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Suggested Time Allotment: 20 Advocacy Poster inutes Directions: 1. To promote respect for others and strengthen family relationship,
create an advocacy poster that upholds the value of respect for others and that helps strengthen your relationship with your family
and other significant people around you. Create your own title o slogan. 2. Use a clean sheet of paper and available drawing materials.

I need help determining the Ethos, Pathos, Logos for the following article as I need to write an Essay on how the writer uses Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Life isn’t fair – Deal with it
Mike Myatt, December, 2011
Mike Myatt is a bestselling author and a columnist. Commonly recognized as an authority on the subject of leadership, he believes that leadership “exists to disrupt mediocrity.”
There seems to be a lot of talk these days about what is fair, and what is not. President Obama seems to believe life should be fair – that “everybody should have a fair shake.” Some of the 99% seem to believe life has treated them unfairly, and some of the 1% percent feel life hasn’t treated them fairly enough. My questions are these: What is fair? Is life fair? Should life be fair? I’ll frame the debate, and you decide…
We clearly have no choice about how we come into this world, we have little choice early in life, but as we grow older choices abound. I have long believed that while we have no control over the beginning of our life, the overwhelming majority of us have the ability to influence the outcomes we attain. Fair is a state of mind, and most often, an unhealthy state of mind.
In business, in politics, and in life, most of us are beneficiaries of the outcomes we have contributed to. Our station in life cannot, or at least should not, be blamed on our parents, our teachers, our pastors, our government, or our society – it’s largely based on the choices we make, and the attitudes we adopt.
People have overcome poverty, drug addiction, incarceration, abuse, divorce, mental illness, victimization, and virtually every challenge known to man. Life is full of examples of the uneducated, the mentally and physically challenged, people born into war-torn impoverished backgrounds, who could have complained about life being unfair, but who instead chose a different path – they chose to overcome the odds and to leave the world better than they found it. Regardless of the challenges they faced, they had the character to choose contribution over complaint.
I don’t dispute that challenges exist. I don’t even dispute that many have an uphill battle due to the severity of the challenges they face. What I vehemently dispute is attempting to regulate, adjudicate, or legislate fairness somehow solves the world’s problems. Mandates don’t create fairness, but people’s desire and determination can work around or overcome most life challenges.
It doesn’t matter whether you are born with a silver spoon, plastic spoon, or no spoon at all. It’s not the circumstances by which you come into this world, but what you make of them once you arrive that matter. One of my clients came to this country from Africa in his late teens, barely spoke the language, drove a cab while working his way through college, and is now the President of a large technology services firm. Stories such as this are all around us – they are not miracles, nor are they the rare exception. They do however demonstrate blindness to the mindset of the fairness doctrine.
From a leadership perspective, it’s a leader’s obligation to do the right thing, regardless of whether or not it’s perceived as the fair thing. When leaders attempt to navigate the slippery slope of fairness, they will find themselves arbiter of public opinion and hostage to the politically correct. Fair isn’t a standard to be imposed unless a leader is attempting to impose mediocrity. Fair blends to a norm, and in doing so, it limits, inhibits, stifles, and restricts, all under the guise of balance and equality. I believe fair only exists as a rationalization or justification. The following 11 points came from a commencement speech widely attributed to Bill Gates entitled
Rules for Life.
While many dispute the source, whether it was proffered by Bill Gates or not, I tend to agree with the hypothesis:
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Here’s the thing – we all face challenges, and life treats us all unfairly. We all make regrettable choices, and we all suffer from things thrust upon us do to little if any fault of our own. When I suffered a debilitating stroke at an early age, I certainly asked myself “why did this happen to me?” I could have felt sorry for myself and became bitter, I could have thrown in the towel and quit on my family and myself – I didn’t. It took two years of gut-wrenching effort, but what I thought was a great injustice at the time changed my life for the better. Today, you couldn’t tell I ever had a stroke. The greatest adversity life can throw at you simply affords you an opportunity to make changes, improve, and get better.
By the title of today’s column you have no doubt surmised I believe life is not fair, nor do I believe we should attempt to socially or financially engineer it to be such. Fair is not an objective term – it is a matter of perspective filtered by a subjective assessment. My subjective assessment is that fair is an entitlement concept manufactured to appease those who somehow feel slighted. Life isn’t fair – #occupyreality
Thoughts?

