Shakespeare’s Logical Fallacies

In “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” the author uses many logical appeals to convince the author to believe something.  One of the appeals he uses is the Snob Appeal. In line 90-91 Shakespeare says “I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, as well as I know you outward favor.” Cassius is trying to appeal to Brutus by making him feel superior over everyone. In the same act he also uses the ad hominem fallacy. In line 121-125 he says “he had a fever when in Spain and when fit was on him, i did mark how he did shake. ‘Tis true, this God did shake.” Cassius says that Caesar is unfit and weak for king by attacking Caesar himself rather than what he has done as king. Another fallacy he uses is The slippery slope fallacy. He says “And this man is now become a god, and cassius is a wretched creature and must bend his body if Caesar careselly but nod to him.” in lines 118-120. Cassius feels that because Caesar is a God, the only outcome is that Cassius and the others will feel miserable for the rest of their life. He also uses the Strawman fallacy by saying “Therefore good Brutus, be prepared to hear. And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass will modestly discover to yourself, That yourself which you yet know not of.” in line 72-76.  Cassius asks Brutus if he can see himself. Brutus responds that he cannot see himself. He means this literally, as in he cannot see his own face. Cassius then changes the meaning of his statement by implying that Brutus cannot see his own thoughts. Cassius then offers to reveal to him that which he does not yet know. To finalize my analyzation, Shakespeare uses the loaded question fallacy. To prove this, in line 49-51 he says “Brutus and Caesar what should be in that Caesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?” Cassius compares Brutus and Caesar and asks what is so special about Caesar that his name holds more power than Brutus’s. Shakespeare shows many examples of how he can use logical fallacies to spice up his writings. Also to add some flavor to the readers passage.

Do you think that Human Morality can be hacked? Honestly I do not think so. But a small group of scientist and tech moguls got together to prove their theory is something to think about. Biohacking is the idea that technology can optimize any aspect of our lives. So they decide to expand the life expectancy of a human being. This will give the human race “superlongevity”. This term means it gives us a long time to be able to perform activities we did as a kid. Activities like play football, run around the yard, this will allow us to be at our full potential for a longer time. And I know many people would love this. Lots of people have kids at older ages. So if they do this, there kids can still enjoy their time with them. Without them complaining about a knee or hip problem. If this is true, I would love to test it out on me. This could also give people opportunity to meet more of their family members. People like grandkids and great grandkids. That could change there life, knowing that they have someone else other than their parents to love and care for them. Lots of kids do not always click with their parents. So some chose to go live with their grandparents. So if this experiment works it could save some life’s. One of the people in this article has just turned 45 and swears he will live to 180. He goes to the doctor twice a month to care for his thought and he takes over 100 supplements a day to try to live this long. This isn’t doing anything but hurting him in my opinion. He is taking all these pills and meds for this superstition he has that he doesn’t even know for sure will happen. He even has oxygen chambers in British Columbia for himself. While he is doing all this, his body has to be on the down side. I know he listened to all the people that sounded like they knew what they were talking about, but sometimes even the smartest people have a bad idea.

W 10.2  – Explanation of Complex Information or Ideas. 

Human Morality is something that should be kept to yourself. Now, with the technology and information we have, is in the process of being hacked. In the passage that we are reading the author uses many forms of rhetoric to prove how Human Morality can be hack and your life can possibly be expanded. In every heading he uses, it is formed into a question. With this, by using my knowledge from his work, he is trying to ask a rhetorical question so he can answer them all in the following passage below. He thinks this will leave the reader with no question about his theory. I don’t think this is such a smart idea. By him only writing two pages on this theory makes the readers want to know more. With this subject being so broad, he should have done more research and made it longer, or either wrote a different kind of text. Something like a book, magazine or even a longer article. Also the reader places many details about how this will expand your life. Everyone knows that no one looks forward to dying. The reason he puts all the points about living to 180 years old and making your life 56 percent longer is because he is trying to appeal to your emotional side. The author keeps referring to this because he is smart with his word chose. He knows that if he keeps saying the statements about expanding our lives he will catch our attention and make us want to know more and more. The groups of scientists also refer to many other scientist and CEOs in this article. The people he are talking about have special roles in there programs to make there titles sound important. He uses the names well to make it look like he knows about the topic just like they do. All the research and other people he brought in made the article even better. For the readers, they try to sound logical so they will actually get taken serious for once.

