Obama Vs. MLK

The speech by Barack Obama started out very well. It stated what it was going to argue about, and then it continued to tell why. Then about halfway through the speech he breaks into a story that seems to have nothing to do with what he was talking about. The story continues for about 8 paragraphs that would lose anyone who wasn’t a political speaker. It lost me after 2 paragraphs and I had to go back and reread the three paragraphs before the story to find out the basics of what he was talking about. After the story he tries to go back to what he was originally talking about and link it to the story, but didn’t succeed. Overall, I couldn’t tell what Barack Obama was even arguing for or against. Half the time I didn’t know what he was talking about.
The speech by MLK was a very good speech. It started out with him explaining where he was and a brief explanation as to why he is there, he brings in a story but limits it to about one paragraph. By limiting it to one paragraph he made sure people wouldn’t get bored with it and that people still got the basics of what was going on. After that he begins to argue his case. To argue his case he put in facts, and other short stories that support that part of the argument. At no point in the speech did I lose interest or not understand what he was trying to get across.
Over all the story in Obamas speech and the lack of apparent links between the story and the argument, were the major downfalls of that speech. There was also no well defined argument. The short stories and well explained links made the MLK speech very interesting and strong.

Spring Break

Over spring break Adam did very little. The first thing he did was travel to the Twin Cities Area to visit his eldest sister and family. He spent a few days there, then he made his way a cross the state to his hometown. He spent the rest of his spring break in his hometown, visiting the rest of his family and celebrating his nieces 5th birthday. Other than those few things Adam did very little.

Family

when i think of my family i think of a large number of people. Mainly my family consists of my actual family. they would include my 2 older sisters, older brother and my younger sister. im the 4th in a line of 5 siblings. the rest of the people that i coonsider family are my closest friends and friends of the family. There are no interesting stories that im willing to share about my family.

Writing Assignment

I'm still looking for a topic to write about. i'm going to talk to my family to see if they have a good idea for a topic. Once I get a few ideas for topics, I'll reseach them to figure out which is better to write about. Other than the topic of the paper, I have no concerns at the moment.

A Modest Proposal.

Jonathan Swift was a satirical writer that decided to propose a solution to the large number of families that are starving in Ireland. Over all i though that this protion of the writing was very boring. I was having a hard time actually reading the last page. I found absolutly nothing in it interesting. but it did bring to light to the problems that ireland was facing.