Monday, November 29, 2010

John Adams : Independence


After witnessing the incident happened at Concord when the British came, John Adams takes up the cause of independence. Along the process, John Adams try to persuade the congress to support him to supply an army. Viewing from a rhetorical point of view, I would like to analyze one of his speech in the scene where the rhetorical appeals play its role successfully. It is the speech where he is telling a story about his friend, General Warren who fell at Bunker Hill. The detail of the story to show how he has been shot through the head, bayoneted and stripped off of his clothes attract the audience who is the congress. Another story is about 400 ordinary civilian dead because of the attack. In this speech, John Adams used two important Pathos tools which are storytelling and volume control. Both tools should compatible and complementary to each other in order to persuade the audience successfully and in this scene, he did an excellent job in doing that. Thus, in the effect of persuading and patriotism arise from the congress from his speech, the congress agree to support the militia for Massachusetts and appointed George Washington as the man in charge of the army.

Monday, November 8, 2010

TRAIN: Chicago-to-Iowa City-to-chicago

well, the issues about high speed train from Iowa city directly to Chicago is still under hold. why would this happens though? there are still some issues about this case that we have to take care first.
well, here are some ideas that what can benefits all of us.

1. could reach each ends faster: since the train got 220 mph and were away from traffic

2. the whole journey will be safer and more comfortable: high class technology and security will make all the
                                                                                      passengers safe and feel more comfortable

3.should be more cheaper if compare to grayhound

4.more efficient

what would be the counter argument?

1. super costly

2. this thing wont make any profit

3.deforestation

4.would destroy some local business ( bus, aeroplane)

conclusion: YES, because the benefits is more than the cons.


the audience would be goverments.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Visual rhetoric

Visual rhetoric is the fairly recent development of a theoretical framework describing how visual images communicate, as opposed to aural or verbal messages. The study of visual rhetoric is different from that of visual or graphic design, in that it emphasizes images as sensory expressions of cultural meaning, as opposed to purely aesthetic consideration (Kress and van Leeuwen 18




One of the example of visual rhetoric is STOP!!!! sign. well, here is the thing, usually when you drive a car you will always thinking of speed limit, school sign, stop sign and others. the way that government put all these sign is by using big and solid colour at the sign. that is how people aware about all the sign and visual rhetoric had been applied through this situation.




Good example of my everyday rhetorical examples came from my driving experience. Let me ask you, what’s the first thing comes in your mind when you see a STOP sign? You have to stop your car or you might get lucky that day to get a ticket from police officer? The stop sign is the Visual rhetoric. Are you kidding me? No. Guys, see how they made the sign. Logically; or in our term, the logos is the red color. Red is some kind of a warning-you-have-to-be-careful color. When you see it, you know you have to be more careful. What if they made it from purple or colorful with stripes? It is just not more than a funny sign, right? Well, the pathos could be seen how it affect the drivers, change the mood and how they react when they see the sign. Because they know what could happen if they don’t. It is a perfect seduction. Some kind of an invisible power manipulates you and seduces you to do what it wants. You can find it everywhere even when you are watching TV.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Rhetoric Rhetoric and Rhetoric

What is rhetoric? This is the typical question that people always ask. the words rhetoric itself have confused most of the people around the world. Even, myself didn't know what is the actually meaning of rhetoric until i got in this class. To be honest, rhetoric is just a term that people actually do in their everyday life. People DO rhetoric every second in their life. it is just that they themselves did not realize. 

I'm pretty sure that many of you are wondering what is missing the rhetor anyway. Well, basically we are just dealing with the art of persuasion, seduction and manipulation through all rhetorical appeals like ethos, logos, and pathos in all kind of rhetorical situation. It's very amazing when you can discover the real rhetorical situation like I do. You guys can see my update about the rhetoric in my next next post. I will try my best to to fix what actually most of the rhetor are missing when they were dealing with rhetorical situation. see yoU.