Category: Student Posts 31

In my playlist, I focus on creating a rhetorical situation for someone that is walking in a very urbanized city alone (could be a cyberpunk style or modern style urban setting), ideally the city is raining. The emotion that my playlist is trying to convey would be loneliness. Many of the songs I selected have […]

One of the biggest challenges with the Halfa Kucha was the strict time limit. I was proud of the depth in arguments and I spent a lot of time developing and refining my thesis, reworking it multiple times until it felt solid. However, when it came time to present, I realized I didn’t have enough […]

In the Halfa Kucha prfoject, I decided to work on my favorite comics we read this semester, The Talk, and It’s Lonely at the Centre of Earth which I thinks suits the bestg with the topic trauma to write a thesis. I set the thesis as empathy is the key in recovering from trauma because […]

Due to this project being a presentation, I honestly felt more comfortable in my ability to share my ideas. In some cases, especially when I am talking about difficult topics such as trauma, it is hard to get my ideas down on a page. When presenting it orally however, I felt much more comfortable and […]

After making a presentation on Stitches and Kindred, I realized how much impact figures can play in the role of communication of common themes, especially comparing two pieces of text. Through the process of selecting figures that would most portray the similarities and differences between the two texts, I learned a lot more about synthesizing […]

The mixtape I have put together approaches a rhetorical situation surrounding the concept of love; more specifically, discovering one’s own capacity to love while simultaneously in a destructive relationship that twists passion and hope into an obscure and perverse amalgamation of pain, driving the protaganist into delirium and insanity. Throughout the playlist, the protaganist is […]

Overall, the halfa Kucha presentation was a difficult process. I found it quite difficult to present a compelling argument when given only 20 seconds to deeply anaylze the tramau shown on a page. Writing an essay would allow me to have deeper anaylsis compared to giving a fast paced presentation. The sturcutre of my presentation […]