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Reflection

In this semester of my Writing 120 class we had a few projects to do over the course, 3 projects to be exact. The three projects that we had to do had something to do with our literacy narrative. The first project we did had to make an ideal bookshelf that showed all the books and or movies we read and watched since we were kids beginning to read. What I enjoyed most about project one was that we had to take the time and remember all the books we read, although at first it was kind of hard to remember a couple of the books. What I had trouble with, at first, was trying to see how I would start the paper because I was scared I would be doing it wrong. If I could do it differently I would of probably have done the whole paper about one book that affected me the most not, the many books I did it about. By doing this project I learned a lot. For example, I learned how to set my paper up in MLA format, which I never knew how or had to do before.  I will continue to use this MLA format when I write any paper. I will also take with me to any writing class I have in the future is the importance of the books I wrote about and how they impacted my life. The thing I enjoyed most about project was having to write it in a script format. This is something that I have never done before, and it was fun not having to do the normal writing MLA format. What I had trouble with, the most, was with using the anchor app. I have an android and it took me up until the project was due that the app wads only available for IPhones. The night before the project was do I went to my sister’s house because my niece has an IPhone and I was able to use her. If she didn’t have one I was probably not going to be to turn in the project on time. If I could do this project differently, for starters, I would have taken more time with my script and I would have added more to it then what I did. Secondly, I wish I would have figured out about the app sooner, so I could have had more time to do it and had done it rushed. Finally project 3, I found this project to be the most difficult to do. Not only because we had to write a lot more pages for it but, I found it hard to analysis the two ads I picked. What I enjoyed most about this project was the learning part of it. The fact that we watched all the commercials and the ted talk we watched was very interesting for. Also, looking at the shapes of the little red riding hood was interesting, the fact how we think straight, and pointy lines are fear. What I had trouble with was trying to find two ads that I could write this paper about it. And after finding them I had trouble pulling them apart. Overall, I think that all these projects helped me in life, although I found some to be very difficult they did teach me a lot.

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About The Author

Ariana Rodriguez Instructor Shelby Hallenbeck WRTG 120 12 December 2017 All About Me Where could I start talking about myself. Well, my name is Ariana Rodriguez I live in Melvindale Michigan and I am 18 years old. Both my parents are from Mexico and I have 5 sisters, 4 sisters are older than and 1 is younger. 3 of my sisters are married and have kids, so because of them I am an aunt to 4 nephews and 2 nieces. I am currently attending Eastern Michigan University, and sadly due to money problems I have to take the winter semester off, but I hope to be right back where I am for fall 2018. There is plenty more to say about me, but for now we can just keep it at this.

