Thursday, March 5, 2009

What is the nature of good?

Everyone believes what they’re all actions is right or good because people always find out the best way for themselves. So different have different opinion about good and evil.
Every people have some nature of good. Nature of good means always telling truth, always be honest and obey the rules. It also means respect the authority, doing work on time but some time we can’t be too honest. Nature of good means bring happiness in the society, make others happy.
Sometimes for too respecting the authorities peoples become too depended and if from time to time they realised their authority is wrong they can’t change it.

Is it subjective or a universal truth about what constitutes “good” and “evil”?

Good and evils are decided individually. A different person has different opinions. Sometimes good and evil depend on cultural and age. What I think evil may be my neighbours never think evil; what my parents believe evil, sometimes I believe the different. So, we all decide “evil thing” and “good thing” in our own points of observation.

If we think about the independent war of Bangladesh, on that time Bangladeshi people thought Pakistani peoples are evils who ruled them and on the other side Pakistani people thought Bangladeshi people are evils because they are fight against them. It as well depends on the decision of majority as an example, in a corporation the employees and the owner can have different estimation of the evil and good things but in this case the workers opinion will be good and the owner’s opinion will be evil because majority peoples are employee and they all have same points of view. Some time cultural separate good and evil things. In Indian cultural love marriage is evil but in our culture it’s not evil.

Some universal truth are, every cultural, every religious people believe that all kind of crimes are evil.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Media violence in informal tone

It wasn’t really a persuasive essay. The point and the facts are good but how the way the writer explains those points it’s not goodly explain. This essay is really hard to understand and it’s kind of dull. The author presents a range of points that attempt to induce that reader that media violence is in fact a harmful influence.

At initial the author talked concerning Media Violence was a cause of all the violence in this world and he used the example of the Virginia Tech Killer. He said how he possibly got mainly of his sick plans and information from some Korean or Asian films. The writer also prearranged his piece in an understandable and organized way.

I think this essay is more look like a formal essay but the quality of his writing as in devices, structure, etc make it effective.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Debunking Media Violence

This article was very clear on its opinion regarding how the media influences adolescents and youths. This editorial was not very well done, for one written in the formal tone. It uses too many informal devices, such as reader inclusion, as it constantly refers to "We, our" among others.
Travis Ryan kept a consistent formal tone throughout his persuasive writing essay. He brought up several points, which amazed me. He brings up Hollywood, which barely comes into the spotlight when talking or relating the consequences to violence.
Even though this piece was written in formal tone it seems more informal. For a formal tone author does not address the audience directly. However, in this essay he addressed them directly.

Adolescent and the media (informal tone and structure):

This informal toned persuasive writing seems much longer that the other one, but compared to the formal tone version of it, it was done better. It more like a fact/information paper, rather than trying to persuade the reader or audience.

He quoted extensively throughout this work, meaning that his work can be is legit and the information can be true and persuading. He also brings evidence using the violence portrayed in Disney's cartoons, to show the extent of violence in today’s media, and to show that we consider violence has a broad meaning. Each of his paragraphs is almost equally important and he successfully used the informal tone through his paragraphs.The essay was clear in thoughts and well organized. It was riches with different rhetorical and literary devices, which made it stronger, affective, and attractive to the readers. The author mainly used repetition, allusion, rhetorical question, anecdote, cause and effect.

Comparing with the previous essays where the authors haven’t quoted their work, as many as Victor has, his work seems well researched. The content compared with the previous samples, they were more essay written than this one.