Rachel Dellon
Blog #5
At the start of the quarter my ideal imagined citizen was a beautiful college student named Lana Roberts. She was not only pretty but she was very intelligent, attending UC Berkeley. Also, she was athletic by participating in soccer and swimming. She was family-orientated, caring, and just an all around fun loving girl. She liked all the music and movies that a usual college student would like John Mayer or Lil Wayne. However, if I had to change Lana now I don’t think I would make her so “perfect.” I would have her be more original and uncommon in some way. Maybe I would have made her participate in ping pong instead of soccer. Or maybe I would have made her have pink hair. Anything to make her more original would be portraying a more common person. Like in the Michael Warner excerpts there is just no way someone can be normal. Lana being good at everything is just not normal. She may be ideal because she can do all these things but there is no way this can be considered normal.
By having our topic for the course the rhetoric of service and activism I have been able to learn a lot more about writing and research. I have never really been involved in a course that deals with writing rhetorically, so this was a fun new challenge. I learned a lot about ethos, pathos, logos, and about using the method and I think these techniques will help me write better in the future. Also activism as a topic allowed me to think more about getting involved with an activism movement and just trying to participate in something that I feel strongly about. All these things that I have learned throughout this quarter have allowed me to acquire the necessary tools to make my writing better. I plan to use all these tools in any papers for my future classes.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Blog #3
Rachel Dellon
Blog #3- The Rhetoric of Activism
I went to a hunger lunch that was being held at the RPAC on Wednesday, February 24th. At this lunch I was able to buy a lunch with portions that are similar to the different food distributions around the world. Also I was able to see different statistics of the food distributions in all different countries. This was an interesting way in realizing how unfortunate some countries have it. However, mostly it allowed me to see that we should be doing so much more for different countries so they can have a simple necessity like food. Just by buying this small lunch for ten dollars I was able to allow a family somewhere out there to have clean healthy food to eat.
The organization that was conducting this hunger lunch was obviously trying to make me realize how little we can do to make such a huge change in some one else’s life. In this case, by just buying a simple lunch we are providing much needed food for other people in need. Therefore, they inspired me to take action into trying to provide more help for others in need, no matter what it is. By personally being at this event it affected me a lot more emotionally. There was a big difference between just reading about the food crisis and actually hearing stories about people just like us that are struggling. I was definitely emotionally swayed into wanting to either donate more or join an organization in helping these people with a necessity for life. I realized that by me buying this one meal I could be saving someone’s life and just knowing that made me want to become more active in the cause. By me having this direct experience I think it would be easier to persuade someone else about the cause. I think this because I can now connect with them in a more emotional and personal way by telling some of the stories that I heard at the lunch. This hunger lunch was a great experience and really made me want to do more about the food crisis.
Blog #3- The Rhetoric of Activism
I went to a hunger lunch that was being held at the RPAC on Wednesday, February 24th. At this lunch I was able to buy a lunch with portions that are similar to the different food distributions around the world. Also I was able to see different statistics of the food distributions in all different countries. This was an interesting way in realizing how unfortunate some countries have it. However, mostly it allowed me to see that we should be doing so much more for different countries so they can have a simple necessity like food. Just by buying this small lunch for ten dollars I was able to allow a family somewhere out there to have clean healthy food to eat.
The organization that was conducting this hunger lunch was obviously trying to make me realize how little we can do to make such a huge change in some one else’s life. In this case, by just buying a simple lunch we are providing much needed food for other people in need. Therefore, they inspired me to take action into trying to provide more help for others in need, no matter what it is. By personally being at this event it affected me a lot more emotionally. There was a big difference between just reading about the food crisis and actually hearing stories about people just like us that are struggling. I was definitely emotionally swayed into wanting to either donate more or join an organization in helping these people with a necessity for life. I realized that by me buying this one meal I could be saving someone’s life and just knowing that made me want to become more active in the cause. By me having this direct experience I think it would be easier to persuade someone else about the cause. I think this because I can now connect with them in a more emotional and personal way by telling some of the stories that I heard at the lunch. This hunger lunch was a great experience and really made me want to do more about the food crisis.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
blog #2 Ani Defranco
Rachel Dellon
Blog: Prompt #2
In this blog I am supposed to use rhetorical analysis to analyze a poem called “Self Evident” by Ani DiFranco. The process to analyze this poem is different then any other type of media we have analyzed because it is more abstract. This makes it harder to compare and contrast the poem within its self. Unlike the other sources that we analyzed this poem doesn’t spell out the true theme. In the pictures and videos that we looked at it was obvious to identify what the main idea and theme of the sources were. However, in the poem, unlike the other sources, it was easier to identify the authors sarcastic tones. Also in analyzing this poem it made it easier to sense the poets true emotions about the topic. Therefore, by using rhetorical analysis on different types of objects we can learn more about the underlying cause and emotions of the source being written. Also we can learn how to look at these different sources from other perspectives to draw out more details.
