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Reading, Writing, & Thinking
I can significantly see a progression in my writing and reading skills from my first journal to my last. By reading the assigned selections, I feel like I can evaluate readings better and come up with my own conclusions. Because the journal questions were more opinion-based, this allowed me to read the selections, try to analyze them, and then come to a sound conclusion based on supporting evidence.
The Comm. Ancients section of the course was a little difficult for me because philosophy has never been a strong point of mine. Although I was uninterested in the material and found it difficult to grasp, I still think it is a necessary entity of the course. It allows you to progress through history and apply communication to it—hence, the title of the course. After reading Cicero, Gorgias, Aristotle, and Plato, I feel like I can understand the concept of rhetoric better and can more importantly, read and write about it easier. (more…)

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a picture is a visual representation or image (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface. That said, we could say that pictures convey stories, and because they do, they are effective instruments among “the press”, or in other words, the media.

In essence, the media uses pictures to aid in telling the stories, but you could say that through time, pictures have evolved into something else, like an effective medium in telling stories according to self-regarding interests, not the REAL story itself, taking for instance those stories that they think would “sell” or the stories that would favor “contacts” so as not to negatively impact future reporting or maybe even their career. (more…)

After a detailed discussion of how language, national, ethnic and religious identities form a person’s identity, Joseph concludes this article with “homogenisation is impossible”.   Although he sees a movement toward globalization, he does not see that English will become the dominant language because the identities of individuals are wrapped up in their language as spoken in their particular community.  He believes that “those minority language communities which have moved toward a regionally marked variety of a major language… have not entirely forsaken linguistic diversity, even if [it] has been compromised.  And it is not the case that their particular version of the language represents a failure to assimilate fully.  It is a form of linguistic resistance.”
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