Defining Jocks/Origin of the Subculture - 3 views
I live in Murray, known as the athlete dorm, so I thought it would be interesting to look up the origin of the term "Jock," derived from the word "Jockstrap."
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I live in Murray, known as the athlete dorm, so I thought it would be interesting to look up the origin of the term "Jock," derived from the word "Jockstrap."
Apple uses rhetoric in their Mac vs PC commercials by directing their products to a specific audience.
In this chevy commercial the rhetor directs the commercial to an audience of pet and family lovers or more directly dog lovers. The commercial uses pathos to create an emotional tie between the aud...
A very effective billboard in terms of logos and pathos. Abortion is a touchy topic whether you are pro life or not. This affects us all emotionally. The text appeals to our moral reasoning and sup...
These kinds of videos are very effective through the visual aspect. They show very lifelike recreations of a car accident. They are truly gruesome to watch but that is the point because that is wh...
A very effective site in informing us about the key points of a research paper and how to execute in properly. Covers a lot of the basic steps as well as some in depth keystones to look for in your...
A pretty well stated view on the misconceptions behind research in any setting. It is hard to be effective in your research because you have to reach out past your own boundaries of knowledge and r...
Gives a lot of useful steps on how Student's and Faculty can work together to make these projects a success. The tip to gain knowledge on your topic before choosing the technological outlet is help...
http://www.ct4me.net/multimedia_in_projects.htm This website gives information on how to include different elements into a project such as video and images.
This official definition give by the U.S. Copyright Office helps clear the air about what was just discussed in class about the "Fair Use" idea. It seems to protect an authors expression of the con...
I found this interesting because a lot of artist will sample songs and club/ trap music is just remixes of songs. It makes me curious as to if all of these YouTube channels who put out these songs ...
This video shows rhetoric through the use of pathos, as shown by the funny context to make you relate laughter/happiness to Doritos.
You can tell this video is rhetoric because it's persuading you to drink Redbull by saying it will "give you wings". This video appeals to Pathos and tries to make viewers feel like if they drink R...
This video does a great job of bringing in feminist views about how appearance is everything in society today. We focus so much on image, cover up our origins. A very powerful video from when I fir...
Shows some interesting youth subcultures
I just googled Geeks and got this article. I thought it was really interesting after a part of Goths in Tomorrowland talked about the different subcultures of teenagers and how the older generation...
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_859_25-insane-subcultures-you-wont-believe-actually-exist/
Being a former lacrosse player I found the lax bro subculture to be interesting.
Putting political stance aside does anyone think that this article is very poorly written?
This shows that subcultures can be made because of branding