Speech Outline

Talk about Sex Education, or more like conception.

This is being given to men and boys. Want to make sure they understand how a women becomes pregnant.

Explain the difference between prevention and abortion

Read the part of court document that shows Hobby Lobby only had 4 drugs they do not want to cover because they are abortion drugs and they do not support abortion.

Hillary statements

Kathleens statements

talk about the RFRA law in place

talk about why I support Hobby Lobby

Identify the nature of proof in Frank's monologue, siting evidence he used in Charlie's defense. 

     Ethos--he uses the story about someone who wanted Charlie to sell his soul.  That his soul is intact and that it is not for sale.  He also says he has been around and seen boys loose their limbs and they are fixable but souls are not fixable.  With the the loosing of limbs comments also plays into logos and pathos.  That it is logical to fix limbs but not logical to fix souls. Pathos on this comment is emotional because he puts a visual image into the minds of the audience that plays to emotions.

Of the four styles of dramatic or vicarious proof, which did Frank exploit to turn attitudes around about Charlie? How did this style function in terms of reason? 

     Testimony--Frank is able to prove that he has life experience that gives him the knowledge to defend Charlie. He has seen boy like the ones here at the school who have come home with missing limbs, broken souls. That he has had a change of mind from getting to know Charlie on a very personal level.

What cultural myths or images were employed to increase the appeal of Frank's argument? How did this influence his attempted shift of opinion? 

     When the bough breaks the cradle will fall.  The cradle has fallen,because the cradle has fallen the leaders will also fall.

     When shit hits the fan some guys run and some guys stay...here is Charlie setting here facing you and George setting there in daddy's pocket.  This influence the audience that Charlie is willing to stand up on his own instead of hiding in the pocket of a person who has lots of money.  To take responsibility for his belief of not ratting on his friends. That he has loyalty.

Which of Reich's parables apply or applies to Frank's reasoning?

     Triumphant Individual--Frank tells of a story that Charlie was asked to sell his soul and he would not.  That Charlie would not sell his soul. That shows the character of Charlie. That Charlie was able to triumphant over the person who wanted him to be something different that what Charlie believed in.


What was Frank's reasoning in terms of logical appeal?

     Warrants.  Frank states what he has seen. He has authority on how men behave because he has worked with men. He has seen men come (we are lead to believe)  from war with missing limbs. that prosthetic can fix the missing limbs but prosthetic can not fix a broken soul.

How did Frank's paralinguistics impact his expression and the meaning of his words? Please give specific examples – three will do.

     Crock of shit--is yelled to get the attention of the audience.  There is a slight laughter from the audience

     What a sham--this statement is said on the quite side. It gives people a chance to catch up on what is being said and for the audience to take a breath.

     Reward George (very loud) and destroy Charlie (on the soft side) the volume on both boys names shows who may be the good guy and the bad guy.  George is the bad guy and Charlie is the good boy.  When a person is being yelled at it is assumed that they have done something wrong.  The soft tone shows that that person is being good.


Discuss Frank's approach with his argument in terms of the four process premises, from Needs to Consistency.

     First Process Premise--there are two needs going on here and the first one seems to be Sense of Power. That the governing body of the school has all the power no matter who says what, that they are are always right. The second on is Ego-Gratifications--that because I have money and you don't I am better than you and also the sense of power ads to the ego-gratifications.

     The Second Process Premise--Emotions--all emotions seem to come into play here. Fear is in play because if Charlie can succeed without money in his pocket then the way things operate within the school will change for the worse. Pride is another one.  The governing body of the school prides itself with the fact that they have long standing traditions. 

     The Third Process Premise--Attitudes--Opinions--The school believes that they can dictate what is right and wrong while have a double standard about morals or ethics. Behavioral influences is showing the boys of school that as long as you follow tradition and fall in line as they are told to do, then they will be successful. 

     The Fourth Process Premise-Consistency--the use of rewards. They want Charlie to give information, as long as he gives the school information he will be allowed to stay at school.  

