...getting “wasted”. This has become a common stigma about college, and binge drinking has become a serious problem on all U.S. college campus. In an attempt to bring awareness of consequences of binge drinking Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board released a series of Public Service Announcements and launched a website to educate its target young audience to be careful while drinking. The public service announcements use very specific image and text placement, typography, and color to make their message evident in the still PSAs. In general when a person looks at something they scan left to right, top to bottom, or at least primarily in English speaking areas, as that is how we read. With this being so, the first things our eyes sees is (what appears to be) a young woman’s bare legs, slightly separated from knee down, and her underwear around her ankles. She is placed in a vulnerable looking position on a bathroom floor to express the terrible act that just happen. This image is large and takes up most of the ad’s space. The designer of this clearly wants the image to be seen as important and a driving point in the PSA. However, what appears to be the most important are the words that are farther right on the ad, but cover part of the girl’s legs. The texts message about how the girl didn’t want this, but couldn’t say no is what appears to be the most important message of the entire ad. The block of text on the bottom is supporting text and considered less important on the ad so it therefore...
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...Gerson Lopez 4/20/13 Purvis English Image Analysis Essay on the torture of a prisoner by U.S army officers The picture shows two U.S army officers pointing a rifle at a man who appears to be, based on his complexion, Middle Eastern, perhaps Iraqi or Afghani. That prisoner has blood all over his chest, so the viewer can infer that before they pointed at him and shot him with a rifle, they took off his shirt. The viewer could also infer that the U.S Army officers kicked and punched him. It is quite possible that he was bitten by a dog. However, the prisoner is still standing despite all the torture that he has gone through. From all the blood on his chest and the fact that his shirt that has been taken off, the viewer can see that he has been mistreated and been beaten to a mess. The image shows that torturing prisoners as part of war is immoral. The image of Blood pouring outside a man’s body or mutilation of blood is an example or another part of torture because it evokes fear. One can see that there is blood on his chest, pouring down on his stomach and onto to his pants. Some pieces of the shirt are cut-off and he probably did not take off his own shirt; it was probably forcibly taken off by the U.S Army soldiers...
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...Essays for A Level Art, Photography, Graphic Communication objectives • To help you to discover and focus in depth upon an aspect of art and design that fascinates you. • To develop your understanding of art and design history and to see how artists exist and work within artistic and social contexts that help shape their work. • To develop your academic research, writing and referencing skills, in preparation for university and work. • To inspire you and allow you to then make better, more well-informed, practical work, that discusses complex issues and sophisticated concepts. Format • A written and illustrated final outcome of 3000 words with 10% tolerance. • No shorter than 2700 and no longer than 3300. • Fully illustrated by you. • Presented visually. • Related to your practical work • Includes evidence of contextual research; critical analysis; critical interpretation; personal response and engagement; and critical evaluations and judgements • It is an essential component of your A2 year but it is NOT worth more marks than the practical element. Title • Design an essay title that will allow you to make a critical and evaluative conclusion. • Consider the following examples. Which ones will result in the better A level essays? Why do you think this is? Title examples • Lucian Freud: A Study of His Life and Works • Justify the following statement: All photographs are fake • To what extent is PhotoShop the cause of mistrust in...
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...During this course, I been leaning to write with the help of different literary devices such as visual texts or books. For two of the major assignment for this course 1301 English I used images to write a rhetorical analysis about the negative side of Facebook and with the help of a book called The Intervention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd I wrote a literary analysis. Therefore, while reviewing those essays I found there are some mistakes with the structure of the essay, there are enough examples to support the main idea, and I need to improve grammatical mistakes. For a good essay the structure should include the three main parts an introduction, body, and the conclusion. On both of my essays I include those three parts, however the thesis statement...
