FIRED UP

Davis Moe

Dawn DiPrince

English 101

Oct. 1, 2012

Fired Up

            The American people are wondering around lost and scared in this big world we live in. Every four years we seek out a new leader to be the one that stands in front of the loaded guns of the world as they watch our every move waiting for a moment of weakness to arise. Obama in his campaign Advertisement argues that one voice can change the world and his voice has been that call of reason to the world for the past four years.

            Four years ago we elected in President Barack Obama to take the leadership position of this country and sought out guidance on the long journey that awaited us in the next four years. In Obama’s campaign Ad. About being “fired up”, he stated that one voice changed the room as it echoed from behind him and slowly chanted “Fired up, Ready to go” as the room became progressively louder. Using just his words, Obama painted a clear picture of what occurred on that raining afternoon in the small town of Greenwood SC. Using visual Rhetoric in his campaign Ad, Obama opens the Ad with an elderly woman repeatedly stating “Fired up, Ready to go.” This small statement opens up to his speech before the election saying how just one voice changed everything for him when he was just a senator.

 As Obama progresses in his speech it cuts in and out to the same elderly lady describing his first visit to the local community center in the small town of Greenwood SC. The Ad reveals how Obama is human, and much like everyone, gets a little upset when his umbrella breaks and gets poured on, especially after a six-hour drive. This Ad is powerful because it not only reveals how Obama is not only human but he knows the power of one voice. He openly states how if this one woman’s voice can get him “Fired up” and “Ready to go,” then he believes that one persons voice can change the world. 
Obama for the past four years has been that small barrier that stood between the world and us. He has not only saved the economy by dropping the unemployment rate by 4% in the past four years, but he has also ended the war on terror and protected the American people. Obama has heard the cry of the people and he, much like all of us, has seen the trouble we are in due to the last president. Before he came into office, America had hit rock bottom and was on the verge of another depression. When people say that Obama hasn’t done anything to help this country, that’s much like saying you watched someone pick up a rock and before watching them throw it turned away. The American people don’t see change because they choose not to watch it happen. The Stock Market jumped 300 points within his first 2 years in office and that to me is placing that boulder he picked up pretty far ahead.
 The President has the toughest job in the world. The weight of the world is on his shoulders, and with any slip up, it could all cave in. No one realizes that the President is the voice of the people, and when he changes ideas or opinions, he is doing it based on what the people have told him. Obama is one of the first Presidents other than JFK, or Clinton to actually listen to majority vote. The President isn’t God, and if you’ve seen Bruce Almighty, everyone knows that if what everyone wanted came true, no one would be happy. The President must decipher between choices and choose what’s best for the US. His choices may not be popular for some people, but if we stopped and looked at how far that rock he’s thrown has come, it’s better than sitting on the ground going nowhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhWDFgRfi1Q

Angry Muslim

ANGRY MUSLIM
To start, the Muslim religion is a very peaceful religion. People make mistakes and accuse them for being terrorists and killers, but in fact it’s the opposite. The Muslims believe in Jihad, which if everyone is familiar with it through popular media, that it means holy war. People believe that Jihad is fought physically with weapons and death and killing, but in fact the real meaning behind Jihad is in fact holy war but it is a holy war within yourself. Jihad is fighting them self through urges and lifelong battles that make us human. When I hear bad opinions on the Muslims I feel that they are being attacked due to the extremists that give them a bad name. Every group of people has their bad seed and unfortunetly for society all we focus on is the bad people just so we can gather an audience and the media can become popular and outreach to other branches of society. The picture of the Muslims being upset and yelling, I believe that at that moment the people were upset and due to the selfish acts of the media with no reasoning just state the negative that the Muslims are upset a video. I believe that the media should have stated in the article why the people were upset and not write it in an over exaggerated way. I understand the American people don’t understand what the Muslims think or feel, but if the media would stop shoveling lies down our throats, that maybe we could learn something about another group of people that we share this world with. The Americans are not superior and the sooner we realize this, the sooner we can start focusing on what really matters which is doing our job as a great nation to help other nations reach peach within their borders.

