'Despicable': Park Service chief dragged before House panel, ripped over closures

The article on Fox News is titled "'Despicable': Park Service chief dragged before House panel, ripped over closures." In the article the head of the National Park Service is called upon to answer questions about their activities during the government shutdown. Since the National Park Service shutdown all the parks, including national monuments in Washington DC. The Republicans claimed that the Park Service is trying to make the Government shutdown as visible as possible. Their grounds was that the parks wanted the public to see this and blame the Republicans for the shutdown. The republican’s warrant was that the government shutdown is necessary for the well being of the nation. They believe that the parks are trying to make it look like the Republicans are the negative body. The rebuttal of the head of the National Park Service is very simple. The parks thought it was necessary, because they did not have the manpower to keep the parks open, especially because most of their workers were sent home due to the shutdown.  The kairos of this article is very easy to see; the intended audience is the American people, to shed some more light on the government shutdown. The occasion is very obvious; it is because all people want to read about is the shutdown, its repercussions, and what is being done. The media is Fox News, which is often criticized. The ethos of this article is questionable, because it does not say who the author is directly, I searched throughout the article and could not find a name which seams very weird to me because it is coming from a very famous news source. Throughout the article there were mostly value statements and very few fact and policy claims.

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/16/despicable-park-service-chief-dragged-before-house-panel-ripped-over-closures/

Stephen King's Under the Dome

In Stephen King's novel Under the Dome, King makes a value claim about the current state of consumption in our society and its potential consequences. The claim (which is implicit in the storyline) is that we are using too many of our resources indiscriminately and that to keep doing so is to invite disaster and chaos. The grounds come in the plot line as the small town is cut off from the outside world and must rely on whatever resources were already in the town at the time, the most notable among these being propane. In the beginning propane use is near indiscriminate and as the story goes on propane becomes a much more valued commodity. The dwindling supply creates animosity between citizens of the town, as well as violence directed at securing more propane, which culminates in the townspeople looking towards a totalitarian ruler to control supply. Thus the ground is that by using so much propane, order has broken down and chaos has ensued. The two big warrants implicit in the story is that people cannot adapt, meaning that resources should not be used in the way they are because we have and will never have more efficient, and better meanings of going about our lives. The second warrant is a more obvious one, and that warrant is that the chaos that was created by the shortage of propane in Under the Dome is a negative occurrence that we should strive to avoid. If either warrant proves to be false, then Stephen King's value claim about the consumption of resources is faulty.

Debate builds in Iowa over gun permits for the blind

A debate for permitting carrying handguns for blind citizens in Iowa is built up. The Iowa State Sheriffs’ and Deputies’ Association claims that Iowa should stop giving the conceal-carry permits to legally blind because carrying arms by visually disabled people can damage public safety. Jerry Dunbar, the president of the group and Washington County Sheriff, gives grounds for his group’s policy claim by saying that “if you can’t see where that bullet is going to wind up then that’s our concern, maybe you shouldn’t be carrying.” He argues that there is no reason for blind people to carry handguns in public if they cannot see correctly to identify. However, as a rebuttal, Michael Barber, who just receives a conceal-carry permit from the state government, claims that blind people also need to protect their families and themselves from unexpected threats. For his ground, he says that “the Second Amendment does not say we have the right to bear arms unless we’re disabled.” He also tries to claim with using pathos by saying that “I should be able to protect my family just like you can, just like anyone else can.” Moreover, Barber argues that being blind does not mean having impaired judgment; blind people know what is wrong or right. At the end of article, Rep. Clel Baudler also gives the rebuttal of Dunbar’s argument that he cannot find reasons to change the state law because the legally blind “have had training that’s required by our law and they’ve passed a background check which is required by our law.”

FoxNews: Debate builds in Iowa over gun permits for the blind

Why I Am Saying Goodbye To Football (CNN)

This article is about the NFL's recent concussion crisis. This article is for sure a value claim. The author states how her love for the game has altered dramatically over the past 30 years because the NFL simply wishes to brush the health factors of players under the rug instead of treating them. Her credibility (ethos) is quite astounding considering her involvement with ESPN. She is a founding editor of ESPN The Magazine and a former vice president at ESPN. She is a national lecturer on sports, entertainment and recipient of the 2010 Woman of the Year award from Women in Sports and Events.The emotion appeal (pathos) she uses is that football encouraged her to go for her dreams but that it is a dangerous sport and wouldn't encourage her children to play. Although the author uses alot of "medical science" terms, she never speficifally uses any data or statistics. She used NFL legendary quarterback Troy Aikman and other players to support her thoughts with statements of not even encouraging their own children to play the game. She also used breast cancer as a deceptive play from the NFL to attract a larger woman audience. The NFL is one of the most lucrative sports industries on the planet and has recently submitted to a $765 million lawsuit to avoid a public trial and protect their safety image. I particularly appreciate how she realizes that the NFL will never simply seise to exist, so her logic (logos) is that in order to keep the public appreciative, that they simply need to address the problem nationally and not avoid it with sleek marketing and under the table settlements. 