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...Lecture 2 Investigative Essay: Anti-Communist Propaganda Part of the Cold War was fighting communism at home in the United States. As we’ve discussed in class, much of the anti-communism sentiment was fanned into a flame of hysteria. Much of what fanned these flames was propaganda distributed by the government and other organizations. This propaganda grossly exaggerated the threat of communism by using images and inflated language. For this essay, choose one of the posters or pieces of propaganda found at the following websites and write an analysis of it. For your analysis be sure to include what piece you are writing about, what kinds of images or language does it use, and how it uses images and language to manipulate fear toward communism. How does this piece of propaganda exaggerate the threat of communism in the country. The essay is worth 25 points and is due on Monday February 9. The essay should be at least a page to a page and a half long and written in essay format. Use the following websites for your search. They are also up on moodle. The Red Menace: 15 Vintage Anti-Communist Ads & Propaganda: http://weburbanist.com/2013/06/12/the-red-menace-15-vintage-anti-communist-ads-propaganda/ The Red Menace: Anti-Communist Propaganda of the Cold War http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/10/the-red-menace-anti-communist.html Writing in an Essay Format: Since this class is part of the writing requirements for your general education core, writing will be an essential...
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...trusted and used accordingly, to relate Ophelia and her insanity due to contributing factors in her social environment. I found this source, in class, as it was our primary learning source in the discussions we had about Hamlet. This source is unlike my other sources, due to the fact that it is the base text for my work. From this source, I can learn how Ophelia slowly fell into madness, and what events helped lead up to her peak of insanity in the play. This helps develop my essay, because it is the main source that I will be using in relation to my other research sources. Considering that this is my base text, it is relatable to both my thesis and my arguments, in that it is the source that first showed us of Ophelia’s insanity due to her male dominated social up-coming. "Hamlet By William Shakespeare Character Analysis Ophelia." Hamlet: Ophelia. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 April 2014. This text is an essay that describes the thought behind the character of Ophelia in Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. This essay contains...
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...will be communicated to students in writing. Course Description RHET 1302 will prepare you for college-level writing while helping you develop your critical thinking skills. Rhetoric is the study and practice of how people communicate messages, not only in writing and speech, but also through visual and digital mediums. In this class, you will develop skills to analyze the way rhetoric, in its various forms, addresses audiences. By paying attention to the strategies that good writers and speakers use to persuade their particular audiences, you will learn to reason better and to persuade others in your own writing, both through rhetorical appeals and through analysis of audience, purpose, and exigency that is at the heart of the study of rhetoric. For RHET 1302, you will read and reread texts and write multi-draft essays. Practically speaking, you will learn skills that you can use in your future course work regardless of your major. Student Learning Objectives • Students will be able to write in different ways for different audiences. • Students will be able to write effectively using appropriate organization, mechanics, and style. • Students will be able to construct effective written arguments. • Students will be able to gather, incorporate, and interpret source material in their writing. Required Texts Rosenwasser, David and Stephen, Jill. Writing Analytically with Readings. Second edition. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2011. Fall 2011 Assignments and...
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...ART 2 • MUSEUM – BASED ESSAY • DUE: MAY 4/5 Suggested Locations* L.A. Country Museum of Art (LACMA) • lacma.org for info. The Getty Center (Santa Monica) or Getty Villa (Malibu) • getty.edu for info. The assignment is to write an expository essay that focuses on an interpretation of one artwork using a specific symbol or theme (see examples below). Your interpretation must include an analysis of the subject & style of artwork in relation to the function of the object, as we do in class. (Remember the 4 Steps of Interpretation). Also, you should identify the style characteristics of the period-culture to which it belongs. In the paper you will provide “proof” for identifying style and/or meaning by comparing it to objects in your textbook. This assignment is NOT a “report.” That is, you will not find much information about the artwork at the museum. The point of this paper is to interpret the object based on similarities to other objects that are more “known.” Your interpretation should be made primarily of your own observations in relation to the information provided by the textbook and research you conduct about the artworks’ style, symbolism, cultural context, etc. You must support your observations with facts. Also you must properly cite your sources of information in a works cited list. Consult the articles on writing available on our MyECC teamsite in the Writing Resources folder. Examples of Symbols: sun, moon, star, flower, halo, cross, tree, horn, offering...
