Background Sources

1.  Music Loss among Ethnic Minorities in China -- A Comparison of the Li and Hui Peoples
          Yang Mu
          http://www.jstor.org/stable/834498
2.  The Decline of Folk Traditions in Modern Societies
          http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=a&a=i&ID=1664
3.  The Global Monoculture (from Perspectives on Globalization)
          Maude Barlow
4.  Jeremy Grimshaw, Ph.D.
          BYU School of Music- Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
5.  Colonization, "Westernization" and Social Culture in the Post-Colonial Societies
          http://india_resource.tripod.com/colonial-impact-culture.html

Thesis

Here is my tentative thesis.  Please give all the help you can, classmates. :)

With the things of the world being so accessible today, things like music and movies and news are able to spread worldwide in a matter of minuets.  With this happening, individual cultures are taking a toll.  With globalization, music is becoming more and more similar, no matter where it comes from.  Globalization is bring about the destruction of each individual cultures musical tradition.  People are turning their backs on their own traditions and complying to what everybody else is doing with music.

Issues Idea

Well as many of you know, I am a music major.  Music is one of the few things that I really, really care about and during class I was trying to figure out something that would relate to music in some way.  It finally came.  I want to talk about how globalization is destroying cultures cultural music.  Now a days, music is becoming world wide and cultures are forgetting their own musical traditions.  I see this a a major issue and think that it would be something that i could write about and really care about as I write.

Here are two videos of some really cool cultural music.  It is called Mongolian Throat Singing.  It is one of the coolest things you will ever hear.  Watch Them!

RA Reflection

Overall I think that the RA went pretty well.  It was not the easiest of papers but it definitely was not the hardest of papers.  It was kind of nice to not have to research and come up with your own arguments to make an argument, but to just look at someone else's writing and discus how their papers worked.  I would say that it was harder then the opinion editorial because with the opinion, we were able to put down our own opinion and we all have those so it was easy to voice them.  With the RA we had to really delve into the article and look at it closely and really see what was going on.

RA Thesis

"The Relationship Between Globalization and Militarism" is an effective argument to convince the every day person and also people of political power to reform and if necessary, or scrap these organizations that support globalization and force countries to militarism because it uses real examples from the past and present to show it's effect, statistics that are just plain scary and a organization and flow that keeps the reader interested to create an appeal to Logos.

Militarism and Globalization

I have chosen The Relationship Between Globalization and Militarism to write my Rhetorical Analysis on.

Audience:
In this article, the writer is directing his argument to more of the people of the First and Second world standings. Also, he could be directing it to government officials who actually have the power to change the way the world is going.

Current and/or contemporary events of importance:
New Third world countries are being forces to base their economies on a military focused directions.  Because of globablization, there are even more wars being fought around the world then during the Cold War.  Most of these wars are not even between different nations, but are civil wars. 

Profession/race/age/socioeconomic status:
This paper is directed to people who probably have a high education.  People who are not lacking and living in a country that is highly developed and self-sufficient.  I don't think he has really directed it to any certain age group.  I think it will have an effect on all ages and most people, regardless of their backgrounds or professions.

Ideologies:
To stop all the loss of human life, these ideas and issues and ho globalization  is pushing countries to militarism needs to stop.

Issues of importance:
South Africa only is aloud to make weapons by the World Trade Organization and are not allowed to put funding into civil or environmental projects.

Opponents (real or perceived):
Big businesses in general, especially big arms dealers and manufactures.  Also, large global organizations who support globalization.

Major fear/worries:
That if this isn't taken care of, more and more governments are going to collapse and millions of lives are going to taken because of all the ways

OpEd

In mu opinion, I think that being able to express one's opinion is a good thing to be able to do.  I really liked being able to write a paper that allowed me to build an argument to help persuade somebody of something that I felt strongly about.  People need the skills to be able to build a persuasive argument and then back it up.  This paper really gave me a chance to better fine tune that while I got to write about something that I really like.

Now for a little humor aside, here is a video of something that I think most of you will find amusing.  I would venture to say that you are only going to see at BYU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1W_KXcYsgA
Enjoy! :)