5/30/11
Interview
5/25/11
Hire a Nurse to come over: 13 votes
Ask Grandma: 11 votes
Keep her home: 8 votes
Put her in an assistant living home: 3 votes
Look around for place as a family: 2 votes
Work together as a family: 1 vote
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5/23/11
Is it easier for your love one to be in a nursing home or have a nurse that comes to your home everyday where your love one knows the area much better to take care of that person when you are away?
5/23/11
Lloyd F. Bitzer’s essay is primarily informative and to enlighten his readers about what a rhetorical situation is. He starts off his essay in the tense of a first person and then weaves his way to the word “we”. In the beginning portion of his essay he goes on to talk about how an audience can be persuaded via an essay. By stating the obvious he intricately makes the audience more or less think about what persuades them and what they want to hear. By establishing the word “we” in his essay he is making an assumption that the audience has some understanding and is accepting that what he has written thus far is true, based on common knowledge or fact. It is hard to understand this essay if you have absolutely no knowledge of what a rhetoric situations or anything consisting of rhetorics is about. He also uses a lot of repetition mainly on the words such as: rhetoric, situation, discourse, persons, events, objects, relations, exigence and modify. He uses repetition because that is the point that his is trying to deliver to the audience and to inform or educate them about a rhetorical situation. He also repeats the essential parts to make up a rhetorical situation and makes it clear that if certain aspects are missing it is not a rhetorical situation. It seems that he put some emphasis on a few words throughout his essay, words that exemplify a stronger tone or ideology behind it. He italicized words like, audience, exigence, constraints and fitting. He is making it clear that some of these words of emphasis are important aspects that make up the bulk of a rhetorical situation. Bitzer says that an “exigence which cannot be modified is not rhetorical,” and the emphasis clearly defines what is essential to a rhetorical situation. Towards the end of his essay he makes it evident as to why he italicized the word fitting. He claims that fitting means, “That a rhetorical response fits a situation is to say that it meets the requirements established by the situation,” As he lists instances of rhetorical situations it seems that he is targeting adults who know about the people he uses as examples. He uses various and political leaders such as, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Lloyd Garrison and Lyndon B. Johnson. After listing his examples it appears that he is only focusing on American leaders and in this portion of his essay he could be subjected for being bias. His structuring of the essay was very organized because he defines terms that are not clear to the audience and from there he begins to branch out into more complex terms while defining them as he progresses, which is easier on the audience. Not only does he define terms but he also lists the characteristics of particular rhetorical instances. Rhetorical situations are based on a set of characteristics and rules, and if certain aspects aren’t in the correct place then it is not a rhetorical situation and he defines that to the audience. All in all he made his point by defining the terms, characteristics and rules of just what a rhetorical situation is and consists of.
5/23/11
Over at AarenBrooke Place. We got to interact with the residents in the nursing home. We got the chance to sit down, eat, and get to know more about the residents that lived in that nursing home. We got to do activities with the residents such as wii blowing. It is one of their main things that they like to do and enjoy playing. They all seem every lively and happy to be in a place like this. The feeling is that there is a lot that is going on and everyone loves each other. The workers know all the residents by their name. They are not standing around trying to figure out who was who. Everyone is cared for, treated with all around well respect, and love for one another.
5/23/11
Peter Marin begins his essay by using Ethos and through that he describes his experiences as well as his ideologies too. To generate the atmosphere and the feel of the story he gives details about homelessness and the situation that took place in Santa Barbara. Towards the crux of his essay he goes on to break down the work homeless and interprets it more like of an abstract meaning because homeless is such a broad topic. He gives examples about the different type of homeless people ranging from veterans, mentally ill to those who want to be homeless. He puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that homeless isn’t what it is and that we as citizens depict them into something they are not. Our image of them is so different but what the author wants us to realize is that they as the homeless were once just like us. He makes it evident that most of the homeless is part of the middle or working class and many more as defined in his essay. Another interesting point he makes in his essay is how he classifies homeless people into two classes. The first class is about people who are forced to be homeless due to the laws and red tape that prevent them from accessing the aid they need. The second class is those who want to be homeless and that they accept it. Towards the end he more or less persuades the audience to think about their morals and the connection to homelessness.
Two Websites
http://www.nursinghomes.org/
http://www.medicare.gov/Nursing/Overview.asp
Two News Paper Articles
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/nursing-homes-seek-exemption-from-employee-insurance-requirement/?ref=nursinghomes
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/health/policy/11medicaid.html?_r=1&ref=nursinghomes
Two Magazine Articles
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913086,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,987233,00.html
Website
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-nursing-homes/articles/2009/03/11/figure-out-whether-a-nursing-home-is-needed
