Assignment two: Man of Steel Evaluation Works Cited

Works Cited

Calhoun, David. “Time out Says.” Time Out. 2013 July 20. Web. 2014 September 24.                  <http://www.timeout.com/london/film/man-of-steel?intcid=leader>.

Nashawaty, Chris. “Man of Steel.” Entertainment Weekly. 2013 June 25. Web. 2014 September 24.                          < http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20687777,00.html >.

Roeper, Richard. “’Man of Steel’ beset by Kryptonite.” Sun-Times. 2013 June 11. Web. 2014 September                24.

< http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/20677169-421/man-of-steel-beset-by-   kryptonite.html#.VCswkbktDIV >.

Seitz, Matt Zoller. “Man of Steel.” Roger Ebert. 2013 June 14. Web. 2014 September 24.

                < http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/man-of-steel-2013 >.

Patches, Matt. “Review: Man of Steel.” Film.com. 2013 June 10. Web. 2014 September 24.

                < http://www.film.com/movies/man-of-steel-review >.

Leyland, Mathew. “Man of Steel.” Total Film. 2013 June 17. Web. 2014 September 24.

                < http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/man-of-steel >.

Assignment Two: Man of Steel Evaluation Introduction

Savannah Ballard

Man of Steel Introduction

          Released in June of 2013, Man of Steel was a box office hit. Directed by Zach Snider, this movie has all the qualities I look for in a good action and adventure movie. Man of Steel has action and strenuous battles that hold the viewer’s attention as well as having the adventurous elements of Kal-El’s journey and how he was shaped and led to be the superhero he is today. These are the two most important criteria for an action/adventure movie in my opinion. If a movie, such as Man of Steel, meet these two main criteria, I would classify it as a good movie. The next two criteria are more of a support system than the overall movie. This movie has two sub categories that we must consider when evaluating it, Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Fulfilling these categories requires accurate but believable technology advances that deal with science, and the movie must make the audience think about real world consequences to the fantastic character and their actions. Man of Steel is a good action/adventure movie because it meets all four of these criteria. 

Assigment 2 9/25 Eng 101

Savannah Ballard

English 101

                 The artifact that I have chosen for Assignment 2 is a television show. This show is two years old, originally airing in 2012, and it has a similar number of good (5) and bad (5) reviews. Chicago Fire is about fire-fighters and paramedics who work at Firehouse 51 in Chicago, IL. This show is classified as a drama, and more specifically as an Action-Adventure Drama. The critics also had mixed reviews about this show, presenting their critiques and praises in the 13 mixed reviews on metacritic.com. An example of a review where the critic said that Chicago Fire was a good show is from the Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd. He stated that “In a world without cable dramas, Chicago Fire would be considered television at its more compelling and realistic. As it is, it walks the line between shameless entertainment--hot guys, hot girls, the fires within, the fires without--and intelligent storytelling.” As well as good reviews, this show was given some bad reviews such as David Wiegand’s review at the San Francisco Chronicle. He said that “Wolf either doesn't know what to do with his characters while they're waiting around for a fire to break out, or thinks their personal stories should be the dominant element in his new series. They could be, if only those stories weren't ripped from the book of overused clichés.” Not only did Chicago Fire receive good and bad reviews, it had mixed reviews. Here is an example of a mixed review by Hitfix’s Alan Sepinwall, “There's no character you haven't seen before. More importantly, there's no character that hasn't been done much, much better elsewhere.” He sounds more displeased with the show than pleased but he gave it a mixed review. This show can be found on the internet, at multiple sites. I believe Chicago Fire is a great Action-Adventure Drama because it has multiple high intensity action situations per episode, a plot with many twists and turns that add depth to the show, and each character develops to make life and death situations that are very difficult.

 

 

Assignment 2 for English 101

Savannah Ballard
9/23/14

       The purposes of assignment 2 are to improve my ability to refute or concede respectfully arguments that differ from my own point of view, give me practice writing a thesis-driven and criteria matched essay, and to give me practice paraphrasing and quoting other authors. I thing to that adding examples of how the criteria fit the example essay would help me understand how the grading will take place better. I am confused about how we will choose a movie to write about; are we choosing a category and arguing the category or arguing whether a movie is good or not?

