Blog entry #6 - Maaz Mateen 1B

Our class these past few weeks mainly focused around these three images, and I felt that the image overhead was the most important as it held all the persuasive appeals. What do you think was the most important/interesting image, and why? For the people in Communications or speech class, we are familiar with these 3 techniques and have gone quite in depth. For this image specifically there is a lot of Logos going on. There are many words, which mostly contain facts and other such logical appeals. However what I think is the most persuasive role in the image is most certainly the black man just sitting there doing nothing. I feel that this paper is trying to make emotional appeal through this man. At that people were used to seeing the opposite of this happening. Never was the black man not working or being put into unpaid labor. Now they have literally reversed the conditions making the people of America feel emotion. The emotion of desire. To desire equality after all of this hardship we put ourselves through. We fought through slavery and now all we want is equality, even if the black man should deserve more at this time. I KNOW that equality for all is better.
What do you think about the in-fighting of the republicans?

Blog week #5 - Maaz Mateen 1B

The civil war has ended. But at what cost? This past week focused on the completion of the civil war along with the Unit test of course. But even though we barely discussed the ending of the civil war. I feel it is a very important role in American history. How do you think the civil war played a role in the Great Depression?  We learned about the promises that Abraham Lincoln could not keep to the United States of America due to his unfortunate death. How do you think Lincoln's death played a role in the Great depression? Lincoln's death allowed his vice president, Andrew Johnson to take office. Fun Fact: President Johnson was actually a slave holder. Now that you know that Andrew Johnson was a slave holder, we also need to understand that when he came into office, he was resented by the North because he could not completely fulfill the reconstruction of the union. And the south also hated him because they thought he was a traitor to the south. He stuck with the Union during the civil war so this resentment might not be so misplaced after all. Due to all this plus the pressure he got from trying to fulfill Lincoln's footstep. I personally applaud him for standing his ground and having his own ideals.

Blog week #4 - Maaz Mateen 1B

This last week we mainly focused on the Civil war. We had two different ways of understanding this war. First we observed and understood the importance of the maps leading up to the war. We used to maps to get a better understanding of the division between north and south. The second method was through the battle of Gettysburg and also through the battle of Cold Harbor. These two battles were decisive and important regarding the fate between the victor and the loser in the Civil War.
That maps gave us some background info on Abraham Lincoln and David Lee. It taught about the split between the Union and the Confederacy. We learned about the two sides of the war. Unions and confederacy, republics and democrats, North and South. this split really interested me when I realized that America could have split. What is your perspective on America splitting?
The battle of Gettysburg was probably the most decisive battle in the Civil war. Mr. Hoffman mentioned how the battle of Gettysburg was a proud and honorable battle when historians view it, what do you think about that? This battle was started when Lee tried to sneak up on Gettysburg so he could have an easy route to the Capital. The Union anticipated this and set up a defense. The Union won. The battle of Cold harbor seemed to be a one-sided massacre by the Confederate. This was the war with the most casualties in American history, and this battle was the bloodiest.