 

Reference Page

     Hillary Clinton says a Hobby Lobby salesclerk 'is not going to get' contraception. (2014, June 30). . Retrieved July 10, 2014, from http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/july/03/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-hobby-lobby-salesclerk-not-go/
 
     Parkinson, J. (n.d.). Women's health VS. Religious Freedom: House Leaders Debate Birth Control Mandate. ABC News. Retrieved July 10, 2014, from http://abcnews.go.com/us

     Plan B One-Step®: About. (n.d.). Plan B One-Step®: About. Retrieved July 10, 2014, from http://www.planbonestep.com/about-plan-b-one-step.aspx

 
     The Abortion Pill :: Planned Parenthood. (n.d.). The Abortion Pill :: Planned Parenthood. Retrieved      July 10, 2014, from http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-info/abortion/the-abortion-pill

   Sebelius, K. (2014, April 4). News. A statement by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Retrieved July 10, 2014, from http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/01/20120120a.html

     42 U.S. code 2000bb-1-Fre exercise of religion protected. (n.d.). LII / Legal Information Institute. Retrieved July 10, 2014, from http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/200bb-1

 
      Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, ET Al, V. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc, October Term 2013
 

God Created A Farmer

Identify what you feel are the ethics of the presentation. What does the narrator lend to its ethics? 

   This commercial in my opinion is going after the market that can afford the truck first, the second part of the commercial is going after the young adults that want to feel like they are part of America that they have not seen or been a part of.  

    As society sets down to watch television, we all understand that we will be watching some kind of advertisement.  We get those advertisements even if we flip through the channels waiting for our show to come back on.  We all have something that will spark our interest within one or more of these advertisements.    At some point in our lives we need something to survive, live, have fun or what ever the current need may be.  With that being said my opinion is the producers are saying that you can not be as happy as a farmer, or satisfied as a farmer, as successful as a farmer if you do not own a Dodge Ram. (satisfaction, successful and happy are needs that we all seem to strive for) Telling someone that there is only one way to be happy or successful or satisfied is to purchase a product that possibly is out side of you spendable income is unethical.  That when the item in question to be purchased could be as much as a small home in a small town.  That having this item is more important than anything else you could own is unethical.   

    Paul Harvey is a voice I grew up with. At times his commentaries were topic of conversation at the table. My recollection is that my family trusted him.  That they agreed with what he had to say.  Seems to me that what Harvey says is true. He may even own a Dodge Ram and believes that they are the best truck out there.  We as a society put value into someone we trust to tell us what is a good purchase for us to make.   Look at how we use Google today to research what is the best product to purchase for the price.  Growing up it was more about word of mouth and how the product worked.  Harvey is a "friend" to be trusted so how can a person who owns a Dodge Ram be bad? In what we understand of Harvey is that the person owning a Dodge Ram can be trusted.

Identify central and peripheral route attempts of the film. 

    Growing up as a part-time farmer (part-time farmer meaning we raised our own meat and vegetables, to support some of the needs of the family) this commercial hits home where the heart is with the pictures of cows, what looks like snow, churches, flags, barns, and pictures of a farm.  I believe the child in all of us want to be a part of raising some kind of animal. Owning a farm gives that opportunity to a person. We can identify, or a least I can, with women being a farmer, the baby chick in the hands of a farmer, a child standing there enjoying her picture taken on a beautiful day. The children that are growing up in the inner city may not understand these picture, possibly never having the opportunity to hold that baby chick, or have a picture taken to show how happy they may be, but they want those feelings that are being showed to them.

    The peripheral route uses the tone, pauses, emphasis on words like "God Made A Farmer" through the voice of a person that is well known to a generation of people that understand hard work and the word farmer. Even if a person doesn't know the voice of the narrator it still hits home with his tone. This commercial will get peoples attention if all there were just the words and the back ground sounds.  It would make a great radio commercial.

