Thursday, October 29, 2015

Initial Thoughts about the Audience for My Argument

     Let me ask you guys a question: do you believe that what you are writing can apply to EVERYONE possible? Sounds quite impossible, no? Don't worry--it is. For there to be an argument or a piece of writing that applies to "the general public," all of the public must have some connection with the topic given. However, all topics cannot possibly relate to everyone in the world because everyone's situations and environments are totally unique--finding a way to make everyone "homogeneous" would be the only way to make the general public the audience for a topic.
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     With that in mind, let's see what my audience for my rhetorical analysis should then be. For instance, continuing with my previous example of child psychology and technology, people who might be interested in the issue would mostly consist of any parent with children, those attending elementary or high school, and those who live in technologically advanced countries. However, psychologists themselves can have an interest in and be a significant influence on the formulation of my argument. Based on my argument, the most opposed to it will be the people who believe that technology is detrimental to the mental development of children because they are quick to accuse technology as the primary culprit in juvenile delinquency instead of personal choices.

     Considering that technology became increasingly advanced over the last hundred years, many will be familiar with the concept of technology and children, especially since many have heard news about the "corrupting evils" of video games and movies. Therefore, even regular TV watchers who could have no interest in video games or movies might encounter something about those two things with (as they seem to be most associated with, nowadays) public shootings and become interested about child psychology, and those who want to assess the learning abilities of children could come across the topics of technology in childhood. The extent of basic information required for this argument will be extensive: they must know what video games, television, movies, and child mentality are. And that is it. Seriously.

My Proposed Public Argument


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     In the last post, I talked about a YouTube video as a public argument. Now, I will proceed to talk about my ideas for my own public argument. As of now, I am leaning toward more of a generalized social topic rather than a specialized, scientific argumentative paper (I have a feeling that I will be writing plenty of those in the future; so why not do something outside my major while I have the freedom to do that?). The audience will not only include my peers and my professor, but will also include those who may have a certain interest in that topic and want to hear either supporting arguments for their use or opposing arguments for training.

     Now that I think about it, if I wanted to make a proto-argumentative paper, I would probably do one on psychological development (maybe children and video games, a subject of which I can say I have much experience in). My purpose would then be to prove (if I were to use the children and video games topic) my message that video games bear little influence on the overall psychological development of children, and my audience would be parents, psychologists, and those with general interests in child psychology. On the other hand, if I wanted to pursue a general argument, I would choose a topic concerning higher education, making an argument that higher education should focus more on courses related to a person's major instead of general education courses. The audience, of course, would be students, teachers, college administrations, families with children in college, and potentially the Department of Education. Of course, both are simply examples; I am still trying to figure out what exactly I want to do.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Analysis of "Suffering in the Desert" YouTube Video (Sample Public Argument)

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     After an incredibly long break, I have returned to begin the process of creating my own Public Argument, Paper #3 of ENG 109H. To begin, I decided to study another video, but not the #LikeAGirl commercials. This time, it is a YouTube video posted by a U of A student as an English project. Entitled "Suffering in the Desert," this particular video focused on the question of allowing undocumented immigrants to cross the U.S./Mexico border without problems. Within the video, there were traces of certain aspects that, like the #LAG commercials, both strengthened and weakened her argument, of which I will now elaborate.

     The tone for the video is extremely obvious: melancholy and almost forceful. In the very beginning, two scenes of text are shown. The first displays a quote from the organization "No More Deaths" that states, "Humanitarian aid is never a crime." The second issues a command for action: "Americans need to stop standing by while thousands die in our desert." Both statements contribute to the tone because (1) the statements imply that Americans are apathetic to the problems of undocumented immigrants, and (2) the second statement is making a claim that there are "thousands [who are] d[ying] in our desert." The visuals, the photographs used throughout the entire video, further intensify the depressing situation as viewers see photos of families with small children trying to flee; a body covered by a blanket, representing a failed attempt to escape to freedom; and immigrants laying their heads upon railroad tracks to sleep. However, the music, Coldplay's "Lost," was perhaps a weak point for the tone. It might just be me, but from a musical standpoint, I found the song to be, for lack of more proper vernacular, "cheesy." The lyrics convey a sense of a person struggling to find a way out of a sticky situation and knowing that he will someday conquer that problem, all of which fit nicely into the problem of immigration. But the melody of the piano and of lead singer Chris Martin do not correlate with the intended tone of the video at all and instead creates a rather goofy contrast between the "sad love song" tone of the melody and the morbid situation it tries to emphasize. Perhaps using a gentle piano and violin/cello combination with no lyrics would have suited the video more than a song from Coldplay.

