Title: Gender
Topic: Patriarchy
Analysis of Argument
Exigence: To lay bare the male dominated infrastructure of our society
Intended Audience: Women and men
Purpose: to shed light on the social inequalities between genders
Claim: The discrimination and prejudice women endure in modern society is greatly undermined
The degree of which women in modern day society are discriminated against are grossly undermined as such inequalities and double standards have been instilled into us as social norms. The truth is, women are still second class citizens in a male-dominated world. I believe prejudice against women to be greatly undermined. Yes, feminist advancements have been made such as women's right to vote, but I believe as a byproduct of this success it has actually inhibited further progress.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
RA#3
Title: "From Fly Girls to Bitches And Hos"
Author: Joan Morgan
In the article "From Fly Girls to bitches and hos", the author, Joan MOrgan strives to understand and discern the causes of sexism in rap and hip hop culture. Joan discloses the undeniable connection between sexism and racism in hip-hop. Morgan analyzes the social structure of the hip-hop community and it's influences and believes the abundance of sexism to be a sort the sequential result of oppression. In the effort to amend this debilitating pathology, Joan reasons with the women affected to take the first steps in feminist advancements by understanding where the sexism stems from.
The number of black two-parent households has decreased from 74 percent to 48 percent since 1960.
The leading cause of death among black men ages fifteen to twenty-four is homicide. The majority of them will die at the hands of other black men.
-“It’s extremely telling that men who can only see us as “bitches” and “hos” refer to themselves only as niggas"
-Notorious B.I.G. album Ready to Die relefcts his own life experiences ex."Jail, murder, drug dealing, getting paid, partying, sexin’"(603).
Title: "From Fly Girls to Bitches And Hos"
Author: Joan Morgan
In the article "From Fly Girls to bitches and hos", the author, Joan MOrgan strives to understand and discern the causes of sexism in rap and hip hop culture. Joan discloses the undeniable connection between sexism and racism in hip-hop. Morgan analyzes the social structure of the hip-hop community and it's influences and believes the abundance of sexism to be a sort the sequential result of oppression. In the effort to amend this debilitating pathology, Joan reasons with the women affected to take the first steps in feminist advancements by understanding where the sexism stems from.
The number of black two-parent households has decreased from 74 percent to 48 percent since 1960.
The leading cause of death among black men ages fifteen to twenty-four is homicide. The majority of them will die at the hands of other black men.
-“It’s extremely telling that men who can only see us as “bitches” and “hos” refer to themselves only as niggas"
-Notorious B.I.G. album Ready to Die relefcts his own life experiences ex."Jail, murder, drug dealing, getting paid, partying, sexin’"(603).
Sunday, October 28, 2012
RA#2
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Title: “From Fly Girls To Bitches And Hos”
Author: Joan Morgan
Date: 1999
Topic: Sexism in Hip-Hop Culture
Analysis of Argument
Exigence: Understanding the cause of sexism in hip-hop
Intended Audience: General Public, esp. women
Purpose: To assist African-American women affected by sexism
in the hip-hop community to recognize and distance themselves from it for the
sake of both sexes
Claim: Sexism in the hip-hop industry between
African-American males and females stems from the deep roots of oppression
against the African-American community
The number of black two-parent households has decreased from
74 percent to 48 percent since 1960.
The leading cause of death among black men ages fifteen to
twenty-four is homicide. The majority of them will die at the hands of other
black men.
“It’s extremely telling that men who can only see us as “bitches”
and “hos” refer to themselves only
as “niggas”
Notorious B.I.G. album Ready
to Die relefcts his own life experiences ex." Jail, murder, drug dealing,
getting paid, partying, sexin’"(603).
Rhetorical Analysis
Writing strategy #1 Pathos
Writing strategy #2 Description as evidence
Writing strategy #3 Cause and effect
Reader Effect #1 The author uses non-traditional text to
exemplify her relation to the subject
Reader Effect #2 The author analyzes the works of well known
public icons, i.e. Nototrious B.I.G.