In The Scarlet letter Hawthorne uses many different figurative. If i explain every piece of figurative language I would be writing for days. But some of them are really strong and literal in his novel. One of the pieces he uses are “…an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity… that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world.” The way he uses imagery in this quote gives the area of this text more style and flavor. He inserts it in at the right time to insure that his text stays on the level of mastery he tries to betray.

As he uses imagery to show his true feelings, he also uses similes to make key comparisons to elaborate on some of his reasonings. “A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.” says Hawthorn. With this quote he gives the reader a comparison to prove the point he is trying to reveal.   

This year has really been a lot of things. It has been my best year so far though. I have learned many things like how to have self control and how to be a good citizen (thank you Mrs Rogers).

But in English class… We have learned a lot. From how to diagram to how to play fortnite (long story).  I would never think I would play fortnite in a English class but it was cool how we put it all together.

Some of the other things we did was  learn about To Kill a Mockingbird which was a very inspirational book. It taught me many things that can be useful in my life when I leave high school and go into the real world.

Something I will always remember is the dancing in the classroom. It is so funny when we watch it back on the cameras . Also something I will never forget is the twitter videos you post when we do something funny or even weird in class.

This year has been amazing and uplifting. I think a lot of this came from you. From being a amazing teacher and friend. You helped us with a lot of our problems and you did it with no problem. We all will miss you next year and I hope you have a good class next year.

Fortnite’s New Mode: Romeo and Juliet. Get Your Popcorn Ready!!

 

If you haven’t heard, Fortnite has released a Romeo and Juliet version. This game mode includes 1600’s features like weapons, emotes, and land marks.  The games has already been played 1 million times and it released last weekend. With season 4, releasing with this mode the game is estimated to skyrocket. Since the game is a throwback we decided to change the battle bus to a horse drawn carriage. This gives the game more of a old look like the 1600’s.

Weapons 

The weapons in this new mode are from the 1600’s. There will be some weapons that remain the same like the revolver and the hunting rifle (renamed to the musket). The publishers of this mode tried to make the guns as real looking and 3d as possible to give the game more of a real look. One of these people said “the weapons of the 1600’s were antiques and they should be treated as that in this game mode.

The Map

The map on this mode will be featuring every city in Verona. This map you are seeing is as real as the Verona. These small cities will be the landing spots for the mode. Some spots are The Arena, Bahnhof, and the most popular Zeno Magg. Zeno is like the Titled Towers of this mode where you can find the best loot and do not have your guard down because you never know when you can get sniped with a musket. The map designer says “We modeled the game after the real life Verona, Italy. We took all aspects of Verona and put it in to the game like Verona city.

Battle

The fighting in this mode has been changed a little. During this time you can actually use your hands as a weapon. When fighting with a axe also, it takes more damage than it usually would in the other modes. Players can find armor (as you can see in the photo) spanned like a weapon would . The amor can take 5 hits if gold 3 if its blue and 2 hits if it is green. If the armor is common, one shot, or hit,  from any weapon takes it away. The armor is the best feature in the gosh dang game man!!!!

Skins and Emotes

I know everyone is wondering by now “what types of skins are there going to be”, or (Are there going to be any emotes?). Well the answer to your question is yes! Our creators has decided to add in skins like the outfits people wore in the 1600’s. Some of these are The Peasant, The King, The Priest, The Queen, Royal Knight, and Cupid. The Royal Knight skin will be the reward for reaching you max amount of tiers. Just wait till you see the skin, it will be worth it. The skins designer says “The skins were inspired by the years of the 1600s.” The emotes in this version are from the 16th century as well. These dances are The Gilliard, The Bass Dance, Almain, and Canario.

The Storm 

The owners of this mode wanted to change the storm up a little. So we decided to give it a new name and a different look. The storms name will be the Torakane and it will be coming faster than ever. This speeds up the game because we have been getting complaints that the game is too slow. So here is your solution.The storm editor says “The storm of fortnite comes quickly so get your loot and move to the circle” We have added something else in with the storm. Since Romeo and Juliet is based around them not being able to be with each other, but they are still in love, the storm will have the family members of both Romeo and Juliet chasing you to get to the circle.

