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We finished reading the Time magazine article about Robert "Yummy" Sandifer. List 5-10 inferences and judgments one can make. For the judgments put the judgment in someone's mouth.
Be as detailed and complete as possible in the list of arguments, that is, inferences and judgements. The article is on Greg Neri's website.
2. Complete the book
3. WLTC Lecture-Structure of Arguments: standard form, review of terms: opinion, rational, premises, conclusion, complete vs. open thesis or argument.
4. Writing Arguments about literature, the Aristotelian model (didn't get to this).
Homework
5. Read Chapter 3 and jot down any questions. Homework: WLTC (write in the book. Do not post the answers-- 3B (58-59).
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Thanhhuong Nguyen
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February 09, 2012
10 Inferences + Judgment
Judgment:
1.Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive.
2.“…He stood out there on the corner and strong- armed other kids. No one is sorry to see him gone."
3.The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.
4.As a student he often missed more days of school than he attended.
5.One very mean little boy didn't grow up, so he became an icon instead.
6.The evidence -- if more evidence is really necessary -- is overwhelming: when a child's brain is flooded, the child eventually drowns.
7.The neighborhood kids describe two different Yummy Sandifers. There is the bully, the extortionist, the fierce fighter who would take on the big kids and beat them.
Inferences:
8.The big kids dragged the little kids up to look at the stitches on his face where the bullets fired into the back of his head had torn through.”
9.Anderson used to get into fistfights with Yummy, who received the nickname because of his love of cookies and Snickers bars.”
10.The first charge of child neglect was filed in 1984, when Lorina failed to follow doctors' orders for treating two-year-old Victor's eye condition. He eventually went blind
Kelsey Johnson
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English 5
February 9, 2012
Inferences:
1. “But when members of TIME's Chicago bureau fanned out in the city last week to reconstruct the short, shocking life of Robert Sandifer, known as Yummy, their journalistic reserve was sorely tested.” Through this quote it can be inferred that Yummy did not lead a typical life of a young man.
2. When it is stated that the reporters documenting Yummy’s life and death spoke to more of Yummy’s enemies than his friends, it can be inferred that the 11-year old boy probably lived a very violent life.
Judgments:
1. “…reporters have to develop tough skins to survive.” –Elizabeth Valk Long. This quote judges that a reporter’s job is so difficult that it requires a tough skin simply to survive in such a career field.
2. “Joined by photographer Steve Liss to produce this week's cover story, they found themselves as moved as we think readers will be by their work.” –Elizabeth Valk Long. This judgment assumes that the story will move the readers.
3. “It's depressing to hear them talk about murder as if it's an everyday thing.” –Grace. This judgment assumes that those individuals who live in Yummy’s neighborhood view murder as an everyday thing.
4. “I still couldn't decide which was more appalling: the child's life or the child's death." –Robert.
Vincent Corral
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
9 February 2012
Inferences/Judgements
1.Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.
2.There is no reason to believe that Lorina Sandifer will ever be able to adequately meet her own needs, let alone to meet the needs of her growing family," a psychiatrist reported to the juvenile court in 1986.
3."If it was just an initiation ceremony, he'd do it from a car. But to go right up to the victims, that means he was trying to collect some points and get some rank or maybe a nice little cash bonus."
4.As for the other children in Yummy's neighborhood, when they are asked what would make them feel safer, most give the same answer: getting a gun. Among other things, it would protect them from the children who already have them.
5.A breeding ground of poverty and broken families and drugs and guns and violence, real or just pictured, has brought forth a violent generation. "We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system," says Gil Garcetti, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, whose biggest headache, after the O.J. trial, is the city's youth gangs. "We should replace it with one that both protects society from violent juvenile criminals and efficiently rehabilitates youths who can be saved -- and can differentiate between the two."
Evelyn Rodriguez
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
9 February 2012
Inferences/Judgements
“Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive. “ –Editor
“Police descended on the gang, and Yummy became a liability.”
"I still couldn't decide which was more appalling: the child's life or the child's death." –Reporter Jon Hull
“The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.”- Nancy R. Gibbs
“His odds of reaching the age of 12 dropped sharply when he fell in with the local Black Disciples gang.”
