Thorough out this semester I have learned many things. Our class have also read many texts. If I didn't have this class I wouldn't have learned much about what going on around me and in everyday life. Everything that we have read is important to me in some way but, there are some that were more important then others. The very first text we read was very important to me. It was Foss, he explained what rhetoric is and how it is used. If I didn't read this text I wouldn't truly understand rhetoric and that's what our entire class is based around. Two other texts that I believe were important was Goffman and Pollan. Goffman was important because he showed me things I would have never noticed in commericals or advertisements. You can relate almost anything to Goffman, from the way people stand and hold things and they way they are posing in the advertisements means something. I would have never realized there was any signifigance in that if it weren't for Goffman. My last choice of Pollan changed my whole perspective on eating. When I began reading this novel I thought it was going to be the most boring thing I have ever read. As I got further into the book my opinion changed it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I learned a lot about the food I eat everyday. Some of the things I found out I would have rathered not knowing about. I could never look at a hamburger the same again or a piece of chicken. But it was very interesting and important for me to actually know what's going on with the food I'm eating everyday.
Everything I learned this semester I will take with me and use it for the rest of my life. I never even heard of the word rhetoric until this class. Now I can't believe I never knew it, it's everywhere. I see it in articles hear it in lectures, it's even used when having conversation. Basically everything we do involves some sort of rhetoric and I would have had no idea if it was for Foss explaining it and for this class. Even Function Ranking and the feminine touch I never heard of any of those things and they are in my everyday life, they are in every ad or commericial I see. It was never a big deal before but now I know that their is importance to what they are trying to do when they use Goffmans techniques. I learned a lot of imortant things just from those two texts. Pollan also taught me a lot about what really goes on with food and food is essential to our lives, we can't live without it. It's good to know the truth. It's also nice to have a better understanding of things I never knew existed until now.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Blog #8 Pollan philosophies
Throughout the novel Pollan tells us about what steps our food goes through before it goes onto our plates. HE discusses many animals and the conditions they live in and how they are treated. He also exlains the process in which they are killed. Pollan's chapter 12 "Slaughter" was a tough one to read, he explains in quite some detail how our chickens get killed. "For all the considerable beauty I'd witnessed following a food chainin which the sun fed the grass, the grass, the cattle, the cattle the chicken, and the chickens us, there was one unavoidable link in that chain few would consider beautiful: the open-air processing shed out behind the Salatin's house where 6 times a month in the course of a long morning, several hundred chicken's are killed, scalded,plucked, and eviscerated." (Pollan,226) The process the chicken's go through to get to our plates for us to eat I think is horrible and disgusting. This completely changed my perspective on eating meat. My favorite type of meat was chicken, not anymore. After reading this entire book alot of my perspectives on meat has changed. I'm not as big of a meat eater as I was because now I know what actualy happens to these animals before slaughter and during slaughter.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Blog #6 / Organic
The question what is organic ? has a multitude of possible answers. In chapter nine of " The Omnivore's Dilemma Pollan has quiet a lot to say about 'organic'. He says " On a recent visit I filled my cart with eggs " from cage-free vegetarian hens," milk from cows that live " free from unnecessary fear and distress," wild salmon caught by Native Americans in Yakutat, Alaska (population 833) and heirloom tomatoes from Capay farm, "one of the early pioneers of the organic movement." (135) Based on what I have read and previous knowledge on 'organic' I believe it's just a 'healthier' way of eating the food you already eat. The food isn't grown in unsanitary places, it's taken proper care of. The animals do not live under harsh conditions and have a nice life. Hey if you think about it organic food sounds like a topothesia to me.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Blog #5 Pollan/Obrach
1. Pollen says " Men have become tools of their tools." I believe this means that now a days people rely more on their tools then there own handywork. You drive your tractor for a few hours that plants your seeds for you and your done for the day. Back in the day you only had your hands and a few essential tools to get your entire farm up and running. Men have become overly relient on their tools thats there becoming tools. You find your self thinking what ever happened to good hard labor? I guess people have become to lazy for hardwork. Don't get me wrong tractors are a lot easier and quicker and do the same effcient job as your hands could maybe the tractor is even better then your hands but people have become to consumed with technology and tools and whatever else we have out their that we basically forget who we truly are because now we're all just tools of our trade.
