John N. Duvall, "The (Super) Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's “White Noise"

     Basically this essay is describing America as a fascist state. It is not run exactly like Hitler ran Germany, but our county is fascist thru the media, television, advertising etc. Right know, our lives are ran by all of the different social networks that are out there. I have been Keeping up with the Kardashians’ more than keeping up with what is going on in my own neighborhood.
     “TV is a problem only if you forgotten how to look and listen” (55). We have obviously forgotten how to look and listen, we don’t watch TV with our critical thinking caps on. We watch it for pure entertainment value, even though there is important information transported thru the tube. Making viewers even more prone to fascist propaganda.
     Like the band Tool’s famous lyrics “great big festering neon distraction, destine to keep you all occupied” The media being the distraction for all the population to miss all of the important information, making us more incline to unimportant/skewed view points.


Don DeLillo, "White Noise" Viking Adult, NY1985.
John N. Duvall, "The (Super) Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's “White Noise" (pp432-455)

WHITE NOISE......

I believe I am not the only one that is confused about this book.  I had to re-read "WHITE NOISE" before i even got to the end, i thought I had missed something important a long the way and that was why I was a bit lost.  After reading some of my fellow classmate's blogs I came to the conclusion that it was not just me.  I know Professor Cline warned us by telling us that it was going to be a hard read, but this I did not expect.  I have not finish the book, I decided to take a break today and finish it tomorrow.  I already have plans to read it a second time.  For the most part I am really enjoying the book and I am looking forward to the ending. 

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Letter to my Editor

                                                                                March 10, 2013
Dear Laura Cline,
It has been a great privilege to be among your students. I have learned and experience many great things while fulfilling your assignments. My biggest challenge has been the blog, learning how to master it, has also been my greatest achievements. Before this class I would never have thought to create a blog and now it is a point of pride to show all of my friends and family. I have always been a creative person and I enjoy this new medium for my artistic outlet.
I have always considered myself a well read person, but taking this class has open my eyes to new subject matter to explore. I would never have experience Melville or Swift in my current occupation or field of study. In my past, I have focus in argumentative writing and not analytical, which I think it is obvious by my choice of topics.
My goals for the second half of the session is to keep improving my grammar and analytical skills. I would also like to expand my library with traditional literature. I hope to be surprise by even more interesting traditional and unconventional literature, and continue expanding my critical thinking abilities.
                                                 Thank you for this opportunity,
                                                  your student,
                                                   Myrza Lamper.

                                                                              March 10, 2013
Dear Laura Cline,
It has been a great privilege to be among your students. I have learned and experience many great things while fulfilling your assignments. My biggest challenge has been the blog, learning how to master it, has also been my greatest achievements. Before this class I would never have thought to create a blog and now it is a point of pride to show all of my friends and family. I have always been a creative person and I enjoy this new medium for my artistic outlet.
I have always considered myself a well read person, but taking this class has open my eyes to new subject matter to explore. I would never have experience Melville or Swift in my current occupation or field of study. In my past, I have focus in argumentative writing and not analytical, which I think it is obvious by my choice of topics.
My goals for the second half of the session is to keep improving my grammar and analytical skills. I would also like to expand my library with traditional literature. I hope to be surprise by even more interesting traditional and unconventional literature, and continue expanding my critical thinking abilities.
                                                Thank you for this opportunity,
                                                your student,
                                                 Myrza Lamper.

                                     

Myrza Lamper
Laura Cline
Eng.102
03 March 2013


     The purpose of Swift’s text is to scorn the landlords, the Whigs and the Tories of the English Parliament into feeling shame for the treatment of the less fortunate(Moore, Pg692). Swift used the burlesque form of satire successfully. He basically proposed that the poor should raise their children like cattle, to be sold for nutrition and clothing (Swift, pg 6). He accurately argued the ethos, logos and pathos modes of persuasion convincingly. Swift believed that the poor were a drain on the state and that, ethically they needed to find a solution to the problem. He also believed that it logically made sense to turn this drain into a positive contribution to the common wealth.(Swift, pg3), and used the burlesque form of satire to make the appeal to pathos. Claiming it was in their own best interest to be used for food and clothing (swift, pg10).


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Guess Who is Coming to Dinner?

Swift identifies the problem in his society as being inhumane to the less fortunate. He begins by describing and agreeing with society on how beggars and their numerous children are a drain to society. He comes up with a proposal, a solution to societies problem. His solution is barbaric and purposely meant to shock his audience. Swift, hopes that by logically linking the common feelings towards the poor with his barbaric proposal, he will shock the audience into realizing that their feelings towards the poor are equally as barbaric as his proposal.

I think his suggestion is serious. He feels that the people of his country are treating the poor like they are less than humane. if they are less than human, then they are animals and he goes into detail describing the poor as animals being prepared as food. He has to treat the subject seriously in order to shock the audience into seen his point.

His solution is so illogical that it is absurd. First, he describes In good detail the situation of the less fortunate, obviously appealing to the sympathies of the audience. Finally, he then transitions into a sarcastic proposal in the attention to make people feel guilty for their lack of compassion.



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Survivor Cheese

       First, I was captivated by the music in the commercial. It is one of the reasons I did not skip this advertisement to keep searching. Second, I wondered what was going to happen to the mouse while he was nibbling on the cheese. It happened, he was strapped and squeezed by the mousetrap. Finally, the  mouse overcome the trap. Overall, the combination of the music, imagery and the comedy made this commercial enjoyable, even if I was unclear as to how it had anything to do with the selling of cheese.
       It wasn’t until applying the rhetorical triangle model to the commercial that I began to understand the scheme. The mouse is the ethos, or cheese expert. After all the Western media has always painted the mice as cheese cynosures. His willingness to risk death is a testament to the tastiness of the cheese. The music in this case is the pathos. Each song gave credence, it underscored all of the thinks that were happening in the commercial, making the events more believable and sympathetic. I really felt bad for the mouse when the song by the Doors, THE END began playing. As soon as the EYE OF THE TIGER by Survivor started I just knew everything would be alright. The logos is in this case is anti-logic, we know that eating cheese does not make you stronger. The logic in the commercial states that a mouse , an expert on cheese as one would say, risked death by eating the cheese and because he ate the cheese he had the strength to overcame the mouse trap. The mouse’s strength is a metaphor for the strength of the taste of the cheese.
      I found that I am susceptible to pathos, the music was what attracted me to the commercial. I think the commercial was successful. I do want to go out and buy this particular type of cheese. I know it won’t make me strong, but I like strong taste in cheese.