Cultural Rhetoric

This blog post is about one of Android’s newest advertisements in means of advertising their newest operating system. The article of it can be found on techtimes.com or a direct link here . There is also a video in this article of the actual ad too. The video is simply a slideshow of short clips of animals’ interaction with each other. One thing that was interesting to me, was that there was really nothing to do with their operating system in the actual advertisement. I think that because of this, they only tried to make their video appealing to people and make them want to say “aww.” Along with the slideshow of animals, there was the soundtrack “Oo-de-lally” from the Disney movie, Robin Hood. This one-minute video, even though has nothing to do with their operating system, still gives that animal friendly fuzzy feeling that is appealing to consumers. At the end of the video, there is a message, that being the only text within the video, states; “be together, not the same.” I perso...

Steve Jobs has always been of interest to me because of his influence to many people. His work from being the CEO of Apple has really impacted a lot of people. Almost everyone knows who Steve Jobs is and what he has accomplished; being the founder of the world’s largest information technology company by revenue, by total assets, and by phone manufacturing. By 2014, this large-scale company has been the first to be valued at $700 billion. This TED talk that I found is called; “How to live before you die,” and it is a speech given by Steve Jobs. He doesn’t say anything too complicated. In fact, all he does is tell a story. Steve Jobs and his parents were not the wealthy family back in his school days. While unsure of a career, he attended a college in which he couldn’t afford, making him drop out. However, he could attend a class on typography for computers and this interested him. This lead Jobs on to the development of the first Macintosh pc. As Apple soared high for about a ye...

My blogpost is about a recent sermon from my pastor at my church. Quite recently, one of his sermons called, “When an enemy needs a friend,” was one that was interesting to me. It was about when people change from bad to good, and how they can be trusted. To start off his sermon, my pastor did something very effective to be able to catch the audience into paying attention, which I think a lot of speakers do. He began with a funny story with loads of visuals and gestures so that he could grab the audience’s attention. The story of Saul is a good example of an enemy who became a friend because he was feared by almost anyone he came near. When he had changed, it was hard for people, even the disciples, to trust him as a Christian. It’s not easy to put trust in someone like that even when it happens in times like today. Forgiveness was the big argument here. In a way, my pastor was persuading everyone to be more forgiving towards people who may or may not deserve it. I think that his argum...