Reader Effect #3 The author provides facts and statistics
that support her reasoning
Response
Morgan analyzes the social structure of the hip-hop
community and it’s psychological
affects on it’s leaders and participants to reason why she has been reduced to
“tits and ass”(602) in the media. Years of oppression It is subsequent to the debilitating
pathology that has been integrated into the rap culture.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
RR#2
In Two ways a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence, author Jean Kilbourne discusses and analyzes how media affects the greater society. Sex in advertising is common. Pornography in advertisements imbues a sense of disconnection as it dehumanizes its subject. Women are most commonly used as the object of desire in advertisements. Kilbourne's notes that the messages portrayed in advertisements are deeply integrated into our society as social norms. For women specifically, this public dehumanization encourages gender stratification and social stigmas.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Final Op-ed Polish
For years California has struggled to escape the plight of its economic down turn. Bust budget plans and other contributing factors have lead to billions of dollars being cut from the California budget just over the past few years. This has resulted in drastic budget reductions to education and other state funded programs. As our state’s budget has been tossed and dropped throughout the hands of our politicians-California schools, primarily, fell victim. According to California Budget Bites, the gap between California’s school spending as a share of the states economy, measured by the state’s personal income, is now larger than it has been in the past 40 years. The state must take some kind of initiative to raise revenue or they will be forced to cut an additional $6 billion dollars from public education alone. Proposition 30 is Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal to increase taxes in order to generate new money for state fiscal purposes. Funding would be fulfilled by a sales tax increase rate by one quarter of a cent for every dollar for four years and a personal income tax on upper income taxpayers for seven years. If it passes, it is estimated to raise about $6 billion in additional state revenues from 2012-13 through 2016-17, with smaller amounts in 2011-12, 2017, 2017-18, and 2018-19. A full 89% of the funds provided by this proposed tax installment would go directly to K-12 education, and the remaining 11% to community colleges.
The measures biggest selling point is the potentially devastating consequences of prop 30’s failure to pass. If proposition 30 is rejected, $6 billion in “trigger cuts” will take effect. For the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal year this would mean an automatic reduction of $4.8 billion for k-12 schools and $1 billion for community colleges. For k-12, the reduction is the equivalent to $930 less per student spending. Schools will be authorized schools to drop a full three weeks from the academic year. In a time of increased demand from students, community colleges are being forced to down-size their enrollment and hike tuition costs. Community colleges statewide are cutting classes. Proposition 30 may not be perfect, but it is necessary.
The measures biggest selling point is the potentially devastating consequences of prop 30’s failure to pass. If proposition 30 is rejected, $6 billion in “trigger cuts” will take effect. For the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal year this would mean an automatic reduction of $4.8 billion for k-12 schools and $1 billion for community colleges. For k-12, the reduction is the equivalent to $930 less per student spending. Schools will be authorized schools to drop a full three weeks from the academic year. In a time of increased demand from students, community colleges are being forced to down-size their enrollment and hike tuition costs. Community colleges statewide are cutting classes. Proposition 30 may not be perfect, but it is necessary.
The new revenue will be used to fill a pre existing budget gap, one in which would otherwise be suffused with said trigger cuts. Some may immediately dismiss this proposal as they see the “trigger cuts” issued as a threat by the state “as they hold our students hostage”. In no way am I attempting to defend the rectitude or integrity of our states forerunners. With all partisans aside, I am simply trying to address who and what is exactly at stake. If prop 30 fails, we are risking an entire generation being severely uneducated and ill-equipped for the future. California, a former leading exemplar for national education standards, has let their priority of education fall by the wayside as state funding towards education ceases to be viciously siphoned. According to The Sacramento Bee and The Los Angeles Daily News, California is currently ranked 47th nationally in per pupil spending, just two years ago we ranked 35th-an already less than desirable rank. The consequences of our actions are already starting to unveil; in 2008, the San Jose County school district was forced to switch from a 20:1 student to teacher ratio in their k-2 classes to 30:1. San Jose grade school teacher, Andrea, shared with EducationVotes.org her firsthand experience with the new budget cuts: “This year, more than 50% of my new third graders are reading at or below a first-grade level; only three are reading at a third-grade level. Math skills are severely lacking as well; only eight of my students scored proficient or advanced on their second-grade CSTs. This lack of preparation is consistent across the grade level.” Andrea is a first hand witness attesting to the deploring results from our state’s negligence. Additionally, The Public Institute of California reports, the state faces a shortage of almost a million college educated workers by 2025. With our economy’s demand for college educated degrees rising, negligence towards education harvests draconian economic trials for our future. With such low standards of education, it makes us question whether we could adequately prepare any of our children for a future.