    

Define the proofs - pathos, logos, and ethos - that function in the narrative.

     Pathos-when we look at the picture of the hands holding a baby chick, shows that these hands know how to be gentle and caring.  When we can show those characteristics of a person then we trust what they are saying. In this case we can trust the American Farmer. 

     Logos-I think we are safe to say that we as a society understand that America was built on the backs of farmers.  With this understanding and pictures of hard working farmers, my opinion is that we can draw a conclusion that we trust farmers. 

     Ethos-We have Paul Harvey narrating the story.  Do we really need to say more here?  Harvey is a person who has been able back what he is saying with truths and facts.  His voice alone says you can believe me I know what I am talking about. 

Discuss the epistemic perspective of the proofs you've identified and how these function to reach the communicative effects of the film. 

     

     When looking at the hands holding the baby chick this may refer to also holding other things that will need to be nurtured.  I say things because there is more than to life than making sure the "baby chick" (a human baby, a baby seal, a baby tree, a new love, a new career or etc.) that will need holding and nurtured. 

      When we look at the American farmer, the farmer stand for so much more than just providing food for the family dinner.  The American farmer provides us with hope.  Hope that we can nurture that "baby chick".

       When we listen to Harvey in this commercial,  we seem to know with out much knowledge on Harvey that he wouldn't lie to us. That the way he speaks in the commercial, that we get a gut reaction to his words.  The gut reaction is one that we all seem to trust the most.

Discuss the narrative perspective of the proofs you've identified and how these function to reach the communicative effects of the film. 

    I feel like I am repeating myself here.  If the producers had used let us say Jim Carey to narrate this story he would not have been taken serious in anyway, shape or form. As I sat in class and realized that many of students had no clue who Paul Harvey was, how could they understand why his name was even posted on the commercial? But when you just listen to his voice, the pauses, the tones, the power of his voice, and the power of the words, this all put together with out his name is very powerful.  It may be like listening to a song on the radio.  

Identify one of Reich's cultural parables in the social and cultural context of the commercial. 

Triumphant Individual--with this commercial being played during the Super Bowl starts with the social context. If I was into sports events (which I am not) and my favorite team did not make it to the Super Bowl, I would be rooting for the underdog.  This commercial shows that the small farmer may be the underdog here. That in order for the farmer to no longer be the underdog they need a better truck. 

     As for the cultural context of the triumphant individual it stats on the other hand that once you get this truck you will become the top dog! That you can show you no longer are the underdog and you can do anything. As Long As You Own The DODGE RAM.

Discuss how any of Marwell & Schmitt's Taxonomy of 16 Influences relate to the commercial's objectives. What are the objectives?

    The add uses four of the 16 influences. First it uses reward in a way that if you own this truck you will have the characteristics of a farmer. Second, positive expertise, there are two proofs of that in this commercial, Paul Harvey and the farmer. Third, liking & ingratiation, we all seem to like the farmer.  The commercial places us right beside the farmer, saying we can be like the farmer. Fourth, debt, when there phrase "God made a farmer" is used after statements like "God needed a caretaker so he mad a farmer." Makes us look at well if a farmer does all this work then we owe that farmer and we need to purchase this truck.

Apply how the motivational process premises (remember, there are four) create the appeals presented in the commercial.

     The commercial has found a way to touch all four of the motivational process premises.  We all have a need to complete a task.  Well this truck can help you complete whatever task you have. When we see a person on his knees praying, whether you believe in a God or not, we are led to believe that this truck will bring us peace. I believe that there has been at least one day in everyone's lives that we have worked so hard for one day that we understand the attitude of a farmer. We all need to eat. Farmers provide that food for our table.  Farmers show that they are consistent in everything they do.  Proof is on the table every day.

From a "Needs" premise, which of Packer's compelling needs best relates?