Liliulachelle Finley
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
9 February 2012
Freewrite: Inferences/Judgement
One can infer that Yummy Sandifer ended up being a child killer because of the people he associated with and the family he knew of, such as the ruthless gang, the Black Disciples, his drug addict mother and a father who has spent more time in jail than with his children. A judgment that Rev. Willie James Campbell made was for everyone to “take a good look…Cry if you will, but make up your mind that you will never end your life like this.” A local grocer in Yummy’s town said that “he was a crooked son of a bitch…Always in trouble. He stood out there on the corner and strong-armed other kids….” This can be seen as an inference and judgment. It can be see as an inference because Yummy was always in trouble because of his attitude and how he was raised to survive. However, it is also judgmental of the local grocer for calling Yummy a “crooked son of a bitch.” The article states that “before they grow up, children can become walking weapons.” This can be seen as a judgment because people feel that children are only used to kill because of the limited penalties they will face, unlike an adult. To call them “walking weapons” is synonymous to calling them dangerous. “All those kids are little troublemakers," said Carl McClinton, 23, who lives down the street. "This is the kind of neighborhood where we all look after each other's kids, but they are a rougher breed." This is judgment because it is the view of a neighbor of Yummy’s and someone who has experienced the gang life in action.
Amber Robbins
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English 5
February 9,.2012
Free write TIME magazine article
Inferences-
1.The article states that Yummy was “born to a teenage addict mother and a father now in jail” this leads a person to infer from this that Yummy is the way he is because of the example his parents had set forth.
2.Morris Anderson, when speaking of Yummy’s death states that “nobody gonna miss him”. To so blatantly be able to say such a strong statement of hate, one can infer that Yummy must have been a terrible child. The basis of this is that he killed a young girl, after all.
3. “Someone probably held the child on the heater,” is an inference made by a nurse that had examined Yummy’s sister when she saw “second- and third-degree burns on her genitals.”
judgments-
1.“From early on, the child-welfare workers had little hope for Lorina as a parent. ” This judgment was made by the child-welfare workers, further illustrated with their statement of “here is no reason to believe that Lorina Sandifer will ever be able to adequately meet her own needs, let alone to meet the needs of her growing family.”
2. “His odds of reaching the age of 12 dropped sharply when he fell in with the local Black Disciples gang” is a judgment by the the writer of the article.
Joseph Paez
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English 5
9 February 2012
5 Inferences to the Yummy Article
1. “Hull, who wrote our cover story last year on kids and guns, realized after all his digging that Robert's death was sadly predictable.”
2. “The big kids dragged the little kids up to look at the stitches on his face where the bullets fired into the back of his head had torn through.”
3. “Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.”
4. “Anderson used to get into fistfights with Yummy, who received the nickname because of his love of cookies and Snickers bars.”
5. “As a ripening thug he shuttled between homes and detention centers and the safe houses maintained by his gang.”
http://www.gregneri.com/Time_magazine.html
Ronald Parker
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English 5 Critical Thinking
February 9, 2012
Inferences
- Police descended on the gang, and Yummy became a liability.
- Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.
- Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive.
Judgments
- The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.
- The neighborhood kids describe two different Yummy Sandifers. There is the bully, the extortionist, the fierce fighter who would take on the big kids and beat them.
- One very mean little boy didn't grow up, so he became an icon instead.
Adalie Villalobos
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English 5 11-12:15pm
February 9, 2012
Inferences/Judgments
1.) "Police descended on teh gang, and Yummy became a libality."
2.) “His odds of reaching the age of 12 dropped sharply when he fell in with the local Black Disciples gang.”
3.) “before they grow up, children can become walking weapons.”
4.) "Yummy had slipped through the cracks."
5.) "he became an icon instead."
Tiffanya Richardson
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February 9, 2012
English 5
Free write New York Times Article
Inferences and Judgment Free Write
One Inference that is implied in the New York Times article is that Robert Sandifer “Yummy” was a neglected child since birth, which resulted in him turning into a sociopath. The reader will infer this because of the background information given on Yummy’s mother and father. There were reports of Yummy’s mother being abusive and neglecting both he and his four siblings. There were reports of Yummy having scars and burns on his body, although his mother denied it.
Yummy’s father was incarcerated for drugs and his grandmother had so many children in her home that the picture was painted that she was unfit. Yummy’s psychiatrist is quoted as saying the child was “emotionally flooded”. These aspects paint the picture of Yummy being neglected from the start. Another inference is made by the reported Nancy Gribbs, when she reports that the mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks. Gribbs questions just what cracks the mayor is referring to. She is inferring that the city may have dropped the ball, seeing that the authorities had known about Yummy and his criminal background.