This poem was obviously written by Ani DiFranco. However, from the poem we can figure out that Ani is a well known socialist and feminist. Also from reading the poem we can easily sense that the audience is supposed to be America in general. She discusses our country as a person and what “we” have gone through with nine-eleven to get where we are today. I believe that this poem is meant to make America reanalyze not what happened to use on the tragic day of September 11th but to look at what actions we took to cause this incident. All rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos are used to get her point across. First of all, her ethos is shown in the poem by the way DiFranco refers to differing views of the nine-eleven experience. Next pathos is shown by explaining in detail what manys peoples days were like on that horrific day. One of these stories of a persons day may have been what you experienced which directly affects your emotions. Finally, logos is used when she uses facts about the wrong things that our country has done and explains why 9/11 happened. I find all these different devices that the author uses very effective in getting her tone of anger and her point of view across. This occurs to me because all three types of appeals connect with me as a person emotionally and logically. Media may influence my answer because of all the shows and news that is available today affects the way we think and percieve whats going on in our country. The analysis for this poem generally compares very much the same as the ones we have done in class, except for the fact that there is a need to dig a little harder to find the same answers.
Blog: Prompt #2
In this blog I am supposed to use rhetorical analysis to analyze a poem called “Self Evident” by Ani DiFranco. The process to analyze this poem is different then any other type of media we have analyzed because it is more abstract. This makes it harder to compare and contrast the poem within its self. Unlike the other sources that we analyzed this poem doesn’t spell out the true theme. In the pictures and videos that we looked at it was obvious to identify what the main idea and theme of the sources were. However, in the poem, unlike the other sources, it was easier to identify the authors sarcastic tones. Also in analyzing this poem it made it easier to sense the poets true emotions about the topic. Therefore, by using rhetorical analysis on different types of objects we can learn more about the underlying cause and emotions of the source being written. Also we can learn how to look at these different sources from other perspectives to draw out more details.
This poem was obviously written by Ani DiFranco. However, from the poem we can figure out that Ani is a well known socialist and feminist. Also from reading the poem we can easily sense that the audience is supposed to be America in general. She discusses our country as a person and what “we” have gone through with nine-eleven to get where we are today. I believe that this poem is meant to make America reanalyze not what happened to use on the tragic day of September 11th but to look at what actions we took to cause this incident. All rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos are used to get her point across. First of all, her ethos is shown in the poem by the way DiFranco refers to differing views of the nine-eleven experience. Next pathos is shown by explaining in detail what manys peoples days were like on that horrific day. One of these stories of a persons day may have been what you experienced which directly affects your emotions. Finally, logos is used when she uses facts about the wrong things that our country has done and explains why 9/11 happened. I find all these different devices that the author uses very effective in getting her tone of anger and her point of view across. This occurs to me because all three types of appeals connect with me as a person emotionally and logically. Media may influence my answer because of all the shows and news that is available today affects the way we think and percieve whats going on in our country. The analysis for this poem generally compares very much the same as the ones we have done in class, except for the fact that there is a need to dig a little harder to find the same answers.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Facebook Page #1
Rachel Dellon
Blog: Prompt #1
Blog: Prompt #1
I created a facebook page for an “ideal citizen” of a college dorm. I decided to choose this ideal citizen because I am surrounded by people in college dorms at all times, so I would like to think that I know what most people expect a college student to look like. I also chose for my ideal college student to be a female because I figure that I know more about women, in being one. I gave her the name Lana Roberts because it is a mixture of noncoventional and conventional. Lana is not a likely used name, however, Roberts is a very common last name for Americans. I decided to have her be born in Phoenix, Arizona but attend college at UC Berkely in California. I chose these places because they are far away from where I live, so it makes it easier to generalize what most people look like in Phoenix or California. This is why I chose Lana to be a skinny, medium height, tan, and brown-haired twenty year old. I know that in our society it is looked upon that an ideal college student be thin and beautiful. Also I made her tan because she lives on the west coast and have brown-hair because she is also intelligent. Lana Roberts appearance is that of a young beautiful college student.
Next some of Lana’s interests include soccer, reading, swimming, hanging out with friends, soaking up the sun on the beach, and others. I chose these different types of interests because I thought these were some typical activities that an all-around college girl would participate in. Then her favorite types of music were decided to be The Fray, Jack Johnson, Lil Wayne, and John Mayer. I believe that these music selections are popular for girls around this age and for our society. Afterwards her favorite Tv shows and movies were selected. Some of the shows like Greys Anatomy, and movies like How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days supported the image of a representative american girl. Also, since Lana loves to read, she is into books like Harry Potter and the Twilight saga. These books have been really popular within the last couple years so I figured that an ideal college girl has read most of them. Basically, Lana can be categorized as a common young college girl by being family oriented, fun-loving, and eccentric. I believe that I have created the ideal citizen for a youthful college girl in California.
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