relection 3.1

While writing my essay i realized it was easier to write a rogerian argument then i thought it would be. It was really easy to be nice and comment on the other sides point of view. Like i could write exactly what i wanted to write about my own view then i could touch upon the other sides view with what they were feeling. I also found this essay was easier to write because we got to pick the topic and i could write what i wanted to write. I also felt like i found good citations which helped me with information in my essay. It was also a good learning system because i got to learn the other opinion because it was the exact opposite of what my opinion was. It may have been defiantly a rough rough draft so i am looking forward to correcting it and making my paper better.

essay 3.1

Abortion: What a touchy issue

            Abortion too many people is viewed in different aspects. You can either be on the same level of the issue or you can be on total opposite ends of the spectrum. Abortion can also be for many different reasons. When somebody is young the chance of them having an abortion is more likely then that of people of older age. Fifty- two percent of all abortions happening in the United States are from women under the age of twenty- five. Women the ages of twenty through twenty- four obtain thirty- two percent of all abortions. Teenagers obtain around twenty percent and girls under the age of fifteen only account for under two percent (Abortion Facts). As you can see abortions relatively happen at a young age and I find that to happen because growing women have so much ahead of them and to add a baby to their lives would just cause to much stress and cause them to maybe not achieve what they really wanted to. Also as women settle down they could have possibly already had too many children and do not want anymore and abortion could be a way to prevent them from having a baby. But I do not mean that they should use abortion as a way of contraception. Lastly, there is also a way to find out if you are going to have a deformed baby, such as a baby that will come out of the womb with a mental illness and you could use abortion if you think it would be a struggle to have a child in that condition. Abortion will always be a touchy issue because of the fact everyone deserves the right to live.

            Abortion has many pros and cons that will be the basis for how people make their own decisions. On the pro- side is that women have the right to do what they want with their own body. And then whatever they want to do with their body they should be allowed to do with out anyone trying to make them stop (Abortion: pros and cons) After people say those two examples people will come back with the notion of that does not give them the right to kill another life in order to preserve the woman’s right (Abortion: pros and cons). The con- side of abortion strongly argues that all life deserves an opportunity at carrying out life and that life starts at conception. But many people will argue that life does not start until they are delivered and breathing their own air Abortion: pros and cons). Then the con- side also has the very basic scheme of saying that companies performing abortions are only doing so because they are getting rich off of it and it has nothing to do with the health or welfare of the women (Abortion: pros and cons). I personally do not believe that any company would just do it to become rich they would only do it because that is their living and they have to do what is being done. Also the companies that are performing the abortions probably make sure that they are doing everything correctly, so they are technically looking after the health and welfare of the women. The pros and the cons of abortion can be an ongoing argument because both sides have one main strong point.
            Personally I believe that women should be able to have an abortion. I have many reasons why women should be able to have an abortion. My main reason is what I had mentioned earlier in the essay where young women should have the right to abort the child. If they are going to have a hard time at caring for the baby it is better off being aborted then living in a world of poverty and pain. Many teen mothers are not mature enough to even take care of a child and that could mean the child being shipped from house to house being taken care of and that is not good for the baby. Then the baby could grow up alone because the mother is never there because she is trying to make a living for the baby that she had at such a young age. The other side then could always say to put the baby up for adoption and it will be well off. But then the mother of that baby becomes emotionally attached to the baby for the nine months that it has it in her womb and then just has to get rid of it and barely ever see it again. I know the whole aspect of abortion is the woman’s right or the child’s right and I find this to be a woman’s right because they will just have to let go of a child that they cared for almost a year. Also I mentioned that a child could be mentally retarded when it comes out of the womb. And I am not saying that women should only abort the child because it will be mentally retarded but there is much reason behind that. The two parents could have steady jobs and it would make care for a child that much harder when the child has challenges. Also you do not know the expenses for having a child with disabilities because they may have to go to a different school, and you may need to buy private instructors for your child. Depending on the problem they have also matters what you have to constantly get them for the problem that they have. It would just make the parents lives a lot more stressful. Six percent of all abortions happen because of the health of the woman or the child in the womb (Abortion Facts). There are many views about abortion and those are my main points to why I believe woman should be able to have an abortion.

            Abortions can be reduced though with the use of safer sex. If safer sex is used more often and practiced more it can reduce the uses of abortion. Contraceptives should be used more especially with younger woman who is having sex (Robinson, Bruce).  But the use of abortion is that the woman is able to remove of the baby because they did not think that they were either going to get pregnant or the timing of the pregnancy is just not right.

