Rhetorical, Literary, or Cultural Analysis Award 2011 Writer’s Reflection When the assignment for this paper was given, I found myself struggling to narrow the topic. Almost out of desperation, I blindly picked up Health magazine. I thought about some of my favorite writers whose editorials …
Effective Use of Humor in Congress by Brian Hoagburg
Writer’s Letter When I first started writing the zero draft of this paper I didn’t really have an idea of the audience that I wanted to address. But after giving it much thought, I decided that my audience would be people who had seen the …
Cheesy Rhetoric by Taylor Walter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-yGVPXVglo However cheesy the concept may seem, the media that fills today’s society can leave room for an in depth analysis. In fact, something as simple as a cheese commercial can hide both deeper and powerful ideals. One in particular, Kraft, has a special talent for doing …
Peace, Love and Spray Paint by Peggy Bullerjahn
Picture this: You’re walking down the street on a beautiful San Francisco day. You just took your mother, who is in town visiting, to the very popular China Town. On your way back, you two are laughing about your uncle’s dumb decision to spontaneously shave …
“The Pepsi Generation,” Nikki Resor (2011) — Inquiry 2
Writer’s Reflection The advertisement I chose to rhetorically analyze was a Pepsi commercial that was aired in 2006 during the Super Bowl. This commercial features Britney Spears as an icon in past generations; each scene involves the refreshing goodness of Pepsi and how young people …
Adidas: Support Your Country, Buy Our Clothes by Adam Ellis
Writer’s Reflection Advertisements are cross-cultural artifacts that we take for granted in society and never usually spend time to understand. Everywhere we look and everywhere we go there are always ads. Companies spend millions of dollars each year on advertisements, hoping that consumers will purchase …
It’s Difficult to Change Your Image by Leah Hastedt
Writer’s Reflection With this paper, I had an easier time writing it. I like being able to look at something like an advertisement and analyzing it, putting my own interpretation into it. The ethnography essay allowed me to do all this, but it’s hard to …
A Community in Trouble by Erin Cox
Tommy Marzella writes “Miami Community Must be More Inclusive, Respectful” to the Miami University and surrounding community, which have been known not to be diverse or accepting of the little diversity the campus has. He also writes to an audience of students that normally have …
The Cancer Envelops Us Whole, But We Don’t Die Alone by Christina Coba
The contemporary dance scene on the hit television show, “So You Think You Can Dance,” choreographed by Tyce Diorio and performed by professional dancers, Melissa and Ade, addresses the serious topic of breast cancer. The piece tells a story of a woman that has been …
The Old Spice Man by Kathleen Antonelli
We all know those guys, the ones at the gym with the barbells, the sweaty tank tops and the spandex shorts. Unless my nose has been misleading me all of this time, I would say those guys need a shower. Next time I run into …
No Escaping Diversity By Katherine Killeen
Writer’s Reflection For my rhetorical analysis, I selected an article from the Miami Student and identified the various persuasive moves that a rhetor makes when appealing to an audience. In this assignment, I identified what the author is trying to argue, but more closely, how …
Rhetoric of Water by David Peyer
The key to an effective advertisement is creating one that will not only stand out from the rest, but also convey a message to a specific, targeted audience. For this paper, I have chosen to analyze the commercial of the top-of-the-line water distributor, Fiji Water. …