Jay Balsavich
10/7/2014 07:17:06 am
My educational philosophy is one that places emphasis on awareness. Although claims could be made that education is about learning and therefore the focus should be on the obtainment of knowledge, I contest this point. There are many ways in which one can obtain knowledge. That device we carry in our pockets is a good starting place. If the access of knowledge via my phone or a trip down to local library (if we are feeling traditional) has become so commonplace, then it stands to reason that the goal of education as being about knowledge may not suffice. At the very least there is a chance to expand upon what education means and challenge the ostensible traditional definition. Education, if not exclusively about knowledge, becomes instead about awareness. It is the awareness of the world, our place in the world, our history, our humanity. There are so many things to be aware of, and the question becomes what takes primacy? Awareness for me is an awareness of others; the others are not me, and yet, like I utilize that personal identifying pronoun to announce and claim their own identity. It is the other who is different than me, but calls out to me for recognition. Awareness is the awareness of the responsibility I have to the other in recognizing their voice and most importantly, their own sense of selfhood and their humanity. That is not to say that I am in charge of another’s selfhood, but rather, my responsibility is in being able to understand that there others out there, that a multiplicity of people from all walks of life exist and live in this world as I do. Before I can think about myself, the other must come first. Both articles for this week talked about including all voices in the discussion, and this is something I believe that education can and must accomplish.
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Anthony Rotella
10/13/2014 07:47:08 am
Just the mere thought of rhetorical bodies, or bodies having a rhetorical purpose, is a concept I’ve never conceived of on my own. I feel enlightened by this new frame of thought and, at the same time, not surprised because my education has been grounded in the ancient Greco-Roman understanding of the mind and body. Even right now, as I write this response for the week’s readings, my introduction is heavily based on the western framework for how writing is composed. Mostly everything I have read, especially as a literature major (somewhat) well versed in English and American literature, drama, and poetry is heavily influenced by the way Aristotle believed they should be composed.
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Jillian
10/14/2014 03:28:51 am
This week we read the script of Daisy Levy’s speech to the CCCC, “This Book Called My Body: An Embodied Rhetoric, the introduction and afterword to Rhetorical Bodies, “Habeas Corpus” by Jack Selzer and “The Material of Rhetoric” by Sharon Crowley, respectively, as well as excerpts from Cornelius Eady’s poems, Brutal Imagination.
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Mauro Reis
10/14/2014 04:39:29 am
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Sandra Couto
10/14/2014 04:52:54 am
Sandra Couto
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James Blandino
10/14/2014 05:47:18 am
James Blandino- Cultural Rhetoric 10/14/14 Tapping Back: The Genius of the Body
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Ailton Dos Santos
10/14/2014 06:19:15 am
Brutal Imagination, by Cornelius Eady, is a tale of injustice. This excerpt from the book centers on the story, in a poetic way, of a young black man accused of kidnapping Susan Smith’s children. Susan smith was a woman who did not want to live; she was desperate and unhappy with her life. Susan was trying to end her life and took her children with her, but in the last moment, she lost courage but let the car with her children sink in a lake. Her children are now dead, and Susan now needed someone to take the blame; nothing would be easier than blaming a young black man, the perfect villain, who is apparently a vicious creature capable of doing the most atrocious and barbaric things. Everyone believes her story, but what is not to believe? Let us not forget that black is evil, black corrupts, it deceives. Innocent or not in this story, this man is probably guilty of something else in his life.
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Braulio Pina
10/14/2014 06:41:48 am
The story told in the poem Brutal imagination it is really interesting. I have never heard it before and through search I could get more information and I felt so sad. I would never think that such a murder would be a matter of poetry. In the poem Eady tells us a real murder case story, and also deals with the story of race and racism in the American society. Susan killed her sons and then she needed someone to carry her burden, someone to be the guilty. This is where an African American comes into being the main character of the whole story. A story of Black car jacked invented by Susan to explain the disappearance of her two children who she sank into the river. Susan’s imagination led her to accuse an imaginary black man, believing that the police and the society would believe her so easily. Susan imagination sees African American as criminal rather than as people; she falsifies the Black African identity. Susan imagination could be share by others in a society where stereotype related to African American is a reality. “Susan Smith has invented me because nobody else in the town will do what she needs me to do” Here, I could feel the sadness in the voice of the black man. In this passage also I notice that the black man is aware about the fact that black man is associate with bad things that happen in the society.
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Jen Downing
10/26/2014 01:14:09 am
On The Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism
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