Chapter Sixteen

This chapter sixteen in et. Al Lundsford brought my attention to a lot of things. This chapter is very important for college students who are trying to make the best out of their essays. This chapter is very vital to support your evidence, because it happens very often where a lot of us are not sure if that information we have actually counts as evidence. After reading this chapter, you should be able to present and give your evidence to its strongest potential.

There are several ways to collect evidence from—

- Observations-
When you decide what you want to find out and you observe what you are about to find. It is important for you to make sure that the observation relates directly to your claim, brainstorm before you go and look, develop a system for collecting data, be aware that the way you record your data will affect your outcome, and record the precise date, time, and place.

-Interviews
Determine the exact purpose of the interview, set up an interview in advance, prepare your list of questions, record the exact information, and be sure to thank those you interview.

-Survey and Questionnaires
Write out your purpose, brainstorm the questions you could ask which is really important, figure out how many people you want to contact which is the most vital thing you can do because sometimes it all comes down to how many and who you asked. Make sure your questions is not biased, and it is very important that anyone would not misunderstood your questions because if they do then you lose the whole point.

-Experiments
This relates to science greatly, but for subjects that are looser- experiments could work as evidence to support an argument. You could do an experiment to prove the point you are trying to make.

-Personal Experiences
This is by the far most common evidence. This evidence is so popular but sometimes it doesn’t work because it is up to people to believe if what you are saying is the truth. That is not easy because you have to really get people’s trust before you can say and make people believe what you are saying is reliable.

In Cancan’s blog, she mentioned, “While all the other aspects of firsthand evidence and research are respectable and probably will carry just as equally well. I frankly prefer to use my own personal experience and online sources mainly because it is not difficult and pretty much straightforward.” I can say I agree with what she said. I do tend to lean on my personal experiences or online sources because they are basically easy and provide us much less work to do.

Evaluation of Pan's Labyrinth

Hello Dr. Wood’s class readers,

The movie Pan’s Labyrinth directed by the fabulous Del Toro captured millions of people all over the world. Del Toro gave all of us an image that we have never witnessed before, breaking thousand and thousands of rules. Making this film, Del Toro stepped out of the common standard movies in this world and made it exotic and addictive for many.
Del Toro did not just stop when the movie got too gruesome, but continued and made it very hard to take your eyes off the television even though you’re cringing at the sight of the violence. In the part where the captain hit one man’s nose repeatedly with a bottle of wine, I wanted to take my eyes off that scene so bad. But, it was too captivating for me to take my eyes off the television.

Don’t believe me that the movie was complete out of the box? I’m not worried because I have every proof that it was. Pan’s Labyrinth got so much attention that it had to be nominated for an Academy Award. It is one of the biggest recognition you can get in the film world. Pan’s Labyrinth won Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Art Direction and Best Achievement in Makeup. I do not need to say more. It was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, Original Screenplay, Art Direction, and Original Score. It was nominated for seven statues and it walked away with three statues. It is even already a big honor to be even nominated, and for Pan’s Labyrinth to walk away with three statues is a big BIG honor.

“I knew that it was almost impossible for Pan's Labyrinth not to walk away without at least one statue but to come away as the second biggest winner of the night is pretty big…. It is not very

 often that we get the spotlight shone on films in our genre [horror]. But a man as talented a Guillermo del Toro was bound to have a film that won some awards.”

Critics was not surprised to see that Pan’s Labyrinth has achieved a lot of things, because the director did not stop at original idea of most movies, but stepped outside of box bringing something NO one has seen before. I mean winning an academy award says a lot of things. A must see movie.

http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_7584.html

Evaluation of Pan's Labyrinth

Hello Dr. Wood’s class readers,

The movie Pan’s Labyrinth directed by the fabulous Del Toro captured millions of people all over the world. Del Toro gave all of us an image that we have never witnessed before, breaking thousand and thousands of rules. Making this film, Del Toro stepped out of the common standard movies in this world and made it exotic and addictive for many.
Del Toro did not just stop when the movie got too gruesome, but continued and made it very hard to take your eyes off the television even though you’re cringing at the sight of the violence. In the part where the captain hit one man’s nose repeatedly with a bottle of wine, I wanted to take my eyes off that scene so bad. But, it was too captivating for me to take my eyes off the television.

