Author: ATAI ISAEV

1. Our method might prevent developing the “wrong” claim. Doing exhaustive documentation and analyzing every single detail first allows us to see the entire picture before formulating our claim. As opposed to Hengel’s method where you might have to go back and change your claim halfway through. One con of our way might be the fact that there is a chance of overloading yourself with information making it hard to pick a claim. Hengel’s way is more straightforward. 

2. Carly Rae Jepsen. He sees weed, Carly Rae Jepsen doing the same two dance moves, concertgoers around him extremely close to each other pushing, a couple violently kissing in front of him. He makes of it that E MO TION is an amazing album, and Carly Rae Jepsen is the goat. It matters because love. And magic of music.
Future. He sees Future’s breakup, Future’s albums, and his mother gone. He makes connection in between Future’s and his own loss. It matters because love and sadness are a part of everyone’s life.

1. Maybe Coates feels that it is unfortunate “First Class” didn’t include the harsh reality of US history, but nonetheless likes the movie. He clearly enjoyed the movie, as he describes it as “narratively lean, beautifully acted and, at all the right moments, visually stunning.” And so because Coates enjoyed the movie so much, he is willing to close his eyes on its downfalls: “‘First Class’ is not blind to societal evils, so much as it works to hold evil at an ocean’s length.” Or perhaps he feels that the whole fact that something is missing adds something to the movie. It’s like how in music, moments of silence can be just as impactful as moments when musical notes are being played.
2. Parkin creates a big strand of describing No Man’s Sky with words like vast, endless, big, grandiose, full of discoveries, etc. He also repeats the word “explore” a bunch of times. This emphasizes exactly what part he likes about the game. He uses these repetitions and strands to put a spotlight to where he wants you to look. The bit about philosophy is an anomaly. It was sort of sudden and felt out of place. Parkin probably added it to add a little bit of spice to his text.

1.  “While putting for-ward the argument that one needs to be white to be truly successful, he adds, in an aside, that this might not work for blacks because if ‘a ninja paints a flower it becomes a slavery flower…’”
   This line struck me. It very much caught me off-guard. Regardless of whether it’s true or not this line packs a punch. It also feels to be like the essence of the entire text. It paints the point about “dehumanization every brown or black person lives simply because of skin color.”
2.  “I know this is not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I’ve ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the US Open. So I’ve waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is.”

This is clearly pathos. The author is building up the character of Serena to make us want to cheer for her as if she was a main character of a movie or something.
“As offensive as her outburst is, it is difficult not to applaud her for reacting immediately to being thrown against a sharp white background. “
This quote shows the use of logos. It is appealing the act of putting emotions aside and try to look at the full picture.

3. I remember in 8th grade I communicated with a classmate without using words. At the time I wasn’t confident in my English and all of my friends from previous years were assigned to a different class. I don’t know why he didn’t communicate to me verbally. During class, when we would get bored we would draw pictures on a piece of paper to each other and giggle. Thinking back at it, it was a very surreal experience. At the time Harambe was a big internet meme and I remember us giggled at it a whole bunch. It’s crazy how friendly you can become with someone even without using words.

1. Ethos “Ladies and gentlemen, I like books.” …. I appeal that I’m a fan of reading to make myself seem more credible
   Pathos “And even before I could read I remember pretending to be able to read them by telling the story just from looking at the pictures in the children’s book.” I attempt to tell a personal episode from my childhood to create a personal connection with the reader.
   Logos “Literature is a good way to introduce oneself to a foreign language because literature tends to use uncommon words from many different realms of language frequently. Reading books gives the highest return on your time in terms of vocabulary.” Here I use FACTS and LOGIC (to absolutely destroy the left wing)
2. Summary: Airport scene in the opening of Koimonogatari. Over the phone, Senjougahara and Kaiki agree to meet in a cafe at an airport. Senjougahara states that this will be their first time meeting (which is a lie, they met plenty of times before). Then, she tells Kaiki that she will be wearing glasses in order to make it easier for him to find her. From a distance, Kaiki spots Senjougahara sitting and drinking orange juice in a cafe wearing Groucho glasses. Kaiki took her silly outfit as a challenge, so he bought an Aloha shirt (which is a reference to another character in the story named Oshino). When he sat across the table wearing that Aloha shirt, Senjougahara bursts out laughing, spilling orange juice all over Kaiki’s face. Inside his thoughts Kaiki goes “Hehehe, I won!”. Then Kaiki orders hot coffee and orange juice from a waitress. “It’s been a while, Senshougahara”, “It’s been a while, Suzuki”
   Analysis: The airport scene in the opening of Koimonogatari is a satire on people’s lies. Throughout the story, characters tell meaningless lies to each other that end in comedic results. Like in this scene, to meet each other, Senjougahara and Kaiki take a plane all the way to Okinawa (even though they live in the same town), just because they wanted to put up faces of being busy people. Senjougahara wearing Groucho glasses symbolizes that she wants to mask her feelings because she is in a desperate situation. She does that because her pride is too high and she does not want Kaiki to find out, but from the context of the story, he sees right through her facade. Unknowingly, Kaiki ends up buying an Aloha shirt from the exact same mannequin that Senjougahara took her glasses from. This symbolizes that their affinity with each other is good and they didn’t have to mount lies on top of lies to come to an agreement. This scene is making a statement that telling lies to protect one’s pride is really silly. 
3. Writing analysis is way harder than writing a summary. Writing a summary is more fun than writing an analysis. I find it hard to put effort into looking for meaning. Writing analysis is kind of similar to driving while being very sleepy: you have to constantly fight yourself from writing a summary, and when you unknowingly start veering off into summary territory, you have to quickly snap back.

1. “As you can imagine, especially in a prison where there was heavy emphasis on rehabilitation, an inmate was smiled upon if he demonstrated an unusually intense interest in books. There was a sizable number of well-read inmates, especially the popular debaters. Some were said by many to be practically walking encyclopedias.” I was quite surprised to hear prisoners be so passionate about reading and education. I liked how it went against the stereotype of prisoners lifting weights all day.
   Being a part of this kind of discourse community has probably led to Malcolm X developing his thirst for knowledge. 
2. I suppose I would want to imitate Malcolm X’s style of writing. Since I’m planning to write on the same topic as him, I’d figured there’d be a lot to learn from his writing. I want to emulate his style of portraying his relationship with reading, the amount of details and story-flow. I also want to imitate his manner of writing. I like how he doesn’t sound too casual or too formal.