Answer comprehension questions at the end of the text below.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a form of shale gas extraction that involves drilling thousands of feet below the earth’s surface and pumping millions of gallons of water and chemical additives at high pressure into the well. People who support fracking say the United States could achieve total energy independence because of the country’s large reserves of shale gas. Conversely, environmental activists warn that the potential dangers of the fracking process outweigh any potential benefits. Instead, they say, the U.S. should focus on renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and biomass.
A major selling point for fracking is that a totally energy independent America is a very real possibility. Estimates by the United States Department of Energy put the number of recoverable barrels of shale gas at around 1.8 trillion. To put that into perspective, Saudi Arabia is estimated to have roughly 2.6 trillion barrels of oil reserves. However, environmentalists claim that this independence will come at a price, and will result in widespread pollution of perhaps our most precious resource: water.
Companies don’t have to disclose chemicals used in the process. Fracking is exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act of 2005, thus allowing companies to conceal the chemicals used in the process. The Natural Resource Defense Council has listed more than two dozen instances of ground water pollution to which hydraulic fracturing is believed to have contributed, but these assertions have been refuted by industry officials.
Another divisive quality of fracking is its carbon footprint. The process of extracting the gas is messy, leaking more emissions than coal. Methane is one of the most dangerous greenhouse gasses. Cornell Professor Robert Howarth said about a study he conducted, “Compared to coal, the immediate footprint of shale gas is at least 20 percent greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon and is comparable when

Consider the following words for numbers in a hypothetical language Galagot: uso ‘three’ balinuso ‘thirteen’ delega ‘four’ balindelega ‘fourteen’ pati ‘five’ balimpati ‘fifteen’ gito ‘six’ balingito ‘sixteen’ Which of the following most closely represents how native Galagot speakers store the morpheme meaning ‘ten/-teen’ at the abstract, phonemic level of their mental representation? /bali-/ /balin-/ /balim-/ Correct Answer /balin-/ It is not possible to tell from these data

6. Grendel’s mother lives deep in the forest, where no man dares to go. 7. Sutton Hoo contains proof that King Hrothgar
existed, 8. All of Beowulf’s warriors leave him to fight the dragon. 9. Wiglaf is made the next king of Geatland when Beowulf
dies. 10. The Dragon of Earnaness was over sixty feet long.

The movie Tortilla Soup is centered around Martin Naranjo and his three daughters….do you feel they have a good communicative relationship with each other? Please explain your answer
How do the four main characters in Tortillo Soup movie disclose their feelings with each other….is it easy or difficult?
What does Martin disclose towards the end of the film that surprises his family?
Which of the sisters, according to the Johari Window, has the rare Not Know to others/Not known to self that is realized towards the end of the film?

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
1. Every time a bell rings, an angel gets a halo.
2. As a child, George Bailey rescued his brother from drowning.
3. Mr. Gower put poison into medication when he received a telegram stating his wife died.
4. Uncle Billy purposefully gave $8,000 to Mr. Potter in an attempt to ruin the family business.
5. In an alternate universe without George Bailey, Mary Bailey becomes a librarian.
1. How many lives has 12 year-old George Bailey saved? How does George save Mr. Gower in the beginning of the film? How does George save Harry Bailey in the beginning of the film? Who else does 12 year-old George help out?
2. Does George realize Mary’s feelings when they are younger (at 12 years old? After the high school dance?)? How could that have changed the outcome of the film?
3. What is George’s main goal in life when he is young?
4. Why does George never leave Bedford Falls?
5. What keeps George from joining Sam’s company?
6. What is the fate of Mary and the others if George is never born? Mary Hatch? His father? His mother? His brother? His Neighbors?
7. Why is Joseph skeptical about sending Clarence on this mission?
8. What is the significance of the film being set at Christmas? How does the setting enhance the themes?
9. Why does Mr. Potter get away with his crime? Does he end up winning in the end?
10. What does it mean when a bell rings?
1b.) Below is a list of words that have different pronunciations in different dialects. Circle