2. Obrach continually speaks about woman's problems and how we must be a certain way to conform with society or otherwise be an outcast to society. Yes this is true woman do feel that way but what about men? Obrach says, " The current ideological justifications for inequality of the sexes has been bulit on the concept of innate differences between men and woman." (200-201) I tend to disagree with that, men are no different then woman when the corcern is body type. Men like woman have issues with weight. No man wants to over weight and they'll go on diets just like woman to fit the certain stereotype everyone has to be this month. Men actually try harder then woman to look good on some occassions, a man will spend hours at the gym getting "buff" because thats what the females like, they'll drink their protein shakes and raw eggs all day to look good. So in reality yes woman struggle with weight and diets but so do men. So really when you think about what is the difference between men and woman and body types ? I don't see any.
2. Obrach continually speaks about woman's problems and how we must be a certain way to conform with society or otherwise be an outcast to society. Yes this is true woman do feel that way but what about men? Obrach says, " The current ideological justifications for inequality of the sexes has been bulit on the concept of innate differences between men and woman." (200-201) I tend to disagree with that, men are no different then woman when the corcern is body type. Men like woman have issues with weight. No man wants to over weight and they'll go on diets just like woman to fit the certain stereotype everyone has to be this month. Men actually try harder then woman to look good on some occassions, a man will spend hours at the gym getting "buff" because thats what the females like, they'll drink their protein shakes and raw eggs all day to look good. So in reality yes woman struggle with weight and diets but so do men. So really when you think about what is the difference between men and woman and body types ? I don't see any.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Blog #3- Asimov and Sedaris
Asimov and Sedaris both speak similarily about language. Asimov believes basically that your only as smart as what you know. He says if your a mechanic then you know only about cars. If your a book worm you educated and know about academics. That's his language, that you only understand what you have learned to understand. Sedaris on the other hand speaks about his harsh teacher he had while studying in France. He talks more about actual language. His teacher would abuse her students if what they said wasn't perfect or she didn't approve of what the students were saying.
Both writer's to me are saying that your only well educated on the language you know. Asimov was well at learning and doing well on tests. So his language was more academically strong. He was unable to speak about how to fix a car because, that wasn't his language. Sedaris language was English and in France the French didn't like how him and some other's metioned in the story could not speak perfect French. He was also saying your only as good as the lanuage you speak. Both men's aspect on language were very interesting to me, who would have thought language could be more then just how you speak?
Both writer's to me are saying that your only well educated on the language you know. Asimov was well at learning and doing well on tests. So his language was more academically strong. He was unable to speak about how to fix a car because, that wasn't his language. Sedaris language was English and in France the French didn't like how him and some other's metioned in the story could not speak perfect French. He was also saying your only as good as the lanuage you speak. Both men's aspect on language were very interesting to me, who would have thought language could be more then just how you speak?
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Blog #3 Goffman/Bordo
A.
Goffman says "Correspondingly, holding the body erect and the head high is streotypically a mark of unashamedness,superoity and, disdain." (Goffman,40) I find thos qoute significant in many ways. If I see a person walking down the street looking at the ground and, shoulders slummed , I would think they were self-conscious or had low self-esteem. However a person walking with there head held high shows a sign of confidence.
B.
In Susan Bordo's article she states " Face-lifts, implants, and liposuction are advertised as impowerment, "taking charge" of one's life."(Bordo,152) This statement is significant. You can't watch a television show or read a magazine , without hearing how some famous actress just got her nose done and now she's a whole new woman. You hear their entire life changed just because of the surgery the got, or the implants or whatever else these woman received. Advirtisments also make it out to look like every woman can do this and if you do you'll also be a whole new person. With the non-stop craze about how wonderful plastic surgery is, is does make a girl think, wow I could have needle injected in my forehead and m life won't suck so bad anymore.
C.
Goffman and Bordo's analysis', I believe still hold true today. According to Goffman men are usually superior to woman in advertisments. That is still mostly true. I believe it will always be that way. I myself don't usually see a woman superior to a man in an advertisment. Goffman's analysis shows woman as feminine and caring. In his atricle about the "Feminine Touch" the woman's hands are shown I guess to make the advertisment's more appealing and sexy. Which is still true today. A commerical of a woman holding a glass of wine would intrigue more people to the wine then if a 90 year old man was holding the glass.
Bordo talks more about perfection. She speaks on how in our society, in this generation it's more important for a woman to me seen as flawless, perfect then, normal. This is quite true. Yes, of course you see more regular sized woman on T.V. and Ads then you used to , you know the woman I'm referring to, the one's that aren't stick thin aren't completely flawless. But, stick thin , "perfect" woman are still ruling the world of advertisment and television. That's never going to change in my oponion. You will never see an ad for beauty supplies with a 250 pound woman on it.
