Postcolonialism

When I read "Things Fall Apart" I saw it from the feminism lens.  Aristotle once said, "The male is by nature more superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules and the other in ruled."  The people of the Ibo treated the men as more superior than the women.  The women seemed more as a way of telling how powerful the man is, since the more successful men had more wives. The wives were to cook dinner for their husband and clean the house.  Even as children, the boys were expected to be stronger than the girls.  The boys had to help their father with the crops as the girls were to help their mother clean and serve their father food.

Singularity

I believe that to have the intelligence to drive or make ethical decisions you need to be human.  Technology is supposed to help us do our jobs, not completely take over.  If technology continues to progress into what the article, "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" by Lev Grossman, says it will, there will be no use for humans to be here since computers are doing everything for them.  I find this a bad thing because we are supposed to die someday, that's just how life is supposed to be.  Kurzweil believes that computers will soon be able to make us immortal.  He thinks that 46 years from now, computers will be more intelligent than humans and soon we will completely transformed.

I think that Bernard is definitely on to something.  He realizes that there is something wrong with the way his society manipulates their people's minds and he is the only one that realizes this.  People are born with individual rights and they take these rights away by forcing everyone to be the same.  I understand that this makes progress but it is taking progress way too far.

Eating Disorders

I did my rhetorical analysis on Group Therapies for the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa by Lindsay T. Murn. The author's purpose for this article was to introduce the history of research for eating disorders and to suggest possible therapeutic cures for it. An example of one is group therapy.  The author says that it can help decrease isolation and will maintain individuality.  I think that the author intended to write this for people that know of someone with bulimia and they need to know more about symptoms and how it can be cured.  The overall main point of this article was to inform the reader about eating disorders, mainly bulimia, and how group therapy can be helpful to those who suffer from eating disorders.  The author shows that through therapy, these disorders can be cured by either group therapy or self-help.  The author shows a percentage of both males and females that suffer from an eating disorder.  Most of the time females suffer from it, but there are some men that have the same problem.  This type of evidence is persuasive to the reader because it is an actual percentage of people with this disorder.  An example of a non persuasive evidence would be if the author made up an example of someone with an eating disorder because it wouldn't be accurate.  The author first introduces the behaviors and symptoms of those with eating disorders and then goes on about the percentages of people suffering from disorders.  She has a section after the introduction about group therapy and one about self-help and how they can contribute to curing disorders.  The arrangement of the paragraphs are effective because she first describes the issue and then talks about the possible cures for it.  The author uses terms like amenorrhea and she defines it for the reader.  It means loss of menstrual cycle.  The author's purpose for using these terms is to define the symptoms for the reader more.  I think that the author wrote this passage as a research because most of what the author states is cited.  She can also be an expert in psychology that is doing further research on this issue, because the main purpose of this is to show the reader the history of eating disorders and possible cures for it. By reading this, Lindsay M. Murn has shown me that not only women suffer from this, men do as well.  I've never met or even heard of a man that has an eating disorder.  She has also shown the possible cures like group therapy, self-help, and psychoeducational, which all seem helpful.  However, in my opinion i think that group therapy would be the most effective because the patients can see that there are others that have the same problem and it can help them overcome their disorder together as a group.