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Culture, Identity, and Society

Culture, Identity, and Society have been prevailing themes throughout the semester in English.  We have been taught to look and analyze everything about them that we see.  This class has opened up my eyes to a lot of things that  I never realized before all of the different forms of rhetoric that were used in.  Using this you could understand more about different cultures and how they work and how people relate to them.  This theme was all throughout the reading and in some of the assignments it was very evident.  To understand someone's identity or a society you must analyze them and put yourself in their shoes.

Final Course Reflection

Over the course of this semester this class has taught me to look at things in a totally new different light.  It taught me to look at everything and examine the shape lighting wording and every little detail of it to see what forms of rhetoric it used.  The class has made me do assignments that reinforced this knowledge.  For my visual rhetoric essay I did Mac vs. PC.  Just this assignment by itself made me learn how the three different forms of rhetoric are used and integrated into every part of society.  Everything plays into it including lighting, wording, and my other things.  This class also taught me how to use many different forms of research and how to integrate technology into projects and research.  This class overall has been very beneficial and taught me many things about rhetoric and research.  

Collaborative Challenge

1.  What format will your presentation take?  We are using iMovie and powerpoint.  The imovie will not only allow us to use photos and put music over them but also to play videos to aid in the portraying of your point.  The powerpoint will be used to make a formal argument on some point of the argument and allow the use of different color schemes and other types of visual aid in the project.  

2.  What materials do you plan to use in your presentation?  We are using different computer programs like iTunes for music and iMovie with the movie portion.  We are also using powerpoint.  The use of cameras and video recorders will also be implemented in the project.  

3.  What might a potential outline for your presentation?  The storyboard we came up with will serve as our main outline.   After the introduction sports will be the topic.  After sports the academics will be the main focus.  Once the academics have finished the next topic will be student life.  Coming off of student life will be the campus location which is somewhat relevant.

At a Glance

After reading over my paper I found some key critical mistakes.  Grammatical Errors and formatting errors were scattered throughout the paper.  I made my own feedback sheet on my paper giving myself critiquing points of things I could do better on my next draft.  I compared these to the peer reviews that were given to me.  I tried to look for different things that my group may have missed.  Reading it aloud helped when a sentence didn't make sense because hearing it out loud opened up my other senses to mistakes.  Overall my own review was very productive and it is going to help me write my next draft.  After getting back my rough draft that was taken up in class I realized more formatting errors in the paper.  I need to make sure my paper runs a little better and has a more organized flow.  Transition statements will be key in making sure that the flow of the paragraphs is good and will strengthen my argument.  

Multimedia Assignment

I think the multimedia assignment would be the easiest if it was a short film.  It would be the most creative and easy to work with along being on hands.  It would be the easiest to come up with ideas for the film.  It would be useful because it can be put onto the internet through youtube and reach a large audience.  It would also be easy to show the class and they could get into it.  Compared to a podcasts it is more creative because you have to incorporate visual aids just as much as dialogue in the film.  

Questions:

1.  What thematic elements could you add to the film to improve it

2.  What controversial issue will be potrayed

Research Paper Outline

Philip Sobash           

Research Paper Outline

March 3, 2009

Amy Jessee

 

Illegal Immigration and its effects in the U.S.

 

I.               Introduction

A.   “Hook” Statement- A story about illegal immigration and how it personally affected someone.

B.    Facts and Figures

1.  Statistics

C.    Background Information

1.     How we got here

2.     What events led to this

D.   Thesis Statement:  Illegal Immigration is a problem usually swept under the rug by many people in the United States.  People exploit the weak border in order to get illegal workers to work for cheap.  This undermines what America is all about and is eventually going to ruin the capitalistic society in which we live today.

II.             Visual

A.   Show visual

 

1.     Describe visual

2.     Implications of the visual

3.     Forms of Rhetoric

III.           Facts and Figures

A.   Past Statistics

B.    Present Statistics

C.    Future Statistics

IV.           Personal Accounts

A.   First Hand Accounts

B.    Implications of Illegal Aliens

V.             Political differences on Immigration

A.   Conservative Views

B.    Liberal View

C.    Amnesty Act

1.     Problems

2.     Opinions on the matter

VI.           Problem solving

A.   Different Views on fixing the problem

B.    Money Costs invested in fixing the problem

C.    Troubles with correcting the problem

VII.         Conclusion

A.   Recap of Major Points

B.    Summary of paper

C.    Recap visuals