week 6 post

ONLINE VIDEO: I believe having the music in the essay made the rhetorical aspect of the essay more focused on the music and what was said about the music. Especially when the music that is used is well known or current versus music that is not well known. People enjoy the topic much more when they find the topic interesting. I believe that Kurt V. was in a way having a dream about the way society speaks now. When people are texting, IMing, or e-mailing I believe people lose the meanings of words. When people for example say "your doing your homework," that should really say "you're doing your homework." When making that mistake the person is completely misusing the definition of your and you're. As we discussed in class, not only does watching your timing on what you say aloud, but how you say something in a text also matters. IF YOU TYPE A TEXT LIKE THIS, your reader is going to think, what in the world did I do wrong that this person is mad at me. Also like we debated on class whether we believed hey was warming or if we preferred hi. Another example of the way things can be mistaken in text is how you previously used as an example "Oh Phil is so cool," in a text that sounds completely serious, but you may be completely sarcastic. The meanings of words is also diminished when sent in a text versus saying it out loud, for an example texting ily for I love you. I agree with what you said about a good song has a good beat, but may not have good words to it. I like many rap songs based on what the beat is, but the word of the songs could be very graphic. On the other hand lyrics can also be very important to me. For example I relate to many of Taylor Swift's songs because she makes her song lyrics stories of things she has gone through in life and many teenagers can relate to her songs. I could not believe that the song that had no words was pulled from the airwaves just based on the fact that it sounds dirty, but yet it had no words to go along with that theory. For them to just assume it could be dirty well I've grown up on the saying assume means it makes an ass out of you and me. I agree completely about the cherry and the river example. If they were to show the commercial on TV the producer of the commercial would give you what the characters would look like and how the huge cherry would look as it hit the river. The same kind of thing happens when you read a book and then you go see the movie. I personally prefer to read the book first, just so movie producers cannot ruin my imagination.

BOOK ASSIGNMENT: I never really thought about how photographers can make pictures be fact, fiction or metaphors.Anytime I see a photo, well depending on the situation, I usually thought it was always the truth. When I take pictures for friends. I would say I probably take pictures for facts, since my pictures are of events to look back on. When reading this article I realized that photographers really do stage pictures from making a solider's face look at the camera and have his gun perfectly laid on him, to the couple on a date making a scene that any romantic would want to be in that situation and be the happy couple on the date. I can honestly say that I learned something new when I read this. When I read the part about Rosa Parks, I had no idea that the famous picture of her on the bus was posed. Which makes sense since, when would she really have time to take a picture when she is getting kicked off a bus? In society we hear all the time that models are airbrushed to look that skinny and no one is really that skinny in real life. So to hear that the New York Times air brushes people out of pictures does not really surprises me. The sad part of society is however that they cannot just show the rest of us what the world is actually like.