Facebook Rewind

At the beginning of this school year, we had to develop an ideal American citizen on Facebook and described characteristics of this said person. My citizen was a student at Ohio State, who was a member of the Republican party and a Rastafarian. My citizen watched a variety of shows to try and cover all bases and listened to all genres of music. I would not change too much about my citizen now, although I would change his religion to Christian because that is the more accepted and one of the most prevalent religions in American society. Aside from that, I feel my citizen was very well rounded and someone who could get by successfully in society. I think the change I made is one that would make the more my citizen more able to be respected in society. I think the reading about the difference between normal and ideal by Michael Warner is very interested. It really makes a good point about what is normal compared to what is ideal. Normal is just a word that shows people fit into statistics. No one should really worry about being normal. Ideal is a lot different and it can be different based on what you believe. I do not think my citizen would be normal just because of the vast variety of interest, but to me he is ideal. Who cares about being normal...there is no reason to have to fit into mold just to make some statistics come true.

I have learned a lot in this class about writing and research while dealing with the rhetoric of service and activism. I have learned about the steps of writing analytically as opposed to the 5 paragraph method that I have been taught my whole life. I learned to analyze things piece by piece and relate them back to a main idea as opposed to generalizing things. I believe all these things tie together in a very unique way. My ideal citizen has many small parts that bring him together as a whole, just like the course theme all tied together in being an activist for a bigger cause.

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I am writing about an abortion campagin that I saw set up on the Ohio State campus about a month ago near Independence Hall. The things I saw that day still stick out in my mind today so I feel it is appropiate to write about it. There was a large demonstration that had a variety of graphic images to try and get stuck in the publics mind. It certainly worked on me because I still remember the gruesome images to this day. The set-up did not involve much of anything besides the pictures, and a few brochures that the public could pick up but it was still a very successful demonstration.

The rhetoric used by the set up of many images is one that may have been more successful had they had someone there speaking, or presented me with more facts about abortion rather than just a bunch of pictures. I feel like this could have been much more persuasive and informative had there been someone there preaching about the groups view on abortion or having someone there to ask questions about. It is hard to get the full effect of something when you can only view things without asking questions and discovering what you want to know. However, if I would have to write on this topic I could still formulate enough evidence using those pictures to write a constructive paper.