Cultural Analysis
Abortion may be an eight letter word but it still is one of the biggest controversies throughout the world today. While there are many Pro- Life people, there are still the same amount of pro-choice people as well. Some may feel as though having an abortion does not seem as much as a big deal as some may think, but in reality it is a very big deal. Having an abortion comes’ with pros as well as cons for example: not having a baby, but it can sometimes and usually most of the times have negative after effects as in health issues etc. While reading Claire Culwell’s blog on her story “ Abortion Survivor Story” , she tells her story on how she became an abortion survivor. After viewing you will see why having abortions are bad and why searching other options are better; adoption.
Culwell’s blog talk about how her mother was 13 when she found out that she was pregnant and went to have an abortion. After her abortion she found out that she was still pregnant and the doctor told her that she was having twins and that’s why having an abortion didn’t work the first time. When she went to get a second abortion the doctor told her It was too late to have another one. Her mother gave her up for adoption and concludes that she wish that she would just had the babies and then give them both up for an adoption if she would have known the effects of having an abortion.
After reading this blog, one would see that Culwell’s blog is enforcing the adoption policy and that getting an abortion is wrong and pointless. Also she is stating that instead of hurting ones self, we could actually help other people who cant have babies themselves. The social purposes of this text is to help confused soon to be parents out with their decisions on whether or not if they should get an abortion or not. To show them the other positive reasons on why they should keep their baby, because they an make another family happy.
Some difference between my values and the readers values in the text are really not that different. Both of us feel as though getting an abortion is wrong because it doesn’t give the unborn baby a chance to speak for itself because he/ she has not been born yet, and they can not tell you if they would like to be born or not. This text has a social understanding to the extent to why the mother was having an abortion. And the reason was because she felt that she was to young to have children. Although this text tells why females should rather go to an adoption agency then having an abortion, this might hurt others that still feel as though getting an abortion is the only other option that they have for them. And if being able to get an abortion became illegal then a lot of people would become upset.
This text is connected to a lot of other social groups because a lot of people do believe that having an adoption is the better option than getting an abortion. Having your child be adopted will let him or her get to speak their own voice. This abortion survivor got to speak her voice and got to see and live life and is blessed for it. Not many babies get to say that because they were aborted.
Works Cited - Culwell, Claire. Putting a face to what your fighting for. 18, 4 2010. www.prolifeblogs.com
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
cultural analysis (final)
This cartoon about abortion is trying to show how innocent lives are being taken away. Abortion is one person deciding to get rid of another life even though it is an innocent life that has done nothing wrong. Abortion is choosing whether a baby should be born, no one has the right to decide if a life should be ended. This is why in this cartoon abortion is being called "the death sentence" because it is being chosen for the unborn babies without any thought of the babies wanting to be born and to have a chance at life.
Another thing this illustration is trying to do is to link abortion with capital punishment such as the death penalty. A lot of people would be against the death sentence of an innocent person, which is why abortion was compared to it. Seeing abortion as the death sentence of an innocent person makes it easier to get people to look at abortion and see the how it is ending the life of a human that has done nothing wrong and deserves to live. Linking these two topics also gets people who don't have a clear opinion on abortion yet know that sentencing innocent people to death is wrong to see the harm in abortion.
This picture is showing the pro-life argument of that is against abortion. Pro-life means that abortion is wrong and should not be allowed. This picture can also be targeted to people that are against capital punishment because it is also a big controversial issue in America that many people feel strongly about. Also there are very few people that would be fine with the death sentence of an innocent human being in this society which is why this cartoon is worded in a way to makes it sound very horrible.
This picture also shows the amount of innocent lives that are taken away daily and are not acknowledged. The word "thousands" makes you think of the excessive amount of abortions that take place on a daily bases. It shows Abortions happen very often and many innocent lives are lost.
Ajdin's Cultural Analysis
In America abortion is a controversial issue because there are differing views on the topic. There are the “pro-life” people, the people who are against abortion, and the “pro-choice” people, the ones who are for abortion. In recent years abortion has made it to the mainstream media; for instance, a movie like Juno (a teenage girl gets pregnant and doesn’t know if she wants to keep the baby or have an abortion) and shows like 16 and Pregnant on MTV. Also, there are many bloggers out there who specifically write about abortion; both from pro-life and pro-choice. I found a blog by Pat Richards, a pro-choicer, titled “The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion”. I found Pat Richards’s blog, The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion, to be an interesting one because I learned about a woman who is against abortions, but when she was younger, she had an abortion.
