MaryAnn Macedo DeVries ENGL 5001 4/22/2010 Paper Proposal For my term paper this semester, I’d like to explore the rhetoric of video game heroines. Women have long gotten the short end of the stick in the video game and comic…
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Decolonization Dilemma
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bell hook’s “Rebel’s Dilemma” at first confused me. I didn’t know what decolonization really was, and she kept repeating the term as if repeating it would actually make such a thing possible. Now, finally knowing what it is, I’ve come…
US vs. Everyone Else: Where Do We Fall?
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This week’s articles have given me a lot to think on, specifically about how America’s way of teaching writing relates to that of other countries. I have long been aware that our system is considerably different from that of others…
Mind-boggling Biblical Burke
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Burke’s readings were particularly interesting to me, both because he examined things like “the rhetoric of witchcraft” and Darwinism and Biblical rhetoric and because of his concept of terministic screens. While I’m still not entirely sure that I got…
Distinctions are What We Make Them: West v. East
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The readings about Chinese rhetoric struck me as just that– readings about how others read Chinese rhetoric, rather than a way to get to the source of something and really understand it by myself. Moreover, because I would never understand…
Medieval and Renaissance Class Questions
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Hey Everyone! Sorry it took me a few days– was working all weekend, but finally got something down. I had plenty of questions after the reading, but I’m honestly more curious to see what you have to say than to…
Aristotle’s Lying for Dummies
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The readings this week reminded me heavily of the discussions we’ve been having in class thus far. While many of the issues we’ve been talking about were very relevant in the Aristotle reading in particular, the one that really interested…
Exhibit A: Irony.
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In Plato’s “Gorgias,” the rhetorician Gorgias is answering questions freely about his profession, and the philosopher Socrates approaches with plenty of questions to ask, ones about what the art of rhetoric is, whether it is in fact an art, and…
Female Gamer Blog Link
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I know that some of you wanted the link for that blog about the top ten things that female gamers hear on Xbox Live that I linked everyone to during the online class chat a few weeks ago. Here you…
MaryAnn’s Final Project
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Disregarding the weird title of my website, this is my final project–a testament to gaming in my life, how it affects me and other women out there, and what gaming could grow to be in the future with a little…