/ Minnesota Tuition Hikes

Minnesota has the second highest tuition rates in the nation.  One way of looking at this is that the schools can afford to offer more courses and extra curicular programs.  The other side is that school is more expensive.  School is a neccesitiy to do well in life these days, and it is hard for lots of people to  afford it.

City Workers and DUI’s

Local officials are debating wether or not to fire city workers after they have recieved DUI’s.  One side wants to suspend DUI’s for city workers so they can keep working for the citiy.  They say that getting a DUI of duty does neccesarily mean that they are unfit for driving plows and trucks.  The opposing side says that it is dangerous for people with DUI’s to be driving public utility vehicles. 

]]> http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/02/26/blog-2-local-issues/feed/ Blog 1 - Chapter 6 http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/02/06/blog-1-chapter-6/ http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/02/06/blog-1-chapter-6/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:19:37 +0000 dustinpeer http://blog.lsc.edu/dustinpeer/2007/02/06/blog-1-chapter-6/     The seciton of this chapter that pertained to paper 1 the most, in my opinion, was the section on structure.  “Anatomy of a News Story” covered how to structure a proper news story.  The biggest point was the inverted pyramid.  The inverted pyramid structure goes as follows: News leads (summary first), most important details, and finally the least important details.  This is a new concept to me.  When i read new stories I don’t always read the enitre article.  Instead, i skim them looking for the main points and information.  I find this is good way to avoid the biasis found in lots of news paper and magazine articles.  Because of this I have never taken the stucture of any article into thought.  It will be difficult for me to write paper 1 because I am more acustom to creative writing rather than structured, censored writing.

    Another section that will help with me with my interviews in the paper is the section about quotations.  I learned that when you quote someone you always follow the quote with “said” then the speaker and their title.  In creative writing one can replace the word “said” with any word that fits: “Sighed”, “explained”, etc.  Also, in creative wrting one may place the speaker infront of the quotation in ored to to add a different mood or structure to the piece.  In a news story placing the speaker before the quotation only serves to slow the story down.  This does not benefit the article.  When people read news they want well executed, concise information.

    This chapter did help me to understand more about writing news articles.  More so, it made me realize how little I actually knew.  If I had not read this chapter I would have been in the dark on this paper.  Hopefully I have enough of an understanding to earn a decent grade on paper 1.

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