Analyzing a short piece of writing

Analysis of "Scientists May Have Finally Pinpointed What's Killing All The Honeybees"

This paper is about how a certain pesticide used on crops could be killing Honeybees.
 
Good Reasons and Evidence:
The Experiment
In October 2012, the Harvard team setup 18 hives at three locations in Massachusetts. At each location, four hives were fed high fructose corn syrup laced with neonicotinoids and two were left untouched. Researchers planned to monitor the hives over the winter since that's when the die-outs occur.
Bulletin of Insectology A chart shows the diminishing number of bees in imidacloprid- and clothianidin-treated colonies (the red and blue lines, respectively) between October 2012 and April 2013.
By the spring of 2013, researchers said half of the colonies treated with pesticides had abandoned their hives — the key symptom of CCD. The ones that were left weren't in good shape. Their honeybee clusters were very small and either lacked queen bees or developing bees, the study said.
Only one of the untreated colonies was lost, and in that case the bees' bodies were actually inside their hives and showed symptoms that appeared to be caused by a type of parasite.
The new study replicates a previous experiment done by the same group in 2010. In that study, the team only tested imidacloprid and found a higher rate of collapse — 94% of pesticide-treated colonies disappeared. They think the disparity might be related to a colder winter, which stresses the bees and exacerbates the effects of pesticides.
It's still not clear what role neonicotinoids play in causing the honeybees to leave their hives during the winter, but the researchers note that it might be related to "impairment of honey bee neurological functions, specifically memory, cognition, or behavior."
It's been previously suggested that neonicotinoids affect the bees' ability to remember how to get back to their hives. The bees get lost, which would explain why beekeepers usually can't locate the dead bodies.


Attention to more than one point of view: At IFLScience.com, entomologist Jake Bova notes that hive abandonment is not a definitive sign of CCD. "Honey bees may abandon their hives for any number of different reasons, and this study doesn’t control for any of them."

An appeal to readers' values: One-third of the food we eat depends on insect pollination, mostly by honeybees that are raised and managed by beekeepers. There is no good replacement for honeybees, which are easy to manage in masses and are unmatched in the variety of crops they can pollinate. Everything from apples and cherries to broccoli, pumpkins, and almonds depends on honeybees.


I think that they should've actually responded to someone's opinion that opposed to what they were saying so they could have been more credible.

In-Class-Lab 11/12

  They all targeted their audience on a Pathos level.

·         The other methods (logos and ethos) weren’t used as much.

·         The music created the sad, wistful, and ambiance mood.

·         They seemed like the deaths could have been easily prevented.

·         Target audience: teenage drivers.

·         Close-ups showed emotions on the family member’s faces.

After the tragedies, foundations were created to help prevent other families from going through the same hardships.

Texting and Driving

The video I watched was “AT&T Texting and Driving Documentary—“The Last Text””. This video is meant to be a message to drivers who text while driving. The video showed 3 people who risked and lost their lives in car accidents caused by them reading and / or replying to texts. 2 of the three people were girls who died, and one of the three people was a man would had a lot of brain damage from his accident. The man talked about how he is now not able to do most of the things that he was able to do before his accident, even walk. You could tell by the way he talked and moved that he had some sort of damage caused to him in his life. This video really grab’s the viewers’ attention by adding specific details about how the people involved in the accidents ended up (either dead or severely brain damaged), and how it affects their families day after day. They also showed gruesome pictures, footage from a memorial birthday party of one of the girls who died on what was going to be her 19^th birthday, and even the texts they were trying to send as they got into their accidents. Their texts were so average and unneeded, something that was not worth that cost of their life.

