In assignment five, the multimedia memoir, I tell a story spanning the course of approximately 2 years, taking my audience (everyone from picky eaters to thrill seeking “cuisinests”) on a journey through how I became a “foodie”. This voyage is presented through a website format (http://afoodiesodyssey.weebly.com/) with various multimedia elements, allowing me to use different rhetorical strategies for different scenarios. Through social media, animations, video, pictures, and text I am able to convey my memoir and present a valuable lesson to my viewers of my website. The foundation of my memoir is captured by the social media app, Instagram, for it provides a pictorial representation of my journey of transforming from a picky eater to a foodie. I use photos that I have posted in the past to convey how I have changed my beliefs and attitudes of not only food, but life. By presenting a progression of my conversion I am able to capture the rhetorical situation …show more content…
I employed multiple button links that connect one portion of my website to the another. This interactive feature allows my audience to travel and “discover” my memoir video, where I used the pictures I have posted in the past in conjunction with text to express my story. In my video, I use “typewriter” text to make it seem as if I am writing my story as you read it. This affect really engages the reader and makes them feel part the memoir. Also, I chose a energetic violin piece by Lindsey Stirling to play in the background, for it has a sense of power while also showing a sensitive note of reflection. This multimedia project is filled with technological flares, making it interesting to the audience and captivating their attention, so the true message behind my memoir can be transmitted
Hearst, Patricia. (2014). Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 27, 2014, from Grolier Online http://gme.grolier.com/article?assetid=0134445-0. (n.d.).
In the novel, Butter, by Erin Jade Lange, a 423-pound junior miserable with his current lifestyle creates a website, declaring a suicide by overeating live on New Year’s Eve. In this analysis the novel, Butter, the literary device of characterization is identified throughout Lange’s novel in addition to connecting to the theme of tolerance.
The Hero’s Journey is a basic template utilized by writers everywhere. Joseph Campbell, an American scholar, analyzed an abundance of myths and literature and decided that almost all of them followed a template that has around twelve steps. He would call these steps the Hero’s Journey. The steps to the Hero’s Journey are a hero is born into ordinary circumstances, call to adventure/action, refusal of call, a push to go on the journey, aid by mentor, a crossing of the threshold, the hero is tested, defeat of a villain, possible prize, hero goes home. The Hero’s Journey is more or less the same journey every time. It is a circular pattern used in stories or myths.
The essay “My technologically Challenged Life” by Monica Wunderlich has made me realize how much we need technology in our lives and how important it is for people to know how to use it. Technology is used for many different things like keeping in touch with relatives that live far from you and many other things. Technology keeps evolving very rapidly and it can be hard for people to keep up with all this new technology coming out, this is what this story is about. In this essay, a woman tells us about her experiences with technology, and tells her difficulties in everyday life because of her lack of experience with technology.
The purpose of my memoir is to awaken the power of Sociological Imagination in an attempt to analyze my own life experiences through sociological lens in order to understand how my life and opportunities in society have been shaped by race, class and ethnicity.
In February 2010, a remarkable chef and speaker, Jamie Oliver, presented himself to a TED (Technology, Education, Design) audience as ruthlessly real and charismatic. In his speech, “Teach Every Child about Food” he shares powerful stories of his anti-obesity project and makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jaime Oliver’s speech aims to alter the perspective of Americans and their decisions about food and its effects. Since then, Oliver’s TED talk has been viewed across the nation and brought a reality to the issue with food education. Jamie Oliver successfully utilizes ethos, logos, and pathos to portray his belief that without the use of food education, America and its children will fall under the weight of its own obesity.
What if you could put your whole life on display for everyone to see? In this decade, such thing is possible with the help of social media sites. If you want to upload pictures, Instagram is available. If you want to write different statuses, Twitter is a step away. If you wanted to do both while interacting with people from across the world, Facebook is the right choice. With the progression of technology and the need for people to show the world who they are, social media sites are becoming increasingly popular. Some people may see this recent boom of social networking as a chance for people to self-brand as well as to present themselves as someone who they are not. As Joel Stein declares in his article You Are Not my Friend, “until we can build some kind of social network where we can present our true, flawed selves, I say we strip down our online communities to just the important parts” (para. 9). While Facebook can be seen as a place for “self-branding” it is a place where someone can analyze someone else as a whole. This allows us to understand someone better and get to know who they really are. By using the method of ethos, pathos and logos, rhetorically analyzing someone’s Facebook profile is easy to do.With the use of one account user’s profile, Jenna LoBello, this essay will show that Facebook can be used more than just somewhere to interact and “show off,” but that it can be used for rhetorical analysis.
Attach a small photograph (3.5 x 5 inches or smaller) of something important to you and explain its significance.
Aquinas Multimedia, 12 May 2008. Web. The Web. The Web. 10 Apr. 2014.
Ranika Blakeney SPCM 390 Instructor Sorensen January 26, 2018 Technology Autobiography Prior to this class, I didn’t truly reflect on or consider the impact and importance of my communication connection to technology. Nonetheless, thinking back, I understand that technology has had a huge effect on my life. Technology has swayed how I think and what I do since I was a very young little girl. From playing The Game Boy as well as different video games and learning the keys to my first home dial up computer as a kid, to essentially undertaking numerous ventures in technology in high school and college; such as using a projector or using the e-reader. In other words, I have been wrapped up in a culture of technology without much conscious thought
I enjoyed the idea of writing my nonfiction essay, but I found actually writing it to be boring. Writing the nonfiction essay allowed me to have a better understanding of why my younger self reacted the way I did. I don’t usually go out of my comfort zone, so telling a group of a people a personal story of mine was an interesting experience.
Currently, our society is changing again with the onslaught of electric media, namely computers and the Internet. We must continue to analyze this technology with the realization that the medium is the message, or else we will never fully understand our culture or the effect of technology on it and on our lives.
Today is an era of information explosion. In the past few years, many newly invented technological devices and software are now tightly integrated with our everyday lives. Today, people can look up almost any kind of information, make friends, communicate with others, and express ourselves with the simple touch of a button on a device we usually keep within arm’s reach. “Widespread use of technology is changing the way we work, learn, and communicate – even the way we carry out our regular, daily activities.”(Seifer and Mihalynuk) These devices not only benefit our livelihoods and increase our happiness, but they are also integral in advancing education, technology, development, and, in general, human evolution. The children of today, who have been raised in this era of information explosion, will undoubtedly reap such benefits and, in turn, advance society towards a better generation.
This "story" is about how my life is affected by technology, and so I got to thinking: What better way to explain this than to take you (the reader) on a journey through a typical day in my life? Here we go.
An Unforgettable Trip - Personal Writing I finally arrived in Pakistan on a hot, June morning after nine tiring days. hours. The time is a lot. We finally arrived in a village and the heat beyond words was irritating me. I looked around me, there were trees and greenery.