Group ad

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34154174/ns/business-us_business/t/att-verizon-face-tv-ads/

In the ad, there are two men who have different phone companies. The man on the right has Verizon, and he appears to be judging the man on the left, who has AT&T. The man with Verizon looks more kempt and put together, whereas the man with AT&T looks a bit disheveled, with a sour look on his face.

Verizon has more coverage than AT&T, due to their mass amount of cell towers. AT&T’s towers is more open to their smaller brands.  

The sibling rivalry between AT&T and Verizon started in 1982. Both companies started . the Bell Telephone Company in 1885. It held a monopoly over all telephones until it was split it into two different companies. Ever since, Verizon and AT&T have fought to out to each other.

one of Verizon's catch phrase is,"There's a map for that," said by a judge out in Atlanta, is a play off of the Apple Incs. catch phrase, “There’s an app for that”.

animal ads

1. Animal Activists, people who are against cruelty towards animals: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Mercy for animals, and Freedom For Animals.
2. These advertisements are intended for animal lovers, pet owners, people who shop at Walmart, and people who buy cosmetics.
3. We can tell by the subjects and the strong messages that the imagery conveys.
4. The purpose of these texts  in order to generate support and provide awareness. Their creators want to stop animal cruelty and give every animal a good life.
5. PETA appeal to pet owner’s emotions by using a photo of a dog and his owner with sad expressions. Mercy for Animals made an anti-cruelty ad for cruelty against farm animals using the picture of a caged pig. They used words like please, suffer, and crammed to appeal to the viewers
6. The images are sad, graphic, and upsetting, with words such as suffer, crammed, and cruel to make the point that these animals are suffering. In the picture for Mercy for Animals, “Walmart Does” is a key phrase that relates to many people world wide due to the popularity of the store.
7. The ads, as a group, appeal to the viewers emotions by using the words crammed, suffer, and cruel in order to convey an anti-cruelty towards animals message.

group work

2. Analytical thinking is another way of saying rhetorical thinking. It’s breaking the writing down into parts to better understand the contents of what you read. By breaking down text and phrases we can then figure out where the author stands, author’s point of view, author’s tone and so on. Many stories may hide their meaning but upon deeper analysis we find greater meaning.

4. The “Stay Sweet As You  Are” analysis paper fits the criteria by including the ads that it’s analyzing, breaking down the information in chronological order, and finding the main points of each ad. At the end, all three advertisements are compared and found to have the same main point: “pleasing men is the prerequisite for [a woman’s] happiness"

essay questions.

11.     What was your main point (thesis)?  “The Moral of the Story”?

The main point of my paper was that English was and still is a hard subject that I never really got into. I always had problems in some part of reading or writing.

22.     Who was your audience?  What did you assume about them?  What “audience needs” did you have to consider in writing the paper?  How did you tailor your writing to them?

I assumed that my audience was my classmates and other people who read my blog.

33.     What feedback or reactions did you get at various times while composing this paper, and how was this helpful?  What other kinds of input or support did you get from classmates, teacher, tutors, others?  Were you able to make use of it?  How, or why not?

            I didn’t have anyone look over my paper so I didn’t get any feedback.

44.     What did you find interesting about the process you went through in writing this paper, and what did you learn from it?

            The process that I went through was the same as I have always done.

55.      What questions do you have for me about the paper?  (What part(s) of the paper would you like me to focus on?  What do you see as the paper’s strengths, and what areas are you unsure of?)

                I am unsure about most of the paper because it was a little bit hard for me, I couldn’t get into the grove of the paper until later on. 

Essay #1

Rhianna Hatton

10-20-15

English 101 5:30pm

Dr. Sonia Apgar Begert

            I have always had problems with reading and writing for as long as I can remember. Back in kindergarten I remember I have some trouble keeping up with the other kids. It always felt like I was not as smart as the other kid but I do remember being told that I had a great imagination that one day would come in handy. When third grade came around the schools tested me to see if I needed to be taken out of class every day to be taught reading and writing outside of the classroom. After that I had always been in a special reading/writing class on top of having a normal English class.

            These classes would let me think outside of the box when it came to writing. One year during I think fourth grade my special English class were trying to write short stories. When I finished mine I felt good, so I went home asked my parents if they could give me a journal. That journal I used to write a story that was going to be a short one but it ended up turning into about three different children’s books. They were about a lion named yoyo who had a son named teddy. The books would fallow their lives and tell stories of them solving some crimes. They were some really neat stories but in never felt that people would like them, so I put them away and never looked at them again.

            The books were placed into a cooler that I had been using as a night stand. Didn’t realize that I had kept the books but one night I felt like reading them. When I was done reading the stories it restarted my love to write stories for kids. For weeks the books went through a rewrite stage, but every time I would change something to make it feel like someone who knew what they were doing wrote it. It made no since so I stopped trying to fix it and tried to just fix the spelling. After all of the fixing I finally felt that I could share the stories with someone but once I did I got made fun of. So again I put away the books and stopped writing stories.

            For some time the only stories that I would write were essays a teacher would like me to write or stories that were just for me and sometimes for my brothers. By the time I was in high school I started to feel like people liked what I wrote or that they wouldn’t make fun of me as much. I was right people loved my stories the only thing was my spelling. For some reason I still can’t spell that well and people still make fun of me just not as bad. My writing skills have improved over the years but there is still some work to do. That’s why when I got to Olympic college they placed me into a lower English class which I would say was one of the best English classes I have ever been in.

