Week Two - Posting Two

Lisa Ling is an American Journalist, best known for her roles in ABC's The View, host of National Geographic Explorer, is a reporter on Channel One News, CNN, and has a documentary show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. I think she is a very inspirational woman for all women because she goes around the country and the world to write about people's lives and issues that need to be brought to people's attention. The way she portrays people's stories can really impact the audience she is speaking to. Just the other day on her show on the Oprah Winfrey Network, she followed the lives of five transgender people and their struggle with their bodies and relationships. This show really brought a lot of different views into perspective for me and how people are really born this way. Even in a bad situation she brings light into the situation.

Week Three - Posting Three

Something that I liked when I was reading to directions or topic for this blog is how we have to read women's work (like Sappho and Aspasia) "through the lens of translators or male authorities". This is true, even when a written story is about a woman there is still information left out about them because society or the writer thinks that information is unimportant. I never had heard of these two writers until this class, and it is just sad to think about how many other important women in history that i have not learned about because of the men in their time that over shadowed them. In many Hollywood movies women of ancient times are usually depicted as very beautiful women, usually wearing little to no clothing, and they have lots of jewelry on. But we do not really learn about how they lived in those times through the movies that they are depicted in.

Week Four - Posting Four

I feel like the way we teach children in schools now is overwhelming. We throw so much information at them without actually seeing if they understand the material. I think the students try to remember as much information as they can so that they can regurgitate it to the teacher. We teach our children to be good and better Americans, but what does that really entail? I remember in school everyday before my first class we would say the Pledge of Allegiance, now we cannot even speak about god without worrying about offending other people. What happened to free speech? If parents are not teaching their children the "American way" or morals and ethics of Americans, children are punished in school for behaving badly. There is so much to focus on in school that i do not believe that children now in today's society really think outside of the box (think about other societies and cultures).

Week Seven - Posting Seven

1.  Bud Light Commercial - Book Club
I do not know if men or women would be more annoyed with this. This video implies that men only think about so many things and if you add women and beer then that would equal a good time. I mean, I guess some men do think this way and do not notice it. At least the women were trying to have an intelligent conversation about something that interests them. The women are thought of to sit around and talk or "gossip" while the men are together doing "manly" things like drinking or sports.

2. Men Shopping with Women Commercial
This commercial is an example of how we stereotype and categorize our lives and each other. Here is a man with either his wife or girlfriend going shopping (something that women are supposed to love doing) not having a good time. This commercial implies that the man is just not made for a tedious hobby. What would make men more happy when they have to go with "their" women is mobile television on your phone, "So you can watch the game anywhere". I guess the message is men are so bored with women because we are nothing alike so they have to occupy their time with television on their phone.


6. Dove Commercial for Men
After watching this commercial is just made me laugh. It is like they are saying that dove is finally good enough for men now that it is okay for men to buy it (or vice versa). At the beginning it shows a life from birth and so on of what happens during a boy's growth, stating that like what men do is equal or better tan what women do.

week Six - Posting Six

To be completely honest, I haven't even started my reading report that is due next week. =) I probably won't even start until the day before my conference. But I would like to discuss the differences and similarities between the antiquity and classical period with the early/late middle ages. Those two time periods are more interesting to me and some of the rhetoric writers I liked from those periods. I want to research what motivated these writes to write what they did and see if there are any similarities in the time period for this motivation. I want to look at their backgrounds and research in depth what it was like for these women during those times.

Week One - What is Rhetoric?

In my view rhetoric is a a form of art. It is artistic style of communicating with other people and even audiences. It is a style of speaking and writing that if used correctly can be very effective in persuading people to relate to the speaker on some level. It is a way to make the person being spoken to feel or understand what you are trying to discuss. Many scholars from ancient days have used rhetoric to change or influence the future and that is why we still learn about the great writers of past decades.