If you read one of Pat Richards’s blogs you can clearly tell what side of abortion he is with, the pro-choice. He is a pro-choicer and is willing to defend his beliefs no matter what. Of course Pat believes that abortion is not murder, and he tries to persuade anyone who reads his blogs the same. So, when he found a thread about a pro-lifer who had an abortion, on Abortion.com’s Facebook page he had to expose it; this would give him and all pro-choicers more credibility because it shows how a pro-lifer CHOSE to have an abortion.
The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion is one of Pat’s blogs about abortion. Pat starts off the blog by stating that he goes on Abortion.com’s Facebook page to read the interesting conversations between the pro-life and pro-choice people. He introduces us to a woman from Florida who is a pro-lifer; he describes her as very reasonable, calm, and smart based on her other comments/posts (Richards, 2010). Then he tells us about a comment left by this Florida woman “quietly” admitting to having an abortion when she was younger. Also, that the Florida woman went on to say that woman should not have access to the abortion procedure. The Florida woman wants to deny other woman the procedure that she took advantage of when she was younger. Her beliefs would affect many young women out there who are pregnant and thinking about having an abortion. This Florida woman is not only deny young pregnant woman the abortion procedure, she is also deny them their constitutional right to choose; something that she took advantage of when she was younger.
In America, women have had the right to choose if they wanted to have an abortion since it was made legal by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. The blog, The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion by Pat Richards, shows us that people can change their beliefs and that is okay, but what is not okay is denying others their constitutional rights. Another thing I believe this blog shows is how Americans still have not came to a clear consensus about abortion and most likely never will.
Work Cited
Richards, Pat. "The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion." Abortion & Reproductive Rights Advocate. N.p., 07 Apr 2010. Web. 7 Apr 2010.
If you read one of Pat Richards’s blogs you can clearly tell what side of abortion he is with, the pro-choice. He is a pro-choicer and is willing to defend his beliefs no matter what. Of course Pat believes that abortion is not murder, and he tries to persuade anyone who reads his blogs the same. So, when he found a thread about a pro-lifer who had an abortion, on Abortion.com’s Facebook page he had to expose it; this would give him and all pro-choicers more credibility because it shows how a pro-lifer CHOSE to have an abortion.
The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion is one of Pat’s blogs about abortion. Pat starts off the blog by stating that he goes on Abortion.com’s Facebook page to read the interesting conversations between the pro-life and pro-choice people. He introduces us to a woman from Florida who is a pro-lifer; he describes her as very reasonable, calm, and smart based on her other comments/posts (Richards, 2010). Then he tells us about a comment left by this Florida woman “quietly” admitting to having an abortion when she was younger. Also, that the Florida woman went on to say that woman should not have access to the abortion procedure. The Florida woman wants to deny other woman the procedure that she took advantage of when she was younger. Her beliefs would affect many young women out there who are pregnant and thinking about having an abortion. This Florida woman is not only deny young pregnant woman the abortion procedure, she is also deny them their constitutional right to choose; something that she took advantage of when she was younger.
In America, women have had the right to choose if they wanted to have an abortion since it was made legal by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973. The blog, The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion by Pat Richards, shows us that people can change their beliefs and that is okay, but what is not okay is denying others their constitutional rights. Another thing I believe this blog shows is how Americans still have not came to a clear consensus about abortion and most likely never will.
Work Cited
Richards, Pat. "The Pro-Lifer Who Had an Abortion." Abortion & Reproductive Rights Advocate. N.p., 07 Apr 2010. Web. 7 Apr 2010.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Tiffany's Final Cultural Analysis
Cultural Analysis
On Christmas Day in 2007, “Juno” was released in theaters everywhere. Juno is a movie about a 16 year old high school teenager who has sex with her best-friend (sort of), but is not her boyfriend. Juno then finds out that she has gotten pregnant and thinks that her whole world has came down and crashed upon her. She wishes that her life would go back to normal, but in reality she knows that during the next 9 months it’s not. Throughout the course of the movie Juno teaches and shows not only teenagers but everyone the struggles, responsibility and maturity that one would gain after getting pregnant and actually keeping the baby. Juno shows us her life and what she has to go through because of the responsibilities that she has made. She shows us that everything in life is not all that it is cracked up to be and she learns to appreciate the things in life that she already has right there in front of her face.