From an ethical standpoint, I believe there is a moral obligation to defend our public education system, particularly community colleges.The disinvestment towards higher education over the past few years impose inimical forces upon young college students across the state. Community college students suffer from impacted classes, loss of academic resources, and increased tuition. These budget cuts will undermine the quality and attainability of an education in California. Community colleges provide lower and middle income families, in particular, feasible means towards a higher level education, ultimately, providing access to more socioeconomic opportunities. The California Community Chancellors Office reports, that students receiving a degree or certificate from a community college see an 86% increase in their wages just three years after graduating. Lower and middle-income families face more struggles and less opportunities. Denying or further deploring the quality of education for these individuals will further strengthen their already firmly grounded social barriers. The circumstances and strain felt by lower income families and individuals is serious enough; the accessibility and quality of these institutions is crucial for those coming from humbler means to have equal opportunities to be able to obtain the legitimate prescribed means of society.
As a community college student myself, proposition 30 is something personal to me. If proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo alone will face an additional cut estimated to be about 3.5 million. After already cutting an estimated 400 classes, if proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo will drop every 1 in 13 pre-existing classes. This results in impacted classes, or in some cases, no classes. Students (or those who wish to be) are often waitlisted for classes, or denied, but, many of our facilities are at risk. I cherish Cabrillo’s academic resources, such as the “Math Learning Center” without it, or many other resources like it, students’ ability to succeed could be greatly diminished. Education should not be a competition, nor is it something to be compromised; an education of the equivalent should be just as much attainable for you, as the person sitting next to you. Additionally, I rely heavily upon financial aid. I work to support myself and in order to even be able to attend school I depend on its assistance. Unfortunately, many others (if not most) face the same struggle I do. Our generation was always taught that school was the only way to make a decent life for yourself and even in times of economic hardship an education was supposed to provide some sense of security, however, a good education is starting to sound like a fairy tale. I am a young adult, simply trying to make something of myself and I believe I reserve the right to do so.
As a community college student myself, proposition 30 is something personal to me. If proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo alone will face an additional cut estimated to be about 3.5 million. After already cutting an estimated 400 classes, if proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo will drop every 1 in 13 pre-existing classes. This results in impacted classes, or in some cases, no classes. Students (or those who wish to be) are often waitlisted for classes, or denied, but, many of our facilities are at risk. I cherish Cabrillo’s academic resources, such as the “Math Learning Center” without it, or many other resources like it, students’ ability to succeed could be greatly diminished. Education should not be a competition, nor is it something to be compromised; an education of the equivalent should be just as much attainable for you, as the person sitting next to you. Additionally, I rely heavily upon financial aid. I work to support myself and in order to even be able to attend school I depend on its assistance. Unfortunately, many others (if not most) face the same struggle I do. Our generation was always taught that school was the only way to make a decent life for yourself and even in times of economic hardship an education was supposed to provide some sense of security, however, a good education is starting to sound like a fairy tale. I am a young adult, simply trying to make something of myself and I believe I reserve the right to do so.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
For years California has struggled to escape the plight of its economic down turn. Bust budget plans and other contributing factors have lead to billions of dollars being cut from the California budget just over the past few years. This has resulted in drastic budget reductions to education and other state funded programs. As our state’s budget has been tossed and dropped throughout the hands of our politicians-California schools, primarily, fell victim. According to California Budget Bites, the gap between California’s school spending as a share of the states economy, measured by the state’s personal income, is now larger than it has been in the past 40 years. The state must take some kind of initiative to raise revenue or they will be forced to cut an additional $6 billion dollars from public education alone. Proposition 30 is Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal to increase taxes in order to generate new money for state fiscal purposes. Funding would be fulfilled by a sales tax increase rate by one quarter of a cent for every dollar for four years and a personal income tax on upper income taxpayers for seven years. If it passes, it is estimated to raise about $6 billion in additional state revenues from 2012-13 through 2016-17, with smaller amounts in 2011-12, 2017, 2017-18, and 2018-19. A full 89% of the funds provided by this proposed tax installment would go directly to K-12 education, and the remaining 11% to community colleges.
