Chris


 * 20140207: Restaurant Tracking**

I think its okay for restaurants to have that ability, if they are just looking at the places i have been not my personal information. If it can help them bring in new customers and make more money, then its not a bad thing.
 * -How do you feel about the possibility of restaurants and other businesses having the ability to track your movements?**

This is not an invasion of privacy because he said that he did not have access to peoples personal information and just the places that they have gone before. Which makes it a good marketing strategy.
 * -Is this an invasion of privacy, or is it good marketing strategy?**


 * 20140221: The Goodman of Paris**

No because The Wife of Bath's does not agree with the idea that the only thing a wife should do is please her husband in every way and never do anything that would be unpleasing to him.
 * - Would the two of them have been a happy couple?**

The Wife of Bath's and the man from The Goodman of Paris would not have made a happy couple because they think nothing alike and have completely different views on how marriage should be. The Goodman of Paris believes that the only thing the wife should do is please her husband in any way possible and never do anything that could possibly be unpleasing to him. The Wife of Bath believes that the woman should have more power in a marriage and the husband should do whatever he can to please his wife. The Goodman of Paris believes that the wife should submit to her husband completely while The Wife of Bath believes that the husband should fully submit to his wife to make her happy. These major differences in beliefs about marriage say that they would never make a happy couple.
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 * 20140228: E-Cigs**

I disagree with the idea that e-cigs will lead to addictive use of regular cigarettes because the main purpose that e-cigs were invented was to stop people from smoking regular cigs. They were made so people could go out to a restaurant or somewhere that does not allow cigarettes and be able to smoke their e-cig.
 * 1. Do you agree/disagree with the argument that e-cigs will lead to addictive use of regular cigarettes?**

Yes and no, because it is true that they do contain nicotine and so do regular cigarettes and they are regulated because of that reason. But also no because they are not real cigarettes and even though they may contain the addictive content of a regular cigarette.
 * 2. Should e-cigs be regulated by the FDA in the same way that regular cigarettes are? **

**3.** ** If it remains that the FDA does not regulate e-cigs, predict what effect it will have on our teens in 5-10 years? ** I think that more teens will start to smoke e-cigs because overall they can save money because they are just rechargeable devices and also for the reason for trying to fit in with the rest of the people your age. The domino effect will happen, one kid will start doing it, then his friends, and so on.


 * 20140321 **

Both the Flying Spaghetti Monster Letter and "A Modest Proposal" exaggerate a lot of their evidence that proves that what they are saying is true or the correct thing to do. In the Flying Spaghetti Monster Letter, Bobby Henderson exaggerates the number of followers that his theory as by saying there are over ten million of them. "A Modest Proposal" exaggerates the number of people that are born with parents that can not take care of them and of those children born, the number of them that will be chosen to be eaten. Both texts have parody in them, for one, in the Flying Spaghetti Monster Letter, Bobby Henderson draws the school board a picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster creating trees, a mountain, and a midget. This is a case of parody of God, because the bible says that He created everything and in the picture, it is just a squiggly drawing with eyes and tentacles.
 * 1. ****Compare "A Modest Proposal" to the Flying Spaghetti Monster Letter - how do the two of them use exaggeration, incongruity, irony, and parody in the text?**


 * 2.** **What points are each of them trying to make? Do you think that they were successful? Why or why not?**