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...COMM100b Interpretive Strategies Professor Elana Zilberg Winter 2016 Assignment #2: Spatial Analysis Due: Monday, February 29th by Noon Part Two: Ethnographic Site and Subject In this assignment you are asked to transform your stereotype from an image into an ethnographic subject. Take your stereotype “off the screen” or page and locate it as a body in a particular site. Drawing on the spatial analysis vocabulary covered in this section of the course, describe this site. Your site can be rural or urban, inner city neighborhood or suburb, a building (house, mall, corporate or government office building, etc.), a street, a park or beach and so forth. However, the site you choose must but be a physical space (do not use the Internet as a site). You are not only thinking about the physical space itself, but your subject’s relationship to that space. Therefore, the ethnographic site will depend on your ethnographic subject. These are some of the questions to consider in developing your essay: * How does your ethnographic subject use, appropriate, and shape the space? * Using Lefebvre’s concept of the “spatial triad,” how do you understand your site as a representation of space, a space of representation, or created through spatial practices? * How would you characterize the topography of the built environment of the site? * What macro and micro forces produce that space? * How is the site legislated or policed? * What are the dominant and resistant...
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...Skip to NavigationSkip to Content TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory JoinSearchBrowseSaved Papers Search Home Page »English and Literature Analysis of ‘an Old Woman’ – by Arun Kolatkar In: English and Literature Analysis of ‘an Old Woman’ – by Arun Kolatkar Analysis of ‘An Old Woman’ – By Arun Kolatkar In the poem “An old woman” poet Arun Kolatkar uses the image of a mendicant old woman to symbolize the decay in society which he is trying to convey through the poem. The poem dives right into the subject matter, there is no description of the setting or nor any physical description of the woman, because the poem isn’t meant to be an image of a particular city or a particular person. All of us have at some point been in the situation of the narrator in the poem. And quite a few of us no doubt on some occasion have reacted the way the narrator did. And this is the very aspect of the poem which raises so many thoughts in our minds. The poem starts with an old decrepit lady holding the sleeve of a narrator and tagging along, nagging him for some money. “She wants a fifty paise coin”, but she is not begging for it outright. She offers to take him to the horseshoe shrine. This is the second aspect of the poem which is so appealing to the reader. People often argue that beggars are lazy and do not work for a living and therefore are in the position they are, which is mostly untrue and in this situation the...
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...Writing Your Essay 1. ------------------------------------------------- <img alt="Write an Essay Step 1.jpg" src="/images/thumb/a/a6/Write-an-Essay-Step-1.jpg/670px-Write-an-Essay-Step-1.jpg" width="670" height="503" id="55116424b262b"> ------------------------------------------------- 1 ------------------------------------------------- Research the topic. Go online, head to the library, or search an academic database. You may ask a reference librarian for help. * Know which sources are acceptable to your teacher. * Does your teacher want a certain number of primary sources and secondary sources? * Can you use Wikipedia? Wikipedia is often a good starting point for learning about a topic, but many teachers won't let you cite it because they want you to find more authoritative sources. * Take detailed notes, keeping track of which facts come from which sources. Write down your sources in the correct citation format so that you don't have to go back and look them up again later. * Never ignore facts and claims that seem to disprove your original idea or claim. A good essay writer either includes the contrary evidence and shows why such evidence is not valid or alters his or her point of view in light of the evidence. ------------------------------------------------- Ad 1. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <img alt="Write an Essay Step 2.jpg" src="/images/thumb/c/cb/Write-an-Essay-Step-2...