During last year my little sister (best friend) Natalie was going through my room trying to help me get rid of some things. When she came across my little books. Natalie looked at me and asked what they were. I told her that she could read them if she would like, so she did. When she was done reading the stories she turned to me smiling and somewhat laughing. I asked Natalie why she was laughing at me and she said because the stories were good but they showed her the young little Rhianna. My stories to her showed her my childhood imagination and how I could dream up a whole different place in detail. Natalie then asked why I never really finished them. That’s when I explained that I didn’t know how people would feel about the books and that I would get made fun of because of my imagination. She then found a journal of mine and began to read that as well, when she was done reading the journal. Natalie turn to me again and then realized that I did have a hard time with reading and writing, she understood why I never showed anyone any of my writing that was done just for me.

            One of the things that I have found that helps me work on my writing is the personal journal that is about my daily life. The journal is filled with my thoughts, what went on during the day like the ups and downs, or even just my dreams/ goals. Sadly thought I am not that good at keeping with it. For example I might write in it every day, once a week, or even once every two months. I think the reason why is because reading or writing is not my favorite thing to do. I have tried to read a book and finally finish it but I never do.

            When the movie The Help came out I wanted to see it, but my dad said that the only way was if I could read the book from cover to cover. So we went to Walmart to pick up the book. Once we got home I sat down on the bed and began to read it, for about a week I was reading it every day on the bus and right before I went to bed. I still have yet to finish reading the book from cover to cover, because when the movie came out on Blu-ray my dad went out and bought it. He told me that he had bought it but we were not going to watch it until I was done reading the book. A month later I still had not finished the book. My dad gave up and we ended up watching it. The only book I ever finished cover to cover I think was a book that my father and I read together.           

            I did learn something from trying to read The Help. The lesson was that the book is always better than the movie but to me the movie are still good even if they don’t always fallow the story line all the way. Once I realized that I tried to read the Hunger Games books before the second movie. I almost finished the book before I went to the movies. When the movie finished I was mad at the movie people because they left out a lot of info that made more since then what they said/ did in the movies. This made me not want to read the books before the movie but after all of the movies came out, because I love movies and I don’t want to be thinking about how much the movie people messed up.

So I plan on reading the last book after the last movie comes out. This might seem a little crazy but it makes since to me because I can enjoy the movie and the book without being mad at the movie makers during the movies. So as you can see I am not big on reading and writing unless I really have to or I feel like it’s worth my time to sit and relax with a book in my hand other than that it will be rare to see me with a book in hand.

pg 138-141

In the past week i have made a lot of short decisions and long decisions with family,  my coworkers,and classmates.

relationships	I talk to my sister and friends everyday about how their relationships are going.
work hours	Everyday I talk to my boyfriend, dad, and coworkers about how i am not getting a lot of hours at work.
trips	My boyfriend and sister talk about trips that we want to take this year or that week/ month.
class work	what i need to do or how i need to do the homework/ class work.
wedding stuff	I have been talking to both of my friends who are getting married about their weddings. trying to figure out what role i am playing or if i am going to be able to make it to their weddings.
stuff about jewelry	MY mom , boyfriend and i have been talking about a market that is coming up and what we plan to make to sell this year.

This chart tells me that i spent a lot of time worrying about a lot of things. some things i could worry less about and put my time into other things. it also shows me that i plan everything down to the last detail.

both websites showed great reviews of keyport mercantile. some people were mean about somethings, but for the most part the reviews were good. the yelp website need some help I would change/ add a button that people can click saying that someones review didn't help.

Rhetorical Situations-Narratives

2.

•   For the first question, we all said that the main point was the essence of hope and determination, and that it was stated in the last paragraph.
•   For the second question it was primarily Lydia’s point of view. It made us feel scared for her life.
•   Third. terrified,destroyed: used to put the reader into a state of fear. Could feel the hope in how she kept fighting to survive. “cramped on the shelf of the linen closet” “had an abscessed tooth”
• Anyone who’s interested in health affairs/life changing stories. sophisticated people who know about disasters. the tone helps cause a movement for help through sympathizing.

3. Jan Brideau used the rhetoric that we learned about in chapter two to write Lydia’s Story. She kept her audience in mind, that they’re going to be people who are more sympathetic to victims of natural disasters like hurricanes. Her primary goal was to affect the emotions of the readers and to give people courage and motivation. Jan uses descriptive words to affect her tone. It made me think about how I can use descriptive words to affect my audience. Charlotte said that you have to portray your attitude towards the topic for your audience using rhetoric and the guidelines from the book.

7. Stories about car crashes, friends, co-workers, crazy cats/dogs

10. Think about friends who are part LGBT community and how hard it is for them to just be themselves.

You don’t have to be afraid to be yourself-message to everyone

the different emotions and aspects of the people

12. Video-see the raw emotion

Text-have to use words to portray emotion/more time to think over what you want to say

Video to text- lose some affect bc you don’t know the words to explain the emotion

Text to video-like a play; have to determine the emotions

The tone would change: how you were affected would change

Group lab #2 individual work

104
Stories I have heard

1. stories about car crashes that friends have been in.
2. stories of boy/girl friends
3. sport stories
4. work stories
5. stories about kids or my families memories
6. school stories

Subject

• car crashes
• friends
• boy/girlfriends
• sports
• work/ coworkers
• kids/ family
• school/classes

107

• it can be harder in some towns/ places to come out 
• for some people its harder for them to come out and have people except them for who they are, but they find away to over look others views and let their lives be happy ones.
• letting yourself be happy and not letting what people think change you.
• videos are a better way to tell/ show people of the LGBT group that it can be better because you see their emotions.