Don’t believe me that the movie was complete out of the box? I’m not worried because I have every proof that it was. Pan’s Labyrinth got so much attention that it had to be nominated for an Academy Award. It is one of the biggest recognition you can get in the film world. Pan’s Labyrinth won Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Art Direction and Best Achievement in Makeup. I do not need to say more. It was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, Original Screenplay, Art Direction, and Original Score. It was nominated for seven statues and it walked away with three statues. It is even already a big honor to be even nominated, and for Pan’s Labyrinth to walk away with three statues is a big BIG honor.

“I knew that it was almost impossible for Pan's Labyrinth not to walk away without at least one statue but to come away as the second biggest winner of the night is pretty big…. It is not very

often that we get the spotlight shone on films in our genre [horror]. But a man as talented a Guillermo del Toro was bound to have a film that won some awards.”

Critics was not surprised to see that Pan’s Labyrinth has achieved a lot of things, because the director did not stop at original idea of most movies, but stepped outside of box bringing something NO one has seen before. I mean winning an academy award says a lot of things. A must see movie.

http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_7584.html

Purdue OWL website

Hello readers, hope you all had a great weekend. I sure did J

 

Have you all gone on the Internet to look for some websites that could help your argument look and has much more stronger points? I never once did that. I did not realize that there were websites out there that guided us through the arguments we are trying to present. It was really cool watching Dr. Wood giving us that PowerPoint presentation in the class last Friday.

 

            The OWL website basically guides us through our writing. Let’s admit it, people- we often do get stuck on our paper and spend hours sitting there by the computer thinking what’s the best way you could write your paper. When that happens, just go to http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. You are able to get everything you need to write your paper in this website.

 

            You need to write your thesis statement? You need to develop an outline? You need to figure out what to say in your introduction? You need to know how to do APA citation? The questions just do not stop there. Any questions can be answered in that website. The impressive thing about this website is its organization because there are so many things on this website and yet it looks really clean. It has tabs in general words like “Research and Citation” and when you click on it, it opens up different tabs like APA format, Avoiding Plagiarism, Internet References and so on. On that website, we won’t get lost with a lot of information because its organization is really well done. 

 

            I decided to check out other websites that could give me same information as the OWL website could. I came across this website http://writing.colostate.edu/index.cfm. I was really unimpressed with how it presented itself compared to the OWL website. It did not provide concrete information as OWL website provided us. I got very limited information, but one thing I could say that I wish OWL website had was the feedback on your writing. I saw on other websites that you could submit your work in the website and get feedback on it. It is a great way to be very confident with your work when the day you have to turn in your work.

 

So, overall- I would say I recommend the website to college students. It has all of the information to make your paper a success. A plus for you college students for sure ;)   

Pan’s Labyrinth

Hello my lovely readers!

 

Can you all imagine its October already?!? Time fliesssss especially on this campus. J

 

Have you all ever watched a movie that made you all think? Have you watched something that makes you question if there is anything out there that we do not know exist? That’s what the movie Pan’s Labyrinth does for me. The moment the movie ended, I sat there for like five minutes watching the end credits just thinking. I can say that there is not a movie that is like Pan’s Labyrinth. I love movies with passion, and there wasn’t a movie that was just like Pan’s Labyrinth. But… here’s the shocking thing-

            I did not like the movie. I know, that’s really shocking. I started this movie thinking I would love it especially because almost everyone in the class loves it. Dont hate me because i didnt like it! haha. Maybe I got my hopes too high about this movie, but I think I did not like the movie because of my taste in movies is not anything like Pan’s Labyrinth. It definitely made me think, but I ended up with all of the thoughts about how this movie is not anything near real to me. I’m a big lover of movies that is real, and I think that’s what ruined the movie for me. I can imagine why everyone liked the movie, but there were some parts that I think I would have changed.

            I have to admit that the costumes, and the way they filmed the movie is AMAZING. I was in awe that they designed something like that, I mean- I look up to the director for even thinking of those looks. The director is definitely good, and I know I would have loved the movie if I were into that kind of movie. I felt that the movie focused on a lot of different points, which was annoying. The movie focused on things ranging the war and to the fawn. I got confused in the middle of the movie because I did not get how it was important. If the movie did not have any war going on and focus on the girl and the underworld, it would be better. I felt in some ways that the movie was summarized because they did not have enough time. The whole point of the movie was about the girl and her fantasy world, but let’s be honest- the movie focused on that for about an hour out of entire movie. I felt it was rushed in a way. I hoped for more about the immortal world and less of the real world. I would like if it was focused more on the real world, but for this movie- the immortal world seemed like it should be the biggest point in the movie. I do not see any point in that. The scenes in the movie felt not completed. Watching the scenes, I expected more but received less. For example, when the girl met the pale man- I was so immersed in that part and got disappointed when it ended so quickly. 

