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Do the Right Thing Response

Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing, depicts growing racial tensions on a Brooklyn block that soon erupt into disaster due to lack of communication. The movie as a whole lacked basic civil...

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Obama’s “I Believe” Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfQxHHQPtI0 President Obama’s commercial, “I Believe”, depicts mainly middle class people working with a voice-over of one of Obama’s speeches. Obama and his campaign...

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HEADstrong

  So, looking through my closet for a t-shirt, I came across my bright green “HEADstrong” shirt, and I thought about it for a bit and realized that the shirt had a lot of rhetoric in it. The shirt, and...

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Reading Analysis

One of my favorite parts of this week’s reading assignments were the examples told throughout the chapters. The most interesting thing I read was about the movie poster. When I first looked at the...

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RCL: Pathos Example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKXBHWGIYE&feature=relmfu   So, when I was about to start working on this blog, I got distracted by Skype. So, when I started thinking about a pathos filled...

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Research Process

I found the engaging with your sources the most useful step of the research process. I feel that through this stage in the process, you learn and analyze your source making it more credible and useful....

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RCL – Kairos

Everywhere you look today, you can see bits and pieces of the world. As time has passed, globalization has becoming more and more important. In the economy, countries are dependent on each other for...

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Stases

This past week, we read about strategies that we could use in our paradigm shift papers to further strengthen our arguments. One thing that we focused on was stasis which allowed us to find out what to...

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TED Talk RCL

TED talks are not your traditional speech. They have many unique aspects including its format and delivery. A traditional speech tends to be more formal with a speaker having a PowerPoint presentation...

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RCL – Fair Use and Copyright

My two questions about copyright and fair use are as followed: We are trying to use video clips from football games and news stories, so what are the fair use policies referring to that? How do we know...

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