I have decided to do some research on a brand that almost everyone uses, such as Apple. Everyone knows the history of how Steve Jobs was the cofounder of the well known Apple company. Around the 1990’s Apple was considered doomed because the market was slowly suffering. However, over the years it was able to …
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Rhetorical Meme
My meme reflects on the abortion laws being passed in multiple states in the U.S.. My intended audience would be people who are pro-choice and pro-life and I am using pathos as my rhetorical appeal. Over this year more and more states have passed the “heartbeat” bill, making it illegal to have an abortion after …
Rhetoric In Class Discussion Questions
1. What I have taken away from Rhetoric would be that it is used a lot more than I thought. It can be found in our society very often because people are always trying to persuade someone to do something. What I also realized is that It can be hard to use, especially in writing …
Blog 5: The Climate Crisis Why Strike?
Over the last few years climate change was always considered a controversial topic due to the fact that it wasn’t such a big deal back then. I remember people would always joke about it and say “oh hahaha it’s because of global warming” etc., but it was never brought to my attention how much of …
Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Discussion
Visual Rhetoric is utilized by the media and mainly used to influence others. For example, many social media influencers who don’t really have a job are simply famous for being “pretty” or having a youtube channel are always doing ads for certain products. On instagram I have seen many popular influencers do an ad for …
Blog 4: Understanding Rhetorical Analysis
The main point of this article is to illustrate the role rhetoric plays in the world and how it is used in our everyday life. The author starts by stating that we analyze people all the time without even noticing it and gather opinions on a specific person simply by their appearance. I completely agree …
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Blog 3: What is Geography?
Prior to reading this article I had absolutely no knowledge on geography besides the fact that it has something to do with regional areas. From my perspective, the main point was that geography plays an important role in the world. Although it is a very broad field, it has various subfields that coincide with other …
Blog 2: Should We Keep Recycling?
I chose this article because I’m highly interested in environmental topics, but also because the cover art drew me in. I figured it would be educational and I could potentially learn something I did not know. After reading the article I came to the conclusion that recycling is not the only way to help our …
Blog 1: What is Academic Writing?
After thoroughly reading this article the main point I came across was how to succeed in college writing and multiple tips. There’s a variety of topics discussed throughout the article that really stood out to me such as: “Three Characteristics of Academic Writing” and “Characteristics of the Critical Essay”. Both of these were really helpful …
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