Our Ad: presentation notes

http://www.jameswon.ca/node/9

Summary: Combines two extremes: disturbing violence with pictures of children. This shows more powerfully the negative effects of a stereotypically ‘innocent’ individual like a child being corrupted by violent imagery. showing these two kinds of images side by side contrasts something so negative and something so innocent in a way that incites feelings of protection and fear for young children in the viewer.

Paraphrase: When children are exposed to violent media, they can become violent themselves.

Quote: “Well over a 1000 studies...point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence & aggressive behavior in some children”

1. James Won is the creator of the ad.
2. It is intended for parents and guardians to show how violent media effects children and how it isn’t harmless like they might think to show children frightening movies at a young age.
3. We can tell because it involves children and toys and how the child watching violent TV can show them to do violent acts.
4. The purpose is to warn parents that violent TV can really affect their children and they want to change the way violent media is viewed/their attitude towards the violent TV that children are accessible to.
5. They work towards their purpose with powerful imagery and a knowledgeable quote that draws a scientific line between what their trying to prove and what they’re trying to get people to believe.
6. Red and black writing, very jagged, gives the whole ad a very ‘dangerous’ kind of feel. They use small children and children's toys mixed with very violent images, kind of destroying this idea of innocence within them.
7. As a group, these ads try to change the general public's’ attitude towards media violence to one that is not so casual with it because in our society, they’d argue at least, that media violence leads to greater numbers of children with overly aggressive behavior.  

Summarize, paraphrase and quote

Summarize
Carrie Barker didn't think at all it could be possible,but it was. She turned out to be pregnant even after her husband got his vas deferens cut. At first she did not want a fourth child at all she didn't want to have to go through having another baby when all of her other children were in school and growing up, it takes her awhile with her fighting shoulder angels on both of her shoulders telling her the good and bad things that could come out of keeping the baby, but she finally decides to have the baby. (671-675)

Paraphrase
Carrie Barker was scared to think of having a fourth child, she busted into tears when she found out, but in the end she decided to have the baby and enlarge her family to one of 5. (671)

Quote
"Exhausted and relieved, I agreed to let the idea of a fourth child marinate awhile."(672)

In-class lab: textual analysis paper

1. PETA, Mercy for Animals, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
1. PETA: Higher-class people, animal lovers
2. Mercy for Animals: the general public. People who shop at walmart
3. ASPCA: general public, animal lovers
1. PETA: it says not to wear fur. we assume that people who wear fur belong to a higher social class. middle to higher class families would be more able to provide for or even think of adopting an animal. If their purpose is to appeal to your pathos in order to raise the amount of adoptions, they would want to think of something that a higher class would relate to, aka, fur clothing. This is also is a classic ploit within activist communities - which Aspca is as well. Giving a targeted group of people a concrete issue to work on in a smaller scale than the overall goal (for example, boycotting fur clothes will decrease the sales profits from the fur business and collapse the role animal products for fashion has in our economy, leading to a domino effect collapse) allows the general public to latch onto a cause and develop their own activist culture around it more quickly and easily.  
2. Mercy for Animals: It calls out Walmart, which is just a massive corporation. Implies that if you shop at/support Walmart then you support animal cruelty
3. ASPCA: Their ads play to the emotions of the general public. Animals waiting for  a home, animals in cages, looking sad. Trying to get people to adopt the animals, by appealing to their (peoples’) softer side. (pathos)
1. PETA: To tell people that animals are not just test subjects, that they are living beings and taking their fur is an evil act.
2. Mercy for Animals: Trying to make the public more aware that they are supporting animal cruelty even if they don’t recognize it.
3. ASPCA: Trying to get people to adopt. Animals don’t hold grudges, no matter how terrible their backstory is. Their purpose is to try to get people to join the fight to protect animals from all kinds of cruelty.
1. PETA: Their purpose is to fight for the protection of animals via very blunt websites and advertisement. Their slogan is “animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.”
2. Mercy for Animals: They work towards their purpose by exposing the truth in big ways. They call out big corporations like Walmart, in their advertisements and Mcdonald's, on their website. They run the risk of being sued or something, but they run that risk in order to fight for the protection of animals.
3. ASPCA: They reach their purpose by being really sad. They publish really sad, really real advertisements. They do a good job of portraying the suffering of animals who are victims of any kind of abuse.
1. PETA: “You wouldn’t wear your dog, so why would you wear any other animal?” Their ad gives the audience something to relate to, in this case a personal connection with their subject matter. Triggering thoughts of a personal, happy relationship with your dog allows them to better play into your pathos. It’s kind of like an A+B=C dynamic. If you A, give them a personal, positive emotional experience to think of, and B, threaten that happy experience with their subject matter, the audience will C, respond emotionally and protectively. But A, pathos, and B, tertiary logos cannot exist without the other and hope to produce the same emotional response.
2. Mercy for Animals: Their evidence is based off of a real picture of a pig in a factory farm. We can assume that the living conditions for the animal are poor and that this organization did their research and found out that corporations like Walmart support animal cruelty.
3. ASPCA: They use a sad story to get their emotional point of view across to the audience. They use words like ‘cruel,’ and how the dog ‘dreams,’ to appeal to humans and their emotional side. All these ads use different techniques to share really raw information, appealing to human emotions to gain support.
1. All these ads use different techniques to share really raw information, appealing to human emotions to gain support.

