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Monthly Archives: September 2012
WIP #3: Topic for Rhetorical Analysis Essay
I am not 110% sure if this is the advertisement I am choosing for the Rhetorical Analysis Essay. I am having a hard time finding one and I have been staring at this for hours wondering if it would be … Continue reading
PAS #3-There, There Katie
“Sometimes your circumstances suck, but life doesn’t.” – Andrew McMahon Music. Just one word and hundreds of thoughts filter into your mind, your favorite band, musician, song, lyric, music means different things to different people. To some, a song is … Continue reading
RCL#4- Logic, reduced.
This is the bumper sticked I chose to do that offered a pithy statement. To be completely honest, I have never heard the word “pithy.” So I had little idea on what it meant, causing me to look it up, … Continue reading
WIP #2: Reflection on Civic Engagement Speeches
With my civic engagement speech I felt like I had my outline worked out pretty well but I wish I would have had different information. I feel like I said the same thing over and over again. I was so … Continue reading
PAS #2: Sometimes you just need a little “push.”
“When my father passed away that’s when I took time out of advertisement and I kind of subconsciously went back to doing the thing that made me feel happy and that was drawing and painting.” –Nanami Cowdroy In most cases, … Continue reading
RCL #3: Responses to Civic Engagement Speeches
After seeing numerous thought out, and informative presentations the past two days, I have learned a lot more about exactly what civic engagement is. At the beginning of this class I hadn’t ever heard the words “civic engagement” together, so … Continue reading
PAS #1- Introduction to my passion
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” -Bruce Lee I am someone that is all about self-expression. Expressing oneself in different, creative ways. Whether it is … Continue reading
WIP #1-Ideas for civic engagement speech
The artifact I have chosen to do is a website that urges you to become involved in a local organization in Michigan. I think this is a particularly interesting and appropriate choice for this project because I know a small … Continue reading
RCL #2-YouTube Delivery Analysis- Miss Teen USA 2007- South Carolina answers questions
The YouTube video I chose to do was a speech/answer one of the contestants of the Miss Teen USA Pageant did in regards to her question which was, “1/5 of Americans can’t locate the US on a world map, why … Continue reading
RCL #1- Spike Lee’s-Do the Right Thing
An online dictionary defines rhetoric as, “The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.” After viewing Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing, I caught many glimpses of people using rhetoric in the movie. Giancarlo Esposito stuck out to … Continue reading