Possible Advertisements for Assignment 1

 

 

1.This ad appeals to the audience's emotion because it boldy states that by using Kleenex tissues, you are destroying ancient forests.
2. This ad shows good use of ethos because it has a credible source listed on the Kleenex ad.
3. This ad uses visual appeal because it catches the audience's eye with the logs creating the box of tissues, which represents all the forest killed to make that very box.
4.This ad appeals to the viewers emotion because it lists three simple steps, which we would do without a second thought, to killing a forest forever and how quickly nature can be destroyed.

 

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1. This ad appeals to the audience's emotion because it uses one of the most commonly known weapons, a gun, and loads it with cigarettes instead of bullets, showing how deadly smoking is.

2. This ad uses logical appeal because it lists off 12 potentially deadly side effects of smoking allowing its audience to see the harsh reality that comes along with a pack of cigarettes.

3. This ad appeals to logos and pathos fairly well, but struggles in showing good use of ethos because the wesite where the information was gathered doesn't appear on the ad so we don't know the credibility of the source.

4. This ad appeals to logos because it asks a question that most people will want to answer, "Smoking kills, so why bother starting?" If someone answers this question with a reason why, it will most likely be answered with a look over to the list as to why no one should start smoking.



 

1. This ad appeals to the audience's emotion because it shows a man in a before and after picture of his weight loss. This is a common struggle that a lot of views can relate with.

2. This ad has good use of ethos because we see the credibility of the restaurant presented on the ad, Subway, which is a sub shop known world wide.

3. This ad appeals to logos because it presents the information as to how he lost the weight by eating subway. He lost 245 lbs on 2 subs a day, which have 6 grams of fat or less.

4. The ad may appeal to ethos because Jared's story is posted on the ad. Doing this draws in the audience and makes them want to know what they can do to achieve results like Jared.

Assignment 1: ad analysis

The purpose of assignment one is to make us think about an advertisement in a way that defines classic structure, ethos, logos, pathos and karios. I think that to make this assignment clearer the examples could be added to the page as well as adding an example of an argument being evaluated and how each is done well or not. I am confused about how to pick an advertisement and what exactly we are doing to it. I don't understand if we are evaluating it in terms of how they show logos, ethos, pathos and karios, or if we are explaining what they are and how effective they are in the ad.

Human Organs for Sale

During my evaluation of the two essays responding to "Human Organs for Sale?", I saw a clear pattern. Both arguments said that this was a persuasive argument like the writer had intended it to be. I think the second essay was better put together and met more of the evaluation criteria.

While reading the first essay, I found some places where the evaluation criteria were not met. According to the criteria, the essay must have a precise focus, which this essay did not do very well. The writer of essay 1 didn't give any of his own ideals or elaboration in his body paragraphs; he simply placed direct quotes into his essay, one after another. This essay was organized in the classical structure and followed it pretty well. The author didn't have a hook in his paper, which did not draw me in to read it. The flaws in this argument were: no elaboration after quotes in the body, he didn't really develop a conclusion that ties back to the introduction, and the introduction wasn't very background or detail oriented.

The second essay was much better to read and evaluate. It was accurate in all of its quoting and the quotes seemed to fit logically where they were placed. This author also follows the classic argument structure by connecting the introduction to the conclusion and also by listing out the authors evidences for the reasoning on how each piece of evidence supports the topic sentences and thesis. This author used much better grammar. Although the author states that the argument is persuasive to the website views, the author says that it isn't going to be accepted by any Christians. By including this, I feel that the author specifies how it appeals or doesn't appeal to viewers. In the second essay's conclusion, the author lists out that "...who take a compassionate view of the sacredness of human life..". This makes her conclusion and paper in general seem unfair and biased to an opinion created about the readers.

 I preferred the second piece over the first because it was better written and had fewer errors overall.