I would like to make the presumptuous accusation that
everyone always has some sort of altercation with their roommate. However, not
many people room with a friend that they have known for seven years. My
roommate being male and gay and someone who I have danced with for five years,
has the personality of a “Bro” and the attitude of a model. As honesty is the
best policy he also thinks that goes hand in hand with insults and negativity. Freedom
of speech can go a long way but arrogance is a short stop from the take off. Once
becoming a Nole and beginning my new college life at Florida State University,
the relationship that him and I had shared for so many years had made a
complete 180 degrees. Beginning with his insatiable outlook on life and the
people he meets, it only makes things clearer for me knowing I was his only
friend he had left. Level five of Kaufer’s levels have more commonalities with
our argument than the relationship my roommate and I had. Insulting my life
choices, my sorority sisters and my family, I had to draw the line. A friend
would never say those things and would never mean them. A person who lives so
comfortably with lies and deceit is not someone I want to have infecting my
life. Rating the altercation between my roommate and I, I rate it a four. From
yelling, to unnecessary use of words and false accusations, the only reason I
refrained from rating this argument a five is because there was no physical dispute.
I held onto my morals and values to a certain degree when arguing with my
roommate but sometimes, one cannot simply “stoop down” to their level and get
even. After receiving rude text messages I decided to give myself what I have
always wanted, him out of my life. A polite text finalizing our friendship as
no more and being civil roommates, has so far worked in my favor. I did exactly
what Kaufer had said one would do when they could temporarily result the
conflict. I referred to level four because once him and I had clarified how we
felt towards each other, then as Kaufer described it, “…we might be able to
resolve the conflict by convincing ourselves that one set of local values is
more consistent with certain global values…” (Kaufer59)
The New Yorker (online) posted an article by George Packer
titled, “Long Engagements,” in which he discusses Hillary Clinton’s leave from
the White House after a very tiring and hectic four years. Her relationship
with President Obama was affectionately showed when they were being interviewed
on “60 Minutes.” After Clinton’s hard work that has been more than obvious to
our countries government she was known as “The Principal Implementer” of
Obama’s foreign policy. Saying this, logic has a huge role in today’s
governmental decisions and it is crucial that one must know how to implement it
correctly. Aristotle described logic as an artistically valuable criterion of
rhetoric. Jones claims that in the history of rhetorical argumentation there is
a distinction to be made between being logical and being truthful (163). Since
this article shows more of deductive reasoning, showing its readers great use
of cause and effect, Aristotle states that you can be logical without being
truthful. Our government is known to not tell its people the whole truth and
possibly even lies but that doesn’t mean they were necessarily wrong. In
Packer’s article he wrote, “Obama and Clinton inherited two unwinnable wars, a
toxic international atmosphere in which America was reviled where it wasn’t
ignored, and a badly diminished stock of national power.” In this case, Obama
had to do what any other newly appointed president would do, take action. There
is a time for war and there is a time to be truthful just like there is a time
to be logical. We saw the cause of what war was doing for nation’s troops and
families and it is time for effect and change to take place.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did not always have a professional,
affectionate relationship. George Packer describes the interview they were both
having on the show “60 Minutes,” “they all but held hands, swearing deathless
affection and respect, and they seemed to mean it.” Having good relations with
your business partners can only put a more honest and healthy workable
environment for the both of you and everyone else. Because of their honesty and
respect for each other, Clinton and Obama do not have any blurred altercations
or formulating arguments. “Even though our current media and political climate
do not call for good argumentation, the guidelines for finding and creating it
abound.” (Jones177)
Work Cited:
Kaufer, David S. “A Plan for Teaching the Development of
Original Policy Arguments.” College Composition and Communication 35.1 (Feb
1984): 57-70.
Jones, Rebecca. “Finding the Good Argument, or Why Bother
with Logic?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1. Ed. Charles Lowe
and Pavel Zemliansky. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor P, 2010. Available online via
WAC Clearinghouse at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces1/ .
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