Corn-Pone Opinions

  In Corn-Pone Opinion Mark Twain, a well known novelist,  used a few rhetorical devices to deliver his intention to his writing. His intention to writing this piece was to show that one's thinking, and opinions etc. are build and based -most of the time- on believes of others in society. To do so, Twain first started by using an anecdote about his experience with a preacher. By including an anecdote, Twain was able to introduce his topic to his readers and show his readers that his experience towards this certain topic that he will be writing about.
  Another rhetorical device that Twain used was the use of ethos. He used the the example of how hoop-skirts was once in style but once a person starts wearing it again, everyone else starts wearing it as well. The use of historical contexts in his piece, he was able to make his point more believable to the readers. This, therefore, further strengthens his point that people often tend to be influenced by others in current society.
  In Corn-Pone Opinion Mark Twain used hoop-skirts as an example to help strengthen his point that people are under influences are other. I agree with this point that he makes about fashion trends. In today's society, people are more likely to follow new fashion trends which is why you see almost everyone wearing the same thing and store selling almost the same clothes. This just shows that people really don't have their own judgements towards the things they do. Not much people really have their own judgements which is why we basically see the same kind of people revolving around us all the time.

blog assignment #1

  As a immigrant of the United States of America for the past ten years, I've encountered numerous cases in which American citizens compliant about the increasing immigration rates. Now what concerns them the most is the idea that immigrants may eventually take over things that they may think belonged to them. As stated from the Pew Research Center, it is estimated that "immigrants will make up a record 18% of the U.S. population in 2065, compared with 14% today and 5% in 1965. Immigrants and their children will represent 36% of the U.S. population in 2065"(PewResearchCenter 2015). However, though immigrants will continuously increase in the U.S, it doesn't mean that the Americans will lose anything.
  In the eyes of some American, immigrants have always been sinful people stepping on their territory which explains why those Americans don't seem to quite have nice thoughts about immigrants. Now let us stop for a second and picture our society without these immigrants. Within this second you may have pictured a scene: restaurants lack workers, supermarket in need for employees, construction sites never seem to have things built, and maybe even public bathrooms don't seem to be clean. These might be the things you've pictured in your mind- these jobs also known as the "dirty" job are commonly seen jobs for immigrants. If this were to actually come true, then, our society would probably lose its function since the U.S economic market is mostly functioned under the hands of immigrants. Moreover, who actually likes the "dirty" job? My true intention to saying this is not to change anything but instead provide to you- American citizens- another perspective to think about next time before letting any unreasonable thought out of you mouth.
  Here I used a few of Zinsser's teaching such as the colon, mood changers, and dash. I used the colon to list a few possible things that someone may think about when I ask them to picture a certain scene. then I used the mood changer "However" and "Moreover" to switch up the sides a bit. Lastly, I used the dash in my paragraph just to clarify certain things said.