This student takes the informal route in her exploration of relevant social and cultural issues, including finding one’s identity and social conceptions of beauty. Here, you’ll also find an interesting reflection on this student’s 114B experience. Informal and conventional aspects come together to create and interesting rhetorical experience.
Metal music has had a bad reputation since it began in the late 1960’s. Society believed that metal music is a bad influence because of the way the music sounds, its lyrics, and the fans’ appearance. Many people believe that metal fans are less intelligent than those who embrace pop culture because of their love of the Metal genre. For …
Women want to feel beautiful in their own skin, but it seems hard to do that with the pressure that the media gives them. Nowadays, the media tells a woman how to be a woman; they have created their ideal image of what a woman should be. To the media, beauty is: tiny waist, perfect hair, flawless skin, and big breasts. Women …
A bikini model in a commercial for a car, a bikini model in an ad for watches, and bikini models on news posters. Today, sex and advertising go hand in hand. With today’s influence of media, advertisers are trying to reach their audience everywhere, from posters at bus-stops, to internet and TV commercials. Sex is often an important factor in …
In a beautifully-rendered website, Crystal Rivas enters a Dystopian universe. Through film, television, and literary reviews, this student unravels the genre of unraveling and in a final essay, argues for the importance of the Dystopian genre.
Composed of the work of an entire English 114B class, this website has tons of content to explore. The site is divided mainly into three sections, each containing student work from one of the Projects: The Body, Beauty, & Gender; Monsters and Mythology; and Online Business Portfolio. Spend time reading through the various student texts and remember to view the …
This blog delves into the genre of horror in its various incarnations. Shelley Avraham provides reviews of various horror texts, exploring what horror really means. Click the above screenshot to be taken to her blog.
In this blog post, Tariq Soliman analyzes Owl City’s “Fireflies” and the music video for the song. In an effective and interesting discussion of the song and video’s thematic element, Tariq sheds new light on this popular piece of music.