This inference may also be a judgment. With so many cases of violence, and no where to rehabilitate youth as young as Yummy, whose to say that the authorities had access to all of Yummy’s background, such as his teenage abusive mother, or him missing many days of school. A judgment I noticed was from Carl McClinton who lived in the same neighborhood as Yummy’s grandmother, he called her children “little trouble makers” and inferred that the neighborhood in which they reside was a community who looked after one another, but Yummy and his clan were a “rougher breed”. McClinton may not have been aware of Yummy’s early life.
He may not have understood the abuse and neglect the child had faced. Maybe if he would have reached out with love and understanding instead of judgment, he may have been one of many who potentially could have saved Yummy’s life.
Ryan Perdiguerra
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English 5
February 9, 2012
Inferences:
1.Before they grow up, these children can become walking weapons.
2. Maybe Yummy figured out that the gang's protection was not worth much.
Judgments:
1. "Nobody didn't like that boy. Nobody gonna miss him," said Morris Anderson, 13.
2. "All those kids are little troublemakers," said Carl McClinton, 23, who lives down the street.
3. "It always meant trouble when he was with a group," says Ollie Jones- Edwards, 54. "If he was alone, he was sweet as jelly."
Abigail Boggs-Moura
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Professor Sabir
9 February 2012
Free Write
Opinions
1.While there were many different opinions around Yummy, both his life and his death, a man named George Knox who was a gang researcher at Chicago State University believed that Yummy, regardless of all of the emotional, physical abuse he suffered, murdered Shavon because he was sent on a “specific mission of revenge sparked by a drug feud or a personal insult”. This is an opinion because regardless of all the research he has done around gangs; his life and death were launched by conditions and treatment that went back a lot farther than his gang participation and it is simply his take on the whole situation.
2.The mayor of Chicago “admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks” yet what is to say it is a “crack” and not a system that sets up poor youth to fail, thus it is an opinion.
Inferences
3.When characters in the story were trying to determine why Yummy did the things he did they concluded that “The evidence -- if more evidence is really necessary -- is overwhelming: when a child's brain is flooded, the child eventually drowns”. This is an inference because it uses the environment and experiences he had, the facts, to come determine that it is the reason why his life turned out the way it did.
4.“Nor, it seems, was anyone very surprised. The neighborhood was still grieving its other dead child, the girl Yummy allegedly killed two weeks ago, when he was supposed to fire on some rival gang members but shot 14-year-old Shavon Dean instead.” This uses peoples emotional and physical responses to conclude that it seemed almost automatic that Yummy would turn up murdered too.
5.“The crimes he committed -- and those he suffered -- shook the country's conscience in a way that violent acts with far larger body counts no longer do”. This inference uses the general attitude we have in this country towards death and murders going on between youth to juxtapose the intense coverage these murders received.
Jules Misiluti
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English 5
February 9,2012
Free-write Time magazine
Inferences :
1.If every offender who fit that profile were beyond help, judges would know better which kids to consign to lockups. They aren't all beyond help, so authorities stumble around in the dark
2.The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks
But when members of TIME's Chicago bureau fanned out in the city last week to reconstruct the short, shocking life of Robert Sandifer, known as Yummy, their journalistic reserve was sorely tested
Judgments :
1.“ Before they grow up, these children can become walking weapons. One very mean little boy didn't grow up, so he became an icon instead. The crimes he committed”
2.The examiner saw a child full of self- hate, lonely, illiterate, wary. When he heard a walkie-talkie down the hall, he jumped from his seat”
3."People think he was a monster, but he was nice to me." She says she saw him regularly; he called her Reen instead of Mom, and, she admits, "he was always blaming me" for his problems. "They could have saved him and rehabilitated him,"
4.From early on, the child-welfare workers had little hope for Lorina as a parent. "There is no reason to believe that Lorina Sandifer will ever be able to adequately meet her own needs, let alone to meet the needs of her growing family,"
Aaron Villanueva
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Feb. 9 2012
Free Write
Inferences and Judgment list http://gregneri.com/time_magazine.html
1. Judgment: (3rd paragraph) Morris Anderson said no body liked yummy
and no one is going to miss him.