16 and pregnant, sounds like a lullaby for many teenagers here in the US today, wishing that their pregnancy would go away. This is why many females tend to go towards the abortion method because they feel as if they are not ready to have a baby or that their life will be put on hold forever and it will never be the same after the pregnancy. Juno’s friend Leah was the typical friend who told Juno that she should get an abortion at the clinic, because she felt that, that would be the easiest and fastest way to get rid of her pregnancy, although it would be the fastest way it is not the easiest nor is it the safest. While Juno’s other friend on the other hand, Su- Chin who is a pro-life follower told both Juno and Leah that Juno’s baby probably has little toes and fingernails already grown on her inside of her. After Su-Chin tells them that Leah and Juno decide to go for adoption. This is one positive way to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. Many females forget about the other available options for getting rid of an unwanted pregnancy they just go straight towards abortion. After telling her parents, who actually wished that they would have rather of her told them that she was on drugs other than pregnant, was not that upset with it and was going to help her get through the pregnancy and find decent and responsible adoptive parents for her child.
After finding the adoptive parents for her unborn child, one would think that their life was perfect and that they have everything they could ever want and that a baby would complete that but she learns that this is not true.
Although we all strive to seem as if we have a perfect life, nobody will ever have a perfect life. The writer shows us the struggles that one goes through like wondering whether or not if one is ready to take care of an unborn child. The writer shows the struggles of both Juno and the soon to be “adoptive parents”. The writer also uses a white middle class teenage student, which is like the average female who gets pregnant. Juno, on one hand portrays all of the pregnant teenagers in the U.S today, and some of the changes that most teenagers go through whether or not they should have an abortion; while most of the time they see as a an abortion is an easy route out. With the adoptive parents he shows that even though some people may seem as the “perfect” couple , everyone has their ups and downs. Not everyone is as ready as they think they are to take care of a child. This is why females, teenagers especially should take birth control if they know that they are sexually active, and practice wearing condoms. And unlike in the movie where one parent was not ready to have a child, there are many families out there who would love to raise your child, because of other factors in which makes them unable to have children. So instead of killing a baby , females need to think of other factors that could help them and even others around them.
On Christmas Day in 2007, “Juno” was released in theaters everywhere. Juno is a movie about a 16 year old high school teenager who has sex with her best-friend (sort of), but is not her boyfriend. Juno then finds out that she has gotten pregnant and thinks that her whole world has came down and crashed upon her. She wishes that her life would go back to normal, but in reality she knows that during the next 9 months it’s not. Throughout the course of the movie Juno teaches and shows not only teenagers but everyone the struggles, responsibility and maturity that one would gain after getting pregnant and actually keeping the baby. Juno shows us her life and what she has to go through because of the responsibilities that she has made. She shows us that everything in life is not all that it is cracked up to be and she learns to appreciate the things in life that she already has right there in front of her face.
16 and pregnant, sounds like a lullaby for many teenagers here in the US today, wishing that their pregnancy would go away. This is why many females tend to go towards the abortion method because they feel as if they are not ready to have a baby or that their life will be put on hold forever and it will never be the same after the pregnancy. Juno’s friend Leah was the typical friend who told Juno that she should get an abortion at the clinic, because she felt that, that would be the easiest and fastest way to get rid of her pregnancy, although it would be the fastest way it is not the easiest nor is it the safest. While Juno’s other friend on the other hand, Su- Chin who is a pro-life follower told both Juno and Leah that Juno’s baby probably has little toes and fingernails already grown on her inside of her. After Su-Chin tells them that Leah and Juno decide to go for adoption. This is one positive way to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy. Many females forget about the other available options for getting rid of an unwanted pregnancy they just go straight towards abortion. After telling her parents, who actually wished that they would have rather of her told them that she was on drugs other than pregnant, was not that upset with it and was going to help her get through the pregnancy and find decent and responsible adoptive parents for her child.
