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Week 11: Taking Away
This is the end of the semester post! This whole course has been full of its up and downs, yet here I stand/sit at the end of it all more than ready to go home and celebrate in true holiday … Continue reading
Week 8: Analyzing TED
This week has been all about TED talks, and for our RCL we have to come up with a way to grade individual TED talks. So here is my grading rubric: A B C D F Posture This … Continue reading
Week 7: Exploring Friendship
“Frienship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” ~ C.S. Lewis p81 Question #4: Choose one of the values that has been revered at one time … Continue reading
Week 6: Carpe Diem, Hitler, and Elizabeth
So this past week we talked about kairos, its meaning, and its etymology. The right or opportune moment in which to do something is the exact definition. However to me it sounds very much like the phrase carpe diem: sieze … Continue reading
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Tagged Carpe diem, Elizabeth, Hitler, kairos, kretsingerharries, rcl, rcl1213, wk6
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Week 5: Hope by Obama
The Obama HOPE poster is defintely one of his signature campaign advertisments. It has many appeals to the audience, but everything has a meaning in politics, so of course the poster does too. The interactive analysis definitely goes very far in depth … Continue reading
Week 5: Paradigms (Weddings)
There are so many different topics to choose from for the Paradigm Shift Essay/TED Talk assignmnent. It’s really hard to choose because I like so many different things. So I was thinking back to some of the things that I … Continue reading
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Tagged kretsingerharries, paradigm, rcl1213, weddings, wip, wk5
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Week 4: Pathos
So this week has been all about ethos, pathos, and logos, but more specifically pathos. The most recent encounter that I have had with pathos was a song the I was listening to. Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue … Continue reading
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Tagged and blue, kretsingerharries, pathos, rcl, rcl1213, Red, toby keith, white, wk4
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Week 3: Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
To start out with here is the url link to the speech for those of you who are not familiar with it: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm The speech was given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on December 8, 1941, one day after the … Continue reading
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Tagged kretsingerharries, Pearl Harbor, rcl, rcl1213, Rhetorical Analysis, Roosevelt, wk3
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Week 2: Composing, Designing, and Advocating
So I chose option #1: describing composing, designing, and advocating, and what they mean to me. To begin, we will explore my mind’s view on composing. The official definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “to form by putting together.” I was … Continue reading
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Week 1: Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is an interesting film that explores an interracial neighborhood and its residents. There are many facets to the story, but my favorite part is the reverse psychology that Spike Lee uses to convey his message of … Continue reading