Reassurance of Worth

     We all seem to want to be worth something to someone. As society looks at farmer with the up most respect and admiration, we are showing to the farmer the worth they have.  As an individual who is not a farmer, we seem to work harder to find that worth.  It is just not given to individuals. As a society we seem to put worth onto objects.  So when we purchase this truck we feel that we will automatically receive that reassurance of worth.  It seems to me that society thinks that objects can give us the reassurance of worth.  That it means more that what comes from another human being. 

  

From an "Attitudes" premise, what values are extorted visually to resonate within the attitudes, beliefs or opinions of the audience?  

     When we look at the attitudes premise from the beliefs point, then God, is at the forefront of this commercial. We are being told that God wants us to be like the farmer. To rise early and put in a hard days work, then attend to our civic duties and children, and do it again the next day and the next day and so on. When we believe this this, and it is shown in the commercial that we do believe this, then we don't have to think for ourselves.  The producers have done it for us.  Because the farmer is the "picture" of America, we believe what this commercial has to say. 

Ethics in Medicine through Narrative

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Watch video about the Promise Experience.
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What they are constantly promoting?

The Promise experience is selling us what?

Now look at the Pfizer ad what is it selling us?

The last two videos are telling what is wrong with drug companies and what they are selling the consumer. I have added the Promise experience here because part of the problem of the health care system is hospitals and doctors.

My story is about how I believe my children lost their father. I had to help research the partial  information that was given to them and tell them what I thought based on the information that was given to them how their dad was doing.  AS the ex-wife information was only given to me through is my ex-mother-in-law and she only gave me what she felt the children needed to know.  

      The ex-husband enters the hospital on July 26, 2013 to never come home. On December 30, 2013 he was removed from life support, that his children had to fight with their grandmother (his mother) to make this life changing event happen.

      Because drug companies put out there what they think you as a patient should have and make you believe that you have this complication, issue, disease or what ever they are selling that is popular at the time; the consumer believes them that they are the only hope they have to have a better life.

Now with those two statements made my ex-husband was one of those consumers that felt he needed a drug to fix everything.  He had a doctor that gave him everything he wanted.  I know this because I was the person that had to get him his "legal drug" fix on weekly and sometimes daily basis.  This happened until I finally had enough and was able to leave. Two years after I left he became extremely ill.  His kidneys shut down and they called the kids to the hospital because they really didn't know what was happening. This is when the nightmare began.  Fast forward two years almost to the day he moves on to another life away from this world. 

A drug sent him into kidney failure because of his need for a fix for something and the doctor gave him that fix and the doctor had NO clue how to administer that drug correctly.  

When he entered the hospital it was with a bowel blockage.  The doctors did surgery to fix the blockage. The doctors say there may be two reasons for the blockage: the gastric bypass or the kidney dialysis.  The doctors performed over 20 surgery's, he was on off a ventilator about 10 times before they put in a trac. He never had any real food from the day he entered the hospital.  I was at the hospital with my son, on the second call for all family to come in, he came off the ventilator and was given ice chips.  I watched a person guard his empty cup like a guard dog! This man was starving!! He was being tortured in my opinion.  No human being deserves to be tortured. 

I tell you this story because I want to know where the ethics are in this case.  Santa Clara University list on their website (http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/making.pdf) a list of questions on what should be asked when making decisions.  Along with these question are some of the ethics that go with the questions.  

When I called the Promise center and asked if they had an ethics board I was told they had a Quality Control Board.  When I was transferred no one answered, nor did I leave a message. I am only left guessing that the Quality Control Board is there to make sure that everything is done to the patient that they can do to make money.  Just like the pharmaceutical company's it is all about the MIGHTY DOLLAR.

When companies say there is more than the medicine why are they not getting back to basics and using what Mother Nature has to offer us? Why do we create drugs that create side effects and more drugs to fix those side effects and more drugs to fix the more side effects?  This just PISSES ME OFF!!! OH SHIT WAIT THEY HAVE A DRUG TO FIX MY PISSES ME OFF MOOD!!!!!!!