Rhetoric and Civic Life | Morgan Malinich

Kairos as read about and discussed in class is all about timing. Timing is crucial in many aspects of everyday life. As we learned in class, kairos is also very fleeting. Just like the personified god Kairos in Greek mythology, the right time to do anything can easily be gone. At least once in life everyone has thought about how they missed out because the let that window of time close. We have all also experienced being at the right place at the right time. This is a rhetorical concept we use in everyday life. Courtesy of  oatsy40 The idea of timing is very crucial in many aspects of our life. In college, students will most likely take out a loan. This loan will usually come with a grace period in which you don't have to start paying that loan back and interest isn't being added. That is the window students should start paying off their loan, because interest hasn't accumulated yet. Timing in this sense is a blessing. There are times when kairos isn'...

In America, we live in a predominantly capitalistic society. But in other parts of the world some of the most dedicated workers don't receive the same benefits as us. In American culture we are expected to be generous but by choice. In communistic cultures everyone is forced to be generous. For my artifact, I have found a Chinese propaganda poster. Photo credits are to shiq8.blog.163.com I have come up with two main points to discuss in my speech about this poster. This poster first appeals through pathos. It depicts what looks like a family coming home from working on a farm. The inscription at the bottom translates to "our good captain". Considering the time period this title is referring to Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was the leader of Communist China at the time. In our culture the saying "you reap what you sow" is very common. This means that if we work hard we will benefit, but it is up to us to do this. In the Chinese government everyone works...

Everyone has a passion. My ideas for my passion blog come from two aspects of my life. I am adopted from China. I have always sparked an interest in Chinese culture. I am not only interested in Chinese culture, but also Korean and Japanese. I watch anime and listen to Korean pop music. Asian cultures in general have always been an interest of mine. Ideas I have for this passion blog include: Report on old, and current, trends in China, Japan, and Korea using videos from Off The Great Wall. A YouTube channel that vlogs and produces skits about different Asian cultures. Researching different folktales and analyzing elements of the story and how they relate to that particular culture. This is a picture of the Great Wall of China presented by Clint . The other type of blog I have could write is one about Walt Disney World. I grew up going on many family vacations down to Orlando, FL. My parent's call me a "Disney baby" seeing as before I was a year old I had...