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Assignment #6

 Someone who I think of as successful, is author James Patterson. James Patterson is a well-known adult, and young adult author. He has been my idol since I was in the sixth grade, and I strongly look up to him as a muse and have read every single one of his books. I think of James Patterson as a successful person, because his books have sold more than 300 million copies and he was the first person to sell 1 million e-books. In 2016, Patterson topped Forbes's list of highest-paid authors for the third consecutive year, with an income of $95 million. He graduated with a B.A. in English from Manhattan College and with an M.A. in English from Vanderbilt University. He was known as Summa Cum Laude in both. Most of Patterson’s most popular books, have gone from books to filmography. His well-known one is from his Alex Cross book series. Patterson has written 147 novels since 1976. He has had 114 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York Times record for most #1 New York Times bestsellers by a single author, a total of 67, which is also a Guinness World Record. In recent years his novels have sold more copies than those of Stephen King, John Grisham, and Dan Brown combined. I think that this helps me in college, because James Patterson has inspired me to become not only a writer, but he has shown that with hard work and determination, that I can become anything that I set my mind too.  

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Assignment #5

Critical Question #1: If Carlos was the surrogate father to Starr when she was three, until six, while her birth father was in jail, why didn’t she stay with him? Wasn’t he the legal owner of Starr? 

My opinion of Maverick, since the beginning of the story, when he first came to Starr’s rescue, was that he was an understanding father, who did anything to protect his children. P. 6 Para. 1, Starr said, “...don’t mess with my dad...don’t mess with his kids.” Carlos seems like he wanted to keep Starr, always having her best interest at heart, which caused tension between her father, Maverick, and her Uncle, Carlos. If Maverick had even the slightest thought that Carlos taking his daughter would cause such tension, then maybe Maverick shouldn’t have gotten himself thrown in jail.

He should have found someone else to raise Starr for the short while that he was in jail.  Carlos helps Starr find the policeman who shot and killed Khalil. He punches out the officer who committed the murder, and then he ends up getting a leave of absence from the police force. I feel as if Carlos, her uncle, not her father, would do anything to find justice for Starr, and he did. Unlike her father, who I felt, if he really would do anything for Starr, then he would have helped to find the policeman who murdered Khalil, instead of telling Carlos in the kitchen, that Starr doesn’t need to find or talk to the man who did it. 

Critical Question #2: Why, when he had such a good home before, did DeVante join with the King’s Lord? Why couldn’t he just work a normal job, and not take the risk of going to jail or ending up dead to support for his mom and brother?

When you live in a good home, and have a fairly decent life, then it all one day falls to hell, you would do anything to protect your family, and sadly, that includes doing the worst to yourself, and unto others. DeVante, I felt like he felt obligated to his mother, which most of us do, and to his brother, being that they were the only family that he truly had. I felt as if DeVante just wanted more family. That his blood one probably just wasn’t enough for him. So, when he joins the King’s Lord, he feels like he has a family that he can stick with, but only if he does what they say, and he sells drugs for King. 

Of course, doing anything for your family, you being to realize the dark risk and the cost of the dangerous things that you are willing to do. DeVante became sad, and scared and it was his fear of pain, death, and loss, that drove him to Starr’s house, that drove him to asks Maverick for help out of such business. Maverick sends him to live with Carlos for the time being, because Carlos not only lives in the same neighborhood as DeVante, but he can keep him safe from King. At the end of the novel, the easiest way out is for him to turn against King with the rest of the gang, and King gets thrown in jail, because everyone says that the witness King as the cause of the fire. 

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Assignment #4

Face 6, looking at his face, attire and background, I believe he’s a photographer. His clothes make him seem like he is a nature photographer. Face 2, the guy is obesse, carrying a CVS bag and seems unhappy. I believe he has recently lost his job, and isn’t trying very hard to search for one. Face 4, he seems like he is a CEO of a major company. His apparel and clothing, his facial expression, make him seem serious. Like he’s a no nonsense man, who doesn’t take no for an answer.

I was very surprised to see what each occupation was.