2. Inference: (25th paragraph) Yummy figured out that his gang’s
protection is not worth much.
3. Inference: (26th paragraph) Yummy is frightened.
4. Judgment: (14th paragraph) Carl McClinton said all young kids are
trouble makers.
5. Inference: (1st Paragraph) Reporters developed tough skins to survive.
Ronald Parker
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English 5 Critical Thinking
February 9, 2012
Inferences & Judgments, 5 for 5
Inferences
- Police descended on the gang, and Yummy became a liability.
- Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.
- Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive.
Judgments
- The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.
- The neighborhood kids describe two different Yummy Sandifers. There is the bully, the extortionist, the fierce fighter who would take on the big kids and beat them.
- One very mean little boy didn't grow up, so he became an icon instead.
Saba Ghanem
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English 5
February 9, 2012
Free-wrtie: Inferences & Judgments
Inferences:
-”maybe fear would keep them safe”.
The parents are inferring that showing them what their fate will be if they followed in Yummy’s path, will instill fear in them and thus keep them away from trouble.
-”The examiner saw a child full of self-hate, lonely, illiterate, wary”
When Yummy says he is “sick”, the examiner infers that Yummy must hate himself, and is feeling lonely; although Yummy does not verbally say that he feels that way. So this statement can actually be an inference and a judgment.
-”Nor, it seems was anyone very surprised.”
The writer infers the neighborhood’s reaction as not surprised, because the neighborhood already been through cases like Yummy’s before, and it’s common to see death of young kids in their town.
Judgement:
-”Mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks”
The fact that the mayor is admitting, means he’s making a judgement that because of the lifestyle tht Yummy had, then he’s bound to enter into trouble. The crack refers to the areas between being in a stable family environment and a negligent one.
-”These children can become walking weapons”
This is a judgment of defeat, which implies that children who enter into gangs and street trouble, are a danger to society.
-”Yummy’s files are indistinguishable from the records of thousands of other urban American kids”
The word indistinguishable makes this statement a judgment that is being made based on the records data.
Ricardo Arvizu
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Professor Sabir
Inferences
1.The author said the neighborhood kids described yummy as two
different Yummy Sandifiers. There is the bully, the extortionist, the
fierce fighter who would take on the big kids and beat them.
2.The examiner asked him to complete the sentence "I am very..." "sick
he replied" the examiner saw a full of self hate,lonely
,illiterate,wary.
3.George knox a gang researcher believes Yummy was sent on a specific
mission for revenge sparked by a drug feud or a personal insult.
4."Everyone thinks hes a bad kid person but he respected my mom, whos
got cancer"
5.Yet while crime control can be one of the most contentious issues in
American life, there is something resembling an emerging ideological
consensus on one thin: some kids are beyond help.
1."Nobody didn't like that boy. Nobody gonna miss him.
2."We need to throw out our entire juvenile justice system" said Gil Garcetti
Xinia Sanchez
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English 5
02/09/12
Free write: Inferences and Judgments
Judgment
1. First paragraph when the Reverend says to the kids that by looking at the corpse of Yummy they should take a good look and cry if they must but that they should never let their life end like Yummy.
2. Morris Anderson gives a negative judgment about Yummy when she says that nobody is going to miss him because nobody even liked him anyways.
3. “Before they grow up, these children can become walking weapons. One very mean little boy didn’t grow up, so he became an icon instead.”
Inferences
4. Chicago’s authorities had known about Yummy for years. He was born to a teenage addict mother and a father now in jail. As a baby he wan burned and beaten.
5. The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.
6. His odds of reaching the age of 12 dropped sharply when he dell in with the local Black Disciples gang.
Edwin Peabody
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English 5
9 February 2012
-The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.
-The neighborhood kids describe two different Yummy Sandifers. There is the bully, the extortionist, and the fierce fighter who would take on the big kids and beat them.
-One very mean little boy didn't grow up, so he became an icon instead.
-The author said the neighborhood kids described yummy as two
different Yummy Sandifiers. There is the bully, the extortionist, the
fierce fighter who would take on the big kids and beat them.
-Everyone thinks he’s a bad kid person but he respected my mom, who’s
Got cancer".
Jesse Pinkney
ReplyDeleteProfessor Wanda Sabir
English 5
15 February 2012
Time Magazine Freewrite -Inference & Judgment
1.Judgment 3rd paragraph- Nobody didn’t like that boy. Nobody gonna miss him.
