Vans, previously known as Van Doren Rubber Company, is an American based manufacturer that creates skate, BMX, and snowboarding shoes along with a wide variety of clothing. This company, since the start, has had a cultural impact on the youth because of the consistent interest that youth has in these activities they create clothes for. …
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Through my practice of analyzing many forms of rhetoric, one thing I can definitely take away is the fact of how powerful it can be when presented correctly. Many pieces of writing might have strong rhetoric that persuades readers, but if the audience who is reading it is not intended, the exigence might not be …
Meme
The main strategy used in this meme is use of facial expression to show the emotions. This allows for the audience to have an immediate appeal to their emotion by showing the disgust in the female’s face on the right, and the interest the man in the middle has for the women on the left. …
Blog #5 How We’re Reducing our Carbon Footprint
The company Patagonia has been a leading force in the fight for climate change ever since the company started up. In this article written by Patagonia themselves, discusses the strategies that the company uses to attempt to reach “carbon neutrality”. This means that the company will eliminate, capture or otherwise alleviate all of the carbon …
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Class Participation(9/24/19)
With the still growing rise of social media, applications such as YouTube and Instagram are now being used in more ways than previously intended. They have now become platforms for anyone to grow an audience and have a platform to spread their ideas. People having the ability to take a video of themselves and share …
Blog #4 Backpacks vs. Briefcases
In the essay, “Backpacks vs. Briefcases” by Laura Carroll, she thoroughly explains the ways one person can use to understand the rhetoric being thrown at them in day to day life. Additionally, she believes that media rhetoric surrounds us and that it is important to understand how rhetoric works. I strongly agree with this point …
Geography(Blog #3)
The National Geographic encyclopedia entry about geography was a very informative and enlightening piece of writing. It covered all bases of geography including the history of it and different types of geography. One type in particular, Human Geography, stands out because of the conversations that we have been having in class. Where geography is the …
The Reef Beneath(Blog #2)
The Great Barrier Reef located off the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia is considered the largest living thing on earth at 2,500 miles long. The colossal reef stands as a home to many different species of marine life and as the condition of it is considerably declining, humans are left with a task of cleaning …
What is Academic Writing?(Blog Post #1)
The essay, “What is Academic Writing?” by L. Lennie Irvin thoroughly goes over the expectations for a college writing assignment. Throughout the paper, he points out some common misconceptions that students often believe when entering college. For example, Irvin explains a common misconception that saying “I” inside of a writing assignment is a flawed idea. …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Casey Kehr 