3 poject ideas

1. prostitution in Kent (plan to fix)

2. Increase in funding for the Showare center in Kent (plan to fix)

3. homelessness in Kent (more research)

   "Body in Trouble" by Nancy Mairs is an essay written from the viewpoint of a handicapped woman, but more specifically one in a wheelchair and other physical disabilities. She begins her essay by paraphrasing the bible and how illness and handicaps were related to demon possession.
   Nancy elaborates on that by relating it to the modern time and how now that would be considered silly due to modern medicine. Even with this she lists many phrases that would entail a healthy body being the analogy for positive characteristics and then showing the negative analogies to those who are not able bodied. Such as "take it laying down" and "without a leg to stand on" and even the lists ones such as "confined to a wheelchair".
    She takes these analogies and then not only relates them to her handicap, but also to that of a witch by being "bent" and "crooked". She then says not only is that of a woman who if ill-body, but instead even women in general with "All witchcraft come from carnal Lust which is in Women insatiable" elaborating on how language and analogies it is harmful just being an able bodied woman, but to be a woman in a wheelchair even that much harder.
    Taking all that in she explains from personal experience that feeling of not even existing to crowds when she was going to a luncheon to honor the Dali Lama. That crowd was large enough she has to take her chair to the wall.
    Mairs then takes this personal experience and relates it to postmodern criticism and feminism and how they use the metaphor for anyone of the non dominate societal standard of being pushed against a wall
   She relates all of this to her experience with the Catholic church and the idea of a good woman. She describes her handicaps and then relates them to her inability for "doing" as the Catholic church wants her to do. Not even so much as to "hold the ladle" for soup. She then establishes herself in that she does what she can and that is closest she can do to "conceptualize not merely a habitable body but a habitable world: a world that wants me in it"

     In Gloria Anzaldua "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" she begins writing with a memory from childhood and the dentist. The Dentist complaining about the movement of her tongue. From this memory she is to tell about how it is the this same wild tongue that would have her in trouble in school. However she doesn't just recognize as a Spanish speaker, but rather as a Chicano speaker. Neither English or Spanish and from not being recognized by either of these languages Chicano was born. However it the paper is more focused on not just being a Chicano, but rather a Chicano woman. The idea that the women where speaking Chicano is so unclear that just by speaking they can be considered not Spanish enough or not know enough English. You must be recognized as Spanish, but be well versed in English. However to English speakers it could be offensive to speak English as a second language. It is from this conflict Gloria speaks about the conflict of being Chicano and speaking several of the versions be it Spanglish Tex-Mex or others. She takes in that her language is her as much as she speaks it and that to say that Chicano is anything less is to say that she is less. However it is rising from this inner conflict that she realizes she is strong and ends to say that "But more than we count the blows, we count the days the weeks the years the centuries the eons until the white laws and commerce ans customs will rot in the deserts they've created, lie bleached" She writes about how as a people they will endure until white law over language is over and her people have endured and will continue.

    "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" Is a short essay by James Baldwin describing Black English and the importance of the language and the power of it and it shouldn't even be asked if it is a language. It is a language like any other that defines you and reveals you as a speaker.

    He goes on to describe other languages and that they dismiss each others as dialects instead of a powerful form of communication. From the French language Paris to Quebec would be unable to effectively communicate. It reveals them to each other and separates out of necessity. England dialects reveal who where and what you will become just by speaking. 

    Black English is no different and was made out of necessity for when the blacks came to the Americas They were form different tribes and thus needed a form of communication that the whites couldn't understand so that they could have a power behind them.

    If black English was not around James Baldwin insists that America would not be as it is. Jazz could not possibly exist, but from the whites interpretations they "purified" it and gave root to the Jazz age and then took other phrases and then termed them into "getting down" with or relating the black language. These purified phrases are the refusal to accept the dehumanization of the black people.

    It is from this that whites never taught blacks and that it is this that cause so many black children to be lost and not from the language in what they speak. It is the refusal of America to learn from its mistakes and instead celebrate "criminal mediocrities".

Rhetorical Analysis of Malcolm X's Prison studies

Malcolm X thesis of self education is key to self empowerment is demonstrated mostly through pathos throughout the writing. He makes strong attempts at emotional persuasion with self achievement after just writing the first page of the dictionary all the way to writing the entire dictionary out to finally reading and understanding entire books. He also uses Pathos in a competitive way when speaking about the other prison debaters or when Bimbi would take charge of every conversation and how he would like to achieve the same. He establishes his ethos by referencing the dictionary and how well read he is in it and even uses logos analogy of a dictionary is like a encyclopedia. Making his Ethos seem like he knows the dictionary and the encyclopedia. He wraps up his story with " My homemade education gave me a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America." To establish himself as educated and to give a sense of understanding a knowledge base for his Ethos