The Beehive

The speech I chose was Ashley Judd's "Nasty Woman" at the Women's March, the video is here . Some things I picked up were: She emphasized a lot of key words Very aggressive with sharp movements and sharp articulate  Also emotional at times, can hear the sadness in her voice with provokes empathy Pauses often for effect, but never too long or too much Her voice fluctuates in volume to add depth within her speech  Drawn-out words to articulate and assert like CONflict, TRANSphobia, etc.  Seems frustrated like begging for people to hear her words, but also confirming what a lot of those people feel Moves her body a lot and has no problem speaking and articulating with her hands and arms Voice cracks a few times because of the force she is putting behind them Yelling almost, in a very "as a matter of fact" way1 Never interrupts herself - she does it once because she accidently said a brand name of something and then corrected herself and went on t...

PART ONE: research I first started out with this project with research and figuring out what rhetoric is. Definitions: the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content. The ends justify the means Nice Quotes: “Every manufactured item send out signals to the mind or emotions. These signals - strong or weak, wanted or unwanted, clear or hidden, create feelings.” - Dieter Rams “For Rhetoric, language is never simply a form of expression: it is a functional tool that is manipulated to achieve desired ends.” - Ellen Lupton “Misunderstanding associates rhetoric with the bombastic and hollow, with fraud and seduction, with deceit and sheer ornamentation. The long history of this art, in contrast to popular assumptions, tells us that rhetoric has been concerne...

Modes of Persuasion in my own words Ethos: Persuasion based on the reputation of the author. Pathos: Persuasion through direct emotional appeal. Logos: Persuasion through facts, data, and logic. Homework for Pathos: "continue 'pathos' development. bring a few refined examples to pin up for class. " I worked with different means of pushing imagery. I wanted to work with some of the icons I made from the Semiotics work, as well as actual pre-existing images to compare and contrast factory farms.

I chose Factory Farming as my social issue for our lesson in semiotics. Our first assignment was to collect statistics and figure out our representations. This is on another blog post but I will place it again below: Social Issue: Factory Farms Iconic Representation: Animals, cages, bars, overcrowding Statistics:  1. A typical supermarket chicken today contains more than twice the fat, and about a third less protein than 40 years ago 2. Hog, chicken and cattle waste has polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states. 3. Egg-laying hens are sometimes starved for up to 14 days, exposed to changing light patterns and given no water in order to shock their bodies into molting. It’s common for 5% to 10% of hens to die during the forced molting process. 4. According to one study, 65 percent of all hogs tested had pneumonia-like lesions on their lungs. Researchers believe this is due to ammonia and other gases released f...