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Thursday, November, 16, 2011
 * 1) What is the purpose of the speech? Provide a brief statement of context.
 * The purpose of the speech was that the main character Cher (Alicia Silverstone), in the movie “Clueless”, was assigned to take the pro side in a debate. The debate asked the question: "Should all oppressed people be allowed refuge in America? "
 * 1) Who is the audience?
 * The audience is Cher’s classmates.
 * 1) Which appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) is most prevalent? How do you know?
 * The appeal of logos is logical. Cher logically compares her father’s dinner party to the (in 1995) current problem of the Haitians. She starts her argument by pointing out that the critics of the Haitians coming to America are concerned about the extra strain on our resources. Then she relates her experience of planning her father’s birthday dinner party, when lots of guests did not R.S.V.P. She had to commute to the kitchen to redistribute the food, and squish in extra room for people. But she notes that at the end of the day, the more people that where there, the merrier the party was. She connects the two topics by saying that if the government could just straighten out its portieres, or rearrange some things, it could be one large party with the Haitians. The speech ends with an emotional appeal (pathos) that the Statues of Liberty does not have R.S.V.P. on it! To Cher, this is a very logical argument.
 * 1) Is the argument effective? Were any logical fallacies used?
 * No the argument is not very effective. The logical fallacies that were used are //Non Sequitur// (It does not follow) and argument form analogy. Comparing her father’s dinner party to the Haitian crisis does make sense. The real issuse in much larger than a dinner party. Plus n either of them follows the teacher’s assignment of taking the pro side of the question "Should all oppressed people be allowed refuge in America?”
 * 1) 5. How could the argument have been strengthened?
 * The argument could have been strengthened by using more concrete examples.

This photograph was taken by Dorothea Lang during the Great Depression. The government hired her to document the hardships that challenged people of their day, such as the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. This photo shows the desperation of the woman, a California mother migrant farm worker, whom just sold her tent and tires off her car to feed her seven children. Lang did not ask this woman’s particular name, but she later said “ seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.” (Lang) This photograph captures //that// particular sense of desperation. When a mother cannot feed and provide for her children that sense of desperation, uselessness, angry…a mixed cloud of too many emotions at once, this is shown on the mother’s face, where one’s eyes first go the focal point of the image. When you see the backs of the children, leaning on the mother, they are grasping for some sort of support. The children seem to be lending emotional support during hard times, maybe their crying or trying to comfort their mother. The fact that the children remain faceless shows makes one concrete on the mother. The texture of the families pictures clothes, there in rags or perhaps a stage past rags. But this is during the Great Depression, and the rough course worn out texture of the clothing is going to have to last the children for a while. But the two little boys the lines in the texture seem to be pointing one’s eyes to the mother’s face. The photograph, although photographed in black and white, there is variations of gray in the photo. Evident in the clothing textures, for example. Overall the story is a narrative embedded in history, yet eerily familiar with today. It tells of how a mother is trying her hardest, in tough economic times, to take care of her family. Lang simple photograph assignment showed the hardest hit of the Great Depression. I only know of the story what was presented on the digital journal website. But who knows this woman’s story? She could have came here as a young child, or a teenager, during the 1920’s, a time of economic prosperity for many, especially with this new way of paying, get it now pay a monthly payment of (ex. Basically buying on credit became popular). Then the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday. During that time maybe this woman got married settled down, and bought items on credit, that when the stock market crashed she could not pay back. But between that time she could have gotten married, and had children. Then her husband could have left her, because he thought she would be better off without him. Who knows? This lady’s story could be lost in time.

Source Cited:

Dorothea Lange. // Migrant Mother 1936 //. 1936. Photograph. Library of Congress, Washingtion DC. Web. 17 Nov 2011. <http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm19.html>.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Locate a school-appropriate satirical video clip and upload it to your wiki page (do not delete what is already there--just add to it). Then include an analysis of the presentation. What is the purpose of the piece? How is the purpose being conveyed? What is its significance in our society?

The purpose of the commercial is to poke fun at other brand’s commercials by convening a funny commercial that makes fun of the other brands, such as Tampax® or Playtex®. The significance in our society is that the this is an advertisement making fun of other advertisements advertising same basic product, just in different packaging.

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