Six Way Tone Paragraphs Due 12/21/18 by 11:30am

Assignment:

Write six paragraphs. Each of which exemplifies one of the following tones:

Condescending: showing or implying condescension by stooping to the level of one's inferiors, especially in a patronizing way   

Nostalgic: unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons

Whimsical: playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. in an appealing and amusing way   

Sardonic:  grimly mocking or cynical   

Threatening: expressing an intention to cause somebody deliberate harm or pain

Befuddled: confused or perplexed



DO NOT TITLE EACH PARAGRAPH. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO READ YOUR INTENDED TONE WITHOUT A HINT!

Remember, tone (in writing) is conveyed by Details, Imagery, Diction, Figurative Language, and Syntax. See the examples below.



Casual tone

"The way I look at it, someone needs to start doing something about disease. What’s the big deal? People are dying. But the average person doesn’t think twice about it until it affects them. Or someone they know."

Tone: insane, nervous, and guilty

“It was A LOW, DULL, QUICK SOUND -- MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON. I gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why WOULD they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily increased. O God! What COULD I do? I foamed -- I raved -- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder -- louder -- louder!”

-Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”,

Tone: calm, peaceful

“It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.”



–Ernest Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

Class Notes/ Journals First Five Weeks Q2 due by 3PM on Friday 12/7

Class notes should include:

1. Summarize Socrates's arguments on Value and Policy
2. Plato Vocab(I have these)
3. Class notes on Toumlin
4. Applying Toumlin to Plato's Paragraph 65.
5. Applying Toumlin to Machiavelli.
Notes should include unknown words encountered during class readings.


Journals should have 10 entries about 8 long form essays or a non-fiction text.
Journals should include any unknown words encountered in your reading.

Leadership and Wisdom Essay

Leadership and Wisdom Synthesis Essay

Task:

Write a persuasive essay making a claim about the relationship between leadership and wisdom which synthesizes the ideas we have considered from Plato, Machiavelli, Saunders, Aurelius, and Lao Tzu to support your position.  

Schedule:

M and W Lab 2042

Essays due Wednesday 12/5 by 3PM.

https://stephanielytle.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/allegory.pdf

http://as1020.pbworks.com/f/saunders-braindead.pdf

http://www.umphrey.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Machiavellei-The-Morals-of-the-Prince.pdf

Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designed rational beings for each other’s sake: to help—not harm—one another, as they deserve. To transgress its will, then, is to blaspheme against the oldest of the gods. And to lie is to blaspheme against it too. Because “nature” means the nature of that which is. And that which is and that which is the case are closely linked, so that nature is synonymous with Truth—the source of all true things. To lie deliberately is to blaspheme—the liar commits deceit, and thus injustice. And likewise to lie without realizing it. Because the involuntary liar disrupts the harmony of nature— its order. He is in conflict with the way the world is structured. As anyone is who deviates toward what is opposed to the truth—even against his will. Nature gave him the resources to distinguish between true and false. And he neglected them, and now can’t tell the difference. -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.

If you don't trust people,
you make them untrustworthy.

The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, "Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching