You're a Blockhead, Charlie Brown! pt. 2

Holy balls, man, really!

this is like the hardest thing i have ever, and i mean ever EVER had to write in my whole entire life. Ahem. now having said that. i think i may have had a stroke of, (well, not genius so much as competence) yes, competence with a capital Comp.

so, i have been trying everything to get this damned essay written or at least started on the right track from typing aimlessly, staring blankly to standing on my head and nothing. Zip, Zilch, nothing. my topic seems to go nowhere -- circular -- or uneventful. i cannot for the life of me discover a thesis (inventio is a no go).

all the gazillion resources i've come across are only mildly helpful or are entirely irrelevant to my essay. but i have found some related help in some of the articles we've read and whatever web article that i can find of use. anyway, anyway, anyway....the point is i may have solved the problem tonite. i am planning on going ahead with this full steam regardless of the consequences no matter how dreadful or embarrassing it will be for me or my family or my family's family's grandchildren's family. so here it is...

instead of making the endangered species act my primary topic of discussion (cos my goodness knows that ain't getting me anywhere) i will instead make the rhetorical tools/rhetorical theories i was planning on analyzing the two documents (with two opposing arguments on the goodness/effectiveness of the ESA) as my primary focus. like a lot of the articles we've read which were excuses for smarty pants' to theorize and philosophize using documents to help them along i shall do the same. picture this, my primary concern will be to discuss rhetorical situation and rhetoric especially aristotelian rhetorical theory which i long ago decided would be an interesting an appropriate theory to apply to these texts. the two documents referencing the ESA will serve as my vehicle for discussing these theories both as i have learned of them and as i will add my own take to. so instead of wasting energy on trying to make the ESA work i will make the ESA work for me.

if anyone has a problem with this leave a message with my secretary and i'll get back with you at my earliest convenience. until then, i am gonna write this bitch.