            Abortions are performed by many different individuals and races. White women lead the abortion rating with sixty percent (Abortion Facts). Sixty- four percent of all women who have abortions are never- married women and married women only account for eighteen percent of all abortions. Religion also can play a role in who is having an abortion because of their own common beliefs. What I found really interesting is that catholic women account for thirty- one percent of all abortions and catholic is a religion that disagrees with abortion (Abortion Facts). That just goes to show that abortions are needed and should be performed if the child is not wanted or will not grow up in the proper manner. And the most interesting fact that I found is that forty- three percent of all women will have one abortion by the time they are forty- five (Abortion Facts).

            Abortion will always be an issue that can either be pro or con. I also find your views to be just like politics and what you grow up in will determine what you think on this issue. If you have had a family member that has had an abortion it will make your view on the issue that much more positive in one way or the other. The right should always be the woman’s right because she is the one that has to care for the child regardless of what happens after the baby is delivered. It is a strong issue and will continue to be talked about on a yearly basis.

Works Cited

"Abortions: pros and cons." Abortion Support. Designed by realcubes,  Web. 30 Mar 2011.

Robinson, Bruce. "Abortion access: All sides of the issue." Religious Tolerance. Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, 15, May 2010. Web. May 30, 2011.

Institue, Alan Guttmacher. "Abortion Facts." The Center for Bio- ethical reform. Web. 30 Mar 2011.

Reflection 2.2

For this paper i actually work shopped it myself. Instead of just editing the paper once then re doing the second paper i went through a first time and re wrote the paper then edited that and finished another paper. I did the post the in between paper just because it was my own personal copy that i was working on. Also i had trouble with the scholarly source because i thought i had found a reliable source that was scholarly. I also handed the paper in on the proper date that i though the paper was due so it was hanging over my head for a solid weak of whether or not i should go back and do even more work on the paper. I hope i used what the class had told me and made my paper better then it was before.

prewrite 3.0

Well for my rogerian argument its going to be hard to stay away from a straight rebuttal, so i will have to really concentrate on that aspect of the paper. But i i do feel it will be an easier style of argument because you can remain nice and point out what at least are the positives. I as of right now do not have a good topic to write about besides possibly the problems that are going on in Japan and what we are doing as Americans to help  them. If not that possibly something that has to deal with sports because i feel connected to sports and could be very interested in a topic. I am able to right better when i am interested in my topic because i go farther into research.

Revision of rebutal. Essay 2.2

Huck Finn: And why I think the N-word should remain in the novel. Rebutting: “Huck Fin: Censorship? Sure, it is, but changes to ‘Huckleberry Fin’ are warranted”

            Mark Twain was a scholar who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in1876 and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884. When Mark Twain was writing these two pieces of classic literature he used the N-word to reveal the oppressive culture of the South at the time of these novels. He did not use the N-word with the intent to offend anyone, instead he used the word in the proper context of the time in which the novels were written to depict the historical context and to assist in the development of the characters.  In today's society the N- word is generally thought to be offensive, racist, and culturally insensitive.  It is my belief that by censoring the novels by changing the N-word to something less offensive would comprise the integrity of the novels.

In the article, "Huck Finn, Censorship and the N-Word Controversy (2011), Delia Lloyd explains that it is the fourth most banned book in the United States because the novel says the N-word over two-hundred times.  Lloyd goes on to argue that when a famous piece of work is censored for the general education it loses all sense of history behind it.  Further illustrating the point that the censorship affects the historical context, she gives the example of an editor in the 19^th century who created a family version of “Shakespeare” by removing all of the sex scenes so it did not offend the Victorian wives and children.  If the vocabulary in a book needs to be changed to make the language more appropriate for the reader then maybe the reader should wait until they are older and more mature to read the work  in order to understand it in the proper historical context of the time in which it was written.