Not from the video, but it gets the point across.
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     This video seems to focus heavily on the emotions of the audience. Constantly, facts about mortality rates and causes of immigrants and establishments to help those immigrants appear in small transitional scenes, and all of the photos show the heartbreaking plight of the immigrants. The music, although I did mention that it was a peculiar choice for the video, is meant to make a person thoughtful about the immigrants who want to desperately reach America and live better lives. By appealing to emotion, the creator hoped to sway her audience into agreeing with her argument about helping the undocumented immigrants reach American soil. To build her credibility in conjunction with her building emotional pressure and logical reasoning, at the end of the video, she presented a list of works cited, which reveals that she consulted books, documentaries, and news from the No More Deaths organization itself.

     Her primary method of conveying her argument is the transitional scenes, since those are the portions in which she includes text. From there, her argument is structured in the typical essay style: she gives some facts about the immigrants, their attackers, and the desert; some notes about the benevolent organizations that are helping the immigrants; and a plead to the audience to assist those organizations. The pictures do not exactly tell a different story; instead, they supplement the text by showing situations that she indicated in the transitions. However, looking at the photos alone can provide enough information to figure out what is happening, given the proper context. If the order of the photographs changed, it might have also affected how the textual argument was organized, potentially making it less effective.

Not from the video, and does not portray the point of the video.
So why did I use this photo? Because it's the desert, and those
squirrels are too cute.
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     Because the video presents a persuasive argument, there are calls to action given to the audience. The first is located at the beginning of the video as the second transitional scene, when she states that Americans needed to start caring about the immigrants. The other most prominent call is found at the end of the video, when she encourages her audience to assist the humanitarian organizations in their efforts to help the immigrants. For the first call to action, the subsequent photos quickly show the audience a brief glimpse of immigrants running for their lives and the occasional deaths, providing reasons to the audience of her insistence. The pictures for the second call to action show the organizations distributing food and treating hurt immigrants, the sight of which draws empathy from the audience and encourages them to really try to assist the organizations.

     Overall, this video does an excellent job in persuading the audience that the immigration problem has to be solved benevolently. If I wanted to make a video, I would try to copy her style, but I would add some video clips from the documentaries and change the background music to something more thought-provoking--something a lot like this.

     Thus concludes the analysis. Go have fun, guys.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Rhetorical Analysis Post-Mortem

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     Paper #2 is complete! Only two more of them remain! Before moving on to the next paper, I'd like to stop and take a look back on what happened with this paper.

     The rhetorical analysis paper is certainly not an unfamiliar one to me, but it was a challenge, nonetheless. Because for this paper, instead of analyzing the verbiage of a passage, I had to investigate the strategies used for a commercial! However, I learned that in order to completely understand and discover new concepts in the commercial, I had to look at parts where others may have missed and develop my own unique thoughts on parts where people may have been in agreement. It was a constant search of finding things that attracted/repulsed people, including me, and figuring out why it attracted/repulsed them/me. 

     I felt that I improved and wrote a better paper this time around, because this time, I took time to think about the audience. That was perhaps my greatest source of error in my last paper, the Controversy Analysis: ignoring the audience and only focusing on the subject matter. As a result, I delivered only the "what" of the analysis without taking into account the "how" and "why." This time around, I decided to focus more on the "how" and "why" of things, and I felt as if I made a more comprehensive paper in the end.

     I, however, realized that I may have made a mistake on one major thing. While I was writing, I made use of the pronoun "you" in the introduction, but I believe I did not use it for the rest of the paper. I do not know if this is a serious error or not, but it may be still an error. If I were to point out another thing I wished that I would have done, it would be for more research sources. I understand that the video should be the main source for argumentation, but in retrospect, I think adding a few more outside sources would have been great for my paper.

