Finding ideas and knowledge on my masterpiece (AG business)

1) Successful farmers and successful business owners are goal-oriented. They don’t live just for the day, but think ahead and plan well to increase their chances of a bountiful harvest later. If you’re not a planner, you’ll never make it as a farmer or a business owner. Even the “fly by the seat of your pants” risk-taker and genius visionary has to plan ahead and set goals if he wants to create a sustainable enterprise.

2) Successful farmers and successful business owners know that “planting seeds” isn’t enough. After planting comes daily nurturing, taking care of what you’ve planted. Neglect this all-important part of your business, including caring for your customers in a proactive way, and all your hard work will likely be negated. Planting seeds is only the beginning. Now the real work begins — and continues.

3) Successful farmers and successful business owners know that cutting corners is risky. Do things right the first time and reap the rewards later. Business owners who cut corners inevitably regret doing so at some point down the road. How many businesses have failed because of an attitude of “good enough” instead of “only the best”? “Good enough” is never good enough. Get that out of your head right now.

4) Successful farmers and successful business owners consider the acquired wisdom of others. Business owners who insist on going it alone, refusing to consider and weigh the experiences and advice of those who have gone before them, do so at their own peril. With organizations like BNI, SCORE, and the professionals we network with face-to-face and in our social media communities and tribes, we have a wealth of wisdom to draw on if we want to be successful. Take advantage of what others want to teach you!

5) Successful farmers and successful business owners are risk-takers, but finance-conscious. They know that carrying too much debt, or spending profits carelessly, can destroy the financial health of an enterprise. But they also know it’s imperative to invest in themselves, and be willing to take measured financial risks. So successful business owners invest carefully, thinking about their goals and how their spending will get them there. The careless investor and wild spender will find himself crying over his folly eventually.

My modernist

I chose William Butler Yeats because I think I have heard of him before and his story is interesting. I also like the way he writes and the words he uses in his work. 

Brave new world ch. 1

The first chapter in the Brave New World was more or less confusing for me the way Aldous Huxley worded his words and there was a lot of words that I had never heard before. Also the way there baby's are made in the book is just so different from the world we have today makes the first chapter really different and some what hard to imagine. 

Fallacy examples

Appeal to tradition, "we do it like this because that’s how we’ve always done it.” Ex: 

Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, “with this because of this” – just because two things happen together doesn’t mean they’re related or one causes the other.  (e.g., just because a student attends RHS doesn’t mean she has two legs)

Ex:

Straw Man: Putting words into someone’s mouth (and that someone may or may not exist) for the purpose of exaggerating or distorting the opposing viewpoint.

Ad Hominem fallacy: responding to an argument attacking a person’s character rather than the content of their argument.

Ex:

Argument fallacies

1. Argumentum ad numerum, fallacy is the attempt to prove something by showing how many people think that it's true. 

2. Argumentum ad populum, the fallacy of trying to prove something by showing that the public agrees with you.   

3. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, fallacy of mistaking correlation for causation -- i.e., thinking that because two things occur simultaneously, one must be a cause of the other. 

4. Post hoc ergo propter hoc, the fallacy of assuming that A caused B simply because A happened prior to B. 

5. Slippery slope, fallacy is an argument that says adopting one policy or taking one action will lead to a series of other policies or actions also being taken, without showing a causal connection between the advocated policy and the consequent policies. 

My two sources

1. Texas self defense law http://law.onecle.com/texas/penal/9.31.00.html

2. When an officer has the right to shoot http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Deadly+Force

My five fallacies

1. Argumentum ad ignorantiam (argument to ignorance). 

2. Argumentum ad logicam (argument to logic). 

3. Argumentum ad nauseam (argument to the point of disgust; i.e., by repitition). 

4. Nature, appeal to.

5. Red herring. 

The reason I picked these was because they where the most interesting to me in a way and in the back of my mind I was think of which ones would apply to my master peice the best. 

10 arguing points

1. Death row 

2. ISIS

3. Women's pay

4. Censorship  

5. Artificial intelligence 

6. Government transparency 

7. Animal cruelty 

8. GMO regulations 

9. Education 

10. Economy 

What Jiro means to me

Jiro to me is much more than just a guy who has a love and passion for sushi. He's really inspiring to someone like my self because I have the same love that Jiro has but instead of sushi its farming. The reason I say that is because no matter what the task is when I'm out working I want it to be done perfect. But I think that's just the mentality that not only I have but my dad and grandpa have when they do something to. So I can really relate and say if Jiro can make the best sushi in the world then I can be the best farmer, maybe not in the world but maybe one that people can respect and follow in my footsteps trying to be the best at what ever they love and want to be the best at. Therefore, whether you've found your love in something and know how I feel and can relate to someone like Jiro or not hopefully you do because it doesn't matter how young or old you are when you find that passion for something it's just something that needs to be experienced by all people. 

What I learned today

Today I learned that my heifer for our local Santa Barbara county fair is a lot more tame than I thought she would be, coming straight off the hills, but thats going to being a good thing for the both of us. 

