Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Butler vs. Ball State
This past weekend the Ball State Cardinals took on the Butler Bulldogs in men's basketball at Warthern Arena. My friends and i decided to go and watch because Butler had been very good in the past and watching good teams play is fun. We honestly did not know we had any chance of winning. As the game progresses we started to gain confidence in our team as we were keeping the lead trough the whole first half. Going in to the last 3 minutes we were winning but not by much. It was very nerve racking so my fiends and I decided to rip tiny pieces of news paper and made our own confetti to throw in the air once we won. This helped us keep our hopes up and instilled faith in our team. The final buzzer sounded, the crowd cheered, and confetti flew!! It was a fun time with friends in Ball State's campus!
The Link to The Common Freshmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WakCIsMro4c&list=HL1323805810&feature=mh_lolz
Inventing arguments
Chapter three of Envision talks about creating your own arguments through the use of the canons of rhetoric. It then talks about how all of the canons can be used to invent an argument. This made me think of all the times that I have created debate cases to present at tournaments. I begin with a simple idea relating to the provided topic. Then I expound on the topic by creating a plan to act on the ideas I had come up with. When thinking about how to go about the writing of the case I think explicitly about the audience I will be speaking to and how they will react to the ideas to present. Sometimes it takes me a few tries to figure out how to create a case that everyone can agree with. The other parts of the chapter that I can’t use in debate include things like the visuals. Although in my speech I did use visuals to convey a more powerful message to my audience. On the other hand when writing a persuasive paper I have to include both sides of the issue to the reader. The reason I would do this is to bring up new arguments. Within an argumentative paper one can use the other side of the issue to create new arguments of their own. The author can point out how the arguments presented are flawed. This is what I learned from chapter three of Envision and I learned some of these things from debate to.
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