Rhetoric Project:
Project reflection: questions
In The Rhetoric Project I was assigned to create a piece of art, writing, or other types of literature to disturb someone and or change their opinion on the chosen subject. My project was a poem on my opinion for the rich, industrial, polluter that doesn't use his or hers wealth to help end poverty.
My project focused on the destruction of our planet and how the rich are the largest problem for not being apart of the solution. Not all of the rich, that would be ridiculous to blame them all, but the rich that actively pollute and don't do anything to counter or fix what they are doing.
In my poem I say "the poor get polluted, deluded as humans, watered down souls". By this I meant that when the rich industrialist pollutes the earth and the economy, it is usually the poor that suffer.
My poem was designed to use rhetoric to change others views on the rich and how the rich can help. It used rhetoric in describing how the poor get the short end of the stick and that the industrialist reaps the rewards and cares nothing for the environment that could be hurt. In my poem I say "The air in China taste like I phones that you have in your pocket on top of your throne". I meant that in China I found in my research that there is a town that has an Apple distribution factory and the air hurts people to breathe, said by a local man in the town. This is suppose to change and challenge the ideas of people and change views so the same mistakes won't be made again.
I am very passionate about the topic of the rich helping the poor because I have been on both sides. The environment connection comes from where I currently live in Heartwood CoHousing where we actively thank the environment for everything that it gives to us hence the Heartwood farm.
This topic reminded me of my trip to Denver in Freshmen year because A find of mine and I would give our left over food and water to the homeless people that fill 16th street. I have always had a soft place for the homeless and doing this project and being able to post it in a social media post made my message seem and probably actively be a stronger source of traveling rhetoric.
The most difficult part of this project was writing the poem so it would flow and still have relevant information to make my rhetoric strong. I found that facts and emotion compel most people to look deeper into the message of a writing piece so I wrote my poem according to that logic. If I was going to do this project again I would have made a poem with more facts and a little less emotion. It has a lot of emotion because that is what works best on me but for others, others seem to listen better to facts.
I've learned that rhetoric is one of the strongest, used, sources of changing ones opinion and socializing the public. With the right type of rhetoric the world can be changed to one or several peoples views which isn't to say that it hasn't before. Ideology is the product of rhetoric a lot of the time. I found that ideology is someones way of thinking about different subjects and topics. Using rhetoric you can change someones ideology. The american experience is simply these two ideas. You decide how you're going to spend your time and how you will think about that time spent is also up to you. The American Experience now that I think about it isn't even really any different from an experience in another part of the world as long as you throw out labels of those places. Or is that just how I've absorbed rhetoric to change my ideology?
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Money and people go hand in hand
Gabe Garcia
Money and people go hand in hand,
We have hands that hold other hands but you can't hold the hand
when it's filled with money from trees,
The trees we kill and empty the thrill of having oxygen pass through your lungs while the poor balance on rungs worried they can't keep their heads above the water,
Inflicting internal slaughter,
The mind worries, without food is without life, and without life we and the tree, the plant, the animal big and small can't grow tall and over throw the veil thrown of smoke,
Choke,
Gasp for air that in china tastes like the latest Iphone that you have in your pocket on top of your throne,
We have grown greedy and mean,
To give a hand up could leave you unclean you think,
The homeless are just lazy l, the disabled just sad and you’re smarter and better in every way right?,
Money and people go hand in hand,
With your money you pay for the new update,
You are the new update,
people 2.0,
But we all end up the same, dead, a tomb stone, and a crow, six hundred thousand homeless around, those numbers bring most from a smile to as frown,
The mouths of the rich are wide and can swallow up anything clean or unclean while the poor get polluted,
Diluted as humans,
Watered down souls,
But don't trust these words for the emotion,
Look for the proof of all the commotion and see that we can make a difference,
Especially the rich,
We can help the poor,
At least get the feet standing firmly on a firm floor,
18% of adults are disabled in our country leaving them discouraged because of disadvantage to climb the ladder that we all race to climb to get to the right meeting on time to sell a perfect pitch for a machine that will turn green, brown and poison the air and shrivel your lungs,
Cancer,
Death,
Problems for all,
but wait,
Not you,
Your wealth will insure only your health and we can send you off of the eaten away earth to birth a new earth on a new planet,
Fill it with your aristocrat gents and gals,
Hands filled with cash,
Your money will give this earth the same exact rash.
As the wise indian proverb states “When the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned and the last fish caught,
will we realize that we can not eat money”,
We can be the example and the leader of a new competition like education not incarceration,
Refabrication, destruction of the lower class,
Meeting its demise pushing everyone up to success and we as the rich I surely do hope will keep people from regression and push for progression,
Drop the money in our hands and grip a branch or a root or leaf or a hand and hold them tight because money can’t feel you the way everything else can,
Money and people go hand in hand but it's easier to hold hands without poverty in the way of our potentially bright and colored days.
Gabe Garcia
Money and people go hand in hand,
We have hands that hold other hands but you can't hold the hand
when it's filled with money from trees,
The trees we kill and empty the thrill of having oxygen pass through your lungs while the poor balance on rungs worried they can't keep their heads above the water,
Inflicting internal slaughter,
The mind worries, without food is without life, and without life we and the tree, the plant, the animal big and small can't grow tall and over throw the veil thrown of smoke,
Choke,
Gasp for air that in china tastes like the latest Iphone that you have in your pocket on top of your throne,
We have grown greedy and mean,
To give a hand up could leave you unclean you think,
The homeless are just lazy l, the disabled just sad and you’re smarter and better in every way right?,
Money and people go hand in hand,
With your money you pay for the new update,
You are the new update,
people 2.0,
But we all end up the same, dead, a tomb stone, and a crow, six hundred thousand homeless around, those numbers bring most from a smile to as frown,
The mouths of the rich are wide and can swallow up anything clean or unclean while the poor get polluted,
Diluted as humans,
Watered down souls,
But don't trust these words for the emotion,
Look for the proof of all the commotion and see that we can make a difference,
Especially the rich,
We can help the poor,
At least get the feet standing firmly on a firm floor,
18% of adults are disabled in our country leaving them discouraged because of disadvantage to climb the ladder that we all race to climb to get to the right meeting on time to sell a perfect pitch for a machine that will turn green, brown and poison the air and shrivel your lungs,
Cancer,
Death,
Problems for all,
but wait,
Not you,
Your wealth will insure only your health and we can send you off of the eaten away earth to birth a new earth on a new planet,
Fill it with your aristocrat gents and gals,
Hands filled with cash,
Your money will give this earth the same exact rash.
As the wise indian proverb states “When the last tree is cut and the last river poisoned and the last fish caught,
will we realize that we can not eat money”,
We can be the example and the leader of a new competition like education not incarceration,
Refabrication, destruction of the lower class,
Meeting its demise pushing everyone up to success and we as the rich I surely do hope will keep people from regression and push for progression,
Drop the money in our hands and grip a branch or a root or leaf or a hand and hold them tight because money can’t feel you the way everything else can,
Money and people go hand in hand but it's easier to hold hands without poverty in the way of our potentially bright and colored days.