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Assignment #3-Email

I think starting off their email with their complaint was good. They described the incident in full detail, and with some evidence, mentioned other students, without names, and they told this student what they should expect out of this professor. They explained that they were not aware of the rules that were put into place of the class, but when I read the sentence, “I wanted to sample classes”, I thought that wasn’t a very smart thing to mention, yet alone do. Why would they sample different classes, and end up paying for all of them, when she would end up only taking one? They were right, in my opinion, to say that the professor shouldn’t have excused them on the very first day of classes for being an hour late. That wasn’t right on the professors part. If the professor expects the student to be on time, and know the policy’s and the things that they expect from them, then they need to be fair and reasonable, and allow them to hear the rules and get the things that they missed. 

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Assignment #3-Article

In response to the article, “To (All)...rejected me”, I believe that this article was very true and relatable...at first. When they started off talking about how “ colleges say to be yourself” and then listing the things that colleges truly care about, I felt like I could relate to what Suzy Weiss. Until she began to sound like she was off her rocker. She started going on about her closet, and the things that she would have done differently. She said she “should have started...charity”, and I felt as if it were very wrong for her to say something like that. I felt as if she just let her anger of not getting into her dream college, get the better of her and she began to make inappropriate remarks, and talking about charities, donations, etc., that most people due for a living or for fun. She talked about how her mom abandoned her, and her siblings, and then she began saying how it was great. All of her complaints getting into a newspaper, knowing how some colleges work, this is only going to get most, or all of them, think she’s some crazy nutcase, and they definitely won’t accept her through petty threats and a life story. Some people have been through worse than her, and manage to make it into exceptional universities through hard work, and not letting anything stand in their way. 

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Assignment #2

I believe that Kairos is to perform an action. I believe that this undergraduate spent a lot of time in the first two paragraphs, really explaining who they are, and the things that they have done. I feel that if they were going to say such positive things about themselves, then they should have interviewed people that truly and honestly know them, and then have their word cited in the letter. I think that the last sentence in the second paragraph was not necessary. They didn't need to mention the, “ 3.93...pull-ups”. That, in my opinion was not very helpful to show how much they’re a hard worker. I thought that the third paragraph was a little messy, and could use some clean up in the beginning, “I say...hard worker.” Other than that, I believe paragraph three could use some rearranging and they could use put a little more effort into rewriting it. The fourth paragraph should be broken down. It is much longer than the others, and should break between the sentences, “I am proficient...efficiency.” and “I have...NYU.” I felt like it was good that he explained his position as a Research assistant and official CTED intern. I don’t like paragraph 5. The summarization is horrible, and it makes no sense. J.P. Morgan probably didn’t think that they were conceited and when they put that in their ending statement it seems as if over the course of all that training, and internships, it’s like they didn’t learn how to properly write a letter. I felt very on and off about this letter, and it seems like before they mail it to anyone, they should have someone look over it, and revise it, before they consider turning it in.  

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My last example is of Ethos. With this picture, it felt like a debate. If I were a person debating weather or not to drink Coke or Pepsi products, I might have a hard time deciding. So, when Pop Star Beyonce, colors her lips and tells me to put on my "Dancing Shoes ", it makes the decision a little easier, because I may be a Beyonce Fan, and drink Pepsi, because Beyonce "drinks" Pepsi. She may not really drink it, she may prefer Coke Products, but because I see her doing an advertisement for Pepsi, I'm going to drink it too, because she does.

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For Pathos, I have decided to do this picture. In this picture, it shows a young girl around the age of four or five. She is smiling and seems happy. Then you notice the words in bold red, DEAD. The course of the young girls death is Drunk Driver. She was killed by a man/woman who decided to drive around intoxicated, and they hit this innocent child. It shows Pathos, because it pulls at your heart. The innocent child was killed because of recklessness, and it makes you really think, what if that was me or what if I was the one who decided to drive around intoxicated, and I hit her. It makes you feel pity and anger, and I thought it was a good example of Pathos

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For my logos project, I chose to use the Double Vision picture. This represents logos to me, because the image seems 3D. Double Vision is a Film Studio, that creates videos, shorts, films,etc. I thought this would be a good representation because it there are two sets if glasses. Years ago, film glasses were red and blue in the lenses, in order to get the images on the screen to pop out at the audience. The studio, Double Vision used the two colors, and the two glasses, to represent that they make films and are a Film Studio