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Project 3

Ariana Rodriguez Instructor Shelby Hallenbeck WRTG 120 21 November 2017

Ads from the Past and Future Over the years ads have changed the way they have presented how they show their products to customers. Because our society and people are always changing, companies have to change their ads to best go with their customers attention. Many of the ads have rhetorical analysis built into their ads we just never really that much attention to it unless we actually take the time break the ad up. For example, the diet Pepsi ads. Pepsi over the years have changed their ads, maybe because some people have taken an offensive to it. I choice this ad because women and men are always trying to be like the models that they show on TVs movies and ads. Sometimes trying get as “perfect” as they are difficult because most of the models are photo shopped and not realistic. In 1977 Pepsi came out with the ‘you can do it’ – Diet Pepsi ads. The ad shows a skinny woman trying to put on a pair of jeans and they are showing the steps that it is taking to put on these pair of jeans. And underneath that picture of the woman there is a can of Diet Pepsi and a glass of the Pepsi with ice next to the can. The ad goes on to say, “You can do it. We can help. There’s only one calorie in a can.” Looking at this ad makes me think that they are trying to get the viewers to buy their product so that they can lose weight and still enjoy an ice-cold soda. This ad is using logos and ethos. Logos is defined as, according to yourdictionry.com a logical appeal, it depends on logic and facts to persuade the audience. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, it depends on credibility and expertise as persuasive techniques It is using logos because they are telling you that the can of Diet Pepsi only has one calorie. The ad is using pathos, pathos is defined as an appeal using emotion, it creates an emotional response to convince the audience, by using the emotions of everyone who thinks they are overweight, and making them think they can look like the model that they have on the ad. Kairos, as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action. The time and location are very important when it comes to the placement of ad to get the consumers to buy their product. This ad had many people viewing it from anyone that saw it on tv or on a huge billboard. The ad is trying to argue that if you decide to have a soda even if you are trying to lose weight and try to watch what you eat, that having that one soda will not affect you at all because it is only one calorie. This diet Pepsi ad would most likely appear on a big billboard on the highway as you are driving down the street. You could always see this as you are in a grocery store walking past the soda aisle. It would even come out on a television while you are watching your favorite show.   The diet Pepsi ad has changed so much since 1977 to the one that they have today. The ad that recently has been out is the one with Sofia Vergara. She is a well-known Colombian American actress and model. She is most known for her role as Gloria on Modern Family. She is wearing a blue dress, in the ad, as she is drinking an ice-cold diet Pepsi looking up into the sky. And just like in the 1977 ad there is a can of Diet Pepsi and a glass of the Pepsi with ice next to the can. The ad goes on to say, “nothing refreshes like a Diet Pepsi.” Looking at this makes me want to go get up and go buy a Diet Pepsi just so that I could be as refreshed as Sofia Vergara is in the ad. The ad has changed a lot from it being trying to get a pair of jeans on and not being able to put them on, to it being about the actual refreshment of the diet Pepsi. This ad is trying to get you to buy a diet Pepsi so that you can satisfy your thirst. It is using pathos to try to get you to buy their product. Just like the first product the audience is everyone who sees the ad. Rather it is a person seeing it on a billboard on a television or at a super market. Just like these two ads have many differences they both also have a lot of similarities. The first obvious similarities between the two ads is that there are both Diet Pepsi ads. They are both trying to get people to buy their products so that they can make a profit of it. Both these ads were probably located at the same place, a place where the company knew that it would it the consumers attentions. Both these ads seem like they are targeting female buyers rather more than male buyers. But this could also draw the attention to mal buyers so that they could buy for their girlfriends or because they just think that it might be easier to pick up women.  Me, as a consumer, would honestly not go buy a Pepsi just because I am more of a Coca-Cola type a person. But, if there was no Coca-Cola I probably would be think of picking up a Pepsi, especially if I had seen one of these ads right there at the store. Both of these ads seem so interesting just because of the fact that used the approach of weight loose. I feel like the first ad had a lot more of a strong public reaction, just because they used the woman trying to put on a pair of jeans. In my opinion, I feel like the reason that it had a strong public reaction was because woman felt offended by the woman not being able to put on the jeans and having it say, ‘you can do it, we can help’ and also by adding ‘There’s only one calorie in a can.’ Those words probably made people, both men and women, feel guilty for drinking their favorite can of soda. And also making them feel like they need to start drinking a Diet Pepsi to feel good about themselves. Out of the two ads that I had picked out, I think that the second ad with Sofia Vergara was the most effective with the audience. It was the most effective because, it feels like it did not take as much offensive as the first ad did to people. The second ad focused more on the refreshing part of the Pepsi not the calorie part of the Diet Pepsi. The reason that some people would like the second ad better is because it is more about the actual drink. The satisfaction that you will have right after you have an ice-cold Diet Pepsi or even just a regular Pepsi. In conclusion, I feel like these two ads had a strong impact at the time that they were released. Look at both these two ads today you think that one of these were kind of offensive when it came to women.  Although, maybe adding a skinny woman to the second ad people may have thought that if they drank a Diet Pepsi they would probably look like that. The company, Pepsi, probably got huge sales right after they released these two ads. But it could have also gone another way, people probably got really offended after seeing this and boycotting the whole company all together. There also could have been a possibility that people could have gone on to social media and bashed the company, just like Pepsi commercial they released with Kendall Jenner not too long ago. Overall, these ads had a lot of potential when they were released both the ads used Pathos, Logos, Ethos, and Kairos, which is a huge part in advertisement.  

