REVIEW/NOTES
Stuff we read:

• "The Laughing Heart" By Charles Bukowski

1. Be optimistic and find the good in every situation
2. Be happy and stay positive, seeing the glass half full than half empty, to find the light in all darkness
3. To accept the unexpected situations and use it as a learning experience.

• "The Right To Your Opinion" By Jamie Whyte

1. Whyte enlisted the many ways in which one misuses the phrase "the right to your opinion" this shows that a person wrongfully has believed the idea that their opinion is true. "The Right To Your Opinion" shows that when a person is told that they have a right and they try to pursue it, then get denied it has then violated their rights. "The Right To Your Opinion" is a misleading statement because you are not necessary guaranteed that you are able to do certain things.
2. Argumentation-search for truth
3. Euphemism- to make someone seem distasteful.
4. Entitlement- obligation

• "A Modest Proposal" By Jonathon Swift

1. Meets the criteria of a satire. Swift advises that eating children and selling them in markets as food is a solution to aiding the Irish in their economic problems. He is clearly saying that people should be aware that there is a prodigious amount of children starving in their country and that no one is aware of this crisis.  

• "Conscience Of A Hacker" AKA The Hacker's Manifesto

1. All adults criticize us and sees us all alike.
2. Commit errors because we are all alike.
3. No one can stop us from being alike.

• "Politics and The English Language" By George Orwell

1.  language is "ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”  he is clearly trying to say that we make many awful mistakes when writing and are habits of using language is easy for us to make foolish thoughts.

• "Self-Reliance" By Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Trust Thyself
2. https://www.mindmeister.com/778560104

• "A Sound of Thunder"

• "Immigrants in our own land"

1. Expectation vs Reality
2. Prison
3. The land of opportunity

• Ethos, Logos and Pathos

1. Ethos- speakers credibility, persuade audience by reason Ex: formal dress, the way one speaks, "As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results."
   
2. Logos - Logic, using text or rhetoric Ex:"History has shown time and again that absolute power corrupts absolutely."
   
3. Pathos- an appeal to emotion, have an emotional response Ex: "You should consider another route. I heard that that street is far more dangerous and ominous at night than during the daytime."
   

• Extrinsic vs Intrinsic

1. Extrinsic- to do things you don't want to do, in which people reward you for it. Motivation from the outside. 
2. Intrinsic- to do things you want to do. Motivation in the inside.

• Logical Fallacies

1. Ad Hominem- attacking a person instead of their argument Ex: how can you say you are raw vegan when your eating cooked vegetables
2. Straw man- "misrepresents a position to make it seem weaker than it is"
3. Red Herring- something intended to be misleading, distraction from what is truly important Ex: "When someone changes the subject in an attempt of avoiding the question."
4. Post hoc ergo proper hoc- after this, therefore results to this...
5. Slippery Slope- a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. Ex: legalizing gay marriage in California can lead to other states like Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky  to legalize gay marriage.

• Taboo Language -  words or phrases that are to not be acceptable in society 

1. Bad Words- F**k, B***h
2. Catharsis- the process of releasing emotions
3. Syllogism- A simple form of logic, finding truth or validity

• Satire- the use of irony, humor, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices. 
• Denotation vs Connotation

1. Denotation- literal meaning of a word Ex: It's so fresh outside
2. Connotation- socially popular meaning of the word