Good Morning,
Today is April 2,2014 and it's been awhile since I've been on my blog. Because of other homework assignments both for this class and for my Spanish class, time has been at a premium. I wish I were a faster thinker and worker. In English Comp 2; the class that I'm writing this blog for, we've been reading about Artificial Intelligence. It's a very interesting subject, although I think some of the writers of the articles that we were required to read are just goofy, wondering is a robot can have a soul or could be classified as a human.
As I said; in my opinion they are wasting time. When I was a kid in grade school, I remember thinking how cool it would be to have a machine that we could put out text books into and it would pop out our homework, all finished and totally correct. I imagined in my mind this big box like those that washing machines might come in. I couldn't have believed back then that today we'd have computers in every home and are able to access so much information. My desk top doesn't do my homework for me, but it sure makes some of it easier. Life is so funny sometimes.
Well, that was a little rabbit trail; what I really want to write about today is the assigned #3 essay on Persuasion. Two things I'm not good at is arguments and persuasion. I absolutely hate and avoid arguments, however, I understand that this is slightly different in that these arguments are of a friendly sort, used in order to prove a point of view. In essay #3 I am to write a persuasive paper with at least 3 arguments that are from the research work that I've done for my research paper; about the early days of Wichita. I have thought and thought about what arguments I have encountered during my searching out information for this paper.
I believe one that I might use is a disagreement between James Mead and another man; who I will have to look up in my blog; who disagreed about the treatment of the Native American Indians, particularly the Wichita Indians. The other argument is one between James Mead and some of the other founding fathers of Wichita, concerning the naming of Wichita. What the third argument will be, I don't know yet, but I'm sure there's one in there somewhere. Then to take these arguments and put them into a persuasive form. It's going to be interesting to see how this comes out. I believe this paper is due next Wednesday, which means I have a week to get it ready...Oh, my little brain!!!!
Well, stay tuned and I will try to fill you in on my progress as I work through this assignment. By the way, thanks for listening to my ramblings.
Cheri