McCain's speech

I think McCain delivered his speech with a lot of integrity. He opened up by being very humble, by announcing his call to president elect Obama, and how he was proud of him. I think he was doing this to connect with the majority of the American populace who voted for Obama, because his crowd in Arizona were ignorant rude people who started booing at the very mention of Obama's name. He showed that he excepted his fate and was acknowledged that the outcome was from the American's desire to change,and that he would continue to help the president to implement this change. His introduction used pathos to connect to the American people, so he would not look like, a bigoted prideful conservative that never backs down.

In his body his organization went from the past to the present to highlight the steps America has taken to change. He noted how Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. to the white house, and how we have come as far as having a president who is African American. He also inferred that his was a valiant achievement that American's have made. He did this to show the incredible will of the American people to change their lives for the better.

McCain repetitively used the pronoun we to create a sense of unity to America. He also used a lot of introductory phrases to emphasize the importance of the next clause.

In his conclusion he then thanked everybody, which is a sharp contrast to the victory speech we watch in class of President Bush. He did this at the end because he wanted to show that the new change is the most important issue for America right now. He also thanked his supporters and campaigners at the end to stress that they were the backbone of the campaign, which can not go without notice. And at the very end he stressed the valiant stubbornness of the American people to never give up, and not for his marathon in competing in political positions, but to never give up thee will to make America the best society to live in.

Visual Argument

In German class, I am learning about how after the war the Germans initiated a guest worker agreement with surrounding nations to help rebuild Germany. A large percentage of the helpers came from Turkey, to help rebuild because the population of German men was significantly low. A lot of the Turkish people stayed after the rebuilding and there a a whole slew of different opinions about the Turkish still living in Germany. Recently, my class was learning about the radical right view, who thinks the turkish should leave. For homework we watched a video on youtube with a song and just one image remaining on the screen throughout the whole song. It was a poster of Turkish people with bags packed and their backs turned and on the top saying thanks for the help and next to the picture saying now leave, the national party. I think this visual effect is very effective for the national p[arty and many other Germans because they feel that the Turkish are taking over their culture and jobs, leaving a lot of the east Germans without work when the wall fell. The image's message is short which is perfect for a political poster that is on a sidewalk so people can fully understand it when they are passing by. It is also an effective location because a lot of people in Germany walk or ride bikes, meaning a significant amount of the population will see this poster.

I don't think this image is very effective to get the Turkish to leave because they have established a new home in Germany. I mere poster is not going to change their minds about that. Also the red and black colors that outline the picture and words, makes the poster look cynical which might lose some understanding with Germans who have mixed issues with this subject simply cause the poster is exuding bad vibes.

All in all I think the poster did a concise job in putting everything that they wanted to say on a single poster. The viewers will get the point immediately.

Research

My first primary source only have a few things that make it primary. It has a couple of statistical data graphs that chart growth of transnational corporations. I had trouble finding concrete statistical studies with lexis nexis statistical. It was difficult because, this one was not already explained to us in class, and once I found a study that appealed to me, I couldn't even find the full text because the links on the abstract would never lead me to it, and when I looked up the titles on the general search, I never found the particular study that I wanted. So my first source has a lot of secondary input on foreign direct investment of transnational corporations. My second document is a primary source of a transcript of a capitol hill hearing testimony dealing with the inability of the Federal Regulation and Oversight of Energy's inability to discern the regulatory failures of the company Enron. This was found relatively quickly on the Lexis Nexis congressional studies

Corporations

Even though this is a prominent theme within debates, it can still be narrowed down to specific issues. It can be narrowed down to issues on how much power they have, how to tax them, and changing their role in the world. I want to base my paper more specifically on decreasing their power, and this can be further narrowed down to issues such as changing their status in the nation as being an "individual". Also it can be debated on whether or not corporation should be allowed intellectual property rights on living organisms. I think I want to stick to the topic of decreasing their power and uses the other narrowed down issues as points of why their power should be decreased.

A lot of people have experience with this issue, because many people are tied to corporation whether it be scientists manual laborer's politicians, and etc. Their role in society affects all social classes. Although most of these strata of society deal more with being impacted by corporations, I would Say that people who have the most experience in it are employees of the main office of the corporation.

everyone in the world is talking about this issue because of the rapid pace of globalization that has hit our society. Foreign relations have a lot to do with corporations considering that a lot of the factories are based in countries with a lower cost of labor.

Primary sources that I would like to tap into are statistical studies of corporations actions. Another primary source would be finding an employee from a corporations and interviewing him or her. What I really want to find is the positive and negative affects corporations have, and for example how growing advances in science have allowed corporations have some amazingly close to owning life as we know it.

Humurous Piece

My piece is a new-talk show skit of a business meeting with John McCain and the current Chinese president Hu Jintao. I wanted to exaggerate John McCain's stand with corporations. I highlighted the Republican stereotype of sometimes forgeting the needs and wants of the lower class or foreign entity's to implement free market and capitalist policies. I also used a few tendencies that John McCain seemed to emphasize in his debate against Obama as well as some influence from the Saturday Night Live Debate.

I feel like my piece lags at some point, and the joke or exaggeration does not get across. What could I do to spice it up a bit? Does it catch your attention from the beginning?

Humurous Argument

It may be a relative easy skit to choose, but I choose the SNL skit of the presidential debate in Mississippi to be my example of a humorous argument. The way that each actor accentuated the candidates diction and common ideas was hilarious. They pointed at each candidates overwhelming disadvantages using hyperbole. For example, how McCain kept justifying how he was different from Bush by explaining his predictable voting patterns against some of republican's, especially Bush's, policy, they characterized what he was saying by the actor of John McCain proclaiming that he is an unreliable candidate. The joke of Obama pulling the race card in dealing with North Korea, represented the lack in confidence of Obama being experienced enough to be effective in international diplomacy. This skit is also a very good example of the kind of things I want to implement in my humor piece. I want to create a dialogue between John McCain and Asian leaders as well as Obama's dialogue with them, emphasizing on redundant points the candidates brought up in their debate, and other things I found amusing.
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/presidential-debate/704121/

Op-Ed

I want to be creative on this project and write the piece from an Asian point of view. Many different nationalities live in America and their voice has a right to be heard too. What I specifically want to do with the topic from the Article "The Next President should focus more on Asia is to focus on the benefits of focusing more on Asia, and not just the countering reasons like we are doing nothing in Iraq. I think it will be hard trying to voice it through the perspective of a different nationality, but I want to try. Plus, the study the author of my artist used for research had a variety of nationalities within the study itself that will help me achieve my goal.