Chapter 8 catcher in the rye

Holden walks to train station because it was to late to call a cab. He cleaned his bloody face up a little bit with some snow on the way to the station. He loved to ride the train because he could by a sandwich and some magazines that he could enjoy with out anyone see him. A lady got on the train at Trenton and sat down right next to Holden. She started a conversation with him by noticing his pencey sticker on his suitcase and saying her son when to pencey. She said his name was Ernest morrow and Holden thought of him as the biggest bastard in the history of pencey. Holden lied to her about his name saying he was rudolf Schmidt and talked about how much of a great kid Ernest was of course lying about everything he said. Holden liked the lady, the way she looked, talked, and just everything about her. Holden offers a cigarette to her and she takes it as they are smoking he asks her if she would like a drink in the club car but she says she shouldn't and it was probably closed anyway. Holden told her that he had to go home early be cause he had an operation removing a tumor on his brain. She got off at Newark wishing him luck with his operation and telling him to visit Ernest during the summer in Gloucester Massachusetts where they lived. Holden told her he would be in South Africa with his grandmother but thanked her anyway.

Ch 7 catcher in the rye

Holden ends up walking over into Ackley's room where he asks him if he can sleep in his room mate, elys, bed for the night. Ackley makes up all this stuff basically saying no to him but Holden lays on it anyway. After a while Holden leaves walking into the corridor deciding to leave pencey that night and getting a cheap hotel to stay at. So he goes back into his room packing his stuff up rapidly as stradlater never even wakes up. Holden goes to Frederick woodruff who he had lent his typewriter to selling it to him for twenty dollars. On the way out of the dorm building Holden yells sleep tight you morons.

Ch 6 catcher in the rye

JHolden was nervous about stradlater and Janes date thinking about all things that could go wrong. Stradlater walks in talking about how cold it was outside and Holden says nothing. He asks stradlater if he told Jane hello for him and he said yes but didn't say anything about how she keeped her kings. Holden asked what they did and he said they sat in banky's the whole night, Holden knowing that stradlater likes to hook up with girls just sex with no feelings for them, asks if they did anything and he responds saying that's a professional secret. That real made him made throwing a punch at stradlater with his bad hand missing hitting the back of his head. Stradlater jumps on Holden pinning him down with his knees but he keeps aggravating stradlater until he hits Holden right in the face making him start bleeding out of his nose letting him up. Stradlater gets a little scared telling Holden he needs to go down to the can and wash his face off from all the blood. Holden still mad just keeps talking back to him until stradlater leaves the room. 

Chapter 5 catcher in the rye

Holden talks how on every Saturday the whole school has steak. And he talks about how horrible it was from the mashed potatoes not being mashed to the steaks being to tough to chew. The only reason the school had steak was because most of the kids parents came on Sunday and made the school sound good if they had steak the night before. After everyone finishs Holden, his friend Mal brossard, and Ackley went into town and got some hamburgers to eat since they had nothing else to do that night. So they went back to pencey and went back to there rooms Ackley going into Holden's room as he always does. Holden kicks him out and tells him he has to write stradlaters composition. He writes about his brothers baseball mit how he had all these poems written on it to read when someone wasn't up to bat. His brother died from leukemia when he was a kid. Holden finishs and talks about how he could hear Ackley snoring because he had sinus problems on top of the bad acne, slimy teeth, and crummy fingernails.

Chapter 3 catcher in the rye

Holden leaves mr. Spencer's house talking about how much of a liar he is and how he lied to him about where he was going, to the gym to get his stuff out of his locker, just to get out of mr. Spencer's house. He talks about how he lies about things even when it's something he doesn't need to lie about. After leaving mr. Spencer's house he goes back to his dorm room while everyone is at the game except for his dorm neighbor Ackley who is a very weird character that doesn't have a very good personality. As Ackley is in Holden's room he starts messing with all of Holden and his room mate, ward stradlater, stuff. He also makes Holden very irritated by trimming his nails that are going all over the floor. Ward walks in and Ackley hates him because he ward told him to brush his teeth but not in a bad way more like a friend trying to help another friend out. And then ward take off his shirt being a little bit of a show off in a way of how much muscle he has.

ALL THAT DAVID COPPERFIELD KIND OF CRAP

Chapters one and two I think are really setting up the whole book and the way the character, Holden, is going to act through out the book as kind of a little punk that just doesn't care about anything, moving around to different schools because he gets kicked out or just leaves. Making him very nomadic and troubled in way not knowing which paths to take in life. He's also one that doesn't like help from anyone and the idea of anyone helping someone else out in any kind of way.

Music as literature

I would say of course we can consider music as literature because the only real difference of the two is that music tells a story or is trying to put out a message in more of a fun way that people can enjoy. We describe literature as written work on a specific subject like a book on how to become a farmer or anything like that. The only differance I see between all those is the way they are given to the people. One is expressed in a song, one is a book, one is a play but the one thing they all have in common is that there all trying to say something to reader/ observer.