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Project 2 cont.

Ariana Rodriguez Instructor Shelby Hallenbeck WRTG 120 24 October 2017 Podcast Script Hello, I am Ariana Rodriguez and I am 18 years old. I am currently enrolled at Eastern Michigan University, I am majoring in Psychology for kids with autism. I am also currently working at a day care in Allen Park, Michigan. Today I will be talking to you about my journey through my literacy narrative.  

Part 1 We have all read books throughout our life. Some of the books we read were for our own pleasure and others we read them just so that we can pass a class to graduate. I know that I have read many books being in high school. From Romeo and Juliet, my freshman year, to Death of a Salesman, my senior year. One of my favorite books that I have read in my freshman year of high school was Of Mice and Men. This book actually leaned me towards my major, psychology. What actually made me choose my major was my sociology and psychology classes that I took in high school. I found it so interesting on how peoples mind works and how it makes them function. As I was looking back on all the books I read throughout high school, I realized that the book Of Mice and Men had so much to do with mental illness. Just the way that Lennie would act made me keep reading the book more and more, from start to finish.

Part 2 Counting about my high school career, but moving on to another subject. I had always hated this subject and to this day I still do not know how I barely passed with a C. This subject is Social Studies. Although I really hated this subject there was one thing that I loved learning about and it always seemed to come up every year, the Holocaust. Because I loved learning about the Holocaust it actually lead me to read three books, although one was really just for school I still loved it. The three books were The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Night.   The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is such an amazing book about a bond between two boys despite their race, color, and religion. I find it so beautiful how people can get along so well and not care about any of that but only care about how the person is on the inside. It is true what they say racism is not born it is taught. I grew up in a very small town, I went to a school where there were all kinds of diversity. From Mexican, African Americans, Arabic, and Whites.  Our school slogan was We Are FaMily. Every time we wrote out family, rather it was on a poster or class t-shirt. We always had the M in family capitalized because our school name was Melvindale High School. We all got along so well, and everyone knew everyone we were all really one big happy faMily. I found the book Night and The Diary of Anne Frank such an emotional story about families going through the Holocaust. I could not even imagine what they had to go through. And it is so crazy that maybe in the near future this could possibly happen again. Part 3   The Shack, I remember when I was reading this book I was in my room by myself, reading it as everyone was asleep. I could see it in my head, like it was playing in my head like a little movie. I started crying so hard when I read the part where Mack found out that his daughter had been killed, and when he saw that his daughter was happy where she was and he realized that it was the last time he knew he was going to see her. These parts in the book hit really close to home for me. I lost a really close love one when I was in my freshmen year of high school, I was only 14 years old and I was about to turn 15 that December. So, every time I read or hear anything about a lost love one I start to ball my eyes out. Part 4 Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy lives to listen to my podcast about my literacy narrative, and how all these books made me into the person I am today. I want all you guys to look back on all the books you read and see which ones impacted you the most. Until next time, goodbye.

