Crossfire

Notice and Focus + Ranking
Step 1: They ask John Stewart questions that they have already answered themselves, the hosts react with emotion and don't think through their rebuttals very well, they want to start arguments not talk about the issues, the hosts are overly biased and don't want to even hear the other side of the discussion, John Stewart tried to remain as calm as he could so as to not give the hosts what they want.

Step 2: Just want to make arguments, asking questions they have already answered themselves, John Stewart tried to remain calm

Step 3: These three things were the most interesting because they showed just how much the people on the show did not want to have real discussions about the important issues, instead they wanted to have entertaining arguments with the person they had sitting in between them, in the "crossfire" of the two hosts. To do this they had ask questions that they had answered themselves so that they could refute the person in the middle's answer with as much emotion as possible. The hosts were so good at what they did that even when John Stewart came on the show and tried to ruin it by staying calm, even he couldn't remain completely calm in the argument.

The Method
Step 1: "bad" x3, "hurting America" x3, "stop" x4
Step 2: Stop, Hate, Argue, Bad
Step 3: News/Comedy, Left/Right, Red Sox/Yankees
Step 4: John Stewart repeating the phrase "hurting America" really stood out to me. It stood out to me because it was true, when people watch a show on CNN or another news channel they expect to hear the news, no matter how skewed it may be depending on if the channel is conservative or liberal, but when the viewer put on CNN expecting to hear the news they would see a show called crossfire that they would expect to hear the democratic and republican views on the days issues. Instead what the people saw was two people on different sides of an argument taking turns to jump down the throat of the poor person who got stuck in between them. Not only would the people not get to hear the views of both parties but they wouldn't even hear the issues that the country was facing on that particular day. When the people don't know what is going wrong in the country they don't know who to vote for to fix the issues, so now they don't vote for the people that can fix the problems in America and it does hurt the country and we end up in big trouble as a country just because people don't know what is going on.

High School Writing Process

In high school I never really had to write too many papers, usually one or two a semester, but when I did have to write a paper I went through the same writing process every time. When I would first get a writing assignment I would brainstorm the topic for about an hour every day. I would continue this process usually until about two or three days before my paper was due and then I would just sit in my room, put some music on and just force myself to write a paper. At first I would not like what I was doing and would want to do something else more fun, but eventually my brain would get going and a paper would just flow onto my screen in an hour or two. After this happened I would go back through the paper and see if there was anything I could add into it, or if there were any parts that needed to be fixed in order for my paper to make sense. Once I had done this I would give my paper to my sister so that someone else can read through my paper and see if there are any problems with it that need addressing before I turned it in, such as grammar and punctuation. After I made the changes that I needed to make I would again give it back to my sister and she would again check it for grammar and punctuation and once she had done that I would make whatever changes needed to be made. Once this was done I would turn my paper in and forget about it.