Advertisements R Us

1. The insight that Melissa Rubin offers about the Coca-Cola ad that she analyzes is that it shows that most of all the people in the ad are males, and there are only a few females in the whole ad. Also, she ads that everyone in the ad is white and that "Coca-Cola has been identified with main stream America" and that Coca-Cola will make any hardworking male feel refreshed while they work hard, because in the ad it shows the men in their military uniforms and businessmen in their suits. She has persuaded me to accept her conclusions because she has taken so much out of that one picture/ad and it all makes total sense and makes me go back and look at it and see that she is right.
2. The ways that she incorporates historical context is by adding in that "every man in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola for 5 cents, wherever he is, and whatever it costs the company."So that shows the history of what the wartime men got. She also included the context of the World War II and the Korean War and that "Coca-Cola recognized the patriotism by the war and wanted to inspire similar positive feelings about their product." She states that the certain way that Coca-Cola chooses to place the objects and people shows how the American society was in the in the middle of the twentieth-century.
3. I might try to answer that we can learn so much by just looking at one single picture with a few words, just like shown by this Coca-Cola ad. Also I wonder how much advertisements have changed in the last 60 years and if you are still able to take so much out of an ad with how today's society is,
4. I would say an ad that projects today's era very well would be one that is based around technology because they always show in the ad how much we have advanced with technological devices through the years and how there are iPads for kids instead of flashcards and technology really is starting to run the world now. 

Mad Men

1. Heather Havrilesky's main insight about Mad Men is that it is showing America, how the history was not so good, how we are always begging for more, how there is such a disconnect between "the American dream and reality". She is focusing on the American Dream, which started in the 50's and how this show is based of the 60's and really just showing the American Society. She states that Don, (the main character?) leaves his marriage for a new ad firm but really doesn't even commit to anything. This shows how people don't even care as much about family as their jobs, and in the end can't even commit to that. Throughout all of her writing she uses the characters and explains their roles in the show, and in the society which really does fit the American society and how era is for Americans.
2. Heather establishes her authority by being able to clearly set out the whole summary of the show, and all its seasons. You can tell that she has either done some research on this show or just knows and has seen everything about it. Another way that she establishes her authority is by not only summarizing the whole show but being able to perfectly apply it to as she says "the American dream" and just how the Americans worked in the 50's-60's.
3. Heather appeals to readers' emotions by actually including us into her work by showing us what the American dream looks like and what went on and still does in America. How there are people who would rather stay with their job than their wife, and how people are begging for more when they don't seem to be too happy about what they already have. She appeals to readers' emotions by comparing the situations now to what they were in the 50's and 60's.
4. I have never seen Mad Men before and it seems very interesting by what Havrilesky had to say about it, but I don't know if I would watch it because I'm not sure if it is the kind of types of shows I like but she does make it sound very interesting and it seems like a very good show. 

Taking Stock of Your Writing

1.       What was your main point (thesis)? “The Moral of the Story”?

·         The main part or thesis of my story is to show that taking such a hard AP class made me realize to get my stuff done on time and not do it the day before it is due unless I am sick or just can’t do my work. It shows how much went into the biggest essay I have had to write and how it actually has made an impact on my life by changing my mindset from high school to college.

2.       Who was your audience?  What did you assume about them?  What “audience needs” did you have to consider in writing the paper?  How did you tailor your writing to them?

·         My audience is my English 101 professor and my English class and also anyone who reads my writing on my blog, which is only for my English class but it is open for anyone to see and since it is then I had to tailor my writing for anyone to be able to read it.

3.       What feedback or reactions did you get at various times while composing this paper, and how was this helpful?  What other kinds of input or support did you get from classmates, teacher, tutors, others?  Were you able to make use of it?  How, or why not?

·         I got feedback that I need to put more details in it and make it better for anyone to be able to read it, I was sick while the process of bringing in my paper and getting feedback so I really didn’t get any from class but I was still able to ask people outside of my class.

4.       What did you find interesting about the process you went through in writing this paper, and what did you learn from it?

·         What I found interesting about the process of writing the paper is all the steps in the beginning/ before actually writing the paper. We wrote a list first of what possible ideas we could write about and after that we answered a few questions containing the information we will be including in the paper and doing those steps made it easier to get a start on my paper.

5.       What questions do you have for me about the paper?  (What part(s) of the paper would you like me to focus on?  What do you see as the paper’s strengths, and what areas are you unsure of?)

 ·         Questions that I have is if I am good at flowing into new sentences and paragraphs, I know that I am not very good at that and would like to see how I did on it doing this paper. It is hard for me to get a start on my writings and after I get a start then the words kind of start to flow and I really don’t know how to put them in the right order or getting them out of my head and having it make sense.

Narrative Story

Kayla DiRoma

English 101

Dr. Sonia Begert

Narrative Story

 I have never been too fond of writing before, mostly because I just don’t think I am too great at it. With knowing that English classes were never my favorite, I still took AP Lit my senior year not knowing really what I was getting myself into.

I have never been into writing, I liked science classes and history and math, just every subject over English classes. I never knew the right words to use, or how to conveniently put in rhetorical devices. I like the hands on kind of stuff, science labs like playing with fire, looking at cells through microscopes, and just have always thought that my writing was never really good. AP Lit at the beginning of my final year of high school seemed a lot easier than I would of thought. We read books as a class and did weekly rhetorical device paragraphs on them, didn’t seem too hard. Ms. Boss was my teacher and she is the funniest teacher when the class is going good, but very strict when it comes to the class not getting stuff done. I have never had her before my senior year but I have always heard of her and how hilarious and such a great teacher she is. She loved to tell us her life stories of her dad “Dick Boss” and just everything funny that happened in her life, which there seems to be a lot of. With all of the class books we read we always got to watch the movie when we finished the book, or at least watch certain good parts of just little clips, when we didn’t have anything to do we watched movies then too. So AP Lit really isn’t as hard as I thought… Sweet! Until the class heard about the end of the year author research essay which was 10-15 pages long, oh no. How are we supposed to write about someone for 10-15 pages and we have never met them. This paper will be the biggest and longest paper I have written.

Ms. Boss brought in a cart of books from several different authors and we spent a whole class period exchanging through all the books to find an author that really interested us. We all had to pick own author and we had to research everything about them and incorporate it into our essays. The author Toni Morrison caught my eye, an African American Nobel Prize writer and professor who mainly focused her writing on African American females, and the horrors they had to live through back when slavery was happening and the overall situations of their lives. The book that I started to read in that class period was called Beloved. I only read the first 6 or 7 pages but it seemed really intriguing to me, so I decided I would choose to focus on her work. On our own time we had to get at least two books from our authors and read the whole books while writing down and marking pages and devices we see to help us with our essays. After we read the books, or even during us still reading them the whole class had to get pre-arranged absence forms to take off a spring day to take a trip to the University of Washington, I had only ever been there once and honestly it was the only college campus I had ever been to, I went my sophomore year because for my ASL class I went to watch a comedian.

“Be at the school at 6:30 in the morning tomorrow” Ms. Boss tells the AP Lit class.

“No way, that is way too early!” The class complains back.

“Well if you would like to catch the ferry then I suggest you get there that early.”

The day before our spring break the AP Lit class got to go to the University of Washington to use their enormous library. The smells of vanilla caught my nose which lingered the endless rows of old and new books, it really does look like a maze in there. It sure was confusing to find the right books we were looking for, but thankfully we found everything about our authors in one spot. We had to go through all the numerous books that have been written by others regarding our author, to try to see which pages and paragraphs will help us the most to grasp our knowledge of our authors’ writing ways. We photocopied the book pages and saved them onto our flash drives, once we got it done we were able to walk around and go get food. But I remember Ms. Boss saying:

“Be back at the bus at 1:30 or you are getting left here!” Jokingly, but not really at the same time…

When 1:30 came around we all huddled into the yellow school bus and sat back into our ugly brown seats. The fun part was all over, now we have to start the dreadful essay. If anyone knows me they would know that I sure do not like to get much of a head start on my school work in high school, I loved to wait last minute on it and hope it was good enough. A couple of the school days Ms. Boss brought in “C.O.W.S.” Or “Computers On Wheels, so we got to do some of our writing in the class, we could ask Ms. Boss questions and use our other classmates as helpers to see what needs a little tweak on it. I came to do my essay and brought out my flash drive that was supposed to have a bunch of photocopied pages on it, but of course just my luck, only about ¼ of my pages saved onto my flash drive, I had a lot less research now than I should have had.

 Once the last week came that it was due I thought “oh yeah there’s an essay due huh?” I had already started it but I really needed to finish it up. I sit in my room busting out my essay writing everything anyone would need to know about Toni Morrison, when and where she was born, what college she graduated from and why she uses the particular writing styles she does.

I hear everyone in class saying “Did you finish your essay?”

“Yeah I finished it like two weeks ago.”                                                     

While I was still working on mine, oh well it is I get for taking so long. I get a good first few pages filled with information about the exceptional writer Toni Morrison, but it is so hard to write 10-15 pages worth. I search the internet with the smell and warmth of a cup of Joe sitting by my side hopelessly looking for more to write about.

I can honestly say I was a great procrastinator in high school, and I think AP Lit taught me to throw that away and do all my work on time, not the day/night before it was due. This is one of the most important pieces of writing that has impacted my life because it was the biggest and most time consuming essay I ever had to do and it was for a final grade for my AP Lit class. I didn’t get the best grade but I passed and was okay with whatever I ended up getting. This essay took so long and was very difficult to get into because it was 15 pages of a person we have never met and just having to learn and type into our own words what these authors like to write about and how they do it. I have always thought that my writing was not good enough, and the grades I always got on my essays showed that too, I always tried my best to incorporate the right words and to make my sentences flow into a fluid new paragraph but I have never been good at it.  Once I finally finish my paper I turn it in the last day of school, the last thing I do before I never sit in one of the Kingston High School uncomfortable chairs. Now onto graduation, goodbye high school. 

Rough Draft

 I have never been too fond of writing before, mostly because I just don’t think I am too great at it. With knowing that English classes were never my favorite, I still took AP Lit my senior year and I don’t really think I should of.

I have never been very into writing, I liked science classes and history and math, just every subject over English classes. I never knew the right words to use, or how to conveniently put in rhetorical devices. I like the hands on kind of stuff, science labs like dissecting a pig, and just have always thought that my writing was never really good. AP Lit at the beginning of the year seemed a lot easier than I would of thought, we read books as a class and did weekly rhetorical device paragraphs on them, didn’t seem too hard. Ms. Boss was my teacher and she is the funniest teacher when the class is going good, but very strict when it comes to the class not getting stuff done. I have never had her before my senior year but I have always heard of her and how hilarious and awesome she is. She loved to tell us her life stories of her dad “Dick Boss” and just everything funny that happened in her life. With all of the class books we read we always got to watch the movie when we finished the book, when we didn’t have anything to do we watched movies then too. So AP Lit really isn’t as hard as I would of thought… Sweet! Until the class heard about the end of the year author research essay which was 10-15 pages long, oh no. How are we supposed to write about someone for 10-15 pages and we have never met them. This paper will be the biggest and longest paper I have written.

Ms. Boss brought in a cart of books from several different authors and we spent a whole class period exchanging through all the books to find an author that really interested us. We all had our own author and we had to research everything about them and incorporate it into our essays. The author Toni Morrison caught my eye, a Nobel Prize writer and professor. She mainly focused her writing on African American females, and the horrors they had to live through back when slavery was happening and the overall situations of their lives.

 “Be at the school at 6:30 in the morning tomorrow” Ms. Boss tells the AP Lit class.

“No way, that is way too early!” The class complains back.

“Well if you would like to catch the ferry then I suggest you get there that early.”

The day before our spring break the AP Lit class got to go to the University of Washington to use their enormous library. The smells of vanilla lingered the endless rows of old and new books, it really does look like a maze in there. It sure was confusing to find the right books we were looking for, but thankfully we found everything about our authors in one spot. We had to go through all the numerous books that have been written by others regarding our author, to try to see which pages and paragraphs will help us the most to grasp our knowledge of our authors’ writing ways. We photocopied the book pages and saved them onto our flash drives, once we got it done we were able to walk around and go get food. But I remember Ms. Boss saying:

“Be back at the bus at 1:30 or you are getting left here!” Jokingly.

When 1:30 came around we all huddled into the yellow school bus and sat back into our ugly brown seats. The fun part was all over, now we have to start the dreadful essay. If anyone knows me they would know that I sure do not like to get much of a head start on my school work, I loved to wait last minute on it and hope it was good enough. Once the last week came that it was due I thought “oh yeah there’s an essay due huh?” I sit in my room busting out my essay writing everything anyone would need to know about Toni Morrison, when and where she was born, what college she graduated from and why she uses the particular writing styles she does.

I hear everyone in class saying “Did you finish your essay?”

“Yeah I finished it like last week.”

While I was still working on mine, oh well its I get for taking so long. I get a good first few pages filled with information about the exceptional writer Toni Morrison, but it is so hard to write 10-15 pages worth. I search the internet with the smell and warmth of a cup of Joe sitting by my side hopelessly looking for more to write about. Once I finally finish my paper I turn it in the last day of school, the last thing I do before I never sit in one of the Kingston High School uncomfortable chairs.

I can honestly say I was a great procrastinator in high school, and I think AP Lit taught me to throw that away and do all my work on time, not the day/night before it was due. This is one of the most important pieces of writing that has impacted my life because it was the biggest and most time consuming essay I ever had to do and it was for a final grade for my AP Lit class. I didn’t get the best grade but at least I passed. Now onto graduation, goodbye high school. 

5 Characteristic features

A clearly identified event: What happened? Who was involved?
My AP Lit class at the end of the year had to write an author research paper. We had to go to UW and copy pictures of the books so that we can use the research that people have already made about our author. My whole class had their own author and we had to write our own papers on different authors, it was a 10 page paper. 

A clearly described setting:When and where did it happen?
The day before spring break we got to go on a field/study trip to the University of Washington. We went to copy pages out of books that were research about our particular author. We had the spring break and until the end of the school year to write our paper. We were given laptops a few days at the school to write the essay and we only could on certain days, the rest of the essay had to get done on our own time. I did it at home mostly, not really much anywhere else. 

Vivid, descriptive details:What makes the story come alive?
My author was Toni Morrison, an African American author who mainly focused on the ways African Americans were treated back in the day, like being used as slaves and treated so unfairly. I went into the UW Library, it was the second time i had been there but the first time i only went into this little building to go see a guy perform comedy in sign language for my ASL 2 class. The library was huge and it was really confusing to find the right books and sources we needed to find. We got our books and went through them to find the pages from the books that will be most useful. We copied the books onto our flash drives and took them back home with us. We then use the research to help us write everything we can about our authors, why they write like they do, when and where they were born and just study their writing techniques.

A consistent point of view: Who's telling the story?
I am telling the story, the story is about the paper I wrote so I am telling it, so it will be in first person. 

A clear point: Why does the story matter?
This story matters because it was the biggest paper I had to write. It required us students to go to UW to get research on a particular author and we had to write a 10 page essay on that one author. It took awhile to do and was a huge part of our grade and it was for an AP class.

Literacy Narrative

1.       “The reflection in the mirror wasn’t kind; twin mascara ruts flanked each side of my face, eyelids swollen and naked, the whites bloodshot and raw. The splash of cold water stung my pores.” (P. 672, lines 15-17)

2.       “’I can’t believe I figured out you were pregnant before you did,’ he said. ‘What kind of woman are you?’ He was teasing, but I failed to see humor in the situation.

