Rhetorical Response #2

I find both these readings, “Tattoo Crazy” and “We Proudly Brew Starbucks Coffee” to very informative and personal at the same time. They are both good but I found myself drifting off during both of the essays. It might have been my lack of interest or perhaps I was just tired but regardless these papers should have been spiced up a bit.

In “Tattoo Crazy” I felt like the person who wrote it did a very good job mixing facts and personal stories to help move along the paper. It was very informative and I didn’t know a lot of the facts that she explained. Like how people without tattoos think people with them are less attractive. I think this has a point but also could go the other way. I know I wouldn’t want to date a girl with Tattoos all over her body and defiantly not on her face. However, if she had only one or two small ones, I would be fine with it. I like how she goes in detail and explains her journey is trying to decided weather to get a tattoo or not, and how long it took her to pick out one meaningful to her. I think this is very important when getting a tattoo. Since this is a relatively permanent thing a lot of thought and meaning should go into picking one out. I have a couple of friends who have tattoos of stupid things like pirate ships and giraffes. Tattoos like those I think are stupid and pointless. But I have one friend who has his dads initials tattooed on him and that is something I can respect and appreciate. It seems like more and more people are getting tattoos nowadays. I too a trip down to Cancun over the summer and my girl friend and I were shocked at the number of people who had tattoos. There were almost more people with tattoos that without them. I think it is horrible how some people get fired over tattoos. To me that just seems a little ridiculous. I remember one of my fellow counselors at camp longhorn had to wear a bandage over his tattoo or he would be asked to leave. This is just wrong, if I was him I would have tried to start something up with the head guy. He should have the freedom to express himself.

The other essay “we Proudly Brew Starbucks Coffee” was another good example of how to mix personal stories with Interesting facts and knowledge about a topic. I learned a lot of very interesting and fun facts about Starbucks. I had no idea what Starbucks bought their coffee from 3^rd world countries. However another fact was that some of these places they buy from might be using children and other things that are not up to standard. I really don’t have to worry about these things because I have never been a big Starbucks drinker. In fact, I don’t drink coffee at all. I have never been into the whole coffee thing to wake me up. If I need to wake up I usually take a shower or drink an emergen-c. But regardless of not drinking coffee, I can understand how this person felt always going to Starbucks with her dad, and how much this place meant to her. To her Starbucks was more than just a big time coffee empire it was a place she could go to feel at home. She uses very fine details in her essay to help move it along and it doesn’t get too boring. I liked the way she talked about certain details in Starbucks like the music and atmosphere. It is hard to believe that such a big business is just a coffee place. And yet to some people Starbucks is so much more than that. I know people who go to this wonder place to just study. I honestly don’t know how anyone can study in such a hectic place. Sure their might be calming music playing but I need to be in a place I can concentrate. I liked how she not only used good facts she also integrated not so good facts about Starbucks and she didn’t really take just one side of the story.

These are two very fine examples of how to write a personal informative essay about a topic. I feel after reading these it has shed some light on what I might write about and how I will approach this essay. Still I find it challenging to pick a topic. I also figured out that sometimes facts and information can be boring so im going to try to spice mine up a notch.