October 2020

In Celeste Headlee’s Ted Talk she primarily described all the ways in which we fail to pay attention but rather just try to show it through eye contact or nodding our head. She then takes the time to demonstrate that if you are really paying attention there should be no need to pretend to look as if you are. With this she springs her discussion into the long list of what you can do to better improve your conversational skills. Containing ten tactics one of which stuck with me because i do often see myself struggling with; letting your thoughts flow. What she means is when you’re listening to a story and you remember something pertaining to that you stick on that and then don’t listen to the rest of what they are saying. I find myself doing this frequently which is why I took this and am trying to better myself in this way.

“So now the Democrats are using Mail Drop Boxes, which are a voter security disaster. Among other things, they make it possible for a person to vote multiple times. Also, who controls them, are they placed in Republican or Democrat areas? They are not Covid sanitized. A big fraud!”

 

The tweet shown above was posted on the social media platform Twitter. This tweet was published by President Donald Trump. Trump is currently the active president of the United States of America. Although President Donald Trump uses other social media platforms to spread information, it seems as though twitter is his primary source for reaching out to the public and addressing topics such as the one above.

In this tweet President Donald Trump expresses tremendous concerns towards the voting mail drop boxes. Which he then stresses is a voter security disaster as these boxes could easily be tampered with or unsecured. This and the fact that citizens could easily vote multiple times is a huge discomfort to the president and many others. Another point the president aimed at was the topic of who exactly was controlling these mail in voting boxes, and more specifically are they placed in certain areas by these people, Democratic populated zones or Republican? President Donald Trump then goes into the fact of the COVID-19 pandemic saying how these mail in boxes are not even sanitized properly for covid and how they could pose a threat to your health and others. Finally President Trump displays his amassed view on the situation debasing it as a big fraud.

Throughout this post on twitter the president expresses his overall concerns towards the entire fiasco, displaying his reasoning as a list with background information to persuade the American people that this fraudulent scam will not be taken lightly and he will find an end to this, as this would corrupt our government. To further amplify what he is saying the president takes short sentences describing the problems with these machines and orders them in a row to greater catch the magnitude of this topic and how tremendously it can impact the world we live in today. 

President Donald Trump’s main purpose and goal throughout this tweet is to portray to the american people the informalities and conflicts that have arisen from these mail in vote boxes. Persuading people to take action and not stand for this, to call for in person voting only nd cast away the mail in vote boxes.

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Rebecca Jones. “Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic?”  Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1,
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	The article goes into a lengthy and informative presentation that portrays the term argumentative in a number of ways. Beginning with the effect that occurs from the cause of arguments and head to head differing views on important topics and matters, conflict. Conflict can be displayed in a multitude of ways the most common being physical violence and fighting which in turn can lead to international conflict and war. This can lead to many dire and unfit outcomes like famine, pollution and death. Ultimately the article develops an informative and educational analysis over the complexity and magnitude over the argumentative definition.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	A concept they described in the article that i thought was different was the way they introduced the ideas of the rules of  Frans van Eemeren.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	This reading correlates with some of our other argumentative pieces in class through the way they discuss how they take the argument they’re trying to prove and compel it to the truth.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	Do you believe all major conflicts originate from a poorly started argument?