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  1. Aug 2021
    1. It should be a rhetoric-which relates form to matter, instrumentality to product, presentation to content, agent to audience, intention to reason. It should not make technology the operation of a machine, in which che message is a massage; it should not cake its form from its medium

      To me, this is talking about the necessity of a medium and the way that we look at something and the means of creating it and what lies between me and this idea, item, place, etc.

    2. Such an education inevitably involved the full range of human motive, our agoniscic contentions and impulses of pure play as well as the ostensible purposes, or arguments, at issue

      I think that this is an interesting and important idea of our motive and impulses and how we are raised and taught within them, either intentional or unintentional.

    3. The We Defense argues that there are two kinds of rhetoric, good and bad. The good kind is used in good causes, the bad kind in bad causes. Our kind is the good kind; the bad kindjs used by our opponents.

      This seems almost contradictory in a way, as opinions, values, and views can change as we learn. What if the "bad rhetoric" is the good kind in another perspective?

  2. Feb 2021
    1. So for a child, it matters where you live. It matters how much foul air you breathe in on days when there are no fires at all. It matters whether your family can afford an air purifier at home or whether they can whisk you away when ash rains down from the sky

      Emphasis on the right for clean air, and that whether or not a family can afford an air purifier impacts their health.

    2. They’re also filling the lungs of California’s children with smoke, with potentially grave effects over the course of their lives

      Looking at what I study with one of my majors in Communication Sciences and Disorders, I recognize and understand the struggles that they may have in the future with breathing as well as speaking due to the wildfires.

    1. The United Nations Environment Programwrote last yearthat if air pollution were to be declared a cause of Ella’s death, it would be “the first time that air pollution has ever been explicitly linked to a named individual’s death.”

      The United Nations Environment Program emphasizes the main point that air pollution being linked to Ella's death would be the first of its kind.

    2. Ambient air pollution, which contributed to Ella’s death, “accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year due to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases,” according to the W.H.O.

      Pollution related deaths come from more than people with asthma, but also strokes, heart disease, lung cancer, and chronic respiratory disease.