 

Fortnite to me has been the hottest game out. This is not estimated to change. New modes are coming out every Thursday and that will jus make even more people play it. This Romeo and Juliet game mode is bringing in lots of new players and I think it won’t stop. This has already became my favorite mode because of all the new features. I hope you give this game a try, you will not regret it!

 

 

 

Present day and I am stressed. I am a freshman at Oxford High School. My teacher told me to do this so here it is.

The thing that keeps me coming to school is football. I love this sport. It makes me feel great when i’m on the field. My dad is completely on my side, and he thinks I can make it somewhere so I am going to try real hard to get there.

None of my parents went to collage, but my sister is on the right track to attend UAB. My dad is going back to collage though to become a better barber. He wants to be able to cut every races hair not just African Americans. My mom is also thinking about going back if she can find time too.

 

I want to attend the University of Miami or Georgia University to play football and major in sports medicine. I have also been thinking about going into the air force to play football. Lots of decisions.

The reason I am stressed now is because of one class. This class has been the hardest class I have took all my life. I do not even have time to study for any other class because I am spending most of my time studying for history. It feels like when I end studying for one test and take the test I forget everything I have studied and learned. In the past years I never needed to study. I mostly made A’s and a B every blue moon. Once I got to high school and enrolled in this class I have to study every night for a 50 question test at the end of the week.

I never get in trouble with my teacher and I always do the work. Teachers say if you do the work and study for the test you will make good grades. When I reached 9th grade Pre-Ap history I have found that not to be true. Since I know this I just try my best and do not complain and take responsibility for it when I get asked by my mom why I have this grade. Sometimes she understands but most of the time she expects more from me, and to be honest I can’t argue with her.

Yesterday our Pre AP English classes went on a field trip. We visited two places. The first was the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. We went on a scavenger hunt their and had a great time. The next place we went was lunch at Chick Fa La. The food was so good almost everybody went their to eat. It took forever to get our food.

After we ate we went to the Museum. This place had so many rooms and lots of paintings that were very interesting. One painting was crazy to me though. It was just a yellow blob and it was the center of attention. I quite didn’t get why it was their but I bet it had a reason.

On the way home lots of people fell asleep from walking so much. Im glad we got back to school at the end of the day because I was exhausted. I had a great time though so I guess it was worth it.

My valentines day is different every year. Sometimes I have a valentines, sometimes I don’t. This year I think I have found a pretty great valentine.

She is really pretty and nice to everyone (even teachers).

But if this I do not get a valentine I usually get my sister and my mom gifts (best son award). My dad usually gets them something if I don’t. And my brother usually just gets his class candy and things since he is still young.

I feel like valentines day should be celebrated by everyone even if you do not have a spouse or valentine. You can give gifts to your parents or you can just go spend time them.

 

I hate when people don’t celebrate valentines day just because they don’t have someone to spend it with. You always have a friend or even a parent to talk to and spend some of your time with.

I say all this to say, valentines day is not all about spouses and partners. Theres always someone you can chill with and eat chocolate.  

It was the day of the championship game and everyone was nervous. We have been preparing for a while and we really wanted to win. We were all 10 or 11 years old and it was the best day of our lives.

We went over what we were going to do in the game before it was time to start. We looked alright so we were ready.

We started the game off strong and we went out of the first quarter winning. We were all pumped up having a great time. Half time came and they caught up but we were still winning. Coach Antwon gave us a speech saying keep playing well and we will win this game.

The third quarter came and we just feel apart. We were not running our plays right at all and went into the fourth quarter losing. So in the fourth quarter we picked it up a little bit and tied the game. In the last couple of minutes it got intense. We were on defense and they had time for one last drive. All we had to do was stop them and go into overtime.

We forced them to a 3rd down.

It was 3rd and 1 and they ran the ball right in the middle. This was perfect cause we had great inside players we thought. He got the ball and ran. And ran. And ran. Before you could blink he scored and we lost the game. We drove all the way to Georgia to lose. All the players were sad with tears in there eyes. We had to drive home knowing that we got beat and there is nothing we can do about it.