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 »
“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 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 »
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 »
The following is an analysis on the given poster:
In this picture, most of the paper space is used up with the image of the woman. By doing this, the poster draws the attention of the viewer first most directly to the lady. The result of this being that the propaganda almost immediately distinguishes its […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on February 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
A little less than one year ago, I interviewed for the job I currently have. In my opinion, that interview was the most difficult one I have ever encountered. This is an analysis of the rhetoric used in that interview.
When I first heard that I was being interviewed, the company sent me some pretty abstract […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on February 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
This week, I decided to do a rhetorical analysis on an airplane ad from 1953 found in the Chicago Tribune.
The ad can be found here: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/T/T18/T1818-72dpi.jpeg
The ad starts out with big words which grab the viewer’s attention directly which say: “Delta means Deluxe” which is sitting on the page along side of a picture of […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on February 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
“Universities are here to teach us how to think, not what to think. American Heritage blatantly tell us what to think, with any effort made to challenge such dogma (especially the mindless stuff spouted by the TAs), being shot down immediately. I think all of this just goes to show then when religion and education […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on January 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
This week for a rhetorical analysis, I went to Gold’s Gym to look at the tactics they employ to convince people to join. The first thing that happens when entering, is an associate asks you to “share some information”, such as your name, phone number, address, etc. While you are in the process of filling […]
Filed under: English 150, Rhetorical Analysis on January 27th, 2007 | No Comments »