The prison Video

The TED video was actually pretty good. The guy is talking about prisons and about the dead row. He also was trying to get us to get the whole concept that words have energy or power. To me I feel that he is cool since he knew Rosa Parks and was a lawyer for Doctor King that is always nice to know. I agree with what Mr. Brain is fighting for, the equality of prison and dead row. It is not fair that a Black or Hispanic has a larger possibility to go jail or prison for life than a white person. Take the guy that shot and killed 12 people at the Aurora Theater; he is in a mental instituted when clearly he was smart because he was top of class in his university. If it would have been a Black or Hispanic guess what dead sentence no options and no bail bond. This is horrible and yes America needs to fix this. I also agree with Mr. Brain that a kid should not be trailed as an adult.   

Column summery

This column is about the U.S. News magazine and the rankings of colleges. It is stating that schools that spend more money and increase tuition are in the number one spots in the magazine’s ranking as the best schools. If you go to a school such as Texas A&M that has a better graduation percentage and is way cheaper, just because of the money being spent is not a good school but you could be getting the same education. The author thinks this is absurd and that is why he created this column to open people’s eyes.     

ethos-logos-pathos chart for column

Ethos:

                Joe Nocera NY Times columnist, U.S. News & World, U.S. News magazine not only rankes Universities but law schools, Graduate schools, and even high schools.

Pathos:

                “Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Columbia are at top of list for best Universities in the states, but are they;” “ Exercise is a little silly” “and they imbue these rankings with an authority that is largely unjustified” “Better ranking, they need to spend money like mad — even though they will have to increase tuition that is already backbreaking.” “If you figure out how to do the same service for less money, your U.S. News ranking will go down,” “Those who don’t land a prestigious admission feel like failures.” “I have no doubt that you can obtain a very good education at Texas A&M. As you surely can at many other institutions that don’t crack the top of the U.S. News rankings.”

Logos:

                This list is made by magazines editors. This list probably keeps the enterprise alive charging $34.95 to see the web site and they imbue these rankings with an authority that is largely unjustified. “U.S. News cares a lot about how much money a school raises and how much it spends: on faculty; on small classes; on facilities; and so on. It cares about how selective the admissions process is.” “High school students — pushed by parents, guidance counselors and society itself — is to get into a “good” school.” bang for the buck.” “Its top-ranked national universities this year are the University of California-San Diego and Texas A&M. Neither is ranked in the top 30 by U.S. News. All they do is graduate a higher percentage of students than you would expect given their populations — at a reasonable price.”

Link of columnist For paper

My link on the assignment I will be working on for paper two. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/opinion/nocera-the-silly-list-everyone-cares-about.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss