What: In a letter to the author, analyze an opinionated source that addresses an aspect of pop culture that interests you (see “Guidelines for Choosing an Appropriate Text” posted under Additional Resources on Moodle for more information about sources). You will identify the source's purpose, audience, and context, then evaluate how well the source achieved its purpose by analyzing its rhetorical strategies (such as, but not limited to, appeals, tropes, style and tone, word choice, use of evidence).…
On this core Friday, Professor John Bultena from the Merritt Writing Program gave a lecture about comics. He doesn’t draw or write comics but he studied it for five years and been teaching about it. His goals for the lecture were to give an insight about what comics offer and the creation of behind it. There is more than enjoyment in comics and from visual information it can give a person deeper connection and understand through metaphor. Also in comics, there is always a question about how one panel goes to another, and the answer is always depending on the artist perception. John Bultena showed different styles of comic throughout the lecture but the first one he started out was with just a visual comic with no illustrations. This first one…
After a hard thought process, I have come to the conclusion that the movie, which my paper will be based on, is Avatar. Though it may seem as your typical science fiction movie, there is so much more hidden beneath the surface. I will dissect and analyze the very core of this movie and its influence of the rhetoric ideology. From what I have begun to analyze the audience that Avatar is trying to reach is most definitely a more mature and adult audience. The topics that are targeted is some that a child would not be able to understand. The theme of Avatar reflects on the greatest challenges in our modern world, another common theme in the movie is that nature and all living things are connected and instead of destroying, it should be protected…
2) Cartoons get their power from their ability to encapsulate a complex argument in a striking visual image.…
What clues do you get from the political cartoon that tells you the topic of the cartoon?…
In this particular political cartoon (pictured at right), the artist is making an argument about President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. The cartoon was created with the intention of revealing that the Democratic Party is trying to get rid of Vice President Joe Biden because they believe he is no longer qualified for the job. The artist appeals to many senses through the use of color, drawings, and text.…
Occupy Wall Street was a protest movement that took place in Zuccotti Park in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. “we are the 99%” was their slogan, they believed that the wealthy few should no longer decide the future of the country as a hole. One of their believes was that every person should be involved in the decision making and for this reason the movement never achieved the necessary organization to establish a good list of demands. Every person affiliated with the movement had different believes and aspirations for the result of the protest. Two weeks passed by until the movement really picked up, that was, until abuse and mass arrests from the New York Police Department attracted media attention. Liberal groups, students, unions, and organizations all over the country began to join the Occupy movement making it a Nation Wide protest.…
For my Rhetoric In Practice Project, I decided to write a comic book which brings out the in-depth meaning in stories and thus helps readers or the audience comprehend the stories better. We know that all fairy tales have morals and lessons. But not every reader is able to grasp every moral from them. Some messages might be hidden and difficult to understand unless you read it a couple of time and exclaim, “Ohhhhh”. When I first read the prompt, I had thought about a lot of different genres to convey my message which is that “Appearances can be deceptive” but I felt that I could make something interesting which could catch the attention of the readers. In today’s world, where there are great animated movies, comics have taken a step back from…
The Coca-Cola companies' website portrays a plentiful amount of information and images to its visitors. It seems to have a very calm mood embedded into the site.…
The comic strip that i chose in my opinion is an unfocused interaction. The way that i understood Calvin was that he wasn't really talking to his parents or trying to have a conversation, he just wanted to get their attention. Calvin wasn't engaged in a conversation but he was aware that both parents were looking at him. The comic strip relies a lot on people and their ability to make choices. Calvin's choice was to imitate his dad. In reality children don't think of consequence, they just do. Calvin might not have thought about the negative put down that he could have put on his dad by imitating him. The embarrassment that he probably felt when his wife laughed at him as well. The element of humor that Calvin used in this comic strip was Satire…
The representation of a person, place, thing, or idea that suggests a particular association or point of similarity.…
For the artists, perhaps their objective was to create a critical mind in their readers with representations that would appeal to their audiences. However, they have received various reactions. Some enjoyed comic strips while others were able to relate to them because they find that it is their very life that is being represented. Some simply acknowledged the genius of the artists but some had violent reactions. One of the readers of Aaron McGrouder’s is quoted to have said his comic strips are teaching children to become racists. The reader claims to understand the objective of the comic strips for the adult audience but she presents her pleas to the writer to consider the children who might read and misunderstand his representations. Moreover, another reader wrote that the same comic strips are “a clever way to get negative images and thoughts into the minds of youth without their parents realizing…
The topic of focus for this third unit was Documenting Work. In correlation with this topic, we discussed discourse, which we defined in class as language in its social context, and the ways it is used to carry out the social aspects of a community. Among the items we discussed as part of a discourse community, we included how people write while they work, how each workplace forms its own community, and lastly, genres and conventions used by the community. After our group discussions and reading from “Genres of Chi Omega”, where we identified genres as Genre “flexible responses to fit the needs of a discourse community or social setting”, it was easy for my partner and I to determine what genres are used by hospitals and nurses, including verbal…
There are strong, hidden messages evident in the cartoon being analysed that can be interpreted in many ways by members of different religious backgrounds. A possible interpretation of Leunig’s cartoon could be that after the person had created such a big, extravagant cage, he starts to feel a sense of loneliness and realises that the simple cage that he once had was enough for him. The man acted upon his desire which blinded him from seeing the perfect cage and only when he was trapped by his own actions did he realising that there was no need for the big, extravagant cage from the dream to feel satisfied for what he had. This interpretation of the cartoon can be related back to how a Buddhist would view the stimulus regarding their beliefs.…
been many innovative ways, such as comics and cartoons, created to engage and inspire people to…