Unit on Equality and Ethics

3 reasons for death penalty

1 Deterrence of crime

2 justice

Save money

3 reasons against death penalty

1 risk of wrongful conviction

2 inhumane

3 religious opposition

Attention grabbers include

Must have a Fact, question, or controversial statement

Body paragraphs

Must include 3 details that support your topic sentence. Transition words. Sentence about hearing out the other argument

Concluding sentence

Sentence that wraps it up

Similar to topic sentence

Includes action you want reader to take

Formal writing tips

Use of clear language

Maintain objective

Use proper grammar

Cite sources properly

What is an advertisement

Message or promotion to buy or use a product/service

Testimonial Ad

Celebrity or well known person endorses it

Association Ad

Good or fun times associated

Bandwagon Ad

Suggesting you’ll gain popularity from it (Ex Stanley’s

Salience Ad

Annoying it catchy tune

Omission

Leaving out certain information

Weasel words

Makes the consumer believe it’s better (Ex “the product has improved amount” dosent tell us how much

Scaling

Makes things look bigger then they are

Facts or figures

Statistics to “prove” it’s better

Spin

Spinning negative to positive

Snob appeal

Desirable lifestyle

What’s Propaganda

Is a bias or misleading information used to influence people’s opinion (Ex politics or ideological

Dreams of George

Own the farm

Live off the land

Not need to work

Lennies dream

Same as George

Tend the rabbits

Curleys wife’s dream

Be famous or actress

Candys dream

Short lived but wanted to join George and Lennie

Crooks dreams

Briefly imagines life without working for someone else

Curleys dream

Power/respect control people be the boss

George’s isolation

Responsibility/ Burden

Lack of true companionship

The ending

Lennies isolation

Dependence on George

Social rejection

Need for comfort

Curleys wife isolation

Only women on ranch

Loveless or controlling relationship

Broken dreams

Candys isolation

Physical disability

Loss of his dog

Crooks isolation

Racial discrimination

Physical disability

Curleys isolation

Toxic masculinity

Loveless marriage

Lack of respect

Equity

Fairness

by giving people what they need to succeed

Ethics

Rules or principles about what is right and wrong

Morals

Personal beliefs about right and wrong, shaped by culture, religion, or upbringing.

4 levels of controversy

Personal, community, country, global

Nonfiction

Based upon true events

Components of nonfiction

Facts , purpose tone structure

Ruben Carter article

Reuben “Hurricane” Carter was a boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder due to racism and an unfair trial, but after nearly 20 years in prison, he was proven innocent and released.

A Good Time Tonight

Refers to the story where Simon the new driver is driving to that party with the people and someone else was drunk driving

First they came poem

About a poem about people getting taken away and the speaker not caring until you was going to be taken away but by then there was no one to defend him

Family album prom

A poem that reflects on the memories and emotions tied to family and home, often capturing the warmth, struggles, and history within family life.

Saving the children

The poem emphasizes that protecting and caring for children is vital because they are the future and need guidance and love to build a better world.

Dulce el decorum est

Don’t be happy for war

The poem exposes the brutal reality of war and argues that the idea that dying for one’s country is noble (“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”) is a dangerous lie.

Going home to aushiwits

Goes there to prove hitler didn’t succeed

The essay reflects on the author’s emotional journey to Auschwitz with her Holocaust-survivor father, exploring themes of memory, trauma, identity, and the importance of remembering history.

People who fought against injustice in the pianist

Wladslaw the piano player

The polish friends that held him safe

And the German officer