#Hashtag

On April 12th, 2015 Freddie Gray was violently and wrongly killed by six officers. Another black man killed by an officer in an already uneasy time in the world. Just like the other incidents, this brought along protest and many angry people. The majority of the protesters were African American but many white folks wanted to stand against this police brutality as well. In a new age where social media has taken over the world many people, especially on twitter were talking about this incident. One of the things people love about social media are hashtags. Hashtags are usually placed at the end of a tweet, and it refers to what your tweet is about. For example one might tweet "its crazy out here #Baltimoreriots". The first hashtag to emerge was #freddygray. Then onto #baltimoreriots, #baltimoreuprising, #breakthecurfew, and #baltimorelunch. The most popular hashtag at first was #baltimoreriots, but it shifted to #baltimoreuprising as an effort to focus on the positive and rebuilding the city instead of the negative. As more and more people used the hashtags the trend was set and soon everyone was talking about it. It caught on like a wildfire and the buzz was insane. Everyone had something to say about the issue and it really showed us how powerful hashtags can be. All these hashtags taught us that in writing, it doesn't always have to be some really long article or book that can provide info to us, sometimes just a simple two word phrase can impact the whole world.

Defing Community 7/1/15

Community is a group of people who reside in a specific location. Community influences writing greatly. Actually, writing is decided by community. If the author does not meet the required interest of the community it is very likely his product will not sell and be unpopular. Community and interest vary upon location and culture. What is acceptable to one community might not be acceptable to others. The community influences what the authors write about because the authors want to write about something that will entertain or inform the audiences of their liking. For the most part a community is very alike as a whole and shares common interest. The community influences writing very greatly and might be the main factor that decides what one writes about.

Artifact last journal- connor fee

       

       This artifact that I found was funny and I can relate to this because I think this and say it almost every time I go out in Tallahassee. Whenever I go out at night and walk home to my apartment I always see kids doing stupid things because they are drunk. When I see this I say, “Damn, those fucked up kids are crazy”. Most off the stupid things I see kids doing are swimming in fountains in the after hours and I even saw a kid get arrested for kicking someone’s car. This kid was so drunk that he randomly kicked a car and a cop saw him and he got arrested. I thought the same thing that this artifact displays. The name of the little excerpt on this picture on Found Magazine was “Turn Down For What” and I really guess these kids I see live up to the name on this magazine see the are getting so drunk and don’t care about anything besides doing that and doing reckless things. I have friends that go by that motto and are going down the wrong path. So I can just sit back and say, “Damn, those fucked up kids are crazy”.

The audience to this picture seems to be the cats. The writer is telling them that they are going to be moved to another home. This may be because the writer does not have enough time or money to take care of them the right way. The writer also states that she is doing this because she loves the cats and want them to be in a better place for them. I think that this picture could also represent how people feel when they have to give their child up for adoption, because a lot of the time, they are doing it because they love the child and want it to have a better life than they could give them. 

Last Journal Entry- Artifact

                                                    
The artifact I chose was titled “Live and Learn” from foundmagazine.com. The picture depicts a long letter written in a little kid’s handwriting. I chose this artifact because children always have the funniest things to say, and I could tell that this would be adorable. The rhetor is a little boy who tells a melodramatic story of when Matt Johnsan cut in front of him in the lunch line at school. The audience he is writing to doesn’t seem to be specific, just to anyone who wants to read about his experience. He clearly was tired of dealing with this guy Matt and finally does something about it. After a snarky remark from the line-cutter, the boy decides to dump his lunch tray all over Matt Johnsan’s “dirty little scalp”. The rhetoric he writes with is made clear through his spelling, dialect, and use of exclamation points. The innocence and truth that he writes with is so endearing and reminds me of when I was his age and learning to write. His realization at the end of the letter is relatively profound for an elementary-schooler. When the boy was in the principle’s office, he overhears a radio talk show host say “you live and you learn”. The boy makes the connection and comprehends that he just lived and learned, and because of this he notes that he won’t ever do it again. Deep down he’s proud that he stood up for himself and made the whole cafeteria laugh, despite the consequences he was later faced with.

