Author Archives: Gabi Davis

How does discourse community influence warrants? A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback. Discourse community influences warrants because of the overall main point. It helps find the warrant. The Gap: Morgan thinks his readers don’t understand that if African Americans get equal rights and get up to white people’sContinue reading “CL: 2/25”

Annotations of “The Race Question in the United States” (pg. 62-76): This is by John Tyler Morgan Morgan was born in the eastern hills of Tennessee, and grew up in Alabama. In 1890 Morgan was instrumental in defeating two important post-Reconstruction bills: the Blair and Force Bills. In 1900 about 180,000 blacks were eligible toContinue reading “HW: 2/20”

In your respective blogs, type out what your group thinks is the gap In “Race Amalgamation” By Frederick Hoffman’s he says that if you mixture races it isn’t good. He talks about how rare it is for a white women to marry a African American man. The Gap of this book is that Hoffman isContinue reading “CL: 2/20”

Annotations of “Race Amalgamation,” (pg. 76-) Frederick L. Hoffman was born in Varel, Germany. Hoffman immigrated into the United States in 1884. He began a career in the insurance industry in 1887. Hoffman was a very well respected man by the people. He received a gold medal for the prudential exhibit Insurance Methods and ResultsContinue reading “HW: 2/18”

Prompt one: In your opinion, how do the activities of the individuals discussed in last night’s reading match Swales’s benchmarks for a discourse community? From last nights reading I felt that Plessy v. Ferguson’s topics matched up with a couple of the six characteristics for Swales benchmark for a discourse community. One would be theContinue reading “CL: 2/18”

Annotations of Plessy v. Ferguson (pg. 20-38): In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886) the Court, influenced by a circuit court decision by Field, ruled that corporations, as artificial legal “persons,” come under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. William J. Cruikshank was a member of aContinue reading “HW: 2/13”

Questions I have about PvF or TMM: In PvF, What does “Coons” mean? The Mismeasure of Man: 1. How does Gould define biological determinism? (page 52) Gould argues that the primary assumption underlying biological determinism is that, “worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity”. 2. What areContinue reading “CL: 2/13”

Annotations of “Plessy V. Ferguson” (pg. 1-20): Edited by Brook Thomas “Samuel E. Courtney” was an African American teacher in Alabama in 1885. “Coon” is a term used to refer to a black person. During this time in age, white people didn’t like diversity or anything different from themselves. White men could be very aggressiveContinue reading “HW: 2/11”

Why did Swales’s essay suck: First it takes me awhile to read any story or article. I have trouble grasping the point. I have to go through it serval times before I fully understand. I didn’t enjoy reading Swales article very much because it didn’t just take me a look took me a long timeContinue reading “CL: 2/6”

Annotations of “Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers”: The author is Tony Mirabelli. He earned a Ph.D. in Education in Language, Literacy and Culture from the University of California in 2001. Mirabelli introduced the concept of multiliteracies to argue that these workers do not just read texts, they also readContinue reading “HW: 2/4”