Blog Post #2

The first mistake is "Wyview Park and Heritage Halls have visiting hours just like Helaman Halls, however their visiting hours are every day for around ten hours." This sentence is a comma splice because I joined two independent clauses with a comma. The corrected sentence should look like this "Wyview Park and Heritage Halls have visiting hours just like Helaman Halls; however, their visiting hours are every day for around ten hours."
The second, third, fourth, and fifth mistakes are "Unlike in the summer and fall semesters where students are able to socialize outside due to the nice weather, they don't have that luxury in the winter semester." This sentence is a comma splice for the same reason as the first mistake. The other mistakes are that summer, fall, and winter semesters are all proper nouns so they should be capitalized. I may have just cheated but there are five mistakes so I'm just going to write the revised sentences with the four mistakes fixed, "Unlike in the Summer and Fall semesters where students are able to socialize outside due to the nice weather. They don't have that luxury in the Winter semester."
On the issue of peer reviews I really find them helpful because the more people that read your paper the better it can be. I also think that when you look over your own paper you tend to miss some of the grammatical errors unless you are specifically looking for them. Whereas, when someone else reads them they are able to see a lot more mistakes, and when there are three to four different people looking over it the mistakes will most likely all be found.

Assignment #1

I found a fallacy in an article talking about how many of the politicians are attacking Mitt Romney. The article was on abcnews.com. "Here we see the frontrunner who is out there with one of the most liberal records in the field, certainly the most liberal record in the field, go out and try to tear down other folks instead of talking about what he wants to do for this country" Through this quote by Rick Santorum we see that he realizes that Romney is beating him in the caucuses so he is using the strawman fallacy. This fallacy consists of people not arguing against the other person, but they just start attacking the person with whatever they can think of.

I read the other speech from Henry V and found examples for ethos, logos, and pathos.

The examples of pathos were "If your pure maidens fall into the hands of hot and forcing violation?" and the second was "Your naked infants spitted upon pikes". These both are pathos because they relate to the emotion of the audience.

The examples of ethos were "A name that in my thoughts that becomes me best" and "If I begin a life of battery once again, I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur". These both make the audience trust the audience because in the first he puts himself on the same level as the others meaning that he sees them as equals and you trust your equals. The second appeals to the audience because they see that he will not leave the battlefield unless he is dead, which develops trust because they know that he would not leave them alone.

The examples of logos were "Your fathers taken by the silver beards and their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls" and "The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters". Both of these are logos because they appeal to our ability to think. So these quotes make the audience think about these things because this is what will happen if they don't fight to protect their families and city.