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Category Archives: Rhetoric and Civic Life
Taking a Stance
When our multimedia presentation group met on Wednesday, one of the questions we addressed was whether or not we would take a definite stance on our issue. And we never really decided if we would or not. So I’m going … Continue reading
Digestible Bits
As I was staring at my laptop screen trying to think of something rhetorically inclined to blog about, I started to think about “Supersize Me.” Monday was, after all, the first time I’d ever seen any part of the film, … Continue reading
Multiple Media
It’s come up before, but it’s worth bringing back every time, because rhetoric extends past the written word and into visual and audial territory all the time. Everywhere. My main reason for bringing this up is its relevance to the … Continue reading
TED
I love me a good TED talk. And Joshua Foer’s talk was a pretty darn good one. Here’s another one I watched a few months back that I found especially interesting (and funny). You might not have time to watch … Continue reading
SHOW IT
Show of hands who got this in the mail… I know it was a while ago, but unlike bananas or chicken pot pies, rhetoric doesn’t go stale. No sir, this rhetoric is still relevant and analyzable (actually a word!). Anyway, the … Continue reading
Going Vegan– peta2
As I was walking to the HUB on Wednesday, a man stopped me and handed me a pamphlet, asking me if I was interested in the “Blah Blah Etcetera” Program at Penn State. Yeah, this happens to me every day. … Continue reading
Pizza for THON
Walking into the Deike building on Wednesday, my eye was immediately drawn to a stack of pizza boxes sitting on a table, and then to the table, and then to the people behind the table. It was a THON group, … Continue reading
Ideas for the Essay
I’m going back and forth on a lot of this stuff. Right now I’m working on compiling a bunch of different speeches, commercials, and possibly essays and choosing once I have a nice selection. Then, if something doesn’t work out, … Continue reading
Democratic/Republican
It doesn’t matter which one you are, both sides make use of rhetoric. Sometimes it ends up on my Facebook page, so every once in a while I’ll try reading it from a mostly-objective standpoint and seeing where it falls … Continue reading
Do The Right Thing
In response to the film Do The Right Thing, By the end it was evident that there were two warring themes in the movie–Fight the Power, advocated by many of the blacks including Boombox Guy, and Do The Right Thing, advocated … Continue reading