The measures biggest selling point is the potentially devastating consequences of prop 30’s failure to pass. If proposition 30 is rejected, $6 billion in “trigger cuts” will take effect. For the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal year this would mean an automatic reduction of $4.8 billion for k-12 schools and $1 billion for community colleges. For k-12, the reduction is the equivalent to $930 less per student spending. Schools will be authorized schools to drop a full three weeks from the academic year. In a time of increased demand from students, community colleges are being forced to down-size their enrollment and hike tuition costs. Community colleges statewide are cutting classes. Proposition 30 may not be perfect, but it is necessary.
http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2012/general/pdf/30-title-summ-analysis.pdf
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/21/4579408/california-falls-to-35th-in-nation.html
http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/01/13/ca-student-spending-near-bottom/
http://californiabudgetbites.org
http://futureofhighered.org/uploads/ClosingTheDoorFINAL_ALL32812.pdf
http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=962
The measures biggest selling point is the potentially devastating consequences of prop 30’s failure to pass. If proposition 30 is rejected, $6 billion in “trigger cuts” will take effect. For the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal year this would mean an automatic reduction of $4.8 billion for k-12 schools and $1 billion for community colleges. For k-12, the reduction is the equivalent to $930 less per student spending. Schools will be authorized schools to drop a full three weeks from the academic year. In a time of increased demand from students, community colleges are being forced to down-size their enrollment and hike tuition costs. Community colleges statewide are cutting classes. Proposition 30 may not be perfect, but it is necessary.
The new revenue will be used to fill a pre existing budget gap, one in which would otherwise be suffused with said trigger cuts. Some may immediately dismiss this proposal as they see the “trigger cuts” issued as a threat by the state “as they hold our students hostage”. In no way am I attempting to defend the rectitude or integrity of our states forerunners. With all partisans aside, I am simply trying to address who and what is exactly at stake. If prop 30 fails, we are risking an entire generation being severely uneducated and ill-equipped for the future. California, a former leading exemplar for national education standards, has let their priority of education fall by the wayside as state funding towards education ceases to be viciously siphoned. According to The Sacramento Bee and The Los Angeles Daily News, California is currently ranked 47th nationally in per pupil spending, just two years ago we ranked 35th-an already less than desirable rank. The consequences of our actions are already starting to unveil; in 2008, the San Jose County school district was forced to switch from a 20:1 student to teacher ratio in their k-2 classes to 30:1. San Jose grade school teacher, Andrea, shared with EducationVotes.org her firsthand experience with the new budget cuts: “This year, more than 50% of my new third graders are reading at or below a first-grade level; only three are reading at a third-grade level. Math skills are severely lacking as well; only eight of my students scored proficient or advanced on their second-grade CSTs. This lack of preparation is consistent across the grade level.” Andrea is a first hand witness attesting to the deploring results from our state’s negligence. Additionally, The Public Institute of California reports, the state faces a shortage of almost a million college educated workers by 2025. With our economy’s demand for college educated degrees rising, negligence towards education harvests draconian economic trials for our future. With such low standards of education, it makes us question whether we could adequately prepare any of our children for a future.
From an ethical standpoint, I believe there is a moral obligation to defend public education system, particularly community colleges.The disinvestment towards higher education over the past few years impose inimical forces upon young college students across the state. Community college students suffer from impacted classes, loss of academic resources, and increased tuition. These budget cuts will undermine the quality and attainability of an education in California. Community colleges provide lower and middle income families, in particular, feasible means towards a higher level education, ultimately, providing access to more socioeconomic opportunities. The California Community Chancellors Office reports, that students receiving a degree or certificate from a community college see an 86% increase in their wages just three years after graduating. Lower and middle-income families face more struggles and less opportunities. Denying or further deploring the quality of education for these individuals will further strengthen their already firmly grounded social barriers. The circumstances and strain felt by lower income families and individuals is serious enough; the accessibility and quality of these institutions is crucial for those coming from humbler means to have equal opportunities to be able to obtain the legitimate prescribed means of society.
As a community college student myself, proposition 30 is something personal to me. If proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo alone will face an additional cut estimated to be about 3.5 million. After already cutting an estimated 400 classes, if proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo will drop every 1 in 13 pre-existing classes. This results in impacted classes, or in some cases, no classes. Students (or those who wish to be) are often waitlisted for classes, or denied, but, many of our facilities are at risk. I cherish Cabrillo’s academic resources, such as the “Math Learning Center” without it, or many other resources like it, students’ ability to succeed could be greatly diminished. Education should not be a competition, nor is it something to be compromised; an education of the equivalent should be just as much attainable for you, as the person sitting next to you. Additionally, I rely heavily upon financial aid. I work to support myself and in order to even be able to attend school I depend on its assistance. Unfortunately, many others (if not most) face the same struggle I do. Our generation was always taught that school was the only way to make a decent life for yourself and even in times of economic hardship an education was supposed to provide some sense of security, however, a good education is starting to sound like a fairy tale. I am a young adult, simply trying to make something of myself and I believe I reserve the right to do so.
