revisment scrapboooks

I will narrow my scrapbook down to my life with law enforcement. I will show my identity with this subject through a collection of mostly pictures, images, certain colors, and fonts. I will try to make my scrapbook traditional with less text and more images that way people can get a feel for what I am trying to say through the images. I will show my past, my present, and my future with this identity. I will show through the past, present, and future, how this has shaped my identity and who I am and who I want to become through this identity.

scrapbooks

In my scrapbook I will show my identity through slides. I might use microsoft power point. I'm not sure yet. I will show my past, present, and future through each slide or page. My past might show playing cops and robbers that I always wanted to be the cop and catch the bad guy. And my present might show what I am majoring in and my goals for my future. Then my future slide might show what I am wanting and planning on doing with the rest of my life. My identity I guess would be that I didn't always know I wanted to go into law enforcement but I realize it now that I did then and still do now. That could be my argument.

Oklahoma city memorial

When I look at the virtual tour of the Oklahoma city memorial it is almost like being there. It seems like it would be really peaceful and calm if you were there in person. It doesn't look like there is even much wind the trees don't look like they're moving and the water in the reflecting pool isn't rippled which makes me think that it is very calm and serene. A visual symbol I see that is important is the field of empty chairs. When you look at this you realize how many people really died. The number one hundred and something doesn't seem like so much until you actually see visually one by one how many that would actually be. I think these chair set a mood of sorrow for the loved ones who knew and lost these people that are represented with the empty chairs. Another great symbol was the gates of time where you can see the time on a digital clock of the moment of destruction. The gates look really big and when they reflect themselves in the pool they seem even bigger. I think this sets a mood of sadness or grief for what happened that day to the people who lost their lives, the people who knew them, and the people who are honoring them now.

family

Photography can be used for all sorts of different things. One thing that photography can be used for is composition. It can be used for composition because photography says so much to people. When one person looks at a picture they may think it says something completely opposite of what another person might think it is saying to them. This is because it is such a broad spectrum that it can say a lot of things without saying anything at all. I have a family picture of myself, my parents,and my 2 brothers. It is just a simple family portrait nothing too special. It was taken awhile ago when we were all younger. When I look at it I think about how close we were then and how much closer we have all become. It makes me realize that my family is very fortunate to have eachother and to be able to continue being close and strong with eachother.

essay 2: working thesis

This is my thesis so far for essay 2.
In my paper I will argue how rapidly Facebook has grown, and how Facebook used to be a place for university students and alumni to communicate and has now turned into a place for anyone of any age to communicate with each other.

Technologies

Some technologies I belong to are:
1. Blogger
2. Yahoo
3. Myspace
4. Facebook
5. Wells Fargo online banking
6. MyNMSU
7. Blackboard
8. Youtube
9. Alltel
10. Google
The technology I am thinking of doing for my paper is facebook. I would talk about how it all started as instant messages and e-mails only about 10 years ago and now internet communication has spread as high as facebook profiles, where you can do all of that at once. I would talk about how quickly and rapidly these sort of sights came about.

Commonplaces

The discourse community this belongs to are jeep owners or people that 4wheel and know about jeeps. The shared goal or purpose of this community is off roading vehicles. The language strengthens the community because its english. The values that the community holds is off roading and four wheeling. This commonplace image is a cover on the back of a tire. You pretty much see these on Jeeps so yes, the community and the commonplace (the company jeep) are valuing the same thing, offroading. To me the meaning of this means because it is on a jeep, or you're driving a jeep "life is good" but I think this could be used in other ways or ideas because it is so positive and is saying simply life is good. Life could be good for a lot of reasons not just this.

Logos/ethos/pathos

What I think logos is is reasoning or logic towards an argument. Ethos means the morale or the ethics that the argument chooses. Pathos just means that the argument has some form of emotion.

Ads for essay 1

One of the ads I am thinking about doing is for the brand Axe. It is a mens fragrance and deodorant line. The commercial can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6rAQHa1gmc. The commercial shows a guy spraying axe on his body, then putting on a shirt, taking it off and letting the girls smell it. After the woman smell the shirt that has the product on it they faint, or somehow change their behavior. In the commercial 2 of the girls end up getting into a fight over the scent. The ads are basically implying that if you wear their product, girls like the ones in their commercials will be drawn to you.
Another ad I am considering is an older ad for Salem cigarretes. This ad can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86lYG1V2-n4. The commercial makes smoking their cigarettes seem so fun, and not to metion great for you because it leads you to think you are getting fresh air and that it "softens your breath".

WWII posters

The World War 2 poster I picked was "United we win" by Alexander Liberman.
First I signed into blackboard. Then I clicked on Rhetoric Ads. Then I clicked
on the link titled WWII posters. After that I clicked the button that said
"click here to enter". Then I clicked on the link "United we win" and right
away the first poster caught my eye.
The poster has two men in black and white. They are leaned over using tools to
fix something. They both look pretty young somewhere between eighteen and
twenty five. They both look like they are Anglo. What really makes the poster
stand out is the American Flag behind them. It stands out because it is in
color and the rest of the poster is in black and white. At the bottom of the
poster in huge gray capital block letters says united we win.
I think that this picture is supposed to stand out to men. The meaning is
showing that if we work together as a team that we can succeed. The poster is
trying to say that if the men in the army work together and continue to stay
united like these two men in the poster are demonstrating that we can win the war.