idea for Group project

I have good idea for my team "the best" to write their memo on.  The School of forestry and agriculture is not longer thanks to budget cuts that have taken nearly 50% of the money for the past two years.  It is sad that the major that has helped me so much over the past four years cease to exist.
     This is where my idea comes into play.  The college is going to need memos to tell people about the changes that are occurring or already have.  Writing a memo of this magnitude will be one of the better ones I think. I am going to ask the head of the old school of forestry Pat Layton and see if she has any chances for us to do it.  Clemson may not let us do it due to public relation reasons, but it is worth a try anyway.

That's right, I said it

I was saddened the other day after riding by Bowman field in the afternoon on my way back from school.  I looked out across the field and saw three things. There were some kids playing lair up under the trees, and then some ultimate frisbee players, and some kids playing soccer.

I was saddened because the kids that everybody usually makes from of, the kids playing lair, were the best athletes on the field that day.

That's right folks, I said it. I do not view soccer or ultimate frisbee as sports or as taking any particular skill level above being able walk. I know, you have to be in shape or not have a lot of ambition to touch and stand there if you want to play.  But honestly, thats its one requirement, run around.  What happened to the days when every little kid wanted to grow up to be a football, baseball, or basketball star.  Now they just want to go to soccer practice.  They learn to get extra excited when one goal is scored. You don't see baseball players or football players go on a two minute love fest with each other because they score a run. No, they walk over and say good job because that is what you are supposed to do. 

I have never had the agony bestowed upon me of having to kick a soccer ball (thank God), nor have I competed in any of the other activities that were happening on Bowman that day.  I know that there are a ton of people that disagree with me, but there are probably a few that don't.  Madison is most likely one of them and anybody else that is a real athlete.

Just trying to stir some things up and make class a little more interesting

directions and practicing what you preach

I was just in Comm 250 class, yes I'm taking it a little late in my college career but it makes me one of the cooler people in the class because I'm older.

One speech was on how to implement a capitalistic system.  The person giving the speech did a good job on presenting how America had been set up to help people that work hard.  He told how the government had limited interaction and companies were allowed to make their own decisions that could hurt or help them.  What he did after that was what caught my eye.

We started having a discussion on advertisement and whether or not it should be regulated.  The general view of the class was that the government should decide how much a company should invest in advertising.  I was on the other side, because if it is your money, you can do with it what you want to.  I felt that I would have another team mate, the person that had given the directions on how to set up a capitalistic system. This was not the case, he stated that there should be set quantities on how much companies should spend on advertising.  Well, that killed his capitalistic directions because he totally went against them.  So my question is how do you take directions from somebody that does not believe what they are giving the directions on?  it is somewhat like do as I say, not as I do.

directions

I will give it to the people that write directions for a living. It is rather hard to phrase everything in a manner that just regular people will be able to understand.  Every time I start to write my instructions, I have to go back and rethink about how to dull them down so somebody without hardly any technical background can follow them.  But they also have to be good enough that somebody with technical background will use them and not cast the directions aside.  That could lead to even more problems since they didn't follow them because they thought that they already knew the directions by seeing the first couple steps that most would probably know
         The fire extinguisher directions get straight to the point and are easy to use.  Just about anybody that has the function of their arms is should be capable of following the directions.  Just pull the little pin, aim and shoot.  while the directions that I'm writing are a little more complicated and there probably needs to be some technical background to understand them.  I want to make it as easy as the fire extinguisher directions.

bitzer's rhetorical situations

I like how Bitzer showed that it is up to the speaker to decide whether or not to make a rhetorical situation out of any situation.  The speaker may be compelled to do so out of exigence, but none the less, it is their decision.  The speaker may be presented with a situation that is worthy of making a rhetorical situation, but they may not due the audience's stance or intelligence.  like Aristotle said, there is no use wasting you words on lost causes (that quote is paraphased a lot).
   Obama had an opertune time to make is Ramadan dinner a rhetorical situation.  He was surrounded by ilsamic leaders and also had a pressing issue at hand with the mosque in manhatten.  Obama could have gone on with the dinner, but he decided to speak about the mosque. Why not? He had an audience that would like the comments he was about to make so it was a win-win situation.  Others had been waiting on him to comment so he commented on the mosque at a time where it would be most worth his comment.  Obama turned a regular dinner into a rhetorical situation by seeing that he had the best opportunity to comment on an important event and to an audience that would appreciate it.