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The supreme donut

When you think of a donut, the first thing that pops into your head is a golden ring of dough that looks like a inflatable tube to take you down the lazy river of deliciousness. A glazed donut is the original, its the most known donut there is, and the long drawn out debate is who has the better donut, Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme. In my personal opinion, and believe me i know donuts, Krispy Kreme takes the cake ten times out of ten. Krispy kreme, based on my personal experience and opinion, had a donut that was much softer and fresh tasting than that of dunkin donuts. This could've been due to timing, but it makes me think that krispy kreme keeps the fresh donuts stocked, while DD is handing out day old glazed donuts and calling it a day. As for the glaze itself, Krispy kreme has the best glaze in the world to me. It is very sweet which some people find too much, but i love it. If i had the choice to have a donut from either, I'm getting krispy kreme. plus, you get a little hat! no hats at DD...

Winner = Krispy Kreme

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Most Effective Presentation

I personally believe that the most effective presentation was the presentation that spoke about dance. I feel as if this was effective because of the fact that it had a lot of positivity incorporated into it. There were many other ones that did the exact same thing, but this one kind of reached out to a lot of people with low self esteem on their body image. It was very encouraging to sit through and imagine the young men and women who hears the message that they can do whatever they want to do and be beautiful doing it. This presentation was basically saying to not worry about what others think about your body, just be you. Also, if you want to have a burger, have a burger. You shouldn’t deprive yourself of what you want. Yes there may be cons to it, but you only have one life and it would kind of suck if you didn’t live it. Overall, this presentation was great, and the presenter of it was very enthusiastic and ready to share her topic to the world. Great Job!

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I honestly would say this was also one of my favorite presentations too. I like that you talked about how you took the perspective of the presentation. I definitely agree that young people should care less about their image, because image isn’t everything and that we should do whatever we want. Good job to both you and the presenter, Alex.

[dmz15enc2135]

Like i said on the other post i reblogged, i did not get to see these presentation since i am in the later class, but based on the description alone, i can agree that the presentation was effective. By the sound of it, the positivity of the campaign really made it successful, and based on what i can tell from your review, it sounds like a very interesting topic.

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Presentation Review

I was honestly impressed with everyone’s projects. They were all unique and original and I feel like we all learned a lot from the campaigning process. In my opinion, Rebecca’s cosmetic campaign and Luis’s campaign about saving the bee’s were the most effective. I really liked the genres Rebecca utilized. Not only was everything visually appealing, but I feel like she created something that I would want to continue to keep tabs on. She provided logical information on her topic as well as ways for followers to interact and participate in creating their own natural cosmetics and cleaning products. I also like her propaganda poster resembled one that would be used by a legitimate company. She seemed to recieve good feedback from her community. I really enjoyed Luis’s campaign as well. I have been familiar with the issue of bee’s going extinct for quite some time so it was cool to hear more details about it. I thought his choice of genres was perfect for his campaign. I liked how light hearted the twitter account was while still sharing important information about bees. I thought the infographic was cute too. It matched the cute and cuddly persona we tend to associate with bumble bees. I can’t remember what kind of response he received on his campaign but I definitely would have participated in his campaign if I saw it anyone online. 

[dmz15enc2135]

I wasn't in this class time, so i did not get to see these presentations, but the description of them is enough for me to agree with you. With how you say you want to keep tabs on the genres, that is what proves there genres were truly effective. The aesthetically appealing aspect of the project probably added a great deal to the genre, and seems that the feedback was probably evident of that.

[dmz15enc2135]

Presentation Review

I personally think that Daniel Zazula, being the smart and funny kid he is, had the best presentation. He got up there and really wowed us with his project; showing us the different genres he used, and how he was able to get 224 followers on twitter! His campaign was able to pick up traction from the twitter which made his distribution through it very easy. His podcast was very well done with the intro and background music added in to create a less boring effect. The info graph he used was very helpful in showing how stem cells can be used, and how they have been proved to show results in clinical aspects. A lot of emotion was felt during Dan’s presentation; we all laughed at his radiant charm, and some of us even shed a tear. Without a doubt, he had the best presentation. I give it a 10/10.

