“Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Towards Rhetorical Analysis” by Laura Bollin Carroll explains the necessity of using rhetoric in everyday life. Understanding rhetoric is a principle part of being a well-informed consumer as we are not simply being brainwashed by the media. Taking the time to analyze situations, whether it be why or how the matter relates to you and its importance, provides us the ability to not give in to the persuasion of these creators without purpose. Laura Carroll also addresses how we as humans make rhetorical analysis so routinely, that it has become habitual. Just like the example Laura Carroll continuously refers back to in this article with the meeting a new teacher for the first time, I had been in a similar situation with one of my current Professors. The first day of the semester I walked into the class and seen this small, curly haired,  white women, dressed in trousers and a blouse with a special choice of accessories. She was walking around all jolly and vibrant and enthusiastic it looked fake. Automatically from everything i analyzed about her within the first three minutes of the class, I came to the conclusion that she was this, stuck up, arrogant, self absorbed white women who got away with being the way she is because she was privileged. In the first half of the semester she proved my judgments to be accurate, she would talk about how great she is and how smart and funny she is, she literally called herself a narcissist, it scared me. However, later on in the semester she had left me a note on one of my papers asking me to see her after class. I was livid. I thought she was going to try to violate my paper, but after class we spoke for the first time, and she was so sweet and down to earth, praising my writing and how much potential she sees in my future  asking me questions about my future, she was so eager to speak to me and help me and offered me to speak to her whenever I needed anything that she would always be available during her office hours. I felt horrible after speaking to her, all my judgments made me paint this picture of a monster she was nothing like. That taught me to never judge a book by its cover. If I haven’t had the chance to speak to her personally I would have always have this horrible perception of who she really is. Therefore, we must not always use the judgments we made off of rhetorical analysis as solely our understandings of things.

MEMBERS: Geetangalie Goberdan, Mohamed Layachi, Reem Malek, Kayla Ye

PRESENTATION DATE: Tuesday, May 14

Slide Presentation

GROUP NAME: The BCE

ROLES: Geetangalie Goberdan-

Mohamed Layachi-

Reem Malek-

Kayla Ye- Researcher

TOPIC/ PRODUCT: Headphones

NAME OF PRODUCT:

DESCRIPTION/ PURPOSE: We’ve all heard of AirPods, Apple’s version of wireless earphones released back in 2016. Since then, people of all ages use them from middle schoolers to people in retirement homes, in hopes of looking for some peace. One must admit, the Airpods were a great idea and the society believed so too, seeing that since then more and more companies released earphones that are similar in design. However, if you have ever actually used Airpods or have known someone who does, you’ve probably heard of people often losing them. The wireless design makes it that these earphones are often easily lost when dropped.

The BCE – Button Cell Earphone is what’s going to pushed Airpods out of existence. Named after the button cell battery who we used as a model for design for these earphones. In simpler terms, the earphone has two parts. One part is the earphone itself. It’s small enough to fit inside the outer-part of the ear canal. The other part however is not another earpiece, it goes on the wrist. There is only one earpiece and it allows for the user to hear the music in both ears.

Carlton Yuan- Researcher
Roman Cook-  Team Leader
Samir Kunwor- Organizer
Sambeg Raj Subedi- Power Point designer

Topic: Better public transportation payment process in NYC

Propose Idea

Collaborate possibilities

Pick best way to move ahead economically and feasibly

Create and propose idea with Power Point

Gabriel Almonte 

I think I have a unique relationship with technology. I believe Older people are too out of touch with technology while the younger the person the more attached to technology they are. I believe people around my age have the best balance. We grew up while most of the advance were being made but we also had a lot of our childhood where certain things were frowned upon. Some people gfot phones in junior high school others received it high school. Being that we were always at the age where we weren’t considered children, but we also weren’t adults that we could make our own decisions our parents tended to take the cautious route with technology, so we have a good balance of being functional without technology. Many young children today are always growing up with so much technology around them, who knows what the future holds with them. I do think that a balance should be kept because you shouldn’t fall behind like many of the older people have. I believe you should always be able to use the latest tech but shouldn’t need it. I try my best to balance my life, I do use technology a lot and I do use it in times I don’t need it just for the convenience, however I’m very functional without it and I don’t miss it when I don’t have it. A lot of technology is based of horror or thriller genres now, but I believe the future leads to technology be used as propaganda. It’s so easy to voice an opinion while using technology and you can reach endless amounts of people as well. People will use technology to get their points across, trying to convince everyone through media to agree with them.  

Gabriel Almonte 

After reading the article I realized I use rhetorical analysis often. Every semester I get nervous wondering how my teachers will be. I read reviews on ratemyprofessor.com to try to find teachers that are generally liked. However, everyone has their own preferences with teachers. I was enrolled in a writing for engineers’ class with another teacher and she looked older, wore glasses, and didn’t seem mean but seemed serious. I took notes of these things mentally and I was worried if I would be able to excel in this class. She then assigned a 2-page report on why writing courses are important to STEM majors. This being my first engineering class I dropped the class. I quickly searched for other openings and found the class I’m currently enrolled in. After reading good reviews I decided to take another chance on the course. I arrived to the class nervous because I thought the course would be too difficult but I arrived to an environment I wasn’t expecting. The seating arrangement in the class made me feel like the classwork wouldn’t be too stressful. Then the professor walked in and she was young, had tattoos, and a fresh hairstyle. After that, I was happy, I thought I made the decision in switching to the class I’m currently enrolled in. Shortly after my professor came up to me and explained the assignment at hand and a quick description on how the class was. The conversation supported my initial thoughts, I was satisfied that I took the chance after reading the reviews because a professor like this is what I want in all my classes. I tend to connect younger teachers with being more understanding while they try to make the course about learning what I need rather than making me do unnecessary work to keep me busy. While I tend to connect older teachers with just going by the book and not being open to new methods and ways of teaching. I try to avoid that because I believe that things have changed around the world so teaching methods must change as well.