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Geetangalie’s Self Reflection #2

Posted by Geetangalie Goberdan on

In composing this descriptive essay, it took me several tries. I had difficulties in choosing a fictitious artifact that had enough substance to write about. I initially thought I would describe the Lazarus Pit from the CW show Arrow but I found myself running out of things to describe about it pretty quickly since specifics of size, composition and other details needed for a descriptive essay were unavailable. In the end, I chose to write about the Handy Dandy Notebook as seen in the Nick Jr.’s television series Blue’s Clues. In my opinion, I did well at including images to explain what I had described in my essay. I made sure to add not only regular images but also gifs to capture the reader’s attention. I believed since I was writing about a children’s television show I could keep my images light-hearted as such. So, not only do my images portray what I had described but also does it in an entertaining way.

Since my artifact was not very “technical” as it was not comprised of as many components internally as say an electronic artifact would, my downfall in this assignment would be not having enough to write on. I did try my best to explain all the parts to the Handy Dandy Notebook, which mostly had to do with its physicalities. Therefore, I believe I deserve an A for this project since although I did write sufficient enough detail and included images to support my writing, I might lose points for the specific artifact I chose.

 

Week #10 Response/Week #10 Response

Week#10Response#9

Posted by Sameer Kunwor on

Technologies is a double-edged sword

There is no doubt that it is quite harmful for people to accept the using of technologies in a way. They let us lose ourselves sometimes and unsafe for the world security because of technologies existing. Even it is a kind of dangerous thing if people cannot control it correctly. Despite it, people can still get a lot of convenience and benefits from technologies. From a very large extent, technologies promote the standard of people’s lives.

It is true that there is a big problem for people to be controlled by technologies. A quite common phenomenon exists at present, that is, a great number of people cannot do anything or even cannot live without technologies. They totally become a kind of slaves of technology. For example, the popularity of using phones has become much more for people recently, especially for young people. Phones are the representations of modern world. A large quantity of people are attracted by the function of phones. They start to be focus on or even addicted to it. Thus, they gradually lose themselves,

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Week #9 Response/Week #9 Response

Week#9Response#8

Posted by Sameer Kunwor on

Briefcases Vs. Backpacks

            In this article, written by Laura Bolin Carroll, Rhetoric and the importance is explained in a variety of different ways. The author, herself uses pathos, logos, and ethos in her way of describing the three rhetorical appeals.

First, in her writing she begins by saying, “The moment your professor walked in the room, you likely began analyzing her and making assumptions about what kind of teacher she will be.” (45) She uses this quote to catch our attention as student. Not just in the beginning of her article but throughout the whole thing she uses multiple real-life examples that we know most people experience daily. This helps us understand how different things catch the attention of people.

Secondly, she also talks about implications of rhetorical analysis. As we may have experienced at some point in our lives people often comprehend ideas differently. You might say something, and people may draw a completely different meaning from it than you intended this is very important when you look at who your audience is. Your writing must adapt to your specific audience.

Finally, she gives us very good explanations of each rhetorical appeals. For example, throughout out the article she lets us know that, ethos is the credibility one uses in an article, for example using good citing resources, we know that pathos means appeal by emotion which I believe is the best rhetorical appeal but depends on each audience, and a very important on is logos, writer use logos to logically explain ideas in ways that make perfect sense to members of the audience.

Overall, you still might ask yourself what is rhetoric? People might define rhetoric in many ways, but to me rhetoric is simply appealing to the chosen matter by using either ethos logos, or pathos to properly plead your case, sell your ad, appeal to audience, and many more things the goal at the end of the day is to use the three rhetorical appeals in ways of getting an audience’s attention.

Works Cited

Carroll, Laura Bolin. “Steps towards rhetorical analysis.” Backpacks Vs. Briefcases.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1EVte07c03_VRQ33WEO07Xpuhyi4mNV7g

Week #8 Response/Week #8 Response

Week#8Response#7

Posted by Sameer Kunwor on

Black Mirror: “San Junipero” and “The Entire History of You”

These Black Mirror episodes share the common theme that technology will be our downfall or something else. In “The Entire History of You” we see how technology backfires. You literally able to relieve your most moments. Black Mirror is using sort of a scare tactic to get us to wake up and realize that all this technology will be our undoing. Each episode is faced with different characters and different issues.

I believe that the technology portrayed in “San Junipero” can be best described by the social construction of technology. This theory goes on to explain that social structures (created by humans) go on to shape the development of technology, rather than the other way around. I think this perfectly describes “San Junipero” because humans feared death and the unknown after life, so they developed a technology that helped them escape the inevitability of death.

Whereas, the “Entire History of You” episode has got several communication concepts that are depicted in the movie, this notion clearly help us to understand and interpret what we see in the media. The episode is an alternative reality depicting that most people have “grains”. This grains record everything they see, do, speak, hear and see. This allows them to play back every memory that they have. Communication concepts portrayed in the episode, makes us clearly comprehend the entire plot.

Obtaining technology that allows you to record and re-evaluate your memories and experiences would be rather unique and intriguing but could string along with its consequences and dangers. Your secrets would never really be safe.  Relationship fights would end up consisting of both partners replaying memories to catch the other in a lie or to visually bring up past fights. Inevitably, it would lead to an obsession. People wouldn’t want to live in the moment because of the off chance that something bad could happen. They’d rather relive happy memories where they’re guaranteed to be content. With that, this small little chip holds your entire life, everything you’ve ever done. That’s kind of scary. What happens if it becomes removed? The government seizes it.? What if it’s hackable? If someone else can hack into your chip and essentially download all your memories, what happens then? The opportunities that arise that they can do with it are endless. No secret would ever be safe.

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