Sunday, March 21, 2010

Project 2 Reflective Blog

Project 2 gave me a lot of trouble! The writing process was actually the best part although technical difficulties prevented me from turning it in on time :(

Whenever I begin to argue, no matter what the subject, I have been taught to always look at both aspects of the argument and take them both into consideration. The only way to understand the full argument, and to even know that you may be correct in the argumentative process is to understand opposing sides, and knowing your ways around them.

In my film that I wrote about, My sister's keeper, my argument was that of genetically engineering and of legality of one's own body. I took both sides into consideration: a mother's decision and what is legally right. The difficulty in this argument is that of ethos. How can one tell a mother that what she feels for her own children is wrong?

It is everyone's right to protect themselves and the lives of their offspring. Yet at the same time, if you are dwindling the life of one of your children in order to upraise the life of another, where is the line drawn?

Project two was chock full of controversy, and it was something I took a great pleasure in writing about because I love me a good argument. :)


Project 3

For project 3, I am not quite sure of to which path I would be interested in going with my own paper. Environmental action is always a good way to go due to its urgency in society every single day! Just think of the possibilities...global warming, recycling, the options are practically endless! I understand that as a portion of this project we are required to write a letter to a person of political power, I believe that this is a very interesting requirement. Although there is the most obvious knowledge that letters most of the time get blown off, there is always the option that one time, a letter filled with opinion may actually be heard, and a change could be made. YAY! I'm pretty excited for this project.