04-13-2010 Begin Michael Collins, Writing Project 5 due
04-15-2010 Finish Michael Collins, final rough draft due, student meetings
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Che: Revolutionary or T-shirt Icon?
What does it mean to be revolutionary? Does a revolution have to be violent? What would Che say? What would Jesus Christ or Ghandi say? We'll explore these concepts in respect to ways of communicating revolutionary ideas.
Baking a Rhetorical Cake
ReplyDeleteAudience:
Anyone with a sweet tooth; those celebrating the day of their birth, a wedding, a funeral, a store opening, a kinky sexual escapade, etc; hungry college students with no food other than cake mix, eggs, water/milk, and no money.
Argument:
Deliciousness, unless of course the baker doesn't know what they're doing. The cake itself could make its own argument depending on the event at which it's being eaten. Examples: "Happy Birthday!" "Congrats on your abortion!" "Mom died!"
Ethos:
Depends on 1) the brand of cake mix, 2) who made the cake, 3) how fabulously it's frosted, and 4) whether or not there are things in the cake that shouldn't be there (i.e. plastic, eggshells, a finger). Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, and a few others already have their cake-mix-making ethos well-established, whereas walmart off-brand cake mix is likely to be assumed to be shit...or at least not as tasty as the others. With regard to number 2, you'd be much more likely to feel as though you'd enjoy a cake made my a world-renown chef than one made by your mostly blind grandma with dementia ("This cake taste like Ensure and prunes!"). Numbers 3 and 4 speak for themselves.
Pathos:
Everyone loves cake. Aside from funerals, cake is almost always eaten in celebration of something happy (or sexy, as implied in the audience section). Plus, it's fuckin tasty!
Logos:
This is generally ignored by the average cake-lover, as factual information about cake usually leads to feelings of guilt due to the intense amount of calories deliciously stored within said cake.