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How is the actor playing Gus costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Gus? He is costumed in a way where people would think he is poor and doesn’t have much. How is the actor playing Flora costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Flora? The actorContinue reading “CL 3/31”

YALE FILM STUDIES: Basic Terms- Auteur= French for “author”. Used by critics writing for Cahiers du cinema and other journals to indicate the figure, usually the director, who stamped a film with his/her own “personality”. Diegesis =The diegesis includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them, including things, actions, and attitudes not explicitly presented inContinue reading “HW 3/26”

Applying the work of Swales and Mirabelli, how do you think the discourse communities of law and science shaped the multi-literacies, thinking, and imaginations of audiences watching Birth of a Nation? Apply the concepts of iris, typage, decor, and costume to the two scenes above. Then, develop an answer about what Griffith wants a viewer toContinue reading “CL 3/26”

Camerons- Represent the South Stonemans- Represent the North Civil War- Reconstruction…. A revisionist history that’s not accurate. Evil sources that are the main cause of conflicts are the Black Americans. Black Americans who are of mixed privilege.

Warrant- Unspoken values the writers chooses to use and to share with his readers. -These warrants are steeped and come out of the discourse of their specific discourse community. Argument Style (evidence, reason, format, genre) comes from the discourse community. Knowledge is made through discourse and creates multi-literacies for individual members to use. Writer- W.E.BContinue reading “CL 3/3”

What’s your initial reaction to the film? As you process your reaction, try to use the vocabulary and language I discussed in the PowerPoint slide deck (discourse, discourse community, warrants, multi-literacies, and white supremacy). Write a short response in a blog entry and then publish that entry, titling it CL 3/12 Camerons- Represent the SouthContinue reading “CL 3/12”

There are consequences for race interbreeding. Different races being together is inferior and it will cause the offspring to be unintelligent. Blacks were inferior. Removing slavery created more issues. Also that he claims whites were superior and this causes fights.  Frederick Hoffman’s ‘Race Amalgamation’ emphasizes that he is writing about the segregation issues between whitesContinue reading “HW 3/3”

Claim- Blacks were inferior. Removing slavery created more issues. Also that he claims whites were superior and this causes fights. Reason- Fighting between races Evidence- The history of races from all over the world. 18th protects the status quo. Warrant- none CounterArgument- none Rebuttal- none W.E.B Dubois- Strivings of the Negro people Claim- Reason- Evidence-

The Discussion covenant is great as is. Everything that should be addressed is all there already. Professor Bailie keeps up with every student and makes sure we are all where need to be.

Claim- There are consequences for race interbreeding. Reason- Interbreeding causes less….A reason the writer provides that his thesis is ethical or valid is the way he classifies as 2 different races being together is inferior and it will cause the offspring to be unintelligent. Evidence- Warrant- Discourse communities influence warrants by Rhetorical Analysis- Emotional fearContinue reading “CL 2/25”