In the editorial that I am refuting the author says “We don’t blame elementary school educators for holding back the original versions of “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” based on the language” (Editorial. par. 3).  If the language is being changed for elementary schools than a change like that seems ridiculous as the students are already too young to be reading the book to really understand what is actually happening. People do not understand the social constructs of racism and discrimination until they are at an older age such as when they are in high school or even older. Thomas Quirk an English professor stated that if he were a middle school teacher he would not assign the sanitized or un-sanitized piece of literature because of the difficulty to comprehend (Davis. par.16). The editorial also states that the new version of the literary works is for lower- level grades in the school. If the new novels are for lower levels, why couldn't they wait until they are perhaps a junior or senior in high school to read the books?
            If a person prefers the historical value of the book it will always be there for the reader to find (Editorial. par.4). However, that is not the point that I am trying to make. It does not matter if someone else likes the historical piece over the new piece it is what the younger generation will think after reading the censored piece of literature. When reading Mark Twain, he wanted people to know what was happening in the south and the harsh punishments that people endured. When changing words there is the possibility that people could misinterpret the meaning of what Twain was actually trying to say and it could change the whole perspective of the novel.  Peggy Placier, who is an associate professor in MU’s College of Education believes that “Changing Twain’s work ‘still does damage to the authorial voice and the historical reality’ of the text” (Davis. par.13).  Quirk also states that the book is not for boys, it is for adults who used to be boys (Davis. par.17).  He states this because the book should not be read until a person is at an age when they can fully comprehend what is actually going on in the story and they can understand the racism of the novel and why the N-word is actually used. If we all listened to Quirk and did not read this novel until the last couple of years of high-school or even into college then there would be no need to revise the book. The revision of the N-word is meant to protect and shelter younger adults at the risk of ruining the voice and meaning of the novel.  Instead, people should wait until they are older to understand the word was used to illustrate a difficult time in the past of America's culture.

The N-word would be changed to the word “slave”. I find that to be heart wrenching because now when the N-word should have been used it would say the word “slave” and that could change the context of the story.   According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary both of these terms have completely different meanings. The N-word is defined 'as a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons, one who may feel completely out of the political process'. While slave is defined as ‘a person held in servitude as the chattel of another’. Whenever I hear the word slave I automatically think of an African- American person working for someone else because that is how I was raised and what was taught in school. I do not ever hear the word slave without it meaning to work for someone else. When I hear the N-word it affects me a lot differently then the word slave because I have grown up in a household where that word was inappropriate to use.  When the N-word gets replaced with slave I would begin to misinterpret  what the text is telling me because now I am thinking that this black individual is working for someone and is not actually a poor man, but just has to work hard to live. That meaning is completely different from the N-word because that could mean they are actually poor and do live on the streets where every day is a struggle. John Hudson who wrote an essay on this issue stated "Race matters in these books. It's a matter of how you express that in the 21st century” (Hudson. Censors the N-word.).  A person has to be able to relate to the past and the issues that happened in this country, and changing a word does not teach the younger generation the harsh realities of what the time was actually like when the novels were written.

The N-Word should not be changed to the word “slave” because it leads to misinterpretation of the novel and the context of how the word is being used. Mark Twain wrote the literary works The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The adventures of Huckleberry Finn  a long time ago to depict the oppressive culture of the South and what the lives of people were like every day during that time period. These two books are literary classics.  When a word is removed that defines the harsh reality of the times it is insulting to the famous author who chose the vocabulary to depict the historical context of the time and the development of the characters in the book.  It would be scary and upsetting to think of what the new context would sound like and how much changing one word would actually change the whole context of these literary classics.

Works Cited

Lloyd, Delia. "Huck Finn, Censorship and the N-Word Controversy." Politics Daily

Feb,1 2011:  Web. 1 Mar 2011

Hudson, John. "New Edition of 'Huck Finn' Censors the 'N Word'." the Atlantic Wire, Jan, 24 2011. Web. 1 Mar 2011.

Davis, Michael. "MU scholar defends Huckleberry Finn revision." Missourian,             Feb, 8 2011. Web. 1 Mar 2011.

The Lufkin Daily News. “Editorial: Huck Finn: Censorship? Sure, it is, but changes to ‘Huckleberry Finn’ are Warranted”. The Lufkin Daily News, Jan, 6 2011.

Web. 1 Mar 2011

Reflection essay 2.1

I felt as if I was writing another rough draft so i was able to go through it pretty steadily and really get out what i was trying to say. On my next draft i will really have to edit and go through to make sure that my sources are accurate and all my citing is precise. I will hope to come in for office hours and maybe even go to the workshop. I hope to do better this time then on my last one.

Essay 2.1 Huck Finn: And why I think the N-word should remain in the novel. Rebutting: “Huck Fin: Censorship? Sure, it is, but changes to ‘Huckleberry Fin’ are warranted”

Huck Finn: And why I think the N-word should remain in the novel. Rebutting: “Huck Fin: Censorship? Sure, it is, but changes to ‘Huckleberry Fin’ are warranted”

            Mark Twain was a scholar who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. When Mark Twain was writing these two pieces of work he used the N-word to reveal the dirty culture of the South at the time of the story. He did not use the N-word to offend anyone and he used the word in the proper manner. Many people today dislike the word because it is used so often and taken advantage of, where as most people do not know the actual meaning of the word.

