IN-CLASS THINGIE OF LIFOSUCTION

1. Cullen Murphy's F. P. first sounded like he was against people lieing about themselves to the public to make themselves look better or worse depending on the topic or situtaion. All of his examples supported that first idea, and made me feel that in his mind, everyone should tell the truth. However, on page 251,"Rather than discourage lifosuction, perhaps we should encourage people to substract even more of themselves from public view that they currently do." I became a little confused.
2. I counted eight examples.
3. Quesitons 1-5, 1-5, 1-2
1. People engage in lifosuction so they can get what they want out of something. In paragraph 6, Harrison wanted to relate to the hard working-man by doing a campaign with a "log-cabin-to White-House" theme. I downplayed how well off he really was and how he got brought up. He didnt lie about it, just left information out. Becasue of this, he looked more understanding and relatable then Martin Van Buren.
2. He means, we all try to look a certain way in the view of other people, but it is difficult to be criticised depending on how we answer questions. We want to look a cerain way but others will always try to find the hidden secrets in our lives and exploit that secret. Murphy things lifosuction is very serious because he did an entire paper on it. He expresses himself in so many examples and so strongly. He tries to sound professional in all his paragraghs.
3. I believe Yes, all his examples support this. I still favor the presidentail example. What does it matter that the Harrison grew up wealthy or poor. He might have a different understanding of life, but that should not make a difference on how someone runs the white house. Paragragh one also is not a big deal. The major downplayed his college degree to realte better to certain people. All he got was an ASssociates degree at a Junior college. Who Cares
4. Down playing what you have is not as bad as lieing about what he say you had. You can down play anything, it makes people understand you better. But if you lie about having more, people may not realte as well. The majority of the population in middle to lower class. You need their votes, saying you had lots of money, alienates them.
5. That sentence is surprising because he is running for Major and taking that as a joke. Politics regardless of how people make fun of politics, is serious. You need to know what you are doing. If you joke around people wont take you seriously.
6.  Lifosuction is not smiled upon, but everyone does it and there is not a big deal. I think this is expresse dno tin one sentence but i his examples. When he explained what the definition was of Lifosuction, everything kinda fell into place.
7. The tone of the essay is straight to the point and smart. He wants people to take him seriously with his complicated words.
8. The examples in paragragh 3 is the complete opposite of what is int he rest of his story. They all lied or actually added to what actually happened. This paragraph helps his stories because they all have to due with lifosuctino and that people have a slight problem with unstating but a HUGE problem with people overstating hte truth. It is all in the same but one is much worse then the other.
9. Paragrpah's 3 and 4 start with a topic sentence. The topic sentences are helpful because they halp set you up for that parapgraph. The examples are nice but can get you lost in all the stories. I got lost once or twice in the read so restating lifosuction or getting you reorganized in your thoughts helps remind you of what the topic is.
10. Murphy organizes his examples by starting off with examples that people can relate to easily.  Running for Major, we all vote; relating to the military, we all try to do that, I think paragraph 4 gets a little more complicated along with paragrpah 5 but then jumps into presidential runings.
11. Lifosuction is made up but clever because like liposuction, lifosuciton sucks the excess "fat" out of life.
12. tribune-protector    dint-an impression  cadre- people trained for a specific job   pugilist- boxer   proletariat- working class person

By: Rebecca Pottebaum, Cole Moffitt