‘The kind of woman who is done with that part of her life’ I belched, sounding defensive. ‘The kind that gave birth to three babies in thirty-three months and likes eight hours of sleep a night. The kind that is done changing diapers and washing bottles and already got rid of every bit of baby stuff we ever owned.’ I’m sure he was sorry he asked. ‘Why would being pregnant even cross my mind?’” (P. 673, lines 20-28)

3.       “OH MY GOD. Oh my God. OH MY GOD! This cannot be happening. Tears surged down my face, pelting my bare thighs.” –emotion of sadness (p. 671, lines 1-2)

“I must of sat there for a long time, numb. My head and limbs felt far too heavy to get up, my brain incapable of forming intelligent thought, eyes closed, head tilted backward, positioned awkwardly against the tiled wall behind.” (p. 671, lines 8-10)

4.       I can write about:

·         The whole senior seminar portfolio

·         The big end of the year AP LIT paper

·         Learning to write cursive

·         Getting read to when I was young

·         Reading to my little brother, teaching him to write

5.       PURPOSE: I want to tell this story because it was the biggest paper I ever had to write. It involved a huge amount of research and took a very long time to write. Since AP LIT is not an easy class at all it was a very challenging paper to write. I want to tell others how this paper might really help me in the future for other college essays and how I think it helped me be a better writer.

6.       AUDIENCE: I am not sure if my audience has had similar experiences because you are not required to take an AP class so I am not sure who has had to write the same kind of paper and will be able to tell the same story as me. I think that I will have to do quite a bit of explaining for my audience to understand my narrative because it takes a lot to write that paper.

7.       STANCE: I want to project an attitude that is neutral and mostly serious because it wouldn’t make too much sense to have a more sincere type of attitude toward an AP Lit essay. I want my readers to see me as someone who takes work seriously and see how hard it is to do an AP class and do a huge essay.

8.       MEDIA/DESIGN: My narrative will be in print and on my blog and I do not think that adding pictures will do anything because the narrative is about writing a paper for an AP Lit class.

9.       WHAT DO YOU SEE?  I am in the classroom, at UW, and at home. You were able to write at home, we did research at UW. At home I had my own comfy place, maybe my bed, the couch. At school I was next to other kids I hear others breathing and hear the typing on the computer and the ruffling of changing pages. At UW it was really big there, we were in the library. So many books, it was confusing to find the right ones at first.

10.   WHAT DO YOU HEAR? At the school I hear others breathing and hear the typing on the computer and the ruffling of changing pages. At home I hear my family, they’re never silent unless they’re sleeping, and my dog can be crazy I hear him running around. At UW I hear other students, it’s mostly silent because we are in the library.

11.   WHAT DO YOU SMELL? I smell lots of different colognes and perfumes at school. At home I smell my mom’s cooking, her smelly fragrances throughout the house.

12.   HOW AND WHAT DO YOU FEEL? I feel nervous, frustrated, I need to get this paper done. Fidgety, upset because I could be doing other things than writing a big paper.

13.   WHAT DO YOU TASTE? Gum, I like to chew gum in school, I’ve heard it makes you do better on classes, maybe helps you concentrate better or something. Food, I like to eat and work, can’t work on an empty stomach. Coffee, mmm some iced coffee is good, and it keeps me awake.

14.   DESCRIBE EACH PERSON my teacher: Ms. Boss. Pretty short, short brown hair. She is nice, she is the kind of teacher that loves to tell her life stories and funny things that have happened to her in her life. She speaks loudly sometimes but sometimes her voice is suddle, I can tell it’s her voice when I heard it.

15.   Recall (or imagine) some characteristic dialogue my teacher told us how to write the essay, gave us tips.

16.   Summarize the action We knew this point of class would be coming for the whole year now. We were all nervous to hear it and we were dreading the convo, the only good thing was being able to go to UW. We were all nervous and didn’t want to hear it, why couldn’t we just read our books like we have been this whole year? But there she goes handing out the rubric, the Author Analysis Essay. We all didn’t want to know or hear about it but we had to. And there goes the rest of our Netflix time. Forever dreading the Author analysis essay.

17.   This is a significant essay because it is the biggest essay I ever had to write. AP Lit was actually pretty fun, we had a super cool teacher and watched a few movies but we read books about a certain author and had to write a whole 10 pages on one author we had to research. We had to research the ways he wrote, when he was born, how all his books connect, everything. The biggest essay I ever had to write for a hard class. 