Artifact: letter

I found this artifact very interesting. It caught my eye in the matter of seconds.  From just looking at the hand written note, I can notice a lot of things about the rhetor and the audience he is writing too. The website I found this on is a collection of found letters. We don't know if the person who was supposes to receive it, actually got a chance to read it. In this situation, it would be Kaitlyn that we would wonder about. She is the audience, who this is directed too. The rhetorical situation is about a young boy, who likes the girl named Kaitlyn. You can tell by his writing that he is in a sticky situation with a problem about not really knowing what she thinks about him. Since the letter is hand written, we can believe that this boy and girl are young. The reason for that is because the handwriting is not neat and the grammar is not correct. Also maybe they are to young to have the way to communicate over a phone call, text, media, etc. The choice of writing can share a lot of clues about the rhetor. Writing is a key way of communication and is special in its own way because it is harder to be “deleted”.  I personally think a handwritten letter displays and demonstrates more feelings. It brings to life an idea or thought from being visual appealing and different.  The is why this letter caught my eye and my attention to read. 

Final Journal Entry

As I was looking through post secret, this particular note stood out to me. Basically from third grade to twelfth grade we have taken countless standardized tests to see if we are smart enough or meet certain standards. It was refreshing to see someone who has not met these certain standards take action and do something about it to better himself. I think that this sets a perfect example to all students to learn from their failures and fix their problems. I believe that this post primarily demonstrates exigence, a problem that prompts someone to write or fix. The test scores that the student received was a huge problem and made him think that he wasn't smart enough, but, since he stated, "It was the best thing that ever happened to me" it shows that it gave him the motivation to work hard and improve these not so good scores. The student is showing the audience that good things can come from bad results. The rhetor has created this problem, and has given us the impression that he has solved it by human interactions, this is demonstrating a rhetorical situation. Ultimately, this course is centered around how anything in our daily life has influenced or changed our understanding of writing. Even though so little is written in this post by the student, the audience is still able to figure out his story and how this student even is today. We can tell that he works harder now and he is smarter and bettering himself. This post has proved that a couple small statements can tell a whole story.

Final Journal

            I chose this artifact about parents getting divorced because it relates to me. When I was 4 years old my parent had got a divorce. At first, I was confused and upset. I was at such a young age that it didn’t really make sense to me. All I remember is my older sister telling me “mommy and daddy do not like each other anymore”. This was one of the first hardships I had to endure in my life. The artifact above explains how at first it is painful and then says but, without continuing his/her thought. The rhetor, which is the writer of this piece, left it up to the audience to think about what is next. What I believe should be next is “But from an young adults view, having divorced parents is not that bad. It actually has many benefits”. My parents getting divorced was hard for me at first, but now it is part of my life. If I could go back in time and prevent it from happening, I wouldn’t. Having divorced parents has taught me many life long skills and lessons.  When I child receives news that is upsetting it is hard for them at first. This is because they do not have full knowledge of the situation, nor would they understand what is happening if they did. As a young adult, it is easier to understand why things happened. This event in my life has made me who I am today. The artifact and writing is important to me because it allowed me to share something that happened in my life that I wouldn’t have shared otherwise.

Final Journal Entry

For my final journal entry I chose a picture that says, “I hope you somehow understand that you’re going to a new home NOT because I don’t love you, but because I do.   So Much Love, Foster Mom”.  I personally find this text to be beautiful.  The learned knowledge of love that mothers can potentially share with their babies through natural acquisition is incredible to me.  The willingness to give up something or someone loved for the greater good, knowing that the ideas behind such an act could potentially be misconstrued by the one you love.  This is a sacrifice so large that I don’t believe it can simply be taught.  It’s amazing to me that even though these are only words on a page, that through communication of writing I am able to feel such a connection to self.  Much like how a mother learns to love, class has taught me the importance of communication in writing.  Without communication in writing entire thoughts would just become words on a page.  The simple beauties in life, like understanding a picture expressing the natural acquisition of love between a mother and child would be eradicated forever.  Communication holds the key to understanding and is essential if society wishes to thrive.  Such a simple picture with cats and words on page can mean so much merely through communication, and we are all connected through the glue holding communication together that is writing.