Monday, December 20, 2010

Going to Harvard???

1. Semrau's point is to conserve, reuse, and recycle everything, including yourself.

2. By intentionally leaving out information Semrau makes his point even stronger.  By making it sound like he was going to Harvard to become a doctor at the age of 75 and making you believe that that college had excepted him, he made you think.  He was using his body to the fullest.  However he was exactly reusing his body.   Instead of enrolling to Harvard as a medical student, Semrau was enrolling to someday become a cadaver.  Semrau was going to be an anatomical gift.  Semrau decided that sense he can no longer conserve he was going to reuse himself so that other could recycle him. The intent of this essay was to not be wasteful.  Semrau is putting his body to good use even after his gone.  The world today throws away useful and valuable items every day.  All Semrau is asking is to stop and think.  Are we conserving, reusing, or recycle.  Semrau believes once item is no longer functional, then it is time to recycle.  The world as a whole needs to use all that it is given until it can no longer function.  So from now on we need to stop and conserve, reuse, and recycle.  

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Merry CHIRSTmas!

This hymn describes Christ’s birth and the reason He came to save us.  This hymn using many language tools to show that great power and love Christ had for us to be willing to come down and live as a human. “Was the Word of God made flesh--Woman's Offspring, pure and fresh.” This quote is a great example of description. It describes how Christ was the living word that was given to us. “Hast o'er sin the victory won.”  This is also an example of ethos.  This quote shows that passion of Christ.  It shows that He had such passion to come down, lived among us, suffered and died, went to hell and rose victoriously.  “Savior of the nations, come, Virgin's Son.”  This is an example of logos.  Showing that Christ had to be born of a virgin and as a human to fulfill that script and to make it possible to save us all.  “Not by human flesh and blood, By the Spirit of our God.”  This example of diction shows that we can do nothing to save ourselves.  By choosing flesh and blood instead of body,  works or human strenght increases the impact it has on us.