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Weekly responses: For my VSP I am going to do a story about a first crush. I found lots of photos of my little brother and a girl he used to play with. I am going to start out with the girl going through the sadness of unrequited love. My story will center around young love and how the two eventually come together as friends. 3/23
 * Kind of Viewer: || Primary || Secondary ||
 * Education || college graduate, business degree || (almost) some college ||
 * Professional Experience || business man, CEO, stocks, boss || cashier and customer service ||
 * Job Responsibilities || Investments, leading company, marketing || Basic responsibilities ||
 * Personal Characteristics || organized, clean, well groomed, wealthy, male || Middle-class female,independent, shy ||
 * Personal Preferences || to be left alone to work, dose not mind being single, kind of a player when it comes to women. || loves work, but wants a better pay ||
 * Cultural Characteristics || American, white, English speaking, upper class || American, white, English-speaking,suburbs, middle class ||
 * Attitude toward Photographer || Understands what its like to be a soldier and still fave a fancy for women || some knowledge of the photographer, respect. ||
 * Attitude toward Subject || Passion, desire, dominating, sexual || I think shes very pretty. ||
 * Expectations about the Subject || She wants you and only you to take care of her and be her man || She was an actress and dancer so I see talent ||
 * Expectations about the photograph || A story being told in LIFE magazine about the up and coming young actress Rita Hayworth. || View into the past, revealing much about the present. ||
 * Reasons for viewing the photograph || Entertainment, current events that are in the magazine and visual stimulation || This project ||
 * Way of viewing the photograph || reading a story maybe about the war or the stock market and stopping to enjoy the photo of Rita to relax before a meeting. || Internet and studying the photo. ||
 * Viewing Skill || having an in depth view of the photo and analyzing the composition, but not a whole lot of depth and effort is placed into it. || using rhetoric tools I learned in class ||
 * Viewer’s physical environment || upscale office with nice leather sofas around a small coffee table. Life magazine would be sitting on the table for the boss to read as he is between meetings. He leaves the magazine with the photographs out so that everyone can see them an admire his taste. ||

3/09 Deconstruction and Rhetorical Analysis of Film Today I was able to listen to the speech by Tim Smith on the Rhetoric of films. Films can be deconstructed into individual images and viewed in a whole to get different meanings. We also learned about deconstructing and breaking down the motion pictures into snap shots. A montage is also a section of time shortened or altered to give it a new meaning and identity (Alfred Hitchcock). Salvador Dali even made short films as his media for surrealism to create a dreamland. While we can receive things in a film, we do not always understand them so we need to learn how to deconstruct the visual realm of films.

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Photographs of beautiful women are able to draw people in and easily capture their attention because they use the allure of seduction. These seductive photos demand the attention of their audience and showcase the power women have and why they are coveted yet untamable.

2/24

Standards: In both photos, Rita's body is physically turned away from the camera. This shows that she is not letting her audience see her fully and that she is protecting herself. Her eyes also do not look directly into the camera, giving a feeling of distance; almost like we can take all the interest in her that we want, but she has little interest in us. The photos say you can desire me all you want but you can't have me. Trends: The trend in both photographs is that beauty is coveted by the masses and is looked upon with authority and power.

2/17

Context: Both of these photographs were taken by Bob Landry during the 40s. Each photo is taken of Miss. Rita Hayworth who was an up and coming actress and dancer. Landry was able to take his most iconic photo of Miss. Hayworth in a nighty on a small bed looking seductively toward the camera. The second photo of Miss.Rita by Mr. Landry also made it onto the cover of LIFE Magazine. The second photo is of Miss. Rita on the beach in a bikini picnic eating her lunch and delicately touching her face. Metaphor:The metaphor for both photographs is that women have the power of seduction over men and are unable to be tamed.

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1/03 Glossary: -Only animate objects may Act. No rocks, thus, can Act, though if dialoged from a mountain it can certainly create motion, but only living beings may Act. Act must be voluntary and purposive and must result in something new and existing. Only humans may Act. (Amber Howe)
 * Act**
 * Ex:** The student had to //Act// upon her desire to receive an A in her Visual Rhetoric course, so she completed all the class work in a timely manner. (The student takes a voluntary //Action// to do class work in order to receive a positive grade)
 * Source:** Rhetoric A Users Guide by John D. Ramage, Page 13