Read Here:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/opinion/jones-nfl-head-injuries/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

NSA reportedly collecting millions of personal online contact lists worldwide

This article on FoxNews.com about the information that the NSA is collecting is definitely a fact claim. The article includes a lot of facts about the subject.  Although there isn't an outright argument trying to persuade people one way or another, there is a slight hint toward advocacy against the NSA's methods of receiving the population's online information.
The article boosts it's credibility by adding a link to an article by the Washington Post.  The article includes summaries of the information provided by the Washington Post, as well as a quote from the NSA.  At the bottom of this article, it says "The Associated Press contributed to this report".  This statement, along with the quotes and summaries adds credibility because it shows that Fox News is not taking credit for all of the information they are providing to us.
This article is basically telling us that the NSA is using loopholes in order to get private information about people from the Internet, such as collecting the data from different locations throughout the world, seeing how that practice is currently illegal in the United States. The article also gives a quote from the NSA claiming that they aren't interested in the private information of everyone, they are just using the information to look for connections and patterns of contact between people in order to try to detect criminal activities or terrorist attacks.  The article doesn't specifically give you their own stance on the NSA's practices, they are more just providing the information that they feel that the general population should know.
To read the exact statistics and quotes, you can read the whole article at:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/14/nsa-reportedly-collecting-millions-personal-online-contact-lists-worldwide/

"Dying Ohio Man On Gurney Leads Daughter Down Aisle On Wedding Day" -- Associated Press Article

Dying Ohio man on gurney leads daughter down aisle on wedding day

Published October 13, 2013 / Associated Press

This article was posted by the Associated Press which tells a story about a terminally ill man “escorting” his daughter down the aisle during her wedding by means of a hospital gurney.  The daughter’s ultimate wish was to have her father walk her down the aisle during her wedding…however her father is terminally ill due to Urethral Cancer.  He was, however, able to fulfill his promise to bring her down the aisle with the help of hospital staff bringing him to the ceremony via ambulance.  There were only facts within this article asserting the specifics of what occurred.  The article included Aristotle’s “Pathos” means of persuasion as the story puts the reader in a sympathetic frame of mind and provides an emotional appeal.  The models used included the Inverted Pyramid as it provided the facts (who, what, where, when…) but also was extremely Pathos-Centric, again due to the emotional context.

U.S. Will Ban Some Samsung Products

The article addresses that the U.S. court decided in Apple's favor in terms of "the war" of Smartphone patent infringement, so Samsung cannot import or sell some mobile devices that infringe on Apple Inc. patents in the United States. Several years ago, Apple was claiming that Samsung has infringed on its patent. The ground was that Samsung's mobile devices had quite similar design with Apple's product, especially tablet PCs. The tablet has started a legal war between Apple and Samsung. Samsung also had filed a countercharge against Apple with a claim that Apple product infringed on three Samsung patents regarding 3G technology. Moreover, Samsung did a counterargument against Apple, saying Apple used many of Samsung's ideas in the design. In order to build credibility (ethos), Samsung has said the tablet PC's newer models incorporate features that work around disputed technology, and that those changes have been approved by the International Trade Commission. However, according to U.S. Trade Representative's office (rebuttal), the Samsung devices infringed on portions of two Apple patents on digital mobile devices related to the detection of headphone jacks and the operation of "touchscreen." I think Apple won on the legal battle because they have more grounds that Samsung copied Apple product's design. Samsung has failed on their rebuttal that Apple's claim that Samsung has infringed on its patent in the court.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/10/08/us-ban-on-some-samsung-products-to-go-into-effect/

China gives U.S. lesson in grown-up policy making

The article I read is the most popular news in CNN today – China gives U.S. lesson in grown-up policy making written by Global Public Square staff from CNN. This article is shown is then full-blown classic model.

The claim in this article is American government should learn from Chinese government on making policy decision.

In the introduction part, it describes news bout APEC and then asks while the presidents of China was in last week’s APEC, where President Obama was.  Then the author lists what Obama missed last week. This introduction is impressive. It begins with a fact and a question to make people think the reason and want to learn more.

After the introduction, the author doesn't make the claim immediately. Instead, the author lists what Chinese president and premier did and what achievements they made last week as the first supporting point. And then the article talks about the developments of China during the last several years. For the last supporting point, the author uses a part from news: World wants U.S. soft power. Basically, the last point shows us how China’s leaders learn from the mistakes they made and try to display a soft face to other countries.

In the conclusion, the author makes a contrast between China and the U.S. and raises the claim that American government should stop repeating returning to deadlock and continues to govern from crisis to crisis. I think this is the delayed thesis structure talked about in our textbook and it works very well in this article. Political topics are always controversial and easy to be attacked. So putting the claim at the end of the article makes the claim easy to be accepted after so many facts are showed. 

Link：http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/12/china-gives-u-s-lesson-in-grown-up-policy-making/?hpt=hp_bn2