Jared Pugh

Elliot Coyle

English 130W 

February 5th, 2020

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President Bill Clinton was a beloved president during his two terms as America’s leader. He did face an impeachment trial during his second term, but those trials only improved his ratings to the highest they had ever been. People undoubtedly missed him when he left office, a mournful feeling that Bill Clinton targeted in his farewell speech at the end of his second term. In his farewell speech, Clinton uses two forms of rhetoric, pathos and logos, to address the public in ways that make them respect and acknowledge his deeds during his time as the president of the US.

All presidents have certain statistics associated with them, an example being Obama with dropping unemployment below eight percent. Presidents are branded with these statistics regardless if they are positive or negative. Clinton, during his farewell speech, referenced several statistics that he believes are directly responsible due to his campaign. Statistics he mentioned are “22 million new jobs” and “Crime is at a new twenty-five year low”. These are positive examples of logos, using statistics that people see as positive so that he can credit himself for these accomplishments.

Clinton also combined pathos and logos together with one sentence, “More than three million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.” This statistics is clearly logos based due to how it references an indisputable fact that could be researched if someone so wished. The pathos part is who the quote is about, orphans and the homeless. People generally seem to think that helping the less fortunate is a positive thing, appealing to people’s fondness for helping their fellow citizens and seeing the less fortunate happier after being helped.

Clinton, like many presidents before and after him, knows how to use rhetoric in ways that make people like them and want to treasure them.

Consider Visual Rhetoric

1. Famous people mostly rely on ethos and pathos in regards to rhetoric in their work. I remember several B-list actors using their popularity to try and convince people not to vote for Trump in the 2016 election. Some use rhetoric to convince you to support tragedies all across the world whenever a new one rears its head.
2. They send all kinds of messages from help people to buy my product, and none of it really convinces me. I’m a hard guy to convince in  terms of anything.
3. They appeal to all forms of logic; they appeal to people with ethos using their popularity, they appeal to people with their logos with the hard facts they googled ten minutes in advance, and they appeal to you with pathos by showing you sad images or giving  somewhat sad tales they got from either themselves or someone else.

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Jared Pugh

Elliot Coyle

English 130W 

February 5th, 2020

The Life of the Moving Tree

Life is an interesting thing, it has so many factors that shape are everyday lives. Each home across the continents, each new meeting with both good and bad endings, each friend happily gained, each enemy beguiling gained, each relationship acquired, and even every adorable pet that was hopefully fluffy that we’ve had influence who we are to this day and age. Every person has a complex story, and before the end of each story there is a bright beginning and an inevitable end. Everyone’s middle is different no matter how similar, regardless if their middle consists of one chapter or a thousand chapters. I imagine the book labeled, “The Life of Jared Denali Pugh, a tale of a Tall Gamer.”, will have those bright beginnings, dark end, and a humble amount of chapters that make up the middle.

I was born in Seattle on April 30th, 2000, on a rainy day like any other day in Seattle. From there, I lived in a small town right next to Seattle called Edmunds for the first seven years of my life. Those years were the simplest of my life, my biggest concern being my extremely annoying big sister. For the first five years, we lived in a modest home that wasn’t too big nor too small, then we moved to a much bigger house for the next two years of our time in the state of Washington. The time in that house was fun, plenty of space to explore and play. Then my mother

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somehow forced the entire family to move to California, where we would live in two different houses for the next 12 years.

The first house we moved into was located in a small town near Sacramento called El Dorado Hills, a small community that was hot as hell compared to our previous northern homes. I personally believe the seven years spent in Washington and the three years spent in El Dorado 

Hills is why I am so adapted to both hot and cold weather. This move was… difficult but since I was so young I got used to it quicker than everyone else. Family tensions were high, as is normal with any family when you force a troubled teenage girl to leave her entire life behind to move across multiple states just so her mother can be happy about their living arrangements. For the next three years I learned how to adapt to the heat and how Californians acted compared to the northern folk. I made good friends while I was there, but eventually after the third grade it was decided to move even further south to the coast. Ever since then, I’ve lived in an extremely small town along highway one called Moss Beach.

Moss Beach was technically a part of the beach town called Half Moon Bay, irrelevant since I still had to get small town customs, how you act with people and how not to sound like a big city jerk,  plus beach town customs. People there were more relaxed and eccentric than any other area I lived in before then. I spent nine years in that area, and those were the most important and the most influential years of my life considering those were the years that basically set the foundation of any persons personality. I learned how to have fun, how to learn from my mistakes, and how easy it is to bring joy to people. The previous years taught me how to adapt and survive, but Half Moon Bay taught me how to enjoy my life.

