Now That's Good Logic!

Your job is to create an argument using logic. In this link, you will find examples of how to turn a syllogism into a good, developed argument. Choose whatever topic you wish, but no repeats please.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/logic_in_writing.html

Happy Homecoming!

After establishing your ethos, make an emotional plea to either keep celebrating homecoming the way it is currently at Elk County Catholic High School or to change the way we celebrate homecoming at Elk County Catholic High School. You should include in your argument all facets of the celebration including the weeks leading up to the event as well as the celebration at the football game and the dance. I will remind you, do NOT be a sophist. This is not designed to be a place to voice complaints, rather, it is a place to constructively discuss this high school's approach to homecoming weekend. If you have ideas that you think would make it better, share them. If you have an argument that warrants not having a homecoming, we will listen to that argument as well. But be respectful, or your post will be removed. And have fun with it!

Hit the feels

ANNOUNCEMENT: YOU MUST COMMENT AT LEAST 2 TIMES. Last week everyone only made 1 comment. 

Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

 A speech by Dipesh Patel, 04                                                                                                                                                                      

[Situation: I am giving a speech to honour the life of a special person who I admired greatly but who sadly passed away on September 5, 1997.]

 Today we are gathered to pay tribute to one of the greatest saints of our time…She was by blood an Albanian, by citizenship an Indian and by faith a Catholic nun…However, she belonged to the whole world…Small of stature but rocklike in faith, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was entrusted with the mission of proclaiming God’s love for humanity… especially for the poorest of the poor.

 First and foremost, Mother Teresa was a missionary of humanity…In 1948, she came across a half-dead woman lying in front of a Calcutta hospital…She stayed with the woman until she died…From that point on, she dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name “Saint of the Gutters.”

  Mother Teresa was also a missionary of peace…She was a missionary with a universal language…the language of love that knows no bounds or exclusion and has no preferences other than for the most forsaken in society…Mother Teresa proclaimed the Gospel to the entire world, not just by preaching but by her daily acts of love towards the poorest of the poor…That devotion won her respect throughout the world and in 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

            Mother Teresa was also a missionary of life…She always spoke out in defense of human life, even when her message was unwelcome…Mother Teresa’s whole existence was a hymn to life…Her daily encounters with death, leprosy, AIDS and every kind of human suffering made her a forceful witness to the Gospel of life… She didn’t just feed the poor, shelter them nor cleaned their wounds, but what is more important she made them feel good, loved and wanted…She gave them back their dignity…the dignity that poverty had taken away from them…and even if they died they died with a smile on their face knowing that…. somebody cared for them somebody loved them. 

            A missionary of humanity, a missionary of peace, a missionary of life… Mother Teresa was all of these…Today more than ever, Mother Teresa’s message of humanity, peace and life is an invitation addressed to us all…I would like to end with her words, the words of a truly compassionate missionary…“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing….It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” 

Thank you.  (395 words)

These are two speeches are full of pathos. Analyze the rhetoric used, specifically in regards to the appeal to emotion, in each of these speeches. Which do you prefer and why?

Nice to Meet 'Ya!

When you apply for college, you'll likely be required to write essays for your application for admission. Because schools are interested not only in the academic potential of their students but also in their personal qualities, these essay prompts often ask about the ethos-what kind of character the applicant has. For this assignment, go online to find an essay prompt from a college or university to which you intend to apply. Or look on the common app for the essay choices they have listed. Respond to one of the prompts in an essay of no more than 650 words. Identify sentences that establish arete, phronesis, and eunoia within your essay.