2.Inference 3rd paragraph- He was crooked son of a bitch.
3.Inference 5th paragraph- The Chicago mayor admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.
4.Inference 6th paragraph- Before they grow up, these children become walking weapons.
5.Judgment 6th paragraph- What you've got here is a kid who was made and turned into a sociopath by the time he was three years old.
6. Inference 8th paragraph- The examiner saw a child full of self- hate, lonely, illiterate, wary.
7. Inference 12th paragraph- People think he was a monster, but he was nice to me.
8. Judgment 13th paragraph- When he started taking cars, they should have put him away then and given him therapy.
Maya Dobjensky
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English 5
9 February 2012
Inferences and Judgments
1.) “Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive.”
2.) "They wanted their kids to see the scrawny corpse in the loose tan suit lying in a coffin, next to his stuffed animals, finally harmless." this sentence's emphasis on "finally harmless" is a judgment of yummy's character and potential.
3.) "Nor, it seems, was anyone very surprised" this is an inference about the reaction of the city.
4.) "Before they grow up, these children can become walking weapons. One very mean little boy didn't grow up, so he became an icon instead." Again, this is a judgment of the situation and the character of Yummy.
5.) "when a child's brain is flooded, the child eventually drowns" I would call this an opinion, or a judgment in conclusion of the situation.
6.) “Joined by photographer Steve Liss to produce this week's cover story, they found themselves as moved as we think readers will be by their work.”
7.) “It's depressing to hear them talk about murder as if it's an everyday thing.”
8.) “I still couldn't decide which was more appalling: the child's life or the child's death." –Robert.
9.) “Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.”
10.) "If it was just an initiation ceremony, he'd do it from a car. But to go right up to the victims, that means he was trying to collect some points and get some rank or maybe a nice little cash bonus."
Jerald M. Appling
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English 5 Critical Thinking
February 9, 2012
Inferences & Judgments, 5 for 5
Inferences
~…the mothers of Chicago's South Side brought their children to a vigil for a dead boy they had never met. They wanted their kids to see the scrawny corpse in the loose tan suit lying in a coffin.
~Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.
~Police descended on the gang, and Yummy became a liability.
~His odds of reaching the age of 12 dropped sharply when he fell in with the local Black Disciples gang.
~"If it was just an initiation ceremony, he'd do it from a car. But to go right up to the victims, that means he was trying to collect some points and get some rank or maybe a nice little cash bonus." George Knox, a gang researcher at Chicago State University
Judgments
~"Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive." –Editor
~"I still couldn't decide which was more appalling: the child's life or the child's death." –Reporter Jon Hull
~"...someone should have been there for him..." –Grandmother
~"Nobody didn't like that boy. Nobody gonna miss him," -Morris Anderson
~The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.
Joseph Paez
ReplyDeleteProfessor Sabir
English 5
15 May 2012
1.Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.
2.There is no reason to believe that Lorina Sandifer will ever be able to adequately meet her own needs, let alone to meet the needs of her growing family," a psychiatrist reported to the juvenile court in 1986.
3."If it was just an initiation ceremony, he'd do it from a car. But to go right up to the victims, that means he was trying to collect some points and get some rank or maybe a nice little cash bonus."
4.As for the other children in Yummy's neighborhood, when they are asked what would make them feel safer, most give the same answer: getting a gun. Among other things, it would protect them from the children who already have them.
5.A breeding ground of poverty and broken families and drugs and guns and violence, real or just pictured, has brought forth a violent generation. "We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system," says Gil Garcetti, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, whose biggest headache, after the O.J. trial, is the city's youth gangs. "We should replace it with one that both protects society from violent juvenile criminals and efficiently rehabilitates youths who can be saved -- and can differentiate between the two."
Ana Cristina Muro
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English 5
9 February 2012
Inferences/Judgments
1. “His odds of reaching the age of 12 dropped sharply when he fell in with the local Black Disciples gang.”
2. "I still couldn't decide which was more appalling: the child's life or the child's death." –Reporter Jon Hull
3. “Parents hoped to haunt their children; maybe fear would keep them safe.”
4. “Considering all the tragedy they come across in their jobs, reporters have to develop tough skins to survive. “ –Editor
5. “The mayor of Chicago admitted that Yummy had slipped through the cracks.”- Nancy R. Gibbs