Obama Ad

OBAMA AD
While watcfing the Ad for Obama, I first noticed the background color and how it was a welcoming fuzz to the pictures and people they presented. I also noticed that the people that were shown the most were teen's and old people. I believe he did that so it would match up with the story that Obama told in one of his speeches when he talked about his grandma working hard. Other details that caught my attention were the emotion put into every word so that while you watch the Ad, your blood will get pumped up and say "Yes we can!" that the people can go forward and make things better. The message that was in this Ad was to get people to get "Fired Up, Ready to go" about this new election and that if Obama is reelected, than everything will be better because he believes in the peoples dream and he believes in the people to make the right choice. The main goal of this Ad was to show people that they need to vote cause one vote can change the world and make a difference.

OBAMA!

Chapter 6

CHAPTER 6
In Joe Hardin's "Choices 2.0" he states that commercial companies are using Rhetoric values in their commercials to gain appeal from certain crowds that they aim for their products. For example, Hardin brought up how the Marlboro company use visuals to make smoking appear cool to the younger crowd of the time when they were allowed to show commercials like that. The reason for the article was to reveal to the audience how advertisers use rhetorical visuals to help attract audiences. The "Marlboro Cowboy" was meant to represent the masculenity and as well as all the rugged men smoke and if you wanna be a big strong man, dont eat vegtibles, smoke Marlboro.

Plagiarism is the end of creativity

PLAGIARISM IS THE END OF CREATIVITY
Trip Gabriel in His Informative writing on Plagiarism called “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”(8/1/2010) argues since the beginning of the online era and the vast amount of information at the hands of the public, Plagiarism is becoming more popular in undergraduates and the colleges are letting it slide by. Trip explains that in a survey given by the Rutgers University, 40% of 14,000 undergraduates, admitted to plagiarizing at least once in their academic career. Due this intense amount of numbers given by the survey the Education committee decided to crack down on this progressively growing problem and in a later study revealed that after the disciplinary action given by the University, the percentage dropped from an average of 39% to 29%. In this article, the author is attempting to show his audience that plagiarism is all around us and with information becoming easier to obtain through online search engines, Universities should crack down harder on this massively growing problem. The author is also stating that with the rise in plagiarism, that the students today are lacking the urge to be creative and create something original like that people from the 60’s they are copying off of to obtain a better grade. This common rant about how creativity is being lost to the Internet should be a message to all schools that plagiarism should under no circumstances be tolerated or allowed to slide. People today are losing their creative brain to the education system. If the students today stop applying them to the free write assignments given by their teachers, then the education system will have won. This article should be heard by all Universities and as well as all people who have or plan on plagiarizing because they should see that what they do is wrong and not only helping the education system help turn us into a assembly line of mindless freaks, but they are letting the population down because although it is easier to copy and paste, what you write could mean the difference in changing someone’s life or opinion on things.

Picture Sum Up

PICTURE SUM UP

This quote doesnt just represent the view of a famous artist that helped change the world, but it represents how the world is changing and how the schools arent allowing creativity anymore. This image and quote represent how you can understand assignments and miss out on life, or you can experience life and create something beautiful and have it be frowned upon. This quote is telling us to frown upon the education system due to the fact that people now are losing sight of what life really is, and that is that life is not something assigned but lived and experienced.

Political Commercials

POLITICAL COMMMERCIALS
When watching both political Commercials, I first noticed the music that was playing and how well it carried with the flow of what the candidate was saying. As the commercial progressed, I began to notice the colors and how the producer of the commercials put a fuzzy heart warming effect on so that the viewers would feel as though the candidate was inviting the viewer to join their party because they can trust them. When watching the commercials with an open mind to the political views being shown, I felt while watching Romney’s campaign commercial that the hazy effect made is words seem to flow nicer and you focused on him as a hard worker. From a politically intelligent man, I mainly focused on what each candidate had to say about the country and from a middle class American paying through college, I agreed and followed more with Obama due to his very professional outlook on how this country should be run instead of talking down the other candidate. While watching the commercials, I focused on how each candidate presented themself, and as a man you can tell a lot about a man by the way they hold themselves. Romney, although powerful in money, shows weakness and appears to be fragile. I respect him as a successful man, but I don’t believe in his ethics due to the fact that he paid less than I did in taxes and refuses to admit that he has left his fellow Americans behind because he wanted to make an extra dollar. The most important visual you could take from these commercials is how the candidate holds themselves upright and how they present themselves to the public. I believe that there are no unimportant items placed into these commercials because they have been so finely groomed, from pictures to speeches, the entire commercial has been fine tuned to appeal to the group of people that the candidate wants to have on their side.

