Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Columbus Day

My opinion on Columbus Day is that, while it is nice to have a day of rest, maybe we could rename it into something a little more politically correct. On the other hand is it really necessary to change it? It's been apart of our culture for so long and I really don't think that people allow Christopher Columbus, who has been dead for more than 400 years, to influce their decides on a day to day basis. I think that we should choose the day when America was discovered or the day when the pilgrims landed, then again that may be just as controversial. People will be upset no matter what is changed, it's impossible to please everyone so why not just leave it as is? It's worked for over 100 years so why don't we just leave it alone and let all the protests fade out. It really shouldn't be a debate, it's over and done, either accept your holiday, rename it, or just go to work anyway, there's not law saying you have to celebrate.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Rhetorical Context

Rhetorical context: this advertisement assumes that everyone is pretty done with magazines. It's attitude is faily negative,  it is sop ding to the lack of interest in magazine ps and the lower  subscription rate. It's audience we those who have lost faith in magazines . The unique tools used are the media used . The fact that they replaced the words with the magazines was an unusual trick that intents the buyer. It's something they may not have seen before. The audience to this wild be magazine readers o it's might not be as effective as they hoped, however because its so clever the magazine distributor could retain readers that might have left otherwise. This could be reading too much into it though. I think the purpose of the advertisement is to retain readers and add new readers because of the probable lack  of subscriber gains that they're facing. Also implying a that I have headphones in when I don't  is very hurtful and upsetting.