     Disregarding the boo-boos, I learned through this experience that there are more messages present in certain media besides the most obvious one; and even if the only message is the most obvious one, there are still those intricacies that make a fairly standard concept a powerful one to the audience. Even seemingly easy strategies such as tilting a camera to angle a picture or making a background as dull as possible can contribute to more impactful results, and we often do not realize them until we decide to look closer. This is a lesson that will definitely be useful in the scientific field, since the whole gist of science is looking for those intricacies that make one thing different from another. The difference between diseases could be a difference of one species of virus; between atoms, protons; between stones, molecular structures--the list is endless. But, like the rhetorical analysis, science goes beyond just identifying those differences--it includes knowing why those differences appear and how to use them to make something new or to fix what exists now. With this lesson, I have grown to appreciate both English and science more than before.

     And that concludes the Rhetorical Analysis, paper #2 of the 2015 ENG 109H-029 class. Coming up next...the Public Argument! This one is going to be utterly fantastic. Until then, this is Davis, signing off from the Rhetorical Analysis. See you all when the Public Argument begins!

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

First Draft of "Like a Girl" Commercial Analysis

Here is my very first draft of my rhetorical analysis! I do realize that it is a bit too extreme on the wordiness and the vocabulary; I'll be working on chopping that down for the other drafts. In the meantime, please feel free to comment or recommend or correct anything else on my paper; your help is greatly appreciated!

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Note: I checked out Michael Gee's and Arrick Benson's papers and made some suggestions there. Both papers were pretty good!

Note 2: I consulted one of my siblings for more help with my paper. He said that it was good overall, but there are those instances in which I drone off, using huge words and long sentences that could be better if I just used simpler vocabulary and shorter sentences. I will be working on keeping wordiness to a minimum in my draft.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Thesis and Outline of "Like a Girl" Rhetorical Analysis Essay

    After multiple sessions of watching the "Like a Girl" commercial, I have finally decided on a suitable thesis statement for my essay! I must say that it was interesting to see my own viewpoint change as I researched this campaign more and more, and I bet you all will see it, too!


Thesis: By utilizing cinematographic strategies and personalized accounts in its "Like a Girl" Super Bowl XLIV commercial, the Always company crafts and establishes an empowering message for women who have been subjected to such stereotypes from others and an alert against stereotyping women for men to instigate change in a male-dominated society. However, although it is mostly effective in presenting its beliefs to its audience, the Always company's desire to advertise and associate themselves with the feminist movement does mar the message's delivery, bringing damning questions to the overall motive of the "Like a Girl" campaign.


     Here is a link to my preliminary outline for the analysis. Coming soon: the drafts of the analysis!


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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Pre-writing Activities for "Like a Girl" Commercial Rhetorical Analysis Essay


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    For this particular essay, I will be using SOAPStone and an "observation and inferences" chart for pre-writing. Using SOAPStone will allow me to stay constantly aware of key elements necessary to making an effective analysis and to remember to link my evidences and inferences with the six concepts found in SOAPStone. With an "observations and inferences" chart, I will be able to preemptively link SOAPStone observations with my own observations and answer some questions as to how and why something in the commercial is presented the way it is. Through the chart, I can smoothly integrate both into my analysis and easily elaborate on the inferences without worrying about trying to find inferences from my observations while I am writing.

Note: The prewriting is always a work of progress; so there will be regular changes to the "o v. i" chart as time goes by.

Note 2 (particularly for Dr. Bell): If you're trying to look for my second comment on prewriting activities, it is located in Kat's Google Drive document.

Note 3: I like threes.




Personal Response to "Like a Girl" Super Bowl XLIV Commercial


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    For my rhetorical analysis essay, I have decided to focus on the "Like a Girl" commercials that played during Super Bowl XLIV earlier this year to discern how they effectively relay a message that many might have heard before using striking cinematographic strategies and personal thoughts and accounts that ultimately serve to alter the common beliefs of the definition of "being like a girl." These commercials especially piqued my own interest because, within a time limit of about one to two minutes and with a metaphysical limitation of many (including myself) having heard such messages before, they were able to make me ponder more about how I and other people viewed the female gender in the light of today's stereotypes of girls.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Outline and Analysis of "Wanted: Emotional Response for the End of Sex-Trafficking" Essay


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Note: For a quick look on how the essay is structured, here is a link to an outline that I made for the paper.


