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"A Chance in the Western World"

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1. "Where is the Love: UT Edition" Sofia's reflection on the project: "One of the reasons why I enjoyed this course was because of my personal care for the topics I chose to write about. It has always been important for me to feel engaged in my work, and I felt like this class allowed me to challenge my writing in newer and unexplored ways...A specific moment was when I couldn’t decide what paper to use to create my video presentation. I knew that using the SnapChat paper would probably be the easy way out, so I did what I had been doing all semester and chose to use the most challenging paper of them all: the one with Foucault. Although I omitted Foucault form the video presentation, explaining and forwarding his concepts was especially challenging when your only evidence was modern hip hop music. To eventually get my message across, I decided to create my own evidence that forwarded not only Foucault’s message, but also the one by the Black-Eyed Peas."
2. "Me and My Selfie" Rachel's reflection on project: "...the digital tools and skills required for the final presentation provided me with the opportunity to gain digital skills I otherwise wouldn’t have explored anytime soon. I hadn’t really had much experience with iMovie or video downloading and editing prior to this project, and the assignment definitely took me a lot longer as a result of this, but I did gain experience, knowledge, and skills that I will without a doubt be using in the future."
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4. "Sarah Connor Becomes a Masculine Hero" Katelyn's reflection on the project: "Personally, I believe that focusing more on the specific rhetoric a story, movie, or article, uses to persuade an audience has been helpful to understand and examine my own argumentation style and how to adapt it to my different audiences...Most of all, I think this final project really helped solidify the goal of the course “Revise compositions, incorporating peer and instructor feedback,” (Syllabus) since I knew I first had missed that key piece that would really strengthen my argument after the original feedback and in the end it became a project I was proud of. Another component of the final project that became a learning experience for me was understanding how to utilize the tools available to me. The library resources provided by the in-class presentation as well as the quick how-to on using Audacity and the movie maker program were vastly helpful for me, having never done a project like this before. It helped me achieve another goal from the syllabus: “Utilizing library resources, research the literary, historical, social, and political contexts of ‘dystopia’” (Syllabus) in a way that I hadn’t originally anticipated."
5. “The Young Women of Battle Royale” Tori's reflection on project: "To continue, the final presentation wrapped up the class and allowed us to put the skills and strategies we learned through out the semester into our own argument. Like this assignment, the final presentation gave me the opportunity to showcase what I learned about rhetorical analysis and I feel that it is my most compelling form of evidence. I used another learning dimension, use of prior experience, and applied it to this assignment. My experience as a Radio-Television-and Film student helped me decide on what kinds of visuals I needed to boost my argument. Upon completion I was told that, “Your presentation is very well done. You combine high-quality visuals with your argument, which not only makes a strong argument about the individual characters but also brings in a counter-argument”. Collaboration, strategy, and past experience helped me the most when developing my final presentation and I feel that it defines my overall improvement in this class."
6. "Defying Female Stereotypes in the Matrix"