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WRITING INTO THE DAY What is the message of this campaign? Purpose, audience, mode, medium, rhetorical appeals, style, design. Is it effective?

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I am not completely sure the exact message that this campaign is trying to get out, but i can tell as much as that its trying to end some sort of slavery. I do not know the type of slavery they are speaking of in this particular campaign. The purpose of this seems to be to shed light and spread awareness of this slavery and end it by doing so. Since the chalk mentions landis, i would assume that the audience would have to be college age students at FSU. The mode and medium makes use of a visual, and its a written form. Based on the white board, i would say they are for sure using logos with the info that is on that board, and the chalk maybe is using pathos by drawing the picture of, what looks to be, a slave. The style and design are different for the two, the second board is much more clean cut, but since the chalk is on the ground, its design doesn't matter as much, because people will walk over it anyway. I do not think that this was affective because i do not know what the campaign is about, and if i don't know that, then i cannot help the cause.

[dmz15enc2135]

Viral Marketing

Viral marketing is a form of advertising, or promoting a brand, company, or anything really. It uses social media and other established companies to advertise their brand. It has been called “word of mouth marketing” because people discussing it is how it gets going. Viral marketing relies on the snowball affect, because once someone is on board, then everyone starts to follow the trend. What it does is give people wanting to start up, but don't have the resources or funding for major ads a chance. Someone can use twitter and make use of hashtags, and get a following. It works by getting started through whats called seeding, which is like gaining traction on your campaign, so that it can take off. Once you are seeded, then the possibility of a quick following is very likely. It works when the person can put out good content. These things have to catch peoples eyes. They have to have something about them that makes people have some sort of response, and enough so that they will share it with their friends, whether that is through social media, or face to face.

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WRITING INTO THE DAY Is the book always better? Name a book that was not better than the movie and explain why. OR Choose a text (book, poem, song, video game) and explain what choices would need to be made to remediate it into a movie.

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In order to make something into a movie, one needs to put their ideas into action by, usually, writing them down and portraying them onto a visual media, so essentially all movie scripts are like books. Books are most always going to be more detailed than the movie, simply because of the time constraints that movies have. That being said, I think the easiest to adapt into a movie would be a video game. The media is already digital, so being able to convert would be much easier. Take Call of Duty for example, choosing actors for the characters would not be hard, and a director basically already has the general plot, so they can work off of that to make a movie.

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WRITING INTO THE DAY Choose your favorite story (book, movie, tv, etc. Fiction or nonfiction) Who are the characters? What is the setting? What happens in the story? (Plot) What’s the central conflict?

Now, perform a rhetorical analysis on the story. What’s the rhetorical situation: Purpose, Audience, Rhetorical Appeals, mode, media, genre conventions, style, design, sources (inspiration).

[dmz15enc2135]

My favorite fictional stories would be those of the Harry Potter series. Through out the series there are many characters, but the three central ones are Harry, Ron, and Hermione. The setting is always different as they venture different places, but Hogwarts would have to be the main setting in the movies. The plot of the movies consist of Harry and friends consistently fighting off evil and going on quests to solve any problems that arise. The central conflict is basically that voldemort is living, since he is the god figure to the death eaters, it is imperative that he is killed for there to be order restored. The purpose of the story is to entertain, and the appeals used are all of them through out the series i would say. It goes through both print and visual modes, and the media is a movie itself. Its style started more children like and softer, and as the series went on, it got darker.

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Narrative Genre

My current issue is about how, the protocols and rules for concussions are not being followed by players, especially on the high school side. Because many players do not believe they have a concussion and keep themselves in the game with the risk of increasing the severity of the injury. A narrative genre would help my paper, by giving it life, in that rather than just having dull statistics. I could have real life stories of players suffering concussions in high school, or collegiately and the affect it had along with what they did right or wrong when diagnosing it. Luckily I work for the football team, so I will have access to over 100 players along with former players that come in an out of the facility. Also narrative genres give a ton of pathos to the reader, and give them the sense that they can relate to the reader on his topic even if they really don’t know the topic that well. Personally the narrative genre will help me also, by only including facts that are the heart of my paper, rather than having pointless facts that just take up word space like in my research paper. 