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...Write a Critical Literary Analysis Essay When writing a literary analysis essay, your main objective is not to write a simple summary. Rather, your goal is to write an essay that discusses your interpretation and critique of the literature. There are a few general guidelines you should keep in mind when writing a literary analysis essay. Remember, there often is no right or wrong answer – what really matters is proving your thesis with evidence! One tip you should keep in mind while writing a literary analysis essay is that you should always write in the present tense and never in the past tense. For example, you might write “In George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ the animals take over the farm and develop their own independent society” rather than “In George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ the animals took over the farm and developed their own independent society.” Another tip is you should also avoid putting yourself into the literary analysis. This means you should write in the third person and never use the words “I” or “you.” There may be exceptions to this rule, however, depending upon your instructor. In fact, some will request a more informal literary analysis that will include the usage of these words. When in doubt, however, it is safer to use the third person. Since literary analysis essays are not meant to simply be a book review or summary of the book, you should not retell the story in your essay. Rather, you need to form a thesis about the piece of literature and then...
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...Frankie Nunez Professor Reeves English 115 25 April 2015 A Rhetorical Analysis of What We Really Miss About The 1950s In Stephanie Coontz essay "What We Really Miss About the 1950's" she makes an interesting analysis of what we think we miss about past decades. In the essay Stephanie Coontz talks about the history and progress of family and discuses in depth the movement of the family from the 1920s to the 1970s. She begins her argument by stating some reasons why the, “nostalgia for the 1950s” exists. Coontz uses the logos appeal towards her audience with statistics, facts and numbers to explain why the 1950s was such a great decade. She uses great evidence to compare the 1950s to past declares to persuade you that the 1950s is what we really miss. Stephanie Coontz’s essay “What We Really Miss About the 1950s”, she uses the persuasive appeal logos throughout her essay. By using the logos appeal in Cootnz’s essay it strengthens the argument about the 1950’s. Coontz uses facts about how in the 1930s the stock market crashed and the great depression. She compares the 1930’s to the 1950’s by providing more data that murder rates were higher in 1933 than the 1950s. Coontz also explains by using statistics that ninety percent of all households in the United States were families, in comparison with the seventy one percent by the 1990’s. She continues to provide facts and data to show the audience that the 1950s was better than any other decade. Stephanie Coontz talks about...
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...All Summer in a Day Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Critical Reading Identify the letter of the choice that best answers the question. ____ 1. What are the children doing as “All Summer in a Day” opens? |a. |They are teasing Margot. | |b. |They are reciting poetry. | |c. |They are peering out a window. | |d. |They are pushing Margot into a closet. | ____ 2. What does this passage from “All Summer in a Day” suggest about the setting? A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus. |a. |Venus was a thousand years old. | |b. |Venus had rain most of the time. | |c. |There had never been forests in Venus. | |d. |There were no forests in Venus. ...
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...More Essay advice - in the course website you will find a basic Lecture on Poetry, and several other files relevant to this topic, especially Lecture Notes on Poetry, which I’ve moved after Assignments. Lecture on Poetry Model Analysis of Shakespeare Sonnet 1 Analysis of Shakespeare Sonnet 65 Suggestions for analyzing poetry 1 Suggestions for analyzing poetry 2 More on Images Again, you have only 3 pages, though we won’t complain about an extra 100 words. 1 First an introduction, 3 to 5 sentences. 2 The similarities are clear enough and should be covered briefly in your second paragraph. 3 Then the differences: first the plot, a hunt in both but with different outcomes 4 Then the hunter, his tone of voice, emotions, and attitude to the deer 5 Then a paragraph on the diction and images (images may stand on their own or be the vehicle of a metaphor. Either way they suggest or dramatize the speaker’s emotions or state of mind. 6 Then some figures of speech, just one or two (you might say, for example, “Each poet employs the trope of paradox, but in different ways….” 7 Then the most important difference, perhaps closure. 8 Finally your conclusion. This is one possible structure, with 8 paragraphs. You might have a different order. You might combine related topics – speaker with imagery related to state of mind, or the similarities with minor differences in plot – and have fewer and longer paragraphs. A paragraph should not be shorter than 4 sentences...
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