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Project 2

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Project 1

Ariana Rodriguez Instructor Shelby Hallenbeck WRTG 120 28 September 2017

A Look in My Ideal Bookshelf

Literacy means many things to many different people. Merriam Webster defines literacy as “the ability to read and write” and “competence or knowledge in a specified area.” To me, literacy means being able to understand what you are reading and can respond to the text. An ideal bookshelf shows past books and or movies that we have read and saw that shows us how that person learned to read and write or what made them fall in love with reading and writing, and sometimes it shows a little blast from the past. In my ideal bookshelf, there are many books from my past that has helped me be the literate person I am today. My bookshelf shows a variety of books, from Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. As a kid growing up I loved reading the Junie B. Jones books because to me they were easy to read and funny as well. Growing up in a Latino house hold my first language was not English but Spanish, so I always had a hard time reading upper level books. I would always get very low reading scores when the class took the star reading test. I would always get anxiety when the teacher would make us read in front of the class, I was always scared that I will not be able to pronounce a word correctly and that the whole class would make fun of me.   The Junie B. Jones books were easier for me to read. They put all the reading levels aside and just made me enjoy a nice, funny, easier to read book. The Junie B. Jones book started my love for reading. Another book on my ideal bookshelf is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This was one of the first books I had ever read going into my freshmen year of high school. This is one of my favorite books because I feel it really helped me picked my major, psychology. Reading about the illness that Lennie Small had and how no one really knew what was wrong with him. Everyone in the book just thought that Lennie small was just like any other stupid out there. Lennie nor George know Lennie’s strength, that is why George felt that he had to kill him before he killed someone else just like the puppy and Curly’s wife. In the book, it shows the bond between two friends and shows how far one friend will go to protect the other one, and what better message can high school freshmen receive as they are entering their 4 years of getting to adulthood. The following book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, shows an emotional, dramatic story of two boys, Bruno and Shmuel. Bruno and Shmuel grew up in the times of the Holocaust, a horrible time that Germany went through under the rule of Hitler. This book shows how two people from two different worlds can become friends just by talking to each other and understanding one another. It shows how kids as young as nine years old can change what their parents have set in their minds. This book leads me to two other books on My Ideal Bookshelf Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank. As you cannot tell already I have love for books about the Holocaust. I love learning about it I find it to be such an interesting topic. These types of book have really grown my literacy narrative because it has made me read so many books in the past four years about the history of the holocaust. Tuesdays with Morrie, one of the many books I read during my high school career and one of the many books on my ideal bookshelf. I read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom my sophomore year of high school. This book follows a man named Mitch and how he went and visited his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz. This book got my attention because of professor Schwartz battle with ALS and how he wasn’t bitter about it, which made me more appreciative and also made me realize that it is okay to be sad but to limit it and enjoy life even though there are bad things happening, either to me or within my family. It has taught me to find the bright side of things and to enjoy the little moments that I have with my family. Sometimes, when I am with my friends or family I take a moment and think to myself, I am so unbelievable grateful to have these people in life and think about how awful life would be without them. The Shack by Wm. Paul Young was such an emotional book to read, as I was reading it I started to cry. The book is about a dad who took his two girls on a camping trip, when then youngest daughter wondered off and went missing. Later, the dad found out that a guy who was a murder was out of prison and that the guy killed the father’s daughter. He later got a letter to go the cabin where they found his daughter’s body.  He then found out that God sent him that later and he was sent there to show him that his daughter was fine and happy where she was. This book hit me so close to my heart because three years ago on November 13, 2013 my sister passed away from depression. That was such a hard year for me and for my family. I can still hear my parents crying at night. This book has taught me that I am not the only one who has lost a loved one and felt that the world is over. This book showed me that my loved one is in a better place now living a better life, better than the one she had here. Finally, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This book shows a bond between a rich man’s son and a servant’s son how they got along well like if they were siblings. Only to later find out that they were half siblings. Even after a big tragic accident Amir welcomed Hassan’s son with open arms to go back and live with him and his wife back in California. This book has taught me a great life lesson, which is, to always be there for my sisters no matter what we go through later in the future. I will always be there for my sisters even if it is something as small as bringing them a cup of coffee or as big as taking care of their child just like Amir did with Sohrab. Junie B. Jones, Of Mice and Men, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Shack, and The Kite Runner are all books that you can find in My Ideal Bookshelf. The bookshelf alone does not tell you what each book means to me personally this writing does. It shows how each book has affected me and how it has changed my life forever. Each book will always hold a place in my heart. I hope that throughout my college experience I read even more books that will mean a lot to me and will hopefully find a way to make it onto My Ideal Bookshelf.