After finding the adoptive parents for her unborn child, one would think that their life was perfect and that they have everything they could ever want and that a baby would complete that but she learns that this is not true.
Although we all strive to seem as if we have a perfect life, nobody will ever have a perfect life. The writer shows us the struggles that one goes through like wondering whether or not if one is ready to take care of an unborn child. The writer shows the struggles of both Juno and the soon to be “adoptive parents”. The writer also uses a white middle class teenage student, which is like the average female who gets pregnant. Juno, on one hand portrays all of the pregnant teenagers in the U.S today, and some of the changes that most teenagers go through whether or not they should have an abortion; while most of the time they see as a an abortion is an easy route out. With the adoptive parents he shows that even though some people may seem as the “perfect” couple , everyone has their ups and downs. Not everyone is as ready as they think they are to take care of a child. This is why females, teenagers especially should take birth control if they know that they are sexually active, and practice wearing condoms. And unlike in the movie where one parent was not ready to have a child, there are many families out there who would love to raise your child, because of other factors in which makes them unable to have children. So instead of killing a baby , females need to think of other factors that could help them and even others around them.
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.
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.
Cultural Analysis: Slavery vs Abortion
Abortion is a controversial topic that has been debated all around the world. There are people who are against abortion believe in banning the act of killing a fetus at any stage of pregnancy; however, there are also people that are pro-choice, and believe that the women should have the right to choose to keep or abort the child. The ad below is depicting an African American male, holding an unborn child on clouds in the sky, saying "I know how you feel! When I was a slave down, there, the courts didn't I was fully human either." The ad is advocating a pro-life argument, by relating the subject of abortion to slavery. The audience the author is targeting with this ad are people who are both for and against abortion, and mainly those who have a deep understanding about the topic slavery. By using a well known disastrous past event in U.S history, and affiliating two negatives to enlighten the audience the author of the ad is using the art of persuasion to illustrate how abortion is a mistake.The cartoon is depicting that abortion is just wrong as slavery was in the past. In the past slave were not considered fully human, so their lives were considered meaningless if they were to have been murdered or killed. According to Digital History during the constitutional convention in 1783, the three-fifth compromise was created which argued that slaves do not count equally as a free person (1). Instead for tax purposes, Congress compromised a ratio of how the slaves were going to be counted (Digital History 1). This concludes how slaves were not considered fully human. The cartoonist included this event deliberately to sway the viewers to believe that by having abortions people are not also considering the unborn child to be human or "fully human."
The cartoonist does a well crafted job by presenting the audience with negative past event in history, and connecting it to the subject of abortion. By using this technique the author willingly affiliates a negative event in history with the issue of abortion, to make the audience believe that abortion is also wrong. Many people would agree that slavery was a dark time in our nations past and that it was wrong to not consider African Americans humans; the cartoonist takes advantage of this by linking how abortion is wrong also.
By having knowledge of the culture during the time of slavery allows for the audience to fully connect and understand the cartoonist point of view on the issue of abortion. The ad clearly depicts a pro-life argument, and strongly persuades the viewers. The cliche "A picture is worth a thousand words" seems to ring true about this ad.
Source:
Digital History. 19 April 2010. 19 April 2010
cultural analysis
This cartoon about abortion is trying to show how innocent lives are being taken away. Abortion is one person deciding to get rid of another life even though it is an innocent life that has done nothing wrong. Abortion is choosing whether a baby should be born, no one has the right to decide if a life should be ended. This is why in this cartoon abortion is being called "the death sentence" because it is being chosen for the unborn babies without any thought of the babies wanting to be born and to have a chance at life.
Another thing this illustration is trying to do is to link abortion with capital punishment such as the death penalty. A lot of people would be against the death sentence of an innocent person, which is why abortion was compared to it. Seeing abortion as the death sentence of an innocent person makes it easier to get people to look at abortion and see the how it is ending the life of a human that has done nothing wrong and deserves to live. Linking these two topics also gets people who don't have a clear opinion on abortion yet know that sentencing innocent people to death is wrong to see the harm in abortion.
This picture also shows the amount of innocent lives that are taken away daily and are not acknowledged. The word "thousands" makes you think of the excessive amount of abortions that take place on a daily bases. Abortions happen very often and many innocent lives are lost.
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