Article

I have chosen to write about the new bill introduced to Texas law makers that would allow Texas liquor stores to be open on Sundays. The article writes a lot about the history of the laws for liquor stores as well as what this means for stores if the bill is passed. the main reason the state is doing this is because it would boost state tax revenue immensely. The state would profit, people would profit, and liquor stores would profit, why not do it?

letter to the editor

I am writing a letter to the editor about an article that talks about the new bill introduced to the Texas Government to let Liquor stores be open on Sundays. For quite a few years now liquor stores could not be open on Sundays or past 9 pm at night on any day. Texas is considered part of the Bible belt and this is where the law originally stems from. Letting liquor stores be open on Sunday's would be very controversial because in many ways Texans still have an old fashioned feel to the ways of the past. Tradition is highly coveted in Texas and letting liquor stores be open on Sundays would ruin many traditions and "degrade the Holy day." Whether or not this actually happens is up to the Texan Government.

Authors Note

Author's note is on my final draft.

how my rhetorical case study has developed from the previous drafts

I have added quite a bit more analysis. Before I had just had a bunch of history but now I am adding more analysis about the articles specifically. I have also cut quite a bit of the history section out and am focusing more on the analysis of the article instead of the content in the article.

I have also neatened some things up and added an intro. I am still working on the conclusion and on sighting my sources.

It is coming along nicely.

How rhetorical analysis affects local community

The financial crisis GM is currently in affects everyone, even people here in the DFW community.  Not only is there a huge General Motor's plant in Arlington, but the auto industry provides a lot of third party jobs in the metroplex as well.  If General Motor's decides to cut back on production or discontinue any of it's large SUV's, which are made in the Arlington plant, then there would be a lot of jobs lost.  Unemployment would rise and the metroplex would be directly affected by the auto crisis.  

The DFW area also is home to many companies that GM contracts to supply parts to them.  Companies like Delphi, which supplies all of Chevrolet's power steering columns.  If GM were to cut back production or go bankrupt companies like this could also go out of business and there would be more unemployment spread throughout the area.  

GM is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan but their financial crisis has affect all across the nation, even here in the TCU community. 

prewriting

In my preparation for prewriting I discovered that GM has done a lot of survive, but the government is dragging it's heals to do anything about it. Without the United States auto industry this country will be in shambles. The auto industry is the backbone of America. I discovered that even though a lot of people thing that the auto makers should suffer their consequences, most of those people think the government should step in enough that no one declares bankruptcy. Bankruptcy would create panic among Americans because so many people would loose their jobs.

Unemployment his high enough right now, we don't need 100,000+ people loosing their jobs.

The more I get into this topic the more I learn, and the more interesting it gets.

Unit 2 Prewriting

What connects my sources?

- General Motors is the key component in all my sources. Since it is what I am researching It is what all my sources are about. General Motor’s financial situation is another idea that connects all the sources together. They all talk a bit differently about GM’s finances but almost all the articles are about how GM got into their present situation or how they are going to get out.

Summary (from above)

- The controlling idea of my essay is General Motor’s financial situation, more specifically how they managed to get into such a bad financial crises and how they are going to get out of it.

Order of sources I already have

- I believe my first source should be one that deals with how General Motor’s got themselves into their infamous financial situation.
- Secondly I’d like to use a source that ties the past years that GM hasn’t been doing things right into the time period right before the economy went downhill and GM used up all their funds.
- Third I would like to use a article about the present day situation that GM is in. Probably news from current Wall Street, USA today, etc.
- Fourth, If I can find one, I’d like an article about the future outlook of General Motors. About how they are changing and what the government decides to do about bailing them out for the second time.

How I am going to do this organization, justify my organization.

- The reason I have chosen to organize my paper like this is because I believe it portrays the best example of how GM got into their present day jam. I chose to do it chronologically because it is easiest to follow that way. It will start from the beginning stages and then follow the actual stages that GM took over the past years and more importantly months of crises. I will explain how they got into the jam they are in, I will explain what they are doing to get out of it and then I will describe peoples opinion’s about the future outlook of General Motors.

Go through and figure out how I am going to transition from source to source.

- I think my transitions are pretty simple since the paper is going to be in chronological order. Between the sources I should be leading up to the new information throughout my paragraphs anyways since I will be following the natural course of time. Although, I may try and tie in outside information in the transitions so it flows better and people understand the context that the auto financial crises is involved in. Since the whole world is in a bigger financial crises, and the auto sector is a small part of that I think it is important that people understand that. I will add some of that outside info into my sources because it will help tie in all the stats presented throughout the paper.

perspective on issue/topic

As I have been researching GM's financial crises, I've learned a lot about how the financial industry is run. Finance is a hard subject to fully grasp but through my research I am learning a bit more everyday. Before I began to research I was under the impression that things didn't start going down hill for General Motors until the second half of 2008. Which is not the case at all.

I have found out that GM had been suffering laking sales and high debt long before 2008. From the turn of the millennium GM has been loosing profits. A lot of that was due to cheaper, more reliable cars coming from Japan. Japanese cars have taken a lot of sales away from all the American counter parts because Japanese cars tend to be made better. Also Japan has instituted many new technologies into their vehicles which has lured buyers away from American auto makers.

With the onset of import cars and GM unwillingness to give up it gas guzzling SUV's it started digging the whole it is in today long before six months ago. I am still unsure which scenario I support more, Obama bailing out the auto industry again, or letting them fail and restructure. As I keep researching I'm sure I'll make new opinions about the situation day to day.