 I think the tasks she had to do could have been expressed in a longer way.

            But, I can understand why this movie is one of the best movies out there. I do understand that. I wish I were into that kind of that movie more. I praise Del Toro for creating something that is unique, and something that has never been made.

martha ~

Derek Bok in Lunsford et al. revised

Hey you all my readers!

Hope you all had a good weekend, I sure did! J

 

Here is the revised blog.

 

For this blog, I decided to read Protecting Freedom of Expression at Harvard (Lunsford et al) and it was very biased in my option. I think Bok just gave us all of the information and leaves it up to our thoughts but biased at the same time. He is hoping to achieve his hope of making all of us think and come up with our conclusion about this argument. It presented information heavily on how he felt about the situation. Bok did explain how the meaning “Free Speech” is confused because some lines were crossed but people say it is just freedom to speech. Bok believes that everyone should be able to voice whatever he or she believe in, but to put flag out there to show everyone is crossing the line. It is tough situation because if the university decided not to allow that, then the students would feel that their right to voice their option is prevented.

            There was one situation that happened in 2005 with one public figure- Prince Harry. Prince Harry is the son of the late Princess Diana, so he is a huge public figure and he shocked the world with what he did. Prince Harry went to one party wearing Nazi armband. People all over the world were outraged, because here he is- one of the greatest public figure of all times wearing a Nazi armband. His mother was a huge public figure, and she helped so many people all over the world so people did not expect that coming from him. It was tough to judge because he is allowed to wear and voice whatever he wants to, but is something like that considered “Free Speech” ? He should be allowed to wear the armband, but where is his respect? I think we all are allowed to voice our beliefs and options but there are a line that we should not cross.

            It is really hard to judge situations like this, and I thought that Bok presented his options and facts very well. He seemed very trustworthy because he used situations as the Harvard University incident. People can relate to the situation, since it happened at really reliable place. If you Google up the Harvard incident; I’m sure there would be a lot of reliable stories that applied to Bok’s argument. I felt like I believed and agreed with what he said. What happened in Harvard is something that happens everywhere in this world, and basically we cannot find any solutions to those situations because it is really hard to measure if it is right or wrong.

Bok said, “For several years, universities have been struggling with the problem of trying to reconcile the rights of free speech with the desire to avoid racial tension.” That’s what I’m trying to say. It is hard to abide by the First Amendment when there are situations like this where it is really tough. You cannot measure the situation and decide if it is not following the first Amendment or if it does abide by the First Amendment.

            I thought that Bok presented this situation and provided two sides to this argument and the same time, be biased. That’s when you know you are a great writer; when you type a paper presenting your side and your enemy’s side also. 

Derek Bok in Lunsford et al.

I decided to read Protecting Freedom of Expression at Harvard (Lunsford et al) and it was very biased in my option. It presented information heavily on how he felt about the situation. Bok did explain how the meaning “Free Speech” is confused because some lines were crossed but people say it is just freedom to speech. Bok believes that everyone should be able to voice whatever he or she believe in, but to put flag out there to show everyone is crossing the line. It is tough situation because if the university decided not to allow that, then the students would feel that their right to voice their option is prevented.

            There was one situation that happened in 2005 with one public figure- Prince Harry. Prince Harry is the son of the late Princess Diana, so he is a huge public figure and he shocked the world with what he did. Prince Harry went to one party wearing Nazi armband. People all over the world were outraged, because here he is- one of the greatest public figure of all times wearing a Nazi armband. His mother was a huge public figure, and she helped so many people all over the world so people did not expect that coming from him. It was tough to judge because he is allowed to wear and voice whatever he wants to, but is something like that considered “Free Speech” ? He should be allowed to wear the armband, but where is his respect? I think we all are allowed to voice our beliefs and options but there are a line that we should not cross.

            It is really hard to judge situations like this, and I thought that Bok presented his options and facts very well. I felt like I believed and agreed with what he said. What happened in Harvard is something that happens everywhere in this world, and basically we cannot find any solutions to those situations because it is really hard to measure if it is right or wrong. 

Bok said, “For several years, universities have been struggling with the problem of trying to reconcile the rights of free speech with the desire to avoid racial tension.” That’s what I’m trying to say. It is hard to abide by the First Amendment when there are situations like this where it is really tough. You cannot measure the situation and decide if it is not following the first Amendment or if it is all right.

            I thought that Bok presented this situation and provided two sides to this argument and the same time, be biased. That’s when you know you are a great writer; when you type a paper presenting your side and your enemy’s side also.