View of Rhetoric After

After looking at other classmates' own definitions it made my view point not change, but be even broader. Now that I was able to see different opinions and views it can help me really have a thick definition of rhetoric. I didn't think of that we use it everyday without knowing it and once I thought of that it rang a bell and I thought, oh yeah we actually do think and act rhetorically without even knowing, it just happens. Also I saw all of the steps and actions we take and use by using rhetoric and it broadened my sense of my though of rhetoric because it can be used in so many different ways.I read from a classmates' writing that how using rhetoric has been used through many cultures and is still used in many languages, and how it can be different throughout the many different cultures and languages. I didn't make the connection that being able to use rhetoric means you know how to communicate effectively. Overall, I think just by reading a few other classmates' opinions by reading the same exact chapters of a book really had me see different perspectives and broadened the definition.

Thinking and Acting Rhetorically

I would define Rhetoric as using language to convey a certain point of  view about a particular idea, it is used to persuade an audience of the truth of a statement you have researched and thought deeply of. Using rhetoric can be used in oral form, like discussing, or in written form like writing a paper. To think rhetorically I think that one has to research to be able to convince others of your opinion of the subject. I think rhetoric is the thing that convinces you to feel the certain way you do about a particular topic. In my opinion you use rhetoric to effectively persuade an audience, which means taking their means into consideration and having an open mind to what they have to say. In that case, I think that acting rhetorically is the act of the analytical thoughts you have proposed. Thinking and acting rhetorically puts you in your audience's positions and makes you realize their point of view and how to portray yourself and your opinion. Rhetoric uses tools like language, research, and writing techniques to assist your topic. Rhetoric thinking and acting has been around for a long time and really doesn't have one definition to it, rhetoric is a very broad subject and is used to really just guide you along in being able to bring your own personal thoughts out to life and broaden your mind of thinking and acting.

Rhetorical Situations-Narratives

Differences and Similarities of “Lydia’s Story” questions:

Throughout the questions referring to chapter two we had many more similarities than we did differences. For example, question 1, we all pretty much agreed that the main point of the story was that you should keep hope, a level headed mind, clear thoughts and things of that nature. Similarly with question 2 we all agreed it was told from Lydias’ perspective in the third person form. As well as in question 3 we had words and phrases that made the story standout but probably some of the more important ones were of the phrases that talked about the crackling TV and the crisp cool AC. However, question 4 is where we differed the most by far. One member believed that it was pretty formal while the others thought not. We also had similar ideas about the original audience but different enough to mention. We thought the audience could be either health care Politian’s, works, or individuals.

Connections between Chapter 2 and “Lydia’s Story”:

Chapter two was mainly about knowing who you’re talking to and knowing your position and really knowing who you are before you post or print what you’ve wrote. “Lydia’s Story” had its strengths and weaknesses given its unique constraints and opportunities. However we believe that the largest connection between “Lydia’s Story” and Chapter 2 was the fact that “Lydia’s Story” was an example of many of the items presented in Chapter 2.

Summary of “Think About” activity:

Personal List:

1. (Song) Smoke Filled Room- Mako (about a girl trying to make herself look older when she should really be embracing her youth and innocence)

2. (Story) My day to my girlfriend (mainly about what I’ve done for the day what I have planned for the rest of it)

It seems that today most of the things that we talk about with our friends and family is egotistical because it’s all about us and what we’ve done most of the time. Similarly with mainstream hip-hop/rap music. It’s all gotten to this point where it’s one big morph of these big names talking about their life with girls, drugs and money.

Summary of “Think Beyond Words” activity:

The most compelling videos we agreed on were those who had fitting music and those who tell their life story’s in a compelling way that is interesting. For example a woman is telling her life story but while she’s telling that they have picture from her lifetime on the screen.

Summary of “Compare Narratives” activity:

Narratives: Magazine articles and Music Videos

The largest difference between a Magazine Article and a Music Video is perhaps obviously is one is print and one is electronic. Each case is different because with an Article in most cases it needs to have visuals of some sort to maintain the reader’s interest. However with a video you don’t need a lot to keep someone’s attention, a video could be jaw dropping with no sound or anything else but the video at all. If a video was presented in a different medium a person’s amount of interest would change dramatically more so for the lesser, although if a magazine was made into a video it can instantly become more interesting considering in our day and age our attention span has dropped considerably. 

