ENG 4020 Rhetorical Theory and Practice

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For my final SCD, I am continuing my analysis of Heilbrun's Writing a Woman's Life. When I read Johnson's A Strong Race Opinion...

Before viewing this film I assumed that this was going to be a mundane film that one views in a scholastic setting, but I was wrong. Up the ...

While watching the movie "Up the Yangtze" I found that there were many levels of representation at play. The movie was of course h...

I liked when we were discussing  Up the Yangtze in class the other day and we arrived at the concept of privilege.  We spoke earlier in the ...

The documentary was very involved with the present. I really enjoyed the style of filming for this narrative. I was so involved it felt like...

I have never written a proposal. Thank You. "Check"...

Well, a couple days into December and I have a lot on my plate, especially when it comes to rhetoric. I do feel a sense of relief though, se...

Watching Up the Yangtze , I was struck by a particular problem I have had all this unit dealing with representation and identification. I of...

I feel that  Up the Yangtze  as a film is doing that same thing that Gate's article did just a week back. Raise Consciousness.  By filmi...

This last film brought a unique light to what I intended to do with my final project. The terministic screens in this film are hardly clear ...

I wanted to take a step back for the final journal entry and take a look at Understanding Comics again after we have discussed Burke’s Term...

Up the Yangtze and terministic screens so obviously go hand-in-hand. The representation of the Chinese people through the different socioeco...

Up the Yangtze is a film that wanted to show an audience the changes in Chinese culture and the attitudes that are shown around it. We can a...

For my post this week I would like to take a step back and look at our first section and the term deconstruction. Due to the fact that I nev...

Watching Up the Yangtze , I couldn't get the concept of terministic screens out of my head and Burke's concept of the Other. We talk...

I found Gates' reading very interesting in that I was slightly unaware of the depth of the idea of race in the sense of intelligence. Th...

For the past couple of days since our film viewing, I have been thinking about the way that the movie was filmed, and the effect that it had...

I believe that the film we recently watched, Up the Yangtze , was a great example of diaspora which Wiki defines as  t he movement, migrati...

Up the Yangtze made me think about what motivates action. Cindy had no choice but to work on the ship because her family did not have a soli...

During the discussion after the film screening, someone mentioned erasure, and that got me thinking -- it's hard to think about erasure ...

I think this was a very interesting topic discussed in class. There are many different types of stereotypes presented in the film. But, I th...

Something I found interesting about Up The Yangtze was when the narrator in the beginning said something about the people going on the rive...

We ended today's class with, "Is Gates’ critical concept of  “race” simply another example of Burke’s  terministic screen,” o...

When it came to defining the term "Dialectical Materialism", I went to the the OED. They gave me this definition: "Belongi...