     Throughout the essay, Mikayla Gerdes-Morgan does a very good job on keeping her points connected with her thesis. First, she makes her thesis clear by placing it at the very end of her first paragraph: "Through the use of reenactments and cinematography, Nolot effectively illustrates the dire need for the cessation of human sex-trafficking and appeals to his viewers' emotions." Already, readers know that she will be focusing on how Nolot uses two things, reenactments and cinematic portrayals, to not only show the reasons for eliminating the trafficking industry, but also present how and why those two things appeal to the audience's emotions. From there, she ensures that her topic sentences relate to the thesis: in fact, three of the four topic sentences in the body of the essay include some derivative of the phrase "appeals to his viewers' emotions." By continuously connecting her topic sentences with emotional responses, Gerdes-Morgan creates a unified paper that is focused on narrow subjects, allowing her to truly explore the how's and the why's of her subjects.

      Although one may have excellent theses and topic sentences, both matter very little if they do not have viable pieces of evidence to support them; and Gerdes-Morgan appears to be very aware of that fact. Her one source of information is Nolot's documentary, from which she is basing her essay; but she draws out specific details within the documentary that prevent the evidence from sounding too generic or possibly fabricated. As she writes her essay, she is very cognitive on maintaining unity between the evidence and the thesis at hand--she chooses parts from the documentary that pertain to the emotional effects of being in the trafficking industry and interprets each one to reflect how they evoke an emotional response from the viewers themselves. For instance, in the fourth and fifth paragraphs (two of her strongest paragraphs in the essay), she mentions two scenes in the documentary that feature simulated moments of trafficking. One scene involved a man beating a woman, and another scene depicted a woman crying in her bedroom. Gerdes-Morgan pays particular attention to the camera frames in both scenes. For the first scene, she notes that the camera frame was from the woman's perspective and was gradually decreasing in size and fading into blackness, indicating (according to Gerdes-Morgan) that the victim was slowly disconnecting from her reality to cope with the trauma and relating the direct perspective of the scene with the audience's own visual perspective, which is the same as the victim's. For the second scene, Gerdes-Morgan points out how a circular frame was closing in on the woman while the image was becoming more distant and states that the circular frame is similar to an emotional tunnel in which the victim's hope becomes smaller and smaller over time. Also, she notes that the camera perspective is actually above the woman, a viewpoint that would create an urge to help the woman among the audience. Especially in these two paragraphs, not only does she choose effective pieces of evidence to support her topic sentences, but she also interprets each one in terms of cinematography and emotional appeal in the audience, the two primary subjects found in her thesis, making both paragraphs exceptionally strong and unified in purpose.

     However, not all of her paragraphs are of the same caliber as the other two. The third paragraph does present a piece of evidence, but it is the only one in the paragraph and suffers slightly from repetition in the two interpretations that Gredes-Morgan provides. This paragraph would be better if there was something cinematic that could serve to further elaborate the interpretation that the author provides. Besides that paragraph, the rest of the essay is a very good one. 

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Observations and Inferences from HONY



Observations
Inferences
  • Speaker is Brandon Stanton
  • Photos are for those who read his blog, social media sites, or books
  • Purpose is to emphasize the uniqueness of every individual and to challenge man’s tendency to overlook such people
  • Tone shifts from somber to lighthearted at intervals, often with juxtaposition
  • First photograph on blog is photo of construction worker
  • Six-month gap between first photo and second photo
  • Subjects initially were about eccentric people in New York before evolving into more personal ones
  • Most pictures are portraits instead of landscapes
  • On Jan. 10, 2011, he begins to write small stories pertaining to pictures
  • There are some pictures that do not feature the person’s face
  • Photographs became extremely frequent by August 2011
  • Evidence of his hosting fundraisers
  • People photographed range from the poor to the rich, the foot soldiers to the politicians, and from the joyous to the depressed
  • Backgrounds vary from deserts to cities, from classrooms to alleys, and from parks to slums
  • Pictures of Iran appear by Dec. 2012, but still remain on HONY blog site
  • Stories and comments increase in size as time progresses
  • Most recent photographs are of foreigners and refugees with personalized stories
  • First photograph and subsequent lack of photos for six months suggest that Stanton thought it was a trivial idea that would not proceed with much success.
  • First few months of photographs reveal that the blog was initially a type of eye candy, focusing on the poor and the garish in New York while providing little context.
  • The constant use of portrait format reinforce the purpose to individualize overlooked people in the world and to draw emphasis on the concept that every person is unique; if landscape was used, the focus of the photograph can be diverted to other points on the picture besides the person.
  • The short stories contribute to the tone of the photograph, add personality to the face, and further capitalize on the individuality of people by introducing a short excerpt of their history.
  • The lack of faces on some of the pictures could indicate that those people simply want privacy or desire anonymity to protect themselves from their enemies.
  • The evidence of fundraisers display that the blog has become more than a product of a hobby and instead has become a social statement, exposing people to different ways of life in a new fashion.
  • The various people photographed serve to fulfill particular demographics that may feel unrepresented, especially in today’s Internet-dominated society, but also build on the purpose of increasing the audience’s awareness of these kinds of people.
  • The various backgrounds work in tandem with the photographed people--the location themselves convey a tone to the picture and can even be revealing toward a person’s character traits.
  • The pictures from Iran are interesting--Stanton took those pictures on a little vacation but decided to keep those photos in his blog and other sites, suggesting that (a) he wanted to keep his audience informed about what he was doing, (b) he wanted to avoid making two separate blogs for these pictures, or (c) he wanted to make a statement that those people from Iran are no different from the people in New York and should be treated equally.
  • The evolution of the blog from a hobby to a full-fledged passion project is apparent in the most recent photos, which feature refugees and foreigners, and imply that the speaker himself desires to explore more into humanity and into the lives of the humans not only in New York.