In-Class-Lab 11/10 How Things Mean

Peace Sign Buttons
                The first button suggests just peace symbol and fancy writing. The second basically says that peace is love not war, also that there is no love in war. The first button says “Peace”. The second button says “Make Love Not War”. They both have a universal peace sign. People wore these buttons in protest to the wars going on in the 60’s. The button on the left is more relaxed with its wavy font, the one on the right is saying you should do this. It is more bold and specified, also, it is stricter and sharp, and clear cut lines.
Symbols of Patriotism--- USA, Great Britain, and France
                They are suggesting that patriotism comes in different forms. America has a Bald Eagle with an American Flag. Great Britain has a Bulldog and the national flag. Lastly, France has a motto, Liberte (freedom), Egalite (equality), Fraternite (fraternity/brotherhood).  The first image on the left is sharp, with the lines of the flag to the outline of the bird with the black background, it shows how severe and strong the USA is. The eagle represents freedom because birds can go anywhere, they are limitless. Great Britain’s flag in this picture looks like it expands forever. The dog standing atop of it has a proud and big stance. France, the picture to the right might be a little contradictory because there is a security camera in the picture, when the quote contains the word “freedom”.   


THESIS: Every nation has something to represent it that stands for the nation's pride. These three images convey this in the manner explained below.
The bald eagle represents to American citizens strength and bravery. In the image the eagle is integrated with the flag signifying that it has become part of the nation. The bulldog looks like it is guarding flag which is a symbol of the nation, discouraging enemies from challenging them. France's motto is showing its strength by being written in stone.

In-Class-Lab Reading Sources Critically 11/10

What ARGUMENTS does the author make? He has a stance as whether or not we should use the N-word as white people. His position is that white people should not use that word, it is none or our business. Yes by answering these questions we will be analyzing.
How persuasive do you find the argument? It is very persuasive, Tim Wise gives a lot of examples and he is very informed with his argument. He also wrote a book and during the video he would quote some lines from it. None of Tim’s assumptions are questionable, he seems credible. His white friend didn’t understand why he couldn’t use that word even though his friends (black or white) used that word. It like his analogy with your mom, you can say whatever you want about your own mom but no one else dares or you will be very upset. “His Jewish grandfather can make jokes about Jews, but the local Christian church cannot”.
What is the authors STANCE? Tim is very biased. Any argument is biased in its own way. Since Tim is from the south, he knows the community and how they can use the N-word or certain phrases that have a negative effect on certain communities. Tim Wise does consider the opposing views, he talks about how some white people think they are helping the black community by saying it. Tim acknowledged other viewpoints but he only cited his own.
Does the publisher bring a certain stance to the work? The book publisher(s) had to have agreed with Tim and his stance in some way.
Do you recognize ideas you’ve run across in other sources? We know that as white people we don’t have the right to say the N-word.
Does this source support or challenge your own position?  We agree with his
What can you tell about the intended AUDIENCE and PURPOSE?  The audience is mainly white people. The purpose is to convince white people that they have no right to use that word. We are members of the audience addressed. The main purpose is to argue a certain point.

269-284 Summary

Even if we don’t realize it, we deal with arguments all the time throughout the day, and all arguments have claims that people expect you to support too. All of your decisions can be interpreted in different ways, and in some ways they can be interpreted  in not-so-good ways such as racism, homophobia, etc. For example, Madonna’s performance, and how she had Hindu markings. I feel like recently with our society, we have to consider this aspect VERY clearly. We also need to consider the “What’s at stake?” questions:

·         What are the facts?

·         How can the issue be defined

·         How much does it matter, and why?

·         What actions should be taken as a result?

Think About Your Writing Pg 70

Throughout the last week, I send an email to the Seattle Theatre group about a concert I went to last month. My cousins and I waited across the street in line for over 7 hours, but when we were allowed in, people who were behind us, who were in line 3 hours after we were, crossed the street and ran in front of us and other people who were waiting an easy twelve hours. We couldn’t go into the theatre in front of them, because we weren’t allowed to cross, but the people behind us ran across the street into traffic anyway and got into the theater first (even though I hoped natural selection would take its place). Even though security yelled at the people crossing the street that were behind us, they didn’t do much of anything to make sure that we entered on a first come first come first serve basis. The overall point of me writing this e-mail was to maybe persuade them to come up with a different system for the lines, and to possibly get all or some of my money back. I hopefully was persuasive enough to make them consider giving my money back to me.