Ripley's Value of Life

Prereading

Activity 25

1. No, I actually have not read anything from Time magazine. However I have read articles about obesity on CNN’s news page online.

2. Its publication was mainly due to the amount of obese people here in the US and how we could prevent it. That was its main purpose and hopefully it did reach out and help people.

3. Well considering it is a local news station I’d say there are many kinds of articles are included in it. Anything from murders, to laws being changed, even a dog saving people from buildings, anything that seems important.

4 I’m not sure what the question is asking but I do believe that most of the people who read articles like this have been affected by them in either a good or bad way, this depends on their views. However that is the case, in one way or another we are all impacted by the articles written that seem important enough to put on the news.

Activity 26

1. This subtitle tells me that it will be based on the victims of 9/11 who were impacted the most. Also that the government has come up with some kind of system that gives residents that lost loved ones in 9/11 money for the ones they lost. I can assume that this is all one system that calculates how much each one should get depending on how many they lost and also I can assume that this is a way that the government is trying to keep people from talking about that situation.

2. The main thing these texts have in common is that they are all related in how we value our lives. Although they are placed under different views, such as economic terms and philosophical terms.

3. I anticipate that this next text will follow the pattern of being in the first person perspective, it sounds more like a personal story than anything. If it is written in third person then I would love to see how they interpreted it and how they actually found a way to put that under the third person.

Activity 27

Commodify- to turn something into an object of monetary value

Tort- a civil lawsuit to remedy a wrongful act

Garish- offensively bright and showy

Balk- to resist

Concoct- to put together from various materials

Reading

Activity 28

Life in this text is defined as a human body, they use that as a count and just that count to give people the money they think the person deserves. Now the human that is being given a value is actually dead, not a living being. This is surprising because they are putting a price tag in the ones that have passed on and give it to the families that have lost them in the hopes that they would feel better after receiving that money. Also they tend to pay out more on the one that was more successful and not as much as the ones that were more unknown in the world. So not everyone is equal, they favor the ones that have done more for people than the ones that just seemed to be there.

Postreading

Activity 31

1. Well I can say that the text tries to be unbiased but ends up being slightly biased when it comes down to it. It wants to keep this type of balance between the two perspectives of the families that suffered but in the end doesn’t necessarily do the right thing.

2. The evidence that the author gives are things like his personal stories, with those we can really see how she went through things and how she dealt with them. Those tend to be more compelling because they relate to our emotional appeals and really tell us more about the author herself.

3. Considering this was published by Time and written by a women who seems to have personal experiences with this topic I’d say this information is pretty accurate. I mean I’m pretty sure that Time Magazine would carefully check everything before actually publishing it and putting their names on it.

4. This text uses more emotion than anything, considering most of it is a personal story and then the other parts are talking about victims that have died and the families that have suffered through everything. Also we see that the readers are mostly impacted with emotion so its pretty clear that was the authors objective the entire time. Compared to Shakespeare and Ebert, Ripley focuses on more than one perspective. She gives her own story and gives the perspective of the others, Shakespeare and Ebert only give their own perspective.