Introduction In the “Close to Home” commercial it is advertising cellphone use while driving through the phone company AT&T. In the commercial it shows two main drivers a male and female in separate cars. The female has a child in the car that looks to be her daughter. In the other car there is a man, he shows he has a family because he is talking on the phone to what the audience assumes is his wife.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T is a surrealist and delirious tale full of wacky fun imagery, as well as explicit World War II references. This daring film for its 50’s time period was written by Theodor Geisel, famously known as Dr. Seuss. Seuss' writing in his books tends to be surreal, somewhat nonsensical, and is almost always verbally focused on crazy word play, including lots of neologisms and hilariously twisted rhymes, which is translated into this film. The theme of 5,000 Fingers is an elaboration from Seuss of a conception of children as “thwarted people”, and that they struggle to find themselves in the world dominated by adult authorities. The theme is addressed in one of the songs, stating “just because we're kids, because we're sorta
The analysis I made was based on Douglas McGray’s article “Lost in America”. You did a great job starting your introduction in a creative way using a question as attention-grabber. It is an effective strategy to grab the reader’s attention. You briefly summarized the article’s main points; it provides readers a brief explanation of what will be further analyzed. You also established a very solid thesis statement with a purpose, audience and rhetorical device being analyzed.
The title Miss Representation is significant because the documentary revolves around the representation of women in media and how their portrayals are oversexualized, placing a misogynistic lens over how women are represented. The argument that the title makes is that women are shown primarily as weaker, less cerebral, and more useful as physical objects than men, and therefore are highly misrepresented by TV shows, movies, and advertisements which focus only on the physical aspects of women and not on the academic or mental aspects. This is pervasive throughout the documentary, as seen through interviews with various women and young girls providing examples of the misrepresentation of women. One such example is when a young girl discusses the fact that
Women in Social Media The documentary Miss Representation begins with short clips and photos of women in social media. The clips are taken from various movies, music videos, television shows, news clips, and news articles. The clips show inappropriate remarks directed to or about important women in our society, sexualization of women, and semi-nude women in the media.
A visual rhetoric is a recent development of a framework of describing how visual images communicate. Visual literacy is the ability to interpret the meaning from information presented in a form of art. Using these two things, I was able to analysis Thompkins H. Matteson’s painting, “Examination of a Witch.” Matteson’s purpose behind the, “Examination of a Witch” painting, was to represent an event that happen in John Greenleaf Whittier’s book, Supernaturalism. This painting is over a Salem White Trial, the priest are examining a young lady’s back to see if there are any signs of a “devil marking.”
This second piece of writing is from my time enrolled in UW Stout’s Communicating with Emerging Media certificate program. This thesis driven essay is in response to a prompt for the Visual Rhetoric final project. The assignment was to complete a visual-rhetorical analysis of a controversial artifact of my choosing. In it, I was required to pose a question of visual significance and provide detailed, well supported answer using my own visual analysis and principles from the readings. While I am pleased with the finished product, writing this paper challenged my analytical and time managements skills and taught me something about myself.
Introducing me to recruiters is a rhetorical situation. The rhetorical situation is different from school, because it needs more professional explanations on why I desire the job and how I can make more contributions to the company. Introducing me to recruiters is more difficult than I deliver a speech at a school, because the audiences have a more strict evaluation standard than teachers’ standard. Audiences need to know my real work competencies, communication skills and what benefits that I can produce, and they are professional and rigid. I want to obtain their attentions, making them know that I am an excellent applicant.
In the past years, advertisers have formulated more strategies to promote and sell their products. These strategies include the use of women in their advertisements. Today, the exposure of women in most ads is that of thin, flawless images of models to show audiences the definition of beauty and heroism through appearances (Wolf, 2002). In order to encourage and persuade its audience to imitate what they see in films, television, and magazines, today’s mass media use images of models and actors who are artificially manipulated and developed by using computer technology to create an ideally perfect, flawless role models, that nevertheless look real and natural (Mazur, 1986).
This research paper presents a content analysis on the portrayal of women in advertisements. This paper is written to better understand the stereotypes of women in advertising. The paper will also include the harsh realities female receivers have to face due to the portrayal of unrealistically thin and technologically perfected super models. Many women are portrayed as sexual objects and are constantly being degraded. Few examples of using sex appeal will also be discussed in this paper.
He opens the speech by telling a funny real story of him and her sister when they were little. In his story, his younger sister fell from the bunk bed and landed on both two hands and knees. She was on pain and mostly likely would have told her parents about what happened but he managed to manipulate her emotion by telling her that she’s a unicorn because of the way she landed. He knew that his sister is all about being a unicorn so a unicorn she had become. Instead of telling her parents, she climbed back up to the bunk bed happy and started playing again convinced of being a unicorn.
Ever wonder how hard women worked in order to obtain the same rights as men? Can you imagine being a female during the nineteenth century and marching to protest the right to vote? Throughout our history, the ability of women has been questioned. Many individuals view women as inferior to men and feel that women are incapable of fulfilling the roles that were originally designed for men. But, even now in the twenty-first century, women still face prejudice and are seen as simple objects.
Rhetorical Analysis Essay “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength” (G.D. Anderson). Emily Shire attempts to convince the audience that feminism is a misunderstood topic by using a concerned and determined tone, by appealing to the reader’s sense of logos, and by using rhetorical explanation.