Although the book does say the N-word over two-hundred times and it is the fourth most banned book in the United States is what Delia Lloyd explains (N-Word Controversy. Par.5). Lloyd wrote an essay for “Politics Daily” on the Web which explains that when you censor famous pieces of work for the General education it loses all sense of history behind it. There was also an editor of the 19^th century that created a family version of “Shakespeare” that removed all sex scenes so it did not offend the Victorian wives and children (N-Word Controversy. Par.7). If you have to change the vocabulary to make the language more appropriate for the reader then maybe the reader should wait until they are at an age where they are mature enough to read the work and understand it in the correct terms. The editorial that I am refuting the author says “We don’t blame elementary school educators for holding back the original versions of “Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” based on the language” (Editorial. Par. 3) If they are changing the language for elementary schools that ridiculous because they are already to young to be reading this book to understand what actually is happening. People do not understand racism and discrimination until they are at an older age, such as when they are in high school. Thomas Quirk an English professor stated that if he were a middle school teacher he would not assign the sanitized or un-sanitized piece of literature because of the difficulty to comprehend (Fin Revision. Par.16). The editorial also states that they new version of the literary works is for lower- level grades in the school. If the new novels are for lower levels, why could they not wait until they are perhaps a junior or senior in high school?
            If you prefer the historical value of the book it will always be there for the reader to find (Editorial. Par.4). That is not the point that I am trying to make though. It does not matter if someone else likes the historical piece over the new piece it is what the younger generation will think after reading the censored piece of literature. When reading Mark Twain, he wanted people to know what was happening in the south and the harsh punishments that people went through. When changing words people could then misinterpret what Twain was actually trying to say and it could change the whole perspective of the novel. “Changing Twain’s work ‘still does damage to the authorial voice and the historical reality’ of the text” says Peggy Placier (Fin Revision. Par.13). Placier is an associate professor in MU’s College of Education and she had stated that for the Missourian which is the Missouri University newspaper.  Quirk also states that the book is not for boys, it is for adults who used to be boys (Fin Revision. Par.17). That is because the book should not be read until you are at the age where you can fully comprehend what is actually going on in the novel and you can relate to the racism of the novel and why the N-word is actually used. If we all listened to Quirk and did not read this novel until the last couple years of high-school or even into college then there would be no need to revise the book. The revision of the N-word is just of that for younger adults who now will not know how a famous scholar like Mark Twain actually wrote.

The N-word will be changed in with the word “slave” I find that to be heart wrenching because now when the N-word should have been used it will say the word “slave” and that could be completely out of context. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary both of these terms have completely different meanings. The word nigger is defined as a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons, one who may feel completely out of the political process. While slave is defined as ‘a person held in servitude as the chattel of another’. Whenever I hear the word slave I automatically think of an African- American person working for someone else because that is how I was raised and what was taught in school. I do not ever hear the word slave without it meaning to work for someone else. When I hear the N-word it hits me a lot differently then the word slave because I have grown up in a household where that word was inappropriate to use.  I represent the N-word with poor African- Americans that most likely live in a ghetto. When the N-word gets replaced with slave I would begin to misinterpret  what the text is telling me because now I am thinking that this black individual is working for someone and is not actually a poor man, but just has to work hard to live. That is way different from the N-word because that could mean they are actually poor and do live on the streets where everyday is a struggle. John Hudson who wrote a small essay on this issue stated "Race matters in these books. It's a matter of how you express that in the 21st century” (Censors the N-word.). You have to be able to relate to the past and the issues that we did have in this country, and changing a word is taking the easy way out and not teaching the younger generation what time was actually like.

The N-Word should not be changed with the word “slave” because it leads to misinterpretation of the novel and the Context of how the word is being used. Mark Twain wrote literary works such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The adventures of Huckleberry Finn to reveal the dirty culture of the South and what people every day had to live with. When you remove a word that defines those hard times it is scary to think of what the new context will sound like and how much it will actually change the novel.

Works Cited

Lloyd, Delia. "Huck Finn, Censorship and the N-Word Controversy." Politics Daily Feb,1 2011:  Web. 1 Mar 2011.

Hudson, John. "New Edition of 'Huck Finn' Censors the 'N Word'." the Atlantic Wire, Jan, 24 2011. Web. 1 Mar 2011.

Davis, Michael. "MU scholar defends Huckleberry Finn revision." Missourian,             Feb, 8 2011. Web. 1 Mar 2011.

The Lufkin Daily News. “Editorial: Huck Finn: Censorship? Sure, it is, but changes to ‘Huckleberry Finn’ are Warranted”. The Lufkin Daily News, Jan, 6 2011.

Web. 1 Mar 2011