[dmz15enc2135]

I agree that the narrative genre would be good for this topic. Being someone would played lacrosse and football in high school, i know what concussions are like. I can personally say that i have played with a mild concussion, and I'm sure there are stories of people who really hurt themselves by doing so. 

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Tattoos in the Workplace Conversation

People with tattoos live with the struggle of people judging them every day.  My issue can benefit from a narrative genre because people may feel sorry for some of the people’s stories by using pathos.  Hearing stories about people with a high level of education or degree being denied their dream job because of tattoo could cause the community to feel bad and want to help them out.  Also, people will be able to hear the stories as to why they got the tattoo and why it was important for them to put that on their body.  No story is the same, they may be similar, but what makes them different is the wide variety of tattoos people have.  Not one will be the exact same thing which makes this issue interesting.  Maybe with a little explanation and knowing how much of a struggle this issue is for some tattooed people, the outside population might be a little more considerate or caring about the issue.  Hopefully different workplaces will work on being more accepting about tattooed employees in the future if they hear their story before judging them first.    

[dmz15enc2135]

I like this topic a lot, and think its very good to discuss. I agree with this since tattoos cannot form a persons intelligence or personality. Pathos would definitely be the biggest device used in the stories, but I think there could potentially be logos in there as well.

[dmz15enc2135]

Narrative

Considering my topic, the problem with ethics being stem cell research, a narrative piece could be highly beneficial to the end goal of having stem cells available for the research of medical aspects they can be involved in. Something in the narrative genre could be telling a story of someone who had a disease cured by stem cells, or someone’s skin that was repaired using skin grown from stem cells. All these scenarios would've most likely been trials, but they can give accounts on the benefits of the research. Hearing the benefits that a real person has reaped can impact a persons opinion greatly. If people can see all the great things that can be done with stem cells, it would be much easier for the research to be backed. The narrative genre would give this problem so much more life, because when you just speak about the possibilities without accounts, it just seems like fairy tales. It allows those who are fighting for stem cells to show what they are really fighting for, and thats the applications medically that can help a lot of people.

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Ted Talk

The Ted talk that was watched in class today was an informative and inspirational video on the simple ways one can extend there life expectancy. The purpose of the talk was to open the eyes of the listeners to realize how easy it is to not only die without regrets, but also add years on one’s life. The targeted audience would be those who are battling through hard times, and need to, in the speaker’s words, get “super better”. She created this game to help others, and did this in an endeavor to convince listeners that it is really simple to do these things. The mode and media she is going through is that of auditory and visual since it is at a speech in front of an audience. She uses a lot of statistics and number to prove her points that she makes. She also uses a lot of visual aspects through the powerpoint she is using.

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WRITING INTO THE DAY What is the rhetorical situation? (Audience, purpose, rhetorical appeals, media, mode, use of genre conventions, style, design) How does the media craft the message? If you were to remediate it, what would you change?

[dmz15enc2135]

This is a advertisement, so its the persuasive genre. Audience of the picture is going to be the star wars fans out there, because with out knowing basic knowledge about the movie, one would not get the joke of whats happening with the legos. The purpose would be to make people laugh i sort of an sad way. It's a cute picture, so people will find it funny, but they are tapping into pathos. The media used is through visual since it is an animated picture, and its using lego star wars, which is an adopted version of the series that became a video game and success with little kids. The media crafts the message simply by using the fact that most people know that Han and Leia are together in the movies, and showing that in this picture they are not, also the use of flowers allows the people seeing this know that Han was going to give them to her. I would make a more funny and less sad ad if i were to remediate it.

