Put your Kaplan document where you can see it easily, as today we’re going to put these first two documents, written only eight years apart, side-by-side for the purposes of comparison. You will want to use your marked up edition as you mark up Bush. Some of the differences you will note arise from the different occasions which caused them to come into being. Inaugural Addresses occur on ceremonial occasions, full of pomp and circumstances. Certain sentiments become obligatory on such occasions.
Yet each document also reflects ideas and sentiments of the writer/speaker. What I want you to do is this:
1.Analyze the Bush Inaugural address using the same techniques you used to analyze Kaplan. (If you haven’t done the Kaplan piece yet–get on it.) The Bush Speech is considerably shorter so you won’t get as much help from the typography as you got from Kaplan. But you’ll still derive hints from such things as the paragraphs, and especially the sequence of paragraphs.
2.Compare the assertions in the two documents. Do you notice any difference at the evidence level? Which one makes the most effort to prove that his assertions are valid or correct? To make it easier to compare the two, you might try using the abbreviation, cf. which stand for the Latin confere, meaning "compare" Here's how to do it, When you find a part of the Bush document, use a sticky note to refer to the similar paragraph in the Kaplan document. Your annotation will look something like this: (cf. Kaplan, page 3, paragraph 2).
3.Compare the types of evidence. Do you notice any differences between President Bush and Robert Kaplan in this regard? How would you characterize this difference? Use a sticky not for this.
4.Is one document more convincing to you than the other document? Which one, and why?
5 A you noted with the Kaplan earlier documents, is there anything with which you especially agree or disagree? If so, what, and why?
5.Kaplan’s document is about 17 years old. Bush’s speech is about 10 years old. From the perspective of 2015, does it seem that one or the other of these men had the better eye for predicting the future? If so, which one. Consider this in a final sticky note and then upload Bush to your Drop Box (I mean the document, not the ex-President. :-)
Welcome Back from the long weekend. Europe celebrated Labor Day on May First every year. There were many unions parading in the streets of cities. The United States decided to celebrate Labor Day on the Monday in September, as the business community was not unfriendly with Unions. Click on the pictures above to learn more. Each connects to a different web page.
Watch the video of the Bush Inaugural AFTER you've read the speech. Compare your reactions to teach. Think about the effects of facial expression, gestures, tone of voice, and accent, as well as indications of crowd reactions (where does he get applause? and where is the applause a little weak?) We'll be thinking about the importance of "rhetoric" in shaping opinions later in the semester.
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As you mark up your document to add to your dropbox I want you to do these three things.
1. Write a brief (100 words or so) reflection on the document. A reflection records your thoughts and sentiments about the content of what you read–how you feel about it, what it makes you think about.
2. Using a markup system of your own (don't forget to indicate how it works). As you read the document indicate note there are Thirty articles, each of which states a right which all human beings should have. A. Some you may think of as a genuine right--something all human beings should have just be cause of their humanity. Rights are not things we earn, or things we are given. They are there from the moment we're conceived and enter the world. B. Some of these you may think of as more of a wish than a right. In other words, it would be nice if everyone had them, but they are not really "rights" in the sense that if people don't have them someone is doing wrong to them. C. Some of them are actually wrong or harmful.They contradict a society's traditions or religious beliefs. Mark whether the article fits in category A, B, or C.
3. Write three good questions about the document.
Good questions
A.Cannot be answered “yes or no”.
B.Cannot be answered by simply searching through the
document and copying.
C.Require some thought and analysis to formulate an
answer: for example, a good question may require
discussing alternative possibilities and the merits or failings these alternatives.
DO NOT ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS. JUST FORMULATE THEM
Put them in a final sticky-note at the bottom of your .pdf file before you put it in your drop box.
There are many different points of view concerning the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and indeed, the concept of human rights in general. The two videos above will give you some sense of this. To see even more, click on the button below.