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RWS Advice

Well guys, I made it to the end of the semester. My grade is probably going to be average like most of the work i submitted. It was mediocre and, to be quite honest, not the best I could have done. If you are a person who is satisfied with mediocrity, then do what I did: procrastinate. I promise if you do this, you will get that average grade you’ve worked oh-so-hard for. BUT, if you want to be above average, if you want that A, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE! Do all your assignments as soon as possible and you will pass this class with flying colors.

If I had this little baby, I would definitely apply my own advice. Have a good break everyone.

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Ga Analysis Intro

Introduction

As the years go by, media and pop culture have become the normal in society. The standards that media and society has given to women and young girls, has given them an unrealistic view on what being a women means. In this genre analysis I will be presenting two genres; Iconography and typography. The Iconography genre is a small clip of a documentary called “Ms. Representation,” directed and produced by, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Newsom is an American actress and film maker. The overall statement that Newsom gives to the audience of her documentary Ms. Representation is, the idea of how woman are misrepresented and looked down upon in today’s society, and specially the mass media. In the second genre, typography, an article is presented by the well-known company, Dove. The article is presented in their website, “Women in Media: Is it time to give the media a makeover” In this article the main purpose of the company is to inform the reader of how the media actually works in miss representing women, and the feminine idea. In both of these genres, the main purpose on the topic of, media’s portrayal on woman. Throughout this genre analysis the differences of both article and video will be presented to give the audience and discourse communities an in depth analysis on the topic of, How Woman are Miss Represented in the Media

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Lit Review Abstract

ABSTRACT

In today’s world the media has over powered our lives and our views. From being exposed to media such as, the internet, commercials, and prime TV, society has absorbed their ideals, especially those of woman’s. In this Lit. Review an analysis is made of The Medias Portrayals of woman. The analysis is presented with the main idea that, because of the media’s portrayal of woman, society and woman have concentrated on their body and beauty image, instead of their education. With this idea in mind the Literature Review, id broken into four different research questions that aim to target the thesis of the paper. The main four research questions are:

1.How has the portrayal of women in the media changed in the last 60 years?

2. What are the statistics of woman’s achievements and the exclusion of it in the media?

3. What are the racial and gender gaps of Hollywood as of today?

4. What are the sociological and psychological affects that the media portrayal of women has had on women and society as a whole?

As mentioned before each question is aimed at the target of the main thesis of the paper, the idea that the Medias portrayal of women has targeted body image and beauty, instead of education and career achievements.

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RWS 1302 Peinado

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Doc Reflection

1. What is the purpose of submitting a video in a writing class?

The purpose of us doing a documentary in our writing class was to understand the different genres that there are, and how we can use them to have our writing and point come through.

2 .Explain how you composed your message (purpose) in multiple forms

Our message was composed through a variety of facts, interviews, images, and the use of ethos, pathos, and logos.

3. Why do you think the structure and delivery of the film doc worked to achieve its advocacy

Our structure and delivery worked well, because after all our main purpose worked we achieved awareness by presenting in class.

4. Select one of the questions listed and explain the rhetorical choices you made towards answering the question.

The question I picked is 2 with this question the rhetorical choice I made was ethos and pathos, because we used logic and emotion to achieve our advocacy.

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Semester Reflection

As the semester began my starting goal were to improve in the overall content of my research writing, and to have a more specific voice when it came to my writing. As the semester progressed I saw progression towards my goals as well, it wasn’t until the Lit Review that I saw my progression, but overall it was achieved. My writing Improved so much I was impressed, but my third person writing was the one where I most improved

In my third person writing the Lit Review was enjoyable, but my favorite two assignments were the documentary, and Op-Ed. This assignment gave me the chance to advocate for a specific cause, which was the media portrayal of women. With this assignment my first person voice was heard and it really was a gratifying feeling. With the documentary the fact that we had a group, and I had really good team-mates made me enjoy the assignment a lot more. Also with this assignment, my voice and advocacy came through, and it was as well a gratifying feeling

As the semester went through the discussion of ethos, pathos, and logos was really interesting. This discussion made me realize of how extensive the use of this terms are, and the power they have when it comes to the various genres. When it came to different genres the new use of Tumblr was different at first, but I quickly adapted to the fun and creative website. The Tumblr posts and reflections with the use of different genres made me open my eyes to how extensive a genre can be. The Tumblr post idea, was overall a great idea to have our short assignments and reflections be creative, with an understanding of genres.

Overall this class was very helpful in understanding my abilities as a writer, and techniques a writer could use. This class in fact will help me in my college career to understand my writing and assignments in a better way. This class and creativeness of it will always be a reminder of how creative and extensive of a writer I could be.

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Opinion Piece

For many of fans of anime and manga after a long day nothing is more relaxing then getting on the computer and loading up your favorite show or manga. Normally they would probably have it saved in a file, on a hard drive, or just go to a site that already has it all for free. Sounds easy and convenient right? Well got some bad news for the fans and that is what they are doing is actually harming the industry as a whole.

For a better understanding let me explain. Within the anime community there are several sites that host a plethora of anime and manga for free like kissanime.com, anime44.com, batoto.com, mangareader.net, and etc. These sites are able to provide fans to stream, download, and read manga all at the expense of nothing.

To begin let me start with how manga has been affected by this. Manga was at the height of sales in 1995 since the release of One Piece who sold approximately over 320 million copies and Dragonball who sold approximately over 230 million copies. Now for a while there were trouble of sales in domestically in Japan but the market grew in the US, until 2007 (The Death of Manga: Failure to Adapt, 2015). That was when it was at its peak until 2012 where manga sales had dropped dramatically in the US by 43% (Manga comics losing longtime hold on Japan, Paul Wiseman, 2007).

Now that’s just manga. One of the biggest sellers that is now starting to take a toll is anime DVD sales. At panel with executives of Viz Media, a well-known anime studio, at Anime Expo 2008 they brought up the looming issue of declining DVD sales in the US. They said, “the slow turnaround between when a show is broadcast in Japan and when it finally gets officially released in America. Often it takes months and sometimes years for it to happen. Anime fans these days are spoiled by being able to download fansubs hours after episodes air in Japan” (Anime Expo 2009: Panels and Games, William Hong, 2009). The act of piracy of anime and manga has become such a concern that last year Japan had to begin enforcing a strict anti-piracy campaign. The campaign entails that, “the Japanese government will next month start a huge extermination operation against 580 foreign sites which have illegally uploaded anime and manga contents on the web without the copyright holders' permission” (Japanese Government to Start Anti-Anime/Manga Piracy Operation Next Month, Mikikazu Komatsu, 2014).

Although to where now the government of Japan has had to enact an anti-piracy campaign, there are others who will argue that piracy of anime and manga is actually good for the industry. The Japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry published a study that they argue that piracy and free streaming, “does not negatively affect DVD rentals, and it appears to help raise DVD sales; and (2) although Winny file sharing negatively affects DVD rentals, it does not affect DVD sales,” (Internet Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Study Concludes, Ernesto, 2011).

Now that study does seem to bring about some relief.

Though that’s just one of the minor arguments that really now has to contest against what is happening now.

Because of all this I have proposed a solution that mainly the fans can fix.

The solution that can be made is pushing for more availability of the official release, its products, and for legitimized streaming sites to have more shows through the use of petitions and writing letters to executives of streaming sites. For streaming sites like Netflix, Hulu, and Crunchyroll have a section to watch anime shows but they are limited. Writing a petition or letter to those sites advocating for more shows is crucial as fans tend to go to free streaming sites to because they can’t find a show they are looking for.

Then there is a solution that is even more simple yet doesn’t isn’t pushed enough and that is supporting the official release. It isn’t that fans don’t want to but just the options for them to support are slim. Usually stores that do have anime and manga are very limited and are small. Then there are places like Barnes and Nobles, Suncoast, or FYE do have anime and manga but they have very small sections. Those stores can be expanded in that product by writing to them and showing that there is in fact a good demand for this trade just not enough of it being supplied.

Indeed there are means to acquire free anime and manga through streaming sites and just pirate them but that harms the trade. Not to mention that in a way fans can be caught in legal issues so for the sake of avoiding lawful issues and to keep the trade alive then take action. Refrain from using free streaming sites and push that this is a trade that’s in demand and it is still rising therefore it needs more suppliers. So stand proud for there is hope on the horizon.

References:

The Death of Manga: Failure to Adapt. (2015, April 27). Retrieved from http://postbubbleculture.blogs.wm.edu/2015/04/27/the-death-of-manga/

Hong, W. (2009, July 17). Anime Expo 2009: Panels and Games. Retrieved from http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/(S(x3fuyr550gchmnzo2pzwgpvc)X(1)A(_HpmIkpm0QEkAAAAOTg2OWIzMjEtNTYzYy00ZDkyLWI1YWYtZWE4ZDY1MTkxYzQxPuixPhlSSIV5hxSLye2Sss8AE1s1))/w_apa/showarticle.aspx?articleID=9095&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Wiseman, P. (2007, October 18). Manga comics losing longtime hold on Japan - USATODAY.com. Retrieved from http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-18-manga_N.htm

Komatsu, M. (2014, July 29). Japanese Government to Start Anti-Anime/Manga Piracy Operation Next Month. Retrieved from http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/07/28/japanese-government-to-start-anti-animemanga-piracy-operation-next-month

Internet Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Study Concludes - TorrentFreak. (2011, February 3). Retrieved from https://torrentfreak.com/internet-piracy-boosts-anime-sales-study-concludes-110203/

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Week 14

Why a video? Even if it is a writing class, visuals are very important. We tend to remember better if we see visuals, if we have a way to associate something in a writing form to a visual is going to be easier to understand what we just saw.

We use a video, images and facts in order to present our information in a more effective way. We are doing elderly abuse and if the audience sees pictures/videos of elderly people being abuse it is going to stick better and people is going to be aware of what is going on. For instance, we are going to create an impact so people can do something about elderly abuse.

I believe that the structure works because the best way to approached our audience is through pathos. The video has a lot of pathos but also logos and ethos to support our argument. We provide specific ways of helping which is another effective way of presenting our advocacy.

For my last question I added that GIF because I think that the answer is complete and deserves some kind of reward (a hug). For instance, Adam giving me a mental hug like saying: Good job, girl.

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