Brandon Greenberg
“I’d Rather Smoke Than Kiss” Outline
Cause and effect – Making smoking harder makes less people smoke.
-because of misanthropes, there are bans on restaurant smoking, advertisements to not smoke.
-because of the idea that “passive smoking” was created, people have more reasons to hate smokers
-because of the war on tobacco, people say they care about a smoker’s health, but they just don’t want a litter and smoke free area
-anti-smoking campaigns don’t take into account that hard working smokers when ridded of their drug will only go through withdrawal and not work as hard.
-people soothe anxiety by kicking smokers. (scapegoat)
-anti-smoking campaigns are afraid that telling blacks they shouldn’t smoke would seem racist
-people see no difference between tobacco and cocaine because there just two things they don’t like
-smoking is the only things that the politically correct can’t blame on white males.
“Got bub all up in the hizzle, yo!” Outline
This argument is persuasive:
-He identifies “dis” “props” “for shizzle” as new words and not as boring as “proactive” “synergy”
-Claim-Rap has added to the English language in a way that nothing else can
-Reasons-Rap rhymes and plays with words like no other type of poetry
-Warrant-he backs up his reason with many examples of rhyme and word play
-This audience is the general public who may not be so attune to rap styles or lingo
-He tries to explain to the audience that the poetry rap artists write is only the best way to make the English language interesting
-He addresses opposing arguments such as [Why is Tommy Hilfiger someones ‘nigga’] only because it rhymes. And he shows that using the same word doesn’t mean it is rhyming.
-he points out that the ‘naughty’ lyrics rap music has is only to make it interesting and entertaining. Plus it sells.
“Why Reality TV is good for us” Outline
“RealWorld”
-a “good television show” takes hold of our emotions gets us caught up in interesting characters, and breaks our hearts.
-reality tv “RealWorld” is a good television show because…
-they aren’t actors, they’re people
-nobody could seriously fake the facts
-they pick interesting characters out of many people that try out for the parts.