Fruit Loops: A Diversary Analysis

Joining the newspaper discourse community was one of the greatest achievements in my high school career and that was only possible by gaining intellect about the community, securing my place on the team by proving myself, and by continuing to learn from my experiences.

Throughout high school, I harbored a deep admiration for debate and dreamed of joining the team. Its quintessence of ideals in rational argument, tolerance for conflicting points of view, and rigorous self-examination appealed strongly to me. Yet simple things, like pronouncing a word wrong or having an accent, were enough to hold me back. Thus, I passed through my high school years unnoticed.

Global debates are dominated by controversial political figures that use charged arguments to debate the most controversial issues on the political agenda. The authors argue that success in politics is not about being right or well-reasoned. Instead, it is asserted that success in politics is the ability to imprint positive associations in the long-term memories of voters. More so, success in politics is may be the ability to craft regular, credible, and persuasive arguments that resonate with those of one’s

People coming together to speak up for them. It is what most of us do most of the time. It is the best kind of advocacy where people feel able and willing to do so. This should always be worked towards.

Without that, I never would have learned about this remarkable passion of mine and my life would have been completely different and most likely would have been much worse without the things I learned from debating. In the end, whether I end up being right and getting that little bit of extra meaningless pride by defeating someone who I’ll never encounter again in an online battle of wits behind a mask of anonymity or being disgracefully wrong and learning as much as I can from my mistakes, debating is one of my favorite activities to partake in and I wouldn’t give it up for the world, although I’d welcome you to try and convince me

One of the many great rights of being an American citizen has been the ability and power to have a voice and for that voice to be heard by those place in a position of trust to make change happen. American’s have always had a reputation to be stubborn, loud and to stick up for what they believe in. This still continues today as each and every citizen of this great nation is entitled to a voice and that one voice is capable of making an impact all the way up to federal policies. The average American truly can impact the federal policymaking process, but it has to start at the lowest level first.

A local issue that is important to me would have to be Proposition 206 due to recent events. Proposition 206 is an initiated state statute that if passed would raise the state’s minimum wage and force employers to provide paid sick time. This proposition was passed 11/8/16 and will take initial effect on January 1st of next year where the minimum wage will raise from $8.05 per hour to $10 per hour and then $10.50 in 2018, $11 in 2019, and finally $12 in 2020. This is an issue in which many people are fooled into financially screwing themselves without even knowing it. These individuals that say they support a minimum wage are not aware of the actual outcome it causes. The initial thought is that people need a livable wage and therefore the

Innumerable issues have led to the current political climate here and around the world. The only behavior we can control, however, is our own. Communication and education are key to advancing the progressive movement. Together, we can learn to do better. In fact, we must. The future depends on it.

The first two lectures, the introduction to policy making and agenda setting, gave a good background to the topic and laid a good foundation on which to discuss more specific issues. The policy triangle and the basic policy making sequence both were easy to understand and gave a good overview of this complex process. The further discussion of agenda setting opened my eyes to the importance of deciding what even makes it to the table to be discussed. It is easy to forget that before topics can even be debated and addressed, someone has

I was given an opportunity to be more informed of political and social issues occurring in the United States by reading a variety of political articles written by Micheal Blow. I did not just read the first five articles I saw, but I did go through a selective process to find the columns with social topics that I valued most. In addition to worldly knowledge, through these tasks I was able to expand my knowledge of different writing styles, different view points, and different usage of rhetorical devices.

My previous work experience as reporter for my school's paper, Tiger’s Roar have provided me with a strong base of communication knowledge and helped me learn how

I learned what kind of influence pundits have on our culture, news, and opinions. They impact a majority of what we believe, as they feed us perspectives that allow us to criticize our own. We are forced to rethink our own views and evaluate what we are reading.

In the essay “Arguing on the Internet” the author tells of his inexperience in political debate, and how it shaped his future. (Poza, 2005) His story starts out by telling the readers, about the first time he posted a comment on the internet about gun control. Poza, was simply sharing his personal thoughts on the subject and what he got in return was profanity, disgust and the desire to persuade others by debating effectively. Poza shares some of his thoughts on learning to debate with others.

On Friday, February 26th and Saturday the 27th, South East High School held a debate event for high school students to discuss a topic. 450 students from schools across L.A. county attended this debate tournament. This was the second debate event I have attended and I really enjoyed it, and have never experienced anything like that before. More excited than nervous I came into it ready for the challenge, especially after hearing i was going to judge a debate alone, I took it as a way to learn more. I judged two rounds on the first day of Friday the 26th, arriving at 4:00pm, attended the judge training, which was helpful in explaining the debate format, topic, and scoring. Soon after, we all set off to find our rooms and begin round one!

In conclusion, the 2016 election really made some Americans think about important issues. From candidate’s policies not making sense to the