Would You Like That With or Without Emotion?

Connection, ironically, is a deep issue in the modern technological age where we choose to use the computer to talk to others and just don't get the same connection of face to face speech. I spoke with my classmates about this and found that they had some interesting similarities to this belief. In that way then, how are we still going on to use only e-mail, only phones, only Skype or other online speeches versus talking out our problems and discussing our lives there and then.


Moving on to Rhetoric, there is never a single way of going around it because a way of Rhetoric is just like having another Ideal, one is never the exact same as another. Opinions shared, opinions gained, and others lost are overall a good way of development. I feel that I can develop and more deeply interpret my own writing as I write it, while keeping it accurate and honest to others.

“Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about….You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar.” – Kenneth Burke, The philosophy of Literary Form

Page 7, Paragraph #1

“Everyone chats using Sametime, IBM’s internal synchronous chat tool, and has a text window open during the conversation. Anyone can be typing in a comment or a question (backchatting) while any other two people are speaking. Participants are both listening to the main conversation between whichever two people happen to be talking while also reading the comments, questions, and answers that any of the participants might be texting. The conversation continues in response to both the talk and the text.” –Cathy Davidson, Now you see it: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn

Page 33, paragraph 3.

“Entering the large VFW hall, we were struck by the chemical odor of a cleaning solution so strong that it seemed toxic. The hall had no windows; only fluorescent lighting illuminated the large space. Coming from the hot, humid weather outdoors, we found the inside uncomfortably cold from the air conditioning. The cackle of a television set was the only sound.”

-Jan Brideau, page 128, paragraph #2.