After watching the Ben Hur movie clip, the first thing that came to mind was the focus on people. The movie would show scenes of people; all doing one thing or another, and it would not place much focus on the setting, but enough just to get some background. In doing this, there was much […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on April 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
For most people, summer is a time to get out of school, forget about everything, and be lazy and take things slow. Well, I am not one of those people. It has been long standing in our family that June is the busiest month of the year. This year might just be the busiest. […]
Filed under: English 150, Free Write on April 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
“The demographics of newspapers readership are more than discouraging for the industry. Young people, simply put, are not reading the newspaper as much as their parents or grandparents did – and the numbers keep declining with each new generation. One study found that in 1972 a majority of the people in every age […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on April 8th, 2007 | No Comments »
The following is a revision of a previous post:
During this past week, I competed in BYU’s national Dancesport competition. I primarily competed standard events, such as the tango and foxtrot. I competed these events in the silver and gold level respectively. I also competed a little bit of latin; the rumba. I competed this at […]
Filed under: English 150, Writing Technique on March 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
The following is a rhetorical analysis for the music video of “Highway to the Danger Zone”. In this music video, the audience that it is directed at is those who generally enjoy ‘living on the edge’ or those who either enjoy or are close to dangerous situations. In the video, there are many clips involving […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on March 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
It seems like most everybody I know from before college is now leaving on a mission. First, my cousin got a call to Korea, and I have been watching him as he goes out and buys everything he needs. Then one of my friends from highschool got a call to go to japan (which was […]
Filed under: English 150, Free Write on March 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
The following is a continuation of a previous post regarding an analysis of the poster.
In this poster, the words “This is my war too!” are written at the bottom in fairly large font. By using the larger font, the words will draw attention more that the other words would. This phrase combined with the picture […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on March 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
This past week I competed in BYU’s national Dancesport competition. I competed primarily standard events such as silver tango, gold foxtrot, and open novice standard. I also competed a little bit of latin such as the gold rumba. I made it to the quarter finals in all of my dances except open novice, where I […]
Filed under: English 150, Free Write on March 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
The following is a seperation of a previous rhetorical analysis into summary and analysis.
When I first heard that I was being interviewed, the company sent me some pretty abstract and difficult to understand instructions on how to reach the building. By providing these instructions, they created a method of judging the interviewee’s practical reasoning skills. […]
Filed under: English 150, Writing Technique on March 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
At the beginning of this week, in my job, we had the president of quest software come and speak to us. The meeting lasted about two hours and at the end, he introduced this lady, who he said would be coming around and interviewing many people. I thought nothing of it, after all, I only […]
Filed under: English 150, Free Write on March 1st, 2007 | No Comments »