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Then I decided to come to Chico state to be a video game design major, that is honestly the beginning of this chapter of my story. In terms of the actual environment, like the weather, I have already experienced this type of weather so it didn’t really bother me, so my clothing style did not change at all upon my moving here. The populace to me were alright, after visiting Oakland it would take a trip to the shadiest parts of Detroit to actually make think less of people. The people of Chico are just people to me, some people say this town is shady but all I see are humans. Living away from immediate family was definitely new, but I clearly adapted quickly given my current status. I made friends, probably pissed people off (people do it all the time), and caused a few problems here and there. Overall, my time in Chico has been exactly what living in different places over the years has taught, that most places are just the same with a few different quirks here and there.

Nineteen years of life and what have I learned from the several environments I’ve lived in, from the rainy city of Seattle to the calm sea breeze town of Half Moon Bay. I’ve learned life is harsh but beautiful with its destructive natural events and chance meetings across the lands we call coincidence, how the temperature of the outside is honestly pathetic until you get past your prime where it then apparently becomes similar to hell on earth, and that for every hardship there is something fun that can be done in response no matter what lies ahead. My environments taught me how to survive and they taught me how to live, with a few cool tricks here and there that I consider impressive. No matter what people say, survival does not mean you are living your life unless you are surviving with a smile on your face.

Jared Pugh

Elliot Coyle

English 130W 

February 5th, 2020

Life is an interesting thing, it has so many factors that shape are everyday lives. Each home, each new meeting, each friend, each relationship, and even every pet we’ve had influence who we are to this day and age. Every person has a story, and before the end of each story there is a beginning and a middle. Everyone’s middle is different no matter how similar, that goes for Jared Pugh as well.

I was born in Seattle on April 30th, 2000, on a rainy day like any other day in Seattle. From there, I lived in a small town right next to Seattle called Edmunds for the first seven years of my life. Those years were the simplest of my life, my biggest concern being my extremely annoying big sister. For the first five years, we lived in a modest home that wasn’t too big nor too small, then we moved to a much bigger house for the next two years of our time in the state of Washington. The time in that house was fun, plenty of space to explore and play. Then my mother somehow forced the entire family to move to California, where we would live in too different houses for the next 12 years.

The first house we moved into was located in a small town near Sacramento called El Dorado Hills, a small community that was hot as hell compared to our previous northern homes. I personally believe the seven years spent in Washington and the three years spent in El Dorado Hills is why I am so adapted to both hot and cold weather. This move was… difficult but since I was so young I got used to it quicker than everyone else. Family tensions were high, as is normal with any family when you force a troubled teenage girl to leave her entire life behind to move across multiple states just so her mother can be happy about their living arrangements. For the next three years I learned how to adapt to the heat and how Californians acted compared to the northern folk. I made good friends while I was there, but eventually after the third grade it was decided to move even further south to the coast. Ever since then, I’ve lived in an extremely small town along highway one called Moss Beach.

Moss Beach was technically a part of the beach town called Half Moon Bay, irrelevant since I still had to get small town customs plus beach town customs. People there were more relaxed and eccentric than any other area I lived in before then. I spent nine years in that area, and those were the most important years of my life. Those were perhaps the most influential years of my life considering those were the years that basically set the foundation of any persons personality. I learned how to have fun, how to learn from my mistakes, and how easy it is to bring joy to people. The previous years taught me how to adapt and survive, but Half Moon Bay taught me how to enjoy my life.

Nineteen years of life and what have I learned from the several environments I’ve lived in. I’ve learned nature is harsh but beautiful, how the temperature of the outside is honestly pathetic until you get past your prime, and that for every hardship there is something fun that can be done in response. My environments taught me how to survive and they taught me how to live. No matter what people say, survival does not mean you are living your life unless you are surviving with a smile on your face.

This article focused on the possible negative effects that could happen to American lakes known for their drinking water in regards to the cutbacks on the Clean Water Acts. These acts were administered by the Obama administration but the cut backs are coming from the Trump administration. Thanks to the Clean Water Act lakes like Lake Erie have been able to provide safe drinking water for American citizens. Without this act, people fear that the lake will go back to the polluted state it was previously at back in the early 2000’s. 

The article continually refers to the past with the state of many lakes in the early 2000’s and how they were unsafe for swimming and how they could provide drinking water that could be safely consumed by anyone without risk of some kind of disease or other harmful side effects being transferred. The articles mainly focuses on Lake Erie due to the authors history and proximity to the lake. He goes into detail about what the cut backs to the Clean Water act will do, specifically about how a recent cutback means that the government has no obligation to clean the lake if an oil spill or some other form of bio hazard happens within the lake.

A question I ask in regards to this article is why the cutbacks towards the Clean Water Act are even happening. Did they cost the government too much money, was it seen as not important, or did Trump get rid of it because Obama set it up. The article could have included that information for clarity, and also talked about a few other lakes. He did mention some northeastern lakes in the US but he did not go into great detail nor did her reference any other lakes in America.

I am a freshman in his second semester of California State University. I like long walks on the beach and whenever it rains. I’ll mostly use this blog to post my schoolwork.

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