Blog week 8B

Poetry: Literature involving very special and intense words. By the use of certain rhythms and styles it is used to express feelings, strong feelings. Poems may or may not rhyme but they are written in such a way that no other writing is written, making them unique and beautiful in their own way.
Vulnerability: Different people have different "safe zones" and when you leave your personal safe zone, you make yourself vulnerable. Meaning that you are making it possible for other people/things to harm you in some way, shape or form, whether it's emotionally or physically.
Infatuation: It's that feeling you often recieve throughout many of your younger years. Where when you meet somebody and you admire them. The puppy love, it's not something that lasts forever, it's short and very passsionate.

Blog Week 8A

Music: The art or science of combining vocal and/or instrumental sounds in order to produce beauty of form, harmony, and express emotions. Who would've thought that such a lowclass, african american, gangbanger could have such an impact on the world? Music for Tupac Shakur was much more than just combining vocal and instumental sounds together, for him, it was a way to express himself. A way for him to get his feelings out there, to show the world what it's really like to be growing up in the 'hood.'
In the article From Poetry to Rap:The Lyrics of Tupac Shakur that I recently have read, it was discussed just how many achievements Tupac had made. Six solo rap albums, over 30 singles, starring in six movies, and also including a body of poems, is all helped and influenced greatly by his upbringing. Because his mother was a part of the Black Panther Party, an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States, Tupac learned and excelled in verbal dexterity, meaning that he was very good with his words and wordplay. While at the same time learning about the influences from his mothers political past.

blog week 7A

Subject specific rhetorical tools are very important for the writing process because they help to specify things within the story, making the writing more comprehendable for the audience. They also help to make the writing more interesting by adding details, and painting an image with the words in which they use.
Compare and Contrast is one of the rhetorical tools, which is used when there is a basis of comparison. When two or more objects, or things, are able to be compared. This helps us to understand the similiarites and differences between them.
Visual Gazes are another rhetorical tool which can be used. It helps the audience visualize what you are trying to say. The few in which we talked about in class include the following: familial gaze which is used to remind us of close friends and family. National gaze, which isn't neccessarly so private, or so near to the heart. Consumer gaze, which is used to get consumers to buy products. For example, commercials and ads. Lastly, Travel gaze, which is used to get you to Travel. Like Disneyland photos, making children all over the world wanting to go meet all their favorite cartoon characters in real life.

Blog Week 6A

Compare and contrast in visual rhetoric is important in many ways. By promoting higher-order thinking through comparing, analyzing, organizing, and evaluating, it shows the differences in things, as well as the similarities. And because of this, it is easier to pick and choose what you do and do not like about each. Comparing and contrasting helps you to understand more of what is going on, becoming more flexible with your writing.

Blog week 5A

A tool which makes the audience feel a certain way, think, act, or remember something, is a rhetorical gaze. There's several different rhetorical gazes that may be used in writing. Familial is one of the rhetorical gazes, it is used to remember things such as important places or important people. An example of a familial gaze would be a photo of a family. Travel, is another rhetorical gaze. Which is used in the remembrance of certain sites or places. For advertising, or marketing, like commericials or billboards, Consumer is the gaze which is being used. But for the general audience, the rhetorical gaze used is National.



In this photo, familial is being used. Bringing back feelings and memories within this family, the photo may take a person to a time of the past.

Blog Week 4A

There are many benefits for the use of Cause and Effect papers. In my opinion, the most important benefit of using a Cause and Effect paper is that you get reasoning behind what the paper is about, you get told "why" something happened, needs to happen, or is going to happen. Throughout life, we go through school being told what to do, without an explination of why we need to do it, and when we are going to actually use it in the real world. Even as children, our parents tell us what we are suppose to do, and what we aren't suppose to do, very rarely do they give you an explination other than "because I said so" or "because i'm the parent, and what I say, goes."
Before writing a Cause and Effect paper, it is important to analyze each cause and each effect very carefully and the relationship between them. Also, it is important not to overwhelm the reader with multiple causes and effects. Instead of writing all of them, choose ones in which are the most important for your paper, which will keep the reader interested.

Blog Week 3B

Peer Review is important for many reasons. It gets a fresh pair of eyes on your paper, a pair of eyes that doesn't know exactly what your paper is about, therefore they cannot piece together information in their head as you can. It helps to learn what you're missing, what you may have too much of, and also spelling/grammar errors that may have occured, as well as the missuse of words. Peer reviews are an excellent thing to do, because while you're getting told what you may have done wrong, and getting advise in how to fix it, you should also be getting told what you've done right, which may boost your confidence level.