Rhetorical Analysis Tiffany Dickerson

My name is Tiffany Dickerson and currently attends Wayne State University. My current major is Nursing, but I am having a major curve towards Psychological Studies. I live in Southfield, Mi and I like to sleep, listen to music and just have an overall good time wherever I am.
As A savvy writer, I have noticed a lot of talk in the world about different issues that are happening or has happened lately. While reading Saunders “ Braindead Megaphone” and Sheffield’s “ Not Dealing With Reality” I’ve came to a conclusion that we the people, the citizens of the united states are the people who are braindead listening to the man on the megaphone, while the government and others represent the man on the megaphone. Talking about different things happening and we just switch to whatever “they” (the man on the megaphone) is talking about at that time. Getting back to Sheffield’s “ Not Dealing With Reality” , we the people are always talking about all the problems that the United States deal with, but then kind of push away from these problems, hoping that it will eventually the problem will be solved. Everyone has been and will be influenced by what the media say’s today in our culture.
There are so many things going on in the world today that not everyone knows about simply because of the lack of news that is seen and hear. Now news stations today talk about simple stuff like movies and break-ins and killings, while they really need to focus more on things that are going to help society. Every now and then will you hear the news talk about global warming and how much it is effecting our planet. Glaciers are melting faster than expected and since they tell us this information on the news you would think that the U.S Government and other governments would try to make new laws or do something to help decrease global warming. Instead they just talk about it and you never really hear about it again until a disaster happens. Another one is with the terrorists , we shouldn’t have to go through all the hassles we do now just to get on a plane. Society talks about how they need to do all theses security changes to make sure that the airlines are extra safe ; what they and ourselves fail to realize is that we aren’t putting in 100% effort, making sure any type of terrorist might come through. We just look for certain characteristics and skip all the other people who might actually be a terrorists, basically stereotyping. I have noticed with some of my writings that the more credibility the author shows in their argument then the better you paper comes out and people would actually spend time reading it because they feel as though your paper is credible. And because of that now when I look at some text’s before reading it I look to see where I have gotten the source from and is it scholarly or if it is credible enough. Having a credible paper really helps out bring your argument and helps state reasons why your argument would be the side that they decided to choose.
What we don’t know is that what the media says isn’t always everything its cracked up to seem. The media lies and manipulates its listeners to think what they want them to think so that it will get in their heads that it is good on what they are telling them.
While writing for the past couple of months I have written an analysis paper on visual arguments and textual arguments. With the visual analysis I had to argue what Calvin Klein was trying to say with his fashion ads. And how daring they are , models half naked or looking like they are engaging in sexual activity. With my other analysis I analyzed Chuck Klosterman and how everything in one persons life usually happens to everyone else in life at least at one point in time. He also notices that everyone is always trying to concur life but continually fail to achieve it. When looking at ones ethos’s they have to be credible. Some authors are credible because they have research to back up their information. But now when I look at ones writing I see if they have personal experience or not. Although you do have some writers who only state their opinion and have no facts to back themselves up. Having personal experience, and good facts will make you seem very credible because your stating all the information you have right there in front of the readers face, hiding nothing and you also have personal experience to back it up ten times more.