Lydia's Story, q's 1-4

1. Brideau's main point is to show how important it is to have hope when in terms of hard times. Brideau is informing about how Lydia continued to stay strong even though she knew that it was going to be very challenging to conquer the hurricane. The author doesn't assert the main point but does give a clue at the end by saying "But it's Lydia's story that stays with me the most, probably because it represents the essence of hope and determination in the face of terrible adversity.

2. Brideau's primary point of view from which she narrates "Lydia's Story" is in the third person. She addresses to Lydia as "she" and tells Lydia's story as herself not being included for the most part. Brideau tells the readers how Lydia survived the hurricane and how a woman in scrubs took Lydia aboard. The impact that the point of view has on me as a reader makes me want to keep reading it because I get so intrigued as to how Brideau is telling the story of Lydia and her staying positive and doing the smart things she did make me want to keep reading to see what happens in the end.

3. Brideau makes her narrative "come alive" by using vivid details to help her describe the setting, the people and the overall story. She uses words like "small, slender black woman" and "short gray hair neatly tucked up inside a kerchief" it helps us see what Lydia looks like. When Brideau explains how the VFW hall she used words like "chemical odor of a cleaning solution so strong that it seemed toxic." and it was "uncomfortably cold" compared to the heat outdoors. She explained the water from the hurricane as "brown rushing water" and the water pressure was so terribly strong "the water spouted from the kitchen sink like a fountain". All of these words appeal to the readers' emotions by showing how the hurricane was impacting such am innocent woman and how it was terrorizing her home, and how she just had to sit perched in her tiny closet shelf watching her home get taken away from her.

4. Since this piece was published in Health Affairs the audience would be towards health politicians, health care workers and health researchers, Brideau's tone is not very formal and boring but it is a good story that anyone could be interested in reading by the honesty and word choice she uses. She uses words that anyone can connect with and words that are simple but still get you feeling sorrow when reading this piece, she uses words and phrases like, "Lydia climbed off the kitchen counter and waded through the deep water, dragging a small kitchen stool behind her." She also wrote, "Lydia waited, cramped on the top shelf of her linen closet, until the water finally began to recede." She uses simple words, but they still make the readers feel sorrow.

Response to page 23

Texting
Planner
Blog post
Grocery list
Facebook messaging
Note taking for Psychology

The three totally different writings that I have done would probably be texting, writing blog posts for my English class, and taking notes for my Psychology class.

Texting: My tone in texting is most likely a lot different from me having to talk in class or just having to talk when I don't want to. When I text it is more comfortable to me because I am talking when  I want, and I can decide who I want to talk to. In person if someone is trying to talk to you and you do not want to talk to them back it is really hard to just ignore them and not reply to what they are saying to you. When you text, it is as easy as not opening their message if someone is telling you something you do not want to talk about or if it is just not a good time. The audience does change when I text, when I talk to my good friends it is easy to talk to them and have fun saying what you want, but when it is a family member or someone older, you can't really say whatever you want to and you are more serious talking to them and not one of your friends.

Blog post: Starting last week I had to make a blog for English and I had never had one or used one before. We use blogs in English because it is a more technological way to reply to our assignments instead of turning in a paper every class. Since I am using the blog for my English class the genre and tone changes depending on what I have to write about. For this blog, anyone can view it if  they want to and all of my blog posts are open to everyone, my posts have to be towards the subject that I am writing about and friendly to anyone who might view them, but the intended audience is my English professor, since my professor will be looking at all my posts they have to be about the writing and i cannot get off subject, I don't want my posts to be too serious and boring but they also cannot be too unrelated.

Note taking for Psychology: Note taking is for my own good and in my own words that will benefit me and I will be able to understand, study from and in the end learn from. There really is no audience because the notes are for my own good and the purpose is for me to be able to use them for my quizzes, exams, and papers for my first of three ever college classes.  I have my notebook and pencil out during class while my professor goes through the slide shows each day and shows us informal videos, I write down important information and organize it into which module it is and will end up using them to study from. I can test myself from my notes and see what I need to study more and work on.