Blog Entry #2

Blog Entry #2: Do you think Smith (“The Wife Beater”) should have spent

more time in this essay on developing the cause and effect relationship, if any,

between the “wife beater” shirt and family violence? What additional

information would she have to provide?

Smith should have focused more on developing the cause and effect relationship. The relationship between a wife-beater and the shirt its-self. Although I think that the shirt has nothing to do with a man beating a woman. I think that it all has to do with society and stereotypes. Smith would have to provide more information on the shirt and family violence. She needs additional resources to let me and others know who also disagree that the shirt has nothing to do with violence. ME and OTHERS who read the story need facts and documents that states, why she has come up with this conclusion>

Journal Entry

Blog Entry#1: Like most definition essays, “I Want a Wife” (pp. 520-523) uses

several patterns of development. Which ones does it use? Which of these do

you consider most important for supporting Brady’s thesis? Why?

The story "I want A Wife," it uses a lot of exemplification. She gives many examples to explain how she wants a wife, and what a wife should be like according to her.

*I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling complaints about a wife's duties. (521)

*I want a wife to take care of the baby sitting arrangements. (521)

*I want a wife who will keep my house clean. (521)

Judy Brady also uses description.

*I want a wife who will work and send me to school

*I want a wife who will who will wash the children's clothes and keep them mended.

*I want a wife who is sensitive to my sexual needs (521)

I think exemplification is the most important for supporting Brady's thesis. Exemplification will explain different behaviorism; One that she may like and dislike.

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Do you agree with Smith that the casual use of the terms like wife-beater is dangerous, or do you think he is exaggerating the problem?

I definitely disagree with Smith. I think she exaggerates the problem excessively. I don't think that the term is serious. Growing up, my mother and family just called them wife beaters, when I heard the term I didn't think anyting of it. I looked at it as a shirt. Any one can wear them, I wear them as lounging shirts.

Combining the Patterns

I would not advise Ericsson to delete the definition in paragraph 6 for this reason, the definitions that he gave were very accurate and true. It all made sense. WE lie everyday if not all the time, and we (I) do it so much that I forget what really happened or what I'm really trying to say. Sometimes we tell lies to cover up things or to not hurt anyone's feelings, so we tend to lie and keep lying. It's not good because we have to keep covering up for the first lie that we told. The definitions help and tell what a LIE really is.

Combining the Patterns

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Do you think this essay is funny? Explain your reaction.

I think this essay is very hilarious. The things that Segal talked about in this essay are very very true. The people I know including me make up excuses when we can't turn our homework in on time. The family, the bestfriend, the evils of dorm life, the evils of technology, and the total bizarre excuses are excuses that I've used before. I've used them in a different way but it all had the same meaning behind it.

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Based on your ow observations of female-male communication, how accurate is Tannen's analysis? Can you relate an anecdote from your own life that illustrates or contradicts her thesis?

Tannen's analysis is pretty much correct. All relationships have problems because of communication. Communication is the number one thing wrong with all relationships. Women think men arn't listening and vice versa. I agree, totally with what she's saying.

I had this one boyfriend Naeem, and we didn't last the rest of the two years because of communication. We didn't talk about enough and I was assuming and vice versa and slowly but surely we fell off and we broke up. I never thought he was listening.