Monday, April 14, 2008

Visa: Rhetorical analysis


In this advertisement it is a picture of a wallet of all these things, but the best thing included in this wallet in the visa credit card. It shows anything from a lucky pencil, coupons, and pictures to a student id. But the main focus in this advertisement is the visa credit card that is trying to be sold. The author of this advertisement was the sellers of the Visa credit card company. They are trying to get people to use their credit cards because they say it’s the best possible choice. The audience in this advertisement is for everyone who is eligible go get a credit card but is mainly geared toward college kids. They are saying that college kids have all these expenses and by using the visa credit card it will help them out by paying for all those annoying expenses that college comes with. They are saying that having a visa credit card in your wallet is the best choice and will benefit you when it comes to paying for things when you get on your own and in college. The purpose of this advertisement is trying to get college kids to use visa credit cards. They are saying that every college kid should have that card because it is the best choice when it comes to all the college expenses.

popeye:Rhetorical analysis


In this advertisement it is about Campbell Soup and they used Popeye as an attention grabber. It is showing Popeye eating Campbell soup and showing how good it is and how good it is for you as well. So the main object in this advertisement is the soup. The author for this ad is the makers of Campbell soup, they are trying to sell their soup and say how delicious it is even Popeye eats it. The audience of this ad I would say is anyone from kids to adults, but mainly just kids. This is due to the fact that they are using a famous and well like cartoon figure to try and be an influence among the kids who see this advertisement. They used Popeye to try and attract kids because they know that most kids love Popeye. The purpose is of this advertisement is to try and sell their soup. The makers of Campbell soup used Popeye to say well if Popeye likes this soup then so should you. They used him because he is strong and they are trying to say if kids eat this soup then they will grow up to be just as strong as the very famous icon of Popeye. So the main point of this ad is that this soup is very good and popeye loves to eat it and so should you!

dove beauty

In this advertisement, it is about a lady who used dove shampoo and now has amazing hair just after 5 days of using it. In the text she is saying how much she loves her hair now that she has used dove shampoo. The Author of this advertisement is the company of Dove. They want to try and sell their products by using real people to use their shampoo and tell everyone how great it is. The Audience that this advertisement is geared toward it women, and maybe men but most likely I would say men. This advertisement is showing women that just after 5 days of using their dove shampoo then you too will have amazing and beautiful hair. It also is geared toward anyone who is unhappy or just flat out hates their hair, then dove shampoo can change all that and give you the hair you were went to love. The purpose to this advertisement is easy; it is trying to sell dove shampoo. The purpose of this advertisement is to try and get others who also feel like their hair needs a change and with doing so, using dove shampoo is the best choice to make. They are saying that just after a use of 5 days, and then you will have great hair that you will love. In conclusion, this advertisement is about getting women to buy dove shampoo t have beautiful hair just like the lady in the picture.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

synthesis!!

For my synthesis paper, I have decided to use the text The Allegory of the Cave and the movie The Village. In these two stories, they both have a similar idea but they are also different. In the Allegory of the Cave, it is about prisoners that are held up in a cave and don’t know anything about the outside world. They just thought that that cave was just like outside world and they would see shadows on the wall that would explain what was beyond the cave. In the movie The Village, it was about a colony of people who lived in their own secluded village away from the real world. But the twist was that only a few people in the village knew what the outside world was about and how advanced it was in technology. The others of the village just thought that’s how the world was and didn’t know any better. So those few people that knew about the real world keep the others from exploring outside the village by saying there were monsters in the woods and they wouldn’t be able to get around it. So theses two stories have a lot in common but all the same time they are also different. They both are about people who are secluded from the world and know what else is out there. So the theme of my paper would be that some people are so secluded from the world that they need to break out and what is out there and they need to see it for themselves.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Joy synthesis

"Joy, to me, is doing something that makes me happy. It's something that that makes me smile and laugh constantly. It would also make me feel calm and relaxed."-Kristin

"Joy to me is being happy and content with who you are and how you are living. I think joy comes from the company of family and friends to share good memeories and laughter. When you share joy, you are sharing happieness among people."-Myself

Kristin+Myself= Joy is a happy and clam feeling, when you have joy you are filled with happieness and laughter! Joy may also come from within or from your family and friends to put a smile on your face.

Joy to me is being happy and content with who you are and how you are living. I think joy comes from the company of family and friends to share good memeories and laughter. When you share joy, you are sharing happieness among people.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

In the esssay the allagory of the cave by plato, it was about people who were prisonars of a cave where they spent there whole life there and only knew the world through shadows that were shown on the cave walls. I think this essay relates to the movie, The Village by M. Night Shyamalan in 2004. This movie was about a group of people who were amish and lived in a seclueded whole there no evil could hurt them. Only a small group of people of the village new that it was present day but the rest of the group didnt know that the rest of the world was not like there world. So i believe this applies to society because both of these examples, the allagory of the cave and the village, both relate to having people seclueded from the real world to protect them to what now days society is really like. Just like in the essay The allagory of the cave, the prisonars were shown shadows of people, animals, and random objects ect. by the people that held them in there. I think they did this because they wanted to protect them from going out in the real world so they held them there only let them see what they wanted to see. This is almost the same situation in The village. The small group that new what the real world was like so they made there own world because they thought that thy were protecting them. So the people who actuelly grew up in the town didnt know any better and thought that was the way the world was. So these two stories are very similar and they both relate to society in some way.