SWA 16

Repace, James. "Tob Control 2000;9:98 doi:10.1136/tc.9.1.98 Debate Banning outdoor smoking is scientifically justifiable." Tobacco Control. 9.1 (2000): n. page. Web. 29 Feb. 2012.


- This source explains the scientific side of cigarette smoking. It explains that the cigarettes are point sources of air pollution, and by smoking outside, the hot smoke cools fast. It then descends back down onto people in that area. This causes that local amount of air to be polluted and to be harmful for those in that air. "ETS" or environmental smoke can cause many health risks and if smokers were to be allowed to smoke outside in all public places if would irritate and hurt many people. 


Sargent, Richard, Robert Shepard, and Stanton Glantz. "Reduced incidence of admissions for myocardial infarction associated with public smoking ban: before and after study." BMJ. N.p., 2004. Web. 29 Feb 2012. <http://www.bmj.com/content/328/7446/977.abstract>.


- This source includes a study done about the effects of secondhand smoke. "Secondhand smoke increases the risk of myocardial infarction". The study looked at the relation between smoke free work places and other public places to the occurrences of hospital admissions for this health issue. 

SWA 15

Once I started researching the other topics, I decided that I only wanted to begin research on one topic because I feel so passionately about it, I believe it will be easy to write about, and I can easily find enough information on it. I am sure about this topic and don't want to waste valuable time researching other topics. I went ahead and did some research on other topics anyways, but I didn't do much because I will not be pursuing them.

Banning Smoking - the probability and possibility of banning smoking in public places ex) campuses, parks, etc, and the laws that already exist, will exist, and should exist to make this happen

Potential Sources

- http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/296/14/1778.short

- http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/1/95.extract
(ethics behind tobacco control)

- http://heinonlinebackup.com/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/gwlr75&section=25
(smoking in bars and restaurants)

- http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7257/333.short
(ethics behind tobacco control)

- http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60691-6/fulltext
(success in Europe of public smoking ban)

Banning Contraceptives

- http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/usthomlj2&div=30&id=&page=

Nuclear Weapons

- http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6691788

SWA 13

1)   Smoking Banning – Banning smoking in public places altogether. Example – this campus. It’s controversial because of the smokers that are in public places. I think smoking should be banned in ALL public places. I would research what laws/bans they currently have and where the laws are headed.

2)   Health Care Reform – Having socialized medicine in America. It’s controversial because some people don’t want to pay for other people’s medical care. I think health care reform is needed, but I don’t think there’s any good way to do it. I would research the proposed plan and other plans.

3)   Senior Care – How elders are treated in homes and what should be done about it. It’s controversial because it’s costly and not well known. I would research what is being done and what could be done. 

SWA 12

1)   Healthy eating improves the lives of students.

-       Better food choices makes the children happier and less sick.

-       Enhances their appreciation for farmers, the community and the land.

2)   Edible education helps students embrace responsibility by teaching them how to develop their own food.

-       Helps students learn about sharing

-       Enhances connection with themselves and their peers.

-       Helps them to believe in themselves

-       Connection to community is key

-       Helps us embrace our status as an American

-       Through edible education we develop the values of society.

Question 1) Walter’s says that food can be used to teach these values by helping kids learn that “farmers depend on the land; we depend on farmers; and our nation depends on all of us.”

Question 2) She makes this link by giving the example of the Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin. Yes more evidence would help her argument because it was only one school.

Question 3) I’m not sure about the whole state, but in my county we had terrible food and they wouldn’t consider edible education.

Rhetorical Analysis Essay 2 Paragraph

Nicole Smith

English 102

Mrs. Mikhaylova

In “The Pleasures of Eating”, Berry’s use of vocabulary enhances the persuasive argument. Berry’s word choice is strong and draws close attention to the topic of unhealthy food and unconcerned consumers. Berry uses many negative words when describing consumers. He says that the patrons of the food industry are “uncritical, passive and dependent.” Berry generalizes the group of people he considers to be consumers to make the names he calls them more relevant to the reader. Berry also uses long lists of these strong words that call even more attention to the point. In a single sentence, Berry uses 12 descriptive terms to describe food that the audience typically eats. These words are visual and powerful, and do not directly fit with what healthy and normal food would be described as. 

Rhetorical Analysis Essay 2 Outline

Nicole Smith

English 102

Mrs. Mikhaylova

Rhetorical Essay #2 Outline

Title: Powerful Vocabulary and Comparisons in “The Pleasures of Eating”

Thesis: In “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry, the use of strong terminology and vivid comparisons effectively persuades the audience to reevaluate and rediscover their knowledge of food.

I.               Wendell’s use of vocabulary enhances the persuasive argument.

A)   The word choice

Ex) “uncritical, passive, dependent”

Ex) “strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized”

B)   The long lists of strong words

Ex) last line on 323

Ex) “farming, animal husbandry, horticulture, and gardening”

II.             Wendell’s use of comparisons/examples enhances the persuasive argument.

A)   What type of comparisons (negative)

Ex) “industrial sex”

Ex) “virgin purity”

Ex) “make up on actors”

B)   Where the comparisons are

Ex) grouped close together

Ex) many in same paragraph

Ex) bottom of page 323

III.           Conclusion point

A) Berry’s argument was effective in this piece because of the placement and choice of comparisons and vocabulary.

SWA 9

The central claim of the first article is that because farmers who use factory farming methods do not raise their livestock naturally, the quality of their product goes down. Also, the inhumane methods that factory farmers use is morally wrong, because livestock are not treated with respect and dignity. The author assumes that, because the audience most likely respects that livestock should not be harmed as they grow up, the audience values the livestock's right to not be treated cruelly. Also, the livestock deserve to be able to eat a diet of healthy food that only has beneficial effects on an animal's body, because the audience most likely assumes that livestock graze on natural grass and insects.

SWA 8

1) Scully builds and supports his case by emphasizing that humans should treat animals with respect and dignity. This is how animals were treated in the past and this appeals to the conservative cause because it is a key aspect of conservative values. One of the key aspects of conservative values is that traditions are followed because traditions are the most reliable course of action since we know them well.

2) Scully means that because animals don't have the same ability to reason and level of moral judgement it is the human race's obligation to treat these animals with respect. The respect we give them should be based off our own morality. If we don't treat them with respect, we are treating them as our property. I agree with him because animals need to be treated with respect and kindness.

Scully doesn't specifically address these aspects specifically. He does somewhat represent them, but he does it more generally. I can't really pick out a specific place in which he does this. He points at that a Smithfields Foods executive told him, "They love it." It's all "for their own good."