Cyrano de Bergerac Act 5.
Answer the following questions using textual evidence from the play to support your points.
The introduction to one of the first English translations of Rostand’s play notes that Cyrano’s idealism might serve as a model for all of us:
“The brilliant author of
Cyrano
tells of things better than those we see around us, of things of beauty which [we might] bring somewhat nearer to our touch, if we will only have the courage to live up to them.” — A. Cohn
What ideals does Cyrano live up to in this play, and why might it take courage to live up to them? In what way does the play point to a better world than the one in which we live?
In staging a play, a director tries to present the audience with an integrated view of the entire work.
Cyrano de Bergerac
presents a fascinating challenge to any director, because it is full of contrasting emotions and effects that move audiences both to laughter and to tears. Anyone who directs this rich work must be aware of the impact of each of the various elements in the play — its plot, characters, setting, symbols, irony, and themes — on the work as a whole.
Thinking About Plot, Character, and Setting
Explain how the falling action and resolution of the play follow logically from the play’s major conflict and its climax. Did you find the ending a satisfying conclusion to the play? Why or why not?
Romantic heroes are colorful characters, more dashing and flamboyant than the people around them. In addition, they are usually attractive and inspire great love. Using examples from the play, explain why Cyrano could be regarded as a romantic hero. In what ways is he an unusual romantic hero?
Identify the setting of each act of Cyrano de Bergerac. Briefly explain how the action of each act is appropriate to the setting in which it occurs.
Thinking About Symbol
The image of the white plume appears several times in the play: for example, in the exchange between Cyrano and De Guiche in Act IV. What might the white plume symbolize in this exchange? What does it come to symbolize at the end of the play?
Thinking About Irony
Since irony often involves a gap between appearance and reality, why is it fitting that Cyrano’s life should be so full of irony?
Thinking About Theme
What does the play say about the relationship between physical and spiritual beauty? Is one more “real” than the other? Explain.
According to the play, why should we admire an idealist like Cyrano? Does the play suggest that idealists are ultimately defeated by the real world? Explain.
What are the good and bad sides to individualism like Cyrano’s, according to the play?
What is the value of poetry and beautiful language, according to the play? Do you think the play places too high a value on language? Why or why not?

Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer. Mr. Rushworth was from the ?rst struck with the beauty of Miss Herbam, and being inclined to marry, soon fancied himself in love. He was a heavy young Line man, with not more than common sense; but as there was nothing disagreeable in his ?gure or address, the young lady was well pleased with her conquest. Being now in her twenty—?rst year, Malia Bertram was beginning to think matrimony a duty; and as a marriage with Mr. Rushwonh would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father’s, as well as ensure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became, by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushwlo if she could. Mrs. Norris was most zealous in promoting the match, by every suggestion and contrivance, likely to enhance its desirableness to either party; and, among other means, by seeking an intimacy with the gentleman’s mother, who at present lived with him, and to whom she even forced Lady Bertram to go through ten miles of indifferent road, to pay a morning visit. (Slit was not long before a good understanding took place between this lady and herselt. Mrs. Rushworth acknowledged herself very desirous that her son should marry, and declared that of all the young ladies she had ever seen, Miss Bertram seemed, by her amiable quali?es and accomplishments, the best adapted to make him happy. Mrs. Norris accepted the compliment, and admired the nice discernment otcharacter which could so well distinguish merit Maria was indeed the pride and delight of them all—perfectly faultless—an angel; and of course, so surrounded by admirers, must be dif?cult in her choice; but yet as far as Mrs. Norris could allow herself to decide on so short an acquaintance, Mr. Rushworth appeared precisely the young man to deserve and attach her. After dancing with each other at a proper number of balls, the young people justi?ed these opinions, and an engagement, with a due reference to the absent Sir Thomas, was entered into, much to the satisfaction of their respective families, and of the general lockers-on of the neighbourhood, who had, for many weeks past, felt the expediency of Mr. Rushworth’s marrying Miss Bertram. (10m was some months before Sir Thomas’s conwnt could be received; but in the meanwhile, as no one felt a doubt of his most cordial pleasure in the connection, the intercourse ofthe two families was carried on without restraint, and no other attempt made at secrecy, than Mrs. Norris’s talking of it every where as a matter not to be talked of at present Edmund was the only one of the tamily who could see a fault in the business; but no representation of his aunt’s could induce him to ?nd Mr. Rushworth a desirable companion. He could allow his sister to be the best iudge of her own happiness, but he was not pleased that her happiness should centre in a large income; nor could he refrain from often saying to himself, in Mr. Rushworth’s company, “If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.” (1814} The excerpt from sentence 10 that includes “…and no other attempt… talked of at present” suggests all of the following EXCEPT 0 Mrs. Norris is probably unreliable when it comes to the need for discretion. 0 Mrs. Norris socializes and speaks with others in town with frequency. 0 Mr Rushworth’s engagement to Miss Bertram has so far remained dandestine. 0 Mr Rushworth’s engagement to Miss Bertram is the talk of the town. 0 Mrs. Norris is extremely proud that her match has proven successful.
In context, “intercourse” (sentence 10) is best understood to mean ‘ O arrangement ‘ O
compromise ‘ O concession ‘ 0 interaction ‘ O negotiation
Edmund’s reservation on the issue of Miss Bertram’s marriage to Mr. Rushworth
is portrayed as O cynical O idealistic O moral O romantic O sympathetic
Miss Bertram is best characterized as O affluent and handsome O beautiful and poised O
helpful and concerned O scholarly and accomplished O striking and bright
Sentences 11-12 (“Edmund was the only one…very stupid fellow”) reveal that O Edmund believes Maria has been manipulated by family members O Edmund perceives Maria to be very naive in her expectations of marriage O Edmund recognizes that Maria is oblivious to her dangerous situation O Edmund fears that Maria is unaware of her suitor’s unsavory reputation O Edmund worries that Maria is motivated by financial, not romantic, reasons

Us and Them
by David Sedaris
Questions
can you please help me with this Q’s:
Identify Judgments
The young Sedaris had strong opinions about many things that the Tomkeys did or said.  Look through the essay and find at least three places where he makes a positive or negative statement about the family.  What do you learn about Sedaris from the judgments he makes?  Is his behavior toward the Tomkeys fair?  Explain your answer using examples from the selection. (10 marks)
Readers’ Circle
Comedian Joe Ancis once said, “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”  Do you think that Sedaris would agree with this quote?  Do you agree?  Share your conclusions.  (4 marks)
Vocabulary in Writing
How many people have you formed the wrong opinion about?  Write -a paragraph explaining how your first impression of someone was wrong.  Use at least two vocabulary words in your paragraph.  (Vocabulary words:  accommodate, attribute, imply, indiscriminately, inflict, interfere, merit, provoke).  You may use any form of the vocabulary words in your paragraph. (5 marks)
Idioms Practice
Identify the idiom in each sentence, by underlining, and give a definition for it. (5 marks)
We expected her to be shy, but she’d tell you her life story at the drop of a hat.
Josh is definitely up to something – I can tell by the expression on his face.
Although I was tired during practice, my coach told me to hang in there.
Cynthia was unhappy with the store’s service, but her complaints fell on deaf ears.
In order to get the exhausted cast through the last hour of rehearsal, the director told them to take five.
Form Complex Sentences
In each item, change one independent clause to a dependent clause.  Then combine the clauses to form a complex sentence. (5 marks)
My family doesn’t have a TV.  We spend more time talking to each other.
We also spend time at the lake house.  My brother catches a lot of fish.
Sometimes I wish we had a TV.  The kids at school make fun of us.
We moved to this neighborhood last year.  I’ve made a few friends.