     Based on what I observed and inferred from simply looking through Stanton's blog "Humans of New York," I am really interested to look into how and why he wanted to explore the individual rather than the whole of humanity. He could have showed pictures relating to the concept of people joining hands and working together to make New York--the title "Humans of New York" do convey that sense in one way. However, he must have thought that there was something about every single person in New York (and, eventually, in other countries) that makes society the one we see today. It would be quite an insightful adventure to try to discover his reasons and the lessons he ultimately wants us--his viewers--to draw from his photographs.

SOAPStone of HONY

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For those who constantly look at his blog, his social media sites, or his books (audience), Brandon Stanton (speaker) provides a photographic journey through the eyes of many eccentric individuals from New York and beyond (subject), all of whom have different stories--some happy, some heartbreaking--that teach all who see or read it that although man is one specie in one small world, every person has some unseen story that sets them apart from others (purpose). What once began as a new hobby for this excellent photographer (occasion) became a worldwide sensation, sometimes somberly (tone) reminding people that not everyone has an ideal beginning and happily (tone) showing the joys, hopes, and aspirations of mankind as a whole.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

SOAPStone of "#LikeAGirl" Super Bowl Commercial

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     In early 2015, Super Bowl XLIV commenced and brought along some captivating commercials with it (occasion)--Universal Studios presented a clip to promote their then-upcoming movie "Minions," Fox Films featured a trailer of "Kingsman: The Secret Service" (brilliantly fun movie, by the way), car companies showed off the features of their newest models, and WeatherTech decided to flaunt its high-quality floor mats. During halftime, however, a different kind of commercial presented by its sponsor Always (speaker), a Proctor and Gamble enterprise specializing in feminine hygiene products, came on the TV screen with the question of what it means to be "like a girl" (subject). The many men and women who were watching their TVs for the Super Bowl (audience) then viewed other adult men, adult women, and young boys moving in a very feminine fashion as they showed how they thought about acting like a girl. Then, in a tonal shift from parodical and humorous to pensive and thought-provoking (tone), the commercial displayed young girls moving in a "masculine" (by the terms of today's society) fashion, proudly declaring that acting like a girl meant "doing [their] best." For the viewers, two individualized purposes were fulfilled by the commercial: for women, it is a rallying cry to not be hassled by the modern definition of "girl" and to instill change for today; and for men, it is a wake-up call to let them see that women can stand equal to them and do not deserve to be looked down upon because of their supposed "weakness."

Revision of "Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph of 'Girl Culture'"

Note: Stick girl is back.
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For the last post, I attempted to write my own rhetorical analysis paragraph on some pictures from Lauren Greenfield's photographic essay "Girl Culture." After studying my paragraph and a paragraph of similar topic from Joan Brumberg, who wrote on Greenfield's essay, I decided to add some alterations to my paragraph. Here is the new paragraph:

     The pictures presented by Lauren Greenfield reveal a disturbing fact in our society that has often been mistaken for cute naivety: that the young girls of our generation, allured by the beautiful models, both real and cartoonish, in magazines and in movies, have embraced an erotic disposition under the belief that the world sees a curvaceous body and a stunning face as the true symbols of femininity. Take, for instance, the photograph of a four to five-year-old girl, who, in what appears to be a princess-style makeover session, has posed in a seductive fashion with puckered lips and an arched lower back--things one might connect with the overly sexualized cartoon character Jessica Rabbit from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" However, the erotic embrace has not only wrapped around the young children, but also seized the teenagers as well, who have lived for well over a decade seeing and hearing of how the ideal woman should be. For four teenagers going to some type of social gathering, one girl, wishing to catch the attention of some boys, struck a pose not unlike the girl playing dress-up. With these two pictures, it becomes tragically clear that for today's society, outward beauty has overtaken inward beauty, and that the eyes have dominated over the heart.

