Article Critic

The authors name is Malcolm Gladwell. He was born on September 3, 1963, in the United Kingdom, and raised in Elmira, Ontario. He is a writer for The New Yorker, and he is best known for the author of books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and Outliers: The Story of Success. In the essay he wrote titled Dept. of Motor Vehicles Free Lizzie he is siding with Lizzie Grubman, trying to pursued people that it was not her fault. He is writing this essay for the people who believed that Lizzie caused the crash on purpose. He gets information about peddle errors that was written in 1989 in an issue of the journal Human Factors, it was written by U.C.L.A.psychologist named Richard A. Schmidt. The information he is using to pursued people is very reliable. His use of the evidence works well with the article and pursues me. He uses refutations in the article for example, when he is talking about pedal errors, you wonder to yourself what is a pedal error and how does it happen? Well when you keep reading you find out what it is and how it happens. In the article he only had one place where he got his information, with that one place he got really good information that persuaded me, but some people may want 2 or 3 different sources to pursued them. Otherwise he did a good job of getting what he wanted out of this article.

Achievements of Michael Jordan

I read an essay on Michael Jordan, the writer was not listed on the essay though. The position of the writer is on the side that Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player alive. The audience that this essay is leading towards are the people that like that game of basketball and are interested in it as well. I interpreted that the writer is writing this essay because they want to persuade the reader that Michael Jordan is one of the greatest basketball players ever, because of how they show almost all of his stats and accomplishments. The writers stays on the same side the whole time on the essay and has many stats and exact information on the subject. I believe everything in the essay is true, and has good information through out it. Why I believe that the information is true is that I have seen look a lot of these stats up because I am a really big fan of Michael Jordan.

The Rise of Capitalism / One of These Days

The first reading I did was called The Rise of Capitalism, it was written by Donald Barthelme. It jumps around talking about a bunch of different little stories. The writer is blaming capitalists for people doing things they shouldn't. It also had a sentence that said, "capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for share of the available wealth." It talks about a man finding out that the stocks for Natomas had went up, and he was not appart of that stock and he is upset because if he was he would have became rich. In the writing one of the stories that followed this statement about capitalism, was about a guy going and buying a printing press for fifty thousand francs. He was trying to show of his wealth to others by publishing himself.


The other writing that I had read was One of These Days, it was written by Gabriel Marquez. It was about a dentist that didn't have a degree. He was sitting in his office cleaning and polishing false teeth. His kid walked in and said that the Mayor needed his tooth pulled and the dentist said to tell him that he wasn't there. The kid came back in and said he had better pull his tooth or we was going to shoot him. When the mayor came in the dentist decided to pull his tooth but without any anesthesia. The dentist put the Mayor in a lot of pain and when he pulled his tooth and he was done with him, he told the Mayor that he could either bill himself or the town. The Mayor just answered either one, they are the same. He is saying that either one is the same because he runs that town and the dentist believes if the money goes to the town the Mayors will get it any ways.

These two readings are similar because they are both trying to get across that capitalism is wrong and bad. But out of the two the first article is easier to figure out that it is against capitalism. Because it pretty much just comes out and says it. The other one about the dentist, you have to read between the lines to figure out what they are trying to say about capitalism and how it is wrong.

Bengals the most upbeat of NFL's winless teams

I read an article about the Cincinnati Bengals and their 0-3 start. It was written by Joe Kay, an AP sports writer for Fox News. The point that the article is trying to get across is that the Bengals are not out of their season just yet. Chad Johnson(wide receiver for the Bengals) said, " A lot of positives, and there was couple missed assignments across the board, we look good on film." That was after the loss against the previous seasons Superbowl Champions, the New York Giants. The changes that need to be made in the next week is their offensive line needs to man up. They gave up just 17 sacks in last years season alone. This season they have let Carson Palmer their quarterback get sacked 9 times in 3 games. Carson broke his nose in the preseason this season, and it had bleed after 2 games in the season, because of the beating his is getting. Bobbie Williams(offensive guard for the Bengals) says, "It kind of makes me feel like I'm not doing my job." Joe Kay says that this coming weekends game against the Browns is going to be the most important this season. Because the Browns and the Bengals are tied for last in the AFC North division. The team that looses is going to be in a lot of trouble for the rest of the season, the team that wins is on root for a decent season. Joe Kay mentions that the Bengals may still look good on film after their game against the Browns but if they don't win the game it will then be a long season. Last time the Bengals started 0-4 was in 2002 when they went 0-7 and then 2-14 for the season. That is when Dick LeBeau was the Bengals head coach. After that season he was fired, that means Marvin Lewis(Bengals head coach now) better get his team together or he may be next.

Terrel Pryor

Terrel Pryor had an awsome game against Troy, he had 149 yards passing yards, 66 rushing yards and 4 touchdowns. Boeckman came in and try to through a pass and he was 10 feet short of his reciever. Pryor needs to start the rest of the season. No more Boeckman....No more Boeckman....No more Boeckman.... GO BUCKS!!!

Buying of the War

I watched a video called, Buying of the War. It was on a talk show with Bill Moyers. The whole show was bashing President Bush and the war in Iraq. I found out in my Comp. 1 class that Bill Moyers was a democrat, and after I found that out I knew no matter what he was going to try and bash Bush as much as possible. One thing in the show I never really watched when Bush had his press conference to disguss the war. When they showed the clip of it, you could tell it was all planned out, like a tv show. He would call on the reports even when there hands were not even rased to show they had a question. When I had seen it, when it first came out I didn't notice the fakeness of it at all.

Hugh Hefner

I read an article about a man named Hugh Hefner, it was written by Read Schuchardt. He explained how Hugh Hefner was in the industry of pornography, and that Hugh trying to make pornography civilized and excepted into house holds throughout the world. Hefner was the man responsible of bringing pornography into this world through magazines. People think he is Satin others think he is a God. I am against Hugh Hefner because he persuades beautiful women to become playboy bunnies, and changes there morals so easily by just offering them money. Those women could go out and have a good job, a happy family and beautiful kids and be healthy. But instead they get stuck with some money, fake boobs, no family no kids and an old geezer. Later in the article I found out that Hefner would not get satisfaction from the playboy bunnies and instead he with have them play with each other while he masturbated to gay porn. That it is completely wrong, and disgusting. I thought Hefner was a good guy with a lucky life. But after I found out what he does with his women, and everything else I and totally against him 100%. A lot of males that look at playboy think all women should look like the bunnies, that is not going to be the sitution.