As a community college student myself, proposition 30 is something personal to me. If proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo alone will face an additional cut estimated to be about 3.5 million. After already cutting an estimated 400 classes, if proposition 30 fails, Cabrillo will drop every 1 in 13 pre-existing classes. This results in impacted classes, or in some cases, no classes. Students (or those who wish to be) are often waitlisted for classes, or denied, but, many of our facilities are at risk. I cherish Cabrillo’s academic resources, such as the “Math Learning Center” without it, or many other resources like it, students’ ability to succeed could be greatly diminished. Education should not be a competition, nor is it something to be compromised; an education of the equivalent should be just as much attainable for you, as the person sitting next to you. Additionally, I rely heavily upon financial aid. I work to support myself and in order to even be able to attend school I depend on its assistance. Unfortunately, many others (if not most) face the same struggle I do. Our generation was always taught that school was the only way to make a decent life for yourself and even in times of economic hardship an education was supposed to provide some sense of security, however, a good education is starting to sound like a fairy tale. I am a young adult, simply trying to make something of myself and I believe I reserve the right to do so.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/21/4579408/california-falls-to-35th-in-nation.html
http://toped.svefoundation.org/2012/01/13/ca-student-spending-near-bottom/
http://californiabudgetbites.org
http://futureofhighered.org/uploads/ClosingTheDoorFINAL_ALL32812.pdf
http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=962
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Proposal
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Proposal
Prop 30
Argument: Prop 30 is not perfect, but, it’s the best we got
Logos: What is Prop 30?
“Proposition 30 is no substitute for long-term reforms in
education funding pensions and other areas, but it is a measured and sensible
response to this crisis”(San Jose Mercury News)
Increases personal income tax on annual earnings for those
who make over 250,000 for seven years
Increases sales and use tax by one fourth of a cent for four
years
Allocates temporary tax revenues 89% to k-12 schools and 11%
to community colleges
Bars use of funds for administrative costs, but provides
local school governing boards discretion to decide, in open meetings and
subject to annual audit, how funds are supposed to be spent
One of my reservations about this proposition is the wiggle
room politicians may have to improperly disperse funding. Although “legislative
shenanigans” are obviously no fun, and are somewhat always hindering over
anything-because it’s politics. Opposed to Proposition 38’s risk of a bureaucracy.
So, that is why I am hoping for the best, because our education system is
simply inexcusable. Prop 30 maybe a “crash course tax reform”, but it is
something.
Pathos: “The measures biggest selling point is what happens
if it doesn’t pass” (Los Angeles Times)
1.
California’s current public education system’s
ranking, and funding
-California ranked 35th
in national per pupil funding and 47th in science
2. If we have too few qualified
workers, we are putting our economy at risk in the future
3. Higher tuition if it doesn’t
pass (compared to a .25% of a cent tax bump)
Ethos: I am a Cabrillo college student. If proposition 30
fails, Cabrillo alone will face an additional cut estimated to be about 3.5
million. After already cutting an estimated 400 classes, even more are at risk.
This results in impacted classes, or for some, simply, no classes. Students (or
those who wish to be) are often waitlisted for classes, or denied. Not only our
classes are being revoked, but, many of our facilities are at risk. I cherish
Cabrillo’s academic resources, such as the “Math Learning Center” with out it, or
many other resources like it, there is no way the quality of students education
would not plummet. Education should not be a competition, nor is it something
to be compromised, an education of the equivalent should be just as much
attainable for you, as the person sitting next to you. Additionally, I rely heavily upon
financial aid. I work to support myself and in order to even be able to attend
school I depend on its assistance. Unfortunately, many others (if not most)
face the same struggle I do. Our generation was always taught that school was the
only way to make a decent life for your self and even in times of economic hardship
an education was supposed to provide some sense of security, however, a good
education is beginning to start sounding like a fairy tale. I am a young adult,
simply trying to make something of myself and I believe I reserve the right to
do so.
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