Political Speeches

POLITICAL SPEECHES
Viewing both the speeches I noticed that they both targeted certain crowds that their political party was attempting to gain to boost votes for their candidates. Anne Romney stated multiple times that Mitt Is a practicing Mormon. This statement stood out to me as a politician because it revealed in a noticeable way that Anne as a Republican is attempting to gain the approval of the “Bible Belt” by stating that her candidate that she is representing is wanting the approval of the religious people. From a politically serious point of view, I believe that Anne Romney’s speech was very unprofessional and made her seem immature and as if she is on the cheer squad for a local high school team. Her cheers and screeches of what seemed to be joy was unprofessional in the position she was in. I disapproved of the way she attempted to gain the support of the woman population. She acted like the girl that everyone hated in school and her stories of how she “raised” her kids had nothing to do with the matters that are effecting the woman all around America. In politics, everyone knows that the Democrats have gained the support from the woman for as long as politics has been around. From the unbiased view, I believe that Michelle was professional in her speech by not just addressing the crowd and telling them that there is always hope and that the economy is going to grow with the help of everyone as a whole country. Michelle addressed that the hard working men and woman of this nation are being stopped by the people they work for because of selfish reasons. I agree that if you work hard you’ll go far. It takes time but everyone knows that with a good education that you can strive to be anything you want to be. As a Democrat, I agree with Michelle because not only did she present her self in a respectable manner, but she also addressed the public as people that are educated and want to help the U.S. become the best it can be. She also talked to the people like a professional and unlike Anne treating the people like kids, Michelle brought up pressing matters that are flowing in the nation such as the economy and the policies surrounding it. I believe each speech had ups and downs here and there, but in the end the Democrats won the vote because Presentation is everything and how you address people will effect people in the end.

Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3
In chapter 3 of "Choices 2.0," The author provides advice for readers interested in finding ways to create Ethos in their writing. The author provides many methods to overcome this difficult task from citing credible resources, to asking professionals in the field being written about. Creating Ethos in ones writing is a difficult task, but nonetheless can be accomplished through extensive research that will lead you towards a credible resource. Reading deeply into the chapter, the author depicted multiple ways to help establish a writers credibility. One way the author suggested was to ask a person with a professional view about the subject at hand and quote him on his/her findings. This method stuck out to me by saying that not all knowledge is found in books, but in the minds of the ones who wrote them. Most credibility comes from the minds of the author themselves and to cite a book is nothing to having a professional explain in detail in person what they truly think on a matter. I agree with the authors claim on asking professionals and highly suggest to any writer that if you want to get facts straight, ask someone who studied a subject for their lifetime and they'll provide you with more info than any book could provide.

The End of Forgetting

THE END OF FORGETTING
In Jeffrey Rosen's analysis in "The Web Means The End Of Forgetting," he exploits how from the beginning of the age of technology, not only the government, but the people who use the power of the internet are exploiting people for what they post on the walls of their common Facebook accounts. With the rise of social networking and the down fall of face to face communication, the age of modern man is beginning to establish false faces in order to either make it look good for future internships with major companies that check your account before hiring, or just for people with a passion to hurt others. This generation of technological advances has lead from bad to worse situations such as the situation involving Stacy Snyder and her post that would forever ruin her future career. As technology tightens its grasp on letting confrontation become a thing of the past, and strengthens its grasp on teaching the community to release how they feel through the internet, people run into problems such as cyber bullying and other inappropriate uses for the internet that lower ones esteem. the common age of man is degrading itself and leaving their blank bodies hosted to the brilliantly lighted screen of their computers. From a Psychological point of view on the subject, Evolution has taught us that the strongest survive and the most intelligent survive, but no one told us that intelligence is just a click away. People have misunderstood the concept of attaining knowledge and expect everything to be at their finger tips 24/7. Learning may be easier just by logging on, but sometimes the easiest path is the most difficult in the long run.