I noticed something quite interesting when I wrote the revised paragraph above. In the previous post containing my original paragraph, I though that analysis was synthesizing observations: I took what I saw from the pictures, tied them together, and sprinkled my own viewpoints in between. However, after studying Brumberg's essay and my own paragraph, I realized that that was not the case. For analysis paragraphs, I did not necessarily need to spit out every single detail in the picture--the audience can do that very well on its own. I needed to draw out deeper meanings from those little details and present those meanings to the audience, only adding in details when they are necessary for clarity. For the clincher, I needed to take those smaller details and meanings from the pictures and use them to find the overarching purpose for the photographs. Using these tactics, I was able to make a paragraph that was more analytical than declarative.



Saturday, October 3, 2015

Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph of "Girl Culture"

Note: More pictures of stick girls. #copyrightlaws #sorry #idontnormallydopoundsignstheywerecalledpoundsignsbeforetheybecamehashtagswhydidtheybecomehashtagsihavenoclue
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Here is a rewrite of a section of Joan Brumberg's essay on Lauren Greenfield's "Girl Culture":

     By the permeation of popular culture, through which young girls are exposed through television, through movies, and even through books to the ideals of how women should appear in public, children and teenagers alike have, unfortunately, adopted that tragic "sexy girl" stereotype as their ultimate goal, learning the ways of eroticism at a tender age. No picture portrays that aspect quite as perfectly as Lauren Greenfield's photograph of two five or six-year-old girls receiving help with makeup from an older girl. Although it may appear to be an innocent princess-makeover session (as seen with the lipstick and nail polishes on the table), the girl on the left of the photograph signifies otherwise as she poses seductively with puckered lips and a curved back. Another picture from Lauren Greenfield shows four teenage girls preparing for what may be a prom considering the style of dresses that each girl is wearing. The third girl from the left is the most striking focus of the photograph--her sideways stance, her tilted head, and her "sexy" face expression draw the attention of many viewers of this picture. Greenfield treats these photographs with a humorously tragic tone: it is funny to see young girls try to act seductively with exaggerated expressions and body poses, but it is simultaneously saddening to see them leaning toward the belief that sexiness provides feminine value rather than the previous belief that good morality and character provide value. Both of these photographs serve to reveal to the public that the erotic actions of the older generations have had a massive effect on the new generation, altering the new generation's concept of the perfect girl as one with sex appeal and changing the values of femininity as we know it. 

And here is a paragraph explaining how I used SOAPStone:

     The speaker is Lauren Greenfield, since she is the one that provides the photographs. The occasions (or the contextual events) are found within the photographs themselves--they contain details that give some hints to the viewers about what was happening when the photograph was taken (for example, the picture of the makeover displayed cosmetic products on the table), essential elements for complete understanding of the subject matter. Because the pictures focused on young girls, it is logical to state that Greenfield's intended audience (besides the general public) is the girls of this generation and the last generation--this generation for their exposure to eroticism, and the last generation for their effects on the new generation. By combining Greenfield's subject of girl culture and its trend toward eroticism with her usage of a humorously tragic tone, one can clearly infer her purpose: to shed light for the girls and women (and, to some degree, men) of today and of yesteryears  on how eroticism became the new drive of women, and to provide a viewpoint that encourages people to think on how their cultures changed from the twentieth century. By knowing the purpose of the photographs, one can draw the most information from what they see in the pictures.

And here is the link to the outline.

Boom.


Friday, October 2, 2015

Word Cloud of Some Paragraphs of My QRG

     After some thought, I decided to make a word cloud of two paragraphs of my QRG about BPA to see what kind of words I used frequently--it would be good to me to know if I need to improve my vocabulary. For a QRG about BPA, I was shocked to see what was the word I used the most in those two paragraphs in my QRG mainly about BPA.


It was BPA.

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