Goffman says "Correspondingly, holding the body erect and the head high is streotypically a mark of unashamedness,superoity and, disdain." (Goffman,40) I find thos qoute significant in many ways. If I see a person walking down the street looking at the ground and, shoulders slummed , I would think they were self-conscious or had low self-esteem. However a person walking with there head held high shows a sign of confidence.
B.
In Susan Bordo's article she states " Face-lifts, implants, and liposuction are advertised as impowerment, "taking charge" of one's life."(Bordo,152) This statement is significant. You can't watch a television show or read a magazine , without hearing how some famous actress just got her nose done and now she's a whole new woman. You hear their entire life changed just because of the surgery the got, or the implants or whatever else these woman received. Advirtisments also make it out to look like every woman can do this and if you do you'll also be a whole new person. With the non-stop craze about how wonderful plastic surgery is, is does make a girl think, wow I could have needle injected in my forehead and m life won't suck so bad anymore.
C.
Goffman and Bordo's analysis', I believe still hold true today. According to Goffman men are usually superior to woman in advertisments. That is still mostly true. I believe it will always be that way. I myself don't usually see a woman superior to a man in an advertisment. Goffman's analysis shows woman as feminine and caring. In his atricle about the "Feminine Touch" the woman's hands are shown I guess to make the advertisment's more appealing and sexy. Which is still true today. A commerical of a woman holding a glass of wine would intrigue more people to the wine then if a 90 year old man was holding the glass.
Bordo talks more about perfection. She speaks on how in our society, in this generation it's more important for a woman to me seen as flawless, perfect then, normal. This is quite true. Yes, of course you see more regular sized woman on T.V. and Ads then you used to , you know the woman I'm referring to, the one's that aren't stick thin aren't completely flawless. But, stick thin , "perfect" woman are still ruling the world of advertisment and television. That's never going to change in my oponion. You will never see an ad for beauty supplies with a 250 pound woman on it.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Blog #2 McCloud-Fallacy
A.
McCloud himself writes " The fact that your mind is capable of taking a circle, two dots, and line and turning them into a face is nothing short of incredible." (202) McCloud's point is basically saying our minds have an odd way of working. It's strange how dots and a line form a face in our minds. If anyone was too ever see two dots, a line and a circle they would automatically presume it's a face. I wonder how is it that our minds can turn such a simple image into something that well known ? Our minds work in mysterious ways I must say. This qoute intrigued me very much. It made me think like, you know I never really thought of it like that. How our minds turn dots and lines into a face. It is indeed incredible. It's sort of like how our minds transfer thoughts into actions. You think you want speak so you speak. McCoulds views on this subject were all very interesting. They really make you think.
B.
An example of a logical fallacy would be " my house burnt down,so buy a new one ." This is an example of oversimplifcation. Oversimplification is a simple solution to a complex problem. Obvisously if your house burnt down it's more complex to purchase another house.
C.
If ever there was an idea custom-made for Jay Leno monologue, this was it: that male students usually dominate class discussions. Isn't that like a typical double standard? Whatever happen to men and woman were equal?
I happen to sympathize with the woman,though, perphaps because I feel woman or more self -conscious about how they will sound and are more concerned of what people will think about them. Men don't really care about that sort of thing like woman do.
McCloud himself writes " The fact that your mind is capable of taking a circle, two dots, and line and turning them into a face is nothing short of incredible." (202) McCloud's point is basically saying our minds have an odd way of working. It's strange how dots and a line form a face in our minds. If anyone was too ever see two dots, a line and a circle they would automatically presume it's a face. I wonder how is it that our minds can turn such a simple image into something that well known ? Our minds work in mysterious ways I must say. This qoute intrigued me very much. It made me think like, you know I never really thought of it like that. How our minds turn dots and lines into a face. It is indeed incredible. It's sort of like how our minds transfer thoughts into actions. You think you want speak so you speak. McCoulds views on this subject were all very interesting. They really make you think.
B.
An example of a logical fallacy would be " my house burnt down,so buy a new one ." This is an example of oversimplifcation. Oversimplification is a simple solution to a complex problem. Obvisously if your house burnt down it's more complex to purchase another house.
C.
If ever there was an idea custom-made for Jay Leno monologue, this was it: that male students usually dominate class discussions. Isn't that like a typical double standard? Whatever happen to men and woman were equal?
I happen to sympathize with the woman,though, perphaps because I feel woman or more self -conscious about how they will sound and are more concerned of what people will think about them. Men don't really care about that sort of thing like woman do.
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