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Persuasive Genre

I read the article “When Teachers cut Class.” The main purpose of this article is to inform people of the issue of teacher skipping more school days and saying that they are sick and persuade that something should be done. The audience seems to be the general population or supervisors within school districts. The main rhetorical appeal that is used, is logos because the author is trying to use logical statistics to help persuade that there is an actual issue here. The most surprising statistic that persuaded me was that there are 35% more absences on Fridays than Wednesdays. To me this is very shocking, because teachers should know that other people rely on them to help get ther education. Not only that, but because teachers also shouldn’t try to get an extra day to their weekend by skipping out, it is not helping anyone but themselves. The mode of this article, was written text and the media is print or nowadays is digital, because people can now look up newspapers on their computers or phones. I feel like there really is no design or style added to this excerpt, because it mostly is just a plain article piece. I feel like this piece could easily be adapted to a podcast, by having students or superintendents come in to get interviewed about this situation and how they feel about it. 

[dmz15enc2135]

I agree with the purpose of this article. I didn't think of the article having the intended audience of supervisors and such, but that is a good point. i thought about the parents that want their children to have the best education they can have, and take action on the teachers that are skipping school.

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Persuasive Genres: Video Games vs Violence

The purpose of this article was to show that although in several cases video games could have been linked to tragedies such as Columbine that video games do not tend to make the players more prone to and desensitized to violence.  The audience is everyone ranging from teenager to adult because it brings up issues and shootings and politics. The rhetorical appeal that was used the most was logos. Dickinson brought to light facts of several court cases that claimed that video games led he guilty to commit the crimes that took place. An example was the mention of the Columbine shooting. The media and mode is visual and text based. The overall style is a news article without media.With media added into the design and style this could have been a much better article. This article could have been better adapted into a podcast which could allow opportunity for the lawyers of the cases and the victims of the tragedies to say how they feel about video games in regards to violence. It would also allow for nonviolent students and individuals to make note of why playing video games does not make them prone to violence. 

[dmz15enc2135]

I agree that in more often than not videos don't cause shootings, but there are times where they can. The audience does sound about right because the article wants to hit those who play video games, and also most likely the parents of the children that play these games and want to have children with good mental help.

[dmz15enc2135]

3/16/16

The article “When Teacher Cut Class” is about the problem in students education due to teachers playing sick. The purpose of the article is for the author to convey their opinion that this is an issue, and the author has the hopes to persuade us into agreeing with their opinion, thus persuading us to either take action or just realize the problem.

The audience, in my opinion, would be the young parents that are putting their kids into school, because these are the people that will take action on the situation. Students who are living through the problem generally won't care when its going on, so the targeted audience are those who would not want their kids’ educations to be jeopardized.

The article strongly uses logos, since the author pulls out statistics from studies done around the United States to further prove that this actually is an issue going on in schools. The article also use ethos since the author is also using highly accredited and prestigious universities, such as harvard and duke.

The mode used in this article is written as most editorials are, and since it was posted in USA Today it can either be print or digital, depending if it was posted on the site or if it was in the newspaper.

The style of the article seems to be clean and concise, and also includes information from outside sources. The author avoids the common errors that persuasive pieces contain, which allows the article to be better in the readers eyes.

Based on the nature of the subject and the article itself, I think the only thing it can be adapted to would be a podcast that only occurs once, because the information is not that much where it can be anything else.

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WRITING INTO THE DAY: Writing with voice

Imagine a person you are close to (a parent, roommate, teammate, best friend, someone you care about - DON’T PICK SOMEONE YOU HATE). Think about the words they use. What are their common phrases? Write a paragraph using their voice. (Describe their morning routine, tell a story from their point of view, let them describe their family pet…) Be sure to use their specific personal details & let me SEE and HEAR who they are. Post to Tumblr when complete.

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Dude, i don't even remember what happened last night. i remember getting on the bus. I mean i was in and out when we got there, but did we got get food after? wait, where did we go? Dude, my date suuucked. She just wasn't a fun person at all, so i just devoted my night to blacking out as hard as possible.