How to select an article to publish

1. Read the title and side notes of the article to know what the article is about.
2.Look for sources that could talk about the same topic or be related for better understanding.
3. Ask your self, For who is this article written for? Who is intended to be the audicence of it?
4. Try to figure out what kind of article it is, if it is based on facts, opinion or if it is made to change your mind.
5. Search for evidence within the text to substain the point which is given.
6. What kind of language is it used?
7. Is there primery and secondary soruces used for it?
8. Ask yourself who is the author and its background.
9. Check if the article is correct.
10. Check that the article is not so old or just be aware of the date.
11. search for other articles that could state the same.
12. Is everything that is critized or argued is supported by evidence.
13. Are the arguments of the text opened minded and related with other points of view or at least, is conscius of other points of view.

Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting

QUOTE: ¨The solution to this problem is simple: Abolish compulsory-attendance laws and allow only those who are committed to getting an education to attend.¨(Sipher, Roger)

PARAPHRASING: Roger Sipher states that children thaht go to private shcools and are failing, it would´t matter if they get kicked out because they are sure that they will end up in a public school, but the public school can´t deny this student and cannot expell him because it would be against the law and even if the school reputation is damaged, it doesnt matter.

SUMMARY: What Roger Sipher staes on this essay is that kids should be forced to go to school and that if kids do not attend, education will collapse but it would be even better because it would create a healthier enviroment to learn. Also the education level would rise in all the public schools. Sipher also critizices that students don´t do anything productive and do not learn nothing important because they know thath with mediocre work, they will graduate, also schools are not playing the role of schools but to be an institution that gives all the people a base for life.

Speech

I've heard the speech of this guy, and I though that it was well, he used a good introduction, he talked about his grandparents creating some kind of emotion and patriotism thath woudl helpe move the emotions of some people, and he also uses Columbine as an example and all those are related to Rethoric, all the pathos ethos are used and you can end up using logic in some parts, in conclusion, the speech is well, the onl thing that I dindt like was that he talkes very slowly and I was getting lind of bored and also he wasnt very sure of what he was saying so I think thath he could donde a better job if he talked more smoothly without thath many pauses.

The Power and the glory

Righ now, I am a little more into the novel and Im more aware about what is happening duirng this time period. Even though this is a revolutionary period that despites religion, we can get to see the role the priest is playing in the novel and how it is a fundamental part of the novel. You can see this because the priest is certain on what is hsi future and what is his role on earth and how he is going to acomplish it by completing his deuty, expanding and preaching about christianity even if his life is in danger.“One of the Fathers has told us that joy always depends on pain. Pains is part of joy. We are hungry and then think how we enjoy our food at last. We are thirsty…” This is an evident quote that shows that the priest likes his job and even if the vconsequences are bad, he es going to accomplish it. He does not fear hsi destiny based on his actual situation, he doesnt gives up and we can see that he is very concius about his situation and how his life will be in danger if he continous preaching and exapanding catholicism. "The police watching you, the soldier gathering taxes, the beating you always get from the jefe because you are too poor to pay, smallpox and fever, hunger… that is all part of heaven – the preparation." This shows how he feels and thinks of what he has to do.

In what I have read righ now, I could compare the priest to many people thought history, many people that have always fought for their own righ or for their belief and would always continue talking about them and even if they are in danger, they will continue expressing themselves following their heart. We can compare the priest to ghandi, both live in some enviroment that doesnt let them express themselves without getting any consequences but they both continue doing it.

What might happen to the priest?
What impulses the priest to continue preaching?

Video Karma police

I chose this video because when I first saw it I thought that it would represent the priest and what he was living trhough, his internal figh and you can relate it to tje video as much as the man running at the end or as the guy in the car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeLAELIxKY

Rethoric ARTICLE

Amnesty for Pakistani Politicians Near Final

By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: October 5, 2007

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 4 —
Demostrative-The government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf announced Thursday an accord that includes amnesty for the opposition leader and former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, clearing the way for the general to run for re-election as president on Saturday and for Ms. Bhutto to return to Pakistan for parliamentary elections at the end of the year.
The agreement, which has been approved by the cabinet but awaits General Musharraf’s signature, also permits negotiations on a broader power-sharing pact with Ms. Bhutto. DECLAMATIVE-The amnesty would cover all politicians, bankers and bureaucrats charged with corruption offenses in 1988 through 1999. DEMOSTRATIVE -It was a central demand of Ms. Bhutto, who plans to return to Pakistan on Oct. 18 to run for prime minister. She left Pakistan in 1999 for self-imposed exile in London to escape corruption charges she contends were politically motivated.
As the presidential election neared, she accused General Musharraf of stalling, and warned that her Pakistan Peoples Party would join an opposition boycott of the vote if the presidential ordinance were not signed.
But on Thursday night, Ms. Bhutto agreed to the final version of the ordinance, said Farooq Naik, a senator and senior lawyer from her party who had seen it.
The agreement was reached at nearly the last moment. General Musharraf, who has faced opposition in his ruling party over the measure, has only one day left until the election. The Supreme Court is hearing petitions against his eligibility to run and is expected to rule Friday.
FORENSIC -The amnesty is part of a broader reconciliation package that includes measures to help ensure free elections and to discourage politically motivated corruption charges, all with the aim of establishing a new era of democracy, General Musharraf, said Thursday night in an interview with Dawn News, an English language television channel.
Despite his many past criticisms of Ms. Bhutto over allegations of corruption, he said, none of the cases against her had been proved, and, as the leader of a popular political party, she had a role to play in the return to democracy.
He added that the ordinance was not intended just to benefit her, and that all political parties should take part in the elections.
“It will not only affect an individual, but it is a whole package ensuring free and fair elections, that is the package we are attempting,” General Musharraf said.
DEMOSTRATIVE - But the amnesty will not affect the case of another former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who tried to return to Pakistan last month but was immediately deported. General Musharraf ousted Mr. Sharif in a coup in 1999.
DECLAMATIVE - As part of the transition to democracy, the general confirmed that he would resign his military post by Nov. 15, when his current presidential term expires. “You have to, one day, get into a transition for complete democracy, with the president without uniform, and I think this is the right time,” he said.
Ms. Bhutto had demanded that General Musharraf resign from his post of chief of army staff before the election, But he has insisted on resigning only after he is sure he has won. Ms. Bhutto said subsequently that General Musharraf would resign his military post before being sworn in as president.
Even with the agreement, a number of substantial issues remain, another legislator, Latif Khosa, said. Ms. Bhutto had also sought removal of a ban on prime ministers serving a third term, and the repeal of a constitutional amendment that allows the president to dissolve Parliament and remove the government.
But the amendment, at least, can be repealed only by a two-thirds majority of Parliament, Mr. Naik said, and would have to wait until the new Parliament is elected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05pakistan.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin

The Power & The Glory

When I first started reading the book, I was a little confused because of all that it was stating and all the characters, but when I kept reading on, I got to organize my self, but there where various pages I had to read all over again for me to be able to start undestanding what was going on. What I have read of The Power and the Glory talks basically of the Mexican revolution and how the Catholic church gets to play a major roll in this time period. This was because during this revolution, all the Mexicans where traying to expulse all the religious people of the country. Whe can get to that conclusion because we are able to see that during the reading of this novel, you can see that there are priest which had to leave the country or even hide. A perfect example is that this new stranger that we get to know, from who we get a lot of questions is a priest who is traying to hide, to avoid the law. Even though he is traying yo avoid all this, he doesnt manage to d this since he will always have some kind of contact with the law. One example is the relationship he establish with Captain Fellows, which is one of the persons who supports the revolution. This is a quote that give us an idea of the reklationship they have and that the captain knows that he might get busted and then condemend, but he does this because his doughter wants to help this stranger." 'I'm braking the law enough as it is,' Captain Fellows said (Pg. 38). One thing that the book makes you think s the critics that people make, the way thath people talk from each other without knowing the real thing. For example, we have read that people say thath there is a priest who has a drinking problem and they really do not know the true reasons behind this problem. He might not drink because he loves to, but because he might be traying to drown painfull thoughts of his past wiht the boose. This drinking might be a way of forgetting that his life is in danger and that on any time, he might get killed.
This few chapters can be connected to the Colombian history. You can connected it with the rivalries that where between "liberales'' and ''conservadores''. During the " Periodo Conservador", all the ''liberales'' where persecuted and killed, so they had to change they'r names and residence because they had to hide from the goverment itself because they where being killed. I believe thath this time in Colombia's history can compare to The Power and The Glory because the same way that the priest's had to run away and hide, the same happened to the "Liberales'' in Colombia, and both where because of a change in goberment.

A question that I find fundamental is. What is really hiding the stranger?