Monday, May 31, 2010

Argument Freewrite

Read the scenario below, and then argue your stance using the techniques/skills you acquired from A&B chapter 10. You may use your book, your notes, or your handout as reference. Try to appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos, and look for unstated assumptions, etc. For the sake of this exercise, pick one side or the other.

A (non-specific) country is in the middle of a war. Unlike wars in the past, this war is constantly being covered by the media. In order to avoid public panic and protect civilians, the leader of this country banned the publication of images depicting the return of dead soldiers' coffins. Is this protection or censorship?

Friday, May 14, 2010

Visual Analysis

http://iuplanet.com/forum/attachments/what/984d1206158347-50-most-controversial-album-covers-all-time-albumcovers.jpg

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0806/playing.in.pain/images/1997-michael-jordan.jpg