No Place Like Home

Gutterson said that Green Valley is like a verb and a noun because all the things one has to do to be accustomed to the rules of the community. The community has a sense of strong rules and securities. "Warning, Neighborhood watch program in force. We immediately report any suspicious persons and activities to the police department."(183) These signs evident everywhere creates the aspect and feeling that the community watches you like it does it its self. The community has a set standard of living and activities already put and planned. Also the growth of the community with houses going up has to do with the verb. "Everywhere on the fringes of its 8,400 acres one finds homes going up". (183)

This piece reminds me of the "Homeplace" piece in the sense of the ways he tries to prove his point. He talks to the mayor, gaining credibility from authority. He also did his research with the statistics and facts about the growth. The reader can feel that he knows what he is talking about by backing up his information with interviews, observations, stats, and stories. With this he uses all aspects of rhetorical analysis rhetorically analyzing the community of Green Valley.

I agree with Gutterson on the aspect that suburbs are not as safe as they seem to be. My neighborhood is classified as a suburb but on many occasions I hear and witness gun shooting, robberies, and more illegal activities that one would not hope to find in a suburb. It is not the environment but the people in the environment that make it dangerous.

my hood

Growing up I always wanted to be like the guy next door. He had the coolest cars. So many cars , he had to park one in front of our house just for space. That one was my favorite. It was the "skittles" car. 26 inch rims with skittles painted on the inside of the rims. Skittles were painted randomly on the light blue candy paint. I loved that car. I always wondered why he had such a nice car and lived in our neighborhood. I found out one day. It was four in the morning when i was 10, and I heard the police yelling and gun shots firing. They had said he had been selling drugs out of that house for over 10 years. I been in that house many times even though my mama told me not to. And every day after that, one by one those cars left. It felt like my dreams were stolen away from me. When they took the skittles car I cried a little as the tow truck pulled it away. My dream of being my narcotic neighbor followed the tow truck and never returned.

What I like...

Light skin Choco

Hazel eyes Dark Brown Eyes

Donk Donk

Long hair dont care Short Fantasia

Stillettos Pumps

Style Gutter

Personality

Outgoing

Hood

Hustler Mentality

Lauren London

Juicy Lips

What you have to know to understand this sketch is mainly politics as well as the demeanor of the people running or ran in the election. With Hilary always blurting out trying to overpower Palin, one would have to know about her powerfulness. Also with Hilary, there were suggestive comments pertaining to the rumours of her sex. In the joke of Hilary lending her pair to the press, that indicated that hilary had Male sexual organs. Palin who semed like a showcase running mate, only spoke of herself as a trophy

Gender switch.

If i woke up the opposite sex, the agenda of activites would go as foolows:
I would scream for 3 hours.
Take a very long shower.
Cry
Find some place to get my hair and nails did. (I got to be fresh even if I am a girl)
Cry
Watch some Soap Opera
Cry
Find a rich man and take his money by using my sexy womanistic charm.
Stay inside and never come out jsut simply because I don't want anybody seeing me as a woman or even trying to holler at me like I am some piece of meat. (I know because I do it all the time)
Cry
Bake a pie filled with rich fruits and spices that only a fool wouldn't love.
Cry myself to sleep.

Scavenger Hunt

The visual is very simple in every aspect. With only three colors, two pictures come together to make one strategy. A silhouette of a skateboarder with a red slash tells the the skateboarding audience not to skate visually as the words tell not to in an alternate manor. The tone is simple but enforceable. Everything is black and white except the red slash that is somewhat the universal sign for not doing something. The creator of the text made this to enforce more so over persuade skateboarders to not skate in this specific area. Though it is not as evident as other texts, i believe that this text uses logos rhetorical strategies because the text is strictly factual, there is no emotion or some kind of stature that a person or company is trying to uphold. I think the text is fairly effective, simple but strong.

Letters to G-mac and Grandma

Dear G-Mac,
Whats up? I've been holding down the Knox like a G.C.C cat suppose to. I haven't been doing much, mostly chilling with the memphis folks. Them cats funny right there. Just yesterday we was outside no limit clement talking bout all the different things we'd do for a billion bones. That stuff got way out of order. We even start talking bout the different sex moves and stories. Man the clubs are jumping too. No like the Ville of course, but they shake it for a pink toe city. Its a club called Malibu 7 in east Knox and that junt be yunk as I dont know what fool. Nobody trying to bang on each other, fight or shoot. Its like everybody just come to have a good time. You know I'm used to somebody shooting at me in the club so I was kinda shocked when no biscuits was baked. Its been cool man so hold down the ville like a dude suppose to.

Yo trigga nigga,
JP





Dear Bunny,
Hey hows it goin? I've been doing good. Studying as usual. I know even you don't believe that. I have, however, been on my job. Reresenting the Sharp family isn't an easy task. I went to the club and the Memphis folk outnumbered the Nashville people so you know I had to act a fool. Its not the same having my friends to dance with me but I have to do it anyhow. I've been staying healthy too. I try to play basketball everyday and eat right in the cafeteria. There food is nowhere near good as yours. And Bunny you was right, these girls are nothing but trouble. Some girl touched me innapropriately and acted like it was ok. I handled the situation so you dont have to bring "lester" up here. Well it was good talking to you and tell Caviar & Champaine I said i miss them.

Love Ya,
Justin

Drug Commercials (Compare & Contrast)

The first drung commercial is an egg frying in a pan stating that when one uses drugs their brain fries. This was some what of a logos commercial and used fear emotions of ones body. The date of the commercial is in the 80's, so the absence of much drug knowledge as well as the stricter laws from the FCC creates a simpler commercial than the one that is shown at the later date. The newer commercial strongly uses pathos and ethos, a much higher scale than the first one. Ethos wise, unlike the first commercial, they use a female who is slightly dischevled withheavy eye liner on to further the hypothesis that she has used drugs. When the message comes from her perspective, it is more believable because it becomes somewhat of a testimony. Pathos wise, the emotions are stronger as well as broader. The commercial just doesn't play on the fear emotion, it also plays on the anger, sympathetic, sad, and fustrated. Her smashing all the plates and other items portrays a woman who has emotional fustration with her drug addiction, making the audience think twice about creating an addiction of their own. Also, the first commercial had a wider audience, but in the second commercial, the youthful speaker targets the audience of the high school to college realm of Americans.

Bejing Games Photo Rhetorical Analysis

Observation: Soldier has a serious facial expression, fireworks are being shot from the birds nest, the inside of the birds nest is red, the night sky is without stars, the soldier is looking away from from the fireworks as if he is not even intersted in the games.

Inferences: The fireworks in the picture could be taken as missles. The dull red tone of the interior birds nest as well as the stern look of the officer's face gives the sense of a dark, raging, or warlike time. His non inclusiveness means perhaps that the government doesn't really care about the games in itself but moreso the image of the games in their country. The angle of the picture takes on the mind to see China as the nuclear super power that they are. The fireworks are added to serve as missles that they posses.

Ode to Pencil

Observing: Led pencil, black, low eraser, z-grip, .7 led,barcode still attached.

Inferring: The led pencil shows that I am a man of mobern technology. The retractable piece of led implies I know the true meaning of reuse. Everytime that I write, I show I care about the trees. An ecofriendly man that repects mother nature. Illustrating with my pencil that I am not nor do i feel that I am a perfect man. The worn an eroded eraser clearly proves that I make mistakes. I use nothing but the newest as well as fashionable things. The black lining that matches the silver barcode. I am an International man seeing that the pencil was made in China.