Paper Topic

I am going to analyze Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's speech, "We should all be feminists."

Research topics

My first topic I am considering is president obama's state of the union address.
The second would be the controversy of the millennial generation.
The third topic would be the cultural jamming of the perfect body.

House of Cards

Processed Foods and Monsanto/ GMO's

Education and Studying Abroad

Paper Topics

House of Cards: A Political Analysis

Israel and the Middle East

The Presidency: How it's changed 

Media and political rhetoric in war, politics, and economics

My tastes in video range from absolute escapist fantasy, through provocative depictions of often overlooked "facts", to actual recordings of events and/or history. With that said I feel strongly about three documentary/viewpoint videos I have recently seen concerning war, politics, and economics. These include "No End In Sight" and "Inside Job" by writer/director Charles Ferguson and "The Corporation" written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. Many similarities can be gleaned from these films relating to popular media and political rhetoric. I hope to relate one or all to concepts that appear in class readings or discussions but I am unclear at this time of exact links. I will continue along these lines to develop a thesis that meets the suggested guidelines and allows me to add to a discussion of these important forces in our world today.

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In the essay about the Guerrilla Girls, Demo discusses three rhetorical strategies the group uses.  One of the strategies used was strategic juxtaposition.  As stated in the essay, “groups use juxtaposition to remoralize the social order by “placing conflicting commitments of the system side by side.”  I fount this to be very interesting and I came across an article which used this strategy in a different form from the Guerilla Girls group.  While the group relied on opposing pictures and statements, Alison Grimes used the “stark juxtaposition in age” to boost her campaign.  Grimes, 35-year-old women ran against Senator McConnell and referred to home as the “senator of yesterday.  While many people consider her to be young and inexperienced, she used this to her advantage, by strategically inserting the contrast into her campaign. I for one buy into the “senator of yesterday. “  I believed the younger candidate would bee more in touch with the current needs and wants of voters.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/03/24/grimes_pegs